nee upon a time in the Land of Ags,
there came a new Fish.^I For a
time all things went well for Fish.^
Fie liked his roomie, especially
when he discovered roomie's
beautiful sister. His parents
included money in every letter
from home. His profs never, ever
assigned exams on the same day.
All his shirts came back from the laundry
with the buttons still attached. Fish's intramural foot
ball team won the Class A championship — Fish
was very happy. When his grades
arrived. Fish aced a straight 4.0.
His parents were very happy too
— they gave him an almost new
maroon Porsche for Christmas .
Merry Christmas! ^1 Then the Ags
won the Cotton Bowl by a high
score...he discovered he liked
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roomie's sister a lot. Happy New Year! All things
went well for Fish until he drove the almost new
maroon Porsche back to campus to pur
chase a parking sticker. "Zounds !
That parking lot is in Navasota,
Fish cried out in dismay.
"My Reeboks won't
last a week walking
back to my northside
dorm," he wailed. "The
sun will fade my almost new IN
maroon Porsche to pink by May,"
he moaned. "After the first hailstorm,
my Porsche will be all pocked like ...
like me," he sobbed, suddenly zit-faced
^1 Soon, everything started going south for Fish.
Classes started on Monday and three of his profs
assigned quizzes for Wednesday . He picked up the
Jaundry he had forgotten before Christmas and two
of his best Polos were missing. There was not one
letter from home in his mailbox. And, his roommie
^announced the beautiful sister's engagement
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By Karen Kroesche
Senior Staff Writer
Spitting watermelon seeds is as in
digenous to summertime picnics as
roasted hot dogs, checked table-
clothes, Frisbees and ants. But a
Texas A&M horticulturist says that
could change.
Extension horticulturist Tom
Longbrake is working with commer
cial seed companies to evaluate seve
ral lines of seedless watermelons,
which he touts as “all heart.”
The melons are the result of a
three-way cross and are considered
tetraploids, rather than the typical
diploid types.
“Tetraploid fruits are barren or
sterile of seed resulting in watermel
ons with juicy red flesh which are all
heart,” Longbrake says.
The only disadvantage of the
seedless melons — besides the loss of
seed-spitting excitement — is that
they will cost about 50 percent more,
since more complex growing tech
niques must be used to produce
them, Longbrake says.
Since the seedless melons cannot
reproduce, new seed must be gener
ated through the three-way cross
technique for each new crop.
“It’s taking some real refinement
in the production process to gel
them to grow,” Longbrake says.
The seedless melons should hit
gnxery store shelves in nuca
and Longbrake expects tk I
popular with consumen. ala
he says they probably trillik|
place the current variety
An attempt was made 1!«
ago to market a variety of s|
watermelon, but it failedducj
of consumer interest, Loon
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Texas currently leads lit
in watermelon production.'
1987 harvest valued at $3dE'
to a teasip! Fish wasn't even asked
^ to join an intramural team, One
night, as the Albritton clock struck
twelve. Fish stood in front of Sully
and poured out his troubles.
Sully listened carefully in his
own quiet way. And then, miracle of
miracles,Sully spoke to Fish."Be patient.
Doctor remains
at medical school
during bad, good
my son. Good things are in store for you." Sully
proclaimed . "in the Spring of '89, I will open my
new Parking Garage. You can park the almost new
maroon Porsche in its own numbered space," Sully
continued."You will be near your dorm, your classes,
and even near Northgate. Neither hail, nor sleet, nor
even the glaring sun will mar the almost
new Porsche's maroon beauty." ^ ^
And Sulley concluded,
"I will provide a guard
for this Parking
Garage, and
should the guard
DALLAS (AP) — Dr. Donald Sel-
din remembers when the University
of Texas Southwestern Medical Cen
ter had leaky roofs, frequently fro
zen plumbing and crumbling
wooden walls in its Army barracks
home.
“If you looked, you might say this
was a disaster area: no permanent
buildings, a meager budget, no fac
ulty,” Seldin, professor of internal
medicine, recalled. “But you also
might see a certain potential.”
That was 40 years ago. Today the
university is home to two Nobel
Prize winners and has joined the
ranks as one of the nation’s best
medical schools. School officials
credit Seldin with much of the trans
formation work.
“He brought a vision for the fu
ture, a standard of excellence even
when, in most people’s minds, re
sources might not have justified it,”
Dr. Kern Wildenthal, president of
Southwestern, said of Seldin.
The school recently awarded Sel
din the University of Texas System
Professor of Internal Medicine —
only the second such professorship
awarded in the natural sciences.
Seldin also will be honored next
month with a three-day celebration
at the university that is expected to
attract 8,000 colleagues and former
and current students. And $600,000
has been collected for what is ex
pected to be a $2 million academic
chair in Seldin’s name.
Southwestern, now considered
one of the smallest of the nation’s
top medical schools with enrollment
at about 800, has produced 5,093
doctors since it opened in 1944.
Since 1979, eight of its faculty mem
bers have been accepted to the Na
tional Academy of Sciences — a
prestigious feat topped only by
Washington University in St. Louis.
But early on, the school faced
oblivion. In 1952, Southwestern had
only 340 students and was on aca
demic probation because of its run
down facilities and absence of a fac
ulty — except for Seldin, who held
the posts of chairman of every de
partment the school had left.
Refusing job offers from Ivy
League schools, Seldin, a Yale
trained medical professor, stayed at
Southwestern for 35 years. He
stepped down from the 137-member
department of internal medicine last
winter.
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i/.ed Monday after their rpirstry
home was flipped and ll creainer y
onto a highway byaNortli® a | c f ure i
wind strom. ^
Meanwhile, bad wealkEThe hi
West Texas tore the roof®|| e 111 in
barn outside of ColenMj ™ usto n
nearly destroyed a bantBr™ 11 ^
Eden. No injurieswerere[W'^B‘ 10se
William Russell, 69,0^] ne '
was listed in serious cottl't 1 ?'' 1 ^
Monday afternoon in tht 01
care unit of Harris Hospri f < I nro '
bon Worth, where het^P ^ !rv
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ported by air ambulance;!. M S 111 a 11
accident Sunday. INnngh
His brother, 72-year-oH®j :aief n
Russell, was in stableo®! [p 11 a( *
Campbell Memorial Hosp''J u ori! ' h
Weatherford. fc
“We’re pretty sure it*'w| , ' H
tornado,” Parker Count' P? ec a
taut Fire Marshal Mark' 1 ®! ^, n
said. “We’resayingitwass&® e ^ < | ■'
line winds — an up-drafil e(aU:
the storm —that did it • elln >
Parker County autkwP 11 a J 1(
closed Farm-to-Market M. s 1 1
about AVi miles soutliof ./
after the Russell’s ikf-i ou ^ 1
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along
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property wi®
reported to mobile homft
turn his head, 40 tele
vision cameras will watch
over and protect the almost new
maroon Porsche." Fish was impressed.
And so it came to pass, just as Sully foretold. In
January ' 89, the roomie's beautiful sister broke her en
gagement. His parents remembered how to sign checks.
v^The laundry found his shirts. Even Jackie called to
invite Fish to join the 12th Man Team. And the still
almost new maroon Porsche was safe
and sound in its very own parking
space, protected from all harm.
Fish was happy ever after.
^1 Sully had spoken.
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WATCH YOUR SUMMER MAIL FOR MORE INFORMATION
The MSC Visual Arts Committee
cordially invites you to attend a
reception for artist Joan Maffei,
Thursday. April 28. 7:00-8:00 p.itl
MSC Gallery
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Ms. Mqffei's work will be on exhibit in the MSC
Gallery, April 25-May20, 1988, 8:00 a.m.- 8:00pM
daily. For information call 845-1515.
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