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Committee finds litde need
or A&M day care services
The Battalion Monday, Oct. 17, 1988 Page 3
By Susan B. Erb
Staff Writer
Texas A&M University does not pro-
jde campus child care for faculty, staff
students. The results of a child care
id-assessment committee indicate that
versity day care is not likely to be-
ie a reality at A&M in the future, but
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By Holly Becka
Staff Writer
Jlhe Texas A&M Medical Sciences
|uilding officially was renamed for
H. Reynolds, vice chairman of
Board of Regents, during a cere-
my at the building Saturday.
Ilhe building was renamed after
Ifteynolds in recognition of the role he
payed in founding the medical
■ool — Texas’ newest — and for
p support of the University’s medi-
;ca! program during his Regent terms.
am very proud of this school and
(he students who have been here and
peir contributions,” he said. “Sue
is wife) and I thank you all. We’re
illed. We really appreciate this
enceittflcat honor.”
In addition to his position on the
iard, Reynolds also is a member of
Executive Committee, the Com-
ttee for Academic Campuses and
Corps Enhancement Committee,
eynolds, a native of Tyler, served
iWorld War II and the Korean War
an officer in the Marine Corps. He
iduated first in his class at Baylor
|w School in 1947 and is a partner
the Houston law firm Reynolds,
mningham, Peterson and Cordell,
e also is active as chairman of the
d of visitors for Texas Southern
diversity School of Law and chair
man of the Texas State Bar Commit
tee for the Federal Judiciary.
•avid G. Eller, chairman of the
rd, thanked Reynolds for all he
done for Texas A&M and for al-
|pmg his name to be put on the
►. He also announced that
Reynolds’ friends and colleagues are
missioning an oil portrait of him
|)be placed in the building.
niversity President Dr. William
HjMobley, Dr. Richard A. DeVaul,
dean of the College of Medicine, and
idt! I er mem ers of the Board also at-
fflded the ceremony.
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that communications between parents
and providers may be strengthened.
The Child Care Facility Study Com
mittee, organized at the end of March at
the request of Chancellor Perry Adkis-
son, conducted a two-month study on
child care services available in the
Bryan-College Station area and assessed
child care needs of University System
staff and students.
Committee chairman Patricia Chap
man, assistant vice chancellor of budgets
and human resources for the System,
said based on excess facility capacity,
general acceptance of costs and no major
dissatisfaction with services offered by
local child care facilities, the committee
does not see a need to offer campus child
care.
“We found that at this point in time
there doesn’t appear to be a mandate for
the TAMU System to provide child
care,” Chapman said.
Chapman said Adkisson has endorsed
the recommendations of the committee,
including the formation of a Child Care
Provider Council to serve as a conduit
for communications between parents and
child care providers.
“This is just a means by which the
chancellor feels like he can assure that
the needs of the employees of the TA-
MUS components headquartered in Col
lege Station are being met,” Chapman
said.
In a memo to chief executive officers
of the System, Adkisson said the purpose
of the council will be to provide a means
by which concerns can be expressed and
resolved, open communications can take
place and through which educational
programs can be offered to both parents
and care providers.
Adkisson asked Vicki Bienski, his ad
ministrative assistant, to establish the
council. Bienski said the System, the
University and the local child care com
munity will be represented in the coun
cil.
“We have invited all of the System
parts that are located on campus to par
ticipate,” Bienski said. “And the Univer
sity has been asked to provide the names
of an undergraduate student and a grad
uate student as well as a faculty and staff
representative. Some people from the lo
cal child care community will also be on
the council.”
Rachel Kennedy, founder of Students
with Children, a Texas A&M group or
ganized to give support to students who
are raising a family while going to
school, said she believes the formation
of the council is a positive move, but
publicizing its services could be diffi
cult.
“I think it’s a step in the right direc
tion,” Kennedy said. “The problem is to
get the staff and student body to know
they are there and to use them.”
Travis gives local patrons
outstanding performance
By Shane Hall
Staff Writer
Randy Travis showed why he has
received so much praise from the
country music world by giving an
outstanding performance Friday night
at G. Rollie White Coliseum.
The nearly sold-out crowd greeted
Travis with a chorus of whoops and
cheers as he walked onto the stage
and began his show.
Enthusiasm remained high as the
award-winning country singer per
formed many of the hits that have
made him a star.
Backed by a sextet of musicians,
Travis sang such country hits as “Dig
ging Up Bones,” “On the Other
Hand” and “Forever and Ever,
Amen.”
The latter of the three was espe
cially well-received, as dozens of
fans, most of them young women,
swarmed at the foot of the stage,
many of them bearing cameras and
looking for a good shot.
Others sought autographs and held
out items ranging from pictures to
cowboy boots in hopes of getting
them signed.
Adoration from the females in the
crowd continued throughout the
show. During one song, a voice from
somewhere in the Coliseum yelled, “I
love you, Randy.”
Randy Travis
“Thank you,” Travis responded,
inserting his response into the song.
Travis demonstrated his sense of
humor at one point in the show, doing
a short parody of “Digging Up Bo
nes” called “Digging Up Jones.”
On the more serious side, another
memorable moment in the show was
Travis’ rendition of “Broken Prom
ises.” During the song, the lights
dimmed and a spotlight focused on
Travis alone as he performed the bal
lad solo, with his guitar as the only
musical accompaniment. It made for
an emotional and remarkable perfor
mance.
After telling his audience that he
was raised listening to country sing
ers such as Hank Williams Sr., Travis
paid homage to his roots with a med
ley of songs by the legendary singer
beginning with the classic “Your
Cheatin’ Heart.”
With that medley, Travis showed
why he is considered one of the lead
ers in the trend toward traditional
country music. The medley, and the
remainder of the show, received a
deafening enthusiastic response from
the audience.
The audience also enjoyed Gene
Watson, the show’s opening act.
Watson has been on the national
country music scene since the mid-
1970s, but has never achieved Travis’
level of stardom. However, Watson
has had his share of hits and he per
formed them Friday night, including
“Love in the Hot Afternoon” and
“Paper Roses.”
Watson, a Houston native, also
performed some new material that
was well-received by the audience.
Especially impressive were “Dreams
of a Dreamer Gone Blind” and “So
mewhere Over You.”
Hormones may improve poultry
By Doug Evans
Reporter
Injecting chicken embryos with
growth hormones may breed larger and
healthier chickens, Dr. Pam Hargis,
A&M associate professor of poultry sci
ence, said.
Hargis said experiments by the poultry
science department of Texas A&M’s Ag
ricultural Extension Service show great
promise.
“We have seen an increase in body
weight from 50 to 100 grams by the time
chickens reach market age,” Hargis said.
Skeletal growth also is affected by the
hormone injections.
Dr. Sam Pardue, one of Hargis’ co-re-
searchers, said that longer leg bones
have been observed in male chickens.
“What is exciting about this is that a
single injection of a very small quantity
of growth hormones significantly affects
the physiological development,” he said.
Chickens vaccinated before they hatch
have a better chance of a healthy life.
Pardue said the immune system in
chickens is not active when they hatch,
so the unhatched chicks must rely on
maternal antibodies found in the yolk of
the egg.
“There is some evidence that we can
improve protection against diseases if we
immunize the embryo directly,” he said.
Pardue said embryo experimentation
is necessary to achieve positive growth
results.
“Chickens grow so rapidly that we
can’t significantly change their genetic
composition after they hatch,” he said.
“Unlike cattle or swine, we must give the
hormones directly to the embryo to get
results.”
Hargis said that growth hormones also
can control the amount of fat in chick
ens. >
According to Pardue, less fat will
please consumers.
“We see some consumer resistance to
excessive abdominal fat,” Pardue said.
“As a consumer, you pay for that fat. We
now have a product that is lower in total
fat.”
The research is a response to growing
health awareness, he said. He said they
are very much aware of the consumer’s
desire to have a wholesome product.
Growth hormones also provide eco
nomic advantages, he said.
. . we can improve pro
tection against diseases if
we immunize the embryo
directly.”
Dr. Sam Pardue
“A single injection is altering some
very basic systems and processes that
have the economic potential to produce a
better bird,” Pardue said. “We can pro
duce birds that gain more weight on the
same unit of feed. That is a cost sa
vings.”
Hargis said the purpose of the research
benefits the entire poultry industry.
“We are not doing this just to exploit
the bird,” she said. “We are doing it to
maximize their growth potential and to
understand what makes them grow.”
Pardue said that consumer demand has
initiated much of the research.
“This year is the first for poultry con
sumption to exceed beef,” he said.
The majority of the research is still ex
perimental.
“We will wait for approval from the
Food and Drug Administration,” Pardue
said. “We don’t want to produce poultry
for the consumer that has any suspicion
of being tainted.”
The research is funded by a grant from
the South Eastern Poultry and Egg Asso
ciation, an organization of producers of
poultry products, Pardue said. The Texas
A&M Auxiliary Fund also has contrib
uted to the project.
Hargis said that application of the re
search is still to come.
“We have not yet come up with any
thing that is going to revolutionize the
poultry industry,” she said. “But we
have changed how fat tissue and skeletal
growth develops. Now it is a matter of
refining the hormones and the time of ad
ministration.”
Police arrest
45 protesters
of abortion
SAN ANTONIO (AP) — Police
arrested 45 people who blocked en
trances to an abortion clinic during an
anti-abortion protest organizers said
was one of the largest ever staged
here.
“We don’t want to telegraph our
punches, but we want people to know
this isn’t a fleeting fad,” said Jack
Devault, head of Life Support Serv
ices and one of the coordinators of
Saturday's demonstration.
Catherine Stannard, administrator
of the Reproductive Services Inc,
clinic, praised the courage of some
patients who were able to make it in
side the cl i nic despite the protesters.
< All those arrested outside the clinic
were charged with criminal trespass,
a Class B misdemeanor punishable Y
by up to six months in jail and a fine*
up to $1,000.
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