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ROTC leaders assemble at A&M
Cadets from 9 schools exchange ideas during Military Weekend
By Andrea Warrenburg
REPORTER
Twenty-five cadets from military schools
across the nation will participate in the Texas
A&M Corps of Cadets Military Weekend Feb. 23-
26.
“The main purpose of the weekend is to bring
cadets in from other military schools and ex
change thoughts about each system,” Jay Kregel,
Deputy Commander of the Corps, said. “We
have an opportunity to show others what A&M is
all about.”
The focus of the weekend will be a roundtable
discussion Friday in the Clayton Williams Alumni
Center lecture room at 9 a.m. Representatives
from 10 schools will discuss their discipline sys
tems. Most of the representatives are command
ers and high-ranking cadets within their univer
sity’s military organization.
Todd Reichert, Corps Commander, and John
Heye, Squadron 3 Commander, will represent
A&M in the discussions. The moderator of the
discussion is Dr. Kurt Ritter, head of A&M’s De
partment of Speech Communications and
Theatre Arts.
Clay Whitaker, Corps public relations ser
geant, said, “Each school has a different way of
doing things. For example, most schools don’t do
physical things like push-ups. It’s mostly mental.”
The schools participating will be: the Citadel,
North Georgia, Norwich, the U.S. Military Aca
demy, Virginia Tech, Virginia Military Institute,
New Mexico Military Institute, the U.S. Mer
chant Marine Academy and the U.S. Air Force
Academy.
Virginia Tech is the only institution attending
besides A&M that has a seven-day military
ROTC program and a civilian student body.
“We have it good being a part-military, part-ci
vilian institute,” Kregel said. “For the others, the
only time they have to be free is in class, because
everywhere else they’re being watched.”
Other events include the “Combat Bash”
mixer on Friday at the Lakeview Club in Bryan at
9 p.m., and a Military Banquet at 6:30 p.m. Sat
urday in 201 MSC. U.S. Army Col. “Tex”
Turner, from the U.S. Military Academy, will be
the banquet guest speaker. A Military Ball will
follow at 8:30 p.m. in the MSC Main Ballroom.
Military Weekend is a unique program with
more schools participating each year. Cadets look
forward to coming to A&M and participating,
Kregel said.
“We’re looking forward to showing off A&M,”
Kregel said.
Doctor defends practice
of anesthetizing children
with drug-laced lollipops
HOUSTON (AP) — A local
doctor said a claim that the exper
imental practice of giving nar
cotic-laced lollipops to some chil
dren could lead to future drug
abuse is absurd.
The experimental practice,
which has been used at the Uni
versity of Texas Medical School
in Houston and two other hospi
tals, has been criticized by Dr.
Sidney Wolfe, director of the
Washington D.C.-based Public
Citizen Health Research Group.
Wolfe is concerned that the
combination of lollipops and nar
cotics will be such a pleasurable
experience, children will be
tempted to use drugs outside the
hospital.
But Dr. Basil Leiman, a Hous
ton anesthesiologist who tested
the lollipops, said the idea of po
tential drug abuse was “absurd.”
The still-experimental proce
dure was carried out.qnder U.S.
Food and Drug Administration
regulations, so Wolfe has ob
jected about the test to the FDA.
Lollipops were used to admin
ister the narcotic fentanyl to chil
dren before they underwent sur
gery or during painful medical
procedures such as bone marrow
tests, Wolfe said. Fentanyl is an
approved narcotic in injectable
form, but its oral form is still un
der FDA review.
Leiman used the lollipops un
der experimental rules on about
50 patients while a children’s an
esthesiologist at the University of
Texas Medical School at Hous
ton. He is puzzled by the contro
versy and Wolfe’s opposition.
“Clearly, he knows nothing
about anesthesia,” Leiman said.
Narcotics are an integral part of
anesthetic practice, he said, and
physicians are always looking for
better ways to deliver their drugs
to patients.
Asylum applications decrease
on 3rd day of new program
BAYVIEW (AP) — Immigration
and Naturalization Service agents
continued to arrange housing
Thursday for the hundreds of Cen
tral Americans, being detained on
the Texas border as the number of
political-asylum-seekers continued
to decline.
Only 10 applicants were proc
essed Thursday, compared to some
50 Wednesday and 233 Tuesday, the
first day that tougher rules govern
ing asylum applications went into ef
fect.
Hundreds of immigration offi
cials have been sent to the Rio
Grande Valley to help weed out ap
plications they said are being sub
mitted by Central Americans coming
to the United States for economic,
not political reasons.
Thus far, only two applicants have
been granted asylum while the rest
have been placed at the INS Port
Isabel Service Processing Center,
about 15 miles northeast of
Brownsville, or at a Red Cross Shel
ter in Brownsville.
They are being held in lieu of
bonds between $1,000 to $4,000 as
they await hearings before an INS
administrative judge.
INS officials and attorneys rep
resenting Central Americans seek
ing political asylum said the dwin
dling number of applicants may
mean that they are going under
ground and taking their chances get
ting to their destination in the
United States. Under INS policy that
took effect Tuesday, immigrants ap
plying for asylum in South Texas
must remain in the area until their
cases are processed and those found
to have submitted false or frivolous
claims are jailed.
“Nobody is coming to apply for
asylum, and that’s sort of predicable
when 99 percent of these folks are
being thrown in jail here, so ob
viously people are going under
ground and they are not going to be
going through the system anymore,
which is a tragedy,” said Mark
Schneider, an attorney with the Har
lingen-based Proyecto Libertad,
which represents Central Ameri
cans.
“We really don’t believe this re
pressive policy here in the Rio
Grande Valley is going fo do any
thing to stop refugees from coming
to the United States,” he said.
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A&M medical students
teach facts about AIDS
to local high schoolers
By Fiona Soltes
STAFF WRITER
Texas A&M medical students
are teaching area high school stu
dents about AIDS. But more than
medical facts are included in the
lesson plan.
As part of a national program
sponsored by the medical stu
dents’ section of the American
Medical Association, the dis
cussions attempt to dispel the
myths about acquired immune
deficiency syndrome, as well as
teach sensitivity toward AIDS pa
tients.
J. Scott Baker, an A&M medi
cal student from Abilene, said
two dozen second-year medical
students from the University are
involved in the program, which
has visited Bryan and College Sta
tion high schools and Allen Aca
demy in its first year.
“We want to educate the stu
dents so that they don’t have to be
overly fearful of AIDS patients,”
Baker said. “We want them to
give less fear and more sympathy
to someone with the disease.”
Baker said the public seems to
have a feeling of anger toward
the patient, and may be unable to
empathize.
The medical students travel to
high schools in groups of three,
with a local physician to answer
practical questions, and a rep
resentative of the Brazos County
Department of Health. The (high
school) students are shown a film
about the attack of the immuno
deficiency virus and how it leads
to AIDS. A wide-open question-
and-answer session follows, along
with distribution of take-home
pamphlets about the disease.
“We get lots of questions that
are technical,” Charlise Buie, an
other medical student, said. “The
students usually know something
about the disease already. But at
one school, it was a new concept
that you could be infectious and
not show any symptoms.”
Buie said many questions also
are asked concerning the history
of the disease.
Baker said, “It doesn’t really
matter where it came from. We
don’t want to divide or put the
blame on any one race or culture
when we need to work together
instead.”
Baker said the instructors try
to direct the discussions away
from these types of topics.
“We try to make an efficient
presentation,” he said. “We have
students put down questions
they’d like to talk about ahead of
time so we can be prepared.”
Baker said the presentation
starts with basic information
about the disease, then discusses
transmission, avoidance, preven
tion and attempts to alleviate the
myths that cause prejudice to
ward AIDS patients.
“We want the students to be
able to protect themselves knowl
edgeably and not fear the disease
more than they have to,” he said.
“Hopefully, if some of these stu
dents were to meet an AIDS pa
tient, they’d be less anxious.”
Baker said the program is use
ful to the medical students, too.
“In the first couple of years of
medical school, there’s a lot of
book learning involved,” he said.
“As far as working with actual
people, you don’t get much expe
rience. There’s also a certain sat
isfaction in knowing that I’m in
volved in something that may
make a difference.”
Buie said the medical students
are planning to expand their pro
gram to other high schools in the
area.
The program has been sup
ported by the College of Medi
cine, Brazos County Department
of Health and the Brazos-Rob-
ertson County Medical Society.
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