The Battalion
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^Monday, November 6,19891989 •
&||8enior redpot Carlos Thomaz (left) looks up from the bottom of Duncan Field, while fellow redpot Steve Moore gets dirt dumped
the 15-foot deep hole that was dug for the bonfire centerpole at on his head from the shifting feet of onlookers above.
Department recognizes work of student leaders
■Texas A&M student leaders were rewarded
Saturday morning with coffee and pastries at a
Student Leaders’ Coffee for the work they do
throughout the year.
■“We wanted to give recognition to students
who volunteer time and effort to the 650 clubs
and activities that make A&M activities and pro
grams possible,” said Rena Sardo, coordinator of
the coffee, which was sponsored by the Depart
ment of Student Activities.
Student groups represented at the coffee
ranged from the Corps of Cadets to various
sports entities such as track and field and base
ball. Reveille V also attended.
Dr. John Koldus, vice president for Student
Services, said he thinks the coffee, which was
held in the MSC, was an important event because
it gave student leaders and their parents the op
portunity to mingle with students and staff mem
bers from other organizations.
“There is no doubt in my mind that we have
the finest University in the world,” Koldus said.
“If it weren’t for student leaders this probably
wouldn’t be possible.”
Group offers help
to students against
animal dissection
By Pam Mooman
Of The Battalion Staff
Sometimes standing up for some
thing can mean standing out from
the crowd.
In 1987, Jenifer Graham refused
to dissect a frog in her biology class.
Her California high school lowered
her grade from “A” to “C”. Graham
took the school to court and even
tually testified before the California
legislature. On the grounds of her
testimony, a bill was passed allowing
students to refuse to dissect animals
in class.
The Animal Legal Defense Fund
has helped Graham’s mother set up
a national hotline to advise students
who object to dissection on the
courses of action they can take.
ALDF, founded in 1979, is a na
tional network of more than 250
lawyers. It uses legal action to save
animal lives and prevent suffering in
laboratories, on farms, from trap
pers and sport hunters, in homes
and in classrooms.
ALDF’s Students Against Dissec
tion Hotline is its latest effort to pro
mote animal rights. The number is
1 -800-922rFROG (3764). The hot
line advises students of their legal
rights when they object to dissection.
When necessary, Joyce Tischler, ex
ecutive director of ALDF, will refer
callers to local lawyers who can help
them defend their rights not to dis
sect.
While California students in kin
dergarten through high school have
legal support to refuse to dissect, the
rights of college students have not
been as clearly defined. But ALDF
believes that the First Amendment
gives all students the right to refuse
to dissect.
The hotline also gives students
guidelines for negotiating with col
lege officials. ALDF’s free booklet,
“Objecting to Dissection: A Student
Handbook,” gives students an eight-
step plan to help them refuse to dis
sect. The booklet, available to hot
line callers, also lists teaching aids
that are alternatives to dissection.
Dr. Gary Joiner, Texas A&M’s Di
rector of University Laboratory Ani
mal Care, said that while dissection is
a valuable teaching method, other
alternatives are available.
“If you’re preparing for a career
in surgery, dissection would be a lot
^LDF’s Students Against
Dissection Hotline is its
latest effort to promote
animal rights. The hotline
advises students of their
legal rights when they
object to dissection
more important to those people than
to a general biology student,” Joiner
said. “You get a better perspective.
“I’ve never seen a picture that
could show you the same inter
relationship as doing an actual dis
section.
“(But) a good videotape will take
you a long way.”
Joiner, however, said dissection of
embalmed animals has drawbacks.
“I think you’ve got a distortion in
color of tissue,” he said. “Everything
gets real hard and stiff.”
This is why veterinary students
study a progressive-type curriculum,
he said. They advance from dissec
tion of embalmed animals to dissec
tion of fresh animals and then to
surgery, he said.
Joiner said that historically, A&M
has not had a big problem with stu-
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