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e Battalion TATE & LOCAL 3 Thursday, February 8,1990 "Credit cards not accepted at A&M peti- l ' ■ Leave your plastic at home when paying tuition bill the a nc- any deal . see Lies n in i do s <1S can t be tees B BILL HETHCOCK Of The Battalion Staff ee, ese rse ves ;ed ire )W- ars ne. lir- >le ie, It of ny ny !1 g 'se li- ell le e- ty ;d in When you’re done with registration and it’s time to pay your student fees, take your check book but leave your credit cards at home — be- use at Texas A&M, they don’t take American lExpress. I Several universities around the state, including Texas Tech in Lubbock and Southwest Texas in ran Marcos, accept credit cards for payment of tuition and other student fees. A&M, however, Joes not accept any credit card for tuition or 6ther fees, A&M Controller Tom Taylor said. A&M officials considered allowing student Ees to be paid by credit card, but rejected the lea because they thought it was not worth the ost to the University or students, Taylor said. Two years ago, a committee was formed to ake a recommendation about whether credit irds should be accepted, he said. Student views 'ere represented on the committee. “When we looked at the subject of accepting edit cards for payment of fees, the committee tat was formed had a student on it,” Taylor said. “It was still a unanimous decision not to accept credit cards. “We don’t really need to accept credit cards, because there are other options available to stu- MASTERCARD VISA\^^ kMEX/' X CHARGE iry^ 'imsMmMmmmimd Illustration by Norzaini Mufti dents,” he said. “It would be expensive to the University. If we accept a credit card, it costs the University money that we have to pay to accept the card. “We felt that all around it was not cost effective for anybody, especially since students have other options such as paying their fees in installments.” Some campus locations, however, do accept credit cards. Rudder Box Office takes Visa and Mastercard payments for all major campus pro ductions and Ticketron events. The MSG bookstore and gift shop also accept Visa and Mastercard. The athletic ticket office accepts the same credit cards for tickets to basketball and football games and baseball season tickets. The Department of Parking, Transit and Tra ffic Services accepts Visa and Mastercard for parking permits and traffic citations. The MSC cafeteria, the Underground market and Commons market are the only on-campus dining facilities that accept credit cards, George Nedbalek, an A&M food services official, said. These facilities take Visa and Mastercard. It would not be practical to accept credit cards at the larger dining halls because it would slow the lines too much, Nedbalek said. “The dining halls must have fast access,” he said. “We’re feeding too many people too fast to mess with credit cards at the registers.” Texas teen-ager dies days after becoming first human recipient of lung-assist device SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — The first human recipient of an experi mental lung-assist device, a Texas teen-ager suffering from severe res- pratory stress, died Wednesday 4*/2 lays after the bundle of plastic fibers [as implanted in her chest. I Melicia Harvey, 16, of Arthur City, who had remained in critical Condition, died at 6:30 a.m. of [worsening pulmonary failure,” T im Madden, spokesman at LDS Hospi tal, said. The experimental IntraVascular Ixygenator, implanted during two lours of surgery Friday afternoon, metioned properly until the girl iied, he said. Madden said the hospital’s gov ernment-approved implants will continue. “There were no clinical complica tions from the use of the device, which added oxygen to and re moved carbon dioxide from the pa tient’s blood,” he said in a written statement. Harvey’s identity and details of her condition had been kept private at her family’s request until a Texas newspaper, the Paris News, identi fied her and her father, Atrell Har vey II. With the family’s permission, Madden confirmed her identity Wednesday. The girl’s mother, Edith Harvey, 41, had died of undisclosed causes on Jan. 31, said Leon Williams, a spokesman for the Maxey Funeral Home in Paris. He said that follow ing an autopsy, Harvey’s body would be transported home to Texas, where funeral arrangements were not complete. “Suffice it to say the family has gone through extensive tragedy dur ing the past week,” Madden said. Harvey, whose father is an em ployee of the Campbell Soup Co., had been a member of the student council at North Lamar High School in Paris, where students were taking Harvey’s death “really, really hard,” Linda Bolton, secretary to the school’s principal, said. The school’s 740 students include Harvey’s brother and sister. Bolton said counselors were called in to talk with the grieving students. The IVOX, a 20-inch bundle of hundreds of synthetic tubes about as fine as human hair, with walls so thin that oxygen and carbon dioxide can pass through, was designed to give damaged lungs time to recover. The device was approved by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration for temporary implantation in up to 10 humans at LDS and three other medical centers. They include Hershey Medical Center at Pennsyl vania State University, the Univer sity of Michigan Medical Center in Ann Arbor and the Los Angeles County-University of Southern Cali fornia Medical Center. Visiting professor finds hospital visits last longer in Japan By CHRIS VAUGHN Of The Battalion Staff The average hospital stay for a Japanese patient is 40 days, al most 10 times the average stay for Americans, according to a Japa nese architecture professor visit ing Texas A&M Wednesday. Dr. Yasushi Nagasawa, an asso ciate professor of architecture at Tokyo University, said part of the reason the rate is so high in Japan is because the country has few nursing homes to care for the el derly. Nagasawa was at A&M as part of a 10-member Japanese dele gation representing the health fa cility industry that conducted a symposium on health facility ar chitecture. Chris Miovski and Tim Rom mel, both from Cannon Ar chitects, also were at the sympo sium. The two architects were hoping to recruit students to work for the company. Showing slides of Tokyo Uni versity and Japanese hospitals, Nagasawa talked about the differ ences between health care in Ja pan and in the United States. Nagasawa explained some of the reasons the average hospital stay for patients was 40 days. Besides the fewer number of nursing homes, he said, Japanese people are not as worried about getting out quickly because Ja pan’s national government main tains health insurance for its citi- patients take personal things to the hospital,” Nagasawa continued. “Some of their rela tives may stay in the room, too.” He said the familiar surround ings help the patients feel more at ease. Though the average hospital stay for the Japanese is 40 days, the country has the highest life expectancy in the world. Men live to an average age of 75, while women live to an average of 80, he said. Another difference between Japanese and American hospitals is the amount of patients per room. Most hospitals in Japan have four or six beds to a room. Nagasawa said multi-patient rooms have some advantages. “Patients can help each other if they’re in the same room,” he said. “I would also prefer to have someone with me if I’m going to be in there for one month.” During the question-and-an- swer session, Nagasawa said he is currently researching how pa tients react to windows with a view versus no windows to deter mine how future Japanese hospi tals will be constructed. Miovski, senior vice president of Cannon Architects, said he be lieves sunshine plays a major role in patient recovery. “Coronary and cardiovascular patients have to have windows,” Miovski said. “Coronary patients must see the sun rise in the morn ing. The sun is life. You have to keep that in mind when design ing.” Miovski and Rommel, Class of ’84, presented a slide lecture on Cannon’s major architectural projects. Cannon Architects, which has offices in New York City, Grand Island, New York, Boston and St. Louis, is the larg est health facility architectural firm in America. iUt i shows tk ties benet vorkersan jsually ficationi k who is a nsible s rejected i educated itive actioi I tracteristtj | -mance, jurt of la* r a socieo jasis of eirsexor ces it. On omote ill neved nor The Washington, DC/Baltimore Retail Group of Trammell Crow Company the nation’s largest, privately held commercial real estate development company will be on campus interviewing undergraduates for two-year associate positions on February 14 Schedule sign-up is from 8:00 am to 6:00 pm January 22-31, 1990 at The Placement Center 10th Floor — Rudder Tower Further information available through The Placement Center 845-5139 J How’re you going to do it? ‘ ‘My chi-m lab report is due Monday. My English lit. /xiper is due Tuesday. My economics paper is due on Wednesday. And the big game's tomorrow: ’ Now, super savings on PS/2 s. 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