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len’s film, “Sleeper,” who awoke
from a cryonically suspended sleep
200 years after a botched appendec
tomy.
Segall and his family have signed
up for cryonic suspension, but for
right now, Segall says, the technol
ogy to resuscitate people in cold stor
age is hundreds, if not thousands of
years away, but Segall prefers cryon
ics to the grave or cremation.
“Being dead and frozen is the sec
ond worst thing that can happen to
you,” Segall said.
Segall said cryonics also holds
promise for transplant patients and
AIDS and cancer victims. Organs to
be transplanted remain viable for
four hours and must then be dis
posed. With cryonics, organs could
be safely frozen, stored and used
days and weeks after being donated.
Patients’ bodies also could be cooled
and emptied of their blood to make
surgery easier.
This already has been done at
Johns Hopkins Hospital in Balti
more where doctors removed a mas
sive tumor from a patient by drop
ping the patient’s temperature to 68
degrees, stopping his heart, and
placing him on a heart-lung machine
for 80 minutes. Conventional sur
gery would have resulted in the pa
tient bleeding to death.
Cancer patients will benefit from
cryonics research when doctors can
chill the body and then treat only the
infected area of the body with cancer
fighting drugs. The blood of AIDS
patients could be replaced with sub
stitutes and then clean blood.
The medical series continues to
night at 7:30 in 226 MSC with “New
Vistas in Biophysics” by Dr. Alfonso
Zermero and concludes Nov. 28
when Dr. Henry Heimlick discusses
“Testing New Treatments: Using
Man, Animals and Computers.”
kicked out of all his other activities at
least until it had been proven he had
done what he was charged with.”
Wednesday’s arrests came as a re
sult of a month-long investigation by
Bryan police and Call America, a
long distance carrier in the Bryan-
College Station area.
Call America announced last
month that thousands of dollars
worth of long distance phone calls
had been made using illegal credit
card numbers, and that several
A&M football players were among
the A&M students under investiga
tion.
Arrest warrants were issued Tues
day, and the six players turned
themselves in Wednesday, Slocum
said.
However, Slocum said all six
would make the team trip this week
end to Fayetteville, Ark., for a game
against Arkansas, and that discipli
nary action would be taken later if
the athletes were found guilty.
Call America is based in Fayette
ville.
Slocum said the players would re
main on the team until the Univer
sity completes its investigation to de
termine whether they are innocent
or guilty.
“I have no way of knowing if they
made those calls or not,” Slocum
said. “I feel like I’m obligated to give
my players or any other student here
on this campus the benefit of the
doubt and give them the due process
of our system.”
This is the second time this semes
ter an A&M athlete has been ar
rested. Freddie Ricks, a senior guard
on the basketball team, was arrested
Oct. 1 by University Police and was
charged with burglary of a motor ve
hicle.
First-year head basketball coach
Kermit Davis Jr. immediately sus
pended Ricks from the team, and
has said the senior will not rejoin the
Aggies until he is cleared from all
charges. A state court still is investi
gating the case.
No official A&M athletic depart
ment policy exists concerning disci
plinary action against athletes. Ath
letic Director John David Crow
could not be reached for comment
Wednesday.
“A guy’s got the right to find out if
he’s guilty or not before I start tak
ing action against him,” Slocum said.
“That’s my position. I’m going to try
to treat them like you would any
other student.”
An athlete is handled just like any
other student when it comes to disci
plinary procedures. The University’s
Department of Judicial Affairsk
dies each case separately and ap (
from any civil or criminal charji
that may be brought against a sit
dent.
A wide range of disciplinary n
tion may be enforced on a stude:
found guilty of violating sdw
rules, including registration blodj
conduct probation, suspension £
expulsion from the University.
A similar situation arose seven
years ago, when A&M players wen
accused of illegally making hut
dreds of dollars worth of phonecal
with another long distance compam
H owever, no charges wen
brought against them, and an at
rangement was made between ils
players and the company to pay fa
the illegal calls. Former headcoad
Jackie Sherrill did not take disdpl
nary action against the players.
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important to this institution.”
He said a balance amon^
areas could be reached as long as
faculty members were allowed to
maintain their diversity.
The committee made several rec
ommendations to reward excellent
teachers with money, and faculty
members’ teaching experience also
could be recognized by making it a
part of the promotion and tenure
process.
Gage said several programs are
collecting data for the first time in
this area. He also said the University
should have some type of guidelines
evaluating its teaching corps by the
spring semester.
Another area of discussion was
the apparent lack of academic coun
seling available to students.
Gage said the University could
correct this problem by investing
more time advising students.
Many incoming freshmen and
graduating seniors would adjust
more quickly if they had access to
quality advice, he said.
“Our main concern is our stu
dents,” Gage said. “They are the
most important resource we have.”
One way the University could ad
dress the advising situation would be
to hire professional, non-faculty
counselors who would help over
loaded professors, he said.
Another way to handle this grow
ing problem would be to recognize
excellence in advising just as some
people have proposed excellence in
teaching should be rewarded, he
said.
“By rewarding these advisers, we
would give them further incentives
to help students,” Gage said.
He also proposed that A&M es
tablish a pre-professional advising
program in areas like medicine, law
and business.
“We (Texas A&M) seriously lack
any type of pre-professional coun
seling,” Gage said. “This is definitely
one area we desperately need to ad
dress.”
Carol Greaney, last year’s presi
dent of the Federation of the Texas
A&M University’s Mothers’ Club,
said many members of her organiza
tion have raised concerns that A&M
does not have an adequate advising
program.
“We have too many students fall
ing through the cracks,” Greany
said. “Too many students are not
aware of the counseling at hand and
far more do not take advantage of
it.”
She said Aggie Moms believe
there should be mandatory, individ
ualized counseling sessions. Greaney
also said the University should have
a uniform policy for all depart
ments.
Dr. William Perry, dean of fac
ulties and associate provost, dis
cussed the topic of classroom com
munication.
Perry said a new enhancement
program was instituted at the begin
ning of the fall semester to give stu
dents another way of getting the best
education possible.
“Although this system is new, we
believe it has helped tremendously,”
Perry said. “Once everyone under
stands how it works, we will be able
to assess the program’s success.”
If students have a problem, they
should try to solve it with the faculty
member, he said. If that approach is
not successful, he said the students
then can fill out a form which will
bring the matter to the attention of
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percentage of people who actually
stop. But for those who don’t quit on
smokeout day, they at least have
more awareness of it.”
He says the health promotion of
fice does not have statistics on the
number of students, faculty and
staff who smoke on campus.
The office also lacks statistics on
how many people actually quit on
smokeout day.
But according to the U.S. Depart
ment of Health and Human Re
sources, the percentage of people
over the age of 18 who smoke is 28.8
to 31.2 percent of men and 26.5 per
cent of women.
The health and human resources
department also reports people who
smoke cigarettes run a greater risk
of premature death than those who
do not smoke.
Most smokers want to quit, and at
least two-thirds have tried at one
time to quit, HHR statistics say.
About 5.2 million people — or
10.5 percent of the nation’s smokers
— gave up cigarettes for 24 hours
last year. One or two days later, 3.9
million of these people still were not
smoking.
Sorenson says quitting smoking
benefits health, cuts expenses and
helps the environment.
HHR statistics even say the death
rate of former smokers — 10 years
after quitting — is about the same as
for those who have never smoked at
all.
Two groups helping with the smo
keout are the Health Education Cen
ter in the A.P. Beutel Health Center
and the Center for Drug Prevention
and Education.
The Health Promotion Program
was formed in September to im
prove the health of A&M faculty and
staff by offering preventive health
tests for a small fee, Sorenson says.
The program is a subdivision of the
Human Resources Department.
For more information about the
campus smokeout, contact the
Health Promotion Program Office
at 845-4141. For information about
the American Cancer Society, call 1-
800-ACS-2345.
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the department head.
Perry said only 11 complain
have been received.
He said the communication pti
gram also handles faculty membtii
problems with English proficiency,
Out of 131 potential faculty mci
bers who may have had a problct
with English, he said only one fa
ulty member could not conimunb
effectively. That instructor will In
gin classes in the spring to come
the problem, he said.
“This program is still new, butw
are very pleased with it," Perry said
Another concern the commide
addressed was the University's n«i
to recruit more minority students
Gage said minority enrollment-
4,280 minority students areenrofe
at A&M this semester — has r
creased by 5 percent and has addt:
needed diversity to A&M.
“We’re not where we should b
but we have made significant pr
gress in this area,” Gage said.
DeCluitt closed the meeting:
saying the committee would prest:
a formal resolution to the Board'
Regents during the board’s meeir;
Dec. 5.
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with the election,” he said. “Neithc
political party asked for it. It raist
some questions. What right did b
have to petition?”
Preceding the elections, abo:
1,800 people — most of whom wei: r -
A&M students — mistakenly regi
tered in other counties when tk
put their parents’ address in the pc
manent address portion of the card •.
People are registered to vote
the county listed as their permane
address, so these students werepr:
hibited from voting in Brat
County.
The 1,800 affected voters tteE
were urged to vote by affidai
When signing affidavits, peep
swear they are registered tovotem*
a resident of the county where tilt*
are attempting to vote.
Clevenger said he wants studeffl
who believe they witnessed votingill
regularities to contact the Bryan
Houston FBI offices to issue cot
plaints.
Clevenger also encouraged aul
students who did not vote becais
they felt intimidated or did notii;,
ceive a voter registration card uni
after the election to contact the Sr
dent Government office.
Clevenger and District Attornt
Bill Turner met Tuesday andonl
lined several points to alleviate i!
registration confusion which cause
all the problems.
“These points should prever
these problems from occur!
again,” Clevenger said. “It has bap;
pened for several years now.”
The eight recommendatior
drawn up by Clevenger and Turn:
are as follows:
• The words “permanent
dress” should be removed froi
voter registration cards, so studeit
do not get confused about their pt'
manent addresses.
• The county registrar shoul
notify people when their cards ai
forwarded to another county, s
they can re-register if they intend
vote in Brazos County.
• Limited-ballot voting, or voti
only for state races, should be t
tended through elections. Present!'
limited-ballot voting is only throui
absentee voting.
• Affidavits should include t
penalty for voting illegally — a tbit
degree felony with a maximum se
tence of 10 years in prison and
$10,000 fine.
• Election judges and sli
should receive better training
handle any election problems.
• The registrar’s office su
should receive better training.
• The registrar, district attorn
and a representative of the Tes
Secretary of State’s office shou
meet to evaluate voting in of
county when registered in anotlf
county.
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