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Chris Smyth (right) stands at attention with the helmet All are freshmen in Squadron 7. Smyth must wear the
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John Coulson (left) and Andy Watson wait with him. tention with whistle to let them know it’s dinner time.
Medical breakthroughs
don't mean cure: doctor
Expert says society equates advancements with modern miracles
By Mack Harrison
The Battalion
The concept of medical pro
gress often takes the form of a
moral imperative, a medical
ethics expert said Wednesday in
the MSC at Texas A&M.
Dr. Daniel Callahan of the
Hastings Center in New York
said many people believe since
doctors have the ability to cure
an illness, they have a duty to
cure everyone with that illness.
Callahan spoke on "Biotech
nology and the Moral Logic of
Progress," and was sponsored
by the Department of Philoso
phy and Humanities, Center for
Biotechnology Policy and Ethics,
and Institute of Biosciences and
Technology.
Callahan, co-founder and di
rector of the Hastings Center, an
organization that conducts re
search on ethical problems in
medicine and biology, said peo
ple immediately want to put
medical breakthroughs to use.
"Technology makes action
possible," Callahan said. "From
most positions it's preferable to
do something than nothing."
Callahan said society expects
medical progress to improve
overall living conditions, and
also to take care of any unfore
seen problems the solution
might cause.
"People favor short-term,
rather than long-term, gains," he
said.
He said scientists and doctors
often enact new medical break
throughs without considering
the ramifications of these devel
opments.
Medical advances have elimi
nated most causes of premature
typf
Zalla
fever and smallpox, Callahan
said. He said now people die
when they are older, from ill
nesses such as cancer and Alz
heimer's disease.
"Death once came at all stages
of life," he said. "Now it comes
mainly in old age."
These people must be cared
for, and there is an increasing
demand for health care profes
sionals. This takes resources
away from other areas of medi
cine, Callahan said.
Medical advances have given
people a range of choices they
never had before, he said. Peo
ple can change their appearance,
decide whether to have children
and live longer lives.
The chance of a longer lifespan
means people must evaluate
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Report: A&M affiliate loses endowment increase
AUSTIN (AP) — West Texas State
University in Canyon lost the opportu
nity to increase its endowment by up
tb $2.5 million through apparent mis
management, the state auditor said in
a report issued Wednesday.
State Auditor Lawrence Alwin said
the university, prompted by heavy ath
letic department losses, also used
funds restricted for other purposes to
finance operations of the university's
auxiliary enterprises since 1988.
Both matters raised "questions of le
gality" and had been reported to ap-
ropriate authorities, Alwin said.
le auditor's office said it started in
vestigating West Texas State after re
ceiving information that the university
had lost $200,000 on an investment in
Mesa Limited Partnership, T. Boone
Pickens' oil and gas company.
That charge proved inaccurate, the
auditor said. But the report criticized
the way university endowment fund
transactions were handled while Pick
ens was chairman of the university
board of regents and Ed Roach was
president.
The school was merged into the
Texas A&M University System on
Sept. 1, 1990.
The transactions "appear to have
been handled almost exclusively by the
board chairman and the president,"
the report said.
"The type of 'arm's length'
relationship which should be main
tained between a donor and the uni
versity did not exist," it said.
Mesa President Paul Cain issued a
statement challenging the report. The
company "stands by its donations and
is proud of the university's efforts to
maximize the value of those charitable
gifts," he said.
"Mesa disagrees with the statement
that university officials lost the oppor
tunity to increase the donations by as
much as $2.5 million. In reality, the
university gained more than $1.3 mil
lion through its aggressive pursuit of
corporate funding," Cain said.
According to the auditor's report,
the university purchased Mesa stock
equal to a $500,000 matching grant
from Mesa and a $100,000 personal
matching gift from Pickens given in
late 1987.
But the school failed to raise the nec
essary matching funds and began re
funding the money to Pickens and
Mesa — plus capital gains and divi
dends — in September 1988, the report
said.
Four days after the university's origi
nal stock purchase. Roach and his fam
ily bought 20,000 Mesa shares through
the same Dallas broker the university
had used, paying 50 cents less per
share, the report said.
Roach sold his stock in August 1989,/
three days before reports were pub/
lished that Mesa had a $13.4 millioil
quarterly loss. He realized a capitf
gain of more than $15,000, the repo;
said. f
But the university held its inten
until seven months later, when t
shares sold for more than $4 less.
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