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Page 6 The Battalion Monday, March 9,1} Me Scientists come closer to finding asthma gene LONDON (AP) — Scientists believe they have come signifi cantly closer to finding a gene that triggers asthma, a discov ery that could lead to more ef fective treatment of the disor der, researchers said Sunday. Dr. William Cookson of Ox ford University said his team has determined that the gene is among a stretch of 100 genes on the 11th chromosome. Scientists have long suspect ed the gene they are looking for is one of thousands on the 11th chromosomal pair. Asthma, which affects about 1 in 20 people, causes air pas sageways to narrow during at tacks. Medication now used to treat asthma opens the airways only temporarily. Dr. Allan Weinstein, a clini cal professor of medicine at Georgetown University and consultant to the allergy section of the U.S. National Institutes of Health, said, “it's always been clear asthma tends to follow a hereditary basis, but it's also been clear that other factors such as the environment and or infectious diseases can influ ence the development of asth ma. “It's also been thought that asthma involved more than one gene, which may still be the case/' he said. “This finding on chromo some 11 is an important discov ery that awaits scientific publi cation and requires confirma tion," he added. The Battalion Classified Ads Phone: 845-0569 / Office: Room 015 (basement) Reed McDonald Building AGGIE’WANT ADS Business Hours $ 10 for 20 words running 5 days, if your merchan dise Is priced $1000 or less (price must appear in ad). For private individuals, not businesses. Guar anteed results or you get an additional 5 days at no charge. 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President Bush has made POW-MIA issues one of the subjects to be resolved before better relations can be formed with either Vietnam or North Korea. Vietnam has repeatedly denied that prison ers from the Vietnam War were moved to any third nation. Yet sources told The Associated Press that Washington considered as plausible the move ment of U.S. prisoners from Vietnam to Korea and kept classified reports of suspected sight ings of Americans in North Korea. In addition, a former South Korean officer and prisoner of war says he was urged by both Viet Cong and Cambodian captors to go to North Korea, suggesting that a prisoner transit route had been established. The CIA memorandum, from March 9,1988, is now being studied by the Senate SelectCi mittee on POW-MIA Affairs. The memo appeared in a heavily censo version of a committee report last year.ltis dresed to Col. Joseph A. Schlatter, U.S.Ai chief in the Special Office for POW-MIA; purports to be a summation of reportedsi| ings of Americans in North Korea from 151 1982. It lists two reports of the sightingofl Americans on the outskirts of Pyongyang,; lowed by a sentence with all words deleted except the words “about 10 military pilotst tured in North Vietnam were broughttoNi Korea." The memo also lists a sighting of "asm as 11 Caucasians, possibly American prism Professor claims YCT intimidates, censors Continued from Page 1 have political bias, but the professors try to be objective." Gary Halter, an associate professor of politi cal science, said censorship of any form should not be tolerated in a university environment. "This is an attempt to censor and intimi date," he said. "University environment is supposed to be for the free exchange of ideas. "They need to understand that different doesn't mean wrong," he added. "Maybe they should be called the Young Truth Seekers of Texas." Keetch said he feels political bias is getting in the way of the education process at A&M and instead students may be receiving a politi cal indoctrination from some professors, but instructors disagree. "The idea that professors grade on the basis of political bias is astounding," McWhirter said. "I'd like to see the basis for such claims." McWhirter also said students are entitled to hear the political positions of the instructor. "Students have a right to get the whole teacher in the classroom," he said. "That obvi ously means expressing political beliefs and feelings. I am not a machine, I am a person." Michael Pierce, a visiting professor of lii ry, said it seems ironic that Keetch saidYC simply looking for honesty in education,! the monitors are observing educators wil announcing themselves. "My reaction is that anyone is free tolls! but if they are making judgments, pleaseco forward," Pierce said. "I'd like to haveso honesty from the conservatives, too." McWhirter said YCT is missing thewli objective of education. "No knowledge comes without itsbiasi he said. "At our very best that is what teach." Koldus tells of spring break hitchhiking home Continued from Page 1 and the last that Koldus or Wagn er hitchhiked. In Levi's and T-shirts, the two young buddies, headed north, Chicago-bound, riding with plain folk from small town to small town. It started out as fun that Thursday afternoon in the April Arkansas sun. However, come sunset and a cold front, 150 miles from campus, the two friends bot tomed out in Mound City, at the southern tip of Illinois. "We didn't get far," Koldus says with a laugh. "We had taken the direct but less-traveled route. All the traffic was local rather than long distance. So we would only get 20-mile hops going from one city to the next. "We thought hitchhiking would save us money. Because back then you had to be careful to use money for those things that you really needed. There were no credit cards. Whatever you saved, was what you had." Chilly and stranded in Mound City, the two young men had had enough of hitchhiking. They rent ed a room for the night in a small, rustic motel on the highway. The room had one tiny bed, a chest of drawers and a coal-burning stove. Rising early on Friday morning, still exhausted and freezing be cause the fire had gone out, Koldus and Wagner took the next Greyhound bus destined for Chicago. "If we had contined to hitch hike, we would never have made it home," Koldus remembers. "Back then people did not worry about who they picked up in terms of drug addicts or thieves, but still, even in those days, peo ple seldom stopped and picked up hitchhikers after dark." The bus arrived in Chicago and the two friends parted. Young Koldus finally arrived in Gary, 35 miles east of Chicago, late that night. The next day, Saturday, brought him his favorite foods and catch-up conversations with his family. Easter Sunday brought church services, a festive meal and relatives. "We had as much fun then, if not more fun, with our simple pleasures, as people do now* all their fancy, expensive pi sures," Koldus says. "Well! good time, a good time enjoi people. People enjoy 'thil more in this day and time,6 they do people. And that 1 ! shame because it's with pen that there is a lot of pleasure.’ Packed down with food; pared by mom, young Koli drove to Chicago in his deep; roon, 1937 Chevy to pickup friend, Wagner. Eighteen hi later, the two young menu back in Jonesboro. Their! cross-country trip and their spring break was over. Dr. Koldus will spend spring break in Europe witM lv members. i A&M fundraiser rakes in $185 million Continued from Page 1 "We can take what the founders and former students vi sualized and turn it into some thing real," McClure said. "If you can't visualize it, you can't do it." McClure said having the extra edge is what separates a good uni versity from a great one, and that is what the campaign can do for A&M. "If education is important to us, if this institution is important to us . . . we need to bind together in just cause so A&M will have the extra edge," he said. , "Even though some have dis agreed with the growth of the University, growth has put A&M on the path of excellence. A&M must be on the cutting edge, and getting there takes financial re sources." McClure said, however, the challenge is not to just keep A&M competitive with universities across the nation, but to keep America's institutions competitive with the rest of the world. The campaign includes specific goals for each University college, student program and other major units, such as the George Bush Presidential Library. Some of the major gifts are: •$10 million from Walter Koepp, for the use of the College of Agriculture and Life Sciences. •$5 million from Leslie L. Ap- pelt, for the Leslie L. Appelt Ag gieland Visitor Center in Rudder Tower, and to provide support for the Private Enterprise Research Center, the Division of Student Services and the Development Foundation. •$3 million from John and Sara Lindsey to establish two endowed chairs in the College of Liberal Arts. It will also benefit the Memorial Student Center Gallery, the Texas A&M University Press, the Institute of Biosciences and Technology and the George Bush Presidential Library, and will es tablish a Normandy Scholarship. •$2,875 million from Madlin Stevenson for the Companion An imal Geriatric Center in the Col lege of Veterinary Medicine. •$2 million from Arthur An dersen and Andersen Consulting, for the College of Business Ad ministration and the Graduate School of Business. •$1 million in polling data from the Gallup Organization to the Center for Presidential Studies in the College of Liberal Arts. The Center will serve as the official archives for the Gallup Poll. •$1 million from E.M. "Man ny" Rosenthal to promote ad vancements in animal science in the College of Agriculture and Life Sciences. •$1 million from The Vivian L. Smith Foundation, to be divided between the Institute of Bio sciences and Technology and the new Veterinary Medicine Large Animal Hospital. There are 21 additional gifts of $1 million or more, and 125 gifts of $100,000 or more. Specific goals of the campaign are: $100 million for scholarships and graduate fellowships; $40 mil lion for the Sterling C. Evans Li brary and $10 million for the Med ical Sciences Library; $10 million for the Honors Program; $10 mil lion for the Corps of Cadets, MSC and student leadership programs; $125 million for faculty chairs and professorships; $10 million for the Center for Teaching Excellence; $78 million for individual college and unit programs. Also, $7 million for expanded international programs; $10 mil lion for the University Press; $5 million for visual arts programs; $20 million to enhance research; $12 million to enhance compc capabilities; $5 million for ins tional administrative support million for the Association of mer Students; and $33 million athletics and the Twelfth! Foundation. Donors may give to the Uni sity through the campaign in eral ways, including outright! of cash, securities or props pledges; and deferred gifts sue insurance policies or life estate The money raised by thet paign does not replace stateh ing, which still provides about third of A&M's funding. Mobley said the moneyrai by the campaign will notre^ the University's need or eligil for continued state funding. Many of the pledges and! - such as insurance polices- still be unavailable to the Uni sity for many years. Houston insurance exert John H. Lindsey is national^ man of the campaign. William C. 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