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Campus Page 2 The Battalion Friday, March 26,1993 Veterinary college to dedicate research center for aging pets Geriatric animals to be cared for in home-like environment Freebies for Aggies KYLE BURNETT/The Battalion Students take advantage of some free promotional items on university campuses across the country items Thursday near Rudder Fountain. The and will be giving out more free magazines and sponsor companies have been distributing the other products today. Riders Continued from Page 1 • West Texas A&M University - $250,000 for agri cultural programs. • Texas Agricultural Experiment Station - $2.25 million supporting an Agricultural Logistics Center in South Bexar County and care of agricultural is sues such as environmental quality, global competi tiveness and youth development. • Texas Agricultural Extension Service - $2.18 million for programs studying Africanized Honey Bees and agricultural issues. • Texas Engineering Experiment Station - $2.6 million for writing services and minority programs. • Texas Transportation Institute - $2 million for a Southwest Region University Transportation Center. • Texas Engineering Extension Service - $1.3 mil lion for replacement of firefighting equipment. • Texas Forest Service - $815,000 for research into recycling forest waste products and replacement of a building destroyed by fire. By HEATHER WINCH The Battalion Texas A&M College of Veterinary Medicine will dedicate a new building for the study of behavioral, nutritional and geriatric needs of animals. The Stevenson Companion Animal Life-care Cen ter and W.P. Luse Foundation Building opens offi cially at 3:30 p.m. today. The main purpose of the center is to provide care for older animals when the pet owners are no longer able. The pet owner gives the center an endowment that supports the center. When the animal dies, the endowment is then transferred to fund a program of the owner's choos ing. The owners are assured of proper care and study of the animals. Without injections, caging or surgery on the ani mals, the studies will be used to gather information about geriatric diseases and disorders of older ani mals which veterinarians know little about. The core of the 10-acre facility is a 5,000 square foot building which contains veterinary clinical facili ties, dormitories for up to 60 animals, a visiting room for human interaction with the animals and an ani mal playroom with toys and scratching posts. "In order to evaluate well the aging process we must maintain the same environment the animals were in at home. We can't put them in cages and ex pect to get reliable data," said Dr. "Ned" Ellett, direc tor of the Life-care Center. From this research, the center will develop pro grams for the diagnosis, treatment and prevention of diseases in geriatric animals, Ellett said. Plans for the center, located on University Drive and Highway 60 west of the College of Veterinary Medicine began in 1984 and construction started last February. The University donated 10 acres of land for the center but all costs for the $576,976 center were paid by private gifts, grants and endowments. The center will bo self-sufficient from the interest earned from donated monies in an account allocated for the support of the center and animal care, said Kelley Durham Information Specialist for the Depart ment of Veterinary Medicine. Another part of the center, the Luse Building, also will hold the center's administrative and staff offices, a conference room, an apartment for live-in veteri nary students and kitchen and laundry facilities. Although not all of the 10 acres of land is being used, the Life-care center plans to expand and in clude outdoor exercise areas for cats and dogs as well as open areas for larger animals. The Stevenson Center is named for Madiin Stevenson, a Houston area interior designer and ani mal enthusiast. Stevenson has funded part of the center and pro vided furnishings for the center as well as all of the furnishings for the live-in veterinary student apart ments. The Luse Building is named after the late busi nessman and oilman W.P. Luse and founder of the W.P. and Beulah Luse Foundation of Dallas. The foundation has provided funds for activities within the College of Veterinary Medicine and con struction of the Stevenson Center. Stevenson will attend the dedication with Ellett President Mobley and Senior Vice President and Provost Dr. E. Dean Gage will speak at the dedica tion ceremony. Dr. John A. Shadduck, dean of the College of Vet erinary Medicine, will preside over the ceremony with Board of Regents chairman Ross D. Margraves. Aggie dies in wreck David Wayne Peters, a senior forestry major from Chester, Texas, was killed in a car accident early Thursday morning in Waco. Peters was 22 years old. Riley Funeral Home in Woodville, Texas will handle the memorial service. 4r EXCITING ->r NEWS MAY GRADUATES OF TEXAS A&M UNIVERSITY GRADUATION ANNOUNCEMENT ORDERS ARE HERE !!!!! 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