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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
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• 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.
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"A DREAM OF CANARIES"
BY
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March 28 - 29, 1993
7:30 PM
Rudder Theater
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