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student representation, but most
of this bill’s support comes from
an attempt to undermine the Cor-
p’s domain,” Waligura said. “We
do block vote and a run off will in
jure our vote.”
But Herrick said current vot
ing practice gives unfair advan
tage to the Corps.
“All this bill does is ask what
the students want,” Herrick said.
“It is time for A&M leaders to stop
being scared of change.”
The Senate took further action,
recommending unanimously that
common exams for a course be
written collectively by professors
for each section of that course to
ensure fairness to each student.
Collectively written common
exams would prevent students
who are enrolled in a section
taught by the course coordinator
from having an unfair advantage
over students taught by professors
who did not make the test.
In other business, the Senate:
•Called for the cregtion of an
optional student e-mail distribu
tion list to increase communica
tion between the Senate and the
student body.
•Called for a change in funding
of room-rent waivers for military
scholarship recipients; currently,
funding comes entirely from on-
campus students.
•Passed a bill allowing one
Graduate Student Council officer
to be a non-voting member of the
Student Senate’s Executive Coun
cil and one representative of Stu
dent Government to be a non-vot
ing member of GSC.
•Recommended that Univer
sity regulations be changed so
that students needing 14 or
more hours of a foreign lan
guage can be forced into foreign
language classes, with prefer
ence given by seniority.
Loeb
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Scientists clone sheep in mass
Loeb also warned students not to
wait for the perfect cause or the “right
time,” because activism in general is
more important than perfection.
He said students should explore
options and alternatives for social
change by studying history.
“Not knowing our history denies
us tools for social change,” he said.
“Current issues seem overwhelm
ing when we aren’t aware of past
obstacles. We realize that times
may be hard but things are not im
possible when we refer to past
challenges.”
Carla Black, interim chair of
MSC Great Issues and a senior bio
chemistry major, said bringing
Loeb to A&M might compel more
students to take active stances in
their communities.
“Great Issues knows that many
Texas A&M students are politically
and socially involved,” Black said.
“But because our generation often
gets a bad rap, we thought this lecture
could shed more light on these stu
dents and others across the country.”
Arin Schall, a freshman political
science major, said she expected
the speech to concentrate primarily
on values, but it turned out to be
very motivational for her.
“I was really glad he got into the
issues of activation,” she said. “As
a freshman, I have basically con
centrated on making good grades
and adjusting in general. He really
encouraged me to take time out to
get involved.”
Emiley Walker, a sophomore
business management major, said
A&M students should learn from
the colorful examples Loeb drew
from universities nationwide.
“The stories he told of protests of
issues and ideas at other schools
should motivate us to take a stand,”
she said. “We could be doing much
more than writing letters to the pa
per. We need to be more active.”
□ If perfected, the cloning technique
could produce animals that give
more milk, resist diseases and have
other desirable traits.
NEW YORK (AP) — In a feat never before ac
complished in mammals, scientists have found a
way to turn a laboratory dish full of cells into
hundreds of genetically identical sheep.
Scientists in Scotland took cells from an em
bryo, grew thousands of copies in the lab and
then used copies to produce sheep from ewes.
Experts said if the technique can be perfected,
it will be a major gain in the ability to make ge
netic changes in livestock for research and to
quickly produce animals that give more or better
milk or meat, resist diseases or display other de
sirable traits.
“It is a great achievement,” commented
Robert H. Foote, professor emeritus of animal
physiology at Cornell University in Ithaca, N.Y.
The work was reported in Thursday’s issue of
the journal Nature by Ian Wilmut, Keith Camp
bell and colleagues at the Roslin Institute near
Edinburgh, Scotland. The institute does agricul
tural research on animals, with government and
industry funding.
Currently, scientists can produce genetically
identical farm animals by such techniques as
breaking a single embryo into pieces and im
planting each piece in a womb to form a new ani
mal. But that approach yields fewer than 20
copies, rather than hundreds.
Scientists can already plant genes into farm
animals by injecting the genetic material into
fertilized eggs. But the new technique can gener
ate thousands of cells to receive genes, giving sci
entists many more chances to achieve successful
gene transfers.
As a result, scientists would be able to insert
genes more precisely, swap new genes for old or
inactivate particular genes in an animal, said
animal gene expert Caird Rexroad Jr.
That would offer major advantages for study
ing farm animal genetics and eventually produc
ing better barnyard stock, said Rexroad, re
search leader at the Gene Evaluation and Map
ping Laboratory at the U.S. Department of Agri
culture’s Agricultural Research Service in
Beltsville, Md.
The new work has “put us a step closer to do
ing that,” he said.
Mass-producing hundreds of animals is still
years away, Wilmut said, because the technique
is currently much too inefficient. The Nature pa
per reports the birth of only five lambs from hun
dreds of attempts.
Wilmut said he believes the technique could
also be used eventually for cattle. For other
species, like pigs, goats and poultry, the
prospects are less clear because of differences in
the biology of early development, he said.
Wilmut also said he doesn’t know if it would
work in people, adding that many scientists
would consider this application unethical.
For the research, scientists isolated cells from
sheep embryos and grew them in laboratory
dishes. The cells grew into colonies, which were
repeatedly split up to form more and more cells.
Then the researchers took unfertilized egg
from ewes, pulled out the egg’s genes, and fused
the eggs to the laboratory-grown cells.
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Russian department, and we both applied,”
Cooke said. “We made a deal with the University
to share the job, each of us working part time.
“You could say I went into semi-employment,
semi-retirement when we were hired.”
The Cooks’ situation was the first time A&M
split a job between spouses. They both started
working full time when the Russian department
increased in size.
Perry said couples working for the University
are hired because of their qualifications, not be
cause of convenience.
“What we’re guaranteeing is a strong effort to
help them find jobs here. But in the final analy
sis, the partner has to compete for the job
against all the other applicants,” Perry said
“The Partner Placement Program gives us a way
to get to know people who are looking for jobs.
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ter as individuals.”
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