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University Dr., Suite 103 846-8991 World renowned Jazz musician and ethnomusicologist MARVIN "DOC* HOLLADAV is coming to Bryan - College Station A special presentation about Baha’i Faith perspectives on music, the arts, and the origins and development of Jazz Mr. Holladay has played with such well-known musicians as Dizzy Gillespie, Tommy Dorsey, Woody Herman, Quincy Jones, Duke Ellington, and has per formed in the New York Broadway Theatre “The Yearling”, “The Sound of Music”, and “Magic Man”. He has recorded and performed with Ella Fitzgerald, Vic Damone, Leslie Uggams, Peggy Lee and A1 Grey-Billy Mitchell Sextet. Sunday, July 14,1996 §0*^ 3:00 p.m. at TAMU Rudder Forum and ^ 8:00 p.m. at Palace Theater in downtown Bryan Sponsored by the Baha’is of Bryan-College Station & TAMU Baha’i Club The dead shall teach the living Program enriches Aggies' education By Ann Marie Hauser The Battalion The Willed Body Program of the Texas A&M College of Medicine provides a rite of passage in the education of future physicians. Through the program, medical students benefit from hands-on experience working on bodies donated by individuals. Dr. Elvin E. Smith, interim vice presi dent for Health Affairs, said the donations are an indispensable aid in medical teach ing and research. “It’s difficult to put a price on these do nations,” Smith said. “They are an ex tremely important contribution that we value very highly.” To donate one’s body, a copy of a bequest form must be completed, signed and wit nessed by two people. Dr. James A. Knight, former dean of the College of Medicine and a professor of psy chiatry and medical ethics, said students must have great respect when working with the cadavers. “All kinds of efforts are made to humanize the cadavers in preparing the students,” Knight said. Four students are assigned to one cadaver each semester. They begin their study at a designated area of the body until the dissec tion is complete. James Lange, a second-year medical stu dent, said he was apprehensive before they uncovered the body but soon adjusted. “The hardest part for me was working on the face, hands and fingers,” Lange said. “I am very grateful to those people for their donation.” Knight emphasized the respect and rever ence that must be given to the body during the dissection. “This is a big step for students in their education because they are in the presence of death all the time,” Knight said. “It forces them to work through their feelings on death.” Smith said students participating in the class undergo extensive instruction before working with the cadavers. “One of the most poignant times i- physician’s education is to experience tli Smith said. The program began when the Collegf Medicine was established in the mid-’70s The Uniform Anatomical Gift Act was tablished 30 years ago to enable indivick to donate their bodies or parts of their boc to medicine. Prior to the passage of the Act, the law trusted the deceased’s body to the next-of k; The State Anatomical Board develop rules and regulations to ensure thatt grams are conducted properly. Permission from the Board is requin to create this type of program within; institution. Smith said the remains are usually! turned to the families for a closed-caskete emony or cremation. Knight said the importance of thep; gram is expressed in a Latin saying;: graved above the entrance to most labs ’’Mortui vivos docent “ (the dead shall tea the living). More college freshmen dropping out of school WASHINGTON (AP) — Near ly 27 percent of college students drop out after their first year, according to a survey of 2,564 schools. It also shows the college graduation rate is at its lowest level in more than a decade at the surveyed schools. A report released Wednesday by American College Testing re veals the freshman-to-sopho- more dropout rate at the sur veyed two- and four-year public and private institutions rose to 26.9 percent this year. That’s just a little above last year’s rate of 26.2 percent, but it’s nearly 2.5 percent higher than the-dropout rate reported 13 years ago when ACT began collecting data. “It’s taking students a lot longer to graduate,” says David Merkowitz, a spokesman for the American Council on Education, a group representing the na tion’s colleges and universities. “We could be seeing a lot of stop-outs, not dropouts.’’More high school graduates are going to college, but rising tuitions mean some cannot afford to stay in school, he says. Also, in creasing numbers of nontradi- tional students, who now make up more than 40 percent of the enrollment at two- and four- year public and private schools, are forced to study in a start- and-stop fashion, he said. In addition, improving eco nomic conditions mean more jobs, which can lure students from campus. Former Dole campaign official fined $6 millior BOSTON (AP) — A former vice chairman of Bob Dole’s cam paign finance committee agreed Wednesday to pay a record $6 million in fines for funneling ille gal contributions through his employees to the Dole camp and other political causes. If the plea agreement en tered by Simon C. Fireman is approved by a federal judge as expected, it would be by far the largest penalty in U.S. history for illegal campaign contributions. Fireman, the owner of Aqua-Leisure Industries, was accused of getting employees of his company to make contribu tions and then reimbursing them through a cash flume running to Hong Kong and then back to the United States. He allegedly used $120,000 to reimburse employees for con tributions to the Dole campaign, the 1992 Bush-Quayle ca: paign, the Republican Natio: Committee and Democratic ft Joseph P. Kennedy II’s 19! campaign for Congress. U.S. Attorney Donald Sic said there was no evidenced any of the campaigns orcomir: tees knew about the scheme. The Clinton and Dole cait: sought to turn the plea agre ment to their own advantage. Dole spokesman Nels: Warfield stressed the Dt campaign had cooperated f. ly with the probe, addiri pointedly that “this approa: stands in stark contrast! what the public has come: expect from others.” President Clinton’s can paign spokesman, Joe Lot; hart, shot back that Dolew: obligated to explain howh campaign got involved in “tk kind of criminal behavior." &AH! by Chuck Johnson American fumlgators Sk©feh By Quatn Don’t Worry when an accident or sudden illness occurs CarePlus is open when you need them 7 days a week with affordable medical care. 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