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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."
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