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The Texas A&M University Directory includes listings of departments, administrators, faculty, staff, students, other information about A&M, plus yellow pages. Organ donations subject of study CLEVELAND (AP) — When it comes to talking to families about or gan donation, nurses are better than doctors, timing is critical, and health care workers’ attitude makes a huge difference, new research finds. The conclusions are drawn from the largest and most comprehen sive look at the sons and daughters, mothers and fathers, husbands and wives who must decide, in a mo ment of utter grief, whether they will donate their loved one’s organs to patients awaiting transplants. About half of families say yes, and half say no. Researchers in Cleveland and in Pittsburgh set out to find what makes the difference. “It has the same psychology of sales. Laura A. Siminoff of Case Western Reserve University's med ical school said. “If someone is neg ative and they say, ‘You don’t really want to do it, do you?’ they’re prob ably going to look at you and say, ‘Absolutely not.’” She conducted the study with Dr. Robert Arnold of the University of Pittsburgh. Siminoff and Arnold will present their results today to about 55 trans plant coordinators, doctors, nurses, bioethists, donor families and other experts from around the country. Or ganizers hope the group will devel op a model for approaching families that can be tested in a scientifically rigorous national study. Last year, organ donation in creased for the first time in years, edg ing up to 5,500 donors. Still. 4,300 people died while awaiting a trans plant, and more than 66,000 patients now are waiting for a donor organ. This week's conference is one of several efforts to boost donation amid a bitter fight in Washington over how to allocate donated organs. The Department of Health and Human Services wants more or gans for the sickest patients, no matter where they live, while many transplant surgeons defend 11,500 numte of deaths r these hospitals 740 were medical!) suitable:: be orga r donors 589 families were aske; to donate I “We’re not lot champions ar We don’t jus R; on A&M bounc a 51-6 loss 272 of ther agreed to donate I think today i live note. We < this game anc hat we can re If we put our m on A&M’s Source Laura A Siminotl Case Weser Reserve University the current system, which! largely on geography. “It’s fitting that ■ win was an ropriate tim win. Still, „ 1 r • ol 1 Significance is 1 Lawyers to present detense m Shepard cas in t^ecad /x r won a bunch LARAMIE, Wyo. (AP) — The theory that Aaron McKinney pummeled Matthew Shepard because he made a sexual advance goes on trial this week as lawyers try to prove McKinney suffered from a dimin ished capacity at the time of the beating. McKinney is on trial for robbery, kidnapping and murder in the death of the gay college student. His lawyers are seeking conviction on a lesser offense, like manslaughter, to avoid a possible death sentence. They have two approaches, both of which are aimed at proving McKinney suffered from a mental disease or defect that prevented him from knowingly or purposefully committing murder — the “dimin ished capacity” defense. When McKinney’s defense gets into full swing today, the lawyers plan to offer testimony his mental capacity was diminished by drugs and alcohol, an approach al lowed under Wyoming law. But they have combined that approach with the theory that a person with latent ho mosexual tendencies will have an uncontrollable, vio lent reaction when propositioned by a homosexual. Some have called this the “gay panic” defense. McKinney’s lawyers have contended he lost con trol during a drunken, drug-induced rage because a sexual advance by Shepard triggered memories of a childhood homosexual assault. on his 1 “Just like ( we’re not us "It's the 'excuse defense,’ and it has neverbet: lowed under Wyoming law,” Carbon County Alto: Tom Campbell, who is not involved intheprosor. of the case, said. No state legislature has recognized the gay-f defense because there is no scientific evidenceto port it, he said. Judge Barton Voigt is expected to rule toda — u ill be allowed to|PPP en ©d to US sent evidence supporting the thf It kind of shod .\U Kmnev and Russell Henderson,both22-yeij team a roofers, are accused of luri ng Shepard out of a La:J; ’ bni and taking him to a remote urea near the:;j wherethe) robbed him ot $20, lashed himtoaM a on fence and pistol whipped him intodcoma. ;v P n s 51 ' 6 oss ard, 21. died five days later. | Henderson is serving two life sentences after ing guilty to murder and kidnapping. During testimony last week, prosecutorsofferei! tors a timeline of the events the night Shepard beaten, ending with McKinney’s jailhouseconies McKinney’s then-girlfriend, Kristen Price,tesi ho wont on drug and alcohol binges which S0KK% t Penn St. lasted lot da\ - But she said >ho did no; see L- 3. Virginia Tech use drugs 01 drink the day of Shepard’s beating 1. Florida Tennessee (Team ! Florida St. Kane St. COME AND GET IT! :as I Georgia Tech I Mississippi St. Marshall 10. Nebraska Texas L2. Wisconsin L3. Alabama L4. BYU 15. Georgia 16. Michigan L7. East Carolina L8. Purdue .9. Michigan St. >0. Ohio St. II. Miami Fla 12. Texas A&M !3. Arkansas !4. Southern Miss. !5. Boston College 1999 AGGIELAND % # 1 Associate Top 25 V, NATION S LARGEST • 776 PAGES • 2"THICK •WEIGHS 10 LBS. P ICKING UP your 1999 Aggieland is easy. If you ordered a book, go to the basement of the Reed McDonald Building, and show your Student ID. 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