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SCIENCE5TECHNOLOGY py, Januar Tuesday, January 25, 2000 THE BATTALION Kids hoof it with science Aggie Day teaches about veterinary school challenges BY SABRA SPAW Special to The Battalion Equestrians spend numerous hours grooming and car ing for their horses. However, few are able to touch the tendons and bones inside a horse’s leg, or view its tissue through a microscope. But for young horse lovers who want to become vet erinarians, acceptance into veterinary school requires more than just a love for animals. Getting accepted into veterinary school means good grades in science. On Saturday, more than 150 members of the Rio Grande and Red River regions of the U.S. Pony Club, ranging in age from 8 to 19, met at the Texas A&M Col lege of Veterinary Medicine to leam more about prereq uisites necessary to succeed in veterinary school. “Aggie Day,” hosted every two years by the local Bra zos Pony Club, the College of Veterinary Medicine and the Department of Animal Science, was an opportunity for Pony Club members to leam more about equine veterinary medicine through lectures, demonstrations and hands-on .activities. '"Aggie Day answers a lot of questions the clubbers have regarding veterinary science and school,” Dr. Larry John son, professor of veterinary anatomy and Aggie Day master of ceremonies, said. “We want to interest the kids in enter ing biomedical science or veterinary medicine education.” Johnson said the Texas A&M College of Veterinary Medicine, the only veterinary school in the state, takes opportunities like Aggie Day to help kids leam things they cannot learn at home. A discussion panel consisting of veterinary students answered questions posed by Pony Club members and their parents. Discussions included what methods to undertake to enter veterinary school and how much impact extracurricular activities and volunteering have on an application. “Veterinary students tell the younger students how to begin thinking about vet school or attending college,” he said. “We leam a lot about things we haven’t looked at so closely before,” An drea Holman, a junior at A&M Consolidated High School, said. Gayle Linger, also an A&M Consolidated junior, said the seminar helped STUART VILLANUEVA/Tm BattaUO Summer Helbert, third-year veterinary student, shows a future veterinary stu dent how to measure a horse’s heart rate at Aggie Day on Saturday. The pro gram was sponsored by the Brazos Pony Club, the College of Veterinary Medi cine and the Department of Animal Science. her know how to prepare for applying to veterinary school. “I am loading up on science classes and taking an equine science class at the high school,” she said. Jan Coble, the Club’s Rio Grande regional supervisor, said that its pur pose is to extend horsemanship and veterinary knowledge to the appropri ate levels of its members. “We learn a lot,” Stephanie McKieman, a Hood Pony Club member said. “But it’s not just about learning. It’s about having fun.” Filth-grader Laura Welsh's favorite part of Saturday’s schedule was tak ing a horse’s vital signs and measurements. “ I could feel the horse’s pulse in its lower fetlock,” Welsh said. She said she is preparing for veterinary school by paying close attention and taking good notes. Medical school studen service honors cadaver BY DAVE AMBER The Battalion 11 ant hut i Human anatomy cannot be learned from only a book or a CD-ROM. That is w hy each fall, first-year medical stu dents across the country experience an impor tant rite of passage w hen becoming a doctor as they w alk into the dissection riK>m for a cLos called Gross Anatomy. “It’s quite a shoek the first day w hen you un cover the body and you realize that it’s a real person.” Vinnie Choudry, a first-year medical student, said. On Friday afternoon, more than 100 faculty, staff and students in the Texas A&M Universi ty System Health Science Center College of Medicine joined Choudry and other first-year (iross Anatomy students in lighting l~ maroon and white candles to honor the se\ viduals who donated their bodies fi mester class. This is the second year students memorial sendee to signity that bodies used for medical student ed resent real human lives. “I will nev er forget my first entr Anatomy, w ith wafts of sweet fom the air and 40 or so cadavers." 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