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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
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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
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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."
Black, professor of humanities and
gy, said. “It was a profoundly emoi
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