AT Mentors
Texas A&Mfaculty, staff and administrators helping students.
College of Veterinary
Medicine
Dean's Office
Ms. Delania Gordon
Large Animal Medicine
Dr. Robert Field
Dr. Allen Roussel
Dr. David Schmitz
Small Animal Medicine
Dr. Theresa Possum
Dr. Lisa Howe
Dr. Matthew Miller
Dr. Michael Willard
Vet. Anatomy and Public Health
Dr. A.B. Childers
Dr. Beverly Clement
Ms. Norma Funkhouser
Dr. Anton Hoffinan
Dr. Jorge Piedrahita
Dr. Lynn Ruoff
Dr. Loren Skow
Dr. Michael Tatum
Dr. Jane Welsh
Veterinary Pathobiology
Dr. James Den-
Dr. Billy Hargis
Ms. Mary Jewell
Dr. James Womack
Physiology and Pharmacology
Dr. Deborah Kochevar
Texas Veterinary Medical
Diagnostic Lab
Dr. Joe West
Division of Academic
Affairs
Admissions and Records
Ms. Tracee Carcasson
Ms. Myra Gomez
Mr. Antoine De Hoyos
Mr. Ricardo Gonzales
Mr. Mickey Saloma
Ms. Barbara West
Career Center
Ms. Marti Boerema
Ms. Beth Miles
Mr. Daniel Orozco
Ms. Samantha Leech Wilson
Center for Academic Enhancement
Ms. Tricia Bugajski
Ms. Stephanie Burgoon
Mr. Chris Calvin
Ms. Amy Ivison
Ms. Martha Josefy
Ms. Patricia Lehmann
Ms. Margo Lynch
Mr. Joel McGee
Ms. Catherine Toler
Educational Broadcast Services
Mr. Rick Howard
Dr. Rodney Zent
Center for Teaching Excellence
Ms. Jean Layne
Dr. Liz Miller
Dr. Nancy Simpson
Computing and Information
Mr. Don W. Carona
Dr. Victor Frysinger
Mr. Keith Marrocco
Mr. Buzz Refugio
Food Safety Inspection Services
Dr. Tony Brown
Ms. Shirley Hammond
Graduate Studies
Mr. Fidel Fernandez
Dr. J. Rick Giardino
General Academic Programs
Mr. Russ Graves
Honors Program and Office of
Professional School Advising
Dr. Edward Funkhouser
Mr. Kerry Noack
Ms. Karen Severn
Measurement and Research
Dr. David Martin
Research and Graduate Studies
Dr. Michael Buckley
Ms. Nancy Sawtelle
Study Abroad Programs
Ms. Jan Fernandez
Other Departments
Bush School of Government
and Public Service
Ms. Carmen Espitia
Ms. Jennifer Jamieson
Texas A&M Foundation
Ms. Lynn Dodd
Ms. Cathy McWhorter
Sterling C. Evans Library
Ms. Eva Maddox
Athletic Department
Mr. Mike Caruso
12 th Man Foundation
Mr. Nick McGuire
Texas A&M University Relations
Ms. Sherylon Carroll
Mr. Gerard Farrell
The Association of Former
Students - Publications Office
Ms. Ann Duyka
University Police Department
Crime Prevention Unit
H. Allen Baron
Lt. Bert Kretzschmar
Sgt. Betty LeMay
Vice President of Administration
Human Resources
Col. Don Cumbie
For more information on these and other Mentors check out the ATMentors website at: http://mentors.tamu.edu
orship
Directory
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Bethel Temple Assembly of God
2608 Villa Maria, Bryan
776-4835
Sunday Worship 8:30, 10:45, 6:00 pm
College & Career Class Sun. 9:30
Randy Scott, Pastor
www.startel.net/bethel
St. Thomas Episcopal
906 George Bush Dr. • College Station, TX
(Across from Duncan Dining Hall)
Sunday services at 8:00, 9:00 and especially
for late rising Ags, 11:15 a.m.
Next door to Canterbury House,
the Episopal Student Center
‘Baptist
Texas Avenue Baptist Church
3400 Texas Avenue South, C.S.
(at the intersection of Deacon & Texas Ave.)
696-6000
Sunday School 9:30 a.m.
Worship Service 10:30 a.m., Bible Study 4 p.m.,
Wednesday 7 p.m.
Pastor Eric Doucet
Try us out!
You can expect...
• Upbeat worship
• A casual setting
• Friendly people
• Practical messages
Living Hope Baptist Church
Sunday Schedule: We are NOW meeting at
9:45 AM Bible Study Cypress Grove Inter. School
11:00 AM Worship on Graham Rd. between
6:30 PM Worship Wellborn and the West
INFO: 690-1911 bypass service Road.
‘BiBCe.
Grace Bible Church
700 Anderson, College Station
693-2911
Services: 9:15 a.m., 11:00 a.m., 6:00 p.m.
College Sunday School Class 9:15 & 11 a m.
Cathode
St. Mary’s
603 Church Ave., 846-5717
Pastoral Team
Rev. Michael J. Sis, Pastor
Rev. David A. Konderla, Associate Pastor
Campus Ministers
Deacon Bill Scott • Martha Tonn
Lillian Smith • Maureen Murray
Heidi Nicolini
Daily Masses
Mon.-Fri.: 5:30 p.m.
Tues, Thurs: 12:05 Noon
All Faith’s Chapel on A&M Campus
Sat.: 10:30 a.m. (Korean)
Weekend Masses
Sat. - 5:30 p.m. (English), 7:00 (Spanish)
Sun. - 9:00, 11:00 a.m., 5:30, 7:00 p.m.
Cfiurcfi of Christ
Jree ‘WUXBaptist
Fellowship Free Will
Baptist Church
College & Career Class
You are invited to a Bible
study especially for students.
Sunday mornings at 9:45
1228 W. Villa Maria
779-2297
For more information contact
Marcus Brewer: 696-6558
mbrewer@tamu.edu
httD://PersonaiWebs.mvriad.net/ffwb
Lutheran
Peace Lutheran Church
FM 2818 at Rio Grande • College Station
Worship 8:15 & 10:45
Aggie Lutherans
Craig Borchardt - Pastor Debra Grant - Pastor
2201 Rio Grande Blvd 693-4403
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ovenant
Family Church
"Success Begins on Sunday "
Danny & Janet Green, Pastors
Sunday 10:30 a.m. Wednesday 7:30 p.m.
4010 Harvey Rd., (Hwy. 30) E-Mail: greencfc@aol.com
College Station 774-1269 www.covenant-family-church.org
‘Pentecostal
Bryan United Pentecostal Church
2206 Hwy. 21 East at Tabor Road,
Bryan
778-1806 778-5687
Sunday 10:00 a.m. & 6:00 p.m.
Wednesday 7:30 p.m.
‘United Methodist
A&M United Methodist
417 University Dr. (on Northgate) • 846-8731
Sunday Services: 9:00 & 11:00 a.m.
College Sunday School 9:45
Sr. Pastor Chailes Anderson
amumc@tca.net
Bryan / College Station Church of Christ
Sunday
Wednesday
Bible Class 9:00 a.m.
Worship 10:00 a.m.
Worship 6:00 p.m.
Bible Class 7:00 p.m.
College Station Conference Center
(Just across George Bush from TAMU Go« Course)
(409) 731-1230
Email: mark-d @ tamu.edu or mwm@tamu.edu
First United Methodist Church
28th & Houston St.,
1 block E. of Texas Ave., in Bryan
779-1324
Sunday Worship 8:40 &10:55 a.m., 6:00 p.m.
Sunday School 9:45 a.m.
Rev. Harral Dunnam, Senior Pastor Rev. Bob Rjchers, Assodate Pastor
NEWS
PageS THE BATTALION Friday, February25J
McCaffrey visits Colombia
Drug czar promotes controversial aidpacbf
TRES ESQUINAS, Colom
bia (AP) — Rockets, mortars
and machine gun fire lit up a
patch of Colombia’s southern
jungles Thursday as White
House drug czar Barry Mc
Caffrey witnessed the open
ing of a new chapter in the
war on drugs.
McCaffrey, in Colombia
to promote a controversial
$1.6 billion anti-narcotics aid
package for the Andes, squint
ed into a green expanse where
troops from a new U.S.-
trained anti-drug battalion
conducted a live-fire exercise.
As soldiers in foxholes
lobbed shells into the trees, a
U.S.-donated helicopter
slammed a rocket at imagi
nary guerrilla columns ad
vancing on the remote Ama
zon outpost.
Following the exercise,
McCaffrey, a retired general
and Vietnam War hero, gave a
stirring send-off to some of the
soldiers who will soon be at
the front lines in the battle to
eradicate drugs at their source.
“You are the ones Colom
bia has asked to step Forw ard.
Good luck, troops,” he said to
their enthusiastic applause.
Training and equipping
new Colombian battalions
such as the 950-man unit
based at Tres Esquinas, 250
miles south of Bogota, is the
centerpiece oF Washington’s
strategy For stemming an ex
plosion oFcocaine and heroin
production in this
Andean nation.
More than halt' oF
the aid package
now before the U.S.
Congress would go
toward creating two
new battalions like
the one already up
and running, and
prov iding the army
and air force with
63 helicopters.
Critics say the
plan could embroil
the United States in
a brutal, decades-old
civil conflict remi
niscent oFthose Fought in Cen
tral America during the 1980s.
Leltist rebels control vast tracts
Colombia aid
package before
Congress
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peasants who grow drug crop
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Rat study yields vaccine
WASHINGTON (AP)—An oral vac
cine that protects brain neurons from in
jury caused by epilepsy seizure or by
stroke has been tested successfully in rats,
researchers report.
In a study to be published Friday in the
journal Science, researchers at the med
ical school of Thomas Jefferson Univer
sity in Philadelphia re
port that a vaccine given
to rats caused their im
mune system to develop
antibodies that prevented
the action of a protein
that causes damage alter
brain injury.
Dr. Matthew During,
professor of neuro
surgery at Jefferson and
lead author of the study,
said the vaccine works
against a brain protein,
called the NMDA receptor, that has been
shown to aggravate brain damage after a
stroke and to play a role in epileptic
seizures.
Other researchers have tried to block
the action of the NMDA receptor using
drugs, but these dmgs often Fail to eflec-
tively cross the blood-brain barrier, a nat
ural barrier that protects the brain from
most destructive substances in the blood.
By using a vaccine, the researchers
prompt the body, in effect, to make its
own NMDA blocker by creating anti
bodies that neutralize the protein after
brain injury.
In the study, some rats were immu
nized with the anti-NMDA antibody
while others were not. A month later, the
rats were injected with a
neurotoxin, kainate, which
causes seizures similar to
those in epilepsy.
Among the control rats,
which were not immu
nized, there was a seizure
rate of 70 percent. Among
those with the anti-NMDA
antibody, the seizure rate
was 20 percent.
In another study, im
munized and nonimmu-
nized rats were tested after
five months for protection
from stroke damage. An artificial stroke
was induced in the animals using a drug.
Among the immunized rats, said Dur
ing, “We found dramatic protection in the
rats’ brains. ... It doesn’t stop the stroke
from occurring, but the amount of brain
damage is diminished by 70 percent.”
None of the studied rats showed ab-
nonnal behavior from the vaccine, he said.
New hope for stroke vaccine
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Volcano erupts
in Philippines
LEGAZPI, Philippines (AP)-A
1 1/2-mile-high volcano erupted
Thursday, spewing superheated
ash into the air and sending
streams of superhot, bright or
ange lava down its slopes.
The Mayon volcano's eruption
began with lava gushing out of
the crater, accompanied by loud
rumblings that some nearby res
idents compared to thunder.
Lava with temperatures that
reached well above 1,000 de
grees cascaded 3 1/2 miles
down the mountain’s near-per
fect conical slopes. Ash rained
as far as seven miles away.
The area is most vulnerable to
lava, falling rocks and deadly py
roclastic flows — superheated
clouds of volcanic ash that trav
el up to 50 mph and can instantly
incinerate anything in their path.
The volcano’s repeated explo
sions indicated that magna is
still rising to the dome and vol
canic activity could continue for
some time, said Juan Cordon, a
research specialist at the vol
canology institute.
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