University Daily Kansan, May 1, 1985
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in 1948, with a victory of the National party,
anarchie became official.
"We don't have any voting rights, so we don't have any say about our lives," Jason said. "The white government decides everything. They decide where we live, where we work, where we go to school and what hospitals we are born in."
BOTH MICHAEL AND Jason said they agreed with the University Council's recent resolution calling for the Kansas University Endowment Association to divest from companies that do business in South Africa. Last week, Chancellor Gene A. Budig responded to the resolution by saying that
total divestment was not the best way to eradicate apartheid.
Jason said that a revolution seemed inevitable in his country, and that divestiture of American companies could help speed what was bound to come.
"I think it's best to divest," he said. "We know we'll suffer a lot. We have already been suffering. Suffering is now new."
"If America pulls out, that will be a blessing."
HE SAID HE disagreed with those who argued that divestment by the Kansas University Endowment Association would have little influence on the policies of the South African government.
Michael said he thought that the reason for the recent killing of more than 100 blacks in riots and funeral crowds was that white people had slapped blacks would soon rebel and seize power.
"Small divestment can make a big change," he said.
"My personal opinion is that divestment will speed the change up," he said. "The 'Fungi' threat is out there, too."
But for now, segregation remains harsh. Daily evidence of it exists in restaurants, bathrooms and beaches, which are protected from blacks by segregation. A typo phrase, words only,
the African Voices for all others only.
"The system is trying to keep the blacks
uneducated," Jason said. "That's the best way you can exploit people. If you have blacks uneducated, you can tell them anything."
Blacks constantly must carry passes that indicate their identity and addresses to prevent them from venturing too far from home. Jason said.
Jason said he was once arrested after sitting down in a city.
"The police just stopped and asked me for my pass," he said. "Then they told me to get in."
He spent three days in prison, he said, but was never told what the charges against him were.
It is a system that is leading itself to a violent revolution, Michael said.
"It's inhuman and it makes life dangerous," he said, "You can kick a dog for only so long and it will start biting back. What about people?"
Jason said those who supported slow change and oppose it could not understand the evidence for waiver (if any).
"I believe that South Africa will eventually come under majority rule, and it won't be by peaceful means."
"I've never had any voting rights," he said. "That's a slave. I don't even know how to vote."
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in and day out in all areas of the department and with everyone. He pulled the program up by its bootstraps."
Under Bixler's careful prodding, the cardiovascular and thoracic surgery program has developed a strong residency program.
BUT ON ANY rose there are bound to be thorns. Tosone said, "Dr. Bril gets things done, and I have tremendous respect for him. But he may not always operate with the best tact as far as stepping on people's toes. I think a lot of successful people are that way."
n the successful people in the way
Bixier's childhood in Talaahasse may hold
part of the key to the surgeon's disposition and work attitudes.
"The work ethic was very strong in my family," Bixler said. "My father was a doctor and my mother was a nurse.
FOR THE TALLAHASSEE Memorial Regional Medical Center, Bixler's father, Thomas Bixler Sr., was more than an average physician.
He came to the hospital after the Korean War, in which he had earned the Legion of Merit award for his work in an Army field hospital. The award is given to physicians
who perform extraordinarily in the line of duty.
**sIXLER JR. EMBARKED on a college career at the age of 18. Through an early admissions program, he entered Emory University, where he graduated cum laudare in 1968.**
"Of course, the most obvious disadvantage to that type of education is that you don't get to go to the university but to go to the junior or senior prom or play baseball for the varsity team."
At 23, Bixler entered John Hopkins with a
select group of 18 residents. The residents
knew that the process to select a chief surgery resident meant all but one of them would be dropped from consideration.
Vincent Gott, a professor of cardiac surgery at Johns Hopkins, said, "Thomas Bixler was a very bright person and did extremely well in college. He excelled at the job and he was about patient care and surgical ability rounded him into a good cardiac surgeon.
"He ranks up there with the best students I've had."
Bixler survived the cuts and was chosen as the top surgery resident, allowing him to
specialize in the kind of surgery he liked heart surgery.
It is an opportunity to begin a heart surgery program and hometown memories that drive Bixler to Tallahassee.
But Bixler will take some memories with him. A gift from from Grant Reser, Bixler's 3-year-old heart transplant patient from Topeka, tells of his struggles and triumphs at the Med Center. A few scrawled words underneath a watercolor painting proclaim, "Thank you for the new heart."
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