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THE BATTALION FRIDAY, OCTOBER 6, 1978 Page 7 akke decision iolds ‘threat’ 60 By DIANE BLAKE Battalion Stall The greatest threat to affirmative Lion programs posed by the Bakke Ljsjon may come from national U state legislatures and adminis- lative agencies, a consultant in Su- ■eme Court civil rights cases said jdnesday. Herbert O. Reid, a special direc- „• for the NAACP, spoke to about people in the Rudder Au- litorium. The forum was co- nonsored by Great Issues and the (lack Awareness committees of the emorial Student Center. The Supreme Court held last tine in a 5-4 decision that Allan P. lakke was the victim of “reverse imination.” The court ordered p iat the 38-year-old engineer be [dmitted to the California Medical chool, which had rejected Bakke jue to a fixed cpiota of minority ap- llicants. The court ruled that race can be a actor in university admissions [rovided that rigid quotas are not ised. The lawyer said that his main mcem was that "we stave off legis- itures which will use the Bakke de- ision as another guise to return to 'nor hiswisi he dark days before affirmative ae- ngtheplaij ion.” He said he feared the decision 11 encourage those who oppose af- irmative action to resist it even es her to Rudder Co photo hv Ed(i he group elope Kos roque-shlf n scenes ivers said harpsichof up also nit id a French usic they ich. rector, s •re were takes in 4) se, theplai old play ret • in spited ion to rti itive Frend ith one cos iere. XK more. Several cases are pending that would undermine the goals of affirmative action, he said. “It is not sufficient for the state to remain neutral in civil rights,” Reid said. It must act in an affirmative way to increase black and Chicano presence in society.” Affirmative action is necessary if blacks and other minorities are to ever rise from being second-class citizens, Reid said. Affirmative action removes the scabs from old wounds brought by discrimination,” he said. “It uses law as a tool for social progress.” Reid said the Bakke decision has world-wide effects. “This case deals with more than the blacks role in medical school,” 1 he said. “Its implications go beyond the borders of this nation.” America plays a central role as a world leader in civil rights, Reidj said, adding that African blacks will never be free. American blacks are struggling for pure legal exis tence, which Reid defined as “an existence barren of racial discrimi nation.” Reid said that students at Texas A&M University participate in an af firmative action program just by at tending the school. The Morrill Act of 1865, which created land-grant institutions like Texas A&M, was amended in 1890 Kids to learn safety by doing New "city 5 opens in CS Battalion photo by Ed Cunnius Shannon Keeley, left, cuts the ceremonial ribbon officially dedicating Safety City, a facility for th instruction of traffic safety. Her mother. Sue Keeley, president of Safety City and the prime motivator of the project, looks on. By STEVE LEE Battalion Reporter There is a new city in College Station, complete with city hall, several businesses and even a lit tle red schoolhouse. There are residential and park areas, major thoroughfares and railroad tracks. And it is all enclosed within a fence situated behind the A&M Consolidated Middle School. It is called Safety City, a mini ature city constructed to serve as a permanent safety training facil ity for grade school children. It will become part of the cur riculum of Consolidated students in grades kindergarten through eight. The children will be bussed to and from the facility, where they will be insructed on rules for safe motoring, walking and bicycling. The Consolidated school dis trict dedicated the city Thursday in a ceremony which included an appearance by Texas Attorney General John Hill. Hill spoke briefly, commending the com munity for its support of the project, and cited an urgent need for programs such as Safety City. “Even with the 55 mph speed limit, we (the state) are not doing well,” Hill said. “Figures on traf fic accidents and violations con tinue to increase. We have a re sponsibility to teach safety to our children. ” The project is, in fact, a prod uct of community action. The Neighborhood Advisory Council Safety Committee of the A&M Consolidated Community Edu cation staff laid the groundwork for the project. The staff serves as a liaison between the school district and the community. Sue Keeley, vice president of the Community Educational staff, formulated an idea for a bicycle safety program a year ago. She presented her ideas be fore the City Safety Committee of College Station. Councilman Ann Hazen, in turn, presented the ideas to the College Station Police Department. Keeley was assigned to chair the Neighborhood Advisory Council Safety Committee to re view ideas for a comprehensive safety program. The A&M Consolidated Board of Trustees agreed to donate land for such a program in February and promised to provide trans portation to and from the site. Trustees also agreed to build a “little red schoolhouse” on the property. The city council voted to allo cate $15,000 for the initial de velopment of the project, includ ing operating utility costs, fund ing a part-time safety officer, and authorizing the construction of a “city hall” building in the minia ture city. The office of Traffic Safety do nated $1,778.90 for the 56 regu latory and safety signs. Also, numerous businesses and or ganizations in the area have do nated miniature buildings simulating their establishments. to prevent racial discrimination in admissions. Discrimination could be justified if “separate but equal” facilities were provided. There is a place for the predomi nantly black institution,” Reid said. Universities like Prairie View A&M should be encouraged and de veloped to ensure black educational opportunities, he said. Reid said qualifications must not be used to achieve the same results as when race was the limiting factor. "We must not use measuring rods that exclude minority groups.” He said that some groups may be hurt by affirmative action programs. “But there is always some hard ship in righting a wrong,” the lawyer said. [Tammy Wynette "freed as masked >h«! ' kidnapped man flees OCTOBER is AGGIE MONTH AT THE SOUND CENTER! Throughout October We’re Offering All Texas A&M Students, Faculty and Staff 5% Off Any Purchase at The Sound Center (with Proper A&M ID). United Preti International NASHVILLE, Tenn. — Country Singer Tammy Wynette was kid napped Wednesday from a shopping center by a masked man who choked her with piece of panty hose and drove her to a rural area 80 miles away where he slapped her and kicked her out of her car. "They tried to kill me. I don’t know why, but they tried to kill me,” Miss Wynette told authorities after her abductor kicked her out of her canary-yellow Cadillac near Pulaski. Miss Wynette, 36, four-time winner of the Country Music Associa tion’s top female vocalist award with such songs as “Stand By Your Man" and “D-I-V-O-R-C-E,” was admitted to Giles County Hospital at Pulaski for treatment of cuts and bruises. Her husband, songwriter-producer George Richey, was at her bedside. Neither the number of persons involved in the kidnapping nor the motive was immediately known. “We re keeping a lid on it,” a Giles County Sheriffs Department dispatcher said early Thursday. “At the moment there are no suspects.” Mildred Lee, Miss Wynette’s mother, said the singer had gone to the Green Hills shopping center in Nashville to pick up a birthday present for her 8-year-old daughter. Georgette. When the singer returned to her unlocked car, she apparently was surprised by a man hidden inside. The man shoved her to the floor, tied the pantyhose around her neck, drove south on Interstate 65, and got off at the U.S. 31A exit about 15 miles xvthe Alabama border. Mrs. Lee said her daughter never got a good look at her abductor. Miss Wynette told the family who found her and administered first aid that the man stopped the car near the Brick Church community just northeast of Pulaski, slapped her in the face, kicked her out of the Cadillac, and drove away in a station wagon that was headed south. Tennessee Highway Patrol officials said they were searching for two white males possibly driving a late-model black and blue station wagon. m Ask About Our medical researchers photograph human genes Complete Line of Used Books. BOTHER’S BOOKSTORE 340 Jersey — At the Southgate ★★★★★★★★★★★★★★★★★★ r Deferred Payment Plan For Graduating Seniors With Proof of Job Accept ance, We Can Defer Your 1st Monthly Payment Up To 90 Days. I United Press International ANN ARBOR, Mich. — Two University of Michigan medical re- l* re P or * they have isolated |nd photographed single human |enes, a major step in the study of ne causes of birth defects. Lij"' 0 pediatricians, using re- «nt|y developed recombinant DNA methodology, sa *J they directly ob- lerved single genes as part of a Project into the causes of the birth Pe ect mongolism, now commonly pown as Downs Syndrome. Drs. Roy Schmickel and Colder 1 s°n, both of the University of Michigan Medical Center’s depart ment of pediatrics and Holden fennatal Unit, were scheduled to 'scuss their work today at the an- na meeting of the American Soci- °i Human Genetics in Van over, British Columbia. L e isolated human genes were r ewed through an electron mi- ^oscope, then photographed by ,J. J a ckson, a University of &. i '^ an Professor of microbiology P .^mber of the Stanford Uni- E j S< ; arch team that fi rst de- ■oinin 6 3 biochemical method for I q . ^ ^ enes i n a test tube. lnm C k rnickel and Wilson used re- L ’ nant b)NA methodology to genes from the chromosome .... S j and °b DNA containing Ci° f senes - *'>■“ -- Mew he a reSearchers said the abilit y ^ I Senes singly “means that we can finally begin to study variation, to learn to spot the subtle differ ences in genes that indicate a child will be normal or have a birth de fect.” Recombinant DNA methodology actually is a variety of new and often controversial biochemical and enzymatic procedures enabling sci entists to join genes of one species of organism to those of another species. These linked, or “recom bined,” genes are then introduced into living bacterial cells. As the bacteria reproduce, the genes within also multiply. The researchers said they had produced about 6,000 “recombin ants” in the laboratory. Then, apply ing a radioactive binding technique, they were able to select 11 recom binants containing the gene of interest. 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