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By CAROL HANCOCK
Campus StafF
Over 250 people expecting to hear
a debate between large and small
technology advocates heard a
women’s rights debate instead
Friday.
In a debate between small tech
nology advocate Hazel Henderson
and large technology advocate
Samuel Florman, Henderson said
most technology that does not seek
to control was invented by women.
The debate was held in Texas
A&M University’s Rudder Tower as
part of the 25th Student Conference
on National Affairs.
Henderson, a former member of
the Advisory Council of the Office of
Technology Assessment, started her
debate by saying seeking an answer
to the conference’s topic “Technolo
gy: Tool or Tyrant?” could be both
circular and fruitless.
“In most cases, technology is
both,” she said.
Henderson commented on an arti
cle of Florman’s in Harper’s through
out which he consistently used the
pronoun “he” when referring to the
human species. Her comments on
his chauvinism were well received
by the women in the audience.
Florman, author of many articles
| on technology and culture, and a
contriouting editor to Harper’s,
admitted he was guilty of Hender-
Mardi Gras
hit-and-run
injures right
UNITED Press International
NEW ORLEANS — A hit-and-
run driver plowed through a crowd
waiting off Canal Street for a Carniv
al parade Sunday and injured eight
persons, one seriously.
The suspect, who apparently was
driving a stolen car, rammed
through police barricades set up for
the Krewe of Mid-City parade near
Canal Street and University Place.
Lt. Frank Haywood said the sus
pect was arrested in the French
Quarter about five blocks away.
Haywood said the man may have
been driving a stolen vehicle.
“The best we can determine, the
(driver) came through the parade
crowd that was gathered,” Haywood
said. “He crossed Canal and knocked
down the steel barriers.”
Haywood said four ambulances ar
rived at the scene to transfer the in
jured to Charity Hospital. Others
were treated at the scene for minor
injuries.
A spokeswoman at Charity said
one victim brought in by police was
an elderly man.
Hazel Henderson
Samuel Florman
son’s accusations. Florman said if it
had been written recently, he would
have taken cautions to use a neutral
pronoun.
When asked why there weren’t
more women engineers, Florman
said women find it easier to move
into management positions.
“Women would rather criticize,
organize and supervise, rather than
build,” he said.
Highway patrol captures
runaway circus elephant
Henderson said the denial of pa
tents was to blame for women’s slow
move into the engineering field.
Before the equality debate began,
Florman said the debate between
large and small technology was
absurd to engineers.
“Much technology calls for both
large and small solutions. A solution
that makes sense is what is sought,”
he said.
Henderson agreed but said our
solutions need to be less materialistic
and more realistic in relation to
ourselves. “In keeping up with the
Joneses, we are suffering spiritual
losses.”
United Press International
HUGO, Okla. — It took a while
: for circus officials to figure out how to
’ ! catch young Alta the elephant, who
' ran away from her circus home, but
the answer was obvious — use
another elephant.
Alta, frightened by a backfiring
I truck, ran away from the Carson and
I Barnes Circus late Friday, initiating
a wide search.
Every so often an Oklahoma High
way Patrol trooper would spot her in
a densely wooded area near county
roads, but each time someone tried
to catch the 5-year-old female, she
would crash through the woods.
Late Saturday officials decided to
employ Suzie, an adult elephant and
apparently a good friend of Alta.
Bowman said when Alta saw
Suzie, she just “ran right up to us.”
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United Press International
DENVER — The buffalo and
antelope that once roamed what is
now Denver are long gone, but
Steve Bissell of the Colorado Wild
life Division said fox, gophers and
even an occasional beaver or muskrat
appear within the urban boundaries.
Bissell surveys the mammals and
birds that adapt to high-rise apart
ments and busy streets. He said a
beaver used to live in Cherry Creek
near downtown before the city
cleared the waterway for flood con
trol.
“Because there weren’t all that
many trees for him to make a lodge,
he was innovative. He used boxes,
tires, assorted junk — even had an
old baby carriage stuffed in it,” Bis
sell said.
The research has found 13 diffe
rent species of ground squirrels and a
wide variety of other squirrels,
prairie dogs, and the meadow jump
ing mouse, he said.
“Coyotes and skunks have been
seen around trash cans at night. And
five or six years ago we were called to
capture a bobcat (near the airport),”
Bissell said.
Using a Landsat satellite and U-2
photographs of the city, Bissell has
identified 21 areas for research, in
cluding city parks and established re
sidential areas.
He said he started by charting and
cataloging birds because the mam
mal section of the study requires
traps and he has not found a way to
keep pets and youngsters away from
them.
“The more complex the ecosy
stem, the healthier the species.
When we see less and less species, it
could be telling man something ab
out what he’s doing to his environ
ment,” Bissell said.
Edison’s lab
dangerous
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United Press International
WEST ORANGE, N.J. — Tho
mas A. Edison, who gave the world
the electric light bulb, left the Na
tional Park Service with a potentilly
explosive problem.
Park officials said when Edison
died in 1931 he left them a laboratory
filled with thousands of containers of
chemicals that may have become un
stable and dangerous over the years.
A safety officer inspecting build
ings on the site for possible asbestos
hazards discovered the chemicals in
the inventor’s old workshop.
Officials have closed the labora
tory to the public until the containers
have been examined.
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