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state Battalion/Page 9 February 18, 1983 Opened book hearings lauded United Press International AUSTIN — The push to open state textbook adoption hear ings to positive testimony has drawn a favorable nod from the Senate Education Committee and a boost from a Nobel, laureate. The Education Committee approved and reported to the full Senate Wednesday a bill by Sen. Ray Farabee, D-Wichita Falls, opening the state textbook selection process to positive as well as negative comment. The bill now goes to the full Senate for debate. The committee approval came after Steven Weinberg, the 1979 Nobel Prize winner for physics, now a professor at the University of Texas, urged the lawmakers to do all they could to correct the “perversion of edu cation” caused by the current textbook adoption process. Weinberg lauded the com mittee for restoring “a measure of fairness” to the book selection process by calling for positive comment. But he criticized the proce dure for adoption of the educa tion board’s proclamation which sets the general and specific con tent requirements for proposed textbooks. The measure, if enacted, would thwart the power of fun damentalist textbook critics Mel and Norma Gabler of Longview. Armadillos ‘not safe to handle’ staff photo by Jorge Casari member of the Texas A&M Windsurfing Club which welcomes anybody interested in windsurfing to join the club. United Press International GALVESTON — A Universi ty of Texas Medical Branch re searcher cautions Texans to wear gloves if they are bent on handling wild armadillos. Dr.. Jerome Smith said Wednesday the same organism causes leprosy found in wild armadillos and leprosy in hu mans, though he is unsure hu mans could catch the disease from the cult animal praised on T-shirts, jewelry and hats. “Since it’s the same organism, I think I’d be very loath to skin an armadillo — either to get the hide or to make something out of it or to eat the meat under it — with bare hands,” he said. “We don’t have any data at all on the relationship of the dis ease as it exists in the armadillo community, and the disease as it exists in the human commun ity,” said Smith. “You’ve always got a few little cuts and scratches and if it’s an infected armadillo (being hand led), it’s going to have literally billions of organisms you’d be rubbing into your hide,” Smith said. Leprosy is a persistent infec tion that can spread through the body and cause parts to waste away. The disease now is con trolled by drugs. It is not consi dered extremely contagious, but it can be caught. octor tried in man’s death United Press International MONAHANS — pergency room nurses Two who assisted Dr. Tuan F. Perez on the - T . re sent# atguni) jhenia® y grocff J two. night of Nov. 4, 1981, testified ‘Wednesday that they were sick- stituiw e ' nec j ky p erez injecting 20 cubic centimeters of air into the open vein of a patient. I Moments later, the nurses testified, the patient stopped breathing. I Perez is on trial on charges of attempted murder and aggra- lited assault in the death of Michael Stephen Hoffman, 27, who he was treating for a serious & gunshot wound. I Perez, according to forensic pathologist Richard Cohen, caused an air embolism with the injection that could only have Ken nt to cause death. ;xas Western! 1 red the “nation 11 the s!® J items! acts!# prehisi® 5 reir If ,% said, s are lozen eletonsff Ire onl)' [sphere \ urial rere the ;xtinct ’largest fromlrf letons 11 rs ra sh, sn^ r discon to special prosecutor Dennis Cadra and District Court Judge Joseph Connally, both of Odessa. Perez was trained in medicine in his native Cuba. He has prac ticed in Monahans at the hospit al and as a general practitioner since 1967. Perez has continued his pri vate practice, although he res igned from the hospital staff af ter his indictment. SALE 12 th-19th Alvarez & Yairi Layaway Lessons Acoustic & Acoustic/Electric Celebrating Post Oak mail's 1st Anniversary KEyboAnd Center Inc. POST OAK MALL College Station, TX 77840 YOU SO ARE WE! TRY OUR 35 mm PROCESSING TODAY! 4x6 Color 35 mm Prints 12 Exp. Roll 099 24 Exp. Roll 5 49 36 Exp. Roll 799 Developed & Printed Professional 4x6 Size We use Kodak paper- fora good look. Bring This Ad In With Film To Be Processed! Offer Expires March 5th nmrn MJPmZmM MtLmSUf PHOTOFINISHING LABORATORY 119 WALTON COLLEGE STATION 696-0371 “IN BY 9 OUT BY 5” . r eletons® j [d rei# L ^ is 1 know of no reason to inject aii into a human,” Cohen testi fied. “We used to knock off dogs at medical school that way.” T Cohen added, however, that 20 cubic centimeters of air [imped rapidly into an adult /as not enough to kill or se riously injure.” The official autopsy report said Hoffman died as a result of the gunshot wound. The two nurses, Brenda Rowan and Peggy Brown, said Perez, 57, acted as if he were in a hurry to leave the hospital when Hoffman was admitted. I' Rowan said, “He said on a number of occasions, ‘Call and sec where the police are. I want tp get the samples. I want to go Home. I had a hard day at the ollice.’” She said that at 11 p.m., near Kje end of the nurses’ shift, Perez told her to get a 20 cubic centimeter syringe. K “I was under the impression he was going to draw blood from rthe patient for a sample, but in stead Perez put the syringe and i needle into the IV (intravenous) w 111111 ■ i.tubing,” she said. beeiid (li 1 Rowan said she heard a pop- 1111,1 !' ping noise upon the application l/of he syringe, and that Perez hit |CM: ilo cT .'i— i . Jhe end of the plunger (syringe) r t hefe«> ’he palm of his hand rapid- , h ow jiijj|l leaving her with the distinct bsmpp'Wpression that air had been in- ‘ootffcted i nto the patient’s veins. ’ .ufl Ward County District Attor- Jj'j. .'nlev Mike Wade disqualified . _ • lt ; himself from prosecuting the a°o”tii®se because he was a patient of ^ Perez. The case was turned over jrtheh^i HEWLETT PACKARD CORDIALLY INVITES YOU TO ATTEND A SEMINAR FOR TEXAS A&M UNIVERSITY ON CONCEPTS FOR THE 80 S (Productivity Tools for Education & Research) Seminars and product exhibits for faculty and staff Tuesday, February 22, 1983 Wednesday, February 23, 1983 University Center/Exhibit Hall 8:30 a.m. - 5:00 p.m. HEWLETT PACKARD SEMINAR AGENDA Seminar Time Location HP-IB (IEEE 488) Measurement Systems - Implementation of HP-IB instruments/ controllers into measurement systems 2:00 - 4:30 p.m. Feb 22 9:00 - 11:30 a.m. Feb 23 1:30 - 4:00 p.m. Feb 23 501 Rudder 501 Rudder 501 Rudder The HP 9000, 32-bit Engineering Workstation 8:30 - 10:00 p.m. Feb 22 1:30 - 3:00 p.m. Feb 23 510 Rudder 510 Rudder Hewlett Packard Personal Computers 2:00 - 3:00 p.m. Feb 22 9:00 - 10:00 a.m. Feb 23 510 Rudder 510 Rudder Hewlett Packard Gas Chromatography 10:00 - 11:00 a.m. Feb 22 2:00 - 3:00 p.m. Feb 23 504 Rudder 502 Rudder Office Automation 10:30 - 11:30 a.m. Feb 22 10:30 - 11:30 a.m. Feb 23 510 Rudder 510 Rudder Trends in Distributed Data Processing 3:30 - 4:30 p.m. Feb 22 3:30 - 4:30 p.m. Feb 23 510 Rudder 510 Rudder Software Development Systems - Use of software development systems for hardware/software microprocessor analysis and emulation 9:00 - 11:30 a.m. Feb 22 only 501 Rudder NMOS III Technology at Hewlett Packard 2:00 - 3:00 p.m. Feb 22 9:00 - 10:00 a.m. Feb 23 504 Rudder 502 Rudder tVJ HEWLETT PACKARD