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Thursday, August 4, 1983/The Battalion/Page 3 Ags studying sorghum as possible fuel source Despite Wednesday’s scattered showers, ! sprinklers were going full force around the Coke Building. Mari Hughes, left, a senior management major from Longview, and Study shows textbook regression id 'pAmei nd their p of insui 'sup each adveni: i. are wakircl or & Gac; >d maker i leto orarrij age-old Hi | ders ads i f hi arm. f Jy confesso I i’t revolve I ond broke: npaign wl dition:“Di| ian.” And st’s Qpittj ecem weei “demean: ertising. the bulk S iClOr and United Press International sstheyfoliWUJSTIN — Citing a new products t Study showing a regression in ing lives the teaching of evolution in Kxus public schools, an anti censorship group has ffiiounced a campaign to change the basic guidelines under which textbooks are Risen. [“This will be a much bigger, more difficult task than the open heai ing process, but it has to be clone,” Barbara Parker, an ffiBcial of People for the Amer- Hi Way, said Tuesday. “That’s the next step.” ■The group successfully lob bied this year for legislation that gaye textbook advocates as well ■ opponents the right to be heard during public hearings on school books. ■ State director Michael Hud son told a news conference his Organization would work through the Texas Legislature, the state Board of Education and the news media to change the parameters used to select texts. HHudson made the announce ment after disclosing a study by a Texas Tech University profes sor that showed a pattern of pre censorship in the coverage of evolution in high school science and biology books. ■ One of the most controversial requirements that textbook publishers must follow in de veloping books acceptable to |?ixas is a nine-year-old rule * thai mandates that evolution be treated as only one of several theories of the origin of man. ■Hudson said it is important that changes be made in the guidelines — or proclamations ■because new texts on basic sci ence and biology will be up for adoption next year in T exas. jEDr. Gerald Skogg, an educa- has infftion professor at 'Texas Tech, lem.Tht said constant attacks on evolu- g is a biw 1 by textbook critics such as - minor an< ^ Norma Gabler oTLong- t together Pam Barnes Battalion Reporter Agricultural researchers at Texas A&M have begun a three- year, $1.5 million project to use sorghum as a source for large scale production of methane gas. Producing methane gas from plants is expected to help hold natural gas prices down and also provide an alternative source of income for farmers, Dr Edward Hiler, head of the Department of Agricultural Engineering, says. Hiler is the leader of the sor ghum for methane production program. Funds totaling $500,000 for the first year’s work have been provided by the Gas Research Institute of Chicago. Ron Isaacson, manager of the biomass and waste program for GRI, recently discussed long term plans with Texas A&M re searchers from the Texas Agri cultural Experiment Station — the agricultural research agency of the Texas A&M University System. “We aren’t sure whether it’s possible, but by the year 2000 or 2020 we could be producing as much as 25 percent of the na tion’s gas needs from sorghum,” Isaacson said. “Sorghum is the most likely source for the gas,” Hiler said. Researchers will breed and develop the types of sorghum that can most efficiently be con verted into gas, Hiler said. They also will be looking at the har vesting, handling and storing of the plants. The heads of the plants will be used for food and the stalks will be used to produce the gas. Summer sprinkles iii mm It" ...... R . . v - staff photo by Mike Davis Tammy Kirk, a senior elementary education major from Dallas, dodge raindrops and sprinkler spray on their way to class and cool off their feet simultaneously. view “has intimidated all who write, edit, publish, adopt and use textbooks in this state.” Skogg said of the six biology texts published in the 1970s and revised in the 1980s, the cover age of evolution declined in four and remained the same in two. “The coverage of evolution in the nation’s most widely used biology textbook has decreased in its last two revisionsfin 1977 and 1981,” said Skogg. “The language has become more cau tious and tentative.” Dr. Ronnie Hastings, director of science education at Wax- ahachie High School, said many new college graduates are “ignorant” of the theory of evo lution. “Children are being given a view of science that is inaccurate and distorted because of this pre-censorship,” he said. Hudson said the impact of textbook purchases by Texas — estimated at more than $65 mil lion this year—is felt nationwide since other states are usually forced to buy whatever books are purchased by Texas. “I’m concerned about the im pact of Texas on the publishing industry,” he said. “Only Texas and California have the econo- Eclipse Photography \ Professional Quality Portraits Reasonable Prices — Quick Service — Call for an appointment now for delivery by graduation. mic power to dictate changes in textbooks before they are mass produced.” COMPARE Compare the cost of a complete meal • at the Memorial Student Cen ter with the cost of a similar meal anywhere else. IF YOU OPEN MON.-SAT. 6:30-7 p.m. SUN. 7 a.m.-7 p.m. “QUALITY FIRST” TGIT Thank God It’s Thursday 50( Beer All Night $ 1 off all Bar Drinks 7^10 for more info call 693-2818 COMPARE Compare the cost of a complete evening meal at the Memorial Student Cen ter with the cost of a ham burger, cola, and french fries anywhere else. 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