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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
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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.
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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-
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