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School board battles
anti-censorship mob
Warped
United Press International
group:
Tuesdc
mob of anti-
s and science
AUSTIN
censorship
educators Tuesday challenged
the state Board of Education’s
claim that it had mandated the
teaching of evolution in Texas’
proposed new science curric
ulum.
Dr. Wayne Moyer, a science
consultant to People for the
American Way, said a new cur
riculum scheduled to be imple
mented this fall “in no way re-
quires the teaching of
evolution.” .
The board earlier cited a bi
ology curriculum provision that
suggests that students be al
lowed to “compare adaptations
of organisms to environmental
changes,” as mandating the tea
ching of evolution.
“That provision is nothing
new,” said Michael Hudson,
Texas coprdinator of People for
the American Way. “It has been
in the biology textbook
guidelines all along.”
Hudson said neither the cur
riculum nor the content
guidelines adopted in January
mention evolution, natural se-
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lection, Charles Darwin or the
fossil record.
State board textbook rules re
quire evolution to be presented
as only one of several explana
tion of man’s origin.
“These rules were adopted in
1974 to pacify the creationist
movement, which is engaged in
a nationwide campaign to re
place science with narrow secta
rian dogman,” said Hudson.
Dr. William Mayer, president
emeritus o the Biological Sci
ence Curriculum Study, said
the word evolution is not men
tioned in the proposed new cur
riculum or textbook guidelines.
“By resorting to the inconse-
uential section on adaptation,
e board is again demonstrat
ing its ignorance of science,
grasping at straws and simply
trying to put a good face on a_
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I
Texas A&M building designer
to speak at restoration exhibit
By SONDRA HOSTETLER
Reporter
Raiford Stripling, who de
signed six of the buildings at
Texas A&M, will be here today
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Free Mexican Folklore Dance
Classes Are Being Sponsored
by CAMAC
Participation is open to all stu
dents. Come join us every
Wednesday night starting
February 8
G. Rollie White Coliseum
Rm.255 7 pm-9 pm
Call 260-2595
for more info.
PRESENTS
Wednesday, February 45
701 Rudder
7:30 p.m.
Tickets are $1.50 with TAMU ID
Advance tickets are available
at
MSC Box Office Mon-Fri.
8:30 to 4:30
Tickets also available
45 minutes before showtime
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Saturday, February 18
Rudder Theatre-7:30 & 9:45 p.m.
It’s dead of night
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...ALMOST EVERYBODY!
Saturday, February 18
Rudder Theatre
Midnight
for an exhibit opening of his re
storation projects in Texas.
Stripling graduated from
Texas A&M in 1931. He and
one of his professors, Samuel
Charles Phelps Vosper, were
employed shortly after Stri
pling’s graduation to design six
new buildings funded by the
Available University Fund.
The buildings were the Sys
tem Administration Building,
Animal Industries Building,
Halbouty Geosciences Building,
Chemistry Building, Scoates
Hall and the Civil Engineering
Building.
Stripling is the dean of His
toric Restoration in Texas, and
he will present the exhibit
Wednesday at 2 p.m. in the
Langford gallery in the Lang
ford Architecture Center. The
exhibit includes photographs of
buildings he has restored. Some
of the photographs include the
buildings Ashton Villa ai
veston, Missions EspirituSil
and Rosario at Goliad, anfl
French Legation in Austin
He will be available foi|
cussions about the exhibii
ing the afternoon.
Stripling was in the Lai® I
gallery Tuesday evening! I
slide presentation ofhislisl
cal restoration projects u I
discussion.
Carved stone figures to stay
on civil engineering building
By CASEY RAMSEY
Reporter
Old Aggies who knew the
Civil Engineering Building
when it was the Veterinary Hos
pital had one special request
when the building was vacated
for remodling: save the exterior
stonework.
Present day Aggies may have
wondered what the carved
stone figures of horses, sheep
and goats had to do with civil
engineering, but the carvings
found a place in the hearts of
former students and will stay
when the building is renovated
to provide more office space,
classrooms and laboratories for
the civil engineering depart
ment.
Dr. Robert M. Olson, who
acts as liaison between the civil
engineering department and ,
the architects and builders, says
new windows, walls, doors and
an elevator are being installed
in the gutted building.
“The building will be used
C.E. Building
primarily for more classrooms
and laboratories, but there will
also be room for some adminis
trative and bookkeeping offices
as well as graduate and under
graduate advisers,” Olson said.
The outside of the building,
like many of the older buildings
on campus, is adorned with
stone artwork. At the request of
former students, the stonework
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will remain intact, but «|
carefully cleaned and s
lasted, Olson said. The
task will be to putanewro'J
the building.
John Merchant, manaftl
facilities construction din|
said the renovation, whitl
gan last August, will bet I
pleted by October 1984
The total cost of the proji
$2,444,000, all of whichtt I
from the University Avii I
Fund, he said.
The University Aval
Fund is income receivedi
the Permanent University!
for investment back
University.
Built in 1932, the Civil
neering Building serveda
Veterinary Hospital until
when the current Vetei
Hospital was opened on fi I
way 60. From 1957 to lit-
civil engineering facultyoH
and classrooms were loan r
the building. As thedeparte I
grew, one-third of theil
rooms were turned into!)*
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