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Prof working to end ethnic stereotypes
By MOLLY PEPPER
Reporter
f Be classroom may be the starting
f M to change stereotypes and
ejudices of ethnic groups, says Je-
5 Garcia, associate professor of
fflipulum and instruction at Texas
IcM University.
For 15 years, Garcia has been re-
JSBhin^ the effect textbooks have
jRKthnic group’s perceptions of
Mklother.
research indicates that it’s not
jSp|gh to merely educate different
inic groups about each other, the
oups also need to be allowed to in-
K, Garcia says.
Me emphasis of his research has
been how textbooks portray differ
ent societal roles, Garcia says.
“Essentially what we’re trying to
do is reduce stereotypes by looking
to see if the books are multi-ethnic
and if that kind of book can reduce
some of the stereotypes and preju
dices that students have,” Garcia
says.
Garcia rates a textbook as multi
ethnic if it portrays minorities as
equals in society.
A social stuaies textbook from 30
years ago might contain two pictures
of blacks, he says, while today social
studies textbooks contain all kinds of
pictures of different minorities.
Although progress is being made
toward making books more multi
ethnic and objective, there’s still pro
gress to be made, Garcia says.
Few classroom teachers are taking
conscious steps to reduce prejudice
and stereotypes, he says. Teachers
are putting more stress on teaching
facts and skills than on changing atti
tudes, he says.
One solution is integrated class
rooms where interaction between
different ethnic groups is struc
tured, Garcia says.
For example, in a science labo
ratory, the teacher could structure
the experiment so a minority stu
dent and another student work to
gether doing equal tasks.
Through his research, Garcia says
he’s hoping to find out if student in
teraction and textbooks that show a
variety of ethnic groups, have an im
pact on reducing students’ illusions
about other groups.
One illusion is that blacks are
good at athletics and not academics,
Garcia says. This illusion is re
inforced by watching a basketball or
football game, he says.
But showing a picture in- a text
book of a black child working a math
problem, shows children that blacks
are good at academics too, he says.
And in the classroom black chil
dren should work with other chil
dren on the same level, he adds.
Garcia says he began wondering
why ethnic minorities didn’t do as
well in school as other children. He
also noticed minorities were not get
ting as many awards as the other
children and he wanted to find out
why, he says.
Although Garcia’s research hasn’t
been on a particular grade level, he
says he will be experimenting with
multi-ethnic textbooks and student
interaction on several grade levels.
Schools are the starting place for
providing better communications
between ethnic groups, Garcia says.
In the long run, prejudice could
cause a divided society with little
communication between groups, he
says.
“As our society becomes more
multi-ethnic, I think we’re going to
address this question of getting
along with each other not only
within our country but throughout
the world,” he says.
uestions remaining about Dallas plane crash
Associated Press
APEVINE — The wreckage of Delta
191 is stored in a warehouse at nearby
, the water tank the plane struck at Dal-
B-bort Worth International Airport has
M repaired, and life goes on for the 27
jjrvisors.
Bn;: many questions about the tragedy re
tain.
Hie L-1011 jet crashed at 6:05 p.m. on
ug. 2 while trying to land during a rapidly
■loping severe thunderstorm, killing 137
»ple, including the driver of a car struck
pe plummeting aircraft.
If But six months later, Delta 191 is still
' r|dy unfinished business.
Bne passenger, Kathy Ford of Fort Worth,
istill hospitalized in a coma from head inju-
e . b. Another passenger, Debbie Katz, is be-
i\r At-H\ng to overcome paralysis, but her hus-
lildref n says she still fears that she may yet die
net :om the crash.
The National Transportation Safety
Board’s report on the accident will not be
completed until at least April, officials say.
Investigators have determined there was
wind shear — a violent change in wind direc
tion — within the storm, and the investiga
tion has focused on why the pilot flew into it
and whether, using proper maneuvers, the
crew should have been able to lly out of it.
The plane, enroute from Fort Lauderdale,
Fla., was making its final approach when it
plummeted 1 '/a miles short of the runway,
bounced twice and struck the water tank.
A federal judge ordered the wreckage
stored in the warehouse with the door
welded shut pending the end of litigation
surrounding the crash. A Delta spokesman
says lawsuits have been filed against the air
line by 86 passengers or their heirs.
Delta announced last Friday it would not
contest liability in an attempt to speed the
movement of the suits through the courts.
Airline officials say there have been some
suits settled out of court, but they decline to
say how many.
Katz, paralyzed from the neck down for a
time after the crash, doesn’t remember any
thing about the crash. Her last pre-crash
memory was having her nails done the day
before.
She doesn’t want to know what happened
that day, but she would like to know why it
happened.
“This would be my question if the pilot
lived,” she said. “What made him go through
it (the thunderstorm)?”
Katz, who suffered a fractured neck, bro
ken ribs and a punctured lung, lay near
death in the wreckage for more than an hour
before rescue workers could get her to Park
land Hospital in Dallas.
She was hospitalized for four weeks in Dal
las and for three months in Florida. For the
last two months she has been treated as an
outpatient at a rehabilitation hospital near
her home in a Fort Lauderdale suburb.
Recently Katz has been able to walk, and
just last week she was able to “run” after a
fashion for the first time.
“Her big ambition is to comb her daugh
ter’s hair,” said Robert Katz, her husband,
who escaped injury in the crash. “She may
look good physically, but she’s very badly
hurt.
“She still thinks she may die from this
crash,” he said.
Katz said the ordeal has angered her.
“Not a minute goes by that I don’t think
about the crash and what it’s done to me,”
she said. “I’m mad that this happened to
me.”
Kathy Ford’s visible injuries healed weeks
ago. But she remains in a coma at Parkland.
“The doctors are not very optimistic,” said
• Carol Christy, 35, one of Ford’s three sisters.
“They really don’t say anything to us.
They’rejust negative.”
Fontenot trial
still drawing
a lot of people
Associated Press
LIVINGSTON — Since the
murder trial of former junior
high school principal Hurley
Fontenot began two weeks ago,
spectators have jammed the
courthouse of this tiny East Texas
town and say the case rivals any
daytime soap opera.
The wooaen benches in the 60-
year-old Polk County Courthouse
have been packed to capacity
each day.
According to testimony, anon
ymous letters complaining of
Fleming’s relationship with Nu
gent were mailed to school offi
cials. Spectators also have heard
about a stash of cocaine discov
ered in the coach’s apartment and
allegations that Fontenot spied on
the coach and secretary at a hotel.
The spectators begin clustering
outside the courthouse as early as
7 a.m., although court rarely is
called to order before 9 a.m.
The stampede for seats, how
ever, is worst after lunch when
the courtroom is emptied and
locked for 90 minutes.
Mona Fajkus, 50, of Hardin,
says “I bring my lunch and sit in
the car in order to be back here as
quick as I can.”
Because Fajkus knew Fleming,
she says she helps save seats for
the coach’s parents and sister.
She’s seen people offer their sym
pathy to the Flemings — but not
their seats.
The retired mayor of Daisetta
and his wife, Harold and Mary
McCann, have parked their rec
reational vehicle in town to attend
the trial.
recalls 1910 sighting of Halley’s comet, hoping for 2nd glimpse
Associated Press
j^MELIA — George Smith got up
ith the chickens to watch Halley’s
pet when it zoomed across the sky
ack in 1910, scaring the daylights
uttof many people.
The comet came so close that the
passed through its tail and
many people thought the world was
coming to an end.
Smith, then a 10-year-old East
Texas farm boy living in Troup, was
thrilled but not worried.
“I remember it very well,” Smith
says. “Early in the morning I looked
in the southwest. (The comet) was
just as bright and beautiful as any
thing I ever saw.
“The main base of it was larger
than a dinner plate and from each
side of it there was an orange light.
“It had a tail that ran out five or
six feet.”
The comet was visible for 14 days.
Smith says.
He says his family was able to
watch it without telescopes or binoc
ulars.
Although the comet didn’t worry
Smith and his family, a meteor that
struck a few miles away frightened
some residents, he said.
Smith, now 85 and a retired
farmer living in the Amelia area,
says he hopes to see the comet again.
“You have to get away from the
haze and the city lights,” Smith says.
“We’re going out in the country
and find a place where we can see it
down toward the horizon,” he says.
This time Smith says he will use
binoculars.
The comet’s brightness depends
on how close it comes to the sun and
Earth.
In 1910, it came within 14 million
miles of the Earth. In April it will
come within 39 million miles.
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