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2 students riurt when ube explodes Q Thursday, April 10, 1986./The Battalion Page 3 State and Local A laboratory explosion /Vednesday in 406 O&M sent two Texas A&M students to local nedical facilities where they were eleased after treatment for mi nor injuries. Laura A. Priest, an oceanogra- nhy graduate student, received icerations on her arms and face liter a vacuum tube exploded luring an experiment, said ilmer Schneider, University Po- ice chief. She was taken to the A.P. Beutel Health Center. Benjamin Cox, an oceanogra phy research assistant, experi enced a temporary hearing loss ind pain in his leg after being knocked back by the force of the explosion, Schneider said. Cox was taken to St. Joseph Hospital md later released. Oceanography professor Jim Brooks said the accident was a re- ult of overpressurized tubes, or m accidental bumping of the tubes while setting up the experi ment. Brooks said other possible causes for the tube explosion could have been a change in tem perature or a manufacture’s de fect in the tube. Schneider said two other peo ple were in the lab, but they were not injured. Few blacks choose science as career option, prof says By Melanie Perkins Reporter Recent figures show that blacks have increasingly ignored science ca reer options, and a Texas A&M re searcher says it may be to their ad vantage to take another look at science-related jobs. Dr. Julia Clark, an associate pro fessor of curriculum and instruction at A&M, said most studies concern ing the low participation rate of blacks in science concentrated on why blacks didn’t choose science as a career. She took a different perspec tive — she looked at those who were successful in science. Clark sent out 200 questionnaires to black professionals in science-re lated fields asking them what factors influenced their career choice. She received 75 responses, a return rate Of almost 38 percent. Based on the replies, she deter mined that blacks are depriving themselves by not choosing science as a career option. She said she found that the great est motivational factor for those that chose science and math careers was an early exposure to science — both in the classroom and through such outside activities as trips to mu seums. Clark said black role models such as parents, relatives or teachers em ployed in the scientific fields can be important motivational factors. “The absence of black stu dents from today’s science classes will lead to a corre sponding absence of blacks from professional science tomorrow. ” — Dr. Julia Clark, asso ciate professor of curric ulum and instruction. “(It’s) especially important for young black students to have early and extensive exposure to blacks who are employed in the sciences,” Clark said. She said parents need to be in volved and need to show an interest in their children and any program designed to cultivate and maintain interest in the sciences. “The absence of black students from today’s science classes will lead to a corresponding absence of blacks from professional science tomor row,” she said. Another factor discouraging blacks from choosing science careers is that some teachers and even some minority students feel that minori ties can’t understand science. “Black students are not cogniti vely different than any other race of students,” Clark said. Dr. Kenneth Manning, professor of the history of science at Massa chusetts Institute of Technology, touched on some of these principles and ideas in his lecture on the role of blacks in science and technology March 31 in Rudder Tower. Manning focused his lecture on his award-winning book, “Black Apollo of Science: The Life of Er nest Everett Just.” Manning, like Clark, stressed mo tivation, the role of education and role models as being important in the selection of science as a field of study. “It’s less a question of what you were born with, but a question of the opportunities you had or were den ied,” Manning said. Manning also said schools should develop a policy on racial ha rassment just as they have for sexual harassment. “A teacher is a very powerful and influential person and he or she can determine what a student’s life will be like,” he said. Manning also said much of what is achieved in science depends on working closely with others. gasket GIFT BASKETS of Toiletries and PotPourri In Town Delivery FOR PARENT’S WEEKEND IN THE MSC April 10, 11 shd 12 10-4 p.m. BOB BROWN UNIVERSAL TRAVEL | COMPLETE, DEPENDABLE DOMESTIC AND WORLDWIDE TRAVEL Airline Reservations • Hotel/Motel Accomodations Travel Counsel • Rental Car Reservations • Tours Charter Flights • FREE Ticket Delivery 846-8718 • Agency is fully computerized • 410 S. Texas/Lobby of the Ramada Inn/College Station iSinger must remain in prison during appeal SM AUSTIN (AP) — Singer David Crosby cannot le freed on bond while he is appealing two con- jctions that sent him to state prison, the Texas loart of Criminal Appeals ruled Wednesday. Crosby was convicted in Dallas in July 1983 of Jiicaine possession and carrying a handgun in a ■ightdub and was sentenced to five years in |nson. He was initially released on bond pending ap- but was arrested last year when he fled lorn a New Jersey hospital where he had been undergoing drug abuse treatment since Jan. 10, A Dallas judge refused to set bond for Crosby, who appealed to the Court of Criminal Appeals. That court Wednesday noted Crosby had failed to appear at a Nov. 25, 1985, Dallas hearing on the bond question. Crosby joined Stephen Stills and Graham Nash in the late 1960s to form Crosby, Stills and Nash. Testimony at a 1984 hearing in Dallas indi cated Crosby had a long-time problem with drugs. Psychologist Stephen Pittel of California said Crosby had been addicted seriously to co caine and heroin for 14 years. Pittel examined Crosby and decided that Fair Oaks Hospital in New Jersey, a locked facility, was best-equipped to treat him. Officials at Fair Oaks had denied Crosby’s re quest for an electronic musical instrument on which he could compose music, Pittel said. Crosby told the court that his time in a variety of jails had shocked him toward recovery. “Rikers Island is no joke,” he said. “The Tombs is no joke. The Dallas County Jail is no joke. Handcuffs are no joke. It’s not very funny. It’s real serious stuff.” WW'W ■ f W" !■■■■■■■■■■■■ ■ ■■■■■ I I ■ ■ ■ ■ & "W'T ■ m 1 ■■’■WWW ■-W-T' <Mxo, jfeno- dTenxf &n dtylsrruu Sohr ? lolo- on *nju pujUajuL ft# • Quids Cosn scum, /mtvuey tp-LdU, di /rruxAt. $uaj- diduuM UrUtu^T ^iMAruS CK, 'dvssrvt- T&- TTit, ••. -JJ' JfULYTUA, uJvua. dtjgcmcu, cc/lua, tfut+nc. ***% ' Texas ■ ■■■■■ l m m m-M-M-M. ■ w'wryrw ,v% ■ ■ ■ ■ ■ * ■ ■ a ■ ■ vv m m, m .new 1 :d too ausei do soul '87 AGGIELAND GATHRIGHT AWARDS AND BUCK WEIRUS SPIRIT AWARDS ournalit 1 'he Ba® Staff able applications avail- in Room 230 of is the letim®! s us a* und vereB fi l )0tstep s | an. i’s mon? ini the jatW y With n ^ eipr ■tthen' a ht th e too The eC nli lr ^ Reed McDonald. General Meeting for applicants Monday, April 14 at 7 p.m. in Room Oil Reed McDonald. Applications due April 15 announcement AND PRESENTATION 9:00 A.M. SUNDAY, APRIL 13 RUDDER AUDITORIUM All applicants should attend!