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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.
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iSinger must remain in prison during appeal
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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.”
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