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MSC HOSPITALITY Page 6AThe BattaliorVTuesday, October 13, 1987 Dallas district anticipates unitary status DALLAS (AP) — Dallas school of ficials want to end 30 years of court battles over desegregation by seek ing “unitary” status for the district from a federal judge. For several weeks, school board members have quietly discussed asking U.S. District Judge Barefoot Sanders to grant the district unitary, or desegregated, status. Officials say the new status would be one of the final steps in moving control of the system, which has been under court order since 1970, from the federal court back to the school board. “If the judge declared the system unitary it would be a tremendous morale booster,” said Robert Thomas, the district’s attorney handling the case. “It says now we’re running a proper school system, running a constitutional school sys tem.” The district has been in court on desegregation issues since 1955. The current case, Tasby vs. Dallas Board of Education, was filed in 1970 and prompted the court order that re quires the district to provide inte grated schools as well as special pro grams to help close the achievement gap between minority and Anglo students. The proposal for unitary status faces opposition among some mi nority members of the school board, however. “The district hasn’t lived up to the order of the court yet,” board mem ber Kathlyn Gilliam said. “I don’t think you can just walk into court and ask for this with no direction from the community.” The school board discussed the is sue in closed session last month, but will wait until the appointment of a replacement for superintendent Li nus Wright. Wright is expected to be named undersecretary of the U.S. Depart ment of Education within a month, and board officials expect to name his replacement Nov. 10. District residents would see no im mediate changes in the school sys tem because of the new status and the court case would not be immedi ately dismissed, Thomas said. Uni tary status would not mean the dis trict has finished its work aiding minority students, he said. “It’s conditional,” Thomas said. “You’re on probation.” What’s up Tuesday STUDY ABROAD OFFICE: will have an informational meeting about studying in the United Kingdom and Den mark at 4 p.m. in 410 Rudder and present TAMUoversea; day from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. at a table on the first floor of tlf MSC. THE BIG EVENT: will meet at 7 p.m. in 146 MSC. INTRAMURAL SPORTS: Entries close for volleyball, pre season volleyball, field-goal kicking, swim meet, pickleM singles and flickerball in 159 Read. WRITING OUTREACH: Diane Dowdy will discuss Refe rential Essay” at 6:30 p.m. in 110 Blocker. STUDENT GOVERNMENT PUBLIC RELATIONS COU MITTEE: will meet at 7 p.m. in 704A-B Rudder. SPANISH CLUB: will meet at 9 p.m. at the Flying Tomato. BIOMEDICAL SCIENCE ASSOCIATION: will discussm clear medicine at 7 p.m. in 201 Medical Sciences Building TAMU HORSEMEN S ASSOCIATION: will meet at 7 pi in 1 15 Kleberg. AGGIE DEMOCRATS: will meet at 8:30 p.m. in 404 Rudder AGGIE PLAYER’S ASSOCIATION: will meet at 5:30 pi in the Rudder Forum. CATHOLIC STUDENT ASSOCIATION: will discuss tl ( book of Revelations at 9 p.m. at the All Faiths Chapel. POLITICAL ACTION OPPORTUNITIES: The Teia Grass Roots Coalition will meet at 7 p.m. at 205-1 Sulpb Springs. MEXICO-USA CONFERENCE: will meet at 7 p.m. in Rud der Tower. TAMU SAILING CLUB: will meet at 7 p.m. in 607 Rudder, MSC ALL-NIGHT FAIR: will meet at 7 p.m. in 604 Rudder FOOD TECHNOLOGY ASSOCIATION: will present lb Crepe Event” at 7 p.m. in 102 Horticulture Building. COOKE COUNTY HOMETOWN CLUB: will meet at 7:1 p.m. at Chimney Hill Bowling Center. DATA PROCESSING MANAGEMENT ASSOCIATION will meet at 7 p.m. in the Ramada Inn penthouse. IEEE: will meet at 7 p.m. in 104B Zachrv. MARINE TECHNOLOGY SOCIETY: will compare li and Russian naval ships at 7 p.m. in 510 Rudder. ENVE: will sell bicycle accessories from 8 a.m. to 3 p.nu Rudder Fountain. WILDLIFE BIOLOGY SOCIETY: Dr. Jim Jensen willfc cuss “Recent Advances in Wildlife Medicine” at 7:30 pi_ in 110 Harrington. £ TAMU AQUATIANS: w ill teach techniques of synchronita swimming at 8 p.m. at Downs Natatorium. SOCIOLOGY CLUB: E rnie Wentreck will speak at 7 pmc 125 Academic. CAMPUS STUDY CLUB: Maestro Franz Kraster willmi Ludwig van Beethoven’s Symphony No. 9, tne “Choral, ! 2 p.m. in 101 College Station Community Center, 11) Jersey St. y£*,f PlEtl Lose A/ol 5EE Ml DR. GLAi Items for What’s Up should be submitted to The Battik 216 Reed McDonald, no less than three workingdarsk fore desired publication date. ama nan ch )ected i A&M investigates potentia of bone-scanning device rawed ( By Anne Neidinger Reporter Texas A&M’s College of Veteri nary Medicine is investigating the C otential of a device that measures one mineral content for the study of bone-related animal diseases. A dual-photon absorptiometry scanner, donated to A&M by Lunar Radiation Inc. of Madison, Wis., is designed to measure the content of bone minerals in humans, and A&M’s experimentation with it is one of the first such studies, said Dr. Dan Hightower, professor and head of the veterinary nuclear medicine program at A&M. It is especially helpful in the de tection of osteoporosis, a condition involving the deterioration of bone, Hightower said. The $38,000 computer-driven de vice currently prints out data appli cable to humans, he said, but possi bilities exist for animal studies as well. The scanning device operates with a vertical, arm-like mechanism attached to a 6 feet by 3 feet scan ning table. The arm contains a radia tion detector located at the top and a radiation source at the bottom, un derneath the table, Hightower said. The mechanism scans the area to be studied, similar to the way an X-ray is taken, he said. The radioactive source gives off two gamma rays, one of which is ab sorbed more in soft tissue than the other, he said. The difference in ab sorption is computed and is propor tional to the bone density, tie said. The information is stored in a com puter and printed out with statistics such as bone density and fracture risks. However, Hightower said, before the unit can be used clinically or in research, data about what is normal in animals must be collected to make the device applicable. Veterinary researchers are gath- Jwere i n of gathering information,’i l^ an Rin‘ tower said. n < It is thought animal disea®J ^ ev ' r > C from genetic or nutritional " ar t>Hra lems, but this unit may Mj Were foi searchers discover the disea0 nient - tions under which bone mil*-1 ^ a nk affected, he said. g° . 1 Changes in bone mineral :. raigntne rently are detected in veiti* raz 'er ‘There may be things going on that we don’t know about because we haven’t had a way to mea sure them. ” — Dr. Dan Hightower, professor and head of vet erinary nuclear medicine at A&M medicine by an X-ray, h ever, a 30 percent to change in the bone mineraM present before an X-ray to detect it, he said. The dual-photon abso: scanner can detect chan mineral content with only cent to 5 percent change. ering data on cats, dogs, horses and some poultry, he said, in addition to learning more about the device and its computer software. Discovering the best place to take measurements on animals also is an important goal for the scanner’s use, he said. “Then we’re in a position to ini tiate research projects using that de vice as one of the quantitative ways “There may be thing; that we don’t know aboutbes haven’t had a way tomea; he said. The device also may be Ml the prediction of stress frai in horses, Hightower sai lower bone-density statistic a weaker bone. Harvey Gollman, a Lw resentative in Dallas, saidtb ny’s interest lies in the apf- of the device to all animaM'® humans. If the unit is productiveii use and researchers at A&M cessful in its applications, ( said, Lunar may considert» opment of a device design® ically for animals. th DAU thous^n, | Dallas c a new .b illi ■ Court permits stay of execution for inmate convicted in 74 killim St; l y i nts whc Bail j ud ge S vs routit^ cause 0 f Fol une HOUSTON (AP) — The Texas Court of Criminal Appeals granted a stay Monday to a death-row convict who was to face lethal injection later this week for the 1974 slayings of a Port Arthur couple. Walter Bell Jr., a native of La fayette Parish, La., was 18 when he was arrested for the stabbing death of Ferd Chisum, 50, and the strang ulation and rape of Chisum’s wife, Irene, 59. Bell has spent more than 13 years on death row and was to have been put to death before dawn Wednesday. Bell, now 33, had worked for Chisum at an appliance store and had recently been fired when the bodies of the couple were found in the bathtub of their Port Arthur home in July 1974. Bell’s attorney — Edward Chikofsky of New York, working with the NAACP Legal Defense Fund — said Monday a request to keep Bell alive was awaiting action by the U.S. Supreme Court. He said he did not expect a decision from that court until today. On Monday, however, the Texas Court of Criminal Appeals granted a reprieve, a court spokesman, Marga ret Sims, said. No issues were cited in the decision, she said. On Friday, the Supreme Court voted 4-4 on a similar motion that challenged Bell’s legal representa tion at trial because his mental com petence was not menl the penalty phase. The upholds a lower-court stay. Defense attorneys conte™ mentally retarded. “The whole idea of the w, DALI Who q ev verely j hnng fr for th en to. ‘ Li fe now,” pond^ Of $5 0 p to sh Ut P out.” Th t . ol foimc^d handt c 1 of 't:er P lan for ' 0n g e M> Court’s death penaltyjurisp r j) pL St ^h is to avoid arbitrary, capri fl! '; "''“ter freakish imposition ot “, u ' ra penalty,” Chikofsky said' e<tt "V = “What could be morefre^l n ^°fth executing a man on thel#' At; vote?” Other motions on were in state and courts, said Ron Dusek.asp* for the Texas attorney gent fice.