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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.
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A&M investigates potentia
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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.
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Court permits stay of execution
for inmate convicted in 74 killim
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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.
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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.