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attract more
white students
DALLAS (AP) — Black studies
courses in Texas and nationwide are
attracting more whites than ever as
students prepare themselves for the
multi-ethnic workforce of the 1990s,
professors say.
“We’re not talking about a mad
dening throng, but there is an in
creasing number of white students
who are saying, T need to broaden
my perspective,’ ” said Jacqueline
Wade, associate executive director of
the National Council for Black Stud-
Some professors say the domi
nance of rap music, interest in the
civil rights movement of the 1960s
and the changing ethnicity of the
workplace are the main reasons
white students choose to study black
history.
“My hope is that it’s going to lead
to a greater amount of tolerance, ra
cial, ethnic and otherwise,” said Ed
ward Cox, who teaches black history
at Rice University in Houston. “I
think it’s a healthy sign.”
In Cox’s class last semester, only
two of his 24 students were black.
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At Dallas’ Southern Methodist
University, which next fall will re
quire all students to take a course on
race or gender, students say they’re
enrolling because it’s something they
were never offered in high school.
“I was really interested because I
don’t know anything about their past
and I’d really like to,” said Stacy
Komlosy, a SMU freshman from
Maine. “You never had black history
(in high school).”
Researcher exposes
medical study sexisn
For Brian McCulloch, a SMU mu
sic major from Albuquerque, N.M.,
it’s a matter of being prepared for
his future workplace —the public
school classroom.
“(The course) really does cause
you to think,” McCulloch said.
According to predictions by the
U.S. Department of Labor, blacks,
Hispanics and other minorities will
comprise 29 percent of the net addi
tions to the labor force between 1985
arid the year 2000. '
“I’d like to think students coming
out of the late 1980s and early 1990s
are beginning to recognize that to
prepare themselves for jobs in the
business world or academic world or
wherever, they had to have an un
derstanding of the difference expe
riences of all Americans,” said
Nancy Grant, an associate professor
of history at Washington University
in St. Louis.
At Washington, black history
courses are now 60 percent white.
At the University of North Texas
in Denton, just north of Dallas, more
than 50 students signed up an Afri
can-American history class, even
though the professor expected only
35.
At Indiana University, which
boasts the largest African-American
studies department in the nation,
the number of courses has increased
from 20 each semester five years ago
to 40 each term now.
Then, few if any white student
signed up for the courses. Now, two
of every five students are white, In
diana school officials said.
DALLAS (AP) — Scientific ob
servers say sexism in the research
community has hindered women’s
medical studies.
But despite recent work showing
that women react differently to med
ication and that research subjects are
mostly men, little has changed, fe
male scientists say.
“Research is stimulated by what
goes on in the marketplace,” said Dr.
Margo Denke, assistant professor of
internal medicine at the University
of Texas Southwestern Medical Cen
ter at Dallas.
In the U.S. health market, she
said, “there’s really quite a difference
between our medical perception of
men and women. I think women,
when they have a problem, it’s com
plaining. It’s not really a problem.”
The American Medical Associa
tion’s Council on Ethical and Judicial
Affairs agreed.
“There is evidence that physicians
are more likely to perceive women’s
maladies than men’s as the result of
emotionality,” the council reported
in December at an Orlando, Fla.,
winter meeting. It urged medical re
searchers to overcome such biases
and to pursue more studies of wom
en’s health concerns.
A Texas psychiatrist went public
with the inequities encountered by
women, both as research subjects
and as researchers in 1983, after her
own work failed to generate interest
from her male colleagues.
Dr. Jean Hamilton, who believed
that manic-depressive women’s
symptoms grew worse before their
menstrual periods, suggested that
the relationship of hormonal
changes to medication be studied.
Hamilton’s boss at the National
Institute of Mental Health was less
than enthusiastic, she said. So she
wrote about the sexism issue for a
medical journal and then weathered
the scorn of researchers.
“I took the beating that is to
pected for whistle-blowers,"
ton, now an associate psychiatn
fessor at UT Southwestern said
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the Dallas Morning News. "Bat
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would not be supported anyft
at NIMH, and so my invests
was stopped in 1983.”
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policy in 1986 encouraged the
sion of women in clinical studio
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study released last June, saiff
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