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Ethnic studies 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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Johnson & Johnson is an equal opportunity OPPORTUNITY. employer, and is especially interested in talking with talented minority and handicapped candidates. 1 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 “I was isolated. My workwj littled, even within NIMH.’ shi the Dallas Morning News. "Bat I had just been told thatmyrestj would not be supported anyft at NIMH, and so my invests was stopped in 1983.” A National Institutes of policy in 1986 encouraged the sion of women in clinical studio the General Accounting Offict study released last June, saiff NIH did not consistently ft policy until 1990. they’re infl At the briefing in Marine ge cloudy we; number ol reducing tl Almost against thi other Ira< southern I "softening in advance sault. 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