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Friday, April 12,1991
The Battalion
What’s Up
Friday
ALCOHOLICS ANONYMOUS: General discussion at noon. Call C.D.P.E. at 845-0280 for more
information.
TAMU COUNSELING AND ASSESSMENT CLINIC: Open registration for hypnosis clinic for
smoking, weight and other habit-control problems in 701 Harrington Tower. Call 845-
8021 for more information.
STAGECENTER COMMUNITY THEATRE: Live theater - 'The Nerd’ at 8 p.m. at 3715 E. 29th
Street, Bryan. Call 846-0287 for more information.
PRE MED/PRE DENT SOCIETY: Tour and presentation of University of Texas Medical branch
at Galveston, leave at 6:15 a.m. from Oisen Field. Lunch following. Call Dan at 823-
6900 for more information.
DEPARTMENT OF STUDENT ACTIVITIES: Dates for the summer semester calendar are due at
5 p.m. in 208 Pavilion. Call Sabrina at 845-1133 for more information.
STUDENTS OVER TRADITIONAL AGE: Dinner club and Constitution meeting at 6 p.m. at the
AnNam Teahouse. Call Donielle at 846-1471 for more information.
BETA ALPHA PSI: Officer applications are due by 5 p.m. in 501 Blocker.
UNITED CAMPUS MINISTRIES: Peanut Butter Fellowship from 11:30 a.m. to 1 p.m. in front
of the Academic Buiidina by Sul Ross. Weekly Bible study at 6 p.m. at the A&M Pres
byterian Church office. Call Stacy at 847-5300 for more information.
BRAZOS MUSIC ASSOCIATION’S MUSIC SHOWCASE: Five local talents will be showcased in
this second presentation at 8 p.m. in Kay’s Cabaret. 21 and over admitted, S3 admis
sion. Call Christy at 846-6981 for more information.
BRAZOS MUSIC ASSOCIATION: Benefit concert from 8:30 p.m. to 1 a.m. at Kay’s Cabaret.
Call Stacy at 764-1809 for more information.
HILLEL: Services at 8 p.m. at the Hillel Jewish Students Center, 800 George Bush Drive. Call
696-7313 for more information.
HART HALL: Bike auction in front of Sbisa. Call Will at 847-3997 for more information.
COLOMBIAN STUDENT ASSOCIATION: Will have a wonderful party with lots of music and
lots of fun at 8 p.m. at Wellborn Community Center. Donation of $3 requested. Call
Monico for more information.
BRAZILIAN STUDENT ASSOCIATION: Children's movie at 2 p.m. in 604 D Evans Library. Call
Fabiana at 846-1331 for more information.
NATIONAL ASSOCIATION OF*BLACK JOURNALISTS: Elections at 6 p.m. in 214 RDMC. Call
Pamela at 847-0529 for more information.
INTERNATIONAL STUDENTS ASSOCIATION: International Radio Hour: Music from the Ivory
Coast at 9 p.m. on KAMU-FM 90.9 FM.
Sunday
TEXAS A&M SPORTS CAR CLUB: Autocross No. 5, $8 members, $10 nonmembers, regis
tration from 9 a.m. to 10:30 a.m. at the Riverside Annex. Call Terry at 846-6099 for
more information.
LUTHERAN STUDENT FELLOWSHIP: Fellowship Supper at 6 p.m. at the Lutheran Student
Center.
UNITED CAMPUS MINISTRIES: Weekly Sunday study groups and dinner at 5:30 p.m. Dis
ciples of Christ in 145 MSC and Presbyterians at A&M Presbyterian Church. Call
Stacy at 847-5300 for more information,
METHODIST STUDENT CENTER: 5 p.m. choir, 6 p.m. dinner, 7 p.m. Vespers, 8 p.m. recre
ation. Call Max at 846-4701 for more information.
Monday
Saturday
STAGECENTER COMMUNITY THEATRE: Live theater - ‘The Nerd” at 8 p.m. at 3715 E. 29th
Street, Bryan. Call 846-0287 for more information.
DIE AGGIE KOMOEDIANTEN: A tragic comedy by Friedrich Duerrenmatt called ’The Visit’ at
8 p.m. in Rudder Theater. Tickets can be bought at the door. Call Theresa at 847-
8431 for more information.
TEXAS A&M SPORTS CAR CLUB: Practice Autocross, free, from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. at the
Riverside Annex. Call Terry at 846-6099 for more information.
BRAZOS ANIMAL SHELTER: Fifth annual walk for the Animals and Pet Show (prizes available)
from 10a.m. to 2 p.m. at Central Park in College Station. Call Michelle at 775-5755
for more information.
AUDUBON FIELD TRIP: Lick Creek Park. Call Bert at 764-3999 or 693-3214 for more infor
mation.
4IID-JEFFERSON COUNTY HOMETOWN CLUB: Picnic, officer elections at 1 p.m. in Bee
Creek Park. Call Ben at 847-1105 or Amy at 847-2328 for more information.
TAIWANESE STUDENT ASSOCIATION: Invited lecture with Lou E.S. speaking at 1:30 p.m. at
the Baptist Student Center.
EARTH FIRST! OUT THERE: Thinking Like A Mountain: A Council of All Beings facilitated by
Mariah Wentworth of the Rainbow Hearth Sanctuary, Austin, all day, place to be an
nounced. Call Dwight at 693-7383 for more information.
ALCOHOLICS ANONYMOUS: General discussion at noon. Call C.D.P.E. at 845-0280 for more
information.
STUDENTS AGAINST APARTHEID AND RACISM: Guest speaker and elections at 8:30 p.m. in
Rudder. Call Syed at 693-6185 for more information.
TAMU CANCER SOCIETY: Will have a meeting with elections and talk about the dunking booth
at 7 p.m. in 230 MSC. Call Laura at 847-2141 for more information.
ASME TECH: Guest speaker: Dr. Tim Coppinger, ‘Internal Ballistics,” at 6:30 p.m. in 121
Thompson. Membership dues and petition.
CHRISTIAN SCIENCE ORGANIZATION: All students, faculty, staff and former students wel
come in 507 Rudder. Call Beau at 846-6115 for more information.
ALPHA PHI OMEGA: Special Olympics Track and Field meet orientation meeting from 7 to 9
p.m. in 101 HEEP. Call Steve at 847-5439 for more information.
THE LEBANESE STUDENTS ASSOCIATION: Elections for 1991-1992 officers at 8:30 p.m. in
508 Rudder. Call Nabil at 693-0424 for more information.
BETA ALPHA PSI: General meeting at 7:30 p.m. in 165 Blocker.
TEXAS STUDENT EDUCATION ASSOCIATION: General meeting at 8:30 p.m. in 601 Rudder.
Call Amy at 696-3368 for more information.
RELIGIOUS STUDIES PROGRAM: Guest lecture at 7:30 p.m. in 105 HECC. Call Dr. Steven
Oberheiman at 845-0841 for more information.
SOCIETY FOR CREATIVE ANACHRONISM: Heraldry meeting, research and commenting on
names and personal coats of arms at 8:30 p.m. in Roy Heath’s House of Heraldry,
4108 Aspen. Call Ernesto at 847-0993 or Roy at 846-0880 for more information.
AGGIE BLOOD DRIVE: At the Commons, Sbisa, Academic Plaza, Medical Science Lab. Call
Dawn at 847-1808 for more information.
Items for What's Up should be submitted to The Battalion, 216 Reed McDonald, no later than
three business days before the desired run date. We publish the name and phone number of
the contact only if you ask us to do so. What’s Up is a Battalion service that lists non-profit
events and activities. Submissions are run on a first-come, first-served basis. There is no
guarantee an entry will run. if you have questions, call the newsroom at 845-3316.
Welkin: Science needs press for public support
Continued from page 1
by warnings of potential threats.
For example, NeWdn said early
reports of tne benefits of geneti
cally created "bugs" to eat oil
spills also questioned what
would happen
if the bugs got into petroleum
storage units.
But Nelkin said now the press
is more concerned with the ap
plication of biotechnology, not
safety.
"Techniques of gene splicing
once represented as extremely
dangerous became in the press a
'mundane tool/ and headlines
began to tell the potential appli
cations of research," she said.
By the early 1980s, the press
promoted developments in bi
otechnology, Nelkin said.
Nelkin said scientists were de
scribed in the press as pioneers
unlocking nature, but claims of
miracles were still reported side
by side with fears of an apoca
lypse because of genetic engi
neering.
Nellan said this ambivalence is
reflected in the controversy over
animal patenting.
"The genetic engineering of
animals has been given exten
sive and often very positive
treatment in the press as a
means to make medically useful
chemicals, such as human blood
proteins, " Nelkin said.
Despite the value of these "liv
ing inventions," Nelkin said
heavy debate oyer genetically al
tering animals has been "smol
dering" since 1980, when the Su
preme Court ruled in favor of
patenting living organisms.
Nelkin said researchers are in
favor of patent protection for an
imals as medical inventions that
promise medical and agricultural
benefits.
But Nelkin said small farmers,
animal rights activists, religious
leaders and environmentalists
raise other concerns. These
groups are strongly opposed to
animal patenting.
Small farmers are concerned
with the cost of raising, breeding
and owning genetically altered
livestock. The farmers say this is
the most recent trend in wiping
out small farmers.
Nelkin said other groups be
lieve patenting animals violates
their sense of the natural by defi
ning living organisms as "mo
ney-making" machines.
Nelkin said these issues
reached the public in 1987 dur
ing Congressional hearings that
discussed legislation on animal
patenting.
Both the press and the hear
ings raised questions of animal
patenting in agriculture, re
search and moral obligations to
preserve nature, Nelkin said.
Nelkin quoted one newspaper
editor as saying, "The public we
are trying to reach in the daily
press is in a cultural stage when
three-headed cows, Siamese
twins and bearded ladies draw
the crowd."
The relationship between the
science world and the press suf
fered partly because scientists
accused journalists of sensatio
nalizing their work, Nelkin said.
But then, she said, scientists saw
they were dependent on the
press to build public support for
their work.
Nelkin said, during the 1980s,
science needed money for their
research while the press raised
questions of money and moral
ity. So today, scientists are try
ing to influence the press, she
said.
"Scientists sometimes describe
Nelkin said pressure for jour
nalists to find a story makes
them more vulnerable to what
scientists have to say.
"The fundamental ambiva
lence between the value of tech
nology and its role in our society
makes controversy inevitable.
And sensitivity to this ambiva
lence must be considered in de
velopment, application and es
pecially public communication
about science," she said.
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their work in terms that might
embarrass the National Enqui
rer," Nelkin said. Research is de
scribed as creating a "new era of
youth," and promises to pro
duce ideal medical care, she
said.
Nelkin said scientists think the
media is "dirty business," but
that is only a misunderstanding.
Scientists don't want the press to
report problems with research
but its benefits to society.
"But science, like any other
product, thrives because of mar
keting," Nelkin said. "The press
becomes a means of promotion."
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