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Page 14 The Battalion Tuesday, September 3,1991 P4RE T-=A^< The Texas A&M Emergency Care Team is offering EMERGENCY MEDICAL TECHNICIAN CLASS A meeting for interested persons will be held Friday, Sept. 6 at 6 p.m. in the cafeteria of A.P. Beutel Health Center. For further info call 845-4321 and ask for Pat. Upper Level Courses.. CVEN 911 AGEC 330 F1NC 341 ELEN 306 ~ZH SANA 317 MEEN 3271/ U ACCT 401 Require Top Level Calculators From Hewlett Packard We feature a complete line of Hewlett-Packard Calculators recommended for Science, Engineering and Business classes. We also carry all the accessories needed to maximize the power of your new HP calculator. 1 Professional Computing SOS Chnrcli St. College Station I46-S332 Business Mon-Fri 8:00-5:30 Hours Sat 10:00-3:00 Whpt HEWLETT PACKARD Firm investigates pipeline Alaska operator employs security company to find 'whistle blowers,' newspaper reports LOS ANGELES (AP) - A se curity firm hired by the trans- Alaska oil pipeline's operator used electronic surveillance and set up a dummy ecology group to ferret out whistle-blowers, a newspaper reported Monday. The Los Angeles Times also said Alyeska Pipeline Service Co., a consortium of seven oil firms, employed Florida-based Wacken- hut Corp. to monitor Democratic Rep. George Miller, D-Calif., chairman of a House subcommit tee investigating alleged environ mental wrongdoing by Alyeska. Alyeska has acknowledged hiring Wackenhut for an investi gation of possible leaks of docu ments by employees to retired tanker broker Charles Hamel. Alyeska suspected Hamel, an in dustry gadfly, of providing em barrassing information on the company's environmental record to Miller, the Environmental Pro tection Agency and the news me dia, the Times reported. As a result of the information, the EPA last month proposed fin ing Alyeska $20,000 for illegal waste water dumping. Hamel also is a party in a civil lawsuit involving a business dis pute with Exxon Corp., one of the Alyeska companies. Alyeska officials couldn't be reached for comment during the holiday weekend, the Times said. But in an internal memorandum sent two weeks ago to company employees, Alyeska president James B. Hermiller denied that Alyeska or Wackenhut engaged in illegal activity. Citing court records and unidentified sources, the Times said that: — Wackenhut set up two of fices for a phony company called Ecolit Group near Hamel's Vir ginia home and in Florida. Opera tives posing as environmentalists befriended Hamel with the romise of financial aid and legal elp. Wackenhut's Black repre sented himself to Hamel as Ecolit's director, a Dr. Wayne Jenkins. Inner-city school focuses on needs of African-American boys, girls MILWAUKEE (AP) - The three Rs will take a twist this year at a school in Milwaukee's irmer-city where the curriculum is geared toward the special educational, social and emotional needs of black chil dren, especially boys. But the enrollment of 560 students at Victor L. Berger Elementary School is half female, said Princi pal Josephine Mosley. “The curriculum is focused on African-American males, but we will do the same for the females that we do for the males," Ms. Mosley said. “The needs of female students are just as great as male and every thing we do here is good for all kids, regardless of sex or race." The school is in a black neighborhood where most of the pupils live, she said. Other immersion programs have been developed in Baltimore and Detroit, and have been discussed in San Diego, Miami, Washington, D.C., and New York. Detroit, where 90 percent of public schools stu dents are black, sought to open three all-male public schools for inner-city blacks, but a judge ruled last month that the restriction was unconstitutional and that girls also must be allowed to enroll. The Milwaukee Public Schools system reports that, of the almost 93,000 students enrolled last year, more than 56 percent were black. The black immersion program grew out of a 1989 citizens' task force study that found that fewer than 20 percent of the 5,716 black male students in Mil waukee high schools had a grade average of C or bet ter. The task force said many black students suffer be cause they lose their identity or become discouraged by a traditional curriculum that stresses a white, Eu ropean heritage. “A lot of African-American students, male and fe male, just don't have any sense of what we have gone through and come through as a people," said Aider- man Marvin Pratt, who represents a mostly black dis trict. “What's missing for a lot of young people is the pride in African history that I think an Afro-centric curriculum will foster," he said. The students at Berger elementary will study such black achievers as Robert E. Peary, who ex plored the North Pole, and Garrett Augustus Mor gan, who invented the traffic light and gas mask. The study also found that 50 percent of all stu dents suspended from district schools in 1989 were black males, even though they made up only 27.6 percent of the total enrollment. The task force didn't study the rates for black fe male students. The Berger curriculum, devised by Milwaukee Public Schools and University of Wisconsin-Milwau- kee educators, as well as community members, gives students a chance to read more African-American lit erature and talk to community residents about the civil rights movement or other issues. “We will still study traditional history and follow the curriculum we have in the past, only now we are including the African-American influences. That's good for everybody, not just black students," Ms. Mosley said. African-American content will also be injected into such subjects as science, math, social studies, lan guage arts and physical education. spying Wedn — One female, posing as an en- £ vironmental journalist, tried to be- friend Hamel in an Anchorage ho ^ tel bar in March 1990 and on an C airline flight and to “compromise ^ him" in some way, according to £ court documents. ^ — Ecolit operatives conducted ^ electronic surveillance of Hamel. £ Alyeska's manager of corpo- ^ rate security, J.P. “Pat" Welling- ton, spoke at least twice a week ^ with Black about the investigation and knew all of its details. Black ^ said. ^ Wackenhut has provided seen- "~‘ rity along the 800-mile pipeline since 1977, Wackenhut spokesman Patrick Carman said. Miller's House Interior and In sular Affairs Committee is looking —j into Alyeska's probe. I" - ,r ^ International evangelist suffers stroke AMSTERDAM, Netherlands (AP) — The Rev. Robert H. Schuller, host of the international- , ly syndicated television show “Hour of Power," underwent ' emergency surgery today after suffering a stroke. The 64-year-old evangelist was p/ \ ) found unconscious in his hotel ^o))^ room hours before he was sched-4! uled to fly to Rome for a meeting with Pope John Paul II. i, Schuller suffered a cerebral it hemorrhage and underwent three hours of surgery at the Free Uni-) versity Hospital in Amsterdam, r said Michael Nason, a Schuller i spokesman. He was in stable con dition. Schuller passed out in his room at the Hotel del'Europe and was taken by ambulance to the hospital at 11:35 a.m., Nason said. “We found him in his room. He was unconscious. He had col lapsed," Nason said. “His condi tion is regarded as stable." Nason said doctors found blood between Schuller's skull and brain and that the operation was performed by a senior neurosur geon, Dr. J. Wolbers. 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