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Page 2 The Battalion Thursday, November 11,1993
Cop Cards feature Bryan officers
Local police find way to
comunicate with children
By Cheryl Heller
The Battalion
The Bryan Police Department has found a way to
relate to children using CopCards, trading cards that
feature pictures of the officers.
Sgt. Choya Walling said the cards provide a way
for opening communication between children and
police officers on patrol by using something that
children can relate to. Police officers hand out the
cards to children they meet.
"The fact that the officers have something that
kids want initiates that first contact between them/'
Walling said. "We know from experience that in or
der to be effective in the community we have to have
an open communication link with the citizens of that
community, and we build that by beginning with the
youth."
The department started handing out CopCards
two years ago after Lt. Gary Wentrcek became aware
of a similar program in Los Angeles.
The first cards handed out by the Bryan police
featured the departments three bicycle officer teams
and street crime apprehension teams.
Based on the success of die first sets of cards, the
department recently began handing out cards featur
ing only one officer.
Walling said some officers were reluctant at first
to have their pictures on the cards, but now most
think the cards are a good idea.
"Early on, there was some reluctance among a lot
of officers to participate," he said. "They were hesi
tant to have tneir picture on a card and to hand out
pictures of themselves, but we're seeing more offi
cers participating and having cards made now."
Officer Alice Anderson, who is featured on a card
with Officer Robert Smith, said she thinks the major
ity of the officers are pleased with the CopCards.
T think at first a lot of officers were timid because
they didn't know how the kids would react to the
cards," she said. "But the kids are collecting them,
and now the officers seem really proud to have their
pictures on the cards."
The cards are very popular with children at the
Bryan schools that she visits, she said.
"I visit the schools regularly, and I always like to
give something to the kids I talk to, especially the
younger ones," she said. "The kids seem very excit
ed to get the cards, and every time I go to one of the
schools, they ask me for more."
The cards open communication between children
and the officers because a lot of children know that
the officers carry cards with them, Anderson said.
"The children want the cards from the officers,
and so they're more likely to ask the officers for
them," she said. "They're a great way for kids to feel
like they can approach police officers."
The Bryan Police Department's CopCards are
funded by private sponsors. A $120 donation pays
for 1,000 cards.
A&M researchers criticize genetic cloning
By Lisa Elliott
The Battalion
With recent advances in genetic
research, human cloning has once
again filled the hopes of scientific
dreamers, yet some researchers at
Texas A&M questioned the ethics
of such research at a forum
Wednesday night.
Dr. Malcolm Skolnick, professor
of Health Services at the University
of Texas Health Science Center at
Houston, said many scientists are
making advances that they don't
know how to handle.
Skolnick said technology is a
double-edged sword. It has the
potential for producing an enor
mous amount of new knowledge,
which leads to choices the re
searcher has to make about the
ethics of the uses of that knowl
edge.
v 'More knowledge is being gen
erated than people know what to
do with," he said.
Dr. Ryland Young, a professor
in the biochemistry and biophysics
department, said he is strongly
against the Human Genome Map
ping Project, an international pro
ject to create a map of all of the hu
man chromosomes.
He said the project is an exam
ple of "bad science," science which
gets bureaucratic support for its
commercialization effect, and it
takes away from "basic science,"
which is needed as building blocks
for future important projects.
The human genome project
doesn't have ethical beginnings
and no real idea as a basis for it, he
said.
Young said that because of all
the propaganda surrounding this
project, "it gets harder and harder
to tell students that you need an
idea before you have an experi
ment."
Dr. James Lupski, associate pro
fessor of microbiology and molecu
lar genetics at the University of
Texas Health Science Center, said
forums are important for the field
of science and the public because
they allow the public to become
better informed to make decisions
about their health.
"Contrary to what people
think, everyone carries eight to 20
recessive diseased genes that they
don't know they have until they
marry someone that also carries
it," he said.
Skolnick said he wished people
were more informed about the pos
itive effects of genetic projects.
"I know a number of groups
that think it is evil to eat a tomato
that is genetically altered," he said.
All the scientists agreed that
funding is a continuous problem
in their field. They worried that
researchers are becoming too
commercialized and concerned
with making a product that will
sell rather than finding useful in
formation.
RHA proposes
cash machine in
Commons lobby
By Jan Higginbotham
The Battalion
The RHA Facilities and Opera
tions Committee is working with
Texas A&M administration to in
stall an automatic bank teller ma
chine in the Commons lobby
area.
Shana Sewalt, director of the
Residence Hall Association facili
ties and operations committee,
said the possibility is being
looked into because the MPACT
machine located in-the Memorial
Student Center is not beneficial
for regular use by southside resi
dents.
"We're doing this to increase
the convenience for these resi
dents," Sewalt said.
Members of the commitee be
lieve that the high amounts of
traffic through the Commons
area and the 5,200 students living
on the southside could provide
enough patronage to make such
an installation beneficial to the
university.
Sewalt submitted a letter with
the proposal to Dan Mizer, Texas
A&M student development spe
cialist, and has received positive
feedback from Mizer and other
members of the administration.
The proposal also received
wide support from RHA mem
bers present at last night's meet
ing.
Further legislation on the pro-
posal was tabled by the RHA un
til more information concerning
installation and costs becomes
available for consideration.
"The legislation reiterates that
the RHA as a whole supports the
proposal," Sewalt said. "It
would increase the strength of
the proposal."
Jeff Nichols, president of As
ton Hall on southside, told the
RHA general assembly he has re
ceived many complaints from his
residents because the nearest au
tomatic teller machine at the
MSC is not convenient.
Sewalt emphasized that the
RHA is not trying to ignore the
needs and interests of northside
residents.
"Positive response from the
southside proposal could bring
about the possibility of putting
one in on northside," Sewalt said.
Sewalt does not know when
the proposal for a southside auto
matic teller machine might go
through with administration.
"At this point, all we can do is
wait for their response," Sewalt
said.
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