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\pril/ |rj Thursday, April 7, 1994 The Battalion Page 11 k Radio station ’ listeners tear 16 apart library in hunt for money Tubularman By Boomer Cardinale to uke >us and iff Is. Clamp;] > new jot. | better ktj 'i" Clamp ;: | ticket poirj The Associated Press of the jn eliberatio; dams oui!; e benclii I FORT WORTH — A radio sta tion says it will pay for damage caused to the Fort Worth public library after a promotion telling listeners that money had been bidden in books left the facility in shambles. I An afternoon disc jockey at 'Country radio station KYNG-FM, based in Dallas, contrived the promotion after reading an arti cle about how few people go to nee; libraries, said program director ampniJl Dan Pearman. pear be 1 "bl e thought putting a few Hlollars here and there might mo tivate people to go to the li brary,” Pearman said Wednesday. I The promotion sent more Than 800 people scurrying through the library’s doors Tues day, ripping the covers off books and then throwing them to the floor, said library spokeswoman Marsha Anderson. I "It was very bad,” she said [You had lots of people comin The fotum of -HuO 0]>aY ! 'W 6/tt> ftoPur Bartholomew tions a!® did: mon I it me ii ly," he ill te safest t m know watch ik ; forabifc rain selet- an redutt r,” Smitl! i exact sc- not be ttr ipproprii:; and soik level art ople in ik arijuana :Gaw sa: themselffi ter peopl: pid some- iay'deli' fskfit i slopes Bn and people pulling books off Bhe shelves.” Anderson said people were “climbing the shelves, stepping on each other and elbowing peo ple in the face” to get to books. Listeners told library officials that the station had hidden up to 110,000. However, Pearman said the DJ offered only $ 1 00. “Whatever harm we caused we need to rectify,” Pearman said. “We’re just very apologetic for the incident and sorry it hap pened.” He acknowledged that the ra dio station did not tell library of ficials about the promotion. “It was kind of a last-minute inspiration, and typically when he does that kind of stuff, 30 or 40 people show up and then they leave,” Pearman said. No damage estimate has been made. Anderson said it will take several days for the books to be returned to their proper places. As of Wednesday morning, li brary staff members had picked up about 1,000 books from the floor, she said. by lialvin B<xrV\u>\ l VJVviV 4U 7°h 4o •Vo my IT By Alex Genetics Continued from Page 2 Hsueh said several recent meth ods have been developed to work with infertile couples, including directly injecting sperm into eggs, using surgical procedures, in vitro fertilization and even borrowing eggs. Hsueh said technology has be come so advanced that children can now have five parents: a mother, a father, a genetic mother, a genetic father and a surrogate mother. “In terms of the social implica tions, this is a really wide open field,’’ he said. Hsueh also discussed the devel opment and use of contraception. “After being introduced in 1956, (birth control) pills have re ally changed our whole society’s view on sex,” Hsueh said. The introduction of the contro versial abortion pill, RU-486, was another issue Hsueh discussed. “This drug is going to become a very effective means of oral contra ception,” he said. Hsueh said the scientific com munity needs to be careful in fur ther advances by determining the implications some methods intro duce. “We need to decide how we are going to handle all these changes.” Hsueh was later presented with a plaque for being one of 24 scien tists honored as Wellcome profes sors in 1994. HEY AGS ! ! ! 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