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Page 2 • The Battalion Wednesday • April 10,| news BRIEFS Roundtable group debate forensic research center Vietnam refugee to discuss Asian art By Lisa Johnson The Battalion Da-Thao "Lyly" Dao, a former Texas A&M student and Vietnam refugee, will discuss at 7 p.m. in 223J MSC her perspectives on Chi nese and Vietnamese art gained while studying in China. Dao studied Eastern art during the summer of 1995, majoring in comput er science with a minor in fine arts. Dao donated her painting "George and Barbara Bush" to the George Bush Presidential Library, and two of her paintings are hanging in the MSC Student Programs Office. Admission to Dao's presenta tion is free. KAMU receives public broadcasting award Texas A&M's KAMU-TV was awarded one of seven 21st Centu ry Awards given to visionary pub lic broadcasters by America's Public Television Stations. Dr. Rodney Zent, the director of Ed ucational Broadcast Service, accepted the award on behalf of KAMU. Under Zent's stewardship, KAMU has served as A&M's main resource for distance learning opportunities. On April 3, in partnership with GTE, KAMU opened the Center for Dis tance Learning and Research. The Center will offer training in distance learning and the latest ap plied telecommunications technology. Schools told to abandon affirmative action ATLANTA (AP) — In the wake of recent federal court rulings lim iting affirmative action, Georgia's attorney general has directed the state university system to abandon admission policies that give prefer ence to minorities. In an unsolicited letter Monday to University System Chancellor Stephen Portch, Attorney General Michael Bowers said each state college and university should elim inate policies that use separate standards for minorities. Forensics experts, a lawyer and several Texas A&M profes sors Tuesday discussed estab lishing a center for forensic re search at A&M. Dr. Ron D. MacFarlane, an A&M chemistry professor, said participants in the roundtable de bated options for a forensic center. “I think this discussion is defi nitely a first step,” he said. “A center for an interdisciplinary sci ence involves people from many fields and departments. “It’s like we’re all behind the starting line wondering if we should run the race.” The discussion about the forensics center ended a day long forum on forensics as an in terdisciplinary field sponsored by the A&M chapter of the Sig ma Xi research society. Addresses were given by William M. Bass, professor emeritus and director of the University of Tennessee’s Forensic Anthropology Center, and attorney Travis B. Bryan III of the Bryan law firm of Youngkin, Gatlin, Bryan, Stacy and Dillard. In addition, three A&M pro fessors spoke about the connec tion of their individual science fields to the study of forensics. MacFarlane presented infor mation about using drug testing in court cases. He said it is possible for com mon medications to cause indi viduals to test positive for other types of drugs. “There are two kinds of am phetamines, a right and a left kind,” he said. “The left type is the type that causes illegal ef fects, but Vicks Vapo-Rub con tains the right type. So if a per son is using it, it can cause them to test positive for am phetamines in their initial drug test.” MacFarlane said that when amphetamines are detected, the person is interviewed by a medical officer to determiti the positive result was cat by accident or by an over counter medication, such cold or flu remedy. In addition, he said, test; available to determine ifap who tested positive for mor[| might have done so because!) gested poppy seeds, which c® low levels of morphine. MacFarlane said a detect whether a person wh( tested positive for marijuana tually smoked a marijuana rette or simply breathed sen hand smoke. Dr. James R. Wild, the Department of Biocli istry and Biophysics, disci: DNA technology. “There have been cast: which they have shownl certain people actually! the envelope of a threaten letter by analyzing tracer saliva,” he said. “What we talking about here is some credible technology thatj far beyond anything we s» the O. J. (Simpson) trial.’’ Wild also spoke about! DNA testing is used in anti pology to identify the bodies, well as the means of death, mous historical figures. Dr. Steven M. Smith, as;: ate professor of psychology cussed eyewitnesses. Smith said juries often beS the somewhat unreliable teste ny of eyewitnesses over mom curate physical evidence. “Eyewitnesses have a« bigger chance of error t er types of evidence been people believe their memor even when they are wrong,’ said. “My colleagues and I ways laugh when wehearpi pie say that they have evidence and that theyjn wish they had an eyewito testimony to support it.” Sigma Xi is a national oigs zation that promotes the devd ment of the interdisciplinary : ences. The A&M chapter iscp to members by invitation WEDNI April 10, 1‘ enterl Pavarotti tary start NEW VOf Pavarotti and tary are maki although they deny they've started making a family. The 60- year-old tenor and Nicoletta Mantova ni have been liv ing together for the past two weeks in Pava rott i' s Manhattan apa rt m e n t, and Pavarotti says, "We are happy... extrei Mantovani, with the opera said she was "v for Luciano. 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