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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
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