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THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 11, 1975
A series of twelve “Sky Paintings”
is currently on display in the Memo
rial Student Center Art Gallery.
The canvases, in oil, acrylic and
pencil, were created by Joseph M.
Hutchinson, associate professor of
Environmental Design at Texas
A&M.
“All of these paintings deal in
some way or other with an attempt
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to explain space and time, Hutch
inson said. “All have sections in
which different times may be rep
resented in one painting. They
show the past, the present, and the
future in one relationship.
Since coming to Texas two years
ago, Hutchinson said that he lias
been “enthralled with the skies in
this area. “There are high billowing
clouds and the sky has distance,
clarity, and openness,” he said.
Included in the exhibit are paint
ings from several series that Hutch
inson has dealt with. “Brazos Wind
and “Gulf Wind” are representative
of his Plains series, but are only a
portion of the 22 paintings ol that
era. Altogether, there are six series
on display at the exhibit.
Hutchinson said that the Barbi-
zon series is his latest and the most
successful, the one that holds its
own. The force of the environment
here in Texas moved me from
abstraction to realism.
Of the twelve paintings on
exhibit, all but two are for sale.
Prices range from $2(X) for the 24x24
inch acrylic "New World to $1200
for the 84x84 inch oil painting
“Brazos Wind.
The exhibit will continue until
September 30.
Associated Press
AUSTIN — Norma Gabler of
Longview, perennial critic of
textbooks that fail to say evolution is
a theory, shifted her attack Wed
nesday to grade school spellers.
“Our parents are sick and tired of
seeing the results, Mrs. Gabler
told the State Textbook Committee.
“Too much emphasis is placed on
having a good time, on turning them
on. Well, let’s turn them off a little
and turn them on to basics. We see
too many kids who can’t read or
write or spell.
She said a 1971 Louis Harris sur
vey showed nearly 19 million per
sons over the age of 16 in this coun
try could not read and write well
enough to fill out a job application
form.
Mrs. Gabler attacked all six books
in the grade school speller series
that will be published by Merrill
Publishing Co. next year.
The series “violates a basic prin
ciple of learning, she said. “Instead
of going from the simple-individual
sounds — to the complex-
combinations of letter sounds, the
student will be hindered in his
learning how to spell or read.
"It has students write sentences
before the letter sounds are
learned. The child will be limited to
what he memorizes. Can this type of
teaching fail to increase the problem
of illiteracy?”
In the third-grade book, she cited
a page where students are asked to
write something about the words
spooky, silly and crash.
“Couldn’t more encouraging
words be used?” she asked.
On another page students are to
do these things natural phenomena
and don’t understand it. Write a
myth to explain it. Make up your
own names for gods.”
Mrs. Gabler exclaimed, “This is
humanistic!”
In the grade 4 book, she said,
nine of the 17 famous figures listed
“are Negro, while only 2 per cent
of the population is “Negro.
The publisher responded, “All of
the 17 persons are black. As stated
in the second column, the purpose
of this activity is to enlighten stu
dents about the contributions of
black Americans to our country/
Mrs. Gabler noted a reference to
witches and Halloween, while
“other, more significant holidays
aren’t mentioned in the book. Em
phasis to the occult is given. This is
religion.
In the fifth-grade book, she found
Benches stop vehicles
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By PEGGY INGRAM
Staff Writer
Only at Texas A&M do they give
you benches to climb oxer rather
than to sit on.
Observe the new concrete slabs
to the west and south of the Har
rington complex. Blocked by these
recent additions, bikers and pedest
rians often turn into a hopeless jum
ble squeezing through already con
gested malls.
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Curiously, a few of the 81 new
1000-pound benches are obvioush
plunked in the way of otherwise
reasonable thoroughfares.
University landscapers didn’t
make an "Aggie mistake, though.
Charles Brunt, director of sys
tems construction here, said the
benches were purposely put at vari
ous points of the North Plaza Mall to
obstruct vehicular traffic. Delivery
trucks and other large motor vehi
cles live been driving on the new,
somewhat fragile pebbled
sidewalks. These were not en
gineered to handle such heavy
loads, he said.
Architect Kent Beasley of
Dallas-based Schrickel, Rollins, and
Associates Inc. said the $1000-a-
piece sandblasted seats were not in
tended for use as roadblocks. His
plan is to have them in the shade
and out of the way.
But since the unanticipated
motor traffic problem developed,
Beasley has recommended to Brunt
that perhaps upright posts could be
installed instead, or maybe even
planters.
“You can t very well put a chain
up or no one could get by, he ad
ded.
Brunt, however, is not yet reads
to decide if the benches will go or
stay.
“They solve the immediate prob
lem which is prevention, he said in
reference to the vehicles. He as
serted that upright posts would
probably be a less desirable solution
to the benches — particularly for
unsuspecting bikers.
Brunt said the issue will face a
final decision within six months.
They could stay where they are, he
said.
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Meetings
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The Sociology Club will meet at 7:30 p.m. Thursday in Room
127, Bolton Hall.
The American Meteorological Society (TAMSCAMS) wall meet
at 7:30 p.m. Tuesday in room 112 of the Oceanography & Meteorol
ogy Building. The meeting will includeelections of representatives to
the College of Geosciences’ Student Council.
Upcomingvents and a film on tornadoes will be discussed.
The 4-H Chapter will hold an organizational meeting at 7:00
p.m. Thursday in room 301 of the Rudder Tower.
The Organization of Arab Students will meet at 9 p.m. Friday in
room 404 of the Rudder Tower. Elections will he held and all arab
students are invited.
The Agricultural Economics Club will meet at 7:30 p.m. lues-
day in the Plant Sciencebldg., Room 112.
The AmericanSociety for Mechanical Engineers will meet at
7 ()0 p.m. Tuesday at Thomas Park, located two blocks east of tbe
College Station Fire Substation. Students and faculty are invited.
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a story about a Boy Scout helping an
old woman across the street. “ ‘But
I didn’t want to get to the other side
of the street,’ she sobbed.”
This “belittles scouts and their
creed, Mrs. Gabler said. The pub
lisher responded, “If this passage
belittles any group, it is not scouts
but rather people who think they
know what is best for others.
Another protester, Drusilla
Bearden of San Angelo, reurged her
criticism of a book that gives favora
ble mention to Martin Luther King
Jr. and Ralph Bunche.
“Social Studies in Spanish,
Grades 1 and 2," published by Na
tional Educational Laboratory Pub
lishers Inc., suggests celebrating
King’s birthday and asks students to
“discuss the Nobel Peace Prize and
what King did to earn it.
“Is this a legal holiday?” Mrs.
Bearden asked. “Is it really signific
ant? King is a highly controversial
figure with a very questionable
background. Let’s celebrate Robert
E. Lee Day. Or George Wallace-
day. Or is this a racist suggestion?
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