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nti-abortion opinion right supported by Texas S.B.416 i Hb «AI I ALIUN TUESDAY, MARCH 29, 1977 t'age 3 By BO GRIFFIN iDiscrimination against hospital joployes who are opposed to abor- i will be illegal if Senate Bill 416 comes law. (The bill, introduced to the Texas InatebySen. Walter H. Mengden R-Houston, prohibits the dis- (■mination against employes who ■fuse participation in abortions at lospitals or clinics that permit abor tus. Ilhe bill was recently passed by a »nate committee, where Sen. loyd Doggett, D-Austin, at- Impted to amend the bill to pro- ■bit discrimination against Catholic hospital or clinic employes unop posed to abortion. “It was not Sen. Doggett’s inten tion to make it a pro-abortion bill if it concerned a private Catholic hos pital,” said a spokesman for Doggett. Father John McCarthy, executive director of the Texas Catholic Con ference, said yesterday the attempt by Sen. Doggett to amend the bill was really unnecessary. “I don’t see how hospital or clinic employes’ not opposing abortion could be discriminated against,” he said, without the employer violating the Fair Labor Standards Act and the Civil Right Act.” “They certainly cannot be denied their own personal opinion,” said McCarthy. “I think the bill is basically good legislation and has a good chance of passing,” he said. McCarthy said the only problem would be Lt. Gov. Bill Hobby. “He (Hobby) does not seem to be particularly interested in this type of legislation, so it will probably have a hard time coming up on the Senate agenda,” he said. “I think it will move easier on the House floor,” he said. bpyright law affects faculty I Users of printed materials, re- Irds, films and photographs have cause for concern over the new waithrij PPydght law said Waldo H. Moore ng toll] the Library of Congress Copyright the “puls ffh-'e- g theiji M° ore ’ speaking to Texas A&M fj Diversity faculty at a University paytlierr ec,ure ’ sa ' c ^ authors have a better y cony, “tlook under the law that becomes lectivejan. 1, 1978. systenj When you read the new law, the ' system^ e are he^ using re®, 1 prices, first part puts you to sleep,” Moore said. “Then comes Section 106, and it makes your hair stand on end.” He quickly pointed out that the user is the one to react. “The au thor, Moore said, “begins clap ping.” The section grants exclusive rights in copyrighted works to the owner. It covers reproduction, preparation of derivative works, distribution by sale, transfer, rental. Easy listening’ radio KAMU-FM begins broadcasting tomorrow lease or lending and public per formance or display of copyrighted work. Still in limbo are photocopy and use of copyrighted materials in computer data retrieval systems, Moore said. The Copyright Office reference division chief said a Congressional- Presidential committee is at work on recommendations with regards to photocopy and computer use. News Campus TOP DESIGN AWARDS have been won by the Texas A&M University Press for two books designed by Raymond M. Grimaila, who joined the Texas A&M publishing house in 1975 as designer and production man ager. “Fort Davis and the Texas Frontier and “Junks of Central China” earned certificates of ex cellence and each was desig nated an “Oustanding Southern Book of 1976” by The Southeast ern Library Association. A HISTORY MAJOR at Texas A&M University is among 220 recipients selected to receive a National Endowment for the Humanities Summer Stipends award for 1977. Lawrence D. Cress of College Station will re ceive $2,500 for two months of full-time scholarly study and re search. Stipends are awarded to college and university teachers and others working in humanities who have proposed projects of high quality and value to the humanities. ABSENTEE BALLOTING for the April 2 College Station municipal and school board elec tions ends at 5 p.m. today. Balloting for city council dis tricts 1, 3 and 5 will be con ducted in the city secretary’s of fice at College Station City Hall on Texas Ave. across from Texas A&M University.School board absentee voting will be held at the A&M Consolidated School District office at 100 Anderson St. DR. JACOB MOSIER, head of the department of Surgery and Medicine in the College of Vet erinary Medicine at Kansas State University, will be among the featured speakers at the Texas Animal Agriculture Conference at Texas A&M University Monday, April 4. WISD from the Houston Inde pendent School District would impede desegregation in the Houston area. THE FIFTH ANNUAL Cal vert Springtime Pilgramage will be held from 1 to 5 p.m. Satur day and Sunday, April 2-3. In cluded in the tour this year will be seven homes in all stages of restoration, four historic churches and two rooms of a his torical museum. Tickets are $3 and may be purchased at the theater on Main Street. For more information, call Sarah Prince at 713-297-3687. Texas National Boards Association. Teacher as saults have risen 73 per cent, while those on students have gone up 85 per cent. The amount of vandalism is equal to the amount spent on textbooks. AUTHOR ALEX HALEY paid a brief visit to some distant relatives of Kunta Kinte Monday night in Kansas City at the home where he came for help in his 12-year search for the story of “Roots.” Floyd Anderson, a re tired city employee, and his sister Bea Neely, a retired school teacher, are sixth generation de- scendents of the African Kinte and third cousins to Haley. A FEDERAL JUDGE has blocked for at least 10 days a hearing by the Texas Education Agency that could have deter mined the fate of the West- heimer Independent School Dis trict attempted breakaway in Houston. The judge will use the time to decide whether to grant WISD an injunction against the hearing. The TEA hearing, re quired under the statewide de segregation order in a pending federal case was to determine whether the secession of the DESPITE PROTESTS the Food and Drug Administration is going ahead with its controver sial ban on saccharin. Almost 800 letters a day pour in on HEW Secretary Joseph A. Califano Jr., who told a Cabinet meeting yes terday the FDA will propose a ban within the next two weeks on the last remaining artificial sweetener. ABOUT 70,000 TEACHERS are assaulted by students each year and school vandalism is costing taxpayers $500 million annually, according to a report compiled by the National School World NEGOTIATORS for the Soviet Union and the U.S. have put their differences over human rights issues aside today and tackled other bilateral and inter national matters. Secretary of State Cyrus R. Vance and Soviet Foreign Minister Andrei Gromyko opened the second day of U.S.-Soviet talks with a dis cussion of issues believed to have included restraint of interna tional arms sales, and military reductions in Central Europe, the Middle East and the Indian Ocean. ■t'ngasfe; KAMU-FM, Texas A&M’s 1 beforq idio station, begins operations at 3 long is,| Taking sm ,. j Sign-on ceremonies are set tor 50p.m. with University President iclcK. Williams and other A&M of- cials joining in inaugural activities r the noncommercial FM outlet aturing classical, semi-classical, izz and “easy listening” music. Station Manager Don Simons said AMU-FM, assigned a frequency , , 90.3 megahertz, will operate 18 ttf«| ours dai y, from 6 a.m. until mid- n betwea 'ff all ■s aren’t If! 1 them, II e can real Burns, Orrell.li . therein arts onlki ■ somel >f social I / not Irate Barton, J iiversit]fi is not ali to recogm s. rat nosocu lities ta' 1 n fromtk her the Jin Je prevei >ns from 1 ? of these if t want th* 9 go throes ince recop 00 ts! laza The station is located in the build ing that houses A&M’s educational television station, KAMU-TV. Simons said that KAMU-TV will televise sign-on activities. Ceremonies will include a tour of broadcast facilities at the Educa tional Television Building south of Kyle Field. Simon’s said the station’s musical format will be complemented by news and other informative pro grams. The FM station will be af filiated with National Public Radio, the equivalent of educational televi sion’s Public Broadcasting Service. 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