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MONDAY, FEBRUARY 12, 1979
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What did Jonathan Edwards, the
Puritan minister of the 1700s, have
in common with a hippie of the
1960s? Dr. Jonathan Moreno, pro
fessor of philosophy at the Univer
sity of Texas at Austin, says both
went “against the grain” of the fabric
of accepted American culture.
Moreno presented a paper
entitled “Against the Grain:
Counter-Cultures in America” in
t Rudder Tower Thursday, sponsored
by the Department of Philosophy at
Texas A&M University.
About 20 people heard Moreno
trace the history of counter-culture
movements in America from the
early colonial settlers to today.
Moreno likened culture to “the
fabric of a piece of wood” whose pat
terns and textures are formed of the
characteristics of the experiences of
a particular people in a particular
environment. A culture can survive
only if succeeding generations can
“renew” these characteristic
standards to fit the changes they ex
perience, Moreno said.
In other words, American culture
is the result of the unique experi
ences of a people in a new land. This
culture exists today because of the
renewal of the American ideal of the
frontier, in time, if not in space.
Within the fabric of culture, there
are those who go against the grain;
these are the counter-cultures,
Moreno said.
“To be a counter-culture in
America is, broadly speaking, to
take exception to the standard no
tion of renewal (of the characteris
tics of culture),” Moreno said. “No
history of culture is complete with
out a history of counter-cultures.”
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Moreno said that the accepted
form of renewal has been a physical
change, characterized by slogans
like “Go west, young man” and ad
ventures like the space program of
the late 1960s. Often the counter
cultures’ forms of renewal have
been a temporal frontier, charac
terized by Edwards’ religious ex
periences and the drug trips of the
hippies, Moreno said.
A&M to
in Saudi
aid firm
project
By BONNIE HELWIG
Battalion Reporter
Saudi Arabia hopes to develop an agricultural research and extej
sion service system similar to the one in Texas, and Texas Aid!
University may help establish it.
Texas A&M and the 3/D International corporation have agreedk
cooperate on international projects, says Dr. Terry Greathouse,it
sociate vice president for agriculture and renewable resources aiK
coordinator of the University’s international affairs.“This concepl
cooperation between a university and a company is very new. Infatt
this is the only joint effort of this kind I know of,” Greathouse said
The first proposed project is the one in Saudi Arabia.
“They (the Saudi officials) want to build an extensive system
there is nothing now, so the project will include planning and
ing the facilities, providing housing, training the personnel and esl
lishing research programs,” he said.
“3D/I manages very large projects in the Middle East and we
quite visible there,” said Stanley Smith, vice president of 3D/Inlei.
national.
“A proposed project such as this one would deal mainly with
engineering and project management. We would pool our sei
with A&M for the best results,” Smith said.
Greathouse said, “We can take advantage of 3D/I’s experieml
from this standpoint and let them do the ‘brick and mortar’worlfel
“It is evident that no counter
culture has filled the vacuum left by
the passage of the sixties,” Moreno
said.
Petition lost, hut attention gained
Moreno concluded that American
counter-culture movements were
seeking some form of “community,”
with a moral climate that accounted
for the well-being of everyone. This,
Moreno said, has been partially
realized in the civil rights and the
feminist movements. Because of
this, the counter-cultures in Ameri
can culture may be “drawing to a
close.”
Jeff Bogert, a sophomore nuclear engineering major, ex
plains to some cadets that his petition favors memorializing
the grass around the Memorial Student Center — but objects
to spending $25,000 for a hedge to protect the grass. The
petition called for a referendum to let the student body vote
on whether hedges should be planted around the grass. The
petition was turned in to Bobby Tucker, student body presi
dent, Friday afternoon. He said fewer than 1,500 students
signed the petition — less than the 10 percent of the student
body needed to call a referendum. So a student vote is not
possible. He noted, however, that administrators are aware
of the petition and the sentiment behind it. They will consider
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“We are interested in this from an academic standpoint,' he
“We provide the technical information for the project once it isestalt
lished while 3D/I provides the framework for it.”
Morris Bloodworth, head of the soil and crop sciences departmeiil
has already met with key Saudi officals, and Greathouse said tk
Texas A&M staff will be going to Saudi Arabia to evaluate thepw
posed project.
“We become involved in these activities for our own benefitaswel
as the country involved,” Greathouse said.
“We participate in international projects that are compatible will
our in-state research programs because we want to gain informA
that will apply to this area as well as to the other countries."
Smith said he hoped 3D/International and Texas A&M wouldl*
able to work on other projects, possibly in Texas A&M’s otherareastl
study, such as engineering or medicine.
Texas A&M is presently participating in projects in Guatemali
Columbia and Uruguay in Central and South America, and Malian
Tanzania in Africa.
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This special film program consists of 3 avant-garde
films:
Vision (1976) 34 min.,
April Diary (1970)
and an excerpt from
Four Stars (1967) 35 min.
31 min.,
a film by Andy Warhol.
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and are, therefore, unrated.
Blizzard of 79 celebrated
in 72-ton snowsculpture
one
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SYCAMORE, Ill. — L.W. Bute
says he found something construc
tive to do with 72 tons of snow —
remnants of the Blizzard of ’79.
Bute engineered “Mount Syca
more, a 20-foot-high snow
sculpture which stands in silent
commemoration of four local dig-
nataries and this year’s record
snows.
Bute and two fellow artists, Doug
Aken and David Stott, challenged
sub-zero temperatures last weekend
to mold the structure from 30-inch
snows which covered the city’s cour
thouse lawn. Nature also helped
create the sculpture — and proba
bly will be the main cause of its de
struction.
“I know it’s not permanent,” said
Bute, a 33-year-old body and fender
mechanic. “But with the cold
weather, it’s kind of hard to say how
long it will last. That’s all part of it
— the fact that it’s temporary.”
The three men worked for 36
hours during a three-day period to
mold the sculpture, which portrays
Mayor Harold “Red Johnson,
former police chief'Joseph Salemi,
retired art teacher Cora Minor and
Bute himself.
Johnson and Salemi were chosen
as subjects because they are “com
munity characters,” Bute said. Miss
Miner, 90, who still gives private art
lessons, was Bute’s “inspiration”
and former art teacher. And the
final character — Bute himself —
was Bute’s method of signing the
piece.
The three artists first cleared the
courthouse lawn of snow, then built
a scaffold and covered it with a ce
ment platform. They used a
snowblower to fill the platform with
snow.
Then the three began sculpting,
using chisels, draw blades and
spade-like shovels, working from
clay models provided by Bute. Eye
glasses later were constructedl
steel rods and added to Job j’,
snow-shaped likeness.
Bute has made one
sculpture a year for the townJ
the last five years. This year.n
snows have made him
productive. In addition to ’
Sycamore,” he’s created Mil
Mouse — standing since New! |
because of freezing temperatu
During the 23 years hesli
molding characters from snow,!
also sculpted W.C. Fields,!
Claus and the Statue of Libert
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