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THE BATTALION
TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 13, 1979
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The Count of
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February 13
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Prof teaches
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JUNIORS
If you have completed 75 hours as of Jan. 1,1979, and have a minimum
GPR of 3.25, you are eligible for membership in the Senior Honor
Society.
CAP & GOWN
(soon to be affiliated with National Mortar Board, Inc.)
Information sheets will also be available from Feb. 5-16 in 216 MSC,
108 YMCA, and the offices of Dr. Koldus, Academic Deans, and Dept.
Heads.
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By ERIN BECKERS
Battalion Reporter
Russian college students have few
illusions about where they are, so
they make the best of it, says a Texas
A&M University English proffessor
who spent last spring teaching at
Leningrad University.
Jerome Loving, 37, was selected
by the Council for International Ex
change of Scholars to teach Ameri
can Literature at the University. He
and his wife and two children lived
there for three months.
“The students learn to live within
the limits of their society,” Loving
said. “They know how to operate in
their society and play the game. ”
“The students are a bit older,” he
said, “and range from 22 to 32.”
The professor-student relation
ship is different in Russia, he said.
“The professor more or less con
trols their lives. Loving said.
“When students study in a certain
area, they follow the professor of
that program. He acts as a super
visor throughout the students’ edu
cation.”
“I told them how American stu
dents sometimes fight for grades,”
he said, “and one girl replied a bit
sarcastically, ‘we just take whatever
the professor gives us and say thank
you.”
Leningrad University, which has
an enrollment of about 20,000, is
state supported and controlled.
“Competition is fierce,” Loving
said concerning college acceptance.
“Only 10 percent of youth go on to
higher education.”
“Books are rare. I gave a lot
away,” he said. He took texts to dis
tribute and learned that the Russian
institute collected all books after
they were used. Once he knew of
the motive, he autographed each
textbook. “Once this was done, it
was too personal to take, he said.
In their free time, Russian stu
dents “drink vodka and read any
thing they can get their hands on,”
Loving said.
Russians are avid readers, but
book covers are usually concealed
while reading on streetcars.
“It’s a paranoid secret society, he
said. "I never was really frightened,
but often wondered how much has
sle I would get before I got out.”
His visit to the University was
Associate English professor Jerome Loving, who taugi
American Literature in Leningrad, holds an iconoftli hefirst20
Madonna and child that he and his wife were given atafrieni 'arm-up
near Leningrad. He said he had to smuggle the icon out
Russia, where it its regarded more as a work thanasareligio
object now because of official athiesm.
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unannounced to the students and
faculty. The people tended to os
tracize him, he said, to avoid the
chance of getting in trouble with the
government.
He said his phone was tapped and
that at times he was followed, but he
did not know by whom.
“In the few homes that I was in
vited to, I have never received a
warmer reception,” he said. “Most
Leningraders love Americans. The
people are friendly and curious
about Americans,” he said. “Some
do not pay attention to the anti-
American propaganda,
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country is to live in another,
Loving.
“Russia is a harsh country.k ^ ese ^. re
people are hardy. Aside from
tellectuals, the people are fail
satisfied, although they go wH
many comforts we take
The intellectuals are not sai ^ m ,
because of their lack of freed™
of expression, he said.
There is no such thingasaai
vidual in Russia, Loving said !
vidualism, which is the then
American literature, is
upon.
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couldn t lecture on, Loving
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that contradict the Russian alii
toward man and society. ...
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al’s duty to oppose a corrupt
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said.
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tape,” he said.
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Election
are final
certified^
By CRAIG ROGERS
Battalion Staff
The Brazos County Comnif
ers Court certified Mondai
Nov. 6 election of two commi
ers and a justice of the peace.
A suit filed in Federal
Court challenged the electio
the basis that a previous re
of the county precincts had
the vote of minority residents.
U.S. District Judge in Ho
dismissed the suit last month,
ing the Commissioners Court!
tifv the elections.
The county commissiom
Precint 2 is Walter Wilcoxd
elected with 3,352 votes.
Stasny received 2,029 vot(
county commissioner for Fred
Both commissioners have
serving in their post until th
suit could be settled. Simt
have been acting as commiss
since the elections there
change in the commissioner
fiees. “It’s not going to chant
thing in the world.” Comrair
Stasny said.
Carolyn Hensarling’s elect
justice of the peace of Precinct
also certified. After the
election she was appointed 1
Commissioners Court to sei
justice of the peace until the!
was settled.
“I’m real pleased thatitisi
Judge Hensarling said.
In other business, four local
submitted bids to the Comm
ers Court to be the county!
itory for the next two years
court decided to study the b
determine which would otic
county the highest interest
The court will meet today to
the contract.
The commissioners also refl
ered an agreement with Gf
Telephone allowing it to bur?
along county right-of-ways,
court voted to reserve the ri|
keep the phone company from
the county right-of-way where
is a utility easement.
The phone company willed
to bury the phone lines
county right-of-ways along
county roads where there
utilities easement.
The commissioners also a]
payment to the city of
$616.83 for fire calls during);
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