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About The Battalion. (College Station, Tex.) 1893-current | View Entire Issue (Dec. 17, 1979)
&M prof rites boo on myths ti ianni n ‘ary ends in I lately to Mi t By CHERYL CESSNA Battalion Reporter Searching out the clividing line be- icen female virtue and vice is the jtheme of a new book written by Dr. ■audinc Hunting, an associate pro fessor of French at Texas A&M Diversity. ■ Hunting said the book, entitled “Innocence on Culpabilite? Silvie, the molherti tfanon, Biondetta: Trois Visages station. LojMkve Dans le Roman Francais an ' will Siecle,” or, in English, 'Guilt ia Supreme pr Innocence? Silvie, Manon, Bion- ^rcadesares Three Faces of Eve in the and must Sixteenth Century ^ rench Novel," i each.wfeBill needs some finishing touches. "■“It should be published in 1981. I 11s asleep«1 V V(> t° do some revision, which en- Iraisingdim P ils ? ettin K texts from other univer ' ■ties. They’re I8th century books o speak, Hi. ff iclver >' clifficult to g et ” nee falls aslej Hunting, a native of Paris who re- ^*ived bachelor’s and master’s de le voters fall.® css ^ rom Sorbonne University and ^doctorate from Harvard, said her |ook compares the themes of three J8th centurh works. I “The hook really is an analysis of ■iree novels and the stereotypes and lyths on which they rest. I feel they Itemplify a progression, an evolu- lonofthe idea of woman in the 18th :ntury. But the interesting thing is ambiguity of the positions of the Imale characters. First they’re pre- |cnted as guilty, then there is a ques- about their guilt, and then they |egin to appear more and more inno- :nt until at the end they appear as lints.” Hunting said the book also studies e idea of virtue. “There was a revolution in ethics the 18th century, with the idea of [irtue and vice, particularly female irtue and vice, being centered [round a sexual theme. As you prog- iss into the century, you feel the Idea of a female virtue is less and less scure. There is a certain point in |8th century philosophy where vir- and vice begin to have very fuzzy ontiers — we no longer know what drtue is and what vice is. So I m [ooking at those heroines in that light." pragg OK’d as Batt editor Roy Bragg, a senior journalism najor from Bryan, has been con- irmed as the editor of The Battalion or the 1980 spring semester by Dr. M. Prescott, vice president for icademic affairs. Bragg was recommended to the position by a unanimous vote from lie Student Publications Board last month. Bragg will be replacing Liz New- lin, a junior in journalism. Newlin will be working in ^Washington during the spring semester for Sen. Orrin Hatch, R- rniette Utah, through the Sears, Roebuck and Co. Congressional Intern Prog- arefully cue ram. Each spring about 15 college you eat it! journalists are selected in national chael Conlo) competition to work on Congression- — Ted Treal al staffs, usually writing speeches ndy Anders# and press releases. A&M gets ‘bowl’ game By CINDY COLVIN Battalion Reporter College Bowl, the varsity sport of the mind,” played at major universi ties across the nation for about 10 years, will finally come to Texas A&M University next semester, according to Erum Sheikh, an MSC Council assistant. The game show-format College Bowl is a competition between two teams of four students each who answer questions about a broad range of topics. After a correct answer, a team has the chance to answer another question correctly for extra points. The team lith the most points at the end of the game wins. The council plans to have an intra- collegiate match between at least ten teams from the University. 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