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, Page 6 THE BATTALION FRIDAY. JANUARY 3a 1981 GOOD FOR ONE FREE DRAFT BEER TIE TIMBLEHED '•WESTERN DRINKING ESTABLISHMENT’ 3606 SOUTH COLLEGE AVENUE Next To The Chicken Oil Co. BEER & MIXED DRINKS TWO DANCE FLOORS DJ THURS-SAT GAME ROOM NO COVER CHARGE! OPEN: MONDAY-FMDAY SATURDAY 4:00-12:00 6:00-1:00 Civil damages would be filed Bill would limit liars Skillful dancers to perform again forewjyifiM/.. WANTADS Keep Your Car In Tip^™ AUTO BEAUTIFICATION CENTER Welcome Back Aggie Special WITH THIS COUPON: OIL, OIL FILTER, n . & lube Only I'nited Press International AUSTIN — A West Texas representative has prop osed legislation which would prohibit a politician from telling lies about his opponent during a political cam paign by making the liar subject to a civil damages suit. Rep. Bob Simpson, D-Amarillo, said Thursday his “truth in campaigning” bill would allow candidates for public office to collect monetary damages if they suffer politically from untrue statements made by their oppo nents. Simpson, who claims he has been a victim of unfair campaign tactics, said a candidate would be able to recover the amount of money an opponent spent making the false statements as well as the amount the victimized candidate must spend to refute the allegations. “My opponent talked about me being a labor’s boy, which in my district is very bad, ” Simpson said. "He also implied that I was working to repeal the right-to-work law, which is an out-and-out lie and political dynamite in my district. ” Amarillo’s economy is entirely based on agriculture and its residents are strongly in favor of the right-to- work law, he explained. “A local union there had endorsed me, yes, but to tie my endorsement to working to repeal the right-to-work law is totally fallacious,” Simpson said. His bill, co-authored by Rep. Lanny Hall, D-Fort Worth, also would allow a candidate to recover attor ney’s fees and to obtain an injunction preventing the By BERNIE FETTE Battalion Staff A Texas A&M University shuttle bus carrying 35 students ran into a tree when it turned from Houston Street onto Joe Routt Boulevard t Thrborne'I opponent from repeating the false statements. Simpson believes candidates are "open game for open abuse, ’ under current libel and slander laws. "It creates an opportunity for someone who is willing to Ue and use the ‘big lie’ technique to do that knowing nothing can be done about it,’ Simpson said. "The politician is not the one who gets hurt from the deal. The public is the one who loses. They may vote against someone based on misinformation.” Simpson had introduced legislation during the last session which provided for the American Arbitration Association to come in and settle unfair campaign prac tice disputes, but the bill died in a subcommittee. As it stands now, candidates have two choices when charged with false statements, Simpson said. "You can either ignore it and not respond to it, but by doing that there’s a lot of people who are going to believe it’s true,” he said. ‘The other approach is deny it and try to set the record straight, but that adds publicity to the charge itself. You’re putting the public in the position of trying to find the truthfulness of a candidate.” Simpson admits that some legislators now in office are the same ones who employed unfair campaign tactics. “In the middle of a hot political campaign people start thinking more about the ends than the means,” he said. “People who are otherwise upstanding citizens use un fair campaign tactics. ” By SUSAN DITTMAN Battalion Reporter You’d never know they were still learning. The Alvin Ailey Repertory En semble gave a skillful but sometimes bizarre performance to about 1,300 people at Texas A&M University’s Rudder Auditorium Thursday night. Tonight’s 8 p.m. show will be slightly different than Thursday’s. The dances ranged from colorful jazz to sultry modem with a touch of exotic ballet. The twelve members of this traveling group are part of the Alvin Ailey School of Dance. Although they are students, they exhibit art on stage that reflects the professional style. This style is developed as they perform on stages all over the United States. The opening number, full of ex uberant movements and bright yel low and orange costumes, set a mood of celebration that was broken only by a few dances mid-way through the show. This second set of dances, entitled “I See The Moon ... And The Moon Sees Me” was a quartet of lifts, fren zied floor movements, solos and high-flying leaps — all combined to depict the moon in four different phases. But the music, which sound ed like every thing from a space odw sey pin ball machine to an ocean windstorm, did not mesh with the theme the dancers tried to convey The third act revived the celebr*- tion atmosphere through a series of short dances set to traditional blad gospel tunes, such as “Didn’t My Lord Deliver Daniel” and “I Want to be Ready.” Beginning with solemn and dramatic motions, the dancen pleaded with and praised God b» reaching and gazing hopefully to wards the sky. After several similai dances, the mood became light joyous. The entire company pranced on stage dressed in white, complete with streamers, scarves and umbrel las. The accompanying steel drum music set many toes tapping in the audience. The finale was typical of a Sunday revival in a hot country church. The women did an almost comical piece with old fashioned fans, wooden stools and yellow floppy hats. They were joined on stage by the men, wearing their Sunday best. 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