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by Betty Ann Reid
Battalion Reporter
Muster, when Aggies meet to remem-
)er fellow students and former stu
dents who have died, will be held
Wednesday.
The on-campus Muster ceremony
will begin at 6:30 p.m. in G. Rollie
Bfhite Coliseum. Other muster cere
monies will be held world-wide.
■ The Brazos County A&M Club
holds their Muster in conjunction
frith the on-campus ceremony. The
es of 23 students and 17 former
dents from Brazos County who
ivedied since the last Muster will be
ed, Muster Chairman Bubba Cor
rea said.
■'William B. Heye, division manager
for industrial computers, a branch of
ilxas Instruments, will give the main
address.
p Heye, Class of ’60, was a member
of the Corps of Cadets and was Cadet
Corps Commander during his senior
year.
Blhe Muster Committee, part of the
iTraditions Council, is in charge of
coordinating the Muster program —
wlich includes speakers, the Ross
Volunteers, the Singing Cadets, the
Aggie Band, and the reading of the
toll call of the absent.
Muster was first held June 26,
|883, and was designed to be a time
for former students to relive their col
lege days.
■ During the late 1890s, the Corps of
Cadets made trips to the San Jacinto
battlefield to participate in sham bat
tles and maneuvers on April 21, the
anniversary of Texas independence.
In the early 1900s, a track and field
day was held on April 21. When it was
called off in 1903, students protested
because they wanted a time to remem
ber Texas independence.
At this time, students also agreed to
honor students and former students
who had died. They decided that a
living comrade would answer “Here”
while a roll call for the absent was
read.
Muster grew from that time, and
Aggies met in Europe and at army
post in America during World War I.
In 1923, former students began
meeting in College Station “to meet
old friends again and live over the
days at College Station,” the Texas
A&M “Inrol” said.
In 1942, Muster gained national
recognition when it was held at Corre-
gidor Island in the Phillipines, 15
days before the fall of the island.
At that time 25 men, led by General
George Moore, Class of’08, held mus
ter in the dim recesses of the island.
Several additions have been made
to the Muster ceremony since that
time.
A candle-lighting ceremony was
added three years ago. As each name
is called from the roll of the absent, a
candle is lit.
A fellowship barbecue also has
been added. It is scheduled for 4:30
p.m. to 6 p.m. by the aerobics track.
United Press International
Secretary of State Alexander Haig
arrived in Washington today from
five days of what he called arduous
bargaining with Argentina, hut Bri
tain said his proposals for averting
war over the Falkland Islands
appeared unacceptable.
Haig told newsmen at Andrews
Air Force Base he would report to
President Reagan on the latest peace
proposals he described as “a compila
tion of Argentina’s attitudes on the
crisis by the British government.”
“We had very arduous discussions
in Argentina, and I have further de
fined and delineated the position of
that government (and) transferred
those views to London where they are
now being considered,” Haig said.
He said he would be in touch with
the British government on the plan
and said he was neither “hopeful or
unhopeful” the peace effort would
succeed. “We are continuing to talk so
we’ll see where it leads.”
British Prime Minister Margaret
Thatcher called a meeting of her full
Cabinet today to study the new peace
plan, hut she indicated it would not be
Prof backs
Twain’s
Huck Finn
by Jennifer Carr
Battalion Staff
A Texas A&M University English
professor has entered the debate over
the appropriateness of Mark Twain’s
“The Adventures of Huckleberry
Finn” in school libraries.
Dr. Robert Scott Kellner, who
holds a doctorate in 19th century
American literature, sees the charac
ter of Jim as a model of morality — a
father figure to Huck, and a man who
is willing to fight for his freedom and
his family.
In early April, a school superinten
dent at the Mark Twain School in
Fairfax, Va. rejected requests by black
parents to remove “The Adventures
of Huckleberry Finn” from the read
ing list.
Parents now are protesting in Fair
fax because they claim the book por
trays a poor image of blacks, and they
are particularly angered by its use of
the word “nigger.”
This is not the first attempt at ban
ning Twain’s book. Efforts made to
ban the book from school libraries fif
teen years ago were unsuccessful.
Kellner said blacks, while they
might feel uncomfortable with the
use of the word “nigger” in the book,
should not feel uncomfortable with
the character of Jim.
“In ‘Huckleberry Finn,’ it is the
black character Jim, referred to con
stantly as ‘nigger Jim,’ who is the mod
el of morality,” Kellner said. “And if
being a nigger means being like Jim in
‘Huckleberry Finn,’ then it’s a pretty
good thing to be a nigger. When
Twain uses the word, it’s not in a de
meaning sense.
“If you were to pull a book of that
nature off the shelves, where would
you turn to in 19th century fiction for
a black hero?”
Kellner, in a revised version of an
article written for the Mark Twain
acceptable to Parliament.
“The complex, difficult contents of
the Haig message do not at first sight
meet the requirements strongly ex
pressed by Parliament, particularly
on the paramount need for consider
ing the wishes of the islanders,” a
statemfent from the prime minister’s
office said.
“But it wiii be studied carefully,”
said the statement, released while
Haig was still in the air.
Britain announced Monday it was
sending 1,000 more paratroopers to
join the 2,400 marines and several
hundred other paratroopers on its
40-ship battle fleet, now estimated to
be only a few days sailing time from
the Falklands.
Haig, looking drawn and tired be
fore leaving Buenos Aires Monday,
warned “war in the South Atlantic
would be the greatest of tragedies and
time indeed is running out.”
Details of the plan were not dis
closed, but reports in London and
Buenos Aires said it called for admi
nistration of the islands by the United
States, Britain and Argentina while
sovereignty was negotiated.
Dr. Robert Scott Kellner
Journal, wrote: “Twain’s language
and imagery about the blacks in his
stories work together as a mirror in
which bigoted readers ultimately see
themselves.”
The racist language in Twain’s
stories actually contains an element of
satire in which the reader’s belief in
the black stereotype is challenged,
Kellner said.
“You’ll find in most of his stories
that the white people are mostly fools
or charlatans or brutes of some sort,”
Kellner said.
He said he can understand how
blacks might feel when they open the
book and see the word “nigger,” but
said he objects to censorship or ban
ning of Twain’s works.
“When it comes to art — and that’s
what literature is — we have to keep in
mind that art recreates life as it is, not
as we would like it to be,” he said.
“Huckleberry Finn” is popular in
schools because it functions on many
levels, Kellner said. It’s a story of a
young boy growing to intellectual
maturity, but it also explodes the
myth of the Southern plantation tra-
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Haig’s decision to report to Presi
dent Reagan rather than fly to Lon
don indicated he was not optimistic
the plan would meet the approval of
Britain, which has demanded with
drawal of all Argentine troops and
sovereignty over the islands.
In Argentina, local news agencies
quoted military officials as saying any
plan that did not assure them of
sovereignty over the disputed islands
450 miles east of its mainland was un
acceptable.
“The flag that was placed on the
Malvinas islands will never be with
drawn from there by Argentines,” In
terior Minister Alfredo Saint Jean
told the nation’s governors, using the
Argentine name for the Falklands.
Argentina has poured an estimated
9,000 troops into the Falklands since
invading the disputed British colony
April 2.
A British Defense Ministry spokes
man said latest reports indicate the
bulk of the Argentine fleet remains at
sea, but well outside the 200-mile
blockade zone imposed by Britain a
week ago. British nuclear submarines
reportedly are enforcing the
blockade.
Negotiators
may have
U.S. budget
United Press International
WASHINGTON — By the end of
today, budget negotiators hope to
have a bipartisan spending plan
acceptable to both President Reagan
and House Speaker Thomas P.
O’Neill.
Senate Republican Leader Ho
ward Baker warned if there is no
agreement this week, Congress would
begin writing its own budget resolu
tion — a move that could lead to chao
tic debate in both chambers.
Budget negotiators, who began
their talks three weeks ago, planned
their final meeting today. House
Budget Committee Chairman James
Jones, D-Okla., had mixed feelings:
“I don’t think there’s going to be
much trouble for the Republican and
Democratic negotiators to agree, but
we don’t have any way of judging
what the president will do,” said
Jones, one of the negotiators.
Senate Finance Committee Chair
man Bob Dole, R-Kan., another nego
tiator, added, “The chances for the
success of a compromise package are
still 50-50: 50 percent Reagan and 50
percent O’Neill.”
White House counselor Edwin
Meese said late Monday, “We’ll know
in the next 48 hours” whether a deal
has been made on a budget com
promise.
“By that time we’ll have a general
feel if it’s going to happen,” he told
reporters at a state dinner for Queen
Beatrix of the Netherlands.
The negotiators include congres
sional Republican and Democratic
leaders and White House chief of
staff James Baker. They arranged a
final meeting today to try to complete
a bipartisan budget compromise that
would keep the 1983 deficit, now
forecast at $101.9 billion, below $100
billion.
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Journalist to examine
policies involving energy
Intentional neglect by government
and industry of safe energy forms,
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i (J lOV < on ener gy w jjj bg discussed tonight at
tS, t©0 KOttlSi 8byan award-winningjournalist and
Ids, camisters author.
K Karl Grossman will speak on “Nuc
lear Power, What Your Government
Won’t Tell You” in a program spon-
■red by MSG Political Forum Com-
lliittee.
The program will be held in Rud-
ider Forum. Admission is free.
■ Grossman also will present a slide
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show featuring government docu
ments and photographs.
Grossman’s book concerning nuc
lear cover-up has been heralded by
such publications as “Publishers
Weekly” and “Whole Life Times.”
A journalism professor at State
University of New York, College at
Old Westbury and Long Island Uni
versity, Grossman also hosts his own
weekly television program and broad
casts on WBAI and WREN radio in
New York.
Ground Zero calls for no nukes
United Press International
Ground Zero Week is only in its
third day but its anti-nuclear message
is quickly spreading and may evolve
into the biggest peace movement of
the 1980s.
As activities mounted Monday
from Boston to San Francisco, Assis
tant Senate Democratic leader Alan
Cranston said the nuclear arms race
debate will be the key issue in political
campaigns this fall and the 1984 pres-
idental race.
In Des Moines, Iowa, the state sen
ate urged President Reagan to consid
er a halt to the nuclear arms race.
Similar action was taken earlier by
Massachusetts, Oregon, Connecticut,
Maine, Vermont, Minnesota and Wis
consin.
In Pittsburgh, the City Council
adopted a resolution calling for a
mutual and immediate freeze by the
United States, the Soviet Union and
other nuclear powers on the develop
ment of nuclear weapons for the fu
ture of mankind.
Ground Zero is a non-partisan
group founded by Roger Molander, a
former Defense Department arms
control expert and White House Na
tional Security Council staff member.
The organization is trying to de
velop a grass-roots push to prevent
nuclear war by explaining the type of
horrors and devastation such a con
frontation would produce. Its name is
based on a military term for the point
of a nuclear detonation.
Ground Zero Week began Sunday
with rallies, demonstrations and
teach-ins on the steps of state capitols,
the malls of colleges and the sanc
tuaries of churches.
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forecast
Today’s Forecast: Cloudy and win
dy with a 60 percent chance of rain ;
high today in the low 70s; low
tonight in the 50s. Wednesday’s
forecast calls for cloudy skies with a
high in the upper 60s.