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September 30, 1982
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HUNTSVILLE — The
Texas Department of Correc
tions is under a federal judge’s
order to give a minimum
amount of space per inmate
and, despite imposing quotas
from May to July and recently
adding new prison space, it is
faster tfe brushing the ceiling again.
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Gov. William P. Clements
Jr. wrote corrections officials
Sept. 23 that he is committed
to ensuring that the prisons
stay open and said of prop
osed quotas that “such an ac
tion must not be taken.”
TDC spokesman Rick
Hartley said Tuesday the sys
tem has room for about 1,400
more inmates before it again
reaches court-imposed limits
I ! on space per inmate. The pris
on population is growing at
the rate of 800 inmates a
month.
The TDC population top
ped 35,000 last week, 2,0D0
inmates more than on May 10
when TDC temporarily closed
its doors after finding itself
unable to comply with U.S.
District Judge William Wayne
Justice’s overcrowding order.
Quotas for the 16 most
populous counties were im
posed on May 17 and lifted
July 27.
But T. Louis Austin of Dal
las, chairman of the Texas
Board of Corrections, said
Monday the board is pre-
E ared to reimpose the inmate
mitations to control popula
tion growth.
Austin said the board does
not have to take any formal
action to reimpose reduced
admissions. The previously
board-approved limited
admissions program remains
in effect, allowing TDC to
reimpose it whenever neces
sary.
Class assists
thesis writers
by Leslie Barr
Battalion Reporter
The old saying that great
ideas are only as good as a per
son’s ability to express them in
words serves as the basis for a
Department of English gradu
ate course called “Technical
Writing for Publication.”
The three-hour course,
taught by Dr. Robert Scott Kell
ner, assists students in getting
their thesis paper published in a
journal in their field.
Kellner said the students,
who come from many different
majors, are required to com
plete a 3,000 to 5,000-word
thesis by the end of one semes
ter. But the odds are against stu
dents getting their thesis pub
lished the first time they send it
to a journal, Kellner said.
“From a 15-member class —
which is the maximum number
of students accepted per semes
ter — an average of one student!
per semester gets the paper pub
lished,” Kellner said.
“I always hope to raise the
ratio of those who get published,
but realizing the enormous com
petition, I feel that we get a good
percentage of our students’ pap
ers in journals and other publi
cations,” he said.
The students may choose to
take parts of their thesis and
turn it into a publishable article,
Kellner said, but a student must
notify his dean before making a
committment to a publication.
“If a student manages to get
an article published, it enhances
the chance of getting the final
thesis published upon comple
tion,” Kellner said.
“I feel that if a student goes to
the trouble of writing a 20-page
paper, then they have good
ideas in their minds that can
make a significant contribution
to their respective field of
study,” he said.
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Hay Co. has unusual style
When You Care Enough
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Modern dancers imitate life ?
;mom by Susan Dittman
,Lr - Battalion Staff
and aSa . Deborah Hay Dance
natioiiai c orn p an y brought a small part
i 1 : of the modern dance world to
upbemi j Texas A&M Wednesday night.
UeSe °rl During a performance in
roup ol® u dd er Theater, the dance
234 Pipompany succeeded in showing
new Ar an appreciative audience that
Mancing is a part of everyday
was noi I ni0 vement.
icveral it| < Day, the founder of the com-
,000 pe . pany, casually walked alone onto
e bare stage and explained to
e members of the audience
hat they were about to see.
“It’s going to look different
om what most of you are used
its hav; t0 ,” she said. „
months.; j t
3 be prot During the first piece, called
iShaking Awake the Sleeping
reotgarar ' -
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was
will clear
NS in Ho;
Child,” the four women tried to
express the images of a sleeping
child’s dream through their
dance movements.
By bending, stretching, and
flailing their arms and stomping
across the stage, the dancers im
itated caged animals, warriors
marching off to war, a mother
waking her child and the child
going back to sleep and dream
ing about warriors again.
The percussion music which
the dancers performed to
seemed to fit the Austin-based
company’s unusual dance style.
Bill Jeffers, the company’s
business manager and accom
panist, played his own music
compositions on African thumb
pianos and wooden box drums.
At one point, Jeffers spoke up
during the dance by speaking a
narration which included the
line: “There is some thunder,
there is some thunder shaking
us awake.”
As Jeffers spoke. Hay and the
other dancers put into move
ment the images he was de
scribing.
The dance style used by the
company to create these images
seemed to be spontaneous as
well as choreographed.
The dancers would move in
unison across the stage, turning
and leaping, stomping and
stretching.
Then suddenly they would
each start doing their own thing
— wildly shaking their heads
and arms and jumping at
random.
•After a 15 minute intermis
sion, Hay, Emily Burken,
Heloise Gold and Diana Pre-
tcher returned to the stage wear
ing baggie jumpsuits in muted
colors.
The second dance, entitled
“Tribute to Growth,” began in
darkness.
During this dance, the dan
cers enacted the images of de
scending, splitting, collapsing
and forming rocks and caves.
Their bodies almost seemed
to become inhuman as they rol
led and wriggled about on the
stage.
Hay had told the audience at
the beginning of the perform
ance that “all movement is possi
ble.” And the performance the
Deborah Hay Dance Company
gave proved just that.
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