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Battalion/Page 6
November 24, If
Display called
‘anti-Semitic’
by Catherine A. Campbell
Battalion Reporter
A display in the Sterling C.
Evans Library — which includes
a picture of the Star of David
dripping with blood — has been
called “anti-Semitic” by many
Texas A&M faculty members
and students, both Jewish and
non-Jewish.
The display, placed in the lib
rary by the Arab Student Orga
nization, focuses on an enlarged
photograph of slain people with
a superimposed picture of
Israel’s prime minister
Menachem Begin and a Star of
David dripping with blood.
The .exhibit is being display
ed in one of three glass-top cases
across from the reference sec
tion in the first-floor foyer of the
library. The display also con
tains pictures from Time and
Newsweek magazines of corpses
lying in the streets of Lebanon.
Sheila Arestad, coordinator
of exhibits for the library, said
many people have been upset by
the display .
“People wandered in, looked
and shrugged ... some were out
raged,” Arestad said. “A few
came up to me and asked me if 1
thought it wasn’t inappropriate.
I’ve had people who’ve phoned
me and literally screamed at me
about the case.”
Arestad said she is “counting
the minutes” until she can re
move the display next Tuesday,
when the reserve time on the
case expires.
But she also said that she only
has limited censorship power.
“Really, censorship is at ques
tion and our policy (for the dis
play cases) was re-evaluated last
spring so as not to censor,” she
said.
Originally the Arab Student
Organization’s display con
tained a hand-lettered state
ment which was removed on
University Library Director
Irene Hoadley’S request, Ares
tad said.
The statement said: “This is
peace for Galilee (the code name
for the Israeli invasion of Leba-
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Arestad said the Arab stu
dents seemed to be saying that
the Israeli solution to the Palesti
nian problem is to eliminate all
Palestinians.
She said the statement was re
moved from the case because
library guidelines allow them to
remove hand-lettered state
ments, especially controversial
ones. But, any material pre
viously printed by the media
cannot be censored, she said.
T he Star of David in the case
was published in an Arab stu
dent publication from Cali
fornia.
Nabil Al-Khowaiter, presi
dent of the Arab Student Orga
nization, said he would have
preferred to have the statement
in the case instead of the poster
of the Star of David.
“The statement had more
power to it — it said more than
the Star of David poster,” Al-
Khowaiter said. “The statement
carried all the meaning.”
Arestad said: “The Star of
David with the blood dripping is
probably in bad taste. But hav
ing met the Arab students who
put this out, I don’t think they’re
doing this as a hate message.”
The display is intended to
show Arab support of anti-
Israeli policies, she said.
Hoadley said some Jewish fa
culty members and Israeli stu
dents have objected to the poster
of the Star of David dripping
with blood, but not to the display
itself.
“Some people seem to feel the
library has a larger realm than it
does,” Hoadley said. “We pro
vide a forum in terms of a place
to express views or opinions,
and the library, as stated in our
policy, does not necessarily con
cur with the views expressed in
the exhibits.”
The cases can be used by any
University recognized student
organization or an official unit
of the University, such as a col
lege department.
by David Tharp
Battalion Reporter
Students who are tired of
paying more and getting less for
used books will have a chance to
beat the bookstore system and
set prices for their own books
using the Student Government
book exchange program.
Theresa Wigley, coordinator
of the program, said that from
Dec. 13 to Dec. 17, students can
bring used books to the Student
Programs Office in 216 MSG
and set their own price.
The price set by the student
can vary between the amount
bookstores pay for used books
and the amount bookstores
charge for used books, Wigley
said. Bookstores usually pay 50
percent of the original cost of
the used book and sell the same
book for 75 percent of the ori
ginal cost, she said.
“The exchange is patterned
after one at the University of
Texas at El Paso and one in New
Mexico,” Wigley said. “They
charged 25 cents for handling.
Next time we hope to have
enough books so we don’t have a
service charge.”
Wigley said Student Govern
ment hasn’t had any problems
with the MSG Bookstore over
the book exchange program.
“The bookstore in the MSG is
in favor of the exchange prog
ram,” she said. “It would cost
them more than the 25 percent
mark-up made on used book
sales to pay wages for workers to
handle the mass of used books.”
At least 100 students must
participate for the exchange
program to work, Wigley said,
but she added that she expects
more than 500 students to parti
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The book exchange will be
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pants will have until Jan. 26 to
pick up either their money or
their unsold books. Unclaimed
money and books will be don
ated to the Department of Stu
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Students who use the Student
Government service will be re
quired to pay a 25 cent service
charge to cover promotional ex
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