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December 1, 1982
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by Carol Smith
Battalion Staff
The MSC Arts Committee
knew James W. Johnson, a
painter from Lubbock, was a
social satirist when they
ordered an exhibit of his
paintings for the Memorial
Student Center gallery.
But committee members
weren’t prepared for what
they saw when the paintings
arrived.
Theresa Chiang, adviser to
the committee, said Johnson’s
paintings were chosen on the
basis of a pamphlet he sent to
universities throughout the
nation. But she said the paint
ings they received were com
pletely different from those in
the pamphlet.
“We thought the paintings
would relate to the same
things in the book,” Chiang
said. The paintings are social
satires, Chiang said, but they
weren’t projected in the same
way that the ones in the book
were.
The paintings, done in
muted colors, depict grotes
que characters. Some of the
paintings, though somewhat
abstract, portray graphic
nudity.
Chiang said the committee
voted in a closed meeting
Monday night not to display
the paintings. She said that
the decision is now up to the
MSC Council, which will meet
tonight.
Each year the arts commit
tee receives applications re
questing exhibit space in the
gallery. The gallery selection
committee, a subcommittee of
the arts committee, narrows
the applications down to 15 or
16 and recommends them to
the arts committee, Chiang
said.
One of Johnson’s paintings
shows a baby crib with a large
head rolling across the floor.
A quote beneath the picture
penciled in by the artist says
‘‘Catch the baby, rollin cross
the floor. Seems she’s been
kicked but she’s just Laughin
at Life.”
‘Fix the system, ’ Hansen says
U.S. business lead said lost
by Robert McGlohon
Battalion Staff
System Chancellor Arthur G.
Hansen said Tuesday night that
the United States has lost the
lead in competition for the
world market and that national
decisions will have to be made to
meet the challenge of foreign
competition.
Hansen told the student
chapter of the Society of Manu
facturing Engineers that one
way to make those decisions is to
look at the systems of other
countries and see what worked
— and what failed — for them.
One such country to look at is
Japan, he said, because it is one
of the countries which has taken
a substantial share of the market
from the United States.
It has done so by long-range
planning, employee education,
collaborative research and sacri
ficing short-term profits for a
long-term market share, Han
sen said.
However, because of the so
cial, historical and cultural dif
ferences between the two coun
tries, it isn’t enough simply to
copy Japan in order to become
more competitive, he said. In
stead, Americans must concen
trate on problems that are indi
genous to the United States.
One such problem is the
adversary relationship between
labor and business. They need
“less of the cut-throat and more
of the cooperative” in their re
lationship, Hansen said.
In dealing with problems
such as the labor-business re
lationship, he said, decisions will
be made which will alter the poli
tical, economic and social system
of the United States. Therefore,
today’s students, who will be
tomorrow’s leaders, need to ex
amine the basic assumptions
upon which that system is built.
“We don’t have to change,”
Hansen said. “But if we do, what
do you want for our society?
What values do you want to up
hold? What are the trade-offs?
The entire structure will have to
be looked at.”
Refering to the system, he
said: “Fix it. Change it. Alter it
or there will be serious consequ
ences in the future.
“(Foreign competition) is
something we’re going to have
to put up with ^nd accept or
compete against. We are being
challenged. And I hope we’ll re-
Dr. Arthur G. Hansen
spond to that challenge.”
He compared the present
situation to a war in which every
one needs to pull together.
“There’s a lack right now, and
staff photo by Jorge Casari
that (lack is) a common goal,” he
said. “If you have an ethic, a na
tional goal, that pulls you
together.”
Senate
to discuss
bicycles
The Texas A&M University
Student Senate will discuss the
bicycle situation on campus and
how it relates to parking and the
traffic flow tonight at 7:30 in
204 Harrington Center.
The Student Services Com
mittee is recommending that a
ommittee be formed to re-
earch the bicycle situation be-
ause of frequent bicycle acci
dents and pedestrian-bicyclist
disagreements, said Gilbert
Gonzalez, head coordinator for
'the Student Services Com
mittee.
Furthermore, the committee
hopes to form a crime stoppers
program to cut down on bike
theft, Gonzalez said. He added
that the committee also would
■like to see bike registration made
mandatory and more bike trails
added around campus.
During tonight’s meeting,
senators also will discuss reap
portionment of the Senate and
revision of current election reg
ulations.
In addition, the Senate will
discuss a recommendation that
advisers and pre-registration
workers stagger their lunch
hours so they are available to re
gister students during the noon
hour.
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