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nrtfrrtttttt mi :n*.w I ■ \ n U 0 0 m m A Around town Candidate will meet students in MSC George M. Chamberlain, democratic candidate for House of Representatives will speak today (Thursday) at 4 p.m. in the main foyer of the Memorial Student Center. Chamberlain, along with nine other people, is running against Phil Gramm in the Feb. 12 special election. Ex- Democrat Gramm gave up his congressional seat in order to re-run as a Republican. MSC Travel announces Mardi Gras trip The MSC Travel Committee has announced a Mardi Gras trip to New Orleans on Feb. 1 1-13. Total cost for the trip will be $100, which includes the hotel and bus charter. For further information or to sign up for the trip come by the Student Programs Office in Room 216 MSC, or call 845-1515. Tickets on sale for Canadian Brass The MSC Opera and Performing Arts Society will begin its concert series this semester with the Canadian Brass on Feb. 3 at 8 p.m in Rudder Auditorium. The Canadian Brass, called the “Marx Brothers of Brass” by the New York Times, is an internationally renowned quintet which has been heard in concerts across Canada and the U.S., as well as Europe, China, Japan, Saudi Arabia, and the Soviet Union. The group is composed of Frederic Mills and Ronald Romm on trumpet, Graeme Page on French horn, Eugene Watts on trombone, and Charles Daellenbach on tuba. Tickets are available at the Rudder box office. Texas A&M economists ranked high Economists at Texas A&M University are among the most widely published writers in their field, according to a report by the American Economic Review. The report ranked T exas A&M’s Department of Econo mics 14th in the nation for the number of publications per faculty member that appeared in 24 leading economicsjour- nals, including the American Economic Review, Economet- rica, Journal of Political Economy, Quarterly Journal of Economics and T he Economic Journal. Texas A&M’s Economics Department was the only one in the Southwest named in the top 20 departments nationwide. Hospital appoints dependency director Richard T. Sparacio, Ed.D., has been appointed Director of the Chemical Dependency Unit of Greenleaf Hospital in Bryan. The Chemical Dependency Unit is a 19-bed unit for the treatment of people who abuse alcohol or drugs. Prior to this appointment, Sparacio was a family therapist on the hospital’s clinical staff. Retirement dinner to be held Saturday A retirement dinner honoring Dr. John C. Calhoun Jr., deputy chancellor for engineering for the Texas A&M Uni versity System, will be held Saturday at 7 p.m. in the Memo rial Student Center. Calhoun is stepping down this year after being associated with Texas A&M for nearly three decades in a number of key roles. He also holds the rank of Distinguished Professor of Petroleum Engineering. Tickets for the dinner of $15 and reservations should be made with Marjorie Manning in Room 241 of Zachry En gineering Center by Friday. Brazos Sailing Club names commodore The Brazos Sailing Club has named Ed Doran of College Station as commodore for 1983. Other new officers include: Ted Noyes, vice-commodore; Bill Nettles, secretary-treasurer; and Gin Doran, newsletter editor. Club membership is open to anyone interested in sailing. Meetings are set for the second Thursday of each month, March through November. Activities include spring and fall regattas at Lake Some rville, day and moonlight cruises, sailing clinics and talks by sailing authorities. For more information call Doran at 693-5788. Arts committee sponsors exh i bi t, lect u re The MSC Arts Committee is sponsoring an art exhibit in the MSC Gallery entitled “Modern Masters” now through Feb. 5. The paintings are on loan from the Sara Campbell Blaffer Foundation of Houston. On Saturday at 7 p.m. Dr. Peter Guenther, professor of art at the University of Houston, will present a lecture in Rudder Forum on the paintings to be followed by a recep tion in the Gallery. The faculty, students and staff are invited. Welch Foundation Lectures to begin Dr. Egon Matijevic of Clarkson College of Technology will present the annual Robert A. Welch Foundation Lecture in Room 231 Chemistry Bldg at 3:30 p.m. Monday. Matijevic will speak on “Monodispersed Metal (hydrous) Oxides: A Fascinating Field of Colloid Science.” Colloid chemistry is the study of matter which is smaller than one-millionth of a meter in dimension and which exists as suspension in a gas, liquid or solid medium. He is one of seven distinguished scientists performing lectures this year for the Welch Foundation of Houston. If you have an announcement or interesting item to submit for this column, come by The Battalion office in 216 Reed McDonald or call Tracey Taylor at 845-2611. local / state ‘Holocaust’ defense won’t be United Press International HOUSTON — A so-called “holocaust” defense apparently will not be used in the case of a Jewish man accused in the shooting death of another man. Peter A. Werner, 21, testified Tuesday in his own behalf on a murder charge stemming from the April 2 shooting death of Tarbell G. Travis, 19. Witnesses have testified that the shooting occurred after Werner saw a car in which Tra vis was riding hit a friend’s parked car. Defense attorney David Berg previously had said he would present a so-called “holocaust” defense in which he would argue that Werner shot Travis in self-defense because Wer ner’s relatives’ experiences with Nazi prosecution increased his sensitivity and perception of threats. Berg had suggested outside the jury’s presence that self- defense should be considered from the specific perspective of a defendant warped by such an experience as the “holocaust” — not from the perspective of the average man. Werner left the witness stand Tuesday without mentioning how his relatives’ horrifying ex periences in Nazi concentration camps influenced him. Werner’s failure to testify on the subject before the jury and the fact that the defense lost in its efforts to question a police man on the subject suggested the “holocaust” defense may not be raised at all in the case. Werner testified he became “fighting angry” when he saw the car in which Travis was rid ing strike his friend’s parked car. Werner said his friend gave him an automatic pistol and he pursued the suspects in his car. Werner said he finally caught up with the two men and climbed out of his own car with a flashlight in one hand and a gun in the other anti ordered the two men up against the car. Wernersaid the other man in dicated he was obeying, but Tra vis walked towards him and challenged the order. Werner then shot him. “I was in fear for my life," Weiner testified, adding he did not know whether Ti pistol. Werner said hefinj to protect himself. Berg asked VVernel pullet! the guninthefj Werner answered: 1 them until policeariij my neighborhood | J tended to kill hi m ," I Werner wept ashfJ that he felt very rt| when Travis’ mothetl “because 1 had killed!) had done the mos thing a person can don person." m: homel EXTRA! EXTRA! Airline to contact Braniff employees United 1 HOUS housing ted one ntw worth of apce. I As an new home Builders I coverage Wiley Wise president, ; a suhsidiay erties, Inc. Florida. 1 h cover mor We SHELL And much more too! Cigarettes HoRey Buns 10 oz. Cokes Budweiser 6 pak 990/pak 290 290 $ 2 59 Cathys' (CORNER United Press International DALLAS — Former Braniff International employees who want to work for Pacific South west Airlines will be contacted soon under a proposed joint venture by the airlines, the chairman of the California- based carrier said. PSA Chairman William E. Hastings said Tuesday his firm will need about 300 pilots and co-pilots and about 500 flight attendants. Also, about 700 maintenance, reservations, com puter and ground personnel will be hired. PSA’s plans to hire the for mer Braniff workers depend on court clearance of a joint ven ture under which PSA would open a Texas division based in Dallas-Fort Worth and serving about 15 cities. During testimony this week at the Braniff bankruptcy hearing in Fort Worth, Braniff President Howard Putnam said under the joint venture plan, PSA would take over 130 Branif f jets to fly the new routes. But even if the plan is approved by the court. PSA still must be given landing slots at Dallas-Fort Worth Regional Air port by the Federal Aviation Administration. Other airlines, including Continental Airlines, American Airlines and Muse Air, have asked the FAA not to turn over the hard-to-get land ing authority to PSA. Adding the planned Texas di vision would double the si/e of PSA, which until now has oper ated almost exclusively on the West Coast. Applications were sent out to about 8,000 former Branif f em ployees earlier this month. PSA officials estimate about 3,500 have been returned. Hastings said PSA will start contacting applicants about two weeks after court approval. ments for of a layoff. ■ “We’ve sales cance pected lay trying to go peopU layoff insui ■ “We pay charge to tl don’t add i I fowevei. under ^K use used agreement, wagcsBI employees of PSA's sion would lie substwfl than the wage scales pu nif f or by PSA to itsll personnel. Braniff paid about $85 an PSA ihe\ would retnfl ^ $43 an hour. - H • A prospect’s sen: fcl ^ Sav Braniff will have nobd hUupr her chances ofbtia In PSA. a spokesmanfotL United PrJ l "’' s - il<l - ■houstc New employees ohnson.forr mediately go mtothehj ar y )ara j or rnrnt and benefits.pKident Ge Hastings said. Beg Tues In addition to Americans to Woith, PSA is co •rninentby b flights to Austin, SjfflAjged interes Midland-Odessa, Hon Bonds. Orleans, Miami, \\ ashington, Newark.!(; e a S y f or c jti Oklahoma City, TulaM| tb e y he Moines, Omaha and lance its mai I tastings said. Brazos County 3800 South College 'Between Skaggs & Chicken Oil. STOPPER 775-TIPS New car leasing for business makes sense in 1983. Avoid down payment. Free up capital. Protect bank credit. Reduce taxes. Beat price inflation. y y y y y Call our auto leasing consultant. BENCHMARK LEASING INC. 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