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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.
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dicated he was obeying, but Tra
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challenged the order. Werner
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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
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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.
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