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Tuesday, May 3, 1983/The Battalion/Page 3 ovelist forecasts nguage changes Lower drinking age favored by Lezlee Hinson Battalion Reporter I Mexican-American novelist - lol iudo Hinojosa - predicted dbnday that English will ulti mately replace Spanish as the Hninant written language of hb Mexican-American people. K)ne reason for this, 1 linojosa B, is that most Mexican- ■erican writers are educators R thus reside in urban areas in he United States. By necessity, hpse educators communicate Hnarily in English, he said. ■This doesn’t mean that the Rnish language will disappear ntirely, Hinojosa said. Proxitn- iyfto Mexico and the traditional ■ of Spanish will keep it alive, I the predominant language Riterature gradually will be- mie English, he said. ■This change won’t have an ■erse affect on the literature, linojosa said. The language is I what makes the literature Rd, the message is the impor- ■tpart, Hinojosa said. As long ■he message is authentic, he R, the language is used ■sn’t matter. Rlinojosa’s lecture on the de- Rpment of Mexican- Rolondo Hinojosa American literature was spon sored by the English depart ment, and included a reading of selections from his latest novel, “The Valley". “The Valley” is actually a re creation, in English, of Elino- josa’s first novel, “Estampas del Valle”, for which he received the National Award for Chicano Li terature - the Quinto Sol Prize - in 1972. Hinojosa stressed that the re-creation is not a literal translation, rather it is an adap tation of the Spanish story into the English language. In “The Valley”, Hinojosa ap plies his own experiences grow ing up in the Rio Grande Valley to the characters in his fictional Valley town, Khail City, in Bel- ken County, Texas. The border is a very special place to the people who live there, Hinojosa said. It’s not a boundary separating two coun tries, he said, it’s just a river. “Some of your cousins live on one side, and some of them live on the other side,” he said. Hinojosa is currently a pro fessor of English at the U niversi- ty of Texas at Austin. He was the first Chicano to win Latin Amer ica’s most prestigious literary award - the Premio Casa de las Americas - for his book “Gener- aciones y Semblanzas” in 1976. ■followers ‘brainwashed’ I United Press International BlLMOT, Ind. — A religious Rer, tied by a newspaper re- Rt to the deaths of 52 people iln followed his advice to shun Riical care, transforms aver- R citizens into “brainwashed” \ Aui' matons, officials say. ■JRAuthorities hope a law that ' ’af s effect June 1 will help pre- Rt deaths among followers of iaii i Assembly and its charis- ^■ic leader, the Rev. Hobart 'iieman. ea Rrhe law will give courts more Ray to order welfare workers Repin to save gravely ill Faith .Rembly children, despite their -^Rents’ religious convictions. impRltwill help them get involved follRre I have to, before it be- ualRes a coroner’s case,” said I ^ciusko County coroner Cary tlund. he Fort Wayne, Ind., NeWs- .talRtinel said at least 52 Faith ^Rembly members in Indiana, •Riois, Ohio, Kentucky, Michi- JR Missouri and Tennessee 1 pi because they or their pa- 11 Its followed Freeman’s •miRhing that those with faith Id no doctors. The figure is ivenRrly twice as many as pre- )\vt Ously reported. ge,)Rhe majority of the dead 0 f Re children, infants or women y f ,9ddied in childbirth. Most ol Ini deaths could have been pre- f .lted by routine medical proc- in Itres, the News-Sentinel said It copyright story. Area residents said Monday . . jth Assembly members often 1SI I highly educated people ie|l iose behavior before joining mow sect never seemed unusual. figulThey’re average people,” liedw a man in nearby Warsaw, oveitw- “One of the families from erflimd here, she’s a school Jcher and he’s a contractor.” jlThey’re people we kind of grew up with,” Eastlund said. “They look and act kind of like they are in a trance some of the time. I think they’re brain washed.” Freeman, a 63-year-old fun damentalist, had no comment on the newspaper report. His telephones are unlisted and the sect’s large, unadorned and un marked headquarters building outside the hamlet of Wilmot was locked and empty Monday night. Neighbors say the building is packed with “Brother Free man’s” followers during services held twice on Sundays and two evenings a week. Eastlund said the first faith- related death he knew of was in 1973, when an untreated infant died of a liver ailment and pneumonia. “These people brought in a ♦ ♦ ♦ ♦ ♦ ♦ X 4(t baby on Christmas day,” East lund said. “It had been dead 24 hours or more. I asked them why they were just now bringing it in, and they said they had prayed over it as they were in structed to do by Brother Freeman.” The most recent victim was a 40-year-old diabetic who re portedly quit his job at a medical supply firm at the insistence of church leaders and died Jan. 9, four days after he stopped tak ing twice-daily insulin injections. “You wonder how they get so screwed up,” said Tom Kitch, a Kosciusko County detective who has investigated several Faith Assembly deaths. “In their minds, this is Cod’s will. It’s almost like they’re hypnotized, and I don’t know what you can do to combat that.” COPY CENTER NOW OPEN AT 003-9084 GOING SHOPPING? 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Previous audience- participation debates were held on the recognition of fraterni ties and sororities, a uni-lateral nuclear freeze, and mandatory draft registration. Two students gave the pro and con side of the debate. Each speaker had seven minutes to present his argument. Chris Bowers, a freshman business major from College Station, delivered an opening speech in favor of the higher drinking age. His argument in cluded three main points: — raising the drinking age would save about 100 lives in Texas each year. He said the Texas Department of Public Safety found 27 percent of Texas highway accidents are caused each year by 19- and 20- year-olds who are legally drunk. — society’s right to safety out weighs an individual’s right to drink. — prevention of injuries and deaths in alcohol-related acci dents outweighs a two-year post ponement of drinking pri vileges. Kim Fowler, a sophomore accounting major from Long view, gave the opposing speech. She presented three reasons for opposing a raise in the drinking age: — the law would not stop peo ple from drinking alcohol illeg ally because parents, older friends and siblings could still buy it for 19- and 20-year-olds. — an age increase would negatively affect society and the economy. About 40 to 60 per cent of the “nightlife” industry would lose customers and work ers who were under 21. — raising the drinking age violates basic adult rights. The room in Rudder was di vided into two seating sections — pro and con. In the audience- participation debates, anyone who changes his opinion on an issue can move to the other side of the room. About 20 people moved from the pro to the con side after the speeches. Both sides were full and the con side had additional people sitting on the floor. The debate was open for au dience input after the speeches. The moderator, Assistant De bate Coach Bruce Daniel, alter nated calling an audience mem ber from each side. Each partici pant addressed comments to the other side. The audience-participation debates will begin again in Sep tember and continue through out the semester. Daniel said the debates will be “a part of the continuing tradi tions at Texas A&M.” Education talks scheduled by Michelle Powe Battalion Reporter Students and faculty in the College of Education will meet Wednesday with public and pri vate school educators from Bryan-College Station and sur rounding areas to discuss cur rent issues in education. The conference will be held from 8:30 a.m. to 4 p.m. and will feature a series of discussions in cluding talks about classroom management, teacher certifica tion and computer usage. Dr. Dean Corrigan, dean of the College of Education, will give the opening remarks of the conference and will discuss the current status of education. Faculty members and stu dents in the College of Educa tion also will receive awards dur ing the a conference ceremony. 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