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
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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.”
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Society holds final debate
by Wanda Winkler
Battalion Staff
Opponents of a higher state
drinking age won easily in an
audience-participation debate
sponsored Monday night by the
Texas A&M Debate Club.
Audience members voted
242-55 against a bill that would
increase the Texas drinking age
from 19 to 21.
The debate was the last in a
series of four sponsored by the
club. 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.
Registration for the confer
ence will begin at 8:15 a.m. Ab
out 300 people are expected to
attend.
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