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FRIDAY
BAPTIST STUDENT UNION: Noon luncheons and
Bible studies will be conducted on MWF from 12-12:50
p.m. and on TTH from 11 a.m.-12 p in. in the BSU (be
hind Kinko’s). A free international dinner will be served
at 7 p.m. in the BSU. Everyone is invited. For more in
formation, contact Mike Jack.
CAMPUS CRUSADE FOR CHRIST: A Bible study
will be conducted at 6:30 p.m. in 108 Harrington. For
more information, call David Morrison at 260-6205.
COLUMBIAN STUDENT ASSOCIATION: A meet
ing will be held at 7 p.m. in 401 Rudder Tower. Contact
Jano Gutierrez for more information.
DEFENSIVE DRIVING COURSE: 1 he Brazos Valley
Safety Agency is sponsoring a DDC tonight from 6-10
p.m. and Saturday from 9 a.m.-l p.m. in the Kamada
Inn. The registration fee is $20. To pre-register, call
846-1904.
INTERVARSITY CHRISTIAN FELLOWSHIP: A
meeting will be held at 7 p.m. in 607 Rudder Tower.
Mike Buford will discuss racism. Contact Peter Brewer at
200-6697 for more information.
TAMU CHESS CLUB: A meeting will be held at 7 p.m.
in 510 Rudder Tower. Players of all strengths welcome.
UNIVERSITY LUTHERAN CHAPEL: Those grad
students and undergrads over 22 who are interested in
meeting for dinner should meet at 6 p.m. in the student
center. Those who are attending the Spring State Lu
theran Student Movement at Camp Luiherhitl in La
Grange should also meet at the student center at 6 p.m.
Contact Pastor Hubert Beck for more information.
SATURDAY
BIOMEDICAL SCIENCE ASSOCIATION: A car
wash will be held from 10 a.m.-2 p.m. at Texaco (in front
of Culpepper Plaza). Cars are $2. Call Chris Carney at
•881 fort
260-0881
more information.
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TURE CLUB:A plant sale will Ik: held from 10 a.m.-2
p.m. in the Floriculture Greenhouse (across from Hel-
denfeis). For more information, contact Keith Santner at
696-2076.
INTERNATIONAL STUDENTS ASSOCIATIO-
N:An International Mini-Olympics will be held in East
Kyle today and at the tennis courts, the track field, and
the east campus soccer field on Sunday. Events will in
clude soccer, tennis, track, volleyball, racquetball, bad
minton, table tennis, basketball and swimming. Contact
John Todozovic at 696-3278 for more information.
SUNDAY
TAMU INTERNATIONAL FOLKDANCERS: The
folkdancers will meet at 8 p.m. in 140 of the MSC. Ethnic
dances from various countries will be taught and y>er-
formed.
TAMU SPORTS CAR CLUB: An autocross will be held
at 1 p.m. in the Zachry parking lot. Registration Iregins at
9 a.m. Non-members welcome. For more information,
call Larry Chan at 696-7470.
THE INDIA ASSOCIATION: ‘The Great Gambler/ a
Hindi movie with English subtitles, will be shown in 102
Zachry. Call Ravi Knshnan at 764-1941 for the time of
the movie.
Surrogate conception: Is it baby-selling?
United Press International
CHICAGO — The ovum
transfer procedure for infertile
women may be of questionable
legal status in several states but
it does not appear to violate
state laws against baby-selling, a
law professor said Thursday.
“Fertilized ovum transfer
may raise questions in three dis
crete areas of law,” Professor
Grace Ganz Blumberg of the
University of California School
of Law in Los Angeles said in
the Journal of the American
Medical Association.
The areas are 1) federal reg
ulation of medical research, 2)
state restriction of fetal research
and prohibition of the sale of
children, and 3) state definition
of rights of participants, includ
ing paternity and maternity of
the infant.
State baby-selling laws do not
appear to be violated by the
procedure, Blumberg said.
Most state laws are aimed at
protecting fully developed in
fants.
“The 50-to-100-cell fertilized
ovum little more resembles a
child than artificial insemina
tion donor sperm or, indeed,
many types of donated tissue,”
she said.
She said that state laws also
attempt to protect children by
legally defining parentage.
“The choice for process pro
tection is clearly reflected in the
artificial insemination donor
statutes,” she said. “The law has
ignored genetic reality in favor
of social reality .... So long as the
child is born to his wife, the hus
band should not be heard to
dispute paternity. Nor, nec
essarily, should anyone else.”
In the non-surgical. proce
dure, an ovum donor is artifi
cially inseminated with the se
men of a man whose wife is
infertile, then the fertilized
ovum is transferred to the in
fertile wife’s uterus where it is
carried to birth.
Federal rules define a fetus
as “the product of conception
from the time of implantation”
that occurs in the womb of the
woman who receives the trans-
fered ovum, Blumberg said,
thus the procedure appears to
clear the rules.
“In contrast,” she said, “a
Minnesota statute protects any
‘human conceptus’ defined as
‘any human organism, either
conceived in the body or pro
duced in an artifical environ
ment other than the human
body, from fertilization
through the first 265 days
thereafter.’”
Blumberg said removal of
the fertilized egg is protected by
the constitutional right to abor
tion, but warned that the proce
dure is not totally safe from op
position.
Houston will be location
for biggest soundstage
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United Press International
it happf Il! l AUSTIN — Yielding to pres-
nt to sure from faculty and students,
bounty. I the University of Texas agreed
e who sit Thursday to hold the May com-
iversityf mencement at the traditional
i educai' spot at the Main Mall instead of
that ha'- moving it indoors to the Erwin
: state Ht- Center.
would 1*1 UT administrators had ear-
nty.” Her decided to move the cere
monies to the 17,000-seat Erwin
Center to accommodate the
^ growing number of people ex-
ipected to attend.
jt The proposed move drew
» (Criticism from faculty and stu-
IV/I dents, who said it would go
against tradition to move the
ceremonies away from the
ram, reU shadows of the Texas Tower.
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“The sentiment to keep the
ceremony in its traditional set
ting is very strong,” Peter T.
Flawn, president of the univer
sity, said. “It appears that a ma-
causesp j or j t y 0 p ^ acat | eni j c commu-
respi' 11 n ity is willing to risk inclement
► k the vai Beather.
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United Press International
HOUSTON — The world’s
largest motion picture
soundstage will be built by a
Houston-based company near
Houston Intercontinental Air
port at a cost of $25 million, of
ficials said Thursday.
Cinergy Corp. officials said
the aluminum dome, which will
be about half the size of the As
trodome, will be in Kingwood, a
subdivision 22 miles north of
Houston.
The dome will be at least 135
feet high and will have a base
diameter of 420 to 430 feet.
Floor area enclosed by the
dome will be about 140,000
square feet, or 3.2 acres.
“This design is unique,” said
Wally Gentlemen, a cinemato
grapher who worked on “2001:
A Space Odyssey,” and more re
cently “One From the Heart.”
“It contains the greatest volume
area for the cheapest amount of
money because it is a dome.“-
There is no horizon line in a
dome and it is very versatile.”
Cinergy president Chris
Clements said it will replace the
“007” stage at Pinewood Studios
in London as the world’s largest
soundstage.
Clements and his sister Anna
Belle Baker, Cinergy’s vice
president, wouldn’t say how the
movie production dome will be
financed except to say private
money will be used and it’ll be
completely owned by Cinergy.
seating and crowd control so as The facility is expected to be
to respond to the complaints of ready for use in late 1985 or
commencement guests and visi- early 1986.
tors.” Clements said Cinergy plans
UT graduates keep
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March 3,1984
G. Rollie White Coliseum
Pre-Registration
Feb. 27 - March 2
10 a.m. - 2 p.m. MSC Main Hall
for more info call 260-0914
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International Mini-Olympics
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Saturday & Sunday March 3-4,1984
Location: Saturday: East Kyle
Sunday: Outdoors-
Tennis Court
Kyle Field Track
From 8 a.m.- 5 p.m.
each day
East Campus Soccer Field
Participant Countries:
Bangladesh Columbia
Bolivia
Brazil
Canada
China
Chile
Europe
Guatemala
Greece
Hong Kong
India
Indonesia
Isreal
Korea
Malaysia
Mexico
Nigeria
Paraguay
Puerto Rico
Taiwan
Turkey
Vietnam
(Host Country)
sponsored by International Student Association
to use high-technology produc
tion equipment, and special ef
fects designers Gentleman and
“This design is unique.
It contains the greatest
volume area for the
cheapest amount of
money because it is a
dome. ”
John Eppolito said their futu-
ronics system will attract
filmmakers from around the
world.
Futuronics is an innovative
special effects system in which
producers use a painting or a
small model of the set instead of
building an entire set, saving
the producer up to 30 percent
on big-budget films.
Futuronics is similar to the
way “Superman” and “Star
Wars” were filmed.
“It is a total optical illusion
that will save a tremendous
amount of time and money,”
Eppolito said.
Gentleman said the dome will
be equipped to move huge
screens horizontally or verti
cally at great speeds, which also ,
will save filmmakers money.
“This was attempted in the
1950s, but the technique was
not proficient enough at that
time. Now it is. The system will
allow the filmmaker to work
with ease and allow him to drop
15 percent off the cost,” Gen
tlemen said.
Filmmakers have been com
ing to Texas in increasing num
bers in recent years.
Many theatrical feature films
and television movies have been
made in Dallas, where the Las
Colinas studios are located.
“Silkwood” and “Streamers”
were filmed in Dallas.
Houston was used for most
location filming for the Aca
demy Award nominee “Terms
of Endearment,” and for made-
for-TV movies “Bill: On His
Own,” “Adam” and “The Sky’s
No Limit.”
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do some very important work
before a hair on your head
Is touched.
They consult with you
to find the style that fits
your hair, your face and
your lifestyle.
And when they are through,
they tell you how to
take care of it so
you’ll keep looking good.
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