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■ ; ' .r- : ' '• : " ' • • \: V 4 . v • • • • 1 ': v-i i 1 ;' 11 * ^ • < ■ * • • ■ ■ 1 ■ ■ f Professor’s paintings \visit Houston gallery D I 1 WF Li I By RENEE HARRELL Reporter ■L couple of years ago Richard Da- H>n began doodling with colored ■Ik after teaching his drawing and Hign classes. Now he’s showing 16 Btelsata Houston gallery. ■iis exhibit, at Hooks-Epstein Gal- ■es, Inc., is called “Theatrical gaidscapes: Pastels on Paper.” It vill hang until July 28. Davison has ■n teaching environmental design Mexas A&M for three years. ■Three of his large paintings, 40 nfhes by 60 inches, could sell for 5|500 apiece, Davison says. The 11 Hall paintings, 18 by 24 inches, Hild sell for about $450 each. He Ha has two 28 by 44-inch paintings plhe exhibit. ■‘If the public likes it, the prices ■ild jump up,” Davison says, ■ley’ve not been for sale in pre- Hus competitions. I’ve been saving it (or this show.” ■Davison’s other work has been shown in Virginia, California, Texas, Missouri, Indiana and Flor ence, Italy. He has received a merit award, an honorable mention award and a special merit award. Five of Davison’s pieces are in the permanent collection at the Texas A&M Medical Sciences Complex. “I’ve been seriously painting about 10 years,” Davison says. “I’ve only been working with pastels about two years.” Davison started using colored chalk in class to make his lectures more interesting. “After lectures, I’d doodle,” Davi son says. “I liked the effects I got on the chalk board with the dark back ground. I’ve been developing that image for about two years.” Davison says he uses a “relatively” dark background for his pastels, but not jet black. “I’m real interested in light and color,” Davison says. “I feel I can see the color better on a dark back ground. I look at the color as making an illusion of light.” Davison received a bachelor’s de gree in environmental design from Texas A&M in 1975. Since then, he has earned a master’s degree in fine arts from Washington University in St. Louis . Dr. Joe Hutchinson, an environ mental design professor at Texas A&M, says Davison was always a gifted student. “I’ve known him since he was a student here,” Hutchinson says. “He was outstanding because he tended to span the breach between arts and architecture. He has grown in his work considerably because of his re search and exploration into the con cept of light and color.” Hutchinson says the dark back ground in Davison’s work makes the color more intense. “He uses small strokes of color on a black surface,” Hutchinson says. Tuesday, July 10, 1984/The Battalion/Page 3 Texas A&M Professor Richard Davison works on one of his pastels. “This, coupled with landscape, is shapes of houses and as suddenly as with other forms. It’s much like sort of lyrical. You can see trees, they appear, they begin to merge color and light reflected in water.” Toll-free hotline offers free help to Texas women The hotline focuses primarily on sex discrimination is sues, but offers free legal advice and counseling on all women’s legal rights. By LESLIE HEFFNER Reporter ■ A new service in Texas offers free Hfal advice and counseling to Bmen. The service — a toll-free Htline — is sponsored by the Wom- In’s Advocacy Project a non-profit rite a fotorganization based in Austin, he worlfThe hotline, started in October lets tk'1983, was established because re- NuUH arch s h° we d a need for such a .Service, says attorney Betsy Loar, ex- 11,1 ecutive director of the Project. The le peoplK-gani/ation received so many calls rs kid; from the Austin area that project leaders felt there was need for the service throughout the state, Loar said. Since January, the hotline has av eraged about 150 calls per month. “Many of our callers need very ba sic legal information or a referral to an attorney in their area who special izes in dealing with the type of prob lem the caller has,” Loar says. The hotline focuses primarily on sex discrimination issues, but offers free legal advice and counseling on all women’s legal rights. Loar usually refers the callers to attorneys in their own areas who have agreed to provide the callers with a free 30-minute initial counsul- tation, she says. More then 50 attor neys now participate in the program. ‘H’he number of attorneys partici pating in our referral service is in creasing all the time,” Loar says, “our goal being to eventually have enough attorneys in all areas of the state to handle the needs of all our callers.” The attorney often faces an uphill battle. One Midland attorney said: “I feel strongly about helping women en force their rights, but I know very little about sex discrimination law. I’d have to learn a whole new, com plex area of law on my own, and I’d be up against well-paid and experi enced corporate lawyers. That’s pre tty discouraging.” In handling sex-discrimination cases, the project offers free legal as sistance, co-counsel on selected cases, financial assistance, seminars on related areas of the law, and other services. Loar says that although the pro ject focuses on sex-discrimination is sues, 60 percent of the calls are about child custody and wife abuse, 30 percent deal with employment discrimination and 10 percent are miscellaneous questions. So far the hotline is not widely known, but one Texas A&M student who was involved in a verbal harras- sment case on the job — senior ac counting major Joan Meyers — was pleased to learn about it. The hotline number is 1-800-221- FAIR. chita 1 vith it?’ Tower returns to SMU $ visiting lecturer United Press International Jp DALLAS — Sen. John Tower, R- omp 11 Texas, who will retire at the end of jetSOVf the year, Monday accepted a teach- ;veryor ing position at his alma mater, n | ( " Southern Methodist University, which he said he chose over nine ’other schools he had considered. 1 The senior senator, who is head- —— ing the re-election campaign of Pres ident Reagan in Texas, did not com pletely rule out the possibility of being offered a cabinet position if iReagan is re-elected but said such a By tfo position would only be temporary, formed; “I have not been offered a high re crl K level government position,” Tower • told a news conference called to an- a , |iounce his appointment as a distin- h, P iei guished lecturer in political science. ,butmj “if] were, I would have to look at that and of course if I were to do fi 0 factj that, it would make a difference in consid 1 dopti® my arrangement at SMU. however, that would be short term and I still plan to teach at SMU afterward.” Tower has been mentioned as a candidate for secretary of defense if Reagan is re-elected. SMU President L. Donald Shields, who made the announcement, said Tower’s adjunct faculty appoint ment will take effect at the end of this year. Tower will be a visiting lec turer in the spring 1985 semester and will teach a course in the fall of 1985. Tower, who graduated from SMU in 1953, said he considered “nine or 10 schools” before choosing the United Methodist-affiliated univer sity. “SMU is on its way to being a world class university in just about every area,” Tower said. “And, of course, I have sentimental attach- Sen. John Tower ment to SMU. I have a graduate de gree from SMU and my three chil dren graduated from here. Also my parents went to SMU. We are three generations at SMU.” my No ■ “I — Pregnant? We can help. Pregnancy Counseling and testing 846-3199 'PLACE Specializing in sculptured nails Grand Opening Special $25.°° full set 846-6392 1872 Greenfield Plaza across from Excaliber Your FREE trip to Padre Island is less than 30 days away! 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European Community finance ministers meeting in Brussels ex pressed fears the rising dollar and high U.S. interest rates could dam age their economies and hinder the ability of Third World countries to meet payments on their foreign debts. “We are all concerned about the evolution of the dollar and of the in terest rates,” Irish Finance Minister Alan Dukes said. “These have an im mediate effect on our own econ omies, and also an overall effect on the debt problem worldwide.” “People are buying dollars. They need them for oil and other things,” said a Swiss foreign exchange dealer in Zurich. Gold plunged $8 to $339.50 an ounce in Zurich from $347.50. It dropped $1.50 in London to $340.00 from $341.50 Friday. 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