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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-
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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.”
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Dollar hits record high
in Europe; gold plunges
United Press International
LONDON — The U.S. dollar
surged to record highs against major
European currencies Monday, de
lighting American tourists and dis
turbing finance ministers worried
about huge Third World debts.
The surge meant U.S. vacationers
in Europe got more local currency
for their dollars, meaning hotels,
meals, drinks, sightseeing, theaters
and purchases were cheaper than,
they expected when they left home.
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.
The Union Bank of Switzerland
said the dollar’s strength was “due to
predictions of high interest rates in
the United States plus growth in the
demand for private loans.”
Gold’s tumble reflected the
“firmness of the dollar, rising inter
est rates and overabundance of sup
ply,” it said.
Earlier, the afternoon fixing in
Frankfurt was a 10-year high of
2.8446 Deutschmark against 2.84
Jan. 29, 1974, and in Paris it was
8.73 francs, surpassing last Thurs
day’s record fix of 8.6940.
Although it eased back on closing
in both centers, it still ended higher
on Friday’s previous closings. Bank
ers said West Germany’s central
bank, the Bundesbank, sold $72.3
million to shore up the mark during
the day.
The dollar ended at 2.8395 mark
in Frankfurt, up from Friday’s
2.8280, and 2.39075 Swiss francs in
Zurich, a seven and one-half-year
high and up from 2.3792.
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