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Scientists to discuss world troubles
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By MICHAEL CRAWFORD
Senior Staff Writer
Cassandra had the gift of
prophecy. In Greek mythology
Cassandra warned the Trojans to
“beware of Greeks bearing gifts.”
Then the now-famous Trojan
[horse arrived with Greek war
riors hidden inside, and the city
fell.
| Since that time, the name of
[Cassandra has been associated
with ignored warnings.
And unheeded warnings will
be what scientists from around
the country will try to avoid at the
Cassandra Conference. The con
ference will be held at Texas
A&M Monday and Tuesday.
Overpopulation, poverty, de
clining resources, the environ
ment and the threat of nuclear
war are some of the topics to be
covered by the scientists.
The conference was organized
to honor Earl Cook, former dean
of the College of Geosciences who
spent much of his time warning
others about having too much
confidence in technology and of
the danger posed by declining re
sources.
The conference will kick off
Monday morning with a welcom
ing speech from University Presi
dent Frank Vandiver. Monday’s
speakers and their respective top
ics are: Garrett Hardm, Popula
tion; Dave Pimentel, First World
Agriculture; Anne Ehrlich, De
velopment and Agriculture;
Peter Raven, Saving the Rainfo
rests; John Harte, Acid Rains;
and Steve Schneider, Climate and
Agriculture.
Tuesday’s speakers and topics
include John Holdren, The Arms
Race; Paul Ehrlich, The Ecology
of Nuclear War; Ken Watt,
World Economic Modeling; Her
man Daly, Moving to the Steady
State; and Dana Meadows, How
We Can Improve Our Chances.
Regent meeting set for Saturday
By ANN CERVENKA
Staff Writer
The Texas A&M University
[System Board of Regents will
meet Saturday to discuss state
[budget matters. The regents also
will review management of Texas
A&M’s resources.
The regents will receive a sta
tus report on legislative action re
prospects for appropria
tion of the state budget and a
discussion of priority for the
money to the Texas A&M Sys
tem.
The board will also review
management studies for making
maximum use of Texas A&M’s
existing resources.
The regents will consider a
change in meeting dates and are
expected to approve minutes
from the March 26 meeting.
The meeting has been sched
uled to coincide with Texas
A&M’s spring commencement
and commissioning exercises be
cause many of the regents partici
pate in the ceremonies.
Jamaican singer to give concert
Totlyn Jackson, a Jamaican
jazz singer, will give a free concert
Saturday at Tanglewood Park
from 7 p.m. to 9 p.m.
The concert is sponsored by
the Arts Council of Brazos Valley,
the Bryan Parks and Recreation
Department and the Nina Heard
Astin Charitable Trust Fund.
The majority of Jackson’s per
formance will consist of Jamaican
folk songs.
Jackson, a native Jamaican,
lives in the Bryan-College Station
area, although she has retained
her Jamaican citizenship.
She gave her first stage appear
ance when she was 16 years old
and has performed worldw'ide in
such places as Jamaica, Canada,
England, Scandinavia and East
Africa.
Because Jackson is the first Ja
maican to make a career of the
stage, she is billed as “Jamaica’s
First Lady of Stage.” She also has
received a citation from the Ja
maican government for her
worldwide promotion of Jamaica.
Jackson has performed several
times in Bryan-College Station at
local clubs, Central Park, wed
dings and for the Community
Singers.
The concert is one of 13 events
the Bryan Parks and Recreation
Department has scheduled for
1985.
“About 400 people showed up
at the last concert,” Monique Dek-
ker, a department employee,
says. “We average between 250 to
300 people at each event.”
Soap opera star to perform in CS
Soap opera star Michael
O’Leary, better known to “The
[Guiding Light” fans as Rick
Bauer, will be at Post Oak Mall at
p.m. Saturday.
O’Leary is being brought to
College Station by Soaps Alive! of
New Jersey, Post Oak Mall and
country and western radio station
KORA.
He will participate in a question
and answer session and act in two
on-stage, mini-soap opera love
scenes with members or the audi
ence.
The mini-soap operas will be
gin at 1 p.m. and 3 p.m. near the
Dillards-Sears court area in the
mall.
Party switch still suspected,
unconfirmed for Kent Hance
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fort
Associated Press
AUSTIN — Sen. Phil Gramm
scheduled a Friday news conference
in Washington, and Republican
Party sources said the session appar-
ntly was being called to announce
emocrat Kent Hance’s conversion
to the GOP.
“I have been told it’s a done deal,”
ane Republican source in Austin
said Thursday.
Hance remained mum on his
plans. Calls to his law offices went
unreturned Thursday, although late
in the day he issued a one-paragraph
statement scheduling a second news
conference for Austin Friday af
ternoon. The subject wasn’t an
nounced.
Hance, a conservative former con
gressman from Lubbock, came
within 1,344 votes of being the Dem
ocratic nominee against Gramm in
1984. Since then, he has been heav
ily courted by top Republicans.
Hance for weeks has said a party
change isn’t “in the cards.” He re
cently told several fellow Democrats,
including state party chairman Bob
Slagle, that he wasn’t planning to
“change parties or wives.
Gov. Mark White said he talked
with Hance by telephone on
Wednesday and that Hance said he
intended to remain a Democrat.
“Yesterday, he said he wasn’t
f oing to do it,” White said. “I don’t
now what he’s going to do today.
“He’s said (in the past) he hadn’t
planned to switch,” he said. “That’s
what I’d heard, and that’s what he
confirmed yesterday.”
Larry Neal, press secretary to
Gramm, would say only that the 8
a.m. news conference was being
scheduled in Washington to discuss
“party realignment.”
Gramm, himself a former “boll
weevil” Democrat, has been a prime
mover in the GOP’s efforts to con-
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He has attended news confer
ences in Texas where local elected
Democratic officials announced
their switches to the Republican
Party.
Some Republican officials have
urged Hance to become the party’s
nominee for governor, but sources
Thursday said they didn’t expect
Hance to announce his candidacy at
Friday’s news conference.
“I don’t think anybody wants to
run with (Gov.) Mark White against
Kent Hance, if he changes,” one
source said.
White said he didn’t discuss a pos
sible gubernatorial bid with Hance
during their phone call.
“I didn’t ask if he was going to run
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