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Anti-porn rally becomes
free speech free-for-all
Associated Press
ti-pornography
rally turned a normally quiet East
rying a sign reading “Falwell is the
phony.”
Dallas park into a free speech free-
for-all Monday where critics of the
Rev. Jerry Falwell, anti-anti-porn
demonstrators, foes of apartheid
and gay activists vied for space.
While the pornography protesters
in Cole Park shouted, “We love Jerry
Falwell,” another group across the
street shouted, “Jerry Falwell is a
phony.”
Falwell recently returned from
South Africa voicing support of its
white regime, which maintains a
strict and controversial policy of ra
cial segregation.
“I resent very much Falwell call
ing (Bishop Desmond) Tutu the
phony,” Hardwick said. “Psycholo
gists nave something called proiec-
gists have something called projec-
tionism. When he called Tutu the
phony, that projected his own vice
and weakness.”
Meanwhile, Tom Conway and
friends sat beneath a multicolored
banner, representing the interna
tional gay community, munching
doughnuts and sipping coffee while
they formulated their own mini-pro
test.
winner Bishop Desmond Tutu.
“We’re standing for America,n«
South A rica,” said Bill Powell,
Dallas mechanic who joined in lit
anti-porn protest.
Andrew Davis, 36, said, “I dotii
agree with everything Jerp' Falwti
stated. But that has nothing to(t
with the issue. I came heretoprotts
the sale of pornography, and thisin
rally that was planned for pornojjn
phy. If I came to oppose apartheid
would be with them. ’
Some of the anti-apartheid dem
onstrators said they also oppose por
nography, but could not join the
rally because of Falwell’s statements.
“We are Christians too, we de
plore pornography,” said the Rev.
Daryll Coleman, of Kirkwood Chris
tian Methodist Episcopal Temple in
Dallas as dnti-apartheid protesters
sang “We Shall Overcome.”
“We’re protesting the bigotry of
people with such a narrow attitude,”
said Richard Rogers, 33, who said he
is active in gay rights groups in Dal
las.
For Kathy Schertz, a Dallas con
puter programmer, the occasionw
simply an ideal time to have a pm
Wearing papier party hats aw
drinking /-Eleven slurpiees, sheaoi
several friends stood on a come
watching the anti-pornograpli)
anti-apartheid protests.
“We also feel it’s just as immoral
whenever someone can condone a
nation that deprives a person of
their own destiny,” he said.
James Hardwick, 55, mingled
through the Falwell supporters car-
The National Federation For De
cency staged the Labor Day rally as a
protest against Southland Corp.,
parent firm of 7-Eleven. The group
has mounted a nationwide campaign
against the firm because 7-Eleven
stores sell adult magazines.
“We came to have a good timt
Schertz said. “This is a confusw
rally. We just wanted to create a litii
more confusion.”
The pornography protesters said
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their support of Falwell didn’t mean
they support his statements about
South Africa and Nobel Peace Prize
And while others played, IS-ytt
old David Day said the event was
perfect business opportunity. T!i
young entrepreneur set up a sm
cone and drink stand selling til
items to hot and thirsty proto®
for 75 cents.
Up, Up and Away!
Photo by Anthony S. Casper
Chris Masi, a sophomore biology major, and Joyce
O’Leary, a junior elementary education major,
pus Aggies Spirit Day Monday night.
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Ship continues trek despite Elena
Koldus: A&M will recognize
GSS despite recent ruling
By MICHAEL CRAWFORD
Senior Staff Writer
Associated Press
NEW ORLEANS — The 230-foot
research ship Farnella, which is
mapping the floor of the Gulf of
Mexico, headed toward the mouth
of the Mississippi River on Friday af
ter riding out two hurricanes.
The Farnella, carrying 13 Ameri
can and British scientists plus an
equal number of crewmen, left Mi
ami on Aug. 7 to produce maritime
road maps to aid future devel
opment of deep-water resources in
the Gulf and to help protect re
sources already being used.
Mapping the Gulf, for instance,
might reveal undiscovered oil re
serves or find landslide potentials
that could jeopardize drilling.
The mapping project is one im
plementation of President Reagan’s
declaration of an Exclusive Eco
nomic Zone extending 200 miles off
the United States’ entire coastline.
The Farnella first encountered
Hurricane Danny with winds barely
topping the 72 mph threshold for
being called a hurricane.
“They rode out Danny,” Don
Kelly, a spokesman for the U.S. Geo
logical Survey who is based at USGS
headquarters in Reston, Va., said.
Hurricane Elena’s 125 mph winds
sent the Farnella fleeing westward in
the Gulf to the Texas-Louisiana bor
der.
“The eye of Danny went over
them and they ducked west on El
ena, to the Texas line,” Kelly said.
b y
Orleans-based 5th U.S. Circuit
Court of Appeals to resurrect Texas’
dnti-sodomy law probably won’t af
fect University recognition of the
Gay Student Services organization,
University officials said Monday.
John Koldus, vice president for
student services, said, “We have an
order by the courts to do a certain
thing and that order has not been
changed. So at this particular point
— no change.”
The GSS was denied recognition
by Texas A&M in 1976 because ho
mosexual acts were illegal, and the
University said it therefore would be
inappropriate to recognize an orga-
nization likely to “incite, promote
and result in” homosexual activity.
But in 1982, a Dallas court struck
down the anti-sodomy law, stripping
A&M of its main basis for denying
the GSS recognition.
The see-saw series of legal battles
apparently ended earlier this year
when A&M was ordered by the same
New Orleans court to recognize the
GSS and the University was unsuc
cessful in getting the U.S. Supreme
Court to overturn the decision. Rec
ognition was granted on June 12,
1985-.
Ted Hajovsky, A&M Univei
System general counsel, said ti
New Orleans ruling did not dt
with issues identical to A&M’s
so an immediate effect is unlikt!
But the higher court’s acceptanct
the anti-sodomy statute rnav india
is Deo
that the court system is becomii
more conservative, Hajovsky i
and better A&M’s chances for
pealing the recognition case in ti
future.
“Until I have a chance to read
(the court's decision), I don't thin
we will do anything,” Hajovsky sat
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