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Get Your Xerox Copies Page 6/The Battalion/Monday, October 7, 1985 at Northgate Above Farmer’s Market For a limited time: 2 Copies For 50 on our self service copier. ON THE DOUBLE 331 University 846-3755 HOURS: Mon.-Fri. 7 a.m.-IO p.m. Sat. 9 a.m.-6 p.m. Printing error wipes law off books Associated Press HOUSTON — A printer’s error that effectively wiped a city ordi nance off the books has prompted aack dot SMU STUDY ABROAD PROGRAMS Southern Methodist University, Dallas, Texas announces its Spring 1986 semester study abroad programs in Copenhagen, Japan, France, and Spain. Receive SMU academic credit in Art, Art History, Business, History, Language and other liberal arts courses. All courses, except for language, are taught in English. Housing is with families, apartments or in dorms. For information, return this coupon to: Southern Methodist University International Programs Office 317 Dallas Hall Dallas, Texas 75275 (214) 692-2338 Please send me information on the following programs: . SMU-IN-COPENHAGEN SMU-IN-JAPAN .SMU-IN-PARIS SMU-IN-SPAIN Name Address currently attend. Houston city officials to back down in a fight over an anti-apartheid pa rade, lawyers said. The local chapter of a national anti-apartheid group, the Free South Africa Movement, went to federal court last week with the help of the American Civil Liberties Union. They charged that Houston offi cials were violating their rights by re fusing to grant them a permit for a downtown parade on the afternoon of Oct. 12. Helen Goss, ACLU executive di rector, said Oct. 4 that the city granted the permit to the Free South Africa Movement on Thursday, cit ing a “technical problem” with a 5- year-old parade ordinance. City officials had said they would resist efforts to hold the parade be cause of an ordinance prohibiting two downtown parades on the same day. A permit already had been granted for Texas Southern Univer sity’s homecoming parade the morn ing of Oct. 12. Slouch By Jim E' at sc sa th cl; le 7 hate to give up my stereo, but 1 think I 'll get a smaller one like yours lor jogging." Western author spins adventure tale th at P 1 w< m Associated Press CLUTE — Charles Henry Clay ton is a likable guy. He’s handsome, well-dressed, polite, intelligent and he’s a talented artist. There’s only one problem He’s a harbinger of disaster. Catastrophe walks beside him, misfortune dogs his footsteps and chaos clings to him like the smell of gunpowder to an old pistol. Through it all, he sails on innocent, unharmed and unaware of the po tential hazards of his presence. Thankfully, Clayton is not some one you’ll meet someday. He’s the main character in “Calamity Trail,” the most recently published Western adventure novel by Dan Parkinson of Lake Jackson. “I got the idea for “Calamity Trail” several years ago, to do a really silly book,” Parkinson says. “I started out with Charles Henry Clay ton and decided to just have fun with him.” Parkinson, 50, is the executive vice president of the Brazosport Chamber of Commerce. During a recent interview in his study, deco rated with an old Royal typewriter. cc Musical success story of a generation... -Schonberg, The New York Times Charles Wadsworth, Artistic Director The Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center Tuesday, October 8, 1985 8:00 p.m./Rudder Auditorium Under the artistic direction of Charles Wadsworth, the Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center has lured a brand new audience to experience chamber music which previously was an art reserved for an elite few. Wadsworth introduces music and performers as one might share intimate chit-chat with family gathered for a southern-fried chicken dinner. Wadsworth sports a “Dennis the Menace” cowlick and boyish appearance which serve to put his audience at ease to enjoy chamber music in relaxing atmosphere. Wadsworth plays the piano, harpsichord and organ. He will appear with violinists Ik-Hwan Bae and Ida Kavafian, clarinetist Gervase de Peyer, violist Walter Trampler and cellist Fred Sherry. As an added attraction, a Lagniappe Lecture previewing the night’s performance will be conducted by Franz Krager in Rudder Theatre at 6:45 p.m. Tickets for the Chamber Music Society performance are on sale at the MSC Box Office, 845-1234. antique firearms and swords. He wore a tweed jacket with suede patches on the elbows, black cowboy boots, gray slacks and tie and a white shirt. He looked more like a writer than a chamber executive. He says he began writing novels about 12 years ago. “Calamity Trail” is the fiftn book he’s published and the 10th one he’s written. “I’ve written all my life,” he says. “It’s something I always loved to ao, ever since I was a kid.” Parkinson worked at three news papers before he went into chamber management. He moved here 18 years ago to work at the Brazosport Chamber of Commerce. “I discovered book-length writing when I wrote “The Texians” (a his tory of this area),” Parkinson says. “It’s a discipline unlike anything else. It’s fun.’* “The Texians” was released in hardback in 1980 by a Houston pub lishing company. Instead of being a dry, factual account of the past, it is written in novel form and includes what Parkinson calls “semi-fictitious" people and dialogue. “T he main reason I did it that way was because that’s the way I like to read history ... as something living,” he says. Parkinson’s other published books are a group of paperback Western adventures including: “Calamity Trail," “The Slanted Colt," “Gun powder Glory," "Blood Arrow” and the upcoming "Brother Wolf." Their covers, framed facing Par kinson’s desk, depict colorful West ern scenes with provoointy above the titles: “He was nobody’s foolkj body’s target whenherodti ’Calamity Trail.’ " va ni “It was live on the runoq blaze of ‘Gunpowder Glon “The man and the pir ® matched set both were pB§ and steel! ’ fhe SlantedCoIl I in su co elections are man Freshmen can vote for their class officers and Student Gov ernment senators today at the A- 1 Lounge and the first floor of the Pavuton, Polls at tire A-1 Lounge will close at 5 p.m. while the Pavilion site will be open until b p.m. To vote, a student needs to present a student ID card as proof of freshman classification If trecessary, run-off election* ... ii — for the daw^fJIcrrpoa® be conducted Friday, «i (iavras elmioc co-cmbss A run-off would be sets none of the canf&fetetfon; tion get over 56 pwwr • vote, In the senate dectiflf/ eight vote getters nfSiseW ' the winners. A rua-offd be necessary in daeoffflt place ue, Gavrassdd. 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