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MARANATHA CHRISTIAN FELLOWSHIP: will sponsor a
B multi-media slide presentation, “Rock-n-Roll: A Search for
■ God," each evening through Saturday at 8 p.m. in 102
■ Zachry. For more information call 693-o61 1 or 696-2510.
KANM STUDENT RADIO: will have a meeting for anyone
interested in being an alternative music disc jockey at 7
.1 p.m. in 302 Rudder. For more information call Donna,
1696-3932.
^Vietnamese American student association:
will meet at 7 p.m. in 510 Rudder. New members welcome.
M For more information call Tung, 260-4206.
■TUDENT ART FILM SOCIETY: will hold officer elections
land discuss semester plans at 7 p.m. in 404 Rudder. For
I more information call Karl, 846-1833.
DATA PROCESSING MANAGEMENT ASSOCIATION:
I will meet at 7 p.m. in the Ramada Inn Penthouse. The
I topic will be information on careers and there will be a
I speaker from Exxon.
Friday
■AMPUS CRUSADE FOR CHRIST: will have a weekly
I meeting, "Friday Night Alive,” at 7 p.m. in 108 Harring-
1 ton.
ijTHERAN COLLEGIANS: will have a “Welcome Back
I Picnic” at 5 p.m. at Central Park. For more information call
■ 693-4514.
IMERVARSITY CHRISTIAN FELLOWSHIP: will hold an
■ introductory meeting, “Message on Fellowship with God,”
■ at 7 p.m. in Rudder Tower (check the monitor for the
I room number).
HE NAVIGATORS: will hold a rally at 8:30 p.m. in 301
■ Rudder. Eor more information call 846-2528.
■SH CAMP: items lost and found at Fish Camp can be
■ picked up at 211 Pavilion until Monday. For more infor-
■ mation call 845-1676.
EER ADVISORS: deadline for executive committee appli-
I cations is Friday. Applications available in 108 YMCA.
GRADUATE STUDENT COUNCIL: will sponsor a
■ workshop for graduate students who are interested in
■ starting or improving a graduate student organization in
■ their aepartmem on Sept. 13 from 9 a.m. to noon. The
I workshop is free and refreshments will be served. For
I more information call 845-2 151 or 845-1151.
COMMODORE 128 SPECIAL INTEREST GROUP: anyone
I needing information or tutoring for Commodore personal
■ computers is invited to join. For more information call Da-
Ivid, 845-8889.
■TUDENT GOVERNMENT: applications for election com
missioner, internal communications chairman and fresh
man programs are now being accepted in 221 Pavilion. For
more information call 845-3051.
WOMEN’S CHORUS: will hold auditions through Sept. 12
■ in the vocal music office, 003 MSC. For more information
I call 845-5974.
Items for What’s Up should be submitted to The Battalion,
I 216 Reed McDonald, no less than three days prior to de-
| sired publication date.
Dallas Zoo
plans embryo
transplant
DALLAS (AP) — The embryo of
a zebra-like animal will be implanted
into the womb of a giraffe in what
Dallas Zoo officials say will be a his
toric experiment.
Ron Kagan, the zoo’s director of
mammals, said, “It can be very sig
nificant.”
Plans call for the implantation of
the embryo of an okapi, an animal
that is less threatened than some
other species but which has disap
peared from some of its native jun
gles in Zaire, Africa.
If successful, the implantation
would produce a newborn okapi de
livered from a giraffe within 15
months. Officials say that the Dallas
experiment, combined with research
that other zoos have done in similar
efforts, could lead to a nationwide
embryo implantation program for
endangered species.
“That’s if everything works, which
is a big if," Kagan said.
Zoo spokesman Victoria Furber
said in at least one U.S. city, embryo
transfers have ignited protest from
religious groups that view the proce
dure as “something against nature.”
But the procedure is being viewed
by some conservation groups as a
promising way to increase the num
ber of births of endangered animals.
In the case of the okapi, possibly
only a few hundred or few thousand
of the mammals remain in Zaire.
Wildlife experts say there are only
about 60 okapis in captivity, with
about 21 in the United States. There
are seven apiece in the Dallas Zoo
and Chicago’s Brookfield Zoo. The
rest are in zoos in San Diego, Okla
homa City and Colorado Springs.
Dr. Bonnie Rafael, zoo veterinar
ian and coordinator of the project,
said the zoo hopes to transfer an em
bryo from a resident okapi to a gi
raffe within two to six months.
Kagan said that in recent years,
embryo transfers have been accom
plished several times with endan
gered species and domestic animals
at U.S. zoos, but it’s only been done
on a very few animals.
About five years ago, a Holstein
cow implanted with the embryo of a
Gaur cow, a species of Indian wild
cattle, successfully gave birth at the
Bronx Zoo in New York, officials
said.
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DALLAS (AP) — Lawyers for
iree of the billionaire Hunt broth-
Bold a federal judge Wednesday
-■they were not “shopping for a
ivorable judge” when they filed
mkiuptcy petitions in New Orleans
perthan in Dallas.
Peiitions were filed under Chap-
lll of the federal bankruptcy
<■ Friday in New Orleans for the
tints’ Placid Oil Co. — one of the
|d’s largest privately-owned oil
impanies —a Placid Oil subsidiary,
tda personal trust of William Her-
JjHunt, one of the brothers.
Pfe, Nelson Bunker Hunt and La-
jHunt were ordered by U.S. Dis-
ttjudge Barefoot Sanders to show
tythe bankruptcy filings shouldn’t
transferred to Dallas.
The Hunts have filed a $14 billion
■against 23 banks, claiming the
iks were out to destroy Placid and
|od Drilling Co., one of the
I’s largest drilling companies.
The bankruptcy petitions were
■ to stave off foreclosure by the
|s, which are owed $1.5 billion,
■l assets for all three entities
laced in bankruptcy were estimated
I $2.18 billion, with liabilities of
119 billion, according to court f il-
Wednesday’s arguments centered
on a Julv 28 order from Sanders
stating that the suits should be filed
in Dallas. Lawyers for the Hunts
contend the order did not cover
bankruptcy petitions.
Stephen Gordon, a Boston laywer
representing the Hunts, told Sand
ers on Wednesday that “this is not a
case of forum shopping for a favor
able judge . . . who knows my name.”
Gordon and another Hunt attor
ney, Ben Krage of Dallas, argued
that the bulk of Placid’s assets lie in
the Eastern Judicial District of Loui
siana and that the Hunts have a right
to choose where they want their
bankruptcy case heard.
New evidence may lead
to freedom for TDC inmate
HUNTSVILLE (AP) — Death
row inmate Clarence Brandley,
convicted of raping and killing a
16-year-old girl at Conroe High
School in 1980, said Wednesday
he is hopef ul new evidence in his
case will lead to his freedom.
Brandley, 34, was sentenced to
death after he was convicted of
killing Cheryl Dee Fergeson on
Aug. 23, 1980.
The new evidence came from
the testimony of a Conroe
woman, Brenda Medina, who tes
tified last month that her former
boyfriend, James Dexter Robin
son, told her he had killed a girl
at Conroe High School. Robinson
acknowledged making the
statement, but insisted he made
up the story to frighten Medina.
Brandley said he was surprised
by the Medina testimony.
Brandley also said he believes
the fact he is black had much to
do with his arrest and conviction.
“I was at the wrong place at the
wrong time,” he said. “I was more
convenient for them to convict.”
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