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Page 4/The Battalion/Friday, February 27, 1987 Estee Lauder Sun roductsl Dillards is having a sun contest. If you can achieve the best tan by using Estee Lauder self-action tanning cream, you could be the winner. Contest starts March 1 and the winners will be named Wednesday, March 11 - just in time for spring break! Come to Dillards and sign up at the Estee Lauder Counter today. Prizes include $100 in Estee Lauder, tan ning products and a radio. Proof of pur chase necessary. Dillard’s shop Dillard's monday thru saturday10-9, Sunday 12-6; post oak mall, college station AMERICAN EXPRESS CARD WELCOME INTERNATIONAL WEEK March 2-6 '87 Cultural Display Food Fair Fashion & Talent Show Party eP Awards Ceremony March 2, 1 lam-5pm March 3, 9am-5pm at the MSC March 4, 7pm MSC 2nd Floor $6.°° March 6, 8pm Rudder $2. 00 March 6, after Talent Show tickets on sale at MSC Hallway &. 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HW YOU BffN PI nude in a local COMIC STm I Scholar warns of possible „ recurrence of McCarthy era ■ Faulk says secrecy disrupts civil rights Pl By Robert Morris Staff Writer Just as fear and secrecy brought on a wave of repression called the McCarthy era in the 1950s, once again secrecy in government has re turned to American society creating the foundations for a new disruption of constitutional rights. Warning against a rise of new Mc- Carthyism in the ’80s, John Henry Faulk, a constitutional scholar and victim of the Red Scare, said “. . . se crecy in government has become in stitutionalized.” “A self-governing free society such as ours can’t govern itself if the people don’t know what’s going on,” he said. Faulk’s lecture was sponsored by MSC Great Issues and focused on the implications for the future of free speech in the United States. Using his own background and experiences during the McCarthy era as a preface for his crediblity on the subject, Faulk moved to a dis cussion of present-day discrepancies between governmental action and constitutional intentions. “We (the American public) went into Vietnam having no idea we were being carried into what became a major American military operation — a war,” Faulk said. “Three years ago the mightiest, most powerful and also the most affluent nation at tacked the smallest, poorest island in the Caribbean Sea. And our leader not only stopped the press from re porting what was happening — the people’s right to know was abridged — but the leader of our society also said this is our proudest moment. And the American people bought it. This is McCarthyism in the 80s. This is what’s happened to us. Instead of being outraged at the invasion of that tiny country we applauded it.” Faulk blamed fear as the main cause of the new McCarthyism. “We have used fear as a means of controlling politically what people are going to do,” he said. “The President’s right-hand man Pat Buchanan said that we (White House staff) are watching the vote on the Contra aid because this will test whether the Democrats are going to support the President’s real American view or are going to sup port communism in Central Ameri ca,” he said. “This is McCarthyism in its most virulent form because they are accusing you of being less than a loyal American. This is what poisons our society.” Moving from the results of Mc Carthyism to prevention, Fat! warned that Americans must if | vently guard their constitute rights. “When we allow our constitute rights to be attacked and abused' do poor service to our obligation!- those generations that will comet ter us,” he said. “This isaburdeni us all. The Constitution is then#' beautiful monument to the struct 1 of a people to extend greater greater justice to a greater greater number of the populatioi “We are the only people in world that has such a monune We created that monument and i ; up to us to maintain it.” SI If Adopt-A-Beach Program stirs up college contest for spring break By Susan Stubing Reporter In an effort to keep Texas beaches beautiful, government offi cials, citizens and college students have joined forces to combat pollut ion along the Texas shoreline. Texas A&M will participate in the first beach cleanup of its kind during spring break. The beautifying effort first was introduced by the Center for Envi ronmental Education, which spon sored a statewide beach cleanup in September 1986. The results were encouraging, says Mike Connolly, director of public information for the General Land Office, with 124 tons of garbage collected by over 2,700 volunteers. Connolly says Texas Land Com missioner Garry Mauro gained an awareness of the enormity of the polluted beach problem through his participation in the September ef fort. This awareness prompted Mauro to establish the Texas Adopt- A-Beach Program, which he hoped would attract public concern for the problem, Connolly says. “He (Mauro) wanted to institutio nalize a standard for people to get involved in beach cleanups,” he says. The program — officially estab lished in October 1986 — is similar to the successful Texas Adopt-A- Highway Program and operates on the same principle of commitment, Connolly says. Civic organizations, cities, corporations, and individuals are asked to adopt about one mile of the Texas coast a year and to spon sor at least three beach cleanups during that time. The first of these cleanups will be sponsored on March 20 by the Texas General Land Office in coordination with the Texas State Student Asso ciation and the Texas College Stu dent Newspaper. The event will be during the spring break of major Texas colleges and universities, since so many students head for the Texas coast for their vacation, Connolly says. The event will be along the South Padre Island and Port Aran sas shores. Schools tentatively com peting in the cleanup also include the University of Texas, Southern Methodist University and the Uni versity of Houston. “Students always draw attention to themselves anyway,” Connolly says. He says Mauro, an former A&M student and former yell leader, wanted to get students involved in a worthwhile project that would re flect positively on the students. “We can make students a part of the garbage solution instead of the problem,” Connolly says. Mauro and Connolly will be visit ing each participating school before the break to promote and explain the event. A competition among ing universities and colleges is uled to determine which group students can collect the mosij bage in the three-hour time li® 1 Nty si the s< Each school will have its ( tion of the beach to clean, I says, and trash bags will be | at a central collection area, will be calculated, and the 1 ansas results reported to the M pend Padre Island main headqua’jjjarr The winner will be announced^Bmiti that day, Connolly says. .|p88 “If we can get the details P cleanup) put together, I doi>*l why we can’t win,” says MilP president of the A&M student' 1 and spokesman for the TSSA- . gies always do well in a comFj environment — especially d competition is t.u.” Although Connolly believe* “virtue is its own reward,” tho*; ! that best demonstrates the 1 Mess with Texas Beaches c may receive a free concert haven’t worked out the detail* 1 ' reward yet,” Connolly says, prospect of universities worW gether just seemed right. :| “Often the government a*'*'I help in intellectual or rj 10 " J ways,” Connolly continues,‘hu'-i pie seldom see the fruits of pi Iwu. With a clean beach,thejfl is there for all to see,andw eal '