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Jesse Jackson for president Wednesday, saying Jack- son is carrying a populist message to voters and speaking for the little guys. “I am here today not merely to en dorse a presidential contender but to make a statement of conscience, to stand as a matter of principle with one who has stood consistently for the needs of the many against the greed of the few,” Hightower said. ‘Jesse Jackson is speaking in a clear and an articulate voice to an ig nored majority of the American peo ple whose lives have been frustrated, if not actually flattened, by the eco nomic policies of recent years,” he told a crowd of about 400 in the Texas Senate chamber. Jackson called the commissioner’s endorsement “an historic moment” for his presidential campaign and said it marks “a revival of the soul of the populist movement” in the United States, “Today is a milestone in the revi val of people’s politics,” Jackson said. “Jim Hightower has taken our quest for the nomination a giant step for ward.” Jackson also said his second-place finish in Vermont’s non-binding pri mary on Tuesday, combined with other high finishes in Minnesota and Maine, shows that his support is widespread. “I can get votes in any section of the country,” he said. Hightower added, “The conven tional wisdom says that Jesse Jackson can’t win. Someone better clue in the voters.” Jackson dismissed a question about his lack of experience in pub lic office, saying his activity in the civil rights movement shows he can lead. “The South is better today” be cause of fights he helped lead, Jack- son said, including the drives for the Voting Rights Act, public accommo dation law and equal education laws. Hightower added, “We’ve had people in the past who’Ve been ex traordinary experienced in public office and messed it up rather no bly.” Hightower said he knows, and likes, the other Democratic candi dates. He said his endorsement of Jack- son for president wasn’t a rejection of the others. “But as hard as I have tried to re main neutral,” Hightower said, “I simply have been unable to ignore the little voice of integrity saying that Jesse Jackson was forcefully, proudly and successfully carrying the populist program that 1 espouse. “If he is standing for my prin ciples, why am I not standing for him?” The Democratic agriculture com missioner, who was elected in 1982 and 1986, has said he is considering seeking the Democratic nomination for U.S. Senate in 1990, when Re publican Phil Gramm is up for re- election. Jackson indicated he would sup port that bid if Hightower makes the race. “It’s our common struggle,” he said. “I hope that something in my campaign will help Jim Hightower in his career.” Jllllll I III ,1 l.l.l.l.ll 11, IIIIIII 1,1.1111,11 IjMrU.MU.M.M.Ull. hat’s Thursday DEPARTMENT OF ENGLISH: Novelist Gordon Weaver will read from his forth coming novel “The Eight Corners of the World” at 7:30 p.m. in 204C Sterling C. Evans. FINANCIAL MANAGEMENT ASSOCIATION/INVESTMENT CLUB: will have a guest speaker from the Chicago Board Options Exchange at 6 p.m. in 150 Blocker. Business attire is requested. GREEN EARTH SOCIETY: will have a public forum on "The Economics and Safety of Nuclear Energy” at 7:30 p.m. in 201 MSC. DATA PROCESSING MANAGEMENT ASSOCIATION: Pennzoil will present information on careers in data processing at 7 p.m. in 302 Rudder. AMERICAN HELICOPTER SOCIETY: Yan Drees will present “A Look at Tilt Ro tors Into the Next Century" at 7:30 p,m. in 110 Harrington. CAED GALLERY: will have an opening reception for the exhibition “Popular Art in Ecuador" at 7 p.m. on the second floor of the Langford Architecture Center. TEXAS A&M CYCLING TEAM: will have a team meeting at 7 p.m. in 401 Rud der. AGGIES FOR BUSH: will have a general meeting at 7 p.m. in 501 Rudder. WRITING OUTREACH MINI SESSION: will present information on how to write effective resumes and letters of application at 6:30 p.m. in 131 Blocker. AGGIES FOR GEPHARDT: will meet at 7 p.m. in 027 MSC. ODESSA HOMETOWN CLUB: will meet at 4 p.m. at the Dixie Chicken. Midland students are welcome. KANM STUDENT RADIO: will have a DJ meeting at 7 p.m. in 301 Rudder. B Friday DISTINGUISHED VISITING EXECUTIVE SERIES: Jerry E. Lorenz, president of Lorenz Housewares, will speak on his career and business at 10 a.m. in 114 Blocker. ASSOCIATION OF AMATEUR ASTRONOMERS: Dr. Sergey Averin of the Moscow Physical Engineering Institute will speak on “Soviet Astrophysical Ex periments in Space" at 7 p.m. in 402 Rudder. CAMPUS CRUSADE FOR CHRIST: will have its weekly meeting at 7:30 p.m. in 108 Harrington. CHI ALPHA: will worship with song, prayer and a Bible study at 7 p.m. in 156 Blocker. ASIAN AMERICAN ASSOCIATION: will have a meeting to discuss the fund raiser and the picnic at 8:30 p.m. in 026 MSC. There also will be a social at 6 p.m. in 145 MSC. LATTER-DAY SAINTS STUDENT ASSOCIATION: will have a sandwich semi nar at noon in the Institute Building and a LDSSA council meeting at 3 p.m. in the same building. UNITED CAMPUS MINISTRIES: will have an Aggie supper at 6 p.m. at A&M Presbyterian Church. INTRAMURALS: Wrestling entries close in 159 Read. /terns for What's Up should be submined to The Battalion, 216 Reed McDonald, no later than three business days before the desired run date. We only publish the name and phone number of the contact if you ask us to do so. What's Up is a Battalion service that lists non-profit events and activities. Submissions are run on a first-come, first-served basis. There is no guarantee an entry will run. If you have questions, call the newsroom at 845-3315. V V Officials investigate complaints of vote fraud McALLEN (AP) — Vote fraud complaints already have surfaced in the Super Tuesday primary for Texas, officials said Wednesday. “The secretary of state’s office has received a number of complaints arising out of the absentee voting process for the 1988 primary elec tion, both arising from absentee by personal appearance and absentee by mail,” Randall H. Erben, assistant Texas secretary of state, said. Primary voting at the polls will take place Tuesday in Texas. At a news conference to discuss the renewal and objectives of the State-Federal Voter Fraud Task Force, Erben said Wednesday au thorities are investigating the voter fraud coiqplaints, adding that flec tion inspectors are being deployed in areas reporting them. “Between 20 and 30 reports of ir regularities have been received by our office and they come from all over the state with a special concen tration in South Texas,” Erben said. Task force members emphasized that the state has primary responsi bility for integrity of the election. Federal authorities cannot enter polling places to investigate matters except in cases involving racial dis crimination. vent illegal voting,” said Henn Oncken, U.S. Attorney for the Southern District of Texas, based in Houston. “One of the principal reasons why many people don’t vote is because they don’t believe elections are hon est, and we hope to encourage peo ple to exercise one of the most pre cious rights of citizenship they have by doing everything we can to pre- Federal election laws prohibit I such activity as vote buying, ballot I stuffing (voting more than once), I casting illegal absentee ballots, pre- I senting fraudulent evidence of qual- I ideations to vote, illegal voter regis- i tration, voter intimidation and 1 conspiracies to encourage illegal vot- I ing. Center produces Shakespeare bibliography By Cindy Milton Reporter Texas A&M’s Shakespeare Quar terly is a labor of academic love that keeps William Shakespeare fans from all over the world in touch, says Dr. Harrison T. Meserole, English professor and editor of the anno tated bibliography composed an nually at A&M. The Shakespeare Quarterly refer ences more than 4,000 works of and about Shakespeare, who Meserole calls “the world’s property.” Entries in the quarterly include references to books, articles, poems, plays and re prints of past works about Shake speare. All the information about Shake speare that is collected every year is made available in the quarterly, Me serole said. “Everybody from every country knows about Shakespeare,” he said. “He’s not only the world’s property, but he’s also the world’s great inter est. “The number of people who are concerned about him is very large and it’s those people we try to view as our audience. And what we say to them is, ‘Here in this book is all the stuff about Shakespeare that we’ve been able to lay our hands on.’ The World Shakespeare Bibliog raphy Center, located on the sixth floor of the Blocker Building, is the melting pot of all the information contained in the book, which is pub lished by the Folger Shakespeare Li brary each year. Meserole calls the project a labor of love because the people who put the 900-plus-page book together do not get paid for their efforts. spondents, but in some cases the center must transpose the informa tion, he said. “In the center at A&M (we have) four graduate students who assist us,” he said. “Between us, we can deal with about 20 different lan guages.” The graduate students, who are all educated in Shakespeare in one way or another, help translate material from such languages as Chinese, Korean, Japanese, German and French, he said. Meserole said an international committee of correspondence with people from about 45 countries sub mits a great deal of the information. These international works must be converted from foreign characters into Roman letters and translated into English before they can be filed in the center’s library. “We get everything from Arabic to Zulu,” Meserole said. Normally, the material sent to A&M from other countries is translated by the corre- Some of the material sent to the center, however, isn’t easy to trans late. For example, Meserole received a book written in Georgian, a lan guage spoken in a small state of the Soviet Union. “This is one we’ll have to fuss with,” he said. Other sources of information that are included in the book come from people who know about the Shake speare Quarterly and submit their information. For example, writers and researchers will send material to the center, and newspaper clippings, critiques and reviews are included. One section of the bibliography is dedicated to plays under the titles of Shakespeare’s works. Meserole said this will include the Aggie Players’ “King Lear” presentation that will run at Rudder T heater through Sat urday. Meserole says the editing process is just a small part of putting the book together. Collecting informa tion for the quarterly is an ongoing process because a book is published every year, he said. “We went to press with the 1986 book on the ninth of December,” he said. “Meanwhile, we were collecting information for 1987. Next, well put the 1987 material in the com puter. By midsummer we will com plete the input. Then comes the ‘dirty work.’ ” The “dirty work” includes editing to check the spellings of names. Proofreading and press preparation take about five months to complete. But the work doesn’t get boring, Me serole says, because of the constant new information about Shakespeare that is sent to the center. Pi Kappa Alpha PIKES 66 Annual Calendar This is open for any girls currently enrolled at Texas A&M University, for possible selection for our 1988 calendar. If interested please submit your photos to: MSC P.O. Box 4936 College Station, Tx 77844 Please include your name, home phone number, and classification Deadline for entering is March 26,1988 Photo Shooting wiil begain in April Any questions please call Jorge Pinera at 693-1007 The New Keyser’s Hobbies & Crafts Radio controlled planes, cars, boats Micro armor miniatures Balsa wood & scenery supplies Autograph & Historical documents Boy Scout supplies Lab coats & uniforms Picture framing 1 Plastic models _ ^ . Trams student discount 2021 Texas Ave., Bryan, 823-0916 Townshire Shopping Center Next to Tri-State Sports Center