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Teme Court has come from 15 law
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ending before the high court, a
lewspaper reported.
Incumbent Justices William Kil-
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Students wanting to enroll in
Jeology 101 for the Fall 1988 se-
aester should not follow the
(fourse sections listed in the fall
hedule.
The listings for the 56 sections
f Geology 101 for the fall are
lompletely wrong, said Dr. Kdrl
oenig, associate department
Ijiead in geology.
“The class schedule is com-
letely in error,” Koeing said.
This will cause problems if stu
dents try to sign up for the sec-
ions listed in the book because
hey do not match the ones on the
:omputer.”
Dr. John Spang, head of the
jeology department, said the er-
or probably happened when a
ial list of 101 sections was
urned in for the schedule book-
et and was inadvertently used in-
tead of the correct version.
Spang said photocopied lists of
he correct sections were mailed
|o the academic advisers in all
&M colleges. The corrected list
also available in the geology de-
artment office in Halbouty 108,
Ind copies of it are posted
ground the building.
I Enrollment in Geology 101 is
usually around 1,000 students,
Spang said.
I “The error will affect a bunch
of people,” he said.
Koenig said the correct section
information in now in the SIMS
svstem.
“When you register, make sure
it is at the right time,” Koenig
paid.
Students may call the geology
Bepartment at 845-2451 for more
information.
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Voting to fill 30 seats on the
Texas A&M Faculty Senate will
take place from 8 a.m. to 5 p.m.
[today at the following locations:
(Run-offs, if they are needed,
[will be held from 8 a.m. to 5 p.m.
Wednesday at the same loca-
jtions.)
Agriculture
Polling will be in 202 Peterson
[and in the Kleberg Arboretum.
Architecture and Environ
mental Design
Polling will be in the second
1 floor gallery of the Langford Ar-
jchitecture Center.
Business Administration
Polling will be 330 Blocker in
I the Undergraduate Programs Of-
j lice.
Education
Polling will be in the first floor
| lobby of Harrington Tower and
jin 159 Read.
Engineering
Polling will be in 218 Zachry.
Geosciences
Polling will be in 204 Oceanog-
| raphy and Meterology and in
108C Halbouty.
Liberal Arts
Polling will be in the Academic
Building rotunda and in the sec
ond floor lobby of the Blocker
! Building.
Sterling C. Evans Library
Polling will be in 210 Sterling
C. Evans.
Medicine
Polling will be in the first floor
lobby of the Medical Sciences
Building.
Science
Polling will be in 313 Biological
Sdences West.
Veterinary Medicine
Polling will be in the foyer of
the main college entrance.
about $2 million in contributions
raised by Robertson and, Kilgarlin in
their separate races.
The study, which only dealt with
contributions of $500 or more,
found that of about $2.4 million re
ported to date by candidates in the
five Supreme Court races, $729,363
came from the 15 firms.
Of the 15 firms, all practice before
the Supreme Court, and 12 cur
rently have cases pending.
The contributions came from the
firms themselves, from their political
action committees or from individ
ual lawyers who work for the firms.
The Houston law firm of Fisher,
Gallagher, Perrin & Lewis led all
firms with at least $75,000 in contri
butions to Supreme Court candi
dates, the newspaper said.
Of the total from Fisher Gal
lagher, at least $40,000 went to Kil
garlin and $35,000 to Robertson,
according to records filed with the
secretary of state’s office covering
contributions collected through Feb.
27, the latest reporting period.
The Houston firm of Helm,
Pletcher, Hogan, Bowen & Saunders
and its attorneys have contributed
$67,500 — $32,500 to Kilgarlin,
$30,000 to Robertson and $5,000 to
Democratic incumbent Justice Raul
Gonzalez.
Fisher Gallagher and Helm
Pletcher have no cases before the
court.
Vinson & Elkins, a Houston-based
firm that traditionally has been ac
tive in financing political campaigns,
has contributed $66,500 — about
half of that to Robertson and Kilgar
lin.
The firm also gave $7,000 to Rob
ertson’s Republican opponent in the
general election, Chief Justice Tom
Phillips, the newspaper reported.
Vinson & Elkins has 11 cases be
fore the high court, according to the
court docket.
Other major contributors include
Houston lawyer Joe Jamail, who has
personally contributed $30,000 each
to Kilgarlin and Robertson. Jamail
was the lawyer for Pennzoil in its
jnultibillion-dollar legal battle
against Texaco.
The Texas Supreme Court has
been criticized for dispensing with
oral arguments in upholding an $1 1
billion award for Pennzoil last year,
the largest civil judgment injudicial
history.
Attorneys for both companies
contributed to justices on the court,
with most of the money donated by
lawyers representing Pennzoil.
Jumpin’ jellybeans
Cynthia Chamberlain, a sophomore scientific nu
trition major, and Nicki Cook, a sophomore psy-
Photo by Shelly Schluter
chology major, enjoy their Easter jellybeans Sun
day night at the Polo Field.
Christians throughout world seek
peace during Easter celebrations
Associated Press
Christians worldwide looked be
yond global strife on Easter Sunday,
braving unrest in the Holy Land and
praying in England for an end to
Northern Ireland’s religious blood
shed.
In his traditional Easter address in
Vatican City, Pope John Paul II told
100,000 people in St. Peter’s Square
and a broadcast audience of millions
to remember people around the
world who suffer from injustice and
war.
“Pray for peace in the world, for
justice, pray for the rights of man,
especially for religious freedom,”
the Pope said.
In Jerusalem, about 1,000 faithful
pilgrims joined in services at the site
where most Christians believe Jesus
rose from the dead.
But church officials said only
about half as many people as last
year came to the services at the 12th-
century Church of the Holy Sepul
cher.
Pilgrims were discouraged to
travel because of four months of Pal
estinian protests and Israeli crack
downs in the occupied territories
that have resulted in the deaths of
more than 130 Arabs.
In Canterbury, England, Angli
can Archbishop Robert Runcie lik
ened the recent murder of two Brit
ish soldiers during an Irish
Republican Army funeral to the cru
cifixion of Christ.
The two soldiers were shot and
killed in a predominantly Roman
Catholic district of west Belfast on
March 19 after they were beaten by
mourners heading to the burial of
an IRA guerrilla.
Runcie said in his Easter sermon
that Christ’s death was “a dark
death, as dark in the cruelty and ha
tred which attended it as were the
deaths of those two young soldiers in
Belfast a fortnight ago.”
But he told the worshipers the
joyous memory of Christ’s resur
rection should give hope for an end
to Northern Ireland’s sectarian vio
lence.
In Belfast, thousands marched
peacefully to mark the 1916 Easter
Nearly 1,000 travel to Holy Land for Easter
JERUSALEM (AP) — Under police and army guard,
pilgrims from around the world gathered at dawn for
Easter Sunday services in the church marking the site
where most Christians believe Jesus rose from the dead.
About 1,000 worshipers — half as many as last year
— attended services in the 12th-century Church of the
Holy Sepulcher, church officials said.
Many pilgrims were scared away by four months of
almost daily violence in the Israeli-occupied territories
that have left more than 130 Palestinians and one Is
raeli soldier dead. The Greek Orthodox Church
canceled three pre-Easter processions scheduled for the
weekend.
Security was low-key Sunday at the Crusader-built
church, where about half a dozen uniformed police
stood guard in the courtyard and at the entrance.
But dozens of soldiers were stationed throughout the
walled Old City, some on rooftops and others patrolling
the narrow cobblestone streets. An Arab attacker
stabbed an Israeli policeman in the Old City on Friday.
“Before we came, our friends were worried and said
they would pray for us,” said 71-year-old Arnold Rose-
nbrock, a Lutheran from Kankakee, Ill.
“We’ve been fine, but someone was killed in Bethle
hem yesterday (Saturday) a few hours before we vis
ited,” he said. “There were boulders in the street, and it
was tense.”
Philip Jiamachello, 31, of Houston, Texas, who at
tended the services with his wife and son, said, “We
were frightened before we came, but now that we are
here, we feel it is safe. For me, this was a very moving
experience.”
Tourism ministry officials said, tjl^y had no figures
for the month of March, but acknowledged a 13 per
cent drop in tourism for the first week of the month as
compared with a year ago. Officials also expressed con
cern about possible cancellations in April and May.
Clouds of incense and organ music filled the church
during the Latin service held in front of the marble-en
closed tomb marking the site where Jesus is believed to
have been resurrected.
The Roman Catholic patriarch of Jerusalem, Monsi
gnor Michel Sabbah, the first Palestinian to hold the
post, presided over the service. Last week, he called on
worshipers to make special Easter prayers for those
caught up in the Arab-Israeli conflict.
While the Roman Catholics were celebrating Easter,
Orthodox denominations were marking their Palm
Sunday, walking along the Via Dolorosa, or Way of Sor
row, where Jesus, wearing a crown of thorns, was
forced to carry the cross on which he died. Orthodox
Christians celebrate Easter this coming Sunday.
In the midst of the Easter Service, albout two dozen
chanting Coptic priests and choir boys in long dark
robes entered the church carrying palm leaves, some
formed in the shape of a cross.
Easter also fell on the third day of the Jewish holiday
of Passover, commemorating the deliverance of the an
cient Hebrews from slavery in Egypt.
Palestinian shopkeepers opened stores around the
church from morning until noon, the times permitted
by tlhe Palestine Liberation Organization. The PLO has
ordered afternoon strikes in Arab east Jerusalem to
protest the Israeli occupation.
uprising against British rule in what
is now the neighboring Republic of
Ireland, where a majority of the
population is Catholic.
Mainly Protestant Northern Ire
land has remained under British
control.
Police mounted heavy patrols at
the main march of about 5,000 peo
ple through the Catholic ghettos of
west Belfast.
The security represented a break
from recent police policy of avoiding
gatherings involving the outlawed
IRA, which is fighting to wrest
Northern Ireland from the British
and unite it with the Irish Republic.
In Vatican City, a cold rain forced
worshipers to attend the traditional
Easter Mass inside St. Peter’s Ba
silica, Christendom’s largest church.
Among the participants were U.S.
Secretary of State George Shultz, an
Episcopalian, and his wife, Helena, a
Catholic.
Shultz left later Sunday for Israel
on the first part of a new Middle
East peace shuttle.
The pope had given the secretary
of state his blessing for the mission
Saturday in a private audience.
Brazil, the world’s most populous
Catholic nation, celebrated Easter
with traditional passion plays re
counting Christ’s crucifixion.
In Rio de Janeiro, many of the
main roles, including that of Jesus,
were for the first time played by
blacks in keeping with the church’s
equality campaign.
About 90 percent of Brazil’s 135
million people are Roman Catholic.
In Beijing, Catholics and Protes
tants crowded churches Easter
morning, and one pastor said it was
the biggest turnout in recent years.
About 400 foreigners arrived at
the Great Wall at 6 a.m. for an Eas
ter sunrise service.
However, the crowd of worship
ers was greeted by snowfall instead
of a sunrise.
India could
pass China
in population
WASHINGTON (AP) — India
could surpass China as the world’s
most populous nation in the not too
distant future, the Census Bureau
said.
China has long been the world’s
most heavily populated nation. It
currently contains one in five of the
Earth’s population.
But the time is now forseeable
when India will take over the num
ber one spot as a result of a popula
tion growth rate that is nearly twice
as high as China’s, the bureau re
ported Sunday.
“The latest projections suggest
that India’s population may surpass
China’s in less than 60 years, or be
fore today’s youngsters in both
countries reach old age,” the bureau
said in its new “World Population
Profile: 1987.”
The bureau estimates that China
currently contains 1,088,169,000
people, compared with India’s
816,828,000.
But India has a birth rate of 32
per 1,000 people, compared with 20
per 1,000 in China, which has con
ducted an intensive campaign to re
duce births in recent years.
Subtracting deaths, India’s pop
ulation is growing at 2.1 percent an
nually. China’s is growing by only
1.3 percent.
Thus, population projections for
the year 2050 show India as the
world’s most populated country,
with an anticipated 1,591,204,000
people. At the same time, China
would have a population of
1,554,875,000.
The report indicated that sharp
changes are expected in other na
tions too.
The Soviet Union, currently
ranked third in population, is ex
pected to drop to No. 5 by the year
2050. Fourth place United States
would slip to eighth, while Indone
sia, currently fifth, would drop to
seventh place in among the most
heavily populated.
Expected to replace the Soviet
Union in third is Nigeria, currently
ranked 13th. Pakistan, now No. 14,
is expected to rise to fourth by 2050.
Speaker says women overlooked in art world
By Kim Sanders
Reporter
Many innovations in art thoughout history
have been brought about by female artists,
but these women have not been recognized in
classrooms or textbooks, Dr. Eleanor Tufts
said Friday in a lecture.
“I wanted to give you proof that there are
women artists,” Tufts, a professor of art his
tory at Southern Methodist University, said to
a group of about 20 people in Rudder Tower.
She spoke about the development and works
of women artists through the ages.
“Moving through five centuries of art,
starting with the demure beginnings of Sofo-
nisba Anguissola and ending with a contepo-
rary woman artist from Lousiana who works
with dangerous plastics, I think we are open
now to a little greater equality (for women art
ists),” Tufts said.
Her slide presentation included paintings
by artists such as Sofonisba Anguissola, Lavi-
nia Fontana, Clara Peelers, Emma Stebbins
and others reaching as far back as the Renais
sance.
“I really was perplexed that no one had
ever told us anything in all our art history
classes about these women artists of the past,”
Tufts said. “When we started studying
women artists we were amazed that they
existed, but now we find that there were some
(female) artists actually creating some
changes in art.”
In the Renaissance, when faces were ex
pressionless and very classical, Sofonisba An
guissola showed laughter and suppressed
mirth in her paintings.
She said that women sculptors of the 19th
century moved away from neoclassicism and
became more realistic in their work.
Not many people realize that the over-life-
size marble statue of Abraham Lincoln was
done by a woman named Vinnie Reams,
Tufts said.
“Reams was a post office worker who
begged Lincoln to pose for her,” Tufts said.
“And he said, ‘Young lady. I’m a very busy
person, but you may come at lunchtime and
sketch me.’
“So she was actually the last person to take
his likeness on that fateful day he went to
Ford’s Theater.”
When the government offered a contest to
sculpt Lincoln, Reams was the first woman to
win a government commission for art, Tufts
said.
In response to a question about about per
ceived differences between men and women
artists, Tufts said that distinction is uneces-
sary because art should be judged indepen
dently of the artist’s gender.
“Eve been trying to prove that they are
equal, so I haven’t used that approach,” she
said.
Tufts agrees that people are beginning to
find differencs, but focuses on the equal abil
ity of the man and women to be great artists.
Tufts says the reason universities ask her to
speak is to educate.
The faculty do not know enough about
women artists to be able to teach their stu
dents about them, she said.
The speech was sponsored by the College
of Liberal Arts, University Art Exhibits and
Women’s Studies.