MATHEMATICS CONTEST
The annual Freshman and Sophomore Mathemtics Contest will
be held Thursday, April 14, 1988 from 7:30 p.m. to 9:30 p.m. The
Freshman Contest will be in Room 216 Milner Hall and the Sopho
more Contest in 304 Milner Hall. No calculators-all test material
will be provided. Prizes for winners of first place will be $100, sec
ond place $60, and third place $40. Prerequisite for Freshman
contest is knowledge of calculus through Math 151 or equivalent,
for the Sophomore contest knowledge of calculus through Math
253 or equivalent.
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THE PAVILION
APRIL 15
ROOM 223
By Pam Mooman
Reporter
Does every individual have a right
to be free? While some foreign gov
ernments may not think so. Amnesty
International, a non-profit, world
wide human rights organization,
does.
Jill Natowitz of College Station, a
member of AI-USA for about four
years and president of the Texas
A&M chapter, believes AI’s work is
important.
“I was in it when I was in high
school/’ thejunior French and Span
ish major said. “I think it’s one of the
most important things anybody can
do -— save someone’s life.”
Natowitz added that AI mostly
helps prisoners who cannot help
themselves.
Steve Ridge, a junior political sci
ence major from Geneseo, Ill., said
that AI acts on behalf of the UN
Declaration of Rights and other UN
laws.
“Amnesty International works for
the release of anyone retained for
beliefs, ethnic origin, language or re
ligion, as long as they haven’t used
or advocated violence,” Ridge, who
is vice president of the A&M chap
ter, said. These people are called
prisoners of conscience.
“In every instance we oppose tor
ture or any cruel and unusual pun
ishment; in every instance we op
pose the death penalty,” he said.
Natowitz added that AI also
worked to obtain fair trials for pris
oners. Ridge said some of the actions
AI focuses on is documentation of
and efforts to end illegal detention.
“Our main approach is non-con-
frontational,” he said. “AI members
“Amnesty International works for the release ot any
one retained for beliefs, ethnic origin, language or reli
gion, as long as they haven't used or advocated violen
ce. ”
— Steve Ridge, vice president, A&M chapter of AI
don’t appear to these governments
to be hostile.”
Natowitz said all the AI groups
become involved in letter-writing
campaigns.
“All the groups write letters to
governments, either to the president
or whatever he calls himself,” she
said. “Something like 10 percent of
the prisoners they write about get re
leased.”
It is hot a big number, but it is bet
ter than none, Natowitz added.
Ridge said that AI works in an ad
visory status with the United Na
tions, which takes AI’s information
seriously.
“Governments, therefore, know
that our documentation will be taken
seriously in the international com
munity,” he said. “Almost any gov
ernment is responsive to interna
tional pressure. Almost.”
Ridge stressed the importance ot
AI’s impartiality.
“That impartiality is probably out
greatest strength,” he said. “It tends
to make our statements credible.”
AI has what it calls an Urgent Ac
tion Network consisting of world
wide monitors, Ridge said.
“This, I think, is the most impor
tant thrust of AI,” he said. “When
our worldwide monitors have been
made aware of human rights viola
tions, they quickly investigate it. doc
ument it, double check all the facts
and seek independent verification
and then report this to the interna
tional secretariat in London.”
London is headquarters for A I.
The information then is sent to indi
vidual chapters, such as the one at
A&M. Individuals will write appeals
to the government of the person be
ing detained or tortured.
Ridge said the A&M chapter will
be involved in diverse activities this
year.
“At every meeting we will write
these urgent actions and people arc
given a choice of how many they
want to write out of three different
countries,” Ridge said.
A benefit concert is planned, and
on April 20 a former political pi is-
oner field by the Sudanese govern
ment will speak at A&M.
“We will also show films at mee
tings," Ridge said. “Things are just
basically in the rough stage."
Although the A&M chapter of AI
still is trying to establish itself , Nato
witz and the other members believe
it will become better known.
“When I got in college, the group
wasn't very active,” Natowitz said. “A
lot of it is public awareness.”
Ridge, who has been a contribut-
New drum majors
aim to recruit more,
increase discipline
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ame£,as
Saturday Only
April 9,1988
Rudder Theater
7:30 pm
9:45 pm
12:00 midnight
$2.00 with ID
By Deborah L. West
‘3j Statt Writer
Three juniors w£rfe choken to lead
the “Pulse of Aggieland” in the
1988-89 school year on Tuesday
night.
Chad Corbett, a junior engi
neering technology major from Ir
ving, will be head drum major for
the Aggie Band. Will Nabors, a ju
nior history major from Houston,
will lead the artillery band and Kevin
P. Roberts, a junior economics major
from Austin, will lead the infantry
band.
Eighteen juniors originally com
peted for the drum major positions,
but only a few made it past the pre
liminary tryouts, Nabors said.
The candidates direct the band as
it plays “The Spirit of Aggieland”
and the national anthem, he said.
The candidates also create a drill
and lead the band on the Field.
“The drum majors create their
own drills for the conference games,
so it is an important part of tryouts,”
he said.
Corbett said most of the commit
tee members that chose the drum
majors were juniors, because they
will be next year’s leaders.
Derrek Hryhorchuk, a junior in
the band, said the committee was
compdsed of Col. Joe T. Haney, the
director of the concert and march
ing bands, Capt. Jay Brewer, the
three current drum majors, the cur
rent combined band commander,
the combined band sergeant major,
the infantry band’s sergeant major,
and the artillery band’s sergeant ma-
j° r -
The first sergeants ol all lour
band companies and sophomore
MSC Aggie Cinema will present "Wall Street" in
place of "Fatal Attraction" on Friday April 15.
Sorry for any inconvenience.
and freshmen, representatives from
both batteries 'Were also on the com
mittee.
Corbett saifl two of t§e band’s
main goals are recruiting and retain
ing new members.
“The Aggie Band and the Corps
of Cadets are the freshmen. Without
freshmen, there would be no Aggie
Band.”
Roberts said recruiting blacks to
the band is one of his main goals.
“I am interested in recruiting
blacks for the band, because there is
a need for balance,” he said.
Many freshmen quit after their
First semester because their grades
are had, Corbett said.
“The freshmen don’t know what
to do or when to do it. Ultimately
they don’t do anything well,” Rob
erts said.
Other goals are to increase Field
expertise and discipline, Nabors
said. The band will travel a lot next
year.
“When we travel, we have an op
portunity to create a good impres
sions of the University,” he said.
Good impressions can help recruit-
ing.
The band will start practice dur
ing freshman orientation week, he
said.
The bugle rank, 12 men that lead
the band’s lines, and the drum ma
jors will teach the freshmen how to
march.
The full band will start practice
the next week.
“We don’t have much time to
practice before school starts, so we
will really have to get ourselves in
gear,” he said. “We want to march a
perfect drill every weekend.”
mg member of AI-USA for
years, said he wants to draw*"
Urge and d,ve «-se a crowd an
hie. • ' 5 1
1 know of no other in-ou
campus that is at the sametime
partisan-geared toward l lllM
nghtsthat snot focusing on one!
<>f fbe wor d and has a cC
« raw as w.de arangeofstude,,
AI, Kiuge said.
Robert Villarreal, a sopW
philosophy major from San i
nio. said he has been awareofS
two ' ears and became a member
I think I ve always beeni
coi ned with human rights i*.
Villarreal said. “For me.asastud
it s the most convenient avenue"
Kelli Rodgers, a junior biomei
science major from Richardson
that although she had heardo(
for several years, she waited t
early March to become amembe
' I a thapterte i
before this , to Atj
l-’.odgci S said. "I just tht
important to get involved in s
tiling that was making a diffei
in the world. Personally, I thou
was time to do somethingoutsi
my cozy academic world andi
concerned about things tb
going on in the rest of the world"
Ridge said he wants AI to
to different kinds of people.
"t I want AI t< |
v\ith an opportunity to matchi
Til! w ith the degree of involve^
that they want,” he said. “It
make this organization as gra
as possible.”
Dallas art collectoi
takes sculptures
to Spanish exhibit
MADRID, Spain (AP) — A
renovated 18th century hospital
will be home for the next two
months to a major modern sculp
ture collection, one that Dallas ar
chitect, developer and art collec
tor Raymond Nasher called
“members of our family.”
At the Queen SoFia Art Center
prior to the opening of the ex
hibit entitled “A Century of Mod
ern Sculpture: The Patsy and
Raymond Nasher Collection,”
Nasher said he and his wife con
sidered the pieces acquired over
the past 30 years "members of
our family, and now we re having
them visit with you here in
Spain.”
Curator Steven Nash of the
Dallas Museum of Art said the ex
hibit of 70 pieces from the
Nasher collection, which he called
“the most important in private
hands, was the first traveling ex
hibition of modern sculpture to
tour Europe.
Al&I Spain, a subsidiary of
the U.S. telecommunications gi
ant, is sponsoring the April (i-
june a Spanish leg ol the tour
that will later go to Florence and
possibly Munich, Tel Aviv and
Moscow.
Nash said the exhibit, to be in
augurated by Queen Sofia,
looked superb in these incredi
ble white open spaces.”
1 he Queen Sofia center
opened two years ago af ter exten
sive renovation in what had been
a grubby, marginal area now rap
idly becoming a fashionable
neighborhood for the creative
at ts.
1 he Five-story marble and pink
stucco building has an intern
courtyard filled with benchesarq
flowei ing t tees aiu.1 is intended!|
|).Hti s pietnier. modern!
museum, four Id oiks from IK I
woHcUfanu i s Prado and its < I
lection of 14th to 19th centfflf
Spanish and Flemish tnaswj
pieces.
Cci itci dii et tor Carmen Jim
nez called the exhibit ‘of utitt'l
importance to the Spanish pef
lie. 1
Nasher emphasized I
tam e of Spanish artists in hist]
lection, i ,!| i that j/j
Gon/alez (1876-1942), wW
“Femme au Miroli is part ol
show, was the first sculpMf
“take up the welding tool andv
ply it to sculpt .
I le s;iid the Spanish-AnierM
relationship in the art of P|
lure was represented throit
pieces by Gonzalez, Picasso 2
Miro. who he said 'introduce
sense of humor intoait .
(>n Monday, thieves broke 1
the Miro Foundation tn / r
Iona and stole six paintings ’
Catalan artist who died in It
The opening of the
lection came the day h« ore L
art collector Baron Hans ‘ I
ii(h von Thyssen was to sip P
agreement with Spanish «
ties to transfer 700_pte c « I
1,200-piece, $2 billion jjl
of Old Masters and mod* ,an J
the Villahermosa P alace J [( ,l
dt id across front the , |
the next 10 years. ^
Both events un ^ er J "jj|J
growing role of s l ,; ‘ in ' wor ij
and 111 particular, as
center.
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