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Photo Competition
Categories
Studio Portraits
Studio Tabletop / Still Life
Nature
Sports & Action Snots
Human Interest
Categories will be further subdi-
vided between color and B/W.
Ribbons will be awarded to all win-
ners including two best-of-shows.
Entries will be accepted from April
1st through 13th at the MSC Craft
Center 845-1631 (Basement MSC).
Restrictions: All Photos must be mounted.
8 X 10 is standard format. No larger photos
will be accepted. Competition is open to
Texas A&M students only. No Entry Fee.
Limit two entries per person.
Judging will take place on Friday April 15th.
Winners will also be placed in the MSC Showcase.
Judges: Mr. Howard Ellers, Mr. Paul Glenn. Dr. Simon Priest
Page 4/The Battalion/Monday, April 11,1988
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Professor says
Indian religion
improves villages
By Ashley A. Bailey
Reporter
Over the past 40 years, “Swad-
hyaya,” meaning self-study, has
transformed about 100,000 Indian
villages comprising about 20 million
people into self-sustaining and self-
reliant communities, Dr. Robert Un-
terberger said Thursday night in
Rudder Tower.
Unterberger, a Texas A&M geo
physics professor, told the Interna
tional Development Forum that
Swadhyaya, pronounced (swa-dee-
yay), a type of religion stressing God
in self, is India’s silent revolution for
peace.
“Swadhyaya is a self-study
movement led by a Ghandi-like Fig
ure named Pandurang Shastri Atha-
vale, commonly called ‘Dada,’ ” Un
terberger said. “In English ‘Dada’
means older brother. This term ap
plies because even though Dada is
their spiritual leader, there is no
caste system in Swadhyaya, and ev
eryone is brother and sister under
God.”
Because Swadhyaya is a peaceful
movement to increase the people’s
awareness of God and to do God’s
work, publicity is not used, he said.
“People in India find out about
Swadhyaya strictly by word-of-
mouth,” he said. “This way they can
carry out God’s work very quietly
and unselfishly.”
Profits from volunteer farms, or
chards, fishing boats and temples go
back into the local communities, he
said. This creates an impersonal
wealth that can be used to help the
needy, he said.
Unterberger, his wife, Betty, and
about 30 other people from all over
the United States were invited to In
dia last year to participate in and
study a three-week Swadhyaya cele
bration, he said. They were invited
because of their interest and involve
ment with self-study, he said. He
and his wife, who is an authority on
Indian practices, have a self-study
group at A&M.
Dr. Betty Unterberger, an A&M
history professor, will give a more
in-depth lecture and slide presenta
tion at the April 18 IDF meeting in
207 Harrington. The meeting will be
co-sponsored by MSC Great Issues
and the India Association, and will
feature members of the Swadhyaya
movement now living in the United
States.
Study attacks reliability
of expert testimonies
HUNTSVILLE (AP) — Former
death row convict Carl Harris is one
of the few lucky condemned crimi
nals who have escaped the execu
tioner.
But he admits that if he had been
a juror at his trial, he too would have
voted for the death penalty in the
murder of two women in Galveston
County more than 20 years ago.
“But people change,” said Harris,
a 41-year-old prison trusty who was
one of 47 Texans whose death sen
tences were commuted as the result
of a brief U.S. Supreme Court ban
on capital punishment in the early
1970s \
“You’re not the same person you
were when you were 20 years plfl.
You change. Your ideas change.”
Harris said prison psychiatrists
and psychologists predicted that he
and other death row inmates who
got commutations would endanger
other prisoners.
“Every single one of us was listed
as being a threat to the inmate pop
ulation and to the officers,” he said.
Those forecasts failed to materia
lize, and Harris and the others who
got commutations became the sub
ject of a study that attacks the relia
bility of speculation qn inmate be
havior by expert witnesses in capital
cases.
The study by James Marquart, as
sistant professor of criminal justice
at Sam Houston State University,
and Jonathan Sorensen, a graduate
student, examined the behavior of
those convicts from 1973 to 1986.
The inmates were all sentenced to
death before 1973 — 37 of them for
murder, seven for rape and three
for armed robbery. More than a
third of them were tried in Houston.
As of Oct. 1, six had died, 18 were
in prison and 23 were out of prison.
The study, which did not evaluate
the death penalty directly, examined
the reliability of predictions by qual
ified officials that the convicts would
pose a “substantial threat” to guards
and other prisoners if not put to
death.
The study found: “They did not
kill other inmates or staff. A mi
nority of the commutees committed
the majority of prison-rule regula
tions (violations). Of the 28 released
on parole, one committed a new
homicide.”
In response to an argument that
Texas assesssed executions differ
ently before 1973, the study found
that killers whose sentences were
commuted after 1973 “did not com
mit any less heinous offenses” than
convicts currently under sentence of
death.
The study adds, “Until our tech
niques of analyzing human behavior
over long periods is sharpened, the
reliance on clinical predictions of
dangerousness, especially in the
courtroom, is unacceptable.
“The current state of knowledge
in the Fields of psychiatry, psychol
ogy and sociology preclude any con
crete individual determinations of
long-term violence.
“Gazing into the crystal ball when
someone else’s life is at stake is to
tally unacceptable.”
To assess the death sentence,
Texas jurors must agree that a per
son convicted of capital murder will
be a continuing threat to society.
Otherwise, the person receives a life
sentence.
Harris has shown no sign of being
dangerous and has accumulated 31
years of good time credit in prison
without losing any time for discipli
nary infractions.
About 267 convicts are on Texas’
death row, which leads the nation in
executions.
Twenty-seven convicts have died
by injection since the state resumed
the death penalty in 1982.
Monday
SOCIETY OF MANUFACTURING ENGINEERS: Dr. John Mayer of thefe
tional Science Foundation and international president of SME, will speak at
p.m. in 201 MSC about “Competitiveness Through Advanced Technology.'
MSC JORDAN INSTITUTE: will present a slide show “Many Conflicts,Mar,
Hopes: A Tunisian National Park Today,” at 7 p.m. in 410 Rudder.
AAUW: Dr. Gabriel Carranza will speak about “Keys to Improving the Relatw;
Between the United States and Mexico," at 7:30 p.m. at the Unfe
Fellowship, 305 Wellborn Road.
AGGIE PARTNERS FOR SPECIAL OLYMPICS: will meet to continue organ;,
ing the Special Olympics at 7 p.m. in 267 G. Rollie White.
HEALTH AND WELLNESS FAIR 1988: Campus and community organization
will otter free information and demonstrations on health-related topics fror;
a.m. to 4 p.m. in the MSC hallway.
COLLEGIATE 4-H CLUB: will have officer elections at 8 p.m. in 123Kleberg
AMA MARKETING SOCIETY: is awarding two scholarships for the higr s
grade-point ratio and two scholarships for outstanding members. Applicate
are available through Friday on the AMA board in Blocker. Only club memte
are eligible to apply.
MSC AGGIE CINEMA: will have a Disney film festival at 7 p.m. in504Rudde'
AGGIES ABROAD CLUB: will have its last meeting and will elec! officers!
8:30 p.m. in 401 Rudder. For more information contact Mary Beth Butler at H
0544.
Tuesday
WILDLIFE BIOLOGY SOCIETY: Mr. Bill Clay will speak about”AnimalDarraj
Control” at 7 p.m. in 201 Harrington.
DATA PROCESSING MANAGEMEMT ASSOCIATION: David Kroenkeni
speak at 7:30 p.m. in the Clayton Williams Alumni Center.
MSC JORDAN INSTITUTE FOR INTERNATIONAL AWARENESS:willpresr
‘Texas Business in the International Market: Can We Compete?” at 6 pin
206 MSC.
STUDENT COUNCIL FOR EXCEPTIONAL CHILDREN: will have officere*
tions at 7 p.m. in 407 Rudder.
MSC ALL-NIGHT FAIR: Officer applications are available through Fridayirfi
Student Programs Office.
TAMU HORSEMEN’S ASSOCIATION: will have officer nominationsallprr
115 Kleberg.
WATER SKI CLUB: will meet to organize the Mississippi Collegetoumaw!
8:30 p.m. in Rudder Tower. Check the monitor screen for the room number
MSC CEPHEID VARIABLE: will have a general meeting and will introduceh
new chairman at 8:30 p.m. in 301 Rudder.
POLITICAL SCIENCE SOCIETY PI SIGMA ALPHA: will meet at 7 p.nuia
MSC.
CATHOLIC STUDENT ASSOCIATION: will have aerobics (Catholicstyle!at
a discussion from 9 p.m. to 10 p.m. at St. Mary's Catholic Church
INTRAMURALS: Entries close for archery doubles, the Penberthysoftballw
nament and baseball hitting and home-run derby in 159 Read
CLASS OF '90 COUNCIL: Applications for class chairmen positions areai-
able through Friday in the Student Publications Office and in the guard room
BIOMEDICAL SCIENCE ASSOCIATION: will have a general businessmee::
to elect officers at 7 p.m. in 201 Veterinary Medicine.
Items for What's Up should be submitted to The Battal in, 216 ReedMcOm
no later than three business days before the desired run date tVe only putts
the name and phone number of the contact if you ask us to do so. WhatsUp!
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on a first-come, first-served basis. There is no guarantee an entry will mil
have questions, call the newsroom at 845-3315.
Officials still searching
for clues to 11 slayings
FORT WORTH (AP) — Three
years and six months after the slay
ings of 11 local women, only one of
the crimes is solved, leads are down
to a trickle and residents remain
fearful.
The young women slain included
waitresses, schoolteachers, recep
tionists, a bartender, a student and a
homemaker. They died of stab
wounds, gunshots and strangula
tion.
One woman’s body remains miss
ing.
A multiagency group spent more
than a year investigating the deaths
and, at one point, ballooned to more
than 40 officers. While the agency
carried out interviews and compiled
lists of suspects, the slayings made
headlines and captured national me
dia attention.
“It was on all our minds,” Bernice
Barker said of a friend of one of the
women slayed. “It was the conversa
tion everywhere. Everyone was wish
ing that some of these women would
be found.”
Detectives conducted more than
3,000 interviews and compiled a list
of 7,000 suspects, including friends,
acquaintances and relatives of vic
tims. Police Chief Thomas Windham
estimated the investigation:
more than SI million.
The different slaying mflti
convinced police more than
killer was responsible, Capt.to:
mas said. Police today say thevi
susepcts in three of the slayinp
lac k the evidence needed to I
charges.
Police Detective Curt Brae
one of the investigators, oftent
back to the spot where Sar
Kashka, 15, disappeared. Po
tective Curt Brannan toldt
Wor th Star-Telegram that lie® |
sionally returns on the sameiiijl
the week she vanished to|
gether where the woman he
ter leaving a friend’s apartment
“When you go to a crimes
and see the things wedo,antlti>
the family, you know the fas'
depending on you,” Brannan'
“It’s difficult to spend aneigl
shift working on the case,
down and go home.”
Kaska disappeared Dec.30,1!
after spending the evening 1
friends. She was found stabW
death two days later near Mo®
Creek Lake in southwest Dflf
County.
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Officer Positions Available
Mandatory Orientation Meeting
Monday, April 11
7:00 pm, MSC rm. 228
MSC Political Forum is an educational, non-partisian political
programming committee whose goals are to bring quality politi
cal programs to the University and to promote student develop
ment among our members.
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