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Page 6/The Battalion/Monday, April 18, 1988 Rainbow Family celebrates love, upsets residents ZAVALLA (AP) — Twenty years alter the hippies of Haight-Ashbury were wearing love beads and trip ping on LSD, flower power is about to meet the quietly reserved Piney Woods. An estimated 20,000 members of the Rainbow Family, a loose-knit group of nature lovers, will descend on the Angelina National Forest in July to conduct the group’s 17th an nual “Gathering of the Tribes.” Billed as a weeklong celebration of peace and love, the gathering al ready has stirred emotions among Zavalla’s 700 residents. “You take 20,000 people like that and put them near a town of 700 like ours — you’re going to have bed lam,” said Keith Harris, an insur ance man and lifelong resident of the area. Zavalla, about 200 miles southeast of Dallas, has no police department — only an elderly constable and a part-time deputy from the Angelina County Sheriffs Department. “We’ve heard that nothing embar rasses them — going to the bath room out in the open, having sex in public,” said Van Johnson of Van’s Grocery and Feed. But one longtime Rainbow mem ber, Stephen Principle, a political ac tivist from Washington, D.C., denied such rumors. “In the 16 years we have gath ered, no community has ever been raped or pillaged or burned,” he said. “Most of the people that come don’t want to hang out in a town,” Principle said. “They come to get away from that, to get into trie woods. Most of us come to practice our belief of communing with na ture.” Principle said the campouts, which attract members like attorneys and doctors, are well-organized, with communal kitchens, water sup plies and privies. The gatherings have featured wandering minstrels, craft workshops, political discussions, rock bands and a traveling circus Principle said some participants go nude and use some drugs, pri marily marijuana. Still, he said, when 12,000 Rainbow members met in Nantahala National Forest in North Carolina last year, fewer than a dozen members were arrested for drug possession. But the U.S. Forest Service said last year’s gathering severely dam aged a valuable national wilderness area in North Carolina. Forest service officials in Lufkin said last week they will require the “You take 20,000 people like that and put them near a town of 700 like ours — you’re going to have bedlam. ” — Keith Harris, lifelong resident near site where meeting is expected Rainbows to get a permit for their meeting. Mike Lannan, supervisor for the four national forests in Texas, said the federal agency is fully prepared to initiate whatever legal action is necessary to keep the Rainbows out of the forests if tney fail to get a per mit. To obtain a permit, the group will have to present a plan showing they will meet all health and safety stan dards required for such a mass gath ering, he said. That would include proper drink ing water and provisions for medical problems and disposal of trash and human waste. But the Rainbow Family is loosely organized with no leaders and be lieves they have the right to gather in a national forest whenever and wherever they want — with no inter ference from forest rangers and other law enforcement officials. “The Constitution is the permit for people to gather on public grounds,” Principle said. “It is not the forest service’s land, it is the people’s land,” he said. Principle agreed to discuss the forest service concerns at a Rainbow Family council meeting later this month in one of the national forests. The council will try to narrow the list of sites for the gathering, using reports from Rainbow scouts who have been in the area for several weeks. Meanwhile, law enforcement off! cials from towns in the East Texas area are worried, in part because of a videotape taken by forest service employees of last year’s gathering. “It’s unbelievable,” said Rick Wil son, police chief in nearby Hunting- ton, who recently saw the film “They’ll be naked, they’ll be doping they’ll be doing it all.” Lecture highlights Indian religion “India’s Silent Revolution for Peace: The Swadhyaya Movement” will be the topic of discussion tonight at 7 p.m. in 207 Harrington. The presentation, sponsored by MSC Great Issues, tne Inter national Development Forum and the India Association, will in clude an in-depth lecture and slide show given by Texas A&M g rofessor Dr. Betty M. Unter- erger. Unterberger’s presentation will feature members of the Swad hyaya movement who now are liv ing in the United States. Swadhyaya, pronounced “Swa- dee-yay,” is a non-publicized, self- study religion that has helped to transform about 100 000 Inia: villages into self-sustainingajj self-reliant coinmunides. Unterberger first mited 1^ in 1986. Her most recent visit Hi in December 1987, vhen shep. ticipated in and studied a thtt week Swadhyaya cebbration. Dr. Robert Unierberger, [ A&M geophysics professor an Betty Unterberger’s husbani gave IDF member! a preview 1 the lecture on Thursday by givin spellings and definitions of so® Indian words used frequentlyii Swadhyaya. Robert U nterberger said Swad hyaya is a peaceful movementu increase the people’s awareness oi C lod and his work. Director will discuss supercollider Dr. Chris Quigg. deputy direc tor for operations of the Super conducting Super-Collider De sign Group at the Lawrence Berkeley Laboratory, will visit Texas A&M Tuesday. Quigg will speak at 5 p.m. Tuesday in 202 Engineering- /Physics. Quigg, who is on leave from the Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory, will speak to students about the superconducting su percollider and how it will Ixmelit scientific research. The supercollider, when built, will be in the shape of an oval and will be 53 miles around. It will be one of the largest man-made structures in history. Quigg says the supercollider will help scientists learn more about the forces of nature, the ba sic constituents of matter and our place in the future. He will speak as part of a lec ture series sponsored by Digital Equipment C corporation. Digital officials say these pro jects represent an innovative tor porate commitment to bringm; the general public in touch vi science and technology. A&M is one of twelve ® puses chosen by DEC to partit pate in the Digital DiscoveryLk ture Series. The series isbeinjtt sponsored by Digital, the Jii tional Academy of Sciences aid “The Infinite Voyage” televisi series. “The Infinite Voyage’isi PBS series that discusses sciemi advancement, exploration aid discovery. It also is sponsored) DEC. Quigg was a member of lk NAS review panel for the first q isode of “The Infinite Voyage' tied “Unseen Worlds." The program was the first an I continuing series of scientific.a- tural and educational projeol known as the Digital Discover Series. Lecture to focus on nuclear detenenls By Stephen Masters Staff Writer Is it right to threaten to kill the entire world if someone provokes a fight? Is there any way to avoid war without this type of threat? II the United States stops using this type of threat, is there anything to prevent the Soviet Union from using the same threat? These questions and otherslike them will be discussed Wednes day at the third pre-program lec ture of the Wiley Lecture Series. The program, titled “Moral Paradoxes of Nuclear Deter rents,” will feature Dr. Manuel M. Davenport of the Texas A&M Department of Philosophy and Humanities, and will be at 7 p.m. Wednesday in 701 Rudder. The lecture is scheduled a cover the moral issues involved, nuclear deterrents. "Dr. Davenport will tallak how it is not moral to atteupti: deter war with the threat of hi | ing millions of people and discuss how the balance of lent: is growing between theUatt| Stales and the Soviet Uinta Chris Efird, chairman of the'' ley Lecture Series, said. This is the third in theseriesd| four lectures that will cu with the April 26 lecture “ft clear War: Thinking the Unlfe l kable,” which will featurefontf Sen. John Tower, formerBiffl Prime Minister Lordjamesfc laghan, former Secretary fense Robert S. McNamara n| moderator William F. Buckley} Black UT graduates reunite Lawlessnes bombards to help break race barriers W e S t h e ime I I I I I I I I 1 8 I I 8 I I i Expires 6-30-88 TOYOTA QUALITY SERVICE FRONT END ALIGNMENT AUSTIN (AP) — About 200 black graduates of the University of Texas returned to the campus last weekend for a reunion that looked more to ward the future than the past. On Saturday, the second annual reunion organized by the Black Alumni Advisory Committee of the Ex-Students’ Association focused on ways to expand black students’ op portunities at the university and af ter graduation. Closer ties between UT and the black alumni as well as the rest of the black community in Texas are needed in order to improve recruit ment and retention of black students and faculty, John Chase, a Houston architect who is chairman of the ad visory committee, said. “We need to just keep doing what we’re doing now, constantly getting the word out and the university be ing more a part of the community,” said Chase, who enrolled at UT soon after the 1950 Supreme Court deci sion that opened the university to blacks. “I think the more we do those things, the more the barriers are going to break down,” he said. The reunion included an update on minority recruitment and reten tion by university President William Cunningham, visits with students from the alumni’s hometowns and tours of the campus. The alumni also discussed the new admissions policies going into effect in the fall, the minority out reach centers that UT and Texas A&M University have set up around the state, ways to increase the amount of business UT does with minority-owned companies, and a new alumni program that aims at providing mentors from different professions for current students. The mentor program will be orga nized this summer to provide a net work through which black students can receive career guidance from alumni and others, said Tyrone Freeman, a 1981 marketing grad uate and an assistant vice president at Bright Banc in Austin. The program also will help stu dents find role models and establish a “social support network,” Freeman said. Alumni in law, business, account ing, nursing, engineering, education and many other Fields filled out in formation sheets that will be used to match them with students. The alumni will be asked to make at least four contacts with their stu dents during the next school year. Cunningham told the alumni that there is reason to be optimistic about increasing the number of black stu dents next fall, since applications and admissions of blacks have risen significantly. Applications from black freshmen are 30 percent higher than last year, and the number of applicants ad mitted has risen by 40 percent, Cun ningham said. Black applications to graduate school have risen 25 per cent, and admissions are up 70 per cent, he said. UT had about 1,600 black stu dents last fall, about 3.4 percent of the total number of students. HOUSTON (AP) — Guns, cades and guard dogs are bet( a more familiar sight in tk( tree-lined streets of thelowt® heimer area as nearby weeleid lessness moves closer to sow dents’ homes. Lower West heimer turni® city’s top teen-age cruisine f on Friday and Saturday nigli ( Along with the increase u ! and rowdiness comes more® generally in the form offljjW bings, drug deals and prosit Homes and businesses are ized and burglarized and soil dents find syringes on theirla* 5 And within the past year/ from the lower Westheimerstif begun to spill over into it' dering neighborhoods, rt sl " ; say. So they have started pad' 1 ! tols, installing burglar to'' stopped taking walks on their* sidewalks. Some have even w ) ' |i “I’ve got a .38, and I / loaded,” said 60-year-old 1 Greene, a lower VVestheiw (, ' ; resident. • Set caster, toe and camber on applicable vehicles. • Inspect steering, shocks and tire wear. ^ 095 • Center steering wheel. 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