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The Battalion
Tuesday, February 14,1989
Film festival opens at Langford
Free program begins Wednesday with ‘ethnic identity’ emphasis
.
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By Shan« Hall
Iggic Indcurr
and Video Festival opens Wednesaai evening at
7:30 in the gallery (room I20A) of the Langford
Architecture Center. The festival continues
Thursday evening at 7:30. Admission for both
nights is free.
This year’s festival features 11 short films and
videos by various independent video artists and
filmmakers. The films range from two to 58 min
utes in length.
The theme of Wednesday evening's program
will be ethnic identity, gallery director Dawn Ras
mussen said. The two films scheduled for
Wednesday evening are "Meaning of the Inter
val” and "Ethnic Notions."
"Meaning of the Interval,’’ a 17-minute work
by video artist Edin Velez, is a look at the culture
of Japan.
The second film, "Ethnic Notions,'’ is a 58-
minute dcxrumentary by filmmaker Marlon
Riggs, a native Texan. Riggs’ film examines the
history of racist stereotypes in American culture.
The film examines the origins of such words as
"pickaninny” and commercial images such as
Aunt Jemima. •
“We felt (Ethnic Notions) was appropriate for
Black Awareness Month, so that’s one reason we
chose it.” Rasmussen said. February is Black
Awareness Month.
Thursday night's program consists of nine
short video works, ranging from two to 30 min
utes in length. One of the Thursday presenta
tions is Pacno Lane's “The Black Tulip," an ac
count of the war in Afghanistan.
The film features footage of Soviet military
units, a helicopter squadron and a military hospi
tal.
Lane, another Texas filmmaker, worked with
German director Werner Herzog on the film
“Fitzcarraldo "
Other works scheduled for I hursday night in
clude Heather McAdams' video illustration of
theja/z song "Black Coffee."
This work, which combines television and
movie footage with McAdams' own, is described
as “a retrofitted music video.”
which has been on display in the gallery since
January 23.
The reception is scheduled to begin at 9:30
p.m. Lundberg will be attending the reception,
Rasmussen said.
The 10th Annual Aggie Independent Film
and Video Festival is sponsored by the Texas
A&M Office of University Art Collections and
Exhibitions, the Department of Philosophy, the
Media Center of the College of Architecture, the
Southwest Alternate Media Project, the Texas
Commission on the Arts, and the National En
dowment for the Arts.
Mosbacher:
Senate treating
Tower unfairly
{;
HOUSTON (AP) — Commerce
Secretary Robert Mosbacher said
Monday he thought fellow Texan
ohn Tower was being treated un-
'airly by the Senate committee re
viewing the nomination of the secre
tary of defense-designate.
“I think it’s been dragged on an
awfully long time," Mosbacher said
at a news conference following an
address to Houston business leaders.
"As I understand it, the FBI has
been asked to go out several times
and evaluate and look further.
“I've not heard nor have I read
anything new that they have found.”
While Mosbacher's nomination
sailed through Senate hearings and
won approval of the full chamber by
a 100-0 vote. Tower’s nomination as
defense secretary has been stalled
while a Senate committee investi-
E tes allegations that include former
siness ties to defense contractors,
alcohol problems and womanizing.
President Bush, however, has con
tinued to support his selection of the
former Texas senator.
"Just speaking as an average citi
zen, I think he's being treated pretty
toughly and it's being dragged on a
very long time,” Mosbacher said of
Tower.
He said he did not know if Bush
had another person in mind should
Tower pull out or if the Senate de
cides to reject the nomination.
Mosbacher, however, joked about
his own easy approval by the Senate,
saying he was told the unanimous
vote would be the high point of his
career in Washington.
The Houston oilman, making his
first appearance in his hometown
since taking the federal job, lobbied
business and political figures to sup
port the president's budget propo
sals unveiled last week.
"All these things must be*done
and must be done quickly,” he said
of the budget proposals. "If not,
we’ll fall under the Gramm-Rud-
man-Hollings (budget cutting) bill.
“And well go into these seques
tered mandated cuts and as we see in
our own businesses, it's usually the
least efficient way to do it. The only
way we’re going to get these deficits
down and move the country the way
George Bush wants it ... is to move
his proposals through the Con
gress.”
He said he did not know which
budget items the president would be
willing to compromise on.
Attorney:
will mean
AUSTIN (AP) — A bill to over
haul the Texas workers' compensa
tion system won Republican and
business endorsements Monday, but
it was blasted by an attorney who
said it would result in higher premi
ums.
“The basic problem is that the bill
doesn’t have anything in it (hat con
trols rates.” said David Perry of Cor
pus Christi, president of the Texas
Trial Lawyers Association.
“The rates going up has been a
problem of the failure of the State
Board of Insurance to control the in
surance industry, and this bill does
nothing meaningful that speaks to
that,” he said.
Premiums for workers' compensa
tion have increased more than 100
percent since 1985. and another 19
percent increase took effect Jan. 1.
Meanwhile, some say, benefits paid
to workers injured on the job are in
adequate.
House Bill 1, which would over
haul the system, had its first hearing
Monday before the House Business
and Cximmerce Committee.
Perrv said the workers' compensa
tion dilemma is “a phony crisis that
has been engineered by the insur
ance companies where, they have
manipulated nurtibers u> force rates
up, even though the nze of the
awards has gonetiown ^“ /
When inflation is taken into ac
count, Perry said, the average size of
settlements has gone down over the
last 10 years.
Richard Geiger, representing the
Texas Compensation Insurance As
sociation, said numbers aren’t being
manipulated.
“The numbers are kept in the pre
cise way that the state board and the
stale laws require them to be kept,”
he said.
Dixie Evatt, Insurance Board
spokeswoman, said a public hearing
is part of the rate-setting process and
the board has input from numerous
groups.
The question of whether to use in
dustry or board staff data on issues
relevant to rate-making, such as
losses, has been aired, she said. The
board uses the data in different
ways.
Perry said House Bill 1 would "re
sult in a substantial increase in the
premiums that will be paid by the
employer.”
Businesses involved with maritime
transportation that are under a fed
eral system similar to the one pro
posed in the bill currently pav
Workers’ comp bill
higher premiums
higher rates than other Texas com
panies. he said.
The bill would require “a substan
tial amount of litigation to figure out
what it all means." he said, and the
administrative process set out under
the bill woula require attorneys.
Meanwhile, he said, insurance car
riers would set their reserves highei
"to compensate for the uncertain
ties.”
But Rep. Richard Smith, R-Bryan,
said. “It is going to cause rates to go
down, and not go up."
The state would closely review
medical costs under the bill, he said.
Criminal sanctions would be applied
for fraudulent behavior, he said,
and the state also would have a “bet
ter handle on the insurance industry
and the wav they conduct their busi
ness."
The proposed restructuring of
the system's governing board and
changing the adjudication process
for settling claims also woula lower
costs, he said.
f»eiger said whether the proposed
system would be less costly would de
pend on how it was administered.
In Advance
C.A.R.E^week emphasizes rape prevention
By Juliette Rizzo
STAFF WRITER
A woman can assertively sav no
and mean it.
The focus of C.A.R.E. week —
Creating Attitudes for a Rape-
free Environment ,■— is to make
students aware that rape does ex
ist on campus and that it can be
prevented.
Audrey Smith, an assistam
with C.A.R.E. week activities, said
it needs to be made clear that the
week’s activities are not just for
women.
“As f^j as women are con
cerned they need to be aware that
rape does happen.” she said.
“They need to understand the ba
sk rules of dating and know that
they need to be aware and asser
tive.
“Men need to be aware that
they shouldn't force or coerce.
When a woman says no to a date
or to physical contact, the man
shouldn't necessarily take it as a
personal slam.”
A panel discussion. Campus Is
sues for the '90s. will be held
from 7 to 9 tonight in the Com
mons lobby tb provide informa
tion on akohol and acquaintance
rape, sexual harassment and per
sonal safety. On Wednesday from
7-9 p.m. in room 225 Rudder a
University of Houston student
will give a presentation, "Rape:
What Now?" concerning rape
and its prevention.
The week will end with Assault
Awareness, a demonstration of
using self defense as a means of
responding to an attack. The
demonstration will be Thursday
from 7-9 p.m. in the Commons
lobby.
Expert to discuss new computer math system
Dr. Stephen Wolfram, profes
sor at the University of Illinois at
L’rbana. will speak on “Mathma-
tica: A System for Doing Math
ematks bly Computer" at 2 p.m
today in 701 Rudder Tower.
Hosted by the Texas A&M De
partment of Mathematks. Wolf
ram will explain the design and
demonstrate the operation of the
system he created to do numeri
cal computations and algebraic
calculations. Mathematka also
can perform two and three-di
mensional graphks and anima
tion.
The svstem automates math
ematics by performing various
functions such as solving equa
tions. performing integration and
manipulating formulas.
Wolfram directs the Center for,
(simplex Systems Research at the
University of Illinois at L’rbana.
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It Happens to 1 in 4 Women!
It Happens to 1 in 7 Men!
Thats What Happened To Her.
A&/V WHAT ?
by Melanie Strickland
Wednesday, February 15
7:00 p.m. - 9:00 p.m. 225 MSC
Free Ice Cream Social to the Hall With the Largest Attendance.