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Page 4 The Battalion Tuesday, February 21,1989 Professor studies morals of bullfights, Christianity By Denise Thompson STAFF WRITER “Like any other creature, the bull is going to die. It is not a question of whether he deserves to die. No crea ture deserves to die; no creature doesn’t deserve to die.” Tim Mitchell, visiting assistant professor of Spanish, said this to summarize the point of his lecture, “Exemplary Cruelty: The Bullfight versus Christianity.” Mitchell, who carried out research in Spain, presented a lecture to a au dience of about 30 Monday night concerning the religious obsession of scholars concerning the bullfight. Although Mitchell’s original re search topic concerned the poetic vi olence of Spain’s ballads, he said the death of a famous Spanish bul lfighter lead him to focus on the morality of bullfighting. Because most of the scholars studying bullfights suggest the bull is a sacrifice and the matador a priest, Mitchell said he based his theory on what a bullfight did not mean. “With their light, I was able to see what the bullfight wasn’t,” he said. “It wasn’t a sacrifice in the conven tional meaning of a sacrifice. It wasn’t a ritual in the conventional meaning of a ritual. It wasn’t about male and female relations or sex roles. I have been able to decons truct previous scholarship by by 0530 Idemonstrating all of the things that the bullfight wasn’t.” Mitchell then focused his thoughts to discerning what a bul lfight is. He had to answer several questions before he could reach an answer. “Isn’t bullfighting rather immoral when you get right down to it?” he asked. “What right do the Spanish have to make a fiesta out of animal killing? Does not this sport perpetu ate the same ignorance of the victim that Jesus Christ came to reveal? How is it that Spain, one of the most Catholic and God-fearing countries in the world, could harbor this al leged immorality within its busom?” Although the questions posed j great deal of concern, Mitchell said he came to one conclusion each tiijf he asked a question. “The sad truth is, if there was ns violence and no victims, men and women would still die,” he said “The bullfight has nothing to hid and nothing to apologize for. No Spaniard is fool enough tothinktliai the bull is evil and deserves to Ik punished. To turn around andclain that the bull is an innocent victimis to miss the point altogether. “Is the bullfight cruel? Of count But no crueller than death itself.il one thinks that death is of the natiirt of things, the reaction willbemort reflexive. Why does nature wipeom whole populations with disaster, 1 Why does she capriciously makeont man an athlete and another a dwarf As a realistic cultural text about death, the bullfight replicates tbf blind workings of nature herself.” Mitchell used the lecture as a spiv posium for feedback before hisworl is published at the end of the year. Activists ask state legislature to regulate pesticides in Texas AUSTIN (AP) — A coalition of environmental and consumer groups, claiming that Congress has failed to adequately regulate pesticides, Monday called on the Texas Legislature to do the job instead. “The system established by the government to test pesticides to assure they are safe to use has failed, as has the process designed to remove especially dangerous pesticides from the market,” Tom Smith of the group Public Citizen said. “The Texas Legislature will have to step in where the feds have failed,” he added. Smith’s group, along with the Sierra Club, Consum ers Union and Texas Center for Policy Studies, said the use of pesticides is increasing. “Seventeen years ago, the Environmental Protection Agency was directed to evaluate the health effects of the pesticides existing on the market without adequate tests. Today, more than half of those pesticides remain essentially untested, and several pesticides that have been proven to present significant health risks remain on the market,” said John Hildreth of Consumers Union. Ken Kramer, director of the Texas chapter of tbe Sierra Club, said that Texas doesn’t keep accurate re cords of pesticide use. California does, however, and Kramer said more than 90 million pounds of pesticides were usedtheirb 1982. “And Texas has a larger number of acres of agricul tural land being treated with pesticides than Californu does, but not as large a population. Thus, pesticideost in Texas is massive,” he said. Hildreth noted that residential pesticide use is in creasing with more homeowners purchasing proles sional extermination and lawn care services, saymgtlit problem affects more than just rural residents. “Consumers in cities and suburbs use five times more pesticides per acre than farmers, and residential use is increasing rapidly,” he said. Smith said that Congress’ failure means the Legis lature should “take action to assure the products wel use are safe." The groups called on lawmakers to require than pesticide be proven safe before it could be used. Senate repeals little-known Medicaid law AUSTIN (AP) — The Senate on Monday voted to repeal a law that apparently slipped unnoticed through the 1987 Legislature and raised the ire of the elderly in Texas. The law, which was never ap plied, would have allowed the De partment of Human Services to re cover the property and estates of nursing home patients and other Medicaid recipients after they died. The bill to repeal it was sent to the House with a 28-2 vote. The idea was to recoup money for the Medicaid program. The provision was included in an 86- page bill whose main purpose was to authorize continuation of the hu man services agency. After the DHS in early 1988 pub lished rules to implement the law, concerns were raised by legislators and general public, as well as the el derly. Some attribute Sen. Temple Dickson’s victory over former Sen. Grant Jones in the Democratic pri mary to Dickson’s effective cam paign use of Jones’ vote for the bill containing the Medicaid lien provi sion. Bill sponsor Hugh Parmer said, “The first principle this bill illus trates is that we ought to read care fully lengthy bills and be sure we know everything that’s in them. “The second principle is, when we make a mistake ... we ought to be willing to stand up and say we made a mistake. We ought to fix it, and that’s what Senate Bill 1 does. It repeals the authority, which we should never have given the De partment of Human Services, to place liens against the homes of Medicaid recipients.” Sen. Carl Parker said he was “confused by the logic behind this bill.” “How does protecting an inheri tance of young, healthy folks that don’t care enough about their par ents to take care of them help other old people?” Parker asked. “It just takes money out of the pot that would be available for other needy old people.” Parmer, D-Fort Worth, said, “I think what you will find most of the time is that not only are mom and dad poor, but the kids are poor too, and this old home is about the only thing left that mother and dad have to leave those children. “It just doesn’t make any sense, if you want to expand Medicaid, to make the poorest people in Texas —who are ultimately themselves likely to be the recipients — pay the freight for expanding Medicaid,” he said. What’s Up Tuesday DATA PROCESSING MANAGEMENT ASSOCIATION: Texas Instruments will offer information on careers in data processing at 7 p.m. in the University Inn Penthouse Suite. COSGA: will have a general committee meeting at 7 p.m. in 410 Rudder. THE PLACEMENT CENTER: will have a job search workshop at 5:15 p.m.in 410 Rudder. MINORITY ASSOCIATION OF PRE-HEALTH AGGIES: will meet at7p.m.in 607 Rudder. WICI: will meet at 6 p.m. in 215 Reed McDonald. FORT WORTH HOMETOWN CLUB: will meet at 7:30 p.m. in 704 Rudder. SADDLE AND SIRLOIN: will meet at 7 p.m. in 115 Kleberg. PRE MED/DENT SOCIETY: Dr. William Fife will talk about “Hyperbaric Medici ne” at 7 p.m. in 204 Harrington. ACM: will have a bowling party at 9 p.m. at Chimney Hill Bowling Lanes. AGGIE GOP/COLLEGE REPUBLICANS: will meet at 8:30 p.m. in 308 Rudder. ECONOMICS SOCIETY: will meet at 7 p.m. in 510 Rudder. ARLINGTON HOMETOWN CLUB: will meet at 7 p.m. in 205 MSC. RHA FRESHMAN LEADERSHIP PROGRAM: will meet at 7 p.m. in 607 Rud der. INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS ASSOCIATION: will meet at 7 p.m. in 127 Blocker. MSC GREAT ISSUES: will meet at 7 p.m. in 404 Rudder. TAMU ANTHROPOLOGY SOCIETY: will meet at 7:30 p.m. at the Flying Tit mato. INTERNATIONAL WEEK: committee for Buffet International will meet at 8:30 p.m. in 502 Rudder. LE CERDE FRANCAIS: will meet at 8:30 p.m. in 125 Academic. ALCOHOLICS ANONYMOUS: will meet at noon. Call the C.D.P.E. at 845-0280 for more details. DEBATE SOCIETY: will present their first semester debate resolved: “Texas should abolish capital punishment” at 7 p.m. in 601 Rudder. ON CAMPUS CATHOLICS: will discuss Mary and the Rosary at 9 p.m. atAII Faiths Chapel. PRO-CHOICE AGGIES: an informational meeting at 8:30 p.m. at 202 BLin coln (across from University Cycle). This is a new organization and anyone interested should attend and share ideas. RECREATIONAL SPORTS: will have registration from 8 a.m. - 5:30 p.m. in15S Read for a rock climbing clinic, spring break rafting/kayaking trip, handball dou bles, basketball 3 point show, billiard singles, canie trip, mountain bike trip, horseshoe doubles and wrestling. Wednesday AGGIE SPELEOLOGICAL SOCIETY: will meet at 8:30 p.m. in 504 Rudder. EPISCOPAL STUDENT CENTER: will have Holy Eucharist at 6:15 p.m.attrie Episcopal Student Center. NEWMAN: will have a special liturgy and a mid week study break at 7:30 p.m.al St. Mary's Student Center. CATHOLICS ON THE QUAD: will discuss “Sex and the Single Catholic” alS p.m. in Lounge B on the quad. TAMU SAILING CLUB: will meet at 7 p.m. at Mr. Gatti’s. TAMU SPORTS CAR CLUB: will meet at 7 p.m. in Rudder. AGGIES ABROAD: will meet at 7 p.m. in 305 Rudder. BLACK AWARENESS COMMITTEE: will have an executive officers meeting a! 5:15 p.m. in 146 MSC. STUDY ABROAD OFFICE: will have an informational meeting about studyingia Denmark at 10 a.m. in Bizzell West. There will also be information given at II a.m. about Fulbright grants and Marshall scholarships. CAMAC: will meet at 7 p.m. in 301 Rudder. NATIONAL ASSOCIATION OF BLACK ACCOUNTANTS: will meet at 7 p.m io 604 Rudder. UNITARIAN UNIVERSITY ASSOCIATION: will have an Italian potlucksuppei at 7 p.m. at 307 Columbia. AUSTIN HOMETOWN CLUB: will meet at 6 p.m. in 704 AB Rudder. RHA: will have President’s Round Table at 8:30 p.m. in 704 Rudder. OUTDOOR RECREATION CLUB: will meet at 7 p.m. in 704 Rudder. UNITED CAMPUS MINISTRIES: will have an Aggie supper at 6 p.m. at A&H Presbyterian Church. STUDENTS OVER 25: will meet at 7 p.m. at K-Bob’s restaurant. Bring you friends and spouses. ALCOHOLICS ANONYMOUS: will meet at noon. Call the C.D.P.E. at845-0280 for more details. 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