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Monday, March 6,1989 The Battalion Page 5 icut here I 3y Andrea Warrenburg REPORTER 'horn: onnection with roots, family nspires five Hispanic writers Five Hispanic writers agreed Friday that their pirational voices come from the Hispanic tra- iition of deep connection with roots and the ex- ended family. Hispanic authors spoke to a crowd of about 50 people about their inspirations — the inner and inter voices that inspire them to write. Denise Chavez, poet, playwright and prose writer from Houston, Genaro Gonzales, an au- horfrom the Rio Grande Valley, Carlos Morton, playwright from El Faso, Evangelina Vigil-Pi- non, a poet from Houston and Alejandro Mo rales, an author from California participated in the book fair sponsored by the Committee for the Awareness of Mexican-American Culture (CAMAC) and the Arte Publico Press. They said inspiration also comes from friends and environment. “I get my characters from going to the laun dromat and observing or in the elevator just lis tening to people,” Chavez, a professor of drama at the University of Houston, said. Pinon, who works for the Cultural Arts Coun cil in Houston, said, “I get my inspirations from things such as music or my grandmother. In the end, the voices all become one and we are able to talk through our characters.” Arte Publico Press, based in Houston, is the largest publisher of Hispanic writings in the United States. Most of the works published are textbooks for Hispanic literature courses and ethnic studies. “Johnny Tenorio” a play by Morton, a profes sor of psychology at the University of Texas at El Paso, was performed by Texas A&M’s Hispanic Group Theater, a newly formed division of CAMAC, on campus Thursday. Chavez will be directing a play by Morton about AIDS and high school students called “At Risk.” The play will tour Houston schools and possibly come to A&M. Chavez said, “Writers feel the need to express their worlds with others. “When we listen to our voices we can commu nicate the stories of others that may never be told. It is the vital task of a writer to communicate the silence of the people.” ''51 :h in ion >tem, cauj a lions chi cation caul ered, peoi alcohofcj inkers frl Texas At| He | mnumiM lolism niff tilt mi of Tel tias beenf • Alamo h ot prese| idents en it uld have| done inj nna’sCafl iok is bast] ice, I ed since f* tourisi i e, but sit f niblic bai| ' the upconwi Ls! yle New restaurant rescues 2 of oldest Houston oaks HOUSTON (AP) — Two of Houston’s largest and oldest trees, a pair of towering oaks on prime va cant land at the corner of West- (leitner and Augusta in southwest louston, once seemed destined to ventually give way to development. Some people urged the city to lave the towering trees by acquiring She two-acre-plus tract as park land. Aut the financially distressed city tovernment couldn’t come up with [he money to do that. Now, however. Becks Prime, a louston company, has incorporated [he massive trees into the design of a lew restaurant it has constructed at Ihe site. It appears to have done every- Ihingthat urban forestry experts call For to safeguard trees. Both trees stand about 50 feet tall. The largest one divides into two huge trunks, topped by a crown of branches measuring 100 feet across. The crown of the other stretches 80 feet across. Their root systems reach beyond their crowns. The largest has long been a favor ite with people interested in trees. Lanny Dreesen, a forestry specialist with the Texas Agricultural Exten sion Service, describes the tree as “the classic old southern live oak with spreading branches close to the ground.” “It’s a fantastic tree,” Dreesen said. No known records indicate whether the oaks sprouted naturally or settlers planted them. Estimates of their ages range from about 100 years to more than 200 years. Newspaper reports police response times vary in certain areas In Advance ion beM 1 the studi ithin the! s on the{ pill, bull >ry," Klerf joint to! ■ pill. It iij we need) Panel to discuss library education careers A program concerning careers in library science and library edu cation programs is scheduled Tuesday at 2 p.m. in 204C Evans Library. “The Future is Information; Take Charge of the Future” is open to all faculty, staff, students and anyone interested in library education. A panel composed of aca demic, public and school librari ans will present recent trends and developments in library educa tion programs and requirements for a master’s degree in library science. HOUSTON (AP) — Houston po lice officers respond to emergency calls from the exclusive River Oaks neighborhood quicker than they do to calls from crime-ridden neighbor hoods in the city, the Houston Post reported Sunday. A police spokesman says response times vary because the number of re quests for help in any given neigh borhood will vary, but some council members say that should not happen and police manpower should be in creased according to need. “For life-threatening emergen cies, the response times should be the same citywide,” said City Coun cilman Dale Gorczynski, who rep resents the crime-ridden Acres Homes area in north Houston. “There should be only minor vari ances in response times citywide. Four minutes isn’t a minor differ ence. Four minutes is a major differ ence.” According to police figures ob tained by the Post under the Texas Open Records Act, the response times across the city vary greatly, with some neighborhoods receiving E olice response to Priority 1 calls in :ss than half the time of other neighborhoocis. The average response time to River Oaks emergency calls was 6.7 minutes while police get to calls from Acres Homes residents in an average of 10.7 minutes, the newspaper said. The Post requested the average response times in 1988 for all 103 police beats in which the department assigns its officers for patrol duties. While the department had the capa bility of pulling that information from its computer-aided dispatch system, officials had never asked for response times broken down that way, a police spokesman said. The numbers show a wide dispar ity in the response times throughout the city, with police generally getting to emergencies more quickly inside Loop 610 and slower to sparsely populated areas near the city limits. Generally, northwest Houston fared better than northeast Hous ton, and the southwest fared better than the southeast, where only one police beat was below the citywide average of 8.3 minutes for 1988, the newspaper said. Some affluent neighborhoods, like River Oaks, received good police response, but other affluent neigh borhoods, like Inwood Forest in northwest Houston, had an average response time of 10.2 minutes, the Post said. 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