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* * * * ■¥ * * ■¥ * * * * * * ■¥ * + ■¥ + ■+ * * * * * * * * -K ■¥ ★ * * * * ★ * ★ ★★★- If You Live Off Campus. We’re Having A Semi-Formal!!! ITS ONCE IN A 5LUE MOON Friday, Nov. 17 (Yes, it’s tonight) 8:00 - Midnight The Hilton Buy your tickets before 5:00 today at the MSC Box Office and get them for only $4 a person (that’s $8 a couple). You can also buy them at the door for $5 a person or $10 a couple. There will be a DJ, hors d’oeuvres, cash bar and dancing till midnight!! Presented by Off Campus Aggies * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * 4- * 4- * Jf Jf * 4- 4- if * If 4- 4- * Page 6 The Battalion Friday, November 17, Eiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiniiiiiii Zips 90 j It's your turn... Yearbook pictutes are being taken at AR PHOTOGRAPHY 707 Texas Ave, Suite 120B Mon-Fri, 9am-5pm (Juniors are welcome, too!) nrilL 1 !! 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Texas’ Germans rely on TV, phones for news from Berlin WALBURG (AP) — In this Central T exas hamlet, where the German accents are as thick as the foam on the beer, residents are closely following the dramatic events in their native land. “I’ve probably got a $500 phone bill because of all the calls to Germany,” Herbert Schwab, who emigrated from West Germany in 1985, becoming chef and co owner of the Walburg Restaurant, said. •East Germans call for end to Communism Page 8 •Soviets ease travel restrictions to West/Page8 A few nights ago, Schwab, who has relatives on both sides of the now-tumbling Berlin Wall, said he spoke to a friend in Munich: “He said there are 100,000 East Germans in Munich, and there is a big party going on 24 hours a day,” Schwab, 30, recounted. “He said they are drinking beer and schnapps in the street, and the police are on duty around the dock.” Residents of Walburg and dozens of other Texas communities established by German immigrants have relied on television as well as telephones to keep up with the changes sweeping Eastern Europe. “We are very interested,” Ethel Mickan of Walburg said. “We’ve been watching TV all weekend to see what’s going on.” Mickan is a direct descendent of Henry Doering, who founded Walburg in the 1870s, naming it after a village in his native Germany. Schwab is part of the more recent stream of German immigrants to Texas. He came in 1985 to visit American relatives, then re turned the same year to investigate job offers he re ceived during the three-month vacation. A butcher in New Braunfels told him about Walburg. Schwab and Ron Tippelt, a Municri native, co-own the restaurant. It is housed in the century-old Walburg Mercantile building, which Doering himself established in 1882. But Schwab is more concerned about the histoni folding in his homeland. Schwab retnentbers East Germany as a grim, anti place whose inhabitants were starved not only iorlm stuffs hut also for contact with the outside world, i? In April 1978, when Schwab was 19, an uncle in Berlin arranged for him to visit the city for two km To reach the divided city, Schwab had to drive tli: a fenced corridor across East Germany. At a rest stop on the highway, East German<m chased away people who tried to talk to Schwab, j “They asked me for chewing gum and chocolaiel the police came, and they didn’t want us to talk™ East people,” Schwab said. “They told me 1 couldt; my rest stop and smoke a cigarette, but I could no!| ole to the people. U He said there are 100,000 East Germans in Munich, and there isabig party going on 24 hours a day. They aft drinking beer and schnapps in thestree:, and the police are on duty around the clock.” — Herbert Schw* German Immign by g° ne; Gc “W he: He Ar I \ d “I found this a little bit disgusting.” His tour of East Berlin was disheartening. “When you go over and see the city, it hasn'tcliJ a lot,” Schwab said. “It looks like Germany in the H When you go over, it looks like a time change going back 30 years.” ■ Atheist sues officials over juror’s oat AUSTIN (AP) — The daughter of atheist leader Madalyn Murray O’Hair is seeking $12 million in a federal lawsuit against Travis County officials who jailed her after she refused to take a juror’s oath or affirmation. Robin Murray-O’Hair — O’Hair’s biological granddaughter and adopted daughter — initially ob jected to the words “so help me God” in the oath required of prospective jurors when she was called for jury service in December 1987. County Court-at-Law Judge Guy Herman waived the oath, but held Murray-O’Hair in contempt after she refused his offer that she take an affirmation without a reference to God. Murray-O’Hair, after being jailed for several days, was released on bond. An appeal of the contempt order later was declared moot, because Herman commuted the contempt sentence to time served, according to the lawsuit. “We have atheists who are afraid to go to jury duty because they don’t know what’ll happen to them,” Mur ray-O’Hair said. To object to taking the oath, she said, “you must draw attention to yourself.” “Atheism is not a popular position in our culture,” she said. “A lot of people are afraid of the social reper cussions of doing such a thing.” A uniform declaration, without any religious reference, that they will tell the truth should be required of all jurors, she said. In filing the lawsuit, Murray- O’Hair contends she was ® punished for exercising her dom of conscience, “psycholei manhandled” by the judge “thrown into jail with criminals Named as defendants in tl suit are the Travis County coi 111 tern, Herman and the county^ j clerk, sheriff and court bailiffs The suit seeks $2 million in damages, $3 million in damages, attorney fees $500,000 from each person involved in her incarceration “It is our opinion thatjudgj man followed the law, and i was very gracious and accoffl^ ing to her,” Travis County Att f * Ken Oden, of the lawsuit, yi “There was just no pleasing her “I suppose it’ll ultimately he ( a judge,” he said.