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Contact Leigh Ann Stovall at 764-6824 or 845-1 133 CLIFFS NOTES at an everyday discount Available at bastings We’re Entertainment!^^ Page 8 The Battalion Friday, April 8,1'/, Experts: Libraries need money, not gimmick The Associated Press DALLAS — More funding, not gimmicks, is what libraries desperately need, officials said Thursday in the wake of a stunt that sent money- hungry radio station listeners rampaging through a Fort Worth facility. “Funding is a lot more important than patron age,’’ said Michael Clark, a spokesman for the Texas State Library. “Libraries are not going beg ging for people.’’ Officials of radio station KYNG, which calls it self “Young Country,’’ have apologized for the promotional stunt and promised to cover dam ages. Hundreds of people stormed the downtown library late Tuesday, tossing more than 3,000 books to the floor, after a disc jockey told listen ers that the station had planted money there. The disc jockey later said he thought the pro motion would be a good way to get people to visit the library. Circulation of library materials and circulation of materials per capita — which are two ways to measure library usage — have increased between 1989 and 1992, according to recently released figures from the Texas State Library. Per capita local government spending has grown from more than $6 in 1982 to more than $10 in 1992. Keith Swigger, dean of the School of Library and Information Studies at Texas Woman’s Uni versity, said although per capita funding has in creased, the cost of materials has skyrocketed. “So that’s the funding crisis,” he said. Local officials often propose cutting library, parks and other services they consider “non-es sential’’ during tight fiscal times, experts said. And that’s when the facilities are needed most. “Nationwide, when times are had, more and more people turn to the public library for job in formation, for family entertainment, and all the other things that go along with a poor economic climate,” said Pat Woodrum, president of the Public Library Association. Libraries that get the majority of their funding from local governments are facing budget cuts, particularly in the metropolitan areas and on the east and west coasts, Ms. Woodrum said. California is a prime example, she said. Ac cording to the California State Librarian’s report for fall 1993, public libraries have reduced public service hours by 14 percent, closed 25 facilities X, Ms. Woodrum, who is executive direct! the Tulsa City-County Library System, said percent of her Oklahoma library system’s fund; comes from property taxes, which tends it “one of the most stable ways of financingpii| libraries that I have seen.’’ In Texas, seven percent of the money spent public libraries comes from federal andsi sources, or $ 1 3 million. Local money prov the rest. Clark said. Statewide, libraries spend about $9 per leu The national average is $ 1 7.80 per person “Local funding for major public librarif; pretty well in crisis mode. I mean, librariesdoj nave enough money to do what they need do,” he said. In addition to providing books and refertt materials, libraries increasingly are offering id education. For example, some offer literacyiii ing, English-as-a-Second-Language coursest parenting instruction, Clark said. Also, libraries face the prospect of majoroa tal outlays to buy the new computer techno!: that will put them on the information superb; way. Friday, Scientists question female fish’s attraction to male’s ’ swordtail trademark sexy The Associated Press NEW YORK — Swordtail fish, placid inhabi tants of many home aquariums, have scientists awash in a debate over sex and the single fin. Male swordtails sport sword-like extensions from their tail fins. Charles Darwin said the sword may have be come the species’ trademark because some ances tral female found it sexy. Perhaps, he theorized, the female preferred to mate with the occasional mutant male that had one, and together they pro duced offspring that retained the feature. At issue is whether females developed an at traction after that trait showed up, or whether they had already developed a yen for some physi cal aspect, like color, that just happened to be ful filled by the sword. A highly publicized study in 1990 argued for this second iaea. The swordtail is often cited to support the idea that such prior female yearnings explain the evo lution of some male traits in some species. The 1990 study was done by Alexandra Bosolo of the University of California, Santa Barbara. She showed that among sword-less relatives of sword tails, called platyfish, females were in fact attract ed to males that sported a bogus sword. The traditional evolutionary family tree that in cludes swordtails and platyfish implied that this preference came before swords developed in an cestors of swordtails. In Thursday’s issue of the journal Nature, other researchers say their new family tree comes to-*A different conclusion. It suggests that the ancient fish that gave rise to all platyfish and swordtails probably liad a sword. So the preference Basolo found apparently did not come before swords de veloped, conclude Axel Meyer of the State Univer sity of New York at Stony Brook and colleagues. The sword and the female preference probably evolved hand-in-hand, Meyer said. The study, based on comparing gene fragments from 28 species, concluded that the sword was lost in some species. In an interview, Basolo said she now has evi dence that the female preference for the sword is even older than the common ancestor of platyfish and swordtails. She found the preference in a closely related group of swordless fish, suggesting an older evolutionary origin. Meyer says the question is not yet solved. Even more distantly related fish like guppies can sport small swords, which suggests that swords go back even further into evolutionary time, he said. Basolo says the sword fin in distantly related fish may have evolved independently. Meyer said he is not ready to accept that argument. Superman battles Doomsday in final DC Comic rematch thriller The Associated Press NEW YORK — It’s a rematch that guaran tees more thrills than this year’s Dallas Cow boy-Buffalo Bills super bore blowout: Super man, back from the great beyond, is pairing off against the creature that killeu him. Doomsday. The sequel to the best-selling super-slaugh ter hits newsstands next week. It’s the first part of a three-part miniseries titled “Superman- Doomsday: Hunter-Prey,’’ according to DC Comics. Doomsday and Superman first tangled in Superman No. 75, when both died after a ti tanic struggle in November 1992. A little ink. eraser, and a few plot twists broiw! ck to life, setting up Superman-Doom; a littl both I day II. It turns out Superman didn’t handledyii very well. He’s haunted by a recurring nigli mare of his death, and driven to find out Doomsday is actually dead or revived. In addition to Doomsday, Superman mu also deal with Hank Henshaw — a nastycr borg who tried to lay claim to the Man Steed’s cape after his death Superman vai quished Henshaw after his resurrection By issue No. 3, tl There’s no word on tin perman: DC editors turn that he could nc cattle will be or the winner, hut bet onk- said at the time of his t die and come bad agam Midland gay—rights group plans rally to protest sentencing of murderer 'File Associated Press MIDLAND — Gays, lesbians and others out raged by a murderer’s lenient prison sentence plan to protest wdrat they say is bias against ho mosexuals. Organizers hope Saturday’s “Justice for All” rally in downtown Midland calls attention to the 1 2-year term Ramsey Harrell received for shoot ing Tommy Mtisick‘four times in the back of the head last April. Attorneys fob Harrell portrayed their 1 8-year- old client as fearful of being sexually assaulted by Musick, 48. But the Lesbian and Gay Rights Lobby of Texas, which is helping plan the rally, says Har rell and co-defendant Michael Scott Thomas in tended to rob Musick. The Austin-based organi zation says the defendants should be convicted of capital murder. “This case illustrates that not only are lesbians and gays victims of violence in Texas, but les bians and gays are also not treated fairly by the judicial system,’’ said Dianne Hardy-Garcia, ex ecutive director of the gay-rights group. But defense attorney Vern Martin said Ms. Hardy-Garcia’s group misunderstood the trial and is overreacting. “The fact that Mustek’s homosexuality was brought up in the trial was simply related to the fact that Harrell said this gay fellow aggres sively was trying to seduce two young kids, which was the precipitating factor for the shooting,’’ Martin said. “This case illustrates that no only are lesbians and gay victims of violence in Texas, but lesbians and gays are ak not treated fairly by the judi system.” — Dianne Hardy-Gam executive dimW of the gay-rights growl eia Musick was shot with a .22-caliber handle as he sat in his car just a few doors downfror. his home. Midland County authoritiessii: Thomas — Musick’s neighbor — had asked Mu sick for a ride. The body was dumped in an isolated areati the county. District Attorney Al Schorre, who prosecute! the case, said the rally could cause a changed venue for the Thomas trial. Schorre said the jury made its decision bass on Harrell’s personality and history, rather (' Musick’s sexual orientation. But the Rev. Billy Charles Cawley, pastore Prodigal Ministries Community Churchii Odessa, said the trial victimized Musick again. fl Tickets ‘T ( UTO%J9{G > will be on sale Sunday 4/10, 3-5 p.m. Bill’s Mon. 4/11 Tue. 4/12 Wed. 4/13 Thur. 4/14 3 p.m. CHEM. 102 CH 21 CHEM. 102 CH 23, 24 CHEM. 102 CH 31 CHEM. 102 Practice Exams 4 7 p.m. CHEM. 102 CH 21 CHEM. 102 CH 23, 24 CHEM. 102 CH 31 CHEM. 102 Practice Exams 4 9 p.m. CHEM. 102 CH 21 CHEM. 102 CH 23, 24 CHEM. 102 CH 31 CHEM. 102 Practice Exams 4 11 p.m. CHEM. 101 CH 11 CHEM. 101 CH 12 CHEM. 101 CH 13 CHEM. 101 Practice Exams 4 Sun. 4/10 Mon. 4/11 Tue. 4/12 Wed. 4/13 9 p.m. PHYS. 218 CH 10 5 p.m. PHYS. 218 CH 11, 12 PHYS. 218 CH 13 PHYS. 218 Practice Exams 4 Art’s Sun. 4/10 Mon. 4/11 Tue. 4/12 Wed. 4/13 Thurs. 4/14 3 p.m. ACCT. 229 Test Review 5 p.m. MATH 151 CH 3,4 MATH 151 CH 4 MATH 151 CH 4 MATH 151 Test Review 6 p.m. FINC 341 Test Review 7 p.m. ACCT 230 CH 9 ACCT. 230 CH 11, 12 ACCT. 230 CH 13, 14 ACCT. 230 Test Review 9 p.m. BANA 303 CH 7, 8 9 p.m. BANA. 303 CH 8, 9 BANA. 303 CH 9 BANA. 303 Test Review MATH 152/161 Test Review 11 p.m. MATH 152/161 CH 10 MATH 152/161 CH 10 MATH. 152/161 CH 10 1095 Aggieland Applications are available in room 012 Reed McDonald from 10-3. 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