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It s that easy Westgate Plasma Center 4223 Wellborn Rd. 846-8855 WHOOPING COUGH (Pertussis) VACCINE STUDY We Are Beginning a New Whooping Cough Vaccine Study Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday September 12-14, 1994 (First Come, First Served Until Study Is Filled) For further information or to determine eligibility for the study Come To: Beutel Health Center, Room 233, 2nd Floor 9:00 AM - 3:00 PM (Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Sept. 12-14 ,1994) 1— Dr. John Quarles 845-3678 Page 8 • The Battalion FREE PRACTICE LSAT Tuesday • September 13, Gallery opens sex, AIDS exhibit Nunnery's museum offers link between religion, sensuality SAN ANTONIO (AP) — In an unconven tional art gallery, a new exhibit of daring oil paintings and sculptures explicitly depicts sexual acts and links them with religion. It’s a gallery run by Catholic nuns. Known as ReBarn — A Center For Spiri tuality and Art, the gallery is operated by the Sisters of Charity of the Incarnate Word. Housed in a renovated, century-old bam, the gallery sits next to the nunnery’s mother- house and retirement center. The new exhibit by Houston artist Donell Hill titled “Spiritual, Sensual, Sexual” also includes a body of work called “Inner AIDS,” depicting the plight of people with AIDS. ReBam director Sister Alice Holden said that the show is the “most upsetting” exhibit held at ReBarn since it opened about three years ago. “It was upsetting to a couple of people,” Sister Holden said. “It is explicit because it is the beautification of sexuality.” Among the exhibit pieces are flesh-colored clay sculptures of genitalia, embedded in flower-like formations and also oil paintings depicting sexual intercourse and other pas sionate expressions. One painting, which Ms. Hill calls “Initia tion,” portrays an angel having intercourse at an altar. Ms. Hill said that at a Valentine’s Day art show in Houston, a show sponsor asked her to drape a cloth over her sculptures. Sister Holden declined to say who con nected with the San Antonio religious gallery has objected to the exhibit. She said one man told her, “God has nothing to do with sex.” "It was upsetting to a couple of people. It is explicit because it is the beautification of sexuality." — Sister Holden, ReBam director “I said, ‘How can that be?”’ she recalled. Sister Holden said she prayed about whether to hold the monthlong show at the gallery. She ultimately decided the exhibit needed to be displayed because it depicts sexuality in a spiritual way and calls atten tion to AIDS. Monsignor Lawrence Stuebben, with the Archdiocese of San Antonio, said he was not aware of the exhibit and could not comment. ReBarn board member Trinidad Sanchez said he and the rest of the board support the show. Previous exhibits at the gallery — like one featuring the art of jail prisoners have been just as “strong,” he said. Sister Holden said the Bible teaches uality is a tremendous gift from God.” “I am very much opposed to pornog phy,” she said. “Yet, I do not believed exhibit) is pornography. It’s a sacred rer. ; tion of the beauty of sexuality.” Sister Holden entered the convent 1953. She became a school teacher andp; cipal, worked in juvenile treatment cent, and later studied Hinduism. These days addition to running ReBarn, she teacha new version of tai chi. Ms. Hill said she is not part of an on nized religion, but she communicates s her “spirit.” She has shown her work with ot! artists in Houston and New York. Th Hill’s First solo show, and it is the debi her “Inner AIDS” portraits. Ms. Hill began the 11 AIDS works inj uary of this year. She interviewed people with AIDS, vie taped the sessions and then tried to capti their struggles on canvas. One portrait depicts a man burning o: crucifix: another shows a woman with children next to a brick wall with syrinr overhead; yet another is of a man sitti amid total darkness. “There’s a fine line between compass: and pity,” the artist said. “This is not being negative. It’s about a sadness.” Compaq introduces new ProLiant line HOUSTON (AP) — Compaq Computer Corp., seeking a bigger piece of the corpo rate computing pie, today introduces a new line powered by up to four 100-megahertz Pentium processors. The new members of its ProLiant family of servers also include the first fruits of Compaq’s alliance with Oracle, a database software company. The machines are aimed at businesses that must juggle, maintain and sift through large amounts of information, said Mary McDowell, Compaq’s director of systems product mark -ting. “A typical customer fo th : s k'- d of com puter would be, say, a company Uiat doe* lot of direct marketing,” Ms. McDowell said. Compaq, which has been expanding its line of servers to include more powerful machines, is moving further into territory long held by IBM and Digital Equipment Corp. The new machines will run Intel’s top-of- the-line Pentium processors, in either the 90-megahertz or 100-megahertz versions. The faster chips will not be available until the fourth quarter of 1994. As many as four chips can be installed in one box, allowing the servers to conduct as many as 628 transactions per second. A transaction, Ms. McDowell explained, would be akin to a teller entering a doposit into a bank’s database. The servers also feature an optional de vice Compaq calls the “transaction blaster,” a form of memory that dramatically spee: up the machine. Estimated prices on the machines star at 820,500 for a ProLiant 2000 model 1050, which would have a single 90-megi hertz Pentium chip, 32 megabytes of ra: dom access memory and 1 gigabyte bar: disk drive. 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