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D The Battalion EBRIEFING Thursday • October31 ( li Picture Perfect Heidi Bludau, an educational and curricular in struction graduate student, dry mounts pho tographs Wednesday at the MSC University Plus. ► Campus Centerpole to arrive at Bonfire site today Centerpole will arrive at the Bon fire site today at 4:03 p.m. and will be erected Thursday, Nov. 7, also at 4:03 p.m. The last cut will be Saturday, Nov. 9. Stack begins the same day. Bonfire will burn Tuesday, Nov. 26. Engineers’ council honored nationally The Texas A&M Student Engi neers’ Council was named the Most Outstanding Council in the nation by the elected National As sociation of Engineering Student Council executive board at a na tional conference at Wright State University in Dayton, Ohio. Delegates attended the four-day conference from Oct. 24 to Oct. 27. The award was given to the council which best exhibited a com bination of community involvement, student representation, a major event, student development and im provements over the past year. ► State Baylor demotes two outspoken profs WACO, Texas (AP) — Two tenured professors who publicly criticized Baylor University policies under President Robert Sloan have been relieved of their administrative du ties at the Baptist school. Sloan cited “intemperate” re marks in demoting Henry Walbess- er, a four-year dean of Baylor’s Grad uate School, and Michael Bishop, chairman of the Journalism Depart ment for 10 months and acting chairman for three years. The men were among Baylor faculty and staff members who spoke publicly about fears that academic freedom at the nation’s largest Baptist university is suffer ing under Sloan. Sloan said some faculty mem bers place academics before reli gion, and that won’t work at Baylor. Critics allege that Sloan is weed ing out those who don’t meet his strict religious standards and that professors have been denied tenure, lecturers fired and job candi dates run off for not being suffi ciently devout. Bishop and Walbesser expressed reluctance to talk about being fired from their administrative posts. Walbesser was recently quoted as saying he hopes differences at the school don’t spill over into the courtroom. “It will take a number of legal suits that cost the university mon ey, and that will gain everybody’s at tention," Walbesser told The Dallas Morning News earlier this month. “It is almost like the story of the jackass and the 2-by-4. You've got to get the person's attention, and you whack ’em. Whacking 'em here tends to be more about money." Among the matters Bishop discussed was his urging that the school return a $50,000 grant for a journalism job market survey from a foundation with links to several conservative me dia groups. ► People in the news Tina Turner finds home, love abroad NEW YORK (AP) — Tina Turner found out that love has a lot to do with it. The 57-year-old rock legend who taught the world how to dance in high heels lives with German record executive Erwin Bach in Nice, France, and also has a house in Zurich, Switzerland. She hasn’t lived in the United States for about 15 years. “Success in America — what I find with my homeland — nothing lasts very long," Turner told CBS’ 60 Minutes in an interview for broadcast Nov. 10. “Europe is dif ferent. You're right there with them until you come back." “In my heart, I don’t think I will go back home,” she said. Turner does, however, plan to do an extensive American tour next spring. Strug to marshal Fiesta Bowl Parade TEMPE, Ariz. (AP) —v Kerri Strug has vault ed her way to the top of the MicroAge Fies ta Bowl Parade. The 19-year- old gymnast was named Wednes day as grand marshal of the New Year's Eve parade in Phoenix. Strug "This is the perfectoppc for the citizens of Arizona!! brate with Kerri and lier(l moment as one oftlie thrilling performers in0! history," Bowl presided Balich said. Strug catapulted to fa® her vault on an injure clinched the first-ever go 1 for the U.S. women'sgpj team during the SummerSa “If I could be a grandra I definitely want it to beat! esta Bowl because it’s zona,” said Strug,anativei son. “Doing something!!.: makes me feel great." George Lucas| multimedia eti MSC Film Theater Cc Hotard Ha ing Hotard Trick or Tr staff is in on Norths! freshment: SAN RAFAEL, Calif. (AP)- force was with George Lucasi crusade to expand hiseice ment and computer empire. Marin County supervise 1 unanimously Tuesday to aira cas' proposal for construdMi $87 million digital filmandd tive multimedia compound. "I'm glad we finallymarag reach this level,’ the creatoi Star Wars trilogy said after? vote. "After all this energy am it's great to be over this hurrfe' Lucas said he hopes to! ground within two years on?f ject that would adjoin Skyi Ranch, his headquartersial ern California since 1979. Some neighbors of lira ranch had complained thet sion would bring heavy traffi disrupt life for the well-todos of San Francisco. RHA is ho | through dc idren of B- from 7 p.rr Haas, a No val for the i participatin SThe Fowler ihaunted f cents adm from 9:30 lounge. jHart and i their Sout [community the RHAIIo MSC Ceph Sci-Fi Disc jit is a can I and a cost This day in history ► Weather (AP) — Today is Thursday, Oct. 31, the 305th day of 1996. There are 61 days left in the year. This is Halloween. On this date: In 1517, Martin Luther posted the 95 Theses on the door of the Wittenberg Palace church, marking the start of the Protestant Reformation in Germany. In 1864, Nevada became the 36th state. In 1926, magician Harry Houdini died in Detroit of gangrene and peritonitis resulting from a rup tured appendix. In 1941, the Navy destroyer Reuben James was tor pedoed by a German U-boat off Iceland with the loss of 115 lives, even though the United States had not yet entered World War II. In 1956, Rear Adm. GJ. Dufek became the first per son to land an airplane at the South Pole. In 1968, President Lyndon Johnson ordered a halt to all bombing of North Vietnam, saying he hoped for fruit ful peace negotiations. In 1994, 68 people were killed when an American Eagle ATR-72, en route from Indianapolis to Chicago, crashed in northern Indiana. One year ago: Stung by defeat in the secession refer endum, Quebec Premier Jacques Parizeau said he would resign as head of the bitterly divided province at year’s end. Today Tonight Tomorrow Highs & Lon ► Today’s birthdays 85°F lonight'sExpfuii 67°F Tomorrow CBS anchorman Dan Rather is 65. Rhythm-and-blues singer Otis Williams (The Temptations) is 54. Actress Sally Kirkland is 52. Singer Kinky Friedman is 52. Ac tress Deidre Hall is 48. NBC anchorwoman Jane Pauley is 46. Rap musician Adrock is 30. Rap performer Vanil la Ice is 28. Partly cloudy with southeast winds at 5-10 mph. Mostly cloudy with southeast winds at 10 mph. A 30 percent chance of rain with winds from the southeast at 10 mph. 83°f Tomorrow^! 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