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At Ease Wednesday • September 24,199 Wed; Campus Calendar Sk By Qiiatn Wednesday CIS: “E-mail on VM/CMS” will be held from 12-2 p.m. in 1002 Teague. Reg ister at www.tamu.edu/CIS/short courses. Call 845-8300 for more in formation. CIS: “Intro to MS Windows” will be held from 11 a.m.-12 p.m. in 137 West Campus Library. Register at www.tamu.edu/CIS/short courses. Call 845-8300 for details. Student Counseling Center: There will be a discussion session for In ternational students from 5:15 p.m.- 6:30 p.m. in room 104 Henderson. Group is for international and do mestic students who wish to interact and share their cultural heritage and to learn about the Aggie cultures. Dif ferent topics will be discussed every week. For more information contact Dr. Gisele Lin at 845-4427 ext. 145 or Dr. Carlos Orozco at 845-4427 ext. 144 Campus Calendar is a Bat talion service that lists non profit student and faculty events and activities. Items should be submitted no lat er than three days in ad vance of the desired run date. Application deadlines and notices are not events and will not be run in Cam pus Calendar. If you have any questions, please call the newsroom at 845-3313. I ALTHOUGH HE TIEP HER UP IN KNOTS WITH HIS AMAZING FEATS Of 0RAV6KY, SHE t-OVEP HIM 3UST THE SAME- AFTEKAU, HE WAS HER SQUEMATE. A su T Author Continued from Page 1 Newman said she wrote the book hoping that the story would help build the self-esteem of chil dren from homosexual families. When Newman completed the book in 1988, she sent it to over fifty publishing companies and was de nied publication by all of them. She self-published her novel in Decem ber 1989. Newman said she did not intend to start a controversy with her book. “I didn’t think anyone would be interested,” she said. “I just thought that lesbian moms would buy it for their children. 1 didn’t realize that the book would propel me into po litical activism.” In 1991, Newman’s book began getting media attention with an ar ticle in the Lifestyles section of Newsweek. Places as far away as Italy and people as prominent as Speaker of the U.S. House Newt Gingrich started to hear about her book. The book was stolen from li braries and returned with the pages glued together. By 1994, the book was the second most banned book in the United States, behind Michael Willhoite’s children’s book Daddy’s Roommate. Heather Has Two Mommies has been recognized as the sixth most banned book of the ’90s. Newman said she knows the book is controversial, but there is no reason to deny others the opportu nity to read it. “Every child deserves the right to be loved and to have their civil rights,” she said. “It is definitely the adults, not the children, who can’t take the sex out of homosexuality.” The book has been challenged in school districts throughout the na tion. New York City, which has the largest public school system in the country, tried to implement New man’s book as a part of their Rain bow Curriculum program. The pro gram wanted to teach first graders about the importance of diversity in all areas, including homosexuals. Newman, who has been coined as the “most dangerous writer in America,” is an activist, poet and author of twenty-three books. Ewe Hall By JED Heroism Continued from Page 1 “The primary extraordinariness of women in high er education is in their numbers,” she said. Matthews said the focus on faculty women’s ap pearances is another example of different standards for men and women. “Female bodies are available for commentary and consumption,” she said. “In some offices on campus pantyhose are required. Women are invisible even when they are too visible.” Matthews said by worshipping female icons or hero ines, the contributions of ordinary women are ignored and undervalued. The speech is the fourth in the Fallon-Marshall lec ture series. The series is named for former Dean of the College of Liberal Arts Daniel Fallon and philanthropist Mary Marshall. Dr. Steve Rholes, associate dean of the college, said the Fallon-Marshall lectures serve as a mechanism for better understanding among the liberal arts disci plines. “The Fallon-Marshall lectures involve issues of gen eral concern as they apply to faculty of the humanities, social and behavioral sciences,” he said. Matthews specializes in feminist criticism and women writers. Much of her work focuses on Southern female writers and literary characters. She is writing a book on Joan of Arc’s position as a myth and hero in American society. plot of 1 have bt seeds tf lect an growth Simel & Lewis Theft Continued from Page 1 SMS HERE THAT AN iNFiNrre. of /*\oHkey5 and rfpeuR.n'eft.b UILL EVeNTUALUT PRODUCE EVERY goo*. ever vjr\tt£N. DELU, iJiF FOVND TWO n ON KEY* AND A CHICKEI, THU A'A'f TAKE A UH|Lf IF \J£ LAhl eiooOoh (AoaIkeTSj ‘ can vO our PAPERS. 1 “This program encourages stu dents to engrave their drivers’ li cense number on valuable prop erty that is easily stolen —VCRs, televisions, computers and bicy cles are all good examples,” he said. “It is impossible to return some of these items, like bikes, when we have no way of knowing who they belong to.” Baron said that A&M students lose more than $40,000 in bicycles and bicycle parts each year. Kretzschmar said some people trick themselves into a false sense of security because they feel the Bryan- College Station area is a safe place or because they came from small towns. He said this happens on every college campus in the United States. “I call it the ‘Superman Syn drome,”’ he said. “Students think just because they are on a college campus that they are safe. They be come careless and don’t use com- pleasinj The I tion foo Camera farm lie and exh roads. B Weather Outlook ml corn: lines of i hood at hatred. Mich Lange p and Gin what ap the com farms, p family d mon bo hibit in 1 FRIDAY SATURDAY SUNDAY mon sense. Partly cloudy High: 84° Low: 56° Partly cloudy High: 85° Low: 61 ° Thunderstorms High: 85° Low: 65 CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE AGENCY COMPUTER SCIENTISTS, COMPUTER ENGINEERS, ELECTRICAL ENGINEERS, INFORMATION TECHNOLOGISTS & MATHEMATICIANS CIA...An Opportunity That Makes A Difference Work with experts in your field. Continue your education. 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