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CIS: “E-mail on VM/CMS” will be held
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ister at www.tamu.edu/CIS/short
courses. Call 845-8300 for more in
formation.
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held from 11 a.m.-12 p.m. in 137
West Campus Library. Register at
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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
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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.
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“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.
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“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-
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The Ladies of Kappa
and fraternities on a
Alpha Theta would like to congratulate all sororities
wonderful rush, and welcome its 1997 Pledge Class
Amy Adams
Leigh Beaty
Catherine Blum
Michaele Booher
Paige Borchardt
Christine Bremer
Stormy Brown
Michelle Chrisco
Amy Conrey
Amy Cook
Cameron Courey
Ashley Cumley
Noelle Eason
Meghan Fleming
Meiynn Freeman
Ali Grayson
Nancy Grube
Casey Haney
Elizabeth Harris
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Kristie Keeton
Kristan King
Caroline Kohler
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Margaret Stiver
Amy Todd
Allison Underwood
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Melissa Warren
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Taylor Young