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The Battalion fiMPCIS News Briefs SkcMdi fraternity loses registration AUSTIN (AP) — The University of Texas has canceled the registration of the Kappa Alpha fraternity follow ing a three-month investigation into the hazing of new fraternity members. The cancellation will be in effect until Dec. 31,1999, after which the chapter will be on suspension for a year and probation for another year. The school said can cellation is the strongest penalty available in disciplin ing student organizations. "It was evident that a pattern of hazing existed in the organization's new member programs," Sharon H. justice, UT's dean of students, said Wednesday. "It is unfortunate that the registration of a 115-year- old fraternity must be canceled, but hazing will not be tolerated on this campus," she said. A&M scientist recognized Wire report The world's leading forensic scientific and professional society has awarded distinguished top professional cer tification to Dr. B. Don Russell, associate vice chancellor for engineering in The Texas A&M University System. The American College of Forensic Examiners (ACFE) has granted diplomate status in the independent pri vate society to Russell, also deputy director of the Texas Engineering Experiment Station (TEES) and a Texas A&M electrical engineering professor. Diplomate certification is a peer-review process and recognizes excellence in the profession of forensic examination. A forensic examiner is a professional who performs an orderly analysis, investigation, inquiry, test, inspec tion or examination in an attempt to obtain the truth to make an expert opinion. check out m new digital modile phone...its got HO DIFFERENT SONG THEMES PROGRAMMED INTO IT THAT CAH BE USED AS RING TONES. COOLf HERE - LET ME SET / ET UP FOR ftXJ THEM. SORRY, "ME SO HORNY AWW, POOP! The Greys By Gall Texas benefits from art donation CHICAGO (AP) — Sara Lee Corp. is giving major works by some of the art world's modern masters to the Art Institute of Chica go and 19 other U.S. museums in one of the largest corporate art do nations in U.S. history. Among the recipients are the Dallas Museum of Art and the Mu seum of Fine Arts in Houston. "This gift is a millennium gift to America from one of America's greatest corporations," first lady Hillary Rodham Clinton said at an announcement ceremony today. The gifts, worth an estimated $100 million, are a way of "pre serving the best of the past and giv ing it the widest possible audi ence," she said. Sara Lee's collection, which in cludes works by Henri Matisse, Edgar Degas, Paul Gauguin and Camille Pissarro, is considered one of the finest corporate collec tions in the country. Eventually, nearly 40 paintings and sculptures will be distributed. The largest number of works will go to the Art Institute of Chicago. Others receiving major works are the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York and the National Gallery of Art in Washington. John Bryan, chief executive of Chicago-based Sara Lee, said 17 oth er museums, many of them in cities the company has a big presence, also will receive one work apiece. The donated works are part of the personal collection of the late Nathan Cummings, a philan thropist and chairman of Consoli dated Foods Corp., which eventual ly became Sara Lee. The company makes such things as Hanes underwear and Coach bags as well as a variety of food products. Cummings died in 1985. In the first installment of the gift, the Art Institute will receive 10 paintings, one sculpture and one pastel drawing. The installment in cludes works by Berthe Morisot, Henry Moore, Degas and Matisse — including his "Lemons on a Pewter Plate." Metropolitan Museum of Art will get a Claude Monet — an 1872 oil of the artist's son Jean on his toy horse. The National Gallery will re ceive Roger de la Fresnaye's 1912 oil "The Bathers." A traveling exhibition of all the artworks will visit several museums starting next spring and end at the Art Institute in 2000. "This gift to the nation goes be yond corporate philanthropy as we have known it and defined it," said institute director James N. Wood. Other museums receiving works are: Cincinnati Art Museum; Co lumbia (S.C.) Museum of Art; De troit Institute of Arts; Dixon Gallery and Gardens in Memphis, Tenn.; High Museum of Art in Atlanta; Lauren Rogers Museum of Art in Laurel, Miss.; Los Angeles County Museum of Art; Minneapolis Insti tute of Arts; Museum of Contempo rary Art in Chicago; New Orleans Museum of Art; Norton Gallery and School of Art in West Palm Beach, Fla.; North Carolina Museum in Raleigh; Portland (Ore.) Museum; San Francisco Museum of Modern Art; and Virginia Museum of Fine Arts in Richmond. XT £>£ NEVER. ABDUCTING i FRO/A THAT NEIGHfloUHoc: i AGAIN 1 . 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