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Quote of the Day
Entertainment
Sports
“There is a glory in a great mistake.”
Lutcher Theatre to stage Rogers and Hammerstein
musical Saturday.
Dallas Cowboys return to Texas Stadium in
Arlington to stomp the Philadelphia Eagles.
—Nathalia Crane
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University Press
Wednesday, November 8,1995 Serving Lamar University and the community for 72 years Vol. 72, No. 19
TACT to hold appreciation reception
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umni open new chapter
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Ginger Sjolander
UP staff writer
The Texas Association of
College Teachers, or TACT,
will be sponsoring a reception
for Rep. Mark Stiles, Rep. A1
Price and Sen. Mike
Galloway Thursday on the
eighth floor of Gray Library
from 2:30 p.m. to 3:30 p.m.
Mary Alice Baker, presi-
dent of TACT, said this infor-
mal reception
is an oppor-
tunity to
show appreci-
ation to these
individuals
for their sup-
port of
Lamar, Michael Galloway
particular-
ly during the merger with
TSUS.
“We hope all the faculty
and adminis-
tration will
stop by and
express their
appreciation
for their
strong sup-
port,” Baker
said.
Galloway
said he was very proud of the
Lamar community and how
they have assisted in the tran-
A1 Price
Sition
“Those of
us who fought
for this merg-
er did so
because we
believed it
would pro-
vide a bright
future for
Lamar,” Galloway said. “It is
clear that this bright future
has begun.”
Mark Stiles
[Last Thursday was the begirt:
■ of the Lamar University*
saumont Uuising Alumni
Chapter, The chapter was started
Mause of the number of gradu-
approaching the nursing
snt.
“It was my idea,” Doris Price-
»fealy, director of the associate
I: the fpulty ever here
at this university hired many years
ago, I fed a sense of loyalty and
^obligation to do something,”
4'TM^Nehiy' Said nobody has
ever taken the energy and said
*Let’s have a formal nursing
fefUm a Irst fcsr its, and it is
symbolic”
I Price-Nealy said she mailed
out a letter to all of the numng
alumni to see if they would be
interested in forming a formal
See CHAPTER, page 2
Joey Martin, left, a
chemical engineer-
ing freshman, pass-
es time between
classes with two of
his friends, Wilifred
Batiste, a physical
therapy major, and
Maryam Reaves, a
freshman education
major.
Photo by
Ken Wiatrek
World leaders remember Rabin;
Israeli leader buried in Jerusalem
JERUSALEM (AP) — A shak-
en world said its goodbyes to
Yitzhak Rabin in a sun-washed
pine grove Monday, laying him to
rest with the praise of presidents
and the tears of a granddaughter.
The host of world leaders
attending his funeral at Mount
Herzl Cemetery was testimony to
the authority of the slain prime
minister, a warrior who looked
beyond his years on the battlefield
to make peace with some of
Israel’s most intractable enemies.
The dozens of dignitaries from
the Arab world who put aside their
most fundamental differences with
Israel to attend his funeral proved
how radically Rabin helped change
the face of the Middle East.
King Hussein came from Jordan
to urge other Arab countries to
take the road to peace. President
Hosni Mubarak of Egypt also
made his first visit to Jerusalem
under Israeli rule, as did ministers
from Morocco, Oman and Qatar,
countries without ties to Israel.
In a stunned Israel, Jews were
still trying to digest the ugly fact
See RABIN, page 2
Yitzhak Rabin
100th Anniversary
Museum marks benefactor’s birthday
Billie Dorman
UP staff writer
There was a special public
open house at the McFaddin-
Ward House Sunday from 1 p.m.
to 4 p.m. The event honored the
100th anniversary of the birth of
Mamie McFaddin Ward, the
museum’s benefactor.
“It was very well received,
considering the weather,”
Matthew White, McFaddin-
Ward house spokesperson, said.
There were about 70 people in
attendance, and White said
everyone seemed to enjoy the
celebration.
“There were lots of families
with young children,” White
said. “We were happy to see
them come, since we normally
don’t allow children under 8 to
tour the home.”
Cake and lemonade were
served for all guests. There were
balloons and a special craft activ-
ity for the children, White said.
“They made small Victorian-
style baskets with candy,” White
said.
A commemorative card, with
seven photographs, showing
Ward’s accomplishments,
throughout her life was dis-
played. White said the depictions
ranged from her infancy to old
age.
White said his favorite photo-
graph is one when she,was 5
See ANNIVERSARY, page 2
Dishman Art Gallery SJ- f Jp
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Compulsivity enervates Martin-Larson exhibit
a
reception on Friday evening at the Dishman Art Gallery
opened an exhibit of works by two artists who could
hardly offer a greater contrast in style and subject mat-
ter. On first impression, the downstairs exhibit, created
by Wil Martin of Mission, appears to be photog-
raphy or computer-generated work. A closer look
causes a growing sense of anxiety and unbelief.
These are pen and ink drawings done entirely by
the artist’s hand, a hand that must be very tired
after working obsessively to create this large
number of large pieces.
How can anyone do this kind of work? Will he
continue to work in this style, or is he tired of it by
now?
When asked, Martin grinned and pointed to a
large, extremely horizontal self-portrait. He has
drawn himself supinely at peace, hands folded
upon his chest. He said that he had stretched out
across his drawing table, exhausted, and a friend
took the photo that he worked from to create the
drawing.
“It’s interesting that when you hang this one
low, about knee level, I look like I’m laid out to
be buried,” Martin said. “Hung as it is here, I
seem to be levitating.”
The process by which these works are created
is tedious. The forms consist entirely of repetitive,
patterned marks.
“The marks aren’t exactly cross hatching,”
Martin said. “They don’t overlap. They are more
like a parquet floor.”
“These are very work-intensive,” Donna
Meeks, Lamar University art department chair-
person, said. “The landscapes become studies in
texture.”
Martin said that the landscapes are the most
exhausting to execute. They are distinctive in that
they are vertical rather than horizontal. They do
not represent the grand sweep of an impressive
view as is usually expected in landscapes. Instead,
Martin prefers to capture “what we see at our
feet.”
He said he hopes that his art is about “the life
that’s around us.” The subjects of his figurative
works are friends and family. His work also
reflects the Hispanic culture in which he lives.
“I’m not a philosopher, and I don’t have any
real grand understanding, nor do I feel uncom-
fortable because I don’t,” he said. “I’m just excit-
ed about the events of the day and the people I
interact with.”
He says that his style is starting to evolve now
and move slightly away from the demanding
process by which he created these drawings. That
lit
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UT-Pan Am art professor, Wil Martin, mimics his self-portrait at an opening reception Friday evening.
process begins by taking a black and white photo- Martin is an assistant professor in the art
graph of his subject, copying it with a laser copier, department of the University of Texas-Pan
then projecting the image onto a large sheet of American in Edinburg.
drawing paper. Finally, he spends hours defining “My history as an artist is a little different from
value gradations with a fine point pen. most,” he said. “I quit making art and quit acade-
“I’m starting to use washes over my drawings
now,” he said. §ee OPENING, page 2
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