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Beyond the hedges!
by David Butler
A professor at Stephen F.
Austin University has apparently
won a court fight to regain his
teaching post.
Preliminary findings from
federal judge William Wayne
Justice support forestry professor
Seymour Somberg's claim that the
state school in Nacagdoches
granted him de facto tenure by
rehiring him after his third year at
SFA.
Somberg based his claims on a
statement in the faculty handbook
that, unless word to the contrary
was received,"a faculty member
(could) expect tenure after his
third year of satisfactory service."
The university claimed that the
handbook rules were not
contractual, and also claimed that
Somberg had not been recom-
mended for tenure and that a
"mutually satisfactory situation"
did not exist at the end of his third
year at the school. Somberg taught
at SFA for five years before being
axed.
Somberg has also claimed that
his dismissal was in retaliation for
public statements he made-about
misuse of university research
funds. His suit asks for
reinstatement with back pay,
attorney's fees, and special and
consequential damages; the
amount of the award will be set by
Judge Justice in the near future.
Students at the University of
Texas at Austin have forsaken the
pursuit of belles lettres for a
seminar specializing in bad
literature.
The. UT department of
American Studies established a
"Great Bad Books" course to study
why "cheap" books, rather than
their more literary cousins,
become popular and stay that way.
Among the "bad classics" to be
studied are Dracula, Tarzan of the
Apes, Gone with the Wind and
How to Win Friends and Influence
People.
William Stott, who teaches the
course, freely admits that the
course material is "second-rate,
poorly written, sentimental and
even silly," but defends the idea
behind the course. "We're not as
ashamed of our media appetite as
we used to be; we're more open to
our interests." He says there's nc
shame in admitting that "cheap
and cheesy novels can also
imaginatively engage us."
Stott's faculty colleagues have
not expressed much interest in his
course, he says; their only queries
have concerned the degree of
student interest in the class. Eleven
UT students are signed up for the
seminar this semester, and Stott
says that if the course proves
successful, he'll offer it again.
Burroughs
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complemented by a strong and successful range of
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According to objective industry sources, Burroughs has
moved into SECOND position in the data processing
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you consider we were in eighth or ninth position ten
years ago.
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the increasing strength of our entire organization, on
the success of our current program of new product
introductions, and on constantly growing market
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We are offering opportunities to individuals with the
following majors to learn more about our successful
team:
• Computer Science
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• Electrical Engineering
• Materials Science Engineering
• Mechanical Engineering
• Mathematical Science (CS Option)
We will be on the Rice University Campus
conducting interview on Friday, October 12,1979.
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When Texas Tech graduate
student Jugen Heise decided to
visit Panama this summer, he
decided to take the scenic route. By
bicycle.
Heise rode from the South
Texas town of Edinburgh through
Central America to Panama,
pausing only to skirt war-torn
Nicaragua by boat. After his 4,766
mile jaunt, he then flew to Miami
and then biked back to the
Lubbock campus.
Using a custom-built 15-
speeder, Heise, a native of Berlin,
averaged 120 miles daily in t* -
U.S. and 60 miles each in
Central America—despite
carrying 80 pounds of bike and
camping gear with him. Heise said
that he only had "five or six flat
tireS" and one broken spoke during
his long tour, but there were other
problems; truckers in the U.S. and
Panama who tried to run him off
the road, and the inevitable
consequences of drinking two
gallons of the local water each day.
Heise says that he's considering
a world tour after he finished work
on his master's degree, but isn't
committed just yet because
"money is always a problem." His
budget for the Central American
excursion: a paltry $4.50 a >
D00HESBUBT
eoooemiNQ. today "time"
magazine published part u
of the most trumpeted memoirs
in history- "henry kissinger,
the whitewash years."
henry kissinger's * the white-
wash years"is no ordinary
book. nor is "time" promoting
i tt like one. bill wooten, "time"
1 marketing director, explains.
why are: henry grunwald
and the other editors of
'time"so infatuated with
kissinger ? new york social
critic irv bell explains.
POLITICAL MEMOIRS ARE NOTORIOUSLY
SELF-SERVING, AND "WHITEWASH
YEARS'IS NO EXCEPTION. SO IS the
| BOOK OF AW HISTORICAL value1!
WE ASKED HISTORIAN LEO FARTCH.
. AND SO THE BIO QUESTION AT
TIME, INC., IS THIS: WILL SURVh
VORS OF THE NIXON-KJSSIN6ER
| ERA ACWALLY BE TEMPTED TO
] PAY MONEY TO RELIVE IT?
after a summer offawnin6 kis-
singer 5tdrjes, "time"has finally
arrived at the main event-an
orgy of excerpts from a book
"v,me" ttself will publish..
SS1$
weil, we siarted slow. of course.
we ran the usual semi-annual
kissinger profiles, reports on
the work-in-progress, a few
mentions in our'people"section..
THE KISSINGER STORIES IN "TIME '■
legitimate coverage or adept
promotion? we asked hamilton
j leff, editor of the magazine's
respected "ration"section..
MR. LEFF, IS IT TRUE
THE PROMOTION DEfm-- YES,
MENT ORCHESTRATED THE THAT'S
NON-STOP KISSINGER RIGHT.
COVERAGE MS SUMMER?
76
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OKAY, LOOK, THE GUY'S CLEARLY
A WAR CRIMINAL, but WHEN YOU
TALK ABOUT NAMES LIKE KISSINGER
OR ROCKEFELLER OR BUNDY,
YOU'RE TALKING INNER CIRCLE-
well, it's harp to tell,
really. because there's
so ltttle in the litera-
ture 10 u/eigh it against.
TfuijliiiV
700,000WORDS. 1,521 PAGES. THE
30- MONTH OUTPUT OF KISSINGERS
HANPP/CKED MEMOIR STAFF. BY
ALMOST ANY STANDARD, "WHITEWASH
YEARS " IS A VER( Bid BOOK !
n
is this how the ruling class
promotes tt5 own? i'm roland
hedley. staywtth us for a look
at what happens when a news-
weekly decides to.. hype henry!
then this summer,we poured it on i
an exclusive interview, a four -
pa6e color spread on his salt
lecture, two pages on his nato
speech! j mean, we puffed ol'
henry from here to sunday!
'f*
THAT'S MY
UNDERSTANDING.
AT THAT LEVEL,THE FACT OF POWER
AND ITS EFFECTIVE USE MEAN
MUCH MORE THAN MERE MORAL
CONSIDERATIONS. THE HEIRS OF
HENRY LUCE UNDERSTAND WAT.
so far the only books on kissin-
ger have been written by obse-
quious t.v. correspondents who
still tremble at the honor of
addressing him by his first name.
granted, henry kissinger had
much to answer for, but need
so many trees have- died for
the cause?most'kissinger
scholars think not.
"hype henry: memoirs
on the make," brought
to you by the chase
manhattan bank..
"HYPE HENRY!"
MEMOIRS ON
THE MAKE.
Special Report
cs ft /jmacu.
chanv um.. we might
news have. that's
stories? not my de-
partment.
(BBfZctta.
and the we handled
'nat/on" the proof-
staff? reading.
IS THERE SURE. SPEAKOUT.
ANYTHING CRASH THEIR DIN-
THE AVERAGE NER PARTIES. ANY-
6UY CAN DO THING TO KEEP THE
ABOUT IT? PRESSURE ON.
exo
<S> & //CK cfytiu- _
FOR THE RECORD. THIS
REPORTER HAS NEVER.
ENJOYED "HENRY"PRIVI-
LEGES. BACK AFTERTH/S.
OX®
Ce 0
THANK YOU
HELL, IT ONLY
WOK ALBERT
mr. ujein
speer 520
BURGER.
any other
comments7
37*+c&cu^
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Muller, Matthew. The Rice Thresher (Houston, Tex.), Vol. 67, No. 9, Ed. 1 Friday, October 5, 1979, newspaper, October 5, 1979; Houston, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth245415/m1/3/: accessed July 18, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu.; crediting Rice University Woodson Research Center.