UTSA Celebration Honors Martin Luther King

Serving ttie University of /ex.js at San Antonio Community January 22,1087 Vol. 8, No. 1 Newsline UTSA celebration honors 500 Years of maps on display at UTSA Martin Luther King , Jr. Rare European maps as old as 600 years will be on display Jan. 19 through Feb, 13 when Tte University of Texas at San Antonio presents "In Search of Distant Lands: 500 Years of Map Making" by Monty Sullivan Jan Knost of the First Unitarian as part of the library's annual exhibit schedule. Staff Writer Church. The exhibit, including 16 rare maps from the collections of the In addition to the many UTSA Library and David Ladensohn, chronicles both the historical UTSA is hosting a celehration speakers, UTSA will host a series and technological advances in map making from 1478 through the in rcmcmhrance of Dr. Martin of films strips detailing the work age of discovery. Maps such as the 1493 map of the world which Luther King Jr.'s birthday. The of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. showed no New World or Africa south of the Sahara concede that celebration began Wednesday, throughout the latter part of his the educated populous was aware that the world was round, but January 21. and will end Friday, lifi-. A total of three different uncertain of its size and scope. Other maps on display, such as the January 2,3. The celebration in films will be shown two times nineteenth century Korean atlas, show a surprising ignorance of the cludes eight excellent speakers each in room 2.01.2(i in the world's geography — China is situated in the center with only the who volunteered their time for the University Center. They are: ocean and a mythical Wheel Continent surrounding Eurasia. celebration. Each speaker will "Martin I.uther King." "1 have a present a speech approximately dream," and "Montgomery to thirty minutes in duration in Memphis." Distinguidied Lecture Series Initiated room 2.01.28 in the University This c<'lel)ration is the first of Center. Schedules have been its kind at UTSA. The co- To addreaa increasing national and local interest in the quality of posted around the campus for sponsor.s of the event are Paul education and potential education reform. The University of Texas detailed times. I'erry and Mary Rauch of the at San Antonio's Division of Education is initiating an annual Rabbi Merely Feinstein, spoke Knglish Department and UTSA's Distinguished Lecture in Education series. on the cultural and historical Black Student Alliance, respec Maxine Greene, professor of philosophy and education at similarities between the Jews and tively, ll is a coincidence that the Teachers College, Columbia University, will present the firat Blacks and proposed a closer UTSA celebration is occurring Distinguished Lecture March 10, 1987 at 7 p.m. in the UTSA union of the two races. Dr. simultaneously with the first city- Recital Hall. Houston Wade, the first speaker wide celebration sponsored by the Professor Greene is well known for her knowledge in philosophy, on Friday's agenda, actually Martin Luther King Commi.ssion. literature and the humanities that she brings to education. She has knew Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. The UTSA birthday celebration been published in the most prestigious academic journals, and has and marched with him during the ma\ grow into an annual event. authored several books, including Existential Encounters for civil rights uprisings of the six Mary Rauch says she hopes the Teachers, Landscapes for Learning, The PubUc School and the ties. Another man. Mr. Al War event will later expand to include Private Viuon, and Teacher as a Stranger. ren, is the onlv speaker who at area high schools and other com tends UTSA. " , „ munily organizations. Other speakers include: M.'-. Cynthia Warrick, a trustiH' of t'^ These events follow the recent James Jcnktas awarded schofau'sWp Alamo Coiîmunitv (ôll'ge celebr tion of I>r. Martin Luther District, Reverend J.J. Rt'cto'r ol King Jr.'s birthday as an olhcial JamM ApMiHU MViar accounting miyor at Tbe University of the Antioch Baptist Church, national holiday. Efforts, such as Texas at San Antonio, was awarded a $1,000 scholarship froitt the Reverend D.J. Winters of Ihe UTSA's celebration, are taking San Antonio office of the accounting firm Touche Ross & Co. (ireater Corinth Baptist Church, place across the nation to " Jenkins' award was based on academic achievement, leadership Mr. John Sanders of the remember Dr. King. As Paul and community service.* Perry .says. "Martin Luther King Organizations United lor Kast f>elongs to all of us." Side Development, and Reverend Janet Cleary awarded scholarship Two Hiroshima survivors The Alamo Chapter of the American Society of Metals has award ed a renewable $600 scholarship to Janet Cleary, a senior in The University of Texas at San Antonio Division of Engineering. send out message urging global peace visited Moscow in her efforts to ror man is capable ot unleashing. prevent another "Hiroshima" Shiliama. possrbi\ the only UTSA to showcase top studrat art works from occuring. llylncr fniK bilingual survivor , ' Michiko Yamakoa, ,56. was a fif Hiroshima, otters optimism (or The top prints, drawings, sculptures, photographs, jewelry, pain teen year old high school student the future ol mankind and leels tings and textile designs created by Central and South Texas' most at the time of the bombing, and is thai nuclear war can be axoided. talented junior and senior high school students will be on view Jan. currently vice chairperson of the 31 through February 14 in the Gallery at The University of Texas at "We must learn how to lixc in board of the World Friendship San Antonio. the age of nuclear weapons. ' a Center in Hiroshima. The two sur speaker in a documenlarv film vivors shared their visions of during the conference pleaded. peace with the public. "The ability to remove the pro Mayor's Challenge Cup tickets for sale St. Mary's University's Presi spect of nuclear war is within us dent's Peace Commission, an — each one of us. " a sur\ Ivor in a Tickets for the fourth annual Mayor's Challengê Cup basketball organization consisting of the film noted. game, which will be Monday, Jan. 26 at HemisFair Arena between university presidenl. facully The pt'ace conference was di\ id cross-town rivals UTSA and St. Mary's University, are now on sale members and students hosted ed into three seiliims. at all Rainbow TicketMaster outlets in the San Antonio Area along members and students hosted •Remembering the past" an m with the UTSA Ticket Office and the St. Mary's Athletic Depart b> Dane Schiller depth look al the atrocities ment. Shibama and Yamakoa and were News Editor sponsors of the three day peace WWII illustrated by the si: Ticket prices are $5 and $3 for reserved seats and $1 for students vivors sharing detailed accouti and faculty/staff of both UTSA and St. Mary's. Two survivors of the atomic program under the heading "No of their experiences, was followed UTSA leads the overall series between the two schools 2-1 after bombing of Hiroshima were key More Hiroshimas: To Remember defeating the Rattlers 76-67 last season. UTSA won the inaugural speakers during a three day peace the past is lo shape our future. by a film depicting the attermath conference 13-15 at St. Mary's of the bombings. Future " panel discussions offer meeting in 1984 69-61 and St. Mary's captured round two in 1986, Shibama cautioned, "We must ing alternatives concerning 88-81. University's Treadway Hall. "Reflecting on our Present never let a Hiroshima occur consisted of a film on Hiroshima nuclear war Tazu Shibama, 80, was an again. " She restated the premise today lollowed b\ speeches con Kenneth .Slavin of St .Mary's Burmeister recruits two new players English teacher in Hiroshima the thal"war is hell" and we must cerning the nuclear weapons f)f to I ni\ersil\'s Public Relations time of the bombing. Shibama avoid war at any cost. She feels day. Dept explained that the Univer Hiroshima and Nagasaki were sity may host similar events in Eric Cooper, a 6-4 186 pound sophomore guard and Bruce has appeared at the United Na Concluding the peace con frightening examples of the hor the luture. Wheatley, a 6-9 250 pound forward/center, have both officially tions, met with the Pope, and ference was "Shaping our enrolled at The University of Texas at San Antomo after transferr ing from the University of Arizona at mid-semester. Cooper, a native of Los Angeles, Calif., and Wheatley, a native of West Covins, Calif., both entered classes at UTSA Monday and will be eligible at mid-term next season. Cooper and Wheatley will be juniors next year. Both layers will take the court for UTSA Head Coach Ken Burmeister, who ia a former assistant to Lute Olson at Arizona. Earl Campheil returns to UT Austin AUSTIN, Texaa (Spl.)—Earl Campbell, former outstanding University of Texas and National Football League running back, will retum to UT Austin March 1 to become special assistant to the vice president for student affairs. Mr. Campbell's new duties will involve recruitment and retention of students, with spectal emphasis on minorities and on athletes, to the extant permitted by NCAA regulations. A native of tyUf, Mr. Ca.iipbell won the Heisman Troohv at UT Aqatin in 1977 and earned a Bachelor of Science in speech com- Teaching integrity As a concemed alumna I was is an immenae difference in the saddened to read your article on study necessary to explain the Dr.

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