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Page 4 College Station, Texas Wednesday, March 29, 1972 THE BATTALION HE BA ; r« Stone age cave dwellers still exist in Southern Philippines jVI TASADAY FOREST, Philip pines t®—The Tasadays, a gentle people who have no weapons in their Stone Age culture, have shy ly but warmly received the first outsiders ever to see their cave homes. Anthropologists with the expe dition to the southern Philippines say this is the first occasion in MSC announces holiday schedule Memorial Student Center activ ities and services will observe A&M faculty-staff holidays for Easter and be closed Friday, Sat urday, Sunday and Monday. Director J. Wayne Stark said all MSC service and commercial areas except the U. S. Post Office will be affected by the four-day holiday. Areas including the barber and gift shops, main desk and general offices will close at 5 p.m. Thurs day and reopen at 8 a.m. Tuesday, April 4. The snack bar will close a half hour earlier Wednesday and reopen at 8 a.m. Wednesday, April 5. Veterans may sign up now for benefits Those who wish to receive GI benefits while attending summer school at A&M must sign up at the Student Affairs Office, Room 110, YMCA. Veterans should sign up before the first week of May, if possible, and show the number of hours for which they plan to register. Four hours per session is con sidered full time and three hours is considered three-fourths time. Radio station will feature ‘A&M Story 9 A major Houston radio station will spotlight “The Texas A&M University Story By People Who Live It” on its morning news re port Thursday. KTRH—740 on the dial—will air the three-part series at 7:15, 7:45 and 8:15 a.m. as the feature segments of its morning report, Announcer Jack Ford said Tues day. Each segment runs three and one-half minutes. Ford and associates spent a day on the campus interviewing A&M officials and students about university activities and pro grams. President Jack Williams and others described life at Aggie- land in the interviews. 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Chil dren began bringing samples of Tasaday food—such as wild palm pith—to the expedition camp that outsiders have set up about half way between three large caves in which the Tasadays live and a stream some 600 feet below. wear leaves for clothes and for age for food instreams in the dense jungle that surrounds them. The tribe appeared to be in ex cellent physical condition, show ing little discomfort from the cool, wet weather and 4,000-foot elevation. At first the Tasadays were cautious but friendly. After a few The Tasadays use stone tools and make fire by friction. They They have lived in the caves as far back as anyone can remember and they appear to find complete harmony with their environment. The Tasadays, speaking through interpreters, say they have no enemies and thus no weapons. They say they have never heard of unfriendly people, either among themselves or other tribes living in the general area. However, the Tasadays already are using long knives called bolos given to them by members of an other expedition that met them at the edge of their forest ■ last June. The expedition has spent the last few days observing Tasaday customs, food gathering and liv ing habits. It is sponsored by Panamin, a government-supported foundation set up to help Philip pine minorities. Led by Manuel Elizalde Jr., president of Panamin, the expe dition wants to define the Tasa day area to protect it from log gers and farmers who are slowly but steadily approaching. Members of the current expe dition, including the Ameri« aviator and conservations tr j] Charles A. 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