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THE BATTALION
WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 4, 1974
Fall 1975 routing changes
approved for shuttle buses
Route changes for shuttle buses
effective in the fall of 1975 were ap
proved Tuesday by the Shuttle Bus
Advisory Committee.
One of the major changes was the
exclusion of the Monaco complexes
from the present Route 1. This area
will be added to the service zone of
the Route 2 buses which load at
complexes south of the campus and
west of Highway 6.
Also scheduled is the addition of
more buses to Routes 1 and 2 to
accommodate anticipated increases
in passengers.
Route 1 will be split into two
routes for the morning peak hours,
as is done now. Route 1 buses will
leave campus by way of New Main
Drive, and will not make any stops
west of Highway 6. Complexes in
cluded in the route are Tanglewood,
Travis House, Barcelona and Plan
tation Oaks.
A possible addition to the new
Route 2 is the Oak Forest Mobile
Home Park. Despite its location on
the east side of Highway 6, a rever
sal in the direction by the Route 2
buses will enable the stop without
encountering cross traffic.
Routes 3 and 4 will stay essen
tially the same. The only changes
are a one-block shortening of 3 to
keep it off the gravel road near
Mobiltown Trailer Park and a slight
rerouting of 4 to Jefferson Street in
the Northgate area. The Route 3
alteration will be effective next
semester. It was prompted by dam
age to the buses and to the road
surface where no hard-top pave
ment exists.
Dr. Charles Powell, committee
chairman, asked for the committee’s
approval to initiate action to build
shelters on campus at the major
shuttle bus stops. He suggested the
corner of Joe Routt Boulevard and
Houston Street for riders on Route
2, the comer of Lubbock Street ac
ross from Krueger-Dunn for Route
1 and the comer of Ross Street and
Ireland Street for Routes 3 and 4.
The Lubbock Street location will be
the only stop for the Route 1 buses
next fall. Planned construction on
campus will make the present circle
following Bizzell, Lamar, and Lub
bock Streets unsatisfactory.
The plans for bus shelters will
have to be made to accommodate
the long-range beautification plans
for the campus as a whole.
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Campus briefs |
Theater discussion postponed
Dr. John Joy’s talk on “The Place of the Theater versus The Theater in
its Place” has been postponed until Dec. 12.
The joint presentation of the SG and the Great Issues Committee will
be held in rooms 215 and 216 of the Rudder Tower at 8 p.m.
Joy will discuss “the necessity of the theater arts in society and the roll
censorship plays in subverting its goals.”
Amateur astronomers to gather
Dr. Ron Schom, A&M physics professor, will open his home for a
gathering of amateur astronomers Friday.
If weather conditions permit, the group will engage in a little star
gazing, but the meeting will be held regardless. It is scheduled for 7:30 p.m.
The group will discuss the merits and details of a more formal organiza
tion. Anyone interested in attending should call 846-4172 or 823-5519 for
directions to Schom’s house.
Weekend rally planned
The Sports Car Club holds its third autocross of the year Dec. 6 and 7 in
what is termed a “winter weekend.”
The autocross begins with 9 a. m. registration Saturday in Parking Lot
59 across the railroad tracks from Wofford Cain Pool.
Time runs then begin at 12:30 after a 30-minute break for lunch.
A 120-mile rally will be featured Sunday with registration at 12:30 p. m.
and a 1 p.m. target time for competition.
Members of the TAMSCC may enter both for $5 or one for $3. Non
members will pay $4 for each or $6 for both.
Club officials emphasize that helmets and seatbelts are required. Some
helmets will be available.
Several questions
surround Olmecs
In the jungles of the Yucatan
Peninsula around 1000 B. C. a mys
terious people called the Olmecs
carved colossal heads, children and
jaguars from stone and jade. In the
language of their successors, the Az
tecs, Olmec means rubber people.
Dr. Jerry Epstein discussed
Olmec sculpture in a Great Issues
presentation Tuesday night.
Describing himself as a “little old
country boy from New York” Eps
tein is a college professor with a
PhD. from the University of Penn-
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“You don’t have to be crazy to be an
archeologist, but it helps.”
Calling the Olmecs the earliest
great American civilization, Epstein
said, “That’s no exaggeration.”
He showed slides of artifacts from
two major sites. La Venta on the Rio
Tonala and San Lorenzo on the Rio
Chiquita.
The figures shown in the slides
included half human, half jaguar
creatures and well proportioned
children with catlike faces and thick
upper lips.
Also shown were some of the col
ossal, eight to 16 ton heads the Ol
mecs carved from massive boulders
they had to transport from moun
tains in another area. It is not known
how they accomplished this.
Using stone tools, the Olmecs
were the first to carve full round
statues in America, Epstein said.
He explained how a volcano
shaped monument was uncovered
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in the jungle near La Venta. Buried
beneath the monument, under six
layers of clay, was a serpentine mask
of a jaguar.
The many Olmec carvings of
jaguars, Epstein suggested, may
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god Tezcatlipoca of the underworld
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With many questions still unans
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large stones, why they carved so
many children and what ceremony
they used the statues in, the Olmecs
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Saying that about 20 problems
remain unsolved in Olmec re
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