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lames M. Parrish spoke softly to
fthu. “Now don’t move, baby, or
mess up your hair.”
asha was shaking either because
of the cool breeze blowing on her
|oistened hair or because she was
ous about the dogs and people
nind her.
don’t think Tasha gets as nerv-
as I do,” said Parrish as he
rayed Adorn onto the poodle’s
Parrish said that Brazos Valley’s
major dog show and obedience
( held Saturday at Kyle Field,
Id be the last competition the
ampion toy poodle would enter,
said Tasha was getting too old to
w and that he was going to use
for breeding.
Over 85 breeds were represented
ongthe 1,471 dogs entered in the
mpetition sanctioned by the
American Kennel Club (AKC). Con
testants came from as far away as
California and Florida.
Vans, trailers, mobile homes and
portable cages filled the parking lot.
Bumper stickers identified the
breed or kennel the vehicle repre
sented and warned cars not to follow
too closely. A few of the stickers read
“ASK ABOUT MY GRANDDOG”.
Robert M. Peebles, handler of a
dog named Story Tale Full of Pride,
said that he spends up to eight hours
grooming the champion poodle.
Peebles guarded the dog carefully
and told a spectator, who attempted
to remove a piece of grass from the
poodle’s fur, not to touch the animal.
Story Tale Full of Pride placed first
in the variety group for non-sporting
breeds.
Leet, a lhasa apso, had to get her
bangs curled before entering one of
the 13 judging arenas. Some dogs
had bows tied on their heads and
others wore toenail polish.
The odors at the show were dis
tinctive. The grooming areas smel
led like a beauty shop, while the area
in which the handlers walked the
dogs smelled definitely offensive.
Alertness was important while
mingling closely with the dogs. One
woman woidd have received a wash
for her shoes from a yorkshire terrier
if not for a quick jerk from its owner.
Several stepped into substances
they immediately found less than de
sirable.
Nancy Stricklin, owner of Aggie-
land Kennels, said that this AKC dog
show and obedience trial repre
sented about seven years of prepara
tion by the Brazos Valley Kennel
Club Inc. She said that during these
years, a series of matches were held
that were judged and evaluated by
the AKC.
Stricklin, who breeds basset
hounds, had two dogs place first in
their divisions.
Dr. Dorthea T. Robinson, DVM,
who also lives in College Station,
said she had a good Saturday. Her
papillon, Mickthea Alegria, won the
best of breed competition and also
won the variety group for the toy
breeds. The dog, which resembles a
long-haired Chihuahua, competed
against 222 dogs for best of toy
breed.
The best dog in show had an easy
first win. Champion Saddlewood
Sam’s Song was the only sealyham
terrier entered in its best of breed
competition. The terrier then com
peted against 137 terriers to win its
variety group.
The champion, owned by Mrs.
Richard Lee Etter of Houston, then
defeated the best of each of the other
five variety group winners.
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College Station, Texas
Tuesday, Mar. 30, 1976
LET ME OUT OF HERE
A dog show was held on the A&M campus Saturday
Photo courtesy of Kevin V<
Technology threatens
environment’s survival
The Emperor's New Clothes
Staff photo by Douglas VVinship
The Aggie Players’ production of The
Emperor’s New Clothes begns tonight a*
7 p.m. and runs through April 2. The pla>
tells the story of supposedly magical clothes
which will allow the emperor to tell which
of his subjects is worthy of his position. The
new clothes are part of a plot on the part of
two rogues to eliminate the minister of
robes, Han.
Bones and stones are fearfully dull, yet
their relationship to other sciences gives
them direct correlation to man today, said
Richard Leakey, anthropologist.
Leakey is the man considered responsi
ble for tracing back the history of man al
most a million years. He addressed a capac
ity crowd in Rudder Auditorium last night
as a part of the Great Issues series, “The
Nature of Man. ”
“Our planet today faces a very grave
moment,” said Leakey. “Not only do we
have the capability to destroy ourselves,
but the very source of life itself: our envi
ronment. ”
Leakey said the human species has a spe
cial relationship with the environment.
Yet, in the past 5,000 years man has
switched roles with Mother Nature and be
come the master of the environment. He
said the problem facing America should be
considered a problem facing the world.
“Through the excesses of technology we
have created pollutants, technical excreta
and weaponry to destroy our world,”
Leakey continued.
“The question is not the survival of one
country over another, but the survival of
the planet,” he said. “The solution requires
a great effort toward a philosophy for the
commonality of mankind.”
The origin of all people is important to
the common characteristics of people.
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“Whoever we are, we have one origin,’ he
said. “And whoever we are, we have one
destiny.”
Leakey has no formal university educa
tion. He received practical training in
paleo-anthropology from his parents. Doc
tors Louis and Mary Leakey, in the Olduvai
Gorge in Tanzania.
In 1967, Leakey flew over the wastelands
of Lake Rudolf in Ethiopia’s Omo Valley.
Heavily eroded deposits of sediment led
him to suspect that “somewhere down
there lies the key. He returned in 1968
with a team of investigators to trace the
outlines of the valley.
Leakey and his research team are re
sponsible for uncovering the Au
stralopithecus skull and the more famous
“1470” skull at Lake Rudolf in Kenya.
“The origin of Australopithecus is not
known,” said Leakey. “All records prior to
3.5 million years are very vague.”
At the present there are only four speci
mens of man earlier than 3.5 million years:
the piece of a lower jaw, an arm bone and
two teeth.
“Texts are written about two a week’ on
this subject,” said Leakey. “They show
drawings of man at 14 million years; a rather
inelegant little fellow with a hunched back.
“At nine to ten million years, he appears
the same. At six to seven million years, he is
bigger, upright and is usually carrying
something in his hand. Yet, all we have are
a few little teeth.”
The discovery of the “1470” skull, Leakey
said, led to the suggestion by colleagues
that “1470 was only a freak of the Au
stralopithecus. Since that time, two other
skulls have been pieced together.
“If ‘1470’ was a freak, then we have a
large number of freaks,” he said.
Leakey said the uncovering of a greater
number of skulls as compared to other body
parts is due to anjmals eating the corpses.
The head has very few edible parts, Leakey
said, so it is not eaten by “those that are in
that line of business.
Many conclusions are now being drawn
about the body structure of early man.
Leakey said a man 100,000 years old dres
sed in a conservative manner would look
“as respectable as anyone you’d meet in an
international airport.
Leakey suggested the reason man has
survived is the behavioral characteristic of
cooperation. Man has been an organism
that could share for the benefit of the com
munity, he said.
“I may not have all the answers,’ Leakey
said. “But, if I don’t, the others don’t
either.
On Thursday, Dr. Daniel Bell will pre
sent “The Future of Man”. He is professor
of sociology at Harvard and a former
member of the President’s Commission on
Technology, Automation and Economic
Progress.
The three-part Great Issues series will
conclude on April 19 with Dr. Rollo May’s
presentation on “The Present of Man.
Special pull-out
election section
in today s paper
ie student senate meeting held last
■sday night was declared null and void
peaker protem Joe Marcello,
the meeting, a resolution was passed
low people with a 2.25 over-all G.P.R.
n for class office. The present regula-
Isays a person must have a 2.5 over-all
IR. to run for a class executive position.
Ie meeting was declared illegal be-
Se neither the proper three-day mail
[te nor the 24-hour personnel contact
lation were followed to call the special
ling.
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Index
Candidates for College Station
City Council and School Board state
their platforms and qualifications.
Special Election Section, Pages
■10.
An International Week speaker
differentiates between Zionism and
the Jewish religion. Page 2.
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Weather
THE FORECAST for Tues
day is partly cloudy and mild
with a high of 73, Continued
fair and mild Wednesday. Low
tonight 48; high tomorrow 76.
Another meeting to consider the ques
tion has been called for Thursday night.
All candidates running for class pres
idencies, student body president, student
government vice presidencies, RHA presi
dent and yell leader are asked to come to
the photo lab studio in the basement of the
Reed McDonald Building.
Portraits for The Battalion student elec
tion coverage will be made Wednesday and
Thursday nights between 7 and 9 p.m.
These photos will not be taken at any other
time.
Candidates for senate seats are asked to
stop by The Battalion office, 216 Reed
McDonald by Monday evening to com
plete a questionnaire. Answers will be run
in The Battalion Tuesday before elections.
Thirty-two places are unoppposed as fil
ing closed for student government elec
tions Monday.
Another seven senate seats and all but
one of the Graduate Student Council do not
have a candidate running.
Graduate student positions are those
with the greatest number without opposi
tion or candidates. The graduates in the
colleges of agriculture, business, science
and veterinary medicine are unopposed.
Tliere are no candidates for the colleges of
engineering, liberal arts and another vet
seat.
Other unopposed seats are sophomore
and junior of education, senior of science,
the women’s 4-dorm group, the men’s
older dorm group, university apartments,
off-campus graduate and undergraduate,
senior secretary and historian. Three vice
presidencies, external affairs, rules and
regulations and academic affairs are also
unopposed.
The election will be held on April 7 and 8
with all presently enrolled students eligible
to vote. Students must have their identifi
cation cards and student activity cards with
them when they vote.
Polling places will be the Commons, out
side Sbisa, first floor MSG, first floor Zac-
hry Engineering Center, and the Guard
Room.
Yearbook price to increase
The Aggieland for 1977 will cost
students $5 more than this year’s the
Student Publications Board decided
last night.
The board also began interviews
for 1976-77 editors for The Battalion
and Aggieland. New editors will be
chosen and announced by the board
tonight.
The board voted unanimously to
increase the student price of the Ag
gieland to $15. Over-the-counter
price will be $20. The 1976 yearbook
is sold to students for $10 and over-
the-counter for $20.
Bob Rogers, chairman of the
board, told the group the increase
had already been approved by ad
ministration officials. Board approval
puts the new price into effect im
mediately to accommodate orders
for next year’s book during pre
registration, April 26-30.
Increases in both the size of indi
vidual books and the number of
books produced have forced the
price increase, Rogers said.
“Its very success requires that we
no longer allow a $5-6 loss per book,”
he said.
Aggieland Editor Gary Baldasari
told the board that more color
artwork added to production ex
penses. Printing and photography
costs also added to total production
cost.
Each of the first 10,000 of this
year’s books cost $12.80, Gael
Cooper, director of student publica
tions, told the group. The first
10,000 books for 1977 will cost about
$15 each, he said, but because of
reduced rates for the larger order
actual expense will be somewhat
lower than that.
Over-the-counter sales, which are
made primarily to former students,
also reduce average cost per book.
The Battalion and Aggieland
editors interviews took most of the
two and a half hour meeting. Battal
ion Contributing Editor Sanford
Russo and News Editor T. C. Gal-
lucci interviewed for the paper’s
editorship. Aggieland Editor Gary
Baldasari interviewed for a second
year as yearbook editor.
Acting Battalion Editor Roxie
Hearn and Staff Writer Jerry
Needham will interview for Battal
ion editor tonight, as will candidate
for Aggieland editor Timothy Har-
relson.
Photo courtesy of Tim Sagci
SPACE CITY
This city is one of Don Craven’s models on display at AggieCon VII.
Voter registration ends Thursday