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thebatvlion fiway. Am «. wn P^t No restrictions 'Almost anything goes' this Sunday in RHA madcap contests SENIORS A* " Almott An\ thin* Gor>." dr *cnbr» the fun and Kamr» ■chrdulrd for Sunday. April 4. at 1.30 p m on the Drill Firld at Trxa* A&Vf Thr contexts liring ^inmorrd h> thr Rrxidrnt Hall Atrorta- tion (RHA) will jpvr A4rM <tu- dniH thr chance to participatr in rvrnti similar to those seen on thr ' Almost Anything Goes telex ix»on shoss Kntnrs are limited to teams cimsisting of four male and four female team members. The trams can hr made up of dorm students ione tram per dorm), off-campus students, corp members, faculty members or any other independent group wishing to participate The events to he held are as follows 1. ) An obstacle course will be used to narrow the field down to eight teams 2. ) Tire Roll — One member of each of the eight teams will In* placed in four car tires, then their teammates will roll them around an obstacle course. 3. ) Ice Box Race — One team member will be placed in a re frigerator box and then lie re quired to run around a course with one of his teammates guid ing him 4. ) Confetti Dive — Team members will try to find a poker chip hidden in a bain pool filled with confetti 5. ) Tramp Toss — One team member will jump on a \ram- poline while one of bis team mates throws golfhalls into a bucket he is holding. This sounds easy enough except the golfhalls will be thrown over a ten-foot fence. 6.' The last event will be another obstacle course to test the endurance of the contes tants. Trophies will he awarded to the first, ^econd and third place teams. A prize will also be given to the team (including the cheering section) with the most spirit and enthusiasm. Fvents will lie fudged bv AAC officials and rules for eaefi event will lie posted. — Rands Dusek UNIVERSITY STUDIO 115 Colleoe Mam Nt Tree rings tell of environment (^instructing past c*n\ iron mental conditions and determining the exact date of a tree s existence are two aspects of studying tree rings, said Professor Bryant Bannister, di rector of laboratory tree ring re search at the Fnixerxits of Arizona The Visiting (Centennial Professor explained to Texas AArM University students the Iwsic principles and ap plication of dendrnchronokigy (the science of dating trees). "Dendro” is the Creek word for tree and "chronos means time. "The studs of annual tree rings is becoming an iin|x>itant scientific re- Centennial prof: source, " he said, because each ring can lie dated within a year of its for mation and past environments are reflected m the chemical properties of the rings. Not all trees are suitable for tree nng study, he explained. Coniferous trees are liest for study liecause thj*\ have layers that are easily distin guishable in a nng series. Coniferous trees (those which produce cones) are found in temperate regions. The rings of trees vary in width depending on the amount of mois ture received during the year. With decreasing amounts of moisture, the nng size decreases. "Ring variability is very important as it shows that trees have been responding to cli mate,” Bannister said. The key to interpreting tree rings is the "concept of matching ring pat terns from tree to tree." Bannister said, with a process called cross dat ing. The ring patterns will not repeat over long jktiikIs of time, so patterns can Ik* matched. Bannister said the age of a tree cannot be determined by the numlier of rings because some of ‘Hunger will change A large majority of the world's population is hungry and unless tliey ari* fed. the worty may Ik* a vastly different place, sairl Gregory Sullivan. A Ac M student. Sulliv an spoke* during a panel discu ssion. "The World Speaks on Hunger, in the Rudder Tower last night. Panel mem- Ikts were Rami Kama! (Saudi Arabia), Fnrique Ospina (Col umbia), Sullivan (United States), and All Cinar (Turkey). Chain'd by Cinar, the discus sion was s|xinsured bv the In ternational Students Associa tion at AAcM. Sullivan said much of the INilitical unrest in the world's under-develo|K*d nations can Ik* attributt*d to hunger, and that it s time for the rich and ixmii countries to get together to solve the problem. The U.S. can no longer con sider itself self-supporting in ag riculture because it imports many IckkI stuffs, oil, minerals * and phospliate fertilizers, Sulli van said. Sullivan said ways to improve tbe world IimkI situation include ‘•establishing an international agency for stm-kpiling food surpluses, increasing interna tional research programs, set ting up channels of information distribution and educating the American people The rest of the world often seems to expect America to feed the h ungry and they blame America for not doing so. Sulli van said , In Tanzania, where Sullivan recently worked with the Agency for International De velopment, the* government policy was to ship all foodstuffs in government vehicles. He said that in some areas people starved liecause of the policy. 11 is easy to find Coca-Cola in remote villages of poor coun tries, but it is often hard to find powdered milk there," Ospina said. Distribution of food is often as much a problem as pro ducing it. he said. Most of the cost of f<HKl is transportation and storage exists, and lietter roads and stor age facilities are needed to overcome the problem. Ospina said. To feed the world, food must be moved from the surplus countries to the deficient ones, Ospina said Crash industrialization and farm workers moving to cities has compounded the luinger problems, said Kama!. Since the early fifties, Egypt has built more than 700 factories. More than halt now stand idle and workers are starving in Cairo and Alexandria. In 1975 Cambodia made the wisest move of any nation when it returned the peasants to the farmland,” kamal said. The Khmer Rouge forces conquered Cambodia last year, sending most workers to work in farm communes. Land reform is very impor tant to increasing the world IckkI supply . Kamal said. To produce food and use land efficiently, farmers must feel motivated. Absentee landlords, controlling much of the arable land in the Third World, destroy motiva tion and initiative. The land must be redistributed giving the worker his fair share. The amount of aid to poor countries is greatly exagger ated, Kamal said. Last y ear only 7 percent of India s total caloric intake came from aid from the United States. "The world spends more to kill people than to feed them,’ the rings may be missing or removed by erosion. The process of cross dat ing eliminates this problem. In order to date a tree, a re searcher begins with a living tree and works out the ring chronology for a geological area. Old tree stumps are then cross dated with the tree ring patterns of the living trees, by com paring the outer rings of the stump with the inner rings of the living trees. By knowing the year the last ring of the liv ing tree was formed and finding the place where the rings match, the v ear of the older tree can world’ Kamal said. According to the Food and Agricultural Organi zation of the United Nations, $140 billion, spent between 1972 and 19H5. would solve the world IckkI problem. He said both the United States and the Soviet Union spend nearly that much each year for armaments. Embrey’s Jewelry We Specialize In Aggie Rings. Diamonds Set — Sizing — Reoxidizing — All types watch/jewelry Repair Aggie Charge Accounts 9-5:30 846-5816 Ik* determined. You can have confidence every ring is accounted for," Bannister said. "It is the most accurate dating method yet developed." "Dating from tree rings is a neat, nice tcKil used in archeological situa tions,” Bannister said. Geologists can determine how much the con tour of the soil has changed from dat ing trees and determining when they put out their roots. The application of tree ring re search covers as diverse range of fields as law, social sciences, climatology and agriculture,” he said. —Hollv Hutchison JAMES W. 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