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es ntages for a [t| 1) fulfillingyol 2) bringing scfi your marriagfl said O’Rear. ™ e last day of( Conference, re women witi of today’s me ower, noon to No restrictions 'Almost anything goes’ this Sunday in RHA madcap contests THE BATTALION FRIDAY, APR. 2, 1976 Page 9 SENIORS “Almost Anything Goes,” de scribes the fun and games scheduled for Sunday, April 4, at 1:30p.m. on the Drill Fieldat Texas A&M. The contests being sponsored by the Resident Hall Associa tion (RHA) will give A&M stu dents the chance to participate in events similar to those seen on the “Almost Anything Goes” television show. Entries are limited to teams consisting of four male and four female team members. The Tree rings tell of environment information. — Another da: movie, this o n, ” which Wi s. Skyway Tv, 1 feature. Cal information. I CLE THIEF- mostfamousiS structing past environmental it examples li ions and determining the -realism. FilJdate of a tree’s existence are e, with a ca'iI Poets of studying tree rings, terformers iProfessor Bryant Bannister, di- toryofapoorJ 1 ()f lal)ol ' at o r y tree ring re search fori h tho University of Arizona, is their onli ji Visiting Centennial Professor nglish Film to Texas A&M University Thursdav ^ le h as ' c principles and ap- donationre if <m H * dendrochronology (the i6e of dating trees). "Dendro is eek word for tree and os” means time. study of annual tree rings is ingan important scientific re teams can be made up of dorm students (one team per dorm), off-campus students, corp members, faculty members or any other independent group wishing to participate. The events to be 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 be placed in four car tires, then their teammates will roll them around an obstacle course. 3. ) Ice Box Race — One teiym member will be placed in a re frigerator box and then be 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 baby pool filled with confetti. 5. ) Tramp Toss — One team member will jump on a tram poline while one of his team mates throws golfballs into a bucket he is holding. This sounds easy enough except the golfballs 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 be awarded to the first, second and third place teams. A prize will also be given to the team (including the cheering section) with the most spirit and enthusiasm. Events will be judged by AAG officials and rules for each event will be posted. — Randy Dusek Check our special prices for full length portraits for the Centennial Class of ’76. Offer expires Saturday. April 3. UNIVERSITY STUDIO 115 College Main, Northgate 846-8019 JAMES W. dc ning? jm? iel case bolts nlocks in seconds, and tamper-prool lan inadequate vntennial prof: Hunger will change the world’ j^l■»» c, v»iuable coupon u ORDER NOW orty $14?5 postpaid iy mail Irom: impany ivenue o 80203 cer Societ in Hospit; sti tute familiar, I bacteria),! ire cheraici fere with I [Is (cancer source,” he said, because each ring can bq dated within a year of its for mation and past environments are reflected in the chemical properties of the rings. Not all trees are suitable for tree ring study, he explained. Coniferous trees are best for study because they have layers that are easily distin guishable in a ring 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 ring size decreases. “Ring variability is very important as it shows that trees have been responding to cli mate, Bannister said. The key 7 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 periods of time, so patterns can be matched. Bannister said the age of a tree cannot be determined by the number of rings because some of 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 7 com paring the outer rings of the stump with the inner rings of the living trees. By 7 knowing the year the last ring of the living tree was formed and finding the place where the rings match, the year of the older tree can be determined. “You can have confidence eveiy ring is accounted for,” Bannister said. “It is the most accurate dating method yet developed.” “Dating from tree rings is a neat, nice tool 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. —Holly Hutchison AWLEY COLLEGE STATION CITY COUNCIL PLACE 3 AN AGGIE CONCERNED IN CITY AND TEXAS A&M PROBLEMS VOTE APRIL 3 AD PD. BY CRAWLEY FOR COLLEGE STATION, C.S. LUKER, TREAS. Battalion Classified Call 845-2611 large majority of the Ids population is hungry id unless they 7 are fed, the o Id nay he a vastly different pe, said Gregory Sullivan, M student. ullivan spoke during a panel s ession, "The World Speaks i Hunger, in the Rudder ower last night. Panel mem- were Rami Kamal (Saudi nbia), Enrique Ospina (Col- bia), Sullivan (United aies), and Ali Cinar (Turkey). Chaired by Cinar, the discus- oi was sponsored by the In- af/onal Students Associa- on at A&M. ivan said much of the tical unrest in the world s er-developed nations can be ibuted to hunger, and that slfime for the rich and poor lintries to get together to e the problem. The U.S. can no longer con- he sense vJer itself self-supporting in ag- Iture because it imports iv food stuffs, oil, minerals phosphate fertilizers, Sulli- 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 because of the policy. “It 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 food is transportation and storage costs, and better roads and st6r- 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 hunger problems, said Kamal. Since the early fifties, Egypt has built more than 700 factories. More than half 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 food 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 year only 7 per cent of India’s total caloric intake came from aid from the United States. “The world spends more to kill people than to feed them, Kamal said. According to the Food and Agricultural Organi zation of the United Nations, $140 billion, spent between 1972 and 1985, would solve the world food 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 How does your hair look today? TRY THIS Hairstyling Salon Good through Saturday, April 10 Ramada Inn SPECIAL 900 OFF Wash, Cut & Blow Dry 410 S. 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