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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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