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A age Page 8 THE BATTALION WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 9, 1977 K Hawks, owls stir air 51 around poultry center By SUE MUTZEL Powerful bodies wait with long, sharp talons gripping their perches. The fearless, glaring eyes miss nothing. These are hawks which are part of an experiment involved in trying to breed birds of prey in captivity. About seven Texas A&M Univer sity students are currently involved in this program, with Dr. Roy C. Fanguy of the poultry science de partment as their head. “The project started out to in crease the number of young per pair of birds,” said Fanguy. “Now we’ve got what’s called a pre-project.” The “pre-project” is a result of the difficulty of breeding birds of prey in captivity. “Its pyschological,” Burt Loess- berg, a junior bio-medical science major with the experiment, said. “The psychology controls the physiology.” “We are trying to stimulate their reproductive cycle artificially to see why the birds won’t breed in captiv ity,” Loessberg said. Artificial stimulation being used consists of breeding naturally with an artificial light cycle and the use of hormones. Follicle Stimulating Hormones (FSH) and Lutenizing Hormones (LH) are used in the females and testosterone is used in males. “I was of the opinion when we first started that all we would need is a light cycle,” Fanguy said. “I was surprised.” Galliform birds, such as chickens, respond to the light cycle. The hawks don’t. The experiment started in the spring of 1975. “It was funded initially by a Uni versity Mini grant,” Loessberg said. A Mini-program Grant is a Texas A&M University wide program to fund small projects with grants of usually $500 to $1000, Fanguy said. The birds are located at the poul try science center. The poultry sci ence department has given the ex periment about six buildings to work with. Most of the hawks are Red-tailed because about 80 per cent of the hawks in this area are Red-tailed, Fanguy said. “We work with birds that are really no longer fit to live in the wild,” he said. Most have flown into wires, been hit by cars or have been shot. Injuries include partially ampu tated and broken wings, broken legs and impaired vision. The birds are donated from zoos, from people who find injured birds or from falconers. There are 17 birds in the experi ment. There are two barred owls, four Kestrels or sparrow hawks and 11 Red-tailed hawks. The hawks’ weight is checked every day to adjust food levels. The poultry science department supplies the food which consists of chicken and any unlucky mouse or rat that enters the birds’ cages. One female is responding, ac cording to Loessberg. She is nest ing, very aggressive and receptive to males. However, no eggs have been produced. Wm ■ m i V Jama, a young female red-tailed hawk, communi cates with A&M student Bert Loessberg from her perch on his arm, Loessberg, a junior biomedi- Sophomores dip and sway to rock and country tunes A young hawk peers suspiciously at visitors from his aerial perch. Students who handle the birds say they are well- behaved, but still maintain the fierce independence usually developed in the wild. Battalion photo by Steve Reis MSC offers caning class A worthless, junky chair frame can be transformed into a valuable collector’s item in fifteen hours with the use of rattan cane strips and wooden pegs. Chair caning originated in the In dies during the 16th century. Cane was used because it offered better ventilation for chair seats than solid wood did. Most people now cane as a hobby. Others have made it a voca tion. If done professionally, the pro cess would cost approximately $15. Costs for the do-it-yourselfer are approximately $8.50. February 7 through March 7 the MSC craft shop is offering a course in chair caning on Monday nights from 7 to 9. Students pay $7.50 and staff, faculty and wives pay $10 in fees. Scott Stepan, a junior landscape architecture major from Houston, teaches the course. Stepan took the course last semester. He became the instructor when the other one graduated. Sellers stars To prepare a chair frame for can ing, quarter-inch holes are drilled at least half an inch from the inner edge of the frame and half an inch apart. Any refinishing and repairs should be done before the caning is started. Pliability of the brittle eighth- inch cane strips is essential when working with it. They are soaked in water for three minutes. If soaked longer, discoloration of the cane will result. If the frame is square, caning be gins at one end of the back rail. On a curved frame, work begins in the middle of the back rail moving to ward the ends. To provide a decorative border strip, a piece of cane is threaded be tween the corner holes. It is binded at each hole with a loop of one of the underside strands. Caning is not limited to chairs. It may also be used for table tops and wall hangings, Stepan said. Materials for caning may be bought at any antique shop. By MICHELLE SMITH Imagine the $10 million Zachry Engineering Center transformed into a huge dance hall, ablaze with lights and electrified by the sounds of Ted Nugent’s “Hey, Babe.” Last Saturday, more than 1300 members of the Class of ’79 danced past midnight and proved that engineering isn’t the only thing Zachry has to offer. “The sophomore ball is a special event that comes once a year. The night is a combination of the person you’re with, certain things on your mind and the way you feel at that stage of your life,” said Don Rohel, assistant programs coordinator at the Memorial Student Center. Rohel sponsored the dance and believes most people go to see and to be seen. “There are not many occasions to dress up in College Station,” he said. “Ray O’Connell, chairman of the planning committee, was the man who pulled it all together,” said Rohel. “He came to the forefront last October when we started, and has been working hard ever since. O’Connell said it is nice to dress up in a formal atmosphere and have a break from academic pursuits. For many students, the evening began with stuffed deviled crab at the Captain’s Table or Chateaub riand at the Mansard House. Lisa Santos, a freshman chemical Bumbling inspector strikes again By SHEP GRINNAN Peter Sellers is back again as the disaster prone detective. Inspector Jacques Clouseau in the Blake Ed wards’ production “The Pink Panther Strikes Again.” In the tradi tion of the other panther films, this one is excellent. “The Pink Panther Strikes Again” is the fourth in the series of panther films. The first was the classic “The Pink Panther” starring Peter Sellers, David Niven, Robert Wagner and Claudia Cardinale. The Clouseau tradition was carried on in “A Shot in the Dark,” where Her bert Lom made his first appearance as the Clouseau-persecuted Chief Inspector Dreyfus. In “The Return WM of the Pink Panther” and “The Pink Panther Strikes Again,” the eye- twitching Dreyfus and bumbling Clouseau continued their hilarious adventure. The movie begins with a normal-behaving former Inspector Dreyfus talking intelligently with his psychiatrist. Dreyfus had finally been driven mad by Clouseau and put in a mental home three years before. However, Dreyfus now ap pears cured, and he waits for a san ity hearing to determine if he can be released. Unfortunately for Dreyfus, Clouseau, the new chief inspector, comes to wish him luck and renders Dreyfus insane again by giving him fm W- A; s. m Herbert Lom, as a former chief inspector, grasps Inspector Clouseau (Peter Sellers) when he learns about another of the latter’s big blunders. “The Pink Panther Strikes Again,” is playing at ABC Interstate Theatre through release by United Artists, a Transamerica Company^ a “bimp” on the head with a croquet ball, among other blunderings. At this point in the movie, one of the most enjoyable portions begins: the credits. Enjoyable, because they are accompanied by the ani mated Pink Panther cartoon pro duced by the Richard William Studio. Like the credits in “The Re turn of the Pink Panther,” these are great. The inspector and the pink panther enter a movie theater and the panther somehow gets on the screen and parodies Hitchcock’s “The Sound of Music,” “Singing in the Rain” and a recent smash hit in volving a large fish with sharp teeth. Then the movie begins with faith ful Cato (Burt Kwouk) and Clouseau kung-fuing themselves to death. In fact Sellers and Kwouk both use Bruce Lee’s style of Kung Fu fight ing wifh martial art sticks swung with gusto. The movie continues with Dreyfus’ escape from the asylum and his consequent kidnapping of Dr. Fassbender and his daughter. By this kidnapping, Dreyfus hopes to create an apparatus to put the doctor’s theory into practice, and thereby control the world and force its secret agents to kill Clouseau. Like the other panther films, this one emphasizes sight gags of every sort, ranging from sneak attacks by Cato to torture by scratching fingernails on a blackboard. Also in cluded are the stumblings of former President Ford look alike and the pontificating of a Kissinger twin. “The Pink Panther Strikes Again” is terrific entertainment, and prob ably the best of the series since the original. This is because of the reuniting of producer Edwards, animator Williams and stars, Sellers and Lom. This reunion, paired with the satire of a mad scientist, James Bond type spoof creates a laugh- filled night of entertainment. engineering major, and sophomore Doug Welsh celebrated the occa sion with 16 other couples at Tokyo Steak House, after a peach daiquiri party. Wearing their Class AA dress uni forms, members of A&M’s Corps of Cadets brought their girls and danced to the 1959 version of “Johnny B. Goode”—Chuck Berry style. There was lots of whooping and stomping to the country- western songs, especially to Waylon Jenning’s “Good-Hearted Woman.” Jerry Jeff Walker probably didn’t have dancing in chiffon gowns in mind when he wrote “Up Against the Wall, Red-Necked Mother,” but hundreds of pretty girls swirled their skirts to the kicker beat. Lakeview just couldn’t compete. “There were foxy ladies everywhere,” said Robin Hood, a 19-year-old accounting major. “I had a great time, but I think once a year is enough for this kind of dance. If there were any more, it would ruin the special attraction” Hood said. Hood thought the lover’s lane that formed along the darker hallways of Zachry was very interesting. “People were just lined up back there and I think they were having a real good time” Hood said. Rohel said Texas A&M is one of the few schools that still has class dances. “I believe they promote unity within the class and everyone likes to get together with their friends,” he said. Ron Lastovica, sophomore class president, said, “You can’t go any where and find this quality kind of band, a free cheese bar, cookies and all the Coke you can drink for $5.00.” Lastovica was pleased with the large attendance. Gary Brown, the drummer of the four-piece Houston band Fox River, said, “We’ve played at Texas A&M for the past three years and we’ve never seen a crowd this large at a dance.” “The band is fantastic,” said Mark Poindexter, a mechanized agricul ture major from San Augustine. Poindexter helped with refresh ments as a favor to Lastovica, but he seemed to be enjoying himself as much as the sophomores. “The girls sure look prettier than they do when I see them on cam pus,” Poindexter said. “I think someone imported a few of them.” Scott White, a sophomore Corps member, had his tickets, had or dered his date’s corsage, and had made dinner resrevations. His uni form was back from the cleaners and everything was ready to go. Unfor tunately, the night before the dance. White was playing basketball and broke his right ankle. White fest^d all day and by Saturday night he was determined to attend the ball. m going to dance anyway, it might be to just one song and a slow one at that, but I’m going to'dance.” cal science major, says he enjoys working with the birds. Battalion photo by Steve Reis Dirty Harry battles entire gang of villiaii| in new Eastwood flii There probably won’t be toO many more movies about Inspector Harry Callahan’s' one-man war on the vi cious criminals of San Francisco. After all, eighteen people were killed in “The Enforcer,” the third and most recent Dirty Harry movie. He’s beginning to mak§ an appreci able dent on the population of San Francisco, even if it is fictitious. In his latest escapade, Harry is once again played by Clint Eastwood. No one else is capable of being such a tough cop and still re taining a heart of gold. Although Eastwood did a superb job once again in portraying an hon est police inspector who is perse cuted by his superiors for being a bit violent in his methods, one begins to wonder for the first time in three movies just how long this could actu ally go on. By real-life standards, Call all an would have been out of the police force by the end of DJ Harry, the first film. But that’s show biz; I guess, “The Enforcer” contains e«] ounce of the blood and gore t diences have come to expect! Dirty Harry movies, but these! writers are beginning to geta| carried away. ; • In Dirty Harry, Inspector I ban was up against a single vicil killer. In Magnuin Force, hehatll three vicious vigilante cops. In! Enforcer, he is at war-with an enl vicious terrorist strike force. w| next? Communist China? The Enforcer does havet glimmer of ingenuity amidstt! mass of movie- cliches iii the for | Inspector Kate Moore (Tyne D Although the role itself is abito now (woman cop assigned tot macho cop as partner), Daily M 1 it a new attractiveness. — John W. T;[| Artist finds Aggies By MARIANITA PADDOCK Duane Littell never thought he would be teaching pottery in an Army barrack, but he doe^. His studio is a simple room with a kiln in the far right corner and a pot ter’s wheel to the near right. Clumps of earth-smelling clay are plopped onto tables throughout the room. Littell, 33, is a tall, rugged man who thinks A&M students are “more friendly than back East.” As A&M’s new aftist-in-residence he teaches clay potting in Barrack J, located behind the Reed McDonald building. “The purpose of an artist-in- residence is to stimulate interest from practicing artists,” Littell said. “It’s a program to get potters to gether and also to incorporate fiber areas like weaving or macrame, Littell said. The artist-in-residence program is funded by the College of Architecture and Environmental Design, in which each artist teaches for a semester in his speciality. Littell was a pre-law student when he took some art courses and became interested in clay, ceramics, and glass blowing. He graduated from the University of Northern Colorado in 1969 with a Master of Arts in art education. He also holds a Master of Fine Arts from State University of New College of Ceramics at Alfred J versity, with emphasis on cera and glass-forming. • . Students in his Art 208classlti texture design, a process creates a raised surface on pc The 16 students include tea® artists and freshmen in envisj mental design. Among their ( tions are vases, pots, eups anaffl| als. • t Students say they enjoy won 1 with Littell. “His class is easy' going really structured in any wayI* 1 ; doesn’t make you do the worK |ll | style,’’said Brad Foster, a seni(!I l environmental dessign. Rocky, once a loser, hits hard By GLENNA WHITLEY Muscle-bound, dreamy-eyed Syl vester Stallone has written and star red in a movie that works beautiful ly, in spite of itself. “Rocky” is a small masterpiece of a movie. Despite the many cliches (including the plot ), the film is ab sorbing and believable. Stallone plays a fourth-rate boxer reduced to breaking thumbs for a loan shark. Rocky is a loser. But his life is turned around by an announcement by the world heavyweight champion, Apollo Creed (Carl Weathers), that an un known will be given a chance at his title. Creed, clearly modeled after Muhammad Ali, is a clown and a poet. He chooses Rocky, “The Ita lian Stallion,” for his big Bicenten nial New Year’s fight in Philadel phia. So begins the fairy tale. Perhaps if anyone else had written and starred in it, it would have come across musty and silly. But John G. Av- ildsen’s direction and Stallone’s street-wise dialogue and mere pres ence manage to overcome the cliches. Innocence makes this film endearing. Rocky is a strong arm collector who doesn’t want to hurt anyone, who talks to his pet turtles, Cuff and Link. He’s a hulk of a man with infinite tenderness. Talia Shire plays Adrian, a shy girl with glasses who works in a pet shop. The old cliche of plain- girl-is-beautiful-without-glasses is almost ignored in a touching and sensual love scene in Rocky’s crummy apartment. Rocky loves her, and because of him, she begins to like herself. Burt Young is good as Paulie, Ad rian’s brother. Burgess Meredith, with his ancient pixie’s face, is excel lent as an ex—pug who runs a fight ers’ gym. The photography is good and even beautiful in spots. Rocky s early morning training runs through Philadelphia’s ghettoes are particularly effective visually. Rocky takes the challenge serious ly,. even when Apollo Creed enters the ring dressed as a black Uncle Sam. He’s too innocent to realize that he’s been had. The bloody,, torturous fig^’ climax of the film. .Suspensei* 6 up well, the audience is h 1 cent behind underdog ^ oc I the sloppy editing" of the n? J quences takes a little excitei neri | of the battle. .. 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