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Page 8 THE BATTALION MONDAY, FEBRUARY 20, 1978 Beach eroding at alarming r ate [Award-winning film shou\^ Erosion of beaches and dunes at Galveston Island is occuring at an alarming rate from both natural and human forces, indicates a Texas A&M study. One of the threatened areas is the county-owned toll plaza at San Luis Pass, says project director Bob Ben ton. He notes the low-lying beach bluffs there have receded almost 600 feet in the past decade and 100 feet in the last year. Currently, the average winter time shoreline is just over 400 feet from the toll plaza, although 10 years ago it was nearly 1,000 feet away, concludes the Texas A&M Remote Sensing Center report. Using field-verified aerial photos taken in 1977 and older photos and charts of the island, the study tracked long-term changes in the shoreline and examined the impact of grazing and construction on the 6th Anniversary Portrait Sale Save On Boot Pictures 2 for X irker pnotograpfiy 405 UNIVERSITY DR. NORTHGATE 846-5766 ★★★★★★★★★★★★★★★★★★★★★★★★★★★★★★ Sigma Phi Epsilon Fraternity Announces Their Second Annual FIGHT NIGHT * $1.50 Non Student March 1 & 2 National Guard Armory Fighting Starts 7:00 p.m. Boxing Between TAMU Organizations £ Plenty of Food and 50 Kegs of ★★★★★★★★★★★★★★★★★★★★★★★★★★★★★★★★★★★ CO-OP “AN IDEA WHOSE TIME HAS COME” | Now is the time for you to consider Cooperative Education: (1) A CO-OP job is related to your academic interest and career objective (2) Pay is based upon work performed for that employer. (3) Academic credit is available for the Cooperative Education Work Experience. | Cooperative Education is available in each of these academic colleges: Agriculture Architecture and Environmental Design Engineering Liberal Arts Science Veterinary Medicine (Biomedical Science) TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 21, 1978 [8:30 a.m.-11:30 a.m. Director of CO-OP Programs will be at] a booth on the first floor of the MSC to f answer questions. [8:00 p.m.- 9:00 p.m. Cooperative Education: An Idea Whose Time Has Come Rooms 228-229 Program: 30-minute film and questionj and answer session Office of Cooperative Education Career Planning And Placement Center Tenth Floor, Rudder Tower 845-7725 dunes and wetlands. Beach erosion tends to be bal anced by arrival of new sediments discharged from rivers to the north east and carried to Galveston Island by longshore currents. New dams upriver, however, have significantly cut the volume of sediment, says Benton. What sediment does reach the area is further reduced when it be comes trapped by long jetties on the east end of the island, lie adds. The result is normal erosion but much less replenishment. Vehicle traffic to and from the beach breaks down low bluffs and further adds to the erosion problem; the result is both receding beaches and damage to the protecting dunes, the report says. On the other side of the island, over-grazing significantly decreases the flow of nutrients from the meadows into the lower wetlands normally productive of shrimp and other organisms in the marine food chain. The relative sparseness of the wetlands lying below over-grazed pastures is quite visible in the 1977 photos, says Benton. Another impact of over-grazing, the study goes on, is loss of deep- rooted perennial grasses that liter ally hold the island together. The report also documents the loss of dunes and productive wet lands to housing developments on the southwest half of the island, a generally low-lying area which was inundated in 1961 by Hurricane Carla, one of 10 hurricanes that have seriously damaged the island since 1900. GREAT ISSUES PRESENTS DR. RON HOLDER - URBAN TRANSPORTATION - ASSOCIATE RESEARCH ENGINEER AND PROGRAM DIRECTOR-TEXAS TRANSPORTATION INSTITUTE - Ph.D. IN CIVIL ENGINEERING - TAMU - LECTURER - C.E. DEPARTMENT 701 Rudder February 21, 1978 free 12:30 p.m. '/tep Into the m/c>3y/tep Into the m/d Werner Herzog’s “Everyman for Himself and God Against All”, (The Mystery of Kaspar Hauser) is the first film in the New German Cinema to play in the A&M area. The MSC Arts Committee will show the film tonight at 8 p. m. in Rudder Thea ter, tickets are $1. “Every Man for Himself and God Against All” is based on a real historical event. One day in the 1860s a young man named Kasper Hauser appeared in a town in Germany. He was hardly above the animal level. He could not speak and was barely able to stand. Taken in by the townspeople, he was taught to speak, read and write and, as mysteriously as he first ap peared, he was murdered. Bruno S., a nonactor, who plays Kaspar Hauser has a background similar to Kaspar. He was abandoned as a child and spent most of his life in institutions. He brings the character to life in almost magical terms. The New German Cinema is composed of directors whose works have come into promi nence in the 70s. With Herzog such directors as Fassbinder and Wenders have made this the most exciting time in German Cinema since the expressionism of the late 20s. The first film in the New German Cinema will be _ by the MSC Arts Committee tonight, featuring Werner H«| zog’s “Every Man for Himself and God Against All.“ Herzog’s films are noted for unusual locales and techniques, while the movement as a whole is marked by a formal, distant aesthetic approach. The film won the Prize at the Cannes Film Pestd in 1975 and runs 110 minutes. Monday & Tuesday NO COVER 50c BEER 7:30 P.M.- 12:00 A.M. UNIVERSITY DR. NEXT TO SKAGGS Metallurgi to lecture Dr. Cullis J. Sparks Jr., resd if the metallurgist with Oak RidgtBteam tional Laboratory, will preset: 1977-78 Welch Foundation leit vork at Texas A&M University We®wo t day. Sparks’ 7 p.m. address,ii Sterling C. Evans Libnij, entitled “Synchrotron Radii Intense Photo Source to Sttiil Chemistry of Materials.” Dr. W.O. Milligan, researij rector for the Robert A, Id Foundation, will accompany^ who worked in the aeronaut search lab at Wright Patteri Force Base before joinitjH Ridge National Laboratory is Town Hall Is Looking For You ... “THE GOOD AG 5 5 Cu a in; Aft on, : or th rack. Die forts iidoc hips 'losei 30-ya Di< In connection with the Crystal Gayle concert, Town Hall will be staging several incidents on the interior campus this Wednesday, Thursday, ani Friday, February 22-24 between 10 a.m. and 2 p.m. Anything from a heartfelt “Howdy” to a helping hand could win you and your date reserve seat tickets to the concert which will be performed Friday, March 3 at —G Rollie White Coliseum at 7:30 p.m. Vinn :ime ;the ] vas i «d ( iy H To win: 1. Student must be currently enrolled at Texas A&M University. 2. The participant in the situation will determine which student comes to his aid first. None of the participants will be Town Hall members. 3. Town Hall reserves the right to determine the number of staged incidehts and the number of tickets given away per day. No student can win more than one set of tickets during the three-da) contest. Town Hall members and families are ineligible to win. Town Hall reserves the right to end the contest at any time. 4. A LIVING SEED Some of the things we experience and discover in early childhood can never be forgotten. I still can re member the time we filled Dixie cups with dirt in elementary school. Into that dirt we placed a small brown seed. We sprinkled water on top and set our cups in the window. It seemed like forever, but one morning we came into the class room and found a green sprout. Slowly it grew and before we knew it, there was one leaf and then two. Even though our teacher explained what was happening, it was a mira cle to me that something so green and living could appear out of a cup of dirt. Later when I was eight years old, a seed was planted into me. What I mean is I asked Jesus Christ to save me and come into me, I didn’t know anything except that this was what you were supposed to do if you loved Jesus. I did love Him, and I wanted to please Him. Because of this, I never would curse, and I felt uncomfortable whenever I lied or listened to dirty jokes. Although I was not conscious of it, I was caring for that little seed and making sure that no weeds choked it. However, as I grew older, I began to care more for what other people thought of me. I wanted to be pretty and popular, have lots of dates, and lots of fun. Loving Jesus didn’t seem to fit in so well with those desires, so I neglected the seed planted in me. Occasionally I would come back, repent for being gone so long and resolve to care just for Him. Then I would leave Him again and a longer time would lapse. By the time I started college I had really disguised the fact that Someone was in me besides just myself. None of my friends knew, and I didn’t care to let them know. I even began to doubt it myself. The junior college I attended was strictly commuter and the only thing going socially was one frater nity/sorority organization. I joined it and set out to have the biggest time possible. It was hard to admit, if only to myself, that I didn’t fit in the life that I dreamed of. I wasn’t as pretty or as popular as I wanted to be, nor was I having that much fun. Instead, lots of times there was a sick feeling from deep inside me, and many nights were spent tossing and turning because I felt guilty for my actions. Nevertheless, I con tinued to pretend that my “dream life” was really what I wanted. Just as it seemed the last traces of the life in that seed were being smothered out, my sister, of all people, started talking about Jesus. I couldn’t believe it. Although she was three years younger than I, she seemed to be already what I was trying so hard to be — pretty, witty, and popular. All of a sudden, she started dropping old activities and friends. She wanted to go to Chris tian meetings more than just on Sundays, and instead of listening to rock music, she was singing about Jesus. That was too much for me, and I told her so more than once! One night, some of her friends were on the radio telling how Jesus had changed their lives. I was lis tening with disgust until one of them read a verse. "Know ye not that your body is the temple of God, and that the Spirit of God dwells in you." Those words shot through all my layers of resistance and hit the center of my being. I realizfd my body was God’s temple. H( gotten into me at eight years never left. All that I had been) suing was 180 degrees opposiK direction of His life within me no choice, I had to be for Him sweetest realization to me was while I had been neglectingH« so long, He was still in meins® hidden way, just waiting for tit portunity to grow. There wasis at that instance, more real* what I could see physically, H out! God’s life in me had spnn* He was so real to me, I justsat^ stunned. Immediately I knew specific things in me that had' in order to make more room I# 1 precious life in me to grow, That was six years ago, anil life of God Is still growing in* Instead of striving against Hi® now my joy to cooperate witliS that He could grow to maturity also realized that what Godbfj He intends to finish. Heinten® have the full manifestation ol' life in me and in all His children' experience Him is more enjoy! than anything I have everdesW dreamed of. I thank Him so that He has proven His life is® 1 structible, eternal, and hill. "Being confident of this thing, that he which Iws Ixf 1 good work in you, will pciff* until the day of Jesus Christ' q 1:6) I 11 Rhonda Gedeon 846-0610 Paid for by Christum stuilciib on campus.