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TUESDAY, APRIL 11, 1978
Next years plans started
Workshop attendance poor
By CHERYL HICKMAN
Muddy ponds and Indians were
topics of discussion in a nature
workshop held Saturday and Sunday
by the Outdoor Recreation Commit
tee (OCR).
The workshop was composed of
11 events with Texas A&M Univer
sity professors either lecutring or
conducting field trips. Topics in
cluded aquatic ecology, ecology and
the free market system, Indians of
Texas, Texas wildflowers, and ter
restrial ecology.
Dr. Richard L. Noble, associate
professor in Wildlife and Fisheries
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sciences, led the aquatic ecology
field trip to Post Oak Pond, main
tained by Texas A&M near Easter-
wood Airport.
Noble said generally the older a
pond is the clearer it is.
He said vegetation eventually
dies and rots in a pond and the rot
ting matter causes the mud to pre
cipitate, making the water clearer.
Muddy water makes it very difficult
for any kind of plant life to survive,
and the large amount of clay in this
area makes the water brown.
One solution to the problem is to
dump hay into the pond and let it
rot. Chemicals such as alum or
gypsum also help precipitate the
clay.
Dr. Phil Gramm conducted a dis
cussion on ecology and the free
market. Gramm is a former eco
nomics professor at A&M and is now
campaigning for the U.S. Senate.
A large part of the discussion cen
tered on the national park system.
Gramm advocated charging higher
rates for park users and dropping
the present program of maintaing
the park system through taxes.
“Should the guy who’s working in a
black smutty hole be forced to pay
for the Snake River so Teddy Ken
nedy can go down it?” Gramm
asked.
Dr. Harry J. Shafer, associate
professor of sociology and an
thropology, gave a slide presenta
tion on Indians in Texas.
Shafer said most people think
only of Apaches, Karankawas and
Comanches in association with
Texas Indians. Actually, there were
about 12 major groups of Indians in
Texas, and up to 12 different bands
within each major group. For exam
ple, within the Comanche group
there were the Penateka, Tenawa,
Tanima, Nokoni and the Kwahadi
bands.
Some of the major groups who
lived in Texas were the Tonkawas,
the Wichitas, the Caddos and the
Kiowas.
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Almost all the Texas Indians are
extinct now, Shafer said. They were
the victims of European diseases
and the superior technology of the
white man.
If populrity can be judged by at
tendance, one of the most popular
events of the workshop was Sun
day’s Texas wildflowers field trip
conducted by retired professor. Dr.
John J. Sperry. Sixteen people at
tended.
The group drove near Navasota
with Sperry naming flowers he or
anyone else saw. Types of flowers
observed ranged from the bluebon
net, the Texas state flower, to the
poisonous death campus, which re
sembles a green onion.
Dr. Fred E. Smiens, associate
professor of range science con
ducted a field trip on terrestrial
ecology.
The group examined land at the
Navasota River area.
Smeins said overgrazing and
settlers have kept natural fires from
burning off the saplings that take
root in the pasture land. Most of the
land around Bryan and College Sta
tion is naturally savannah — open
grassland with only a few scattered
trees.
Now most saplings grow to matur
ity unless they are uprooted, caus
ing this area to change from open
Savannah to forestland.
Other topics covered by the
workshop were Texas mammals,
campus trees and shrubs, birds of
Texas, insect-plant interactions,
vegetation history of Texas and
Texas reptiles and amphibians.
Helton said next year’s format will
probably be changed to include
some skills-oriented programs.
Although attendance at the work
shop entitled “Right in Your Own
Backyard,” was very low, plans are
already underway for some kind of
outdoor awareness program next
year, said Wayne Helton, junior
wildlife science major and chairman
of ORC.
The workshop was designed to let
people get more working knowledge
of things in Texas, Helton said.
Because dormitory regulations keep some pets
away, many Texas A&M students have to leave
their favorite animals behind. Patricia Daniel,
Queen Cotton chosen in
Agronomy Society pageanl
By MICHELLE SCUDDER
Mollie Ann Winston of Tyler was
crowned Queen of the 44th Annual
Cotton Pageant and Ball last
weekend in Rudder Auditorium.
She was selected from among 127
contestants.
Winston, a sophomore pre-dent
major, was representing Mosher
Dorm in the Pagaent.
The 19-year-old brown-eyed
brunette received a crown and a
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entwined with cotton puffs from
King Cotton, Paul Vaculin of Came
ron.
Named to the queen’s court were
Debbie Ann Kolodzie, representing
the American Society of Agriculture
Engineers; Kathleen Miller, repre
senting the Texas A&M Women’s
Social Club; Debbi Pigg, represent
ing Alpha Delta Pi sorority; Lori El
lis, representing the College Station
Noon Lion’s Club; Pamela Grot-
house, representing the Texas A&M
University Jaycees; Lezlie Rummel,
representing the Lubbock Home
town Club; Loretta Francine Faz-
zino, representing the Soil Conser
vation Society of America; and
Sandra Englert, representing the
San Angelo Mother’s Club.
Winston said, “The funniest thing
about being Queen Cotton is that
now when people pass
times
me.”
Winston is a member ofl
Phi Alpha sorority, Alpha
Delta honor society, andi
dent “Y. She was escorted! 1
Lloyd.
The pageant was sponso
the Student Agronomy Socif
"The purpose of tliei
Pageant is to promote goodi
ships over the state, and
promote cotton and showil
tance to the state and nation
importance as one of our nr
natural fibers,” said Dr,
McBee, Agronomy Society!
Proceeds from the pageait
used to sponsor students 01
tional tours. “The students
take an annual trip to lookf
farming practices and agi
crops over the state,’ Me&
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By PAUL BARTON
What will be left when the
Alaska pipeline runs dry? The
scenic beauty of America s last
frontier or a landscape scarred by
unbridled development?
Questions like those were dis
cussed Monday night at a meet
ing at Rudder Tower sponsored
by the Bryan-College Station
Sierra Club and the Parks and
Recreation Club. On hand were
representatives from the Alaska
Coalition, an alliance of conser
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ganizations seeking passage of
the Alaska National Interest
Lands Conservation Act now be
fore Congress.
The bill is designed to set
aside 95 million acres of Alaska as
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areas, meaning the land could
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