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•-7 8 'ts first || 1 w as a | fnstead led atean B°w] ^ j, The Battalion Vol. 72 No. 18 16 Pages Wednesday, September 26, 1979 College Station, Texas USPS 045 360 Phone 845-2611 7 Muhammad Ali struck the Texas A&M football players with awe Tues day afternoon when he talked with the team for several minutes during photo by L«e boy Leschper practice at Kyle Field. He spoke at the University Tuesday night about “Future World Peace.” See related pictures, page 10. iuildins beeun Ali on f riench hip -r V4L JL JL JL JL ^4LJL JL By CYNTHIA THOMAS who ve learned the true i V J Battalion Reporter Ali said the world is Hubert new chancellor Dr. Frank W. R. Hubert was named chancellor of the Texas A&M Univer sity System at this morning’s Board of Regents meeting. He will assume the position Monday. Hubert has been dean of the of the College of Education since 1969. “I pledge my full attention and energies to the responsibilities of this office and the University system,” Hubert said at the Board meeting. Hubert, who has been associated with the University system for the past 20 years, also served as Dean of the College of Liberal Arts (1965-1969) and Dean of the College of Arts and Sciences (1959-1965). He received his bachelor’s, master’s and doctoral degrees from the University of Texas at Austin. In August, Hubert was awarded an Honorary Doctorate of Law from Baylor University. Clyde H. Wells, former Board of Regents chairman, has been acting chancellor since Jan. 23, 1979, when Jack K. Williams resigned. Williams had been named chancellor after he resigned the University presidency in 1977. Half of seating to be ready for UH game rairie View Ai?M radio Nation to open by 1980 By RICHARD OLIVER Battalion Staff ^Construction on a 10,000-watt radio sta- at Prairie View A&M University has lly begun, nearly a year-and-a-half he ld schedule. jhe station, KPVU-FM, is slated to be on-commercial and will operate at a fre- pcy of 91.3. It will be housed in the nmunications Building on the Prairie |w A&M campus. jhirley Staples, head of the Department Mass Communications at Prairie View |&M, said the station is still expected to ^completed by January of 1980. According to the Department of Health, ducation and Welfare in Washington, station must be opened by January, 10. IHEW gave Prairie View A&M a two- Tir grant of $125,000 on Jan. 3, 1978, to (tall a station. The school was required natch that grant with $44,351. ^January is still our target for opening, ” Iples said. “The construction is under ly, and the erection of the tower is under y" In May, the station construction had not gun because of a delay in the arrival of bessary equipment. Staples said the equipment is in and ev- thing is set for the opening of the sta- dbrary now f public TV By CINDY COLVIN Battalion Reporter ideocassettes of public television adcasts are now available from the terling C. Evans Library. Iloaning of the cassettes was made pos- jjble by an agreement between the Texas &M libraries and the Texas State Library Austin, which organized the statewide eject, said Susan Lytle, map and Iti-media librarian. [ The Texas State Library maintains a col- ption of over 400 titles of programs, she Jid. Some programs are educational and Ime are recreational. Along with certain ilections from the Public Broadcasting htem’s series “Nova,” the collection also pludes “The Six Wives of Henry VIII,” ne Long Search, ” and “America, ” Lytle a. To borrow one of the videocassettes, :le suggests that the borrower file an lication with the multi-media depart- ent, located in room 208 of the library, at pst one week before the planned view- ig. The Evans Library would then con- t the Texas State Library and have the leocassette sent here, Lytle said. The rrower may then check out the |G CfH^eocassette for a period of three days. The department maintains a current i^^ptalog of the programs available through “We are certainly anticipating it to open on time,” she said. “The equipment is all in, and there is no problem thus far.” Mike Wisniesky, chief engineer at KORA-FM in Bryan, said he didn’t think Prairie View A&M should have any prob lem getting the station on the air by January. “It shouldn’t take them that long,” he said. “They’ve got three months to get it open, and that should be more than enough time. Once everything is ready to go, it doesn’t take that much time to get on the air.” Ivory Nelson, vice-president of research and special programs at Prairie View A&M, said in May he anticipated con struction to cost nearly $175,000, but Staples said she has no figure on construc tion costs now. “There is really no ballpark figure on construction costs so far,” she said. “There is too much involved to give a definite fig ure.” Adolph Koenig, an official in the mass communications division of HEW, said the station has until Jan. 3, 1980, to get the station on the air, but they may apply for an extension if needed and there is a rea sonable reason for the application. KPVU will be funded partly by school funds and partly by the community. lends tapes broadcasts the Texas State Library. The catalog de scribes the program’s content, and is lo cated in the multi-media department. Anyone who wishes to borrow a videocassette may do so with a Texas A&M library card, Lytle said. According to Emma Perry of the Evans Library’s circu lation department, anyone within the Bryan-College Station community may also borrow the videocassettes if he buys a $3 library card, but he must have a local address. When the borrower checks out the videocassette, he must sign an agreement stating that he will not copy any portion of the program without the consent of the producer, Lytle said. “If anyone wishes to view a program, but does not have the equipment, the multi-media department has one videocassette viewer,” Lytle said. The de partment plans to install another viewer this week, she said. There are also plans to purchase a port able videocassette viewer that can be taken to one of the library’s conference rooms for group viewing, Lytle said. “Both the room and the portable viewer will have to be reserved,” she said. For more information or reservations, call the multi-media department at 845- 2316. By CYNTHIA THOMAS Battalion Reporter In these material days, few people understand what friendship means, Muhammad Ali said at Texas A&M Uni versity Tuesday night. Once people understand friendship, it will solve a lot of problems, the former heavywe ight cham pion said to at* audience of 1,200 in G. Rollie White Coliseum. Speaking on “Future World Peace” for a program sponsored by the MSC Great Is sues and Black Awareness committees, Ali said that in friendship there should be no limitations and no thoughts of taking, only those of giving. “If one has made a friend, it should not be a friendship he has made to order,” Ali said. Self-interest and thoughts of profit will only develop into a business deal, he added. It is those who look for nothing who’ve learned the true lesson, he said. Ali said the world is in trouble today because nations are turning against other nations, racial and religious problems are turning into wars and the threat of nuclear warfare is increasing. He added that it is difficult for people to be friends because of their egotism. “As long-as this ego lives, man can never claim to be a friend of another, ” he said. Ali said he is qualified to speak on the topic of world peace because he is known throughout the world and has spoken with many great foreign leaders. “The real Ali is spiritual,” he said. “I’m for the rights of everybody who deserves right, and I’m against wrong and those who commit wrong. “There’s only one thing that can straighten out the world, and that’s the heart,” Ali said. By LAURA CORTEZ Battalion Reporter Fifty percent of the seating at Kyle Field will be ready for the University of Houston game on Oct. 13, the Board of Regents was told Tuesday at the Planning and Building Committee meeting. Wesley E. Peel, director of facilities planning and construction, said that ac cording to the Aug. 1 plan, 75 percent of the seating was to be finished for the Oct. 13 game. However, heavy rains and a crane collapse caused delays in construc tion, he said. Tickets were sold under the assumption that 75 percent of the stands would be ready. “Temporary seating arrangements will be made to accommodate all ticket hol ders. Bleachers will be placed where the VIP boxes will later be constructed,” Peel said. Bleachers will also be placed along the sidelines, he said. “Most ticket holders will have better seats under these conditions than they would have originally had.” The stands will be 75 percent complete for the Southern Methodist University game Nov. 3 and will be finished for the University of Arkansas game Nov. 17, he said. “By the Dec. 1 game, against the Univ erity of Texas, in addition to the seating being completed, more of the facilities will be finished (concession stands, r e s box, etc.).” All construction on the field and the addition to G. Rollie White Coliseum is expected to be finished by May 1980, Peel said. A&M team finds 800-year-old artifacts Class excavates Indian community By CAROL HANCOCK Battalion Reporter In mid-July, 17 Texas A&M University anthropology students and a staff of five headed to southwest New Mexico for five weeks of excavating and researching an 800-year-old Mimbrenos Indian commu nity. The class. Field Research in Anthropol ogy, is a six-hour credit course taught by Dr. Harry Shafer. Students work at an ex cavation site to get first-hand experience in archaeological field research. The Mimbrenos site is located between Silver City and Deming, N.M. on the ranch of Charles Hinton, who attended Texas A&M. Hinton’s wife Margaret had read of Shafer’s work on another culture and of fered to let him work on their ranch. “It’s a great site for teaching,” Shafer said. He first took his field school students to the site in 1978. The Mimbrenos were believed to have lived during the 1100s. They gradually abandoned the site the Texas A&M team was working on before the end of that cen tury, Shafer said. The site had about 75 to 80 adobe struc tured rooms, he said. He estimates the community’s population was around 200. The Hintons provided a four-bedroom cottage, running water and electricity for the group, Shafer said, but some students brought tents so they could have more privacy. “The Hintons literally adopt us because they’re Aggies,” he said. The weather was generally excellent during the five weeks, Shafer said. The last two weeks, the temperature was in the low 50s in the mornings and in the mid 70s in the afternoons. In 1978, the first year the class went to the site, it mapped the ruin and did some excavating, he said. Findings the first year were encouraging. Tuition and field school fees covered a small part of the expenses for the 1978 trip, Shafer said. Organized Research and the College of Liberal Arts provided funds for remaining expenses. Shafer was able to obtain a research grant from the National Geographic Soci ety to pay for the 1979 trip. This year’s class did more extensive ex cavations, Shafer said. “We had an outstanding season as far as accomplishing our goals,” he said. “We wanted to sample more of the ruins, the areas we felt were undisturbed, get more information on how long the site had been occupied, and get some good context and dating material.” The group uncovered many vessels, a large Olla (jar), turquoise beads, a tur quoise pendant, a few shell pendants, fragments of a shell bracelet and much ar chitectural information. Most of the vessels were found in con junction with burials, Shafer said. The Mimbrenos had a custom of placing a bowl over the head of their dead before burial, he said. The class put in seven and a half hours of work a day, six days a week. They were up by 6:30 a.m. and at the site by 8 a.m. Some went out as early as 7 a.m., Shafer said. The class took an hour for lunch, re sumed work at 1 p.m. and continued until about 4 p.m. Often it would stay later if it came upon something important, Shafer said. In the evenings, the students and staff would work in the laboratory, a converted garage-apartment, cleaning, sorting and cataloging the artifacts. They took shifts working, Shafer said, but there was no set schedule. Shafer lectured in the evenings. Three times a week he talked about different cul tures and archaeological techniques. Most of the teaching, however, was done at the site, he said. “At the beginning, we took them out and showed them what the site looked like, what we were going to do, how we were going to do it, and the basic tech niques we were going to use,” Shafer said. “A lot of times, they picked up things on their own, but they were never without supervision. “It wasn’t all toil,” Shafer said. Some days they took field trips to other digging sites and parks, he said. Bryan Bogle, a junior anthropology major in the class, agreed. “We had a lot of parties and drank a lot of Olympia,” he said. Wednesday was the group’s day off. A weekday was a good day to have off, Shafer said. The students could coordinate their schedules to accommodate happenings in local towns Bogle said he found field experience valuable. “To actually go out and dig is the only way to learn archaeology. That’s probably true in most fields,” he said. “I learned a great deal about archaeology and how I m going to work in it.” Shafer does not know where the artifacts will go after Texas A&M is through study ing them. They will be preserved in a col-' lection somewhere, he said, or the Hin tons might keep them. Wherever they are preserved, said, Texas A&M will always hav to them. Shafer access Dr. Harry Shafer, assistant professor of sociology and anthropology at Texas A&M, and assistant Anna Taylor inspect pieces of pottery found on in New Mexico during an archaeological field trip this summer. Shafer said the pottery was probably the work of ancient Pueblo farmers about 800 years ago. Battalion photo by Becky Leake