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The Battalion
Vol. 72 No. 18
16 Pages
Wednesday, September 26, 1979
College Station, Texas
USPS 045 360
Phone 845-2611
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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