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Page 6 THE BATTALION TUESDAY, OCTOBER 30, 1979 Reopened for Weekend Dinners ^lack 3mt Veal Cordon Bleu Chicken Kiev Shrimp Newburg Sirloin Strip Froglegs Wiener Schnitzel A great place to eat after the football game Located on Hwy. 30, 21 miles past Hwy. 6 For reservations call 696-1191 or 1-874-2403 J Northgate Beer Games Beer Whiskey Open Daily at 3 p.m. — Sun. at 6 p.m. Now Better Than Ever. You Will Be Pleased With - These Carefully Prepared and Taste Tempting Foods. C r» * * ■ 7 Each Daily Special Only $1.99 Plus Tax. NwCatetenav' .. 0pen DaNy „ Dining: 11 A.M. to 1:30 P.M. — 4:00 P.M. to 7:00 P.M. MONDAY EVENING SPECIAL Salisbury Steak v- •- with St '* Mushroom Gravy Whipped Potatoes Your Choice of One Vegetable Roll or Corn Bread and Butter Coffee or Tea TUESDAY EVENING SPECIAL Mexican Fiesta Dinner Two Cheese and Onion Enchiladas w/chili Mexican Rice Patio Style Pinto Beans Tostadas Coffee or Tea One Corn Bread and Butter WEDNESDAY EVENING SPECIAL Chicken Fried Steak w/cream Gravy Whipped Potatoes and Choice of one other Vegetable Roll or Corn Bread and Butter Coffee or Tea THURSDAY EVENING SPECIAL Italian Candle Light Spaghetti Dinner (ft 1 3 1 jl) SERVED WITH SPICED MEAT BALLS AND SAUCE 1 Parmesan Cheese - Tossed Green Salad Choice of Salad Dressing - Hot Garlic Bread 1 Tea or Coffee FRIDAY EVENING SPECIAL BREADED FISH FILET w/TARTAR SAUCE Cole Slaw Hush Puppies Choice of one vegetable Roll or Corn Bread & Butter Tea or Coffee SATURDAY NOON and EVENING SPECIAL Yankee Pot Roast (Texas Style) Tossed Salad Mashed Potato w/ gravy Roll or Corn Bread & Butter Tea or Coffee SUNDAY SPECIAL NOON and EVENING ROAST TURKEY DINNER Served with Cranberry Sauce Cornbread Dressing Roll or Corn Bread - Butter - Coffee or Tea Giblet Gravy And your choice of any One vegetable campus & city Divination valid or hoax ? By CLAY B. COCKRILL Special to the Battalion Dowsing is a form of divination used to locate a hidden article or substance through the use of an in strument called a divining rod. Water witching is the best known type of dowsing, the rod most com monly used being a forked stick cut from a small tree. The water dowser grasps each side of the fork and walks about the land; when he cros ses over an aquifer, or underground reservoir, the free end of the stick dips in response. Dowsers claim they make no voluntary movement to cause the stick to respond. Evidence indicates that water dowsing existed at least 400 years ago in Germany. Today it exists throughout Europe, some parts of Africa and Australia, throughout North America including every state of the United States and probably throughout Latin America. 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LUNCH - 11 a.m.-2 p.m. COFFEE and DESSERT - 2 p.m.-5 p.m. DINNER - 5 p.m.-9 p.m. 696-1191 for reservations Culpepper Plaza (next to University Bookstore) SHORTC 10 BARTENDING JITTERBUG COUNTRY & WESTERN DAN FREE FORM DISC DISCO ROCK CLIMBING MOTORCYCLE SAFETY DEFENSIVE DRIVING TRATION 1, 1979 IDEAS UFF MECHANICS G. & ADV.) CHRISTM POWDER GUITAR ( PR EG. BILL 00KING NCEC 0W TO PASS MATH RDS call 145-1515 Jim Phillips, an electronics tech nician at Texas A&M, is convinced that dowsing works. “All I know is what I have actually experienced and proven to myself,” he said. Phillips became convinced a few years ago when he and some men were trying to locate a steel pipeline running beneath a parking lot be tween two buildings. They had dug a large hole where they thought the line should be but had been unable to find it. Phillips took two copper welding rods and bent both of them into an Evidence indicates that water dowsing existed at least 400 years ago in Germany. Today it exists throughout Europe, some parts of Africa and Australia, throughout North America in cluding every state of the United States and probably throughout Latin America. L-shape. Then holding each one loosely in his hands with the long ends extended out in front of him, he began to criss-cross the area where the line should have been. Just as he walked over the buried pipe, the long ends of the rods swung toward each other and crossed. He marked X’s on the as phalt at each point where the rods crossed and then chalked a line be tween the X’s. When the men dug down at the line they found the pipe directly beneath it as Phillips had predicted. “The body generates a certain amount of electricity,” said Phillips. “It could be that an electric field is created between the body and the underground pipeline.” The rod then becomes an instrument which indicates when the field becomes established. But that theory does not explain entirely a dowser’s supposed ability to distinguish between water and all the other substances with which an electric field could be established. How does he tell if it’s an aquifer or a pipeline? It’s not that specific rods find spe cific things. Wooden rods are not necessarily used to find water and metal rods to find metal. Now there are specially manufactured steel rods which diviners say can be used to locate anything. Most dowsers believe they are able to differentiate through a psychic element of dows ing. Since 1976 a College Station resi dent, Ben Policy, has been an avid dowser. He has attended both a be ginning and advanced dowsing school in Truth or Consequences, N.M. Policy said that all matter exudes energy in the form of waves, and that it is possible for the relaxed, confident mind pick up these waves and differentiate between them. The mind must be relaxed and con fident, he stressed. Negative, skep tical attitude about this “phenome non” impeded its ability come ab out. Policy also said that just as pota ble drinking water does not emit the same waves as non-drinkable pol luted water, neither do any two people. He said the rod, then, can be used to locate people by indicat ing from which direction the waves are coming from the particular per son the dowser is concentrating on. Standing in his living room, Pol icy placed his $300 universal dows ing rod in my right hand. The rod is designed in the L-shape with the short end as the handle. The long end is telescoping like an antenna and can turn freely a complete 360 degrees in the handle. Policy told me to hold it there for a minute to allow it to "warm up” in my hand. Then I held the rod out in front of me with the end tilted down slightly to keep it from swinging from side to side. He told me to concentrate on finding Ben Policy. Policy was standing a few feet to my left. The rod slowly started to swing in that direction, swung past him, bounced against my body and then came to rest pointing directly at him. I was extremely careful not to turn my hand and cause the rod to swing one way or the other. Policy then moved over to my right and I repeated the experiment just to make sure the rod was follow- Ben Policy, a College Station resident who has been an avid dowser since 1976, said that all matter exudes energy in the form of waves, and that it is pos sible for the relaxed, confident mind pick up these waves and differentiate between them. ing him and not some object on that side of the room. True to form, this time the rod turned to the right, stopping whe it pointed at Policy. Unfortunately, a good scientist would waste little time in discount ing this evidence as any basis of sci entific proof. Evon Z. Vogt and Ray Hyman point out in their book, “Water Witching U.S.A.,” that the University Flower & Gift Shop Come choose your Aggie mum from our large selec tion now! Plants — Hallmark Cards Posters — Candles — Roses & Other Fresh Flowers We Back The Aggies Call or come by 1049 Texas — Next to Sambo's call 846-8546 major body of evidence in sum dowsing comes from a hugetif of testimonial accounts like Jit ^ lips’. The authors say that whilejl experiences tend to cominctl dowser of the validity of his J tice, there is no proofthatii actually solved the problem,| The authors of “Water With U.S.A." point out thallhtt, careful experiments dowsers are to eliminaltti iables the worse the perform. In other words,, sers have failed to pmll selves under laboratory i tions. lips at least knew the jeJ vicinity of the pipeline, therefcl could have found it by chaw/ the crossing of the rods; been caused by somethi unrelated to the steel in thegm The authors say also that mil J timonials there is a tendencylif only the “good” accounts,!' ones that support dowsing/ people begin to believe thata thing works, they will accnai hits of evidence that support^ belief and pass over those c ences that do not. fDedicati Many experiments have she held Sa conducted in which variablesil* en ty-sc controlled in laboratories. U house. Vogt and Hyman point outify more rigorous the experimeitsiil come in eliminating variablesLy . worse the dowsers perfoiiLlll \_/l other words, dowsers havefep— prove themselves under labalE conditions. . H One experiment involvetjlj @ | cigar boxes which were fiW 11' sand. A bottle of oil was bunfl one of them. The dowser was Jj* By C to find the box containing theaH Bu J he could do no better thangue F* nc . e ^ would have one chance in i:f or ' t ' es w ’ < guessing the correct box. Since each dowser waif area oc through the test 10 times,eacrl/S 6 ^ tati sould get the right boxalleaslcB lere .' s a just by guessing. To prove!*j? ,mtles ‘ selves the dowsers thereforen(fip s ^ s ' . J to do significantly better an statlon the right box only once. lif| Inantt tl was given to 50 different d(s| ron ies f and the best score was onl) correct choices out of 10, k , . enough to prove the valid!tl n ^j e , tc ’ 1 dowsing. '.° / )y . J But while testimonials , an /, able to prove the practice, nflpf The do the c ontrolled expend! P ans ’ n necessarily disprove it. Outi: Fj yn ‘ ° field dowsers prove then®/ they seek and they frequenllfi at they are looking for. In ones done in Australia, water wasfe in 70 percent of the sites pret by dowsers. It may have beei chance, but neverthelesswatfiv| found. And though dowsers are unak prove themselves to scientfe doesn’t seem to bother them “People think you’re cran.) Ben Policy. “I don’t care; I hi works.” Marathon gives $ to AWI X s All th< you a Scholarships for safety enp ing students at Texas A&Mk" sity have been funded b) Marathon Oil Co. Checks for three $750 Oil scholarships and $1,500If safety engineering program« Industrial Engineering Depai were presented by Bob Star prevention manager at MaiS| Findlay, Ohio, plant. Students receiving Mara scholarships must, amongi quirements, be in a B.S program in safety engineeriti have a 3.0 grade point ratiof 4.0 system. 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