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MONDAY, JANUARY 2 1980
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By TODD WOODARD
Campus Reporter
j*ky Mathias is a senior English
IT ^or at the University of Texas,
piring his four years at UT he has
^rried a 4.0 grade point average.
\lathias thought himself pretty
smart until he tried answering ques
tions in preparation for the College
Bowl.
The questions that Mathias tried
were similar to these: Name the
famous Prussian who helped
Washington drill his troops at Valley
Forge. Who painted the famous fres
co titled “The School of Athens?”
What is the stage name of Eric
Weiss? Students from hundreds of
colleges in the United States and 12
What’s up at
Texas A&M
MONDAY
COMMUNITY SINGERS: Will hold a third rehearsal for Feb. 17
performance at 7:30 p.m. in the Brazos Center.
BAHA’I CLUB: Will hold a discussion on “The Relativity of Religious
Truth” at 7:30 in the Meditation Room of the All-Faith’s Chapel.
WATER SKI CLUB: Will show the film “The Best of Tournament
Water Skiing” at 7 p.m. in 308 Rudder. Plans for the Polar Bear
tournament will he discussed
LUTHERAN STUDENT MOVEMENT: Will meet at 7:30 p.m. in
305 Rudder.
TUESDAY
DANCE ARTS SOCIETY: Tap classes will begin at 7 p.m. in 267 G.
Rollie White Coliseum.
AGRONOMY SOCIETY: J. B. Dixon will speak on Saudi Arabia at
7:15 p.m. in 103 Soil and Crop Science Bldg.
AMERICAN INSTITUTE OF CHEMICAL ENGINEERS: Mark
Wilson will speak on “Choosing Between a Large and Small Com
pany” at 7:30 p.m. in 203 Zachry.
SOCIOLOGY CLUB: Will meet at 6:30 p.m. in 106 Bolton Hall.
WOMEN’S LACROSSE: Will meet in the MSC Main Lounge at 7
p.m. Anyone interested in joining is invited to attend.
AGRICULTURAL ECONOMICS: Will meet at 7:30 p.m. in 108
Harrington.
AGGIES AIDE: Will meet at 7:30 p.m. in 502 Rudder.
CLASS OF 1980: Will meet at 7:30 p.m. in 404 Rudder.
WEDNESDAY
NURSING SOCIETY: Will hold a meeting at 7:30 p.m. in 607 Rud
der. Anyone interested in joining is encouraged to attend.
PHI THETA KAPPA ALUMNI: Will hold a meeting in 402 Rudder at
7:00 p.m. New officers will be elected and members are urged to
attend.
LAMBDA SIGMA: Will hold a meeting in 504 Rudder at 7:00 p.m.
AGGIE SCOUTS: Will hold a meeting in 137A MSC at 9:00 p.m. The
Girl Scout cookie sale will be discussed and cookies will be distri
buted.
TAMU STAMP CLUB: Will meet in 137 MSC at 7:30 p.m. A trading
session will be held.
RUDDER’S RANGERS: A meeting for juniors only will be held at
7:15 p.m. in Spence Park.
COUNCIL FOR EXCEPTIONAL CHILDREN: Will hold a meeting
in 401 Rudder at 7:00 p.m. The topic will be the Special Olympics.
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other nations try to answer questions
on topics from mathematics to movie
trivia.
Texas A&M University has joined
these colleges in the contest called
“the varsity sport of the mind.”
Ted Hoef, College Bowl program
adviser at Texas A&M, said 16 teams
will compete for the Texas A&M title
on Feb. 4-6. Matches will run from
7-0 p.m. in the Memorial Student
Center Main Lounge and the Base
ment Coffeehouse.
The Feb. 7 final matches will be
held in 350-350A MSC, and in the
MSC Ballroom, from 6:30-9:30
p.m., Hoef said.
While studying at The University
of Southern Illinois at Edwardsville,
Hoef competed in College Bowl. He
said he remembered one question in
particular.
“They named a few of Snow
White’s dwarfs and wanted to know
the ones unnamed.”
Remembering dwarfs might not
be a big accomplishment, but ques
tions like “What is a yert? ”, show the
extent of knowledge needed.
“It’s kind of humbling to hear the
caliber of questions they ask, ” said
David Ragsdale, a graduate student
in English, whose heard sample’s of
the questions.
Reader’s Digest helps the College
Bowl Co. prepare the questions and
publishes the Reader’s Digest Col
lege Bowl Almanac. Hoef said the
book is a good preparation source.
A poll of 49 of the 64 competitors
at Texas A&M showed that honor
students are not the sole entrants.
Both good and average students en-
ter, the poll showed.
College Bowl participants at Texas
A&M are not in a particular major.
Twenty-five students were in en
gineering or science departments.
The remaining 24 were liberal arts or
business majors.
The College Bowl is a business,
even a way of life for its founder Don
Reid. “I live for the College Bowl,”
Reid said.
In 1952 he organized College
Bowl, “to create a program so people
who do some thinking can get recog
nition like people who catch forward
passes,” he said.
NBC carried the early programs
until 1959. College Bowl then went
on CBS, sponsored by General Elec
tric. College Bowl is not sponsored
by GE anymore, Reid said. “College
Bowl carries itself.”
Some CBS radio affiliates carry
College Bowl now, Reid said. They
currently are negotiating with
WNET (New York PBS) and a com
mercial network for television cov
erage.
Broadcast changes have not
changed the game over the years he
said, “It’s still the same game.”
The game is played in 30-minute
segments, said Patricia Price, MSC
project chairman for College Bowl.
Two teams answer questions for two
seven-minute halves. The extra time
is for introductions and rules before
the game starts, she said.
Price said that during the halves, a
moderator asks two types of ques
tions. Toss-up questions are worth
10 points, and the first team to
answer the toss-up correctly gets a
shot at a bonus question. Teams have
International
Meditation Society
There will be a free introductory lecture on the Transcenden
tal Meditation Program on Monday the 28th of January at 7:30
P.M. in Room No. 402 of Rudder Tower. This lecture is for
those just interested in the general knowledge or in learning
the technique for expanding awareness and increasing en
joyment of all aspects of life.
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IRA LEVIN'S
DEATHTRAP
Scenery by
WILLIAM RITMAN
Costumes by Lighting by
RUTH MORLEY MARC B. WEISS
Original New York Production Directed by
ROBERT MOORE
Restaged by
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only three seconds to answer toss-
ups.
The number of points for the
bonus varies. Conferences are
allowed on bonuses but not on tos-
sups.
With 16 teams in a double elimi
nation tournament, entrants must be
conditioned. Most of the competi
tors are reading almanacs and
thumbing through old texts.
Brian Jossart, a senior in pet
roleum engineering, said he was the
literature and movie expert of the
group. “I’ve been watching a lot of
old movies lately,” he said.
Any kind of specialized knowledge
could carry a team past the Texas
A&M tournament to compete
against Rice University Feb. 11, and
later at regionals in Fort Worth and
national finals in Miami.
The College Bowl system has sev
eral different layers. Colleges like
Harvard, Yale, Cornell, and David
son hold similar tournaments.
Davidson, a small college in New
Jersey, won the national title last
year and traveled to Cambridge, En
gland to compete against Sydney
Sussex College of Cambridge.
Davidson lost in the last 10 seconds.
“Anyone with half a brain has 5
chance,” Reid said. “Every one c|
these people are athletes. They trait
just like any other athlete.”
“When southern schools were in
vited, they weren’t expected to d<
very well,” he said, “But Texaj
teams have turned out to be gian
killers.”
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