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p Page 6 THE BATTALION THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 6, 1980 Prof goes ape for Tarzan By MARY ANN HINNANT Battalion Reporter Annette Bristol spent much of her childhood running barefoot and swinging from tree to tree. She spoke Mangani to her friends and family. And when “Tarzan of the Apes” was featured at the Friday night movie, she was first in line. “Tarzan has always been a part of my life,” the 36-year-old linguistics graduate student said. Bristol grew up in Bryan where her parents taught at Allen Academy. She first knew Tarzan through comic books and movies, but her love for him stemmed from the character created by Edgar Rice Burroughs. “I was scrounging around in the library at Allen Academy when I dis covered the first Tarzan books,” she said. “I was fascinated with Tarzan be cause he was entirely free. He also had a special relationship with the animals of the jungle. “I wanted to be Tarzan. No one could tell him what to do.” The 1968 modem language gradu ate said she was also intrigued with MR. MACHO Who Are You? Thurs., Nov. 6 ZACHARIAS GREENHOUSE 693-9781 MSC MBA/LAW DAY Saturday, November 8, 1980 8:30 a.m.-5 p.m. Rudder Theatre Session 1: MBA (8 a.m.-Noon) BBQ 12 Noon-1 p.m. Session 2: Law (1:30 p.m.-5 p.m.) Single Session: $1.00 Both Sessions: $1.50 BBQ: $3.50 Register for sessions in advance at the MSC Box Office. MSC MBA/Law Day is an MSC council project designed to infgrm the student community about possible careers associated with Graduate Degrees'in'Law and Business Adminis tration. The program is divided into two distinct presentations: the morning session concentrating on careers in business administration, and the afternoon presentation concentrating on law opportunities. The Program consists of group discussions between students and recent A&M Former Students who have obtained Graduate Business and Law degrees from various schools across the nation. (This year’s program includes graduates from schools such as Harvard, Chicago, Texas, Rice, and Texas A&M.) During these sessions, panel members discuss their present job responsibilities, and other relevant information with people interested in obtaining an MBA or Law degree. The informal atmosphere of these discussions encour ages active interaction between the panelists and members of the group. Also present in the groups are faculty and admissions office representatives from major graduate business and law schools of this region, and the nation. These representatives participate in the group discussions, as well as distribute information and answer questions concerning an individual school’s program. Current information, catalogues, and applica tion forms from leading law and business schools nationwide are also available at MBA/Law Day. Separating the morning MBA and afternoon Law presentations is an informal barbeque lunch held in the MSC. This meal provides an excellent opportunity for students to sit down and exchange ideas with an individual alumnus or graduate school representative on a one-to-one basis. For students who have decided upon graduate school, or even those who are undecided, MSC MBA/Law Day is a chance to learn, explore, and ask questions about careers in Business Administration and Law. For more info call 845-2916. Law Schools Represented: Baylor University University of Houston McGeorge School of Law Sacramento, St. Mary’s University Southern Methodist University University of Texas University of Santa Clara Texas Tech University South Texas College of Law Tulane University of Miami Yale Harvard MBA Schools Represented American Graduate School of Management (Thunderbird Campus) Baylor University Southern Methodist University Stanford University of Texas Rice George Washington Institute of Business Texas Tech University University of Chicago Texas A&M University University of Texas at Arlington Harvard the Mangani language Burroughs created in his books. “Both Tarzan and the animals could speak Mangani,” she said. “I made all the kids where I lived learn to speak it.” She once taught the jungle language to students in a gra duate class. A chart of the Mangani alphabet is conveniently stashed behind her desk “just in case anyone wants to learn how to speak it.” Bristol’s collection of Tarzan relics consists of comic books, hardback and paperback books, posters and a few Tarzan movie previews. Bristol entered titles from her Tarzan book collection in 1979 and won the Edith Gott White Award in the Texas A&M University Library Student Book Collector’s Contest. “Tarzan and the Lost Safari” with Gordon Scott was Bristol’s favorite apes but returned to England for his education. He eventually went back to the jungle and lived in a large house, not a tree, with his wife, Jane. “I despise Johnny Weissmuller because he portrayed Tarzan as an idiot,” she said. “Tarzan was a well- educated man who could speak sev eral different languages. There was never a boy in Bur roughs’ book either,” Bristol said. “Tarzan had a monkey called Niki- ma, but a chimp was probably used in the movies because it was easier to train.” Although Tarzan is Bristol’s favo rite character, she enjoys any kind of science fiction and was a founder of Cepheid Variable, Texas A&M’s fic tion club. “Scott was more like Burroughs’ Tarzan,” she said. “He brachiated from limb to limb, which was the way Tarzan did it in the book. It’s much more realistic than swinging on a vine.” She seldom misses a Tarzan movie, but she admits her prefer ence for Burroughs’ books. “The only thing the books and the movies have in common is that they are both called Tarzan,” she said. In the book, Bristol said, Tarzan was an English lord named John Clayton. He was raised by the jungle Bristol teaches English 103 to foreign students while she continues her graduate work here. When her students study literature, she intro duces them to science fiction. Bristol, who has seen “Star Wars” 22 times, also attends science fiction conventions whenever she can. She owns copies of 13 “Star Trek” epi sodes and still gets a thrill from watching “The Twilight Zone” and “Outer Limits.” “There’s always been a part of me that can go back and enjoy a chil dren’s book or a fantasy movie,” Bris tol said. “I guess if you never com pletely grow up, you can never be old.” AMOCO awards grant Emergency quickly on jured stude : TAM EC A&M stu emergenc jlunteer t ian a Uni\ id providi >1 for avai TAMEC aduate si ie group rodeos, cc Iggie bon jayed at I “Anytime ithered ii ,s an ele id, “we t duty there Any gro ive TAM inctions s |rm two v je availabl in the base (Health Ce es are fi TAMEC id all are Texas A&M University’s Pet roleum Engineering Department has received a $7,500 Amoco Found ation Inc. grant for a doctoral fellow ship. Mark Berman, research super visor for Amoco Production Co., pre sented the foundation check to de partment head Dr. Douglas Von Con ten and Dr. Robert Walker, vice president for development at Texas A&M University. The petroleum engineering fel lowship from Amoco is held by Steve Neuse, a doctoral candidate from New Braunfels. “We presently have three gradu ate fellowships in the department but need more,” Von Gonten said. “We are happy to receive this sup port from the Amoco Foundation.” Photo by joki emergency Texas A&M graduate student Annette Bristol collects Tara out one-th books, posters and other Edgar Rice Burroughs writings,I Emergenc is working on her doctorate in linguistics and has completeness of Burroughs’ Tarzan by teaching ape another oi eAtten bers are tra Alligator devours]) € prized duck dog Unit i AUSTIN ||airman State party TONIGHT 8 P.M. BACK BY POPULAR DEMAND THE MR. MACHO CONTEST ZACHARIAS GREEN HOUSE CLUB & GAME PARLOR LADIES ONLY! 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