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ocal TH E BATTALION Page 5 MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 14, 1981 \airy team preparing for competition HiimmiimiiiMimmiimiimiimmiimimiiiiiimiiimiimiiiiiiimmimiimmmmmmiim Students judge bovine beauties 1 % By SUSAN FLORENCE Battalion Reporter ^tractiveness, impressive style character are what most ;s look for when choosing the icr of a beauty pageant, lis is also what the Texas Dairy Judging Team consid- rbvhen selecting the best dairy Hline Texas A&M students are rac; icing 30 hours a week to pre- air for upcoming dairy judging ; Wests. iDairy judging is not as easy as It people think,” said Dr. Chris hliel, team coach and dairy specialist at Texas A&M Univer sity. The dairy judging team prac tices at the Dairy Center and near by dairies on weekends and whenever possible during the week, Woelfel said. Most dairy judging contests re quire judging 10 dairy classes; five cows and five heifers. Then each team member gives oral reasons for each placing he chose. The teams judge Holstein, Jersey, Guernsey, Ayrshire and brown Swiss heifers and cows. Team member Niles Holmes said, “Most people find judging heifers easier than cows. With heifers you judge the body frame (but) with the cow you judge the frame and ... how good a milk cow you think she is. This is very diffi cult.” Woelfel said the first thing to look at when judging the frame of heifers and cows is the overall attractiveness of the body. For ex ample, a long straight back with smooth blending of all parts is im portant. The judge also must consider the cows’ milking ability. According to the Dairy Cow Unified Score Card, which is yyx-gymnast learns cope with paralysis By TOM SOLOMON Battalion Reporter irk Sterle was a gymnast, e had worked years to de- theart of muscle control. He mastered intricate body s that required great concen- |m and near-perfect timing, en one night he back-flipped ragedy, partially severing his cord. “I was just screwing id, doing something that I tint have been doing. I ed up and I hurt myself,” said. v Sterle depends on a 150- d electric wheelchair to take here he wants to go. Para- from the neck down, Sterle i v.jnnot feed or dress himself, umbling mats and parallel bars Ball but forgotten. But Sterle hasn’t given up — he the Ifiijoys life. ffsenior computer science ma- ( at Texas A&M University, He has adapted to a new way of I in the three and a half years ice his accident. O' ffe jokes and refers to himself as 2* ‘gmp,” a slang term for wheel- “ bound paraplegics and iplegics that could be an in- lt if used too loosely by those fare not close friends of the capped. dicapped Sterle, 22, was living in the Chi- s servittigiarea when he had his acci- mt. ty, staf "bwas in the hospital for half a vehicle! arlafter it (the accident),” he spaces,® When I got out, I couldn’t 'it at home, so I went to coi- orally,” he said. “That way I don’t have to find people to help me take written tests.” Sterle’s electric wheelchair is a complicated piece of machinery. “I was one of the first people to really use this chair,” Sterle said. “I’ve had it for three years and I was the first gimp to take this type of chair out on campus and (use) it every day,” he said. Sterle operates the chair by blowing into or sucking air from a tube that runs to a pneumatic switch and a set of relays con nected to the chair’s motor. The tube also is hooked up to a modified garage door opener- radio transmitter. With this and a receiver in his room in Crocker Hall, Sterle can operate his televi sion, dial his telephone, turn his stereo off and on, and operate the computer terminal he has in his room to help him with his compu ter science classes. Sterle is aided by two atten dants who get him up in the morn ing, bathe him and dress him for class. “They work alternate days,” he said. “It gets to be too much work for one person to do (every day). ” Although he is paralyzed from the neck down, he can write or use an eraser by holding a set of “mouthsticks” between his teeth. He holds the mouthsticks be tween his teeth and a qlamp at the other end of the mouthsticks holds the pencil or eraser. “With the mouthsticks I can write, turn the pages of a book or type a program on the computer terminal,” he said. Sterle said he has a satisfying social life: “I go to a movie every once in a while. I like to go to concerts. Mostly I just sit in the room and drink beer with whoev er comes to visit,” he said. “Yeah, I miss the chicks, ” Sterle said about not having dates. “But after a while you know what’s hap pening and you just don’t worry about it,” he said. Sterle says he has gotten used to the attention he gets as he travels around campus in his wheelchair. Occasionally he will see someone staring at him. He doesn’t let the gawkers bother him, though. “I stare back at them, ” he said with a smile. “Actually, this semester I’ve found that if I have a more relaxed attitude toward people’s reactions to me, they stay more relaxed around me. “I remember seeing somebody in a wheelchair before I got hurt, and now I can understand how people can react to something that’s unusual to them. Now I’ve found myself in the same posi tion. ” ept. I ly capped 0 i&m mey are Sli He started classes at Southern tatefc in ois University, which he tied until his family moved to atonio. Then be came to A&M. uthern Illinois University is EnfSp for wheelchairs a lot better DA&M,” he said. “All my clas- allstatf! 5w ere scheduled on the ground versityJI 50 ^ wouldn’t have to mess iroveitWelevators. cani f® the main thing they have that . (jjredipWiool doesn’t have is a wheel- t ’Texasrepair clinic. If this chair e d iisfiffws there is nobody to fix it diopfF^OOor TOG miles of here.” ie win; Sterle said new buildings at !xa s A&M are being designed to Sled veisffore accessible for handicap- id t students, particularly stu- ,00 (lansi® 5 i n wheelchairs. “It’s easier ipus, Ini’ 6 * to Masses,” he said. se pfop,They’ve also got the Veterans pedbynRnistration Office and a test es bul*f^ erv ' ce where I can take tests pie will cancer i ^ r or f mgdis® AGGIES! Douglas Jewelry 10% AGGIE DISCOUNT ON ALL MERCHANDISE WITH STUDENT ID (Cash Only Please) We reserve the right to limit use of this privilege. Downtown Biyan (212 IN. Main) and Culpepper Plaza police^ lU t camp®! \ it of WI ilein*' leedp- 1 ps mi® s are- iclesA* wheel- for® 1 * Have you lost that lovin’ feelin’? Get it' back with. .. HALL & OATES — presented by MSC TOWN HALL Some latest hits are: Little Rich Girl You Make My Dreams Come True You’ve Lost That Lovin’ Feelin’ - FIRST BIG SHOW OF THE YEAR in G. Rollie White Coliseum Sept. 20th 8 p.m. *0ption pass period — Sept. 7th through 9th ‘General ticket sales begin — Sept. 10th Ticket prices are: $4.00 $5.50 $6.50 Tickets are available at Rudder Box Office approved by the American Dairy Science Association, the mam mary system should be strongly attached and well balanced while the udder and milking bag should be of a fine texture, indicating heavy production and a long period of usefulness. The most important part of dairy judging is the oral explana tion for the placings, Woelfel said. Since student judges have to give oral reasons for their placings, they have to judge carefully and understand what they are doing, Woelfel said. Holmes said, “I enjoyed dairy judging in high school and I always wanted to be on the Texas A&M judging team so I practiced for it before I got here. “Most team members (be longed to) Future Farmers of America or were 4-H dairy jud- gers and some grew up on dairy farms; therefore, we already knew a lot about dairy cows when we came to Texas A&M.” Woelfel said Texas A&M offers a dairy science course that is re commended for all interested stu dents. Students in this class learn to judge cattle, how dairy farms are operated and how to give writ ten and oral reasons for their plac ings. This class also takes weekend trips to different Texas dairies so students can gain more judging experience. The first judging contest will be in Memphis, Tenn. on Sept. 25. Contest members for the Mem phis show are senior team mem bers, Nancy Survace, Lee Trout man and Synthia Traweek. Junior team members are Carol Knan- del, Chris Stalling, Niles Holmes and Monty Teel. After the Memphis contest, Carol Smith, Billy Lasater, Nancy Survace and Lee Troutman will participate in the Central National Dairy Judging Contest Sept. 30. Texas A&M also will compete in the dairy exposition in Madison, Wis. About 40 universities from across the nation will participate in the Wisconsin contest. On the way to the contest, the team members will visit three dairy farms in Madison forjudging practice, Woelfel said. The team plans to visit the American Breeders Service in De- Forest, Wis. While in Fort Atkin son, Wis., they plan to visit Hoard’s Dairy Association, the National Agriculture Supply Company and the Dairy Shrine Museum, he said. 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