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MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 28, 1981
ow features A&M ship explorations
By RUBY A. DANIELS
Battalion Reporter
Institute of Nautical
eology will focus worldwide
|tion on Texas A&M Universi-
in a television program to be
Tuesday.
vetol)f| Indent Mariners” documents
(landstJ Exploration of three sunken
jps in the Eastern Mediterra-
u Pled by Dr. George Bass, a
' S A&M geography and
I : iopology professor. The show
1 be broadcast by KAMU-TV at
selfi Ls, who is also INA presi-
Isarefei t, led the study of the ship-
ity a] its, assisted by other Texas
M faculty and students, near
Liman and Yassi Ada in Tur-
d Kyrenia, Cyprus.
, , muc program will be the first in
l' 1 ' W-parl Public Broadcasting
iidentaM; eser i e s entitled “Odyssey,”
Bodihas been slated for European
"aytiif Ipcastingby the British Broad-
Corp. It is one of the few
Is moitiT
BBC purchases of material origi
nating in the United States, INA
graduate assistant William A.
Bayreuther said.
“Buying ‘Ancient Mariners’ was
rare for the BBC,” he said. “They
have a tendency to want to stick to
their own (productions).
“I think it will be a nice tool for
the administration to illustrate the
productivity of the University’s
research, ” he said. “And of course
it is good exposure for INA.
Perhaps it will stimulate others to
learn more about nautical
archaeology.”
INA, a non-profit scientific
organization funded through
donations and private grants, is
housed near Highway 21 between
College Station and Caldwell.
Bayreuther said that IN As
main objective is to discover new
information about ancient ship
construction, trade routes and
warfare. Digs are typically done
over the summer.
irtight homes
uld be deadly
By GWENDOLYN HAM
Battalion Reporter
| biding an energy-efficient
Jcould save money — but a
|»A&M architecture professor
Ipomeow ners might not live to
' the savings.
Degelman, professor of
ittecture and building con-
Bon, said people are becom-
■ concerned about energy
gency that they go to ex-
B. Using too many air infil-
H barriers — not to be con-
■ with insulation — traps
Hjous gases and germs inside
les
|Air infiltration barriers such as
’^ethylene sheeting and foil,
ppi d around the house before
la are put on, can cut down
pate of air exchange to .5 an
r|he said. This means that the
Iside the home is replaced
fputside air only once every
Burs.
Kre haven’t really been any
©ins yet in the United States
li| some European countries,
W air tightness standards are
used, sickness and even
phave resulted,” Degelman
■s slow rate of air exchange
I'dangerous levels of radioac-
iradon gas, released naturally
boil and some building mate-
land carbon monoxide to
! orensic squad places
i liird in speech tourney
■npeting against 25 schools
Ifour states, the Texas A&M
Hie Squad placed third in
Ttakes at the Southwest
State University Individual
nits Speech Tournament Sept.
Texas A&M Director of Fore-
Wayne Kraemer said sopho-
feKellie Sanders, a journalism
prom Amarillo, was ranked
[umament’s top speaker. She
first, second and third re-
ely in impromptu, infor-
and extemporaneous
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The sites seen in “Ancient
Mariners” were discovered by
sponge divers, Bayreuther said.
Information was collected over a
period of years after permits to
investigate the shipwrecks were
obtained from the Turkish govern
ment. All artifacts collected are
being kept in the Bodrum
Museum in Turkey.
Bayreuther said he hopes an
artifacts display in the Memorial
Student Center might eventually
be arranged, but nothing has been
planned yet.
The field of nautical archaeolo
gy is “tremendously expensive,”
Bayreuther said, since locations
are often far away and all explora
tion encounters problems under
water. National Geographic maga
zine has sponsored several INA
digs.
INA is the only organization in
the Western Hemisphere that
offers a graduate degree in nautic
al archaeology, Bayreuther said.
Israel and Australia also have insti
tutes which offer degrees.
The Institute, founded in 1972,
was formerly known as the Amer
ican Institute of Nautical
Archaeology. “The American’ was
removed as an indication of its in
ternational scope,” Bayreuther
said.
Retired poultry
prof honored
A retired Texas A&M poultry
sciences professor will be hon
ored with a reception Tuesday.
The reception will be held to
present Dr. Cecil B. Ryan with
a plaque commemorating a
scholarship established in his
name. The $1,000 annual scho
larship will be awarded to stu
dents in the poultry science de
partment.
Ryan has received numerous
awards for his teaching and re
search in poultry science.
The reception will be held in
the faculty lounge — 126 Kle-
burg — at 4 p.m.
build up,” Degelman said. “The
gases aren’t usually dangerous but
when contained, can be deadly.
“The house is getting plenty of
oxygen but there is a level of in
door pollution building up,” he
said.
“Also, when someone in the
house catches a disease, the germs
are trapped inside and sickness
spreads much faster and infects
others.”
It would probably take years for
someone to die because of radon
gas in their home but only days for
someone to catch the flu, he said.
So, what do you do if you’re
concerned about conserving ener
gy and saving on high utility bills?
“You should go to efforts to
caulk all joints around windows
and the sole plate,” Degelman
said. “Or you could use some kind
of foam rubber cord. These
methods would pretty well assure
a safe rate of one air change per
hour.
“Putting dampers in all vents —
fireplace, kitchen and bathroom
would also help,” he said. “But
much more than that, like totally
wrapping the house, might be
something to get concerned
about.
“Just don’t get to the point
where you make your home a
thermos bottle,” he said.
a finance major from Kingsville,
ranked fourth in persuasive and
impromptu speaking.
Junior Jill Ellis, a pre-law major
from Lincoln, Ill., and freshman
Michael Jackson, a landscape
architecture major from Pasade
na, also participated.
The squad ranked behind
teams from San Antonio’s Trinity
University and Cameron Univer
sity of Lawton, Okla.
On Oct. 2, the squad will com
pete at Oklahoma Christian Col
lege in Edmund, Olka.
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