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Local THE BATTALION Page5, l' WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 14, 1981 rad students get help rom Academic Services BuildW ’ for m. Meetj STEPHANIE WILLIAMS Battalion Reporter Texas A&M University’s ademic Services Division is a mtral resource for student in- [rmation and assists graduate relents in obtaining financial d ctive Bid s will © t iOp.© le Study ustrui it 7 p.m. The programs of general stu- ies and academic counseling [ere combined two years ago to irm the Academic Services Di- ision to counsel undecided ma- irs as well as graduate stu- ents. “General studies typically xommodates freshmen and S pphomores,” said Mary Phil ips, academic services counse- Ir. She said that by the time I utos tudents are classified as juniors nd seniors, they have decided m a major field of study. Students who decide to jtudy a major field not off ered at ’exas A&M are provided with re-professional counseling hrough the General Studies first aid I’rogram, Phillips said, until ransferring to another univer- es for tfi ide at 6:1; Meeting it (ersey autocrat 1 buildiu idl 1 the Add SERIES 2 Collect mentand ad Ear!; isonfroa truetka. 7 p.m.is . 20th, ity. Academic Services also pro- ides a resource room located in Harrington Tower with infor- nation on financial aid for gra- luate students. These services have been round for a long time,” she laid, “but the scholarships have inly been available for graduate students one year.” Seniors wanting a graduate scholarship need to apply early because the complete process takes from six to nine months, Phillips said. Undergraduate scholarships are not handled by academic services. A variety of graduate scholar ships are available: The Marshal Scholarship is offered by the British govern ment for a degree in unre stricted fields from any univer sity in the United Kingdom. This scholarship is highly com petitive, Phillips said. Students must have a grade point ratio of a 3.75 to apply. Applications are in 100 Harrington Tower; Oct. 22 is the application deadline. The Hertz Scholarship is offered to students in applied physical sciences and is awarded on the basis of under graduate performance, recom mendations and an interview with a representative from the Hertz Foundation. Applica tions are in 125 Teague Re search Center. Fulbright Grants are for U.S. students who want to live and study in a foreign country for one academic year. The scholar ship includes full, partial and travel grants. Applications are in 257 Bizzel Hall. The White House Fellow ship provides U.S. citizens an opportunity to work with the federal government in assisting the vice-president, a cabinet member, or the President’s staff. Applications are in 100 Harrington Tower; application deadline is Dec. 1. The Hugh’s Aircraft Fellow ship applicants must be qual ified to pursue graduate work in electrical, mechanical, aero nautical, aerospace or systems engineering, mathematics, physics, computer science, en gineering science or engineer ing physics. The grade point ratio required by applicants is a 3.0. Applications are available in 100 Harrington Tower and must be submitted before Feb. 1, 1982. The^ National Science Foundation Graduate Fellow ship is awarded for studies lead ing to master’s or doctoral de grees in the mathematical, phy sical, biological engineering, social sciences and in the his tory and philosophy of science. Applicants must fill out a screening card in the graduate college office to receive applica tions. The deadline for submit ting applications is Nov. 26. Resource files and directories are available in 100 Harrington Tower, along with a limited amount of scholarship applica tions for those students in terested in graduate school. Beauty aid used as treatment ndian ruins facing nodern massacres I Remains of a band of prehistor ic Indians who survived the arid in jwilds of southwestern New Mex- "S may not survive modern grave bbers who bulldoze 900-year- ruins to sell what they find, L lays a Texas A&M University prcbaeologist. rciaJ&tl Thin g s are changing, though, ninistratiw^ ^ r - Harry Shafer, who has lesaid padacted archaeological field m wit!, §hools in the region for the past ouldbeimr years. iona! If ^ anc aers and landowners once arkwav Jd uctan * : admit outsiders il of !iil lrou ^ their gates now ask pro- ( ] j or Jcssional archaeologists to ex- Imine sites before they fall victim . .1) pillagers. Local interest in the nmn P mysterious group of farming In- e 8 e rlians called Mimbres has promp- iiustdejj conservation efforts, he said. ;es waiif ^ out gQ p ercen t 0 f the sites in prehenJuestion, located near the Mim- ires River east of Silver City, have lowbeenhit by pothunters, mak- g most scientific study useless, ,eiopJ hafer said - een Hd s Road abled I areas sd 251 he alrei :ion oh : not a The Mimbres probably settled in the river valley for which they are named sometime in the sixth century, and mysteriously moved out of their adobe homes and into oblivion around 1125 A.D., poss ibly because their population out grew the resources to feed it, he said. The major thrust of Texas A&M’s research — supported by the Federation of Aggie Mothers’ Clubs, the Earthwatch conserva tion group and the University’s College of Liberal Arts — has con centrated on the Mimbres’ more peaceful endeavor of irrigated farming. Shafer said the use of irrigation shows a certain complexity to the Indian society’s ability to adjust to life in such a harsh environment. Irrigation indicates at least some close cooperation between vil lages, he said. The Mimbres reached a popu lation of about 4,500 at their peak, perhaps contributing to their deci sion to leave the valley, Shafer said. The growth may have caused the villages to fall in domino fashion as resources ran out and people from one site moved to another, swelling the ranks there. Shafer said what seems to be a high infant mortality rate and a large number of deaths over a short period suggest the Texas A&M scientists’ theory is right, but such deaths might have been perfectly natural for the time and place. “It’s been a disastrous situation in many ways,” he said. “I don’t think we will ever be able to learn fully what we need to know be cause of the destruction. What has been lost is totally irreplaceable. “Archaeology is destruction, too, but it is systematic. Later we can theoretically reconstruct the site. We can make models and show them to the public. We gen erate information and distribute it. With pot hunters, just the re verse is true,” said Shafer. FLORICULTURE - ORNAMENTAL HORTICULTURE CLUB PLANT SALE SATURDAY, OCT. 17 ATTKE „*S£22&fc, FLORICULTURE p M |p_ | Qood PLANT GREENHOUSE luCBOt-t >T. SALE 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. CLH’B iak Butter MSC ARTS ANNOUNCES NTSU One O'clock Jazz Band is coming! October 22, 1981 8 p.m. Rudder Auditorium TICKETS AVAILABLE AT MSC BOX OFFICE 845-1234 Aloe vera popular folk remedy Back in the days when snake oil and other elixirs were hawked by medicine show promotors as the “cure of cures” or “the secret of eternal life,” many people would swear that their blindness, limp ing or whatever was actually cured by drinking some vile potion. Sometimes the person’s ail ment did clear up —not because of the elixir, but because of the pow er of suggestion, says the Texas Medical Association. But most of the time these folks went back home after paying their dollar and found that nothing had changed — except that they were a dollar poorer. Today, people spend much more than a dollar on quack cures, studies show. It’s big business. People are still buying snake oil and other modern equivalents for all sorts of major and minor ail ments. There is a middle-ground of quackery, however, which pre sents ^quizzical problems for the public. These are the drugs or pro ducts that have some legitimate uses, but are often over-sold as cure-alls. Aloe vera, a centuries- old beauty aid and first-aid treat ment for cuts and burns is one of these, says the TMA. Aloe vera is a plant belonging to the lily family. Certain species of it are approved by the Food and Drug Administration for use as a natural flavoring in food. And the aloe gel, which is extracted from the plant, is a common ingredient in cosmetics. Aloe vera is also a popular house plant, often used as a “folk medi cine” remedy for cuts and minor burns, especially in the South west. There are no official scien tific studies which prove the effec tiveness of aloe vera for this pur pose, but it is generally consi dered harmless. But, the seemingly harmless plant can be quite dangerous, if used for the wrong pruposes. For example, the aloe plant provides a very powerful laxative, which both the American Medical Asso ciation and the American Phar maceutical Association say should not be used because its results are unpredictable and sometimes vio lent. The real danger, however, lies in the blatantly false claims some times made for aloe vera and other unproven remedies. Some litera ture and manufacturers assert or suggest that aloe will cure cancer, diabetes and tuberculosis and that almost every other serious disease may forego proper medical treat ment in favor of these “surefire cures’ , often worsening their con ditions by neglecting them. As is the case of aloe vera, there are often legitimate uses for a pro duct, but the TMA warns that you need to be skeptical about any product that promises or hints at a quick cure. You may be falling for a “quack cure” instead. TTUDENT NMENT UNIVERSITY Senate Vacancies College of Medicine — At Large Off Campus Ward I (East of Texas Ave., South of University Ave.) Applications due Oct. 16 216CMSC 845-3051 IT'S HERE - THE AMAZING NEW NIKON The smallest, easiest, lowest priced Nikon 35mm reflex ever. Enjoy beautifully exposed pictures every time with auto-electronic focus-and-shoot simplicity... with the sharpness and superb life-like color of its famous Nikon lens. 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