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WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 14, 1981
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STEPHANIE WILLIAMS
Battalion Reporter
Texas A&M University’s
ademic Services Division is a
mtral resource for student in-
[rmation and assists graduate
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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
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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,
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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.
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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.
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