Page 4 THE BATTALION
THURSDAY, OCTOBER 15, 1981
Local
Newcomers supervised
at weekend bonfire cut
Preparations for the Aggie bon
fire continue this weekend as stu
dents are scheduled to cut at a site
across from Texas World Speed
way on Highway 6.
Signs will be posted along the
highway giving directions to the
site, Al Link, junior head civilian
for bonfire, said.
“This is a chance for Off-
Campus Aggies and people who
haven’t gotten a chance (to cut) to
come out, be under closer super
vision and get an idea of what bon
fire is about,” he said.
“It’s almost a classroom situa
tion. It will be a good time to have
fraternities and the Off-Campus
Aggies out there.”
Cutting will take place Saturday
and Sunday and will begin about 8
a.m., he said.
The center pole for bonfire will
arrive Monday and will go up Oct.
23 around 4 p.m.
Cutting days also are scheduled
for Oct. 24 and 25, Nov. 1 and
Nov. 7 and 8.
Su4i/6fad/8
Qux & & oX
^ non
Co fS+AT)*M
T3nr*j
M o*lo tfRAW /V9
FLORICULTURE - ORNAMENTAL HORTICULTURE CLUB
ANTSALE
SATURDAY, OCT. 17
Pleistocene Era to be featured
AT THE
Carr^rnon
GoJod
iuBBOCC iT.
AAA;
1|
Held
PLANT
SALE
FLORICULTURE
GREENHOUSE
10 a.m. to 2 p.m.
Lectures to begin today
Unite
3ALLA
indusl
By NANCY WEATHERLEY
CLBtt
Sample Pack
CONTAWim Five 14SW* ICHVHIQ ■- EKVELOFfi Of HWAHT COFFK IEVtfUOf
One Sample Pack with five deliciously
different one-cup servings.
JrisbJVlochct JVtini I Soisse \locbfi
Cftfl' pRAMCAis
Gratis
OfNfcRAl fOCXlS
|NU RNAliOfMAl CoffttS
ST% Orange •
Cfappuccmo
ITALIAN STYLE INSTANT COEFEE SEVERAGE
Creamy rich, with an orange twist.
ONL CUU SLHVING
Gratuit
GfneraI foods
iNTtRNAliONAl CoffttS
CaFe Fraincais
FRENCH STYLE INSTANT COFFEE BEVERAGE
Smooth and light, French style.
ONE CUP SERVING
Kostenfrei
GfnfraI foods
IlNTF RINAT iONAl Cof ft FS
<te4vnct
AUSTRIAN STYLE INSTANT COFFEE BEVERAGE
Viennese style, with a touch of cinnamon.
ONE CUP SERVING
Saor
GfinfraI foods
IlNIFRINAliOINAl CoffFES
Battalion Staff
The third annual anthropology
lecture series will present “Topics
in Pleistocene Extinctions” begin
ning Thursday.
The series, which will run
through December, is sponsored
by the Department of Biology, the
Graduate College and the anthro
pology program.
The Pleistocene Era is general
ly thought to have ended about
10,000 years ago when the last gla
ciers receded during the Ice Age.
Scientists think the age began be
tween one million and three mil
lion years ago.
D. Gentry Steele, research
assistant in sociology and anthro
pology and one of three Texas
A&M speakers in the series, said
the Pleistocene Era has always in
terested biologists and anthropo
logists because many species be
came extinct at its end.
“The Ice Age ended the Pleis
tocene Era, and animals such as
the woolly mammoth, giant cave
bears and giant sloths became ex
tinct,” Steele said. “Scientists
want to find out what caused their
extinction; was it environmental
changes or was it due to man’s
hunting patterns?”
Steele, who will speak on man’s
hunting strategies and the effects
of his hunting, said the series of
lectures are keyed to answering
these questions.
The first two lecture series
were restricted to campus-related
topics between faculty members
active in anthropological work,
Vaughn M. Bryant Jr., head of the
anthropology program, said.
“The first series covered a vari
ety of topics, such as field research
faculty members were involved
in,” Bryant said. Research involv
ing Texas A&M has included sites
in Mexico and the reconstruction
of a 1554 shipwreck off - the coast of
Texas.
The second series went into
theoretical problems faculty
members were concerned with,
he said.
“This new series is the first time
we have gone to experts not asso
ciated with Texas A&M,” he said.
Bryant said the guest speakers
are being brought to Texas A&M
through funds in the departments
sponsoring the event.
The series mainly serves to
satisfy man’s curiosity about the
past, he said.
Bryant, who is scheduled to
give a lecture on changes in cli
mates in Texas and New Mexico
during the Pleistocene Era, said
he will examine some 30,000 years
the
/..si.
IrishJVtocbaJVtint
IRISH STYLE INSTANT COFFEE BEVERAGE
Delicious. Like a chocolate after-dinner mint.
0NECUR SERVING
Gratis
GfneraI foods
IlNFFRINATiONAl CoflfFS
Suisse Mocha
SWISS STYLE INSTANT COFFEE BEVERAGE
Rich and chocolatey Swiss.
TEXAS A&M BOOKSTORE
HAS YOUR FREE SAMPLE PACK OF GENERAL FOODS* INTERNATIONAL
COFFEES. CLIP THIS COUPON AND HAVE A TASTE ON US.
Limit-one request per customer Sample packs are available at your
college bookstore while supplies last. This offer expires December 15,
1982.
If sample pack is not available at your college bookstore,
send coupon, along with your name and address, printed on a
3" x 5" card, to General Foods’ International Coffees Sample
Pack Offer, RO. Box 4051, Kankakee. III. 60902.
S*\
IF
GENERAL FOODS
FREE
© General Foods Corporation 1981
FREE
BALLROOM
Snook, Texas
Presents
s
N
N
N
s
*
s
>
*
!>
N
THE KILLER
JERRY LEE
LEWIS
Saturday; Oct. 17
Starlight Ballroom
Snook
Doors Open at 8 p.m.
also Playing
Midnight Express
Tickets Available at all 3
Court’s Western Wear Locations
of change in vegetation
Texas area.
“Changes in vegetation pat
terns help scientists to understand
how Indians in certain areas de
pended on available resources for
food,” he said. Vegetation changes
affected animal supply because
animals are dependent on vegeta
tion as their food sources.
“We can look at hunting pat
terns Indians used to see how they
moved from area to area as food
resources changed due to climate
changes,” Bryant said.
A current theory maintained by
some scientists is that the earth is
in a non-glacial period now, but in
10,000 years, could return to an
Ice Age similar to the one that
ended the Pleistocene Era.
“We are living in the Holocene
Era during a non-glacial period, ”
Bryant said. “By studying the
vegetation changes that occurred
during the Ice Age, we can study
current vegetational changes to
see if we might go into a glacial
period in the future.”
Eileen Johnson, from Texas
Tech University, is scheduled to
begin the series Thursday at 2
p.m. in room 204C of the Sterling
C. Evans library. She will speak
on environment and cultural in
teraction of the southern plains in
the late Pleistocene and early
Holocene Eras.
Friday at 2 p.m., Robson Bon-
nichsen, from the University of
Maine, is scheduled to talk on the
technological repertoire of ancient
man in the new world.
Fred E. Smeins, professor of
range science at Texas A&M, will
discuss Oct. 28 at 2 p.m. similar
ities of contemporary east african
large mammal populations, such
as the modern elephant, to anim
als which became extinct during
the Pleistocene Era.
November 18 at 2 p. m. in 502 of
Rudder Tower, Ernest L.
lius Jr., from the Universifj
Texas, will examine late
tocene vertebrate communis
the southwest.
Bryant will discuss dimattii
Texas and New Mexico durif
late Pleistocene Era, Wedm
Nov. 18 at 2.
wing in
been 1
ise of a
e and
im Japan
s say.
Manufa
in chip,
alcompc
h Dallas lo
me are c
erest rat
wsnosi
?erts sail
of the
Paleoindian hunting pattjfl,.,
for the genus Maimnuthus.wF
includes the woolly mammi
will be the subject ofdiscussioi
Jeffrey J. Saunders, of the Illi
State Museum, Nov. 20at2p
Steele will speak on humani
dator-prey relationships, Nov
at 2 p.m.
Thomas R. Vandevender,6
the University of Arizona, wli
scheduled to end the seriesl
day, Dec. 4 at 2 p.m., willsj*
on southwestern environm
during the late Pleistocene
early Holocene Eras.
All lectures, except the one ^
Lundelius, are scheduled
Some e:
nindusti
econo
in any ol
cause of
sssingne
"The se
|ntinues t
ssion
204C in the Sterling C. EvansLj C g S ™^
rary
l\v
*6et
ACTION
with
WANT
ADS
as mi
sephC.F
'esident, I
It has
onths, am
dlimprov
“ s year or
^ of 1982
James C
Dennis Ivey's
Lakeview Club
The Very Best In Country-Western Music and Dancing'
Thursday 1
“IVickle Beer
Night!”
Cover
I $2.00 Person
Lone Star Draft Beer SC a cup
or $1.00 a pitcher
(We also serve Lone Star Longnecks!)
Music by Dennis Ivey and “The Waymen”
Tickets for Joe Stampley (Oct. 24)
Now On Sale!
Saturday
DENNIS IVEY
and “The Waymen
Our
give
witt
prin
gual
Cover
$3.00
Person
For Reservations Call
823-0660
18-YEAR-OLDS — WE ADMIT MINORS!
3 Miles North of Bryan on Tabor Road