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mm wsmmmm 'Page 4 THE BATTALION WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 28, 1981 Local r ] MBA IWIiM MPA-Taxation MS-ECO A representative from Baylor University’s Hanka- mer School of Business will be on campus Friday, October 30, to interview junior and senior students from all degree backgrounds for graduate study in business. If you are interested in obtaining a Master of Busi ness Administration, Master of International Man agement, Master of Professional Accountancy with a Concentration in Taxation, or a Master of Science in Economics, contact the Placement Office for business students to set up an appointment. FULL SCHOLARSHIPS ARE AVAILABLE Hankamer School of Business Baylor University Waco, Texas 76798 Exploitation of earth may be reason for health problems By DARLENE JANIK Battalion Reporter Man’s exploitation of the earth and subsequent environmental changes have led to a struggle to control disease, an environmental health professor said Tuesday. James H. Steele, an environ mental health professor at the University of Texas School of Pub lic Health, addressed 70 people on the Texas A&M campus. He pre sented the first of four lectures in the 1981 University Lecture Series. “We are just beginning to real ize what the measurement of man’s ability is to alter the en vironment,’’ he said. “Man is a creator in the en vironment — he builds what he needs to survive; he enlarges to benefit and then seeks to con serve. He was and remains an adventurer. ” In the earliest record of man’s exploitations of his surroundings he was a wanderer who lived off berries and other vegetation, Steele said. Man became a hunter and learned how to trap animals. “He became an exploiter of all things he could conquer,” Steele said. He said the world population growth enabled man to move into every continent of the world and to utilize available resources. “He has survived physical and biological onslaughts since his first steps on Earth; most perilous has been disease which evolved with animals,” Steele said. He said the struggle of infec tious diseases of lower life forms to adapt themselves to a more highly developed host is unending. Since man’s appearance on earth, the greatest progress in holding back or eliminating these diseases has been made during this century, Steele said. Other challenges to man’s sur vival are environmental changes and a high level of pollution, Steele said. “The important thing to deter mine is whether man is going to be able to survive continuous pollu tion that may surpass (that pollu tion) created by natural physical forces,” Steele said. s s S s s s Don’t Forget About the HALiLiOWEEJV BASH a# The Halt of Fame Thursday Night!!! Admission: $ 3 00 Costume Contest with great prizes including: Tickets to Charley Pride Contest Judges will include; Aggie Football Players Johnny Hector #33 Farrar #34 Temple Aday #36 And Merchandise from; The Quilt Box Audio Video Her mi Culture s h ARE YOU BEHIND IN YOUR ■ FINALS START IN 7 WEEKS WORRIED ABOUT ALL THE READING YOU'VE PUT off;’ THERE'S STILL TIME TO MAKE IT IF YOU DO SOMETHING ABOUT IT TONIGHT! Quit worrying and do something about it. Your slow reading problem can be solved. Permanently. Tonight we'll show you how, and teach you how to read up to twice as fast in the process. Free. No obligation. No hassle. (Twice as fast is easy. Our average graduate reads over 5 times faster with better under standing.) You'll be surprised how fast you can read after only one hour. And what you learn tonight you can begin using immediately to catch up on your reading. Quit being a slow reader! DON'T KEEP PUTTING IT OFF! The load will only get worse, and the time shorter. Do something about the way you read tonight. TOO GOOD TO BE TRUE? Our half-a-million graduates know it works. We want to prove it to you. And the best way is to give you a free sample. You'll leave reading up to twice as fast after the free lesson. Forever. Just for coming. So do yourself a favor. You've got nothing to lose and everything to gain. NEED TO READ FASTER? COME TO A FREE SPEED READING LESSON TONIGHT La Quinta Notor Inn 607 Texas Avenue Across From A&H 7:30 p.m. Q Evelyn Wood Reading Dynamics James H. Steele, environmental professor at the University of Texas, began the University Lecture Series Tuesday ms inters speaking on man’s role in the environraeiimme Great Pumpkin begins annual flight Thursday By MARY JO RUMMEL Battalion Staff The Great Pumpkin will appear on the Corps Quadrangle Thurs day at 10 p.m. and once again try to reach Dorm 10 before he loses his head. Each year the Great Pumpkin is chosen in a secret ritual from among the junior cadets in Com pany C-2 by the outfit seniors. He is charged with making a run around the quadrangle, wearing a sheet on his torso and a hollowed out pumpkin on his head. The catch is that freshman Aggie Band members surround the Great Pumpkin and hit him in an effort to break his pumpkin head and interrupt his flight. The senior members of C-2 try to clear a path for the Great Pump kin who is guarded by C-2 juniors carrying torches. His goal is to cir cle the quad, beginning outside Dorm 11, and reach the fourth floor of Dorm 10 with the pump kin still intact upon his head. Band Commander James Hughes said the band’s comman ding officers have not yet decided what the freshmen will be allowed to carry to smash the pumpkin but dangerous weapons such as broomsticks will be avoided as much as possible. Ax handles were banned several years ago. “Last year we almost had a problem with the situation getting out of hand,” he said. “We are trying to keep it in ‘good bull’ sta tus. We don’t want any one to get their feelings hurt — or their bodies.” If he gets to the dorm, the idea is to spread pumpkin all over the dorm, Shero said. If the pumpkin gets smashed on the way, C-2 col lects the pieces and retreats. This will be the twentieth run of the Great Pumpkin. Company C- 2 Commander Jerry Smith said Tod; le 301 )llow. The The ry, \ The The nder I 914. On 1 In ] the Great Pumpkin made a cessful run in 1975 but that isi only year he knows of that hi pening. Smith said no one is sure ho the traditional run began but probably began as a rivalry h alk, A tween the Aggie band memle olio v; and cadets in Company C-2, Smith, who was the Gre Pumpkin last year, describedl! activity as something “like I middle of a riot with arms andli and people everywhere — kindl frightening.” He added: “It r something to look back on war story.” The man chosen to be the Gre Pumpkin has never been serious! injured during the run but so® participants have received scrapf and bruises in the conflict, Smill said. “Observers are welcome, k said, “but they should stayoutJ the way for their own safety.” Now Better Than Ever. 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