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THE BATTALION
TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 24, 1981
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Study shows man as predator
By NANCY WEATHERLEY
Battalion Staff
Man as a predator is a relatively
new view, but one which Dr. D.
Gentry Steele would like to have
established.
Steele, an anthropology profes
sor at Texas A&M University, has
studied human prey relationships
on Banks Island in the northwest
ern territory of Canada. He pre
sented his work at the Anthropolo
gy Lecture Series Monday.
On Banks Island during the late
1800s, Copper Eskimos wiped out
the herds of musk oxen that lived
in the open, artic environment,
Steele said.
“We were trying to find out
whether the Eskimos were har
vesting the herds (killing specific
animals such as strictly older
animals, while letting the young
go) or just killing the musk oxen
randomly,” he said.
After examining archaeological
sites where several oxen were
mass-killed, and finding no evi
dence of harvesting by the Eski
mos, Steele said this pattern fit
into the prey relationship of man.
Steele said killing could be done
in various ways:
— single hunter hunting single
game
— several hunters (communal)
hunting single game
— communal groups hunting
mass game (mass kill)
However, he said, only three
animals working in communal
groups — African lions, killer
whales and man— mass kill other
large groups of animals.
“These three mammals are the
biggest predators,” he said. “Man
as a group is the largest single pre
dator.
Waste facility
study approved
By RANDY CLEMENTS
Battalion Staff
A short-range study to deter
mine if the Bryan-College Sta
tion area is capable of support
ing a solid waste recovery facil
ity was approved by the College
Station City Council in a special
meeting Monday.
The study, if also approved
by Bryan and Texas A&M Uni
versity, will be conducted by
the Sanders and Thomas con
sulting engineering firm. City
Manager North Bardell said.
The firm will determine if
the Bryan-College Station area
generates enough garbage to
supply a recovery facility,
which would probably require
150 to 200 tons of garbage a day
to produce steam for an indust
rial market.
It would take Bryan, College
Station and the University to
generate this much waste.
The study will also determine
if there is a viable industrial
market, lie said.
One market is assured,
however, because the Universi
ty plans to use the steam to cool
and heat buildings on the west
campus, Bardell said. The Uni
versity market alone, however,
will riot make the facility econo
mically feasible, he said.
If another industrial market
exists, potential sites for the
facility and the costs to run the
facility would be determined by
the firm, Bardell said.
Dr. D. Gentry Steele, an associate professor
>f anthropology, discusses the predatory
nature of man at the University Lecture
Series yesterday afternoon.
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SG canvass focuses
on University issues
By NANCY FLOECK
Battalion Staff
Opinions may vary at Texas
University, but students
jvho answered Student Govern-
nent’s Campus Canvass seem to
igree on most campus controver-
:ies.
The following are the results of
minformal survey, which Student
Government members say was in-
ended to be reflections of consti-
uent work, not statistically actu
ate measures of student opinion.
Should fraternities and soror-
ties be recognized by the Univer-
iity?
More students expressed feel-
I ings against individual recognition
if sororities and fraternities than
igainst recognition of the Inter-
Fraternity Council and Panhelle-
lic Council, who represent these
organizations.
A total of 3,472 students re
sponded to the question about in
dividual recognition of fraternities
and sororities:
Against individual recognition
e | —2,757 or 79.4 percent
Iti For individual recognition —
/ Jj 533 or 15.4 percent
X Undecided — 182 or 5.2 per
cent
The question asking whether
/ill be“shi the Inter-Fraternity Council and
Panhellenic Council should be
recognized brought 3,437 re
sponses:
Against council recognition:
2,449 or 71.2 percent
For council recognition: 776 or
22.6 percent
Undecided: 212 or 6.2 percent
Lilli Dollinger, public relations
director for Student Government,
said anti-Greek sentiment was
stronger on-campus, although off-
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Should Student Government
work for faster installation of
MCI?:
This question also said that rates
for phone bills over $25 are usually
20 percent to 40 percent lower
with MCI than with GTE.
A total of 3,448 students re
sponded:
For faster installation of the in
dependent, long-distance tele
phone service — 3,181 or 92.3
percent
Against faster installation — 218
or 6.3 percent
Undecided — 49 or 1.4 per
cent.
Dollinger said the main pur
pose of this question was to discov
er how many students had phone
bills more than $25. She said the
survey showed that students with
out high phone bills are also in
terested in the system.
Should exams require addi
tional class hours?
Most of the 3,467 students who
responded to this question said
tests shouldn’t require additional
class hours, namely night exams:
For — 866 or 25 percent
Against — 2,511 or 72.4 percent
U ndecided — 90 or 2.6 percent
Dollinger said although the ma
jority was against the exams, stu
dent senators discovered that
business majors who responded to
the poll are not as opposed to night
exams as other students.
She said the poll also showed
that some professors were giving
unauthorized night exams. Vice
President for Academic Affairs
John M. Prescott has since sent
out memos saying night exams
may not be given without his per-
Should the user fee concept be
continued?
This question covered the three
major services now charging user
fees — intramurals, shuttle buses
and A.P. Beutel Health Center
prescriptions.
A total of 3,417 students re
sponded on intramurals user fees:
For intramural user fees —
3,013 or 88.2 percent
Against intramural user fees —
385 or 11.3 percent
Undecided — 19 or .56 percent
On the shuttle bus question,
3,438 responded:
For shuttle bus user fees —
2,955 or 86 percent
Against shuttle bus user fees —
469 or 13.6 percent
Undecided — 14 or 0.41 per
cent
A total of 3,466 students re
sponded on charging for health
center prescriptions:
For — 2,979 or 85.9 percent
Against — 469 or 13.5 percent
Undecided —- 18 or 0.52 per
cent.
Dollinger said students over
whelmingly favored payment of
services by those students receiv
ing them.
How many times a semester
would students use an airline ser
vice that flies from Easterwood
Field to major Southwest cities?
Nine hundred twenty students
indicated the cities they would fly
to:
Houston — 412 or 44.8 percent
Dallas — 262 or 28.5 percent
Austin — 32 or 3.5 percent
San Antonio — 74 or 8 percent
Other cities — 140 or 15.2 per
cent
Dollinger said the Bryan-
College Station Chamber of Com
merce is doing a professional sur
vey on the airline service.
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The Battalion is taking applications for pho
tographers for the spring semester. If you
have some spare time, camera equipment and
knowledge of darkroom procedures, apply in
person in Room 216 Reed McDonald. Ask for
Dave Einsel.
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