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i | Page 4/The Battalion/Thursday, March 10, 1983 Zachry: U.S. society not industrial now ling o Scientific Greek, prof says by Craig Harris Battalion Reporter The classical Greeks were just as smart as man is today, says Dr. Lee Pearcy, a classics professor from the University of Texas. Pearcy spoke to a small crowd Wednesday night in the Sterling C. Evans Library on the origins of scientific language in ancient Greece. The speech was spon sored by the Texas A&M En glish department, modern lan guages department and the phi losophy department. Pearcy said that while Greeks were just as smart as us, their concerns and problems were different. He said they did not have as much to work with, such as a scientific language. Language is important, Peaf- cy said, because it created a mod el of the world and a way to de fine to models with which the Greeks tested their scientific theories. He said the early Greeks in vented personal poetry, philoso phy and science in the eighth, seventh and sixth centuries B.C. They then developed a vocabul ary to use their scientific con cepts; the Greeks believed that without language there is no knowledge. Pearcy also said the meaning of the word “science” was diffe rent then than today. He said it meant to investigate the natural world then, while today it means testing theories by mathematical and observable means. The first Greek scientists also called the world a cosmos — or an orderly, geometrical body. Pearcy said this is important be cause the Greeks recognized that there was order in the world and recognized that it didn’t matter that some of their theories were wrong. He said the Milesians, from Miletus in Greece, were the first to map the orderly world as they knew it then, using symbols to give understanding to their world — a significant start in modern scientific language. Pearcy said the early Greeks believed that the eyes were more accurate than the ears and read ing was associated with the ears until the second century A.D., because all reading was done aloud until then. Because of this many early Greeks were skeptic al of the written word. by Leigh-Ellen Clark Battalion Reporter Economists often look at in dustrialism and predict a sad state for America, says H.B. Zachry, chairman of the board of the H.B. Zachry Construction Company. But, he adds, that’s like looking at grandparents to predict the state of a family. “We’re changing from an in dustrial society to an informa tion society with computers and computer graphics on the rise,” Zachry told the Construction Management Society Wednes day night in Rudder Forum. Zachry, a 1922 Texas A&M graduate, encouraged a plunge into an informative society — one that works with construction management and brain power. “Release the death grip on the past and look to the future,” he said. Zachry referred to John Neasbitt’s book, “Megatrends,” saying that in 1956 the white col lar workers outnumbered blue collar workers for the first time. The nation was dealing with in formation rather that just in dustrial goods, he said. But to deal with the informa tional society, Zachry said, there is a demand for brain power, education, a will to excel and work. “The U.S. must produce the best students from the first grade to the doctorate (level),” he said. It is vital that the United States gear toward information because it already has lost con trol of the auto and steel indus tries, Zachry said. In 1980, Japan held 40 percent of the auto industry and has increased that percentage yearly. THe Japanese pay $10 an hour for labor to build a car in ninq hours. “Compare that to the United States that pays .$22 an hour for labor for 31 hours of work to produce one car,” Zachry said. But Japan is not the only country with cheaper labor than the United States. Zachry said that Korea is able to produce steel gates for a dam job con tracted by Zachry Construction Company for 40 percent less than in the United States, he said. “How are you going to beat that kind of competition?” he asked. by Karen Schrimsher Battalion Reporter A Texas A&M parks and re creation class has installed $12,000 worth of maintenance- free playground equipment at Anderson Park as a community service project for the city of College Station. The class, directed by Dr. John Blackburn, finished the project March 1 after spending four days working at the park, located at Anderson Parkway and Holleman Drive. “This will be a one-of-a-kind playground in the city, possibly in the state,” College Station Pepe’s For Mexican Food the fun of it! Come out and enjoy the zesty taste of our Mexican Food - for the fun of it! 3312 S. College Bryan Open Dally 10:30 a.m. - 2:00 a.m. 107 Dominik College Station Open Daily 10:30 a.m. - 2:00 p.m. Post Oak Mall Open11 a.m.-9:00 p.m. park planner Carlos Mendez said. One of the things that will make the completed park so uni que is the playground equip ment itself, he said. “The equipment is made of steel posts covered in plastic,” Mendez said. “There is a slide made of rollers, swings, climb ing decks and fireman poles.” Mendez said the special plas tic coating helps cut down on equipment maintenance. The equipment was installed over a cushion of gravel. “This is one of several play grounds the class has put up for us,” Mendez said. “We’re very pleased with the work they’ve put into it. They do great work.” The city will pay the class for the work and for the use of the department’s construction equipment, said Brett Wright, a recreation and parks teaching assistant. The money earned will go into the student fund and probably will be used to pay for the students’ trip to the Texas Recreation and Parks Society convention, which will take place near Kerrville in April. Mendez said the city has not decided on a definite figure yet, but students usually are given 10 percent of the total cost of the playground equipment. The installation of the new playground equipment is part of the city’s plan to improve the park at a cost of $210,000. Soc cer fields, irrigated ball fields, regulation-size basketball courts and a new parking lot will be added. The project is to be com pleted within a few weeks. The entire playground will be surrounded by a promenade walkway, Mendez said, and eventually will be shaded by a canope of trees. * * EZRA BROOKS $ (1.75 liter — 90 proof) (rown 12" *12 NOW'S THE TIME FOR YOUR LATEST BONUS: “CAPSULE CLINIQUE” Yours at no charge whatever with any Clinique purchase of 7.50 or more. 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The board also will review the Texas Bevel Disabilities Program presented by Brenham St and Farmers Home Administration loan guara sented by Cross-line Manufacturing. imrurj GRE class to be ottered to grads Applicants for graduate school may l>e interested ini Preparation for the Graduate Record Exam classcu being offered by the College Station Community Ed Department. Emphasis is placed on the math sectional as test-taking tips and teenniques. Glass begins March 21 and continues every Mondni Thursday for five weeks from 7 to 8:30 p.m. The tuition for the class is $ 14.75. For more inform* call 696-3820. A&M grad named to Tower’s staff U.S. Senator John Tower has appointed Frederick! McClure as his Legislative Director. Kj-oy ft. McClure, 29, was graduated summa cum laudei co l egiate ★★★★★★★★★★★★★★★★★★’A { MIKE’S i SPRING } Texas A&M in 1976. Here at Fexas A&M, lie yy<u* tw ^K rn body president and received the University's Brown-Ru<l2*l__ Outstanding Student Award. McClure also served asnaiMf" al secretary and Texas stale president of the Future Farmfy of America. He is a native of San Augustine. Prior to attending law school, McClure was on TowMi staf f, first as legislative assistant for agriculture andthn director of Tower’s state offices. McClure came to Tower’s staff from the Houston firm of Reynolds, Allen and Cook. 1 le received a Jurisl tor degree from Baylor University School of Law in IS While there, he was president of the Student Bar Assodai and was elected to the National Order of Barristers. McClure replaces Linden Kettlewell, who left thesuf become counsel to the chairman of the RepublicanNado Committee. 194 break: i If you have an announcement or item to submit font column, come by The Battalion office in 216 ReedMcft nald or call Tracey Taylor at 845-2665. * * * 99} * * * $ (750 ml — 80 proof) 4" | • ODESSA VODKA $ 7 49 J J • 2 Liter COKE $ 1 39 J -k POST OAK VILLAGE 693-8012 )1- Police beat The following incidents were listed in University Police De partment records for March 8. THEFTS: •A Takara 10-speed bicycle was taken from Walton Hall. •A vehicle in parking lot 48 was reported to be displaying a stolen blue day student parking sticker. •Two knotted ropes were taken from the ROTColnj course near Fastenvood port. •A Mamiya-Sekor Mh camera and a Bell and Hij flash attachment were i Irom the concession standij horse center. •A Sony pocket cald was taken from Rudder Id Now you know United Press International Albatrosses can glide for six days at a time, often sleeping in flight. save coal A. Sprir hued p Internationa Bsltod 5 United Press International BEDFORD, Va. — A 51-year- old woman is free after spend ing almost two months in jail for digging up a church graveyard in search of buried treasure. A prosecutor said Monday Marilyn Parsons of Reading, Pa., had spent enough time in jail and decided not to prosecute her further. She said the first thing she wanted to do was free her ter rier, Muffin, impounded since her arrest 45 days ago. Parsons told a jury last week she is convinced she has de coded directions to the legen dary Beale treasure, a $22 mil lion hoard of gold and silver be lieved buried in Bedford Coun ty before the Civil War. She admitted hiring a back- hoe and digging up a piece of coffin and a human bone in a cemetery beside Mountain View Baptist Church Jan. 7. The jury upheld a lower court conviction on a charge of trespassing, but deadlocked on a charge of grave-tampering. Bedford Circuit Judge William Sweeney declared a mistrial. Sweeney fined Parsons $500 for trespassing and dismissed the grave-tampering charge. United Press 1 NORTH LAS VEGAS,If.- — High-wire daredevil ggr**"""""" 1 Me Peak and his bride o(| SQVQ days, married atop a 75(fnf high cable spaimingtheW do River, spent their first SB moon weekend in jail. R McPeak, 38. and thefo , D 1 ^ Carley Bliss, 22, marriedIM^ISh©d by a minister who usedt khoki FT way radio to administertii(M riage vows, descended ] “ their high perch Saturda'S — They were arrested bd L/vjL/C al agents on charges of , sing and disorderly condUmjQl ©"/ taken to the f ederal facilittW North Las Vegas jail. Th©S McPeak was ordered without bail. His bride rent in custody Sunday nigf 'UVQllQ^ $1,000 bond. The high-wire walker*' charged with violating a( order issued last Decent^ 1 forbid him from returnifl with the cables spanning the(Yrs a do River near Hoover Dan olip© court order was issued Ql©y c McPeak staged a three-da'*: / test last year atop the gufG y“STi opposing U.S. loans to Bra®; time of high unemploynt ‘ the United States. The newlyweds spent night in a double sleeping dangling from the wired the Colorado River. Their eymoon was cut short by winds. Thousands put their fingers on it. Advertising in The Battalion 845-2611 j 5h0 PDiliar