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Page 4/The Battalion/Monday, April 30, 1984 Kids’ summer camps to combat boredom Warped by Scott Mco HELLO,WE'RE, BACK WITH THE CONCLUSION OF THE ADMIN ISTRATORS CROSS-CAMPUS RUN," UH.. IF THERE IS ONE. SO FAR ONL'/ HANSEN AND VANDIVER HAVE MADE IT HERE TO ZACHRT... ..BOTH TOOK 20 MINUTES TO MAKE THE RUN HERE FROM THE GYM, AND THEN PASSED OUT IN O/VE OF THE CLASSROOMS. WE HAVE REPORTS THAT THREE OF THE REGENTS HAVE BECOME VICTIMS OF CYCLIST By KATHLEEN REEVES Reporter Summertime to some stu dents means a long vacation from school, plenty of free time, and for younger children it often means boredom. But the Bryan and College Station BRAZOS VALLEY GOLF DRIVING RANGE Mon.-Fri. 12-9pm Sat. 10am-9pm Sun. 1pm-8pm 696-1220 East Bypass and Hwy. 30. Service Road Going South - ’/« miles. parks and recreation depart ments are trying to fight the bo redom by providing half-day summer camps, playground programs and open gyms. The College Station Parks and Recreation Department is sponsoring Kids’ Summer Day Camp which provides a wide range of activities for children from (i to 12 years old. The day camp has two ses sions. Each session runs Mon day through Thursday from 9 a.m. to 12:30 p.m. for four weeks. The different activities include arts and crafts, roller skating, movies, a frisbee con test, a basketball freethrow con test, soccer, basketball, football, kickball and more. Susan Dachner, program su pervisor for the parks and rec reation department, said the program was originally started to provide activities for children who couldn’t afford them. The United Way and the City of College Station are providing most of the funds, but there also is a $ 15 registration fee for each child. Registration will be held May 22 at Oakwood Mid dle School from (5 p.m. to 7:30 p.m. I DON'T THINK ANY OF THE OTHERS ARE GOING TO MAKE IT..(l KNEW WE SHOULD HAVE GIVEN THEM ALL MAPS..) SO VIEWERS, IF YOU SEE A FEW WANDERING REGENTS ON CAMPUS AND YOU WANT TO BE ValkSc THE1 Disl ^ : ' TALKING TO STUDEM* uvivERsiry. * The Bryan Parks and Recre ation Department is sponsoring a playground program and open gyms. The playground program includes swimming ev ery Wednesday, arts and crafts, and field trips to Pooh’s Park, Brazos Valley Museum, the Li brary and the Police Depart ment. The playground pro gram will be held in two sessions one in June and one in July, at Fannin, Lamar and Crockett School gyms from 8 a.in. to 12:30 p.m. each Monday, Wednesday, and Friday. Regis tration will be held July 3 and 5 at the Fannin, Lamar and Crockett gyms. Collection shows Texas wildlife The Bryan Parks and Recre ation Department will also sponsor an open gym at Kemp School. The activities include basketball, table games and out door activities. Pa4XCL ^16” Supreme j Q <£ Pi e <T ( o Q ^ 16” Supreme Just Taste % The Difference cheese w/2 items $7.99 I I I I plus 3 16oz. drinks EXPIRES 5/31 I Cheese w/ 3 items $8.99 plus 3 drinks EXPIRES 5/31 16” PGjMZ'l Deluxe w/6 items $10.99 4 free drinks EXPIRES 5/31 By MARY FRANCES SCOTT Reporter 7’exas A&M has a wealth of scientific information in a col lection of more than 380,000 deatl animals. The treasure, known as the Texas Cooper ative Wildlife Collection, is a priceless tool for research and teaching. The collection, which is the largest of its kind in Texas, started in 1937 with specimens from faculty and student re search. The four major classifi cations within the TCWC are the mammal, bird, fish and rep tile-amphibian groups. Chief curator Dr. David J. Schmidly, a professor in the Wildlife and Fisheries Sciences Department, said because some of the specimens are 30 and 40 years old, the collection almost constitutes a history of wildlife in the stale, and has enabled re searchers to discover species of bats, lizards and fish that no one knew existed. However, the collection isn’t limited to animals from Texas. Specimens from around the world are included, but the ma jority are from the United Slates, Mexico, Central America and South America. Walking through the collec tion in the basement of the Ster ling C. Evans library is like tak ing a journey through a warehouse of preserved species. Together, the two rooms are as big as a gymnasium. In one room, there are ceiling-high shelves of jar after jar of pre served animals, like squid and octopus. In another room cab inets and drawers hold the dried skins of bat specimens and their skulls. And hanging on the wall are the skulls from whales and dolphins found along Texas beaches. The warehouse hasn’t been the easiest to use in past years. Researchers had to find spec imens and field notes manually, which meant searching through possibly hundreds or thousands of files before finding what was needed. But now, thanks to a SI28,000 grant from the Na tional Science Foundation, the TCWC is cataloguing all the data from the mammal collec tion and storing it in computers for quick and easy recall. Schmidly said cataloguing the mammals alone will take about three years because the TCWC has a staff of only seven people. At that rale, catalogu ing the entire collection would take more than a decade. Even so, Schmidly said he hopes to get more funding so the other collections can be computerized too. Because of the small staff, the collection isn’t open to the general public, hut Schmidly said some local people inter ested in wildlife have used the TCWC for their personal re search. The cataloguing will help not only local scientists, but also sci entists from around the world. Schmidly said that the environ ment in the tropical regions of Latin and South America is be ing destroyed by human en croachment. The human pop ulation is spilling over into natural areas and is threatening the habitat of many tropical species. Since the TCWC has a strong collection of species from these tropical areas, con servationists who are trying to protect the wildlife are using the collection for research. “And the only wayio| hen it a species is to protect 3 [ t ’ s bet 1,at * ^hmidlysaid. nd i lw; I ■< Heeling the specie j mp |isl t lie goal of a volunteerpn “This called the Marine * St l anding Network, n Raymond Tarpley, ara “Conservation starts in a col lection,” Schmidly said. Some people don’t like the idea of wildlife collections because those animals had to Ik* killed, he said. But, he said, the species benefits in the long run because collections teach scientists about the animal and its habitat. Three educators to speak here tonigh University News Service Three educators with insight into the problems this country is experiencing in its educational system will participate today in the Texas A&M College of Edu cation President’s Lecture Se- Gel OPTION MSG lecture series, entitled “Response to the National Re ports on Excellence in Educa tion,” will begin at 1 p.m. in 701 Rudder with introductory re marks by Dr. Dean Corrigan, dean of the College of Educa tion. Speaking at 1:30 p.m. is Jo seph Featherstone, a contribut ing editor to the New Republic, who is writing a series ot articles that examine the variety of na tional reports on education. Francisco D. Sanchez Jr., a member of the National Com mission on Excellence in Educa tion, will speak at 2:20 p.m. Dr. Ken Goodman, co-direc tor of the language and literacy program in Arizona, will speak associate in the Depaiia Veterinary Anatomy.Ik work's goal is to save a V# that are stranded hear lies, or when theydiei ihem as specimens fonts •Since most marine ml are on the threatenedote gered secies list il,sn«| Unitet] hie to buy them ihrougtil ical supply companies. iNNL irm ol I he network has posa ^ chur dees along Texas beatte :c ^ ing the public who localise h animal is found. When epersc one ill die networkgeti; |60o he goes to the scenetoseti b° ut 0 animal can be saved. ) a h° m Whale and dolphin on ire brought to Texas .fP al che where Tarpley performs ,e no cropsy — anautopsyona rl ^l° mal — and then storestke ma at the TCWC. While tlx es < m( work gets some funding! !aS| w private endowments, mini S' the expense conies fron lse ‘' ea pot Lets of Tarpley anJ • a ' t ^ n other volunteers. ‘™ 101 ices at Man ma H idblocl t of th iOO res at 3:10 p.m. Goodmanist 1 A mar lessor of elementaryedM sasLc at the University of Am is killer and is past president ofll* tei national ReadingAssfli and the Center for fsps ITg of Language and Thinlmf A discussion and and-atiswer period witli speakers will beginadp 11 TOWN w~ HALL your PASSES (he MSC TOWN HALL CONCERT SEASON Woman nominated to no.2 spot at Justice Department Her Ot United Press International WASHINGTON — Presi dent Reagan nominated Texas attorney Carol Dinkins to the number two job in the Justice Department Saturday. If con firmed, she will be the highest- ranking woman the agency has had. Dinkins, 38, was named to succeed Edward Schmults, who resigned in January to take a job in private industry. Her ap pointment as deputy attorney general is subject to Senate con firmation. There have been a number of top-echelon jobs open at the Justice Department in recent months in the civil division, the office of legal policy and the Justice management division. In addition, Attorney Gen eral William French Smith had planned to leave early this year, but agreed to stay on temporar ily after White House counselor Edwin Meese — m)llll ! ial „ f a , c Reagan as Smiths 1 — ran into trouble during ate confirmation Meese is still awaiting 6 lion. Dinkins already ha: ence in the JusticeDepaJ «ed She was an assistant a 1Urder , of the] lna | ty Uniti Berm brda priso » Lestei fS ! Urlir was general in charge < and Natural Resources^ iturda for 2 years, withreftot exp ity for enforcing fe^ftnbef ronmental laws. MSC slcftrl APRIL 30 udder Box Office Cafeteria Now Better Than Ever. 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