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
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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*
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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.
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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
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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
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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
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Woman nominated to no.2
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Her
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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
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and Natural Resources^ iturda
for 2 years, withreftot exp
ity for enforcing fe^ftnbef
ronmental laws.
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