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Extinction factors debated
at Pleistocene era seminar
By HOLLY A. KELT
Reporter
Btuman and non-human factors
. influencing animals were the two
^ rget those si views debated Monday during a
student complamiinar on Pleistocene extinction,
lent truly hasiBxtinction of many North Ameri-
» 0 {' the people ,™ species occurred near the end of
own flabby fir Pfei stocene epoch, about 11,000
,s ‘ years ago.
Byn average species will exist
art of my Uni\- r0U ghly 300,000 years before it be-
lushed downs comes extinct. The Pleistocene ex-
1 re are thosen unction took place in about 1,000
nent who hawB rs - said Dr> Vaughn Bryant, head
retical trea( ]‘ of the anthropology department.
retical treadiii|»You have to Fook at some factor
Government, that was not there during the other
i a little more roapir extinctions and the only inter-
id totheonejJ® tion the >’ ( those studying this
■en forgo«e.® ,:ll) ,“ ull ', com ,t. u P ™ th was h “-
. & man intervention, he said.
’indents. ■),. Vance Holliday, a geography
olriv crt/iimniti professor at Texas Tech University,
n H ' said: “The most characteristic aspect
H J 3,0,1 (of the extinction) has been dramatic
ate changes.”
he climate change is not a matter
11
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of disappearing ice and warming
temperatures, Holliday said, but
simply a matter of the ice age getting
smaller and smaller.
Other extinction events are based
on information that all of these
events seem to be associated with the
end of a glacial event, said Holliday.
Mankind’s creation of new envi
ronments is a major factor in the ex
tinction, said Dr. Bruce Dickson, a
specialist in North and Middle
American archaeology here.
“Mankind has been involved in a
dynamic dialectic relationship with
his environment . . . mankind is is
willing to use the most efficient
method of hunting animals which is
to kill them (animals) in catastrophic
proportions rather than selective
minting,” Dickson said.
A tremendous amount of change
in population among the plant com
munities occurs; and as a plant com
munity changes, so does its animal
compliment, said Dr. Harry Shafer,
an anthropology professor here.
When dramatic environmental
changes take place, some habitats
change and animals in these habitats
die out. This throws the whole sys
tem into a disequilibrium causing
massive extinction, Shafer said.
Bryant said: “The Pleistocene ex
tinction is very complex. The field of
anthropology is full of controversial
things. Some day, maybe in our life
time, we will have a solution to Pleis
tocene extinction.”
Issues and grievances
No one shows at meeting
By Susan McDonald
Reporter
No students showed up for the
Issues and Grievances Committee
meeting Monday night, and the
Student Government vice presi
dent of student services said he
was disappointed.
“With all the complaining I
hear, I know students have com
plaints and they don’t take advan
tage of it (the committee),”
Wayne Roberts said. “They have
no right to complain.”
Presiding over the meeting was
Roberts; Carrol Ellison, senator;
Jim Cleary, senator; and Brian
Hay, senator.
“Student Government’s inef
fectiveness is not entirely Student
Government’s fault,” Roberts
said. “A lot of the fault lies with
the student body.
“The committee
great
that.”
and went
started out
downhill after
Roberts said the gay students
recognition controversy drew a
large crowd at the first meeting,
but the issues became bland after
that.
“We are trying to evaluate
whether it is a reflection on us
(Student Government) or on the
students,” Roberts said. “We are
going to try and increase atten
dance.”
Ellison, who is running unop
posed for vice president of stu
dent services, said that if elected
she plans to continue the Issues
and Grievances Committee meet
ings and to hold the first meeting
this semester.
Prof: Arms control is full of contradictions
Benefit to raise money for KANM
to be heid this evening at Dr. G’s
By DARYN DEZENGOTITA
Reporter
■KANM’s fourth benefit to raise
funds for its operations will be at Dr.
G' tonight at 8 p.m. The money
rinsed at the benefit will help pay the
cost of broadcasting transmissions.
■Chris Dominy, KANM station
Bmagei, said the student radio sta-
fdon was planning to go from cable-
j easung to broadcasting this summer
but is still awaiting approval for a
frequency from the Federal Com
munications Commission.
“We have mounds of red tape to
go through with the FCC,” Dominy
said. “We hope to be on bv next fall.”
The benefit also will provide
funds for general operations. A ben
efit earlier this semester brought in
almost $600 for the alternative mu
sic station. Dominy said Dr. G’s
owner George Graham has been
very supportive. Dr. G’s sponsors a
regular program broadcasted by the
station and has sponsored three
other benefits resulting in about
$1,700.
“Wfe just provide a place to have
it,” Granam said. “It brings in a dif
ferent crowd — a younger, student-
oriented crowd. It also gives some
area talent the chance to play here.”
Two local bands will be featured
during the benefit — I Can’t Find
My Sheep in their debut perfor
mance and dance band Rudy and
the Minions. Tickets are $3.75.
By DARYN DEZENGOTITA
Reporter
Dr. William P. Snyder showed a
transparency of an Aggie joke — a
wood burning stove made of wood.
“That’s the only optimistic note of
the evening,” the political science
professor said to begin his lecture,
“Arms Control: Problems and Pros
pects.”
Snyder outlined the history of
arms control negotiations from its
unsuccessful beginning almost 40
years ago through 21 different
agreements.
The first plan died after negotia
tions in 1945 when the first atomic
bombs were dropped on Hiroshima
and Nagasaki. The plan, however,
did succeed in generating interest in
arms control among government
agencies, Snyder said.
“Arms control is a subject full of
contradictions,” Snyder said. “It is
both very complicated and very sim
ple on another level. Does it follow
or precede politics? And for the high
expectations of the public, there
have been very modest accomplish
ments.”
the 21 agreements in the past
ars, only four have not dealt
Of
40 years
with nuclear arms.
Snyder outlined the topics of the
17 agreements dealing with nuclear
arms — nuclear free zones, controls
on testing, controls on shipment and
trade, crisis management measures,
and limitation.
Snyder said the arms control re
cord has dealt with peripheral issues
and no real limits have been set. But,
the record was an important sym
bolic effort between the United
States and the Soviet Union as a co
operative movement and as a foun
dation for more substantial actions,
he said.
By examining the record, the pre
conditions necessary for current ne
gotiations can be found — a strong
nulitary position in relation to the
Soviets, a “hawkish” president with a
strong personal committment to
arms control and favorable political
relations with the Soviets.
Concerning current negotiations,
Snyder said he sees three positive as
pects of the current political climate.
These aspects are public pressure
for action, a general consensus on
defense policy and an increase in So
viet interest with the new face in the
Kremlin, Mikhail Gorbachev.
Snyder summarized the current
situation by saying that President
Reagan has selected a negotiations
staff which will be successful in get
ting an agreement ratified once it’s
reached.
The lecture, sponsored by the Wi
ley Lecture Senes, was the fourth
mini-seminar sponsored by the Me
morial Student Center committee in
preparation for the April 4 pro
gram, “U.S.-Soviet Relations: The
Quest for International Security.”
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