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Wednesday, April 17, IQSSTThe Battalion/Page 5 ijS In Advance Holocaust awareness to be promoted Activities including a play pre sented by high school students will be held Thursday near Rud der Fountain as part of National Holocaust Awareness week. The Campus Ministerial Asso ciation is sponsoring the day of remembrance. Beginning at 9 a.m. names of French concentration camp vic tims will be read. “I Never Saw Another Butterf ly,” a play about life in a concen tration camp will be presented at noon by A&M Consolidated High School students. The names of concentration camp victims will be read again from 1 p.m. until 5 p.m., Tarlow said. Rabbi Peter Tarlow, of the Texas A&M Hillel Foundation said Tuesday the play will last about an hour and there will be no charge to those wanting to watch it. At 8:30 p.m. a Memorial Holo caust service will be held at the A&M Presbyterian Church, 301 Church St. in College Station. Tarlow said the service will last no longer than an hour and ev eryone is invited. Aggie helps produce French caving film By KAREN HELLER Reporter A French caving film, which a Texas A&M graduate student helped produce, will be shown to day at 7 p.m. in 502 Rudder. “L’Ecriture des Eaux” or The Writing of the Waters, sponsored by the Aggie Speleological So ciety, was filmed in Mexico for French public television. Speleology is the study of the physical, geological, and biologi cal aspects of caves. A spelunker is a person who studies caves. Steve Robertson, who helped make the film, says the film ex amines caves in the Sierra de Zongolica in Mexico. Robertson attended high school in Mexico and became in volved with spelunking through one of his teachers. Robertson says he was spelunk ing in Mexico one spring when he met some people working on a project for French public tele vision. He was asked to help with the film. Of the six people working on the film, Robertson says only one of them had worked on a tele vision program before. Robertson says most of what he did involved carrying stuff around and doing “slave work,” but each person had his own spe cialty. Robertson’s primary duties in volved collecting animals, from both inside and outside the caves. Robertson said he paid partic ular attention to a species of blind catfish found primarily in caves. Much of the filming was done inside the caves, which were be tween a five hour walk and a one hour drive from the nearest town, Robertson said. He said that besides the usual caving gear, the spelunkers had to carry about 50 pounds of batte ries and lights for the cameras. The group spent 10 weeks in the field, and during that time, Robertson said they camped out in paths in the jungle. “We had electricity someti mes,” he said. Filming the cave was a novel experience, because his group was exploring, filming, and map ping all at the same time, he said. “We were working in a virgin cave that had never been seen be fore,” he said. The film, released in 1983, has won several caving film awards. Robertson said, “It is a unique opportunity to see what caving is like without actually doing it.” tomas )f Regis alizes in il hair I, rod to 3rms & j m mer Spring events to reap cash for charities By SUSAN MCDONALD Reporter 700 •UCE Fort tidecided About 's Future? iys Center - a non-proftf® Spring is the season for local charities to raise money. The Muscular Distrophy Asso ciation is one of those charities. America’s Love Run to benefit the MDA will be in May. Those who register can either walk, run, jog or ride a bicycle. Program Coordinator Diane Maxwell said the participants shouldn’t change their fitness pattern. They can work out at anytime and at anyplace. The participants collect pledges for at least 5 cents per mile, and at the end of the month send the money to the MDA of fice in Austin. There is a $5 entrance fee. Each participant receives a T- shirt and a Love Run kit, which includes a running log and infor mation about how to collect pledges. Medals will be given to the top participants based on the number of miles covered and the amount of money collected, Maxwell said. Those who collect $1,000 or more will receive a gold medal; $500, a silver; and $250, a bronze. Registration forms are avail able at local sporting goods stores or by sending $5 to MDA at 3907 Executive Center Drive in Austin. Another fund-raising event for MDA this spring will be a biath lon May 4 sponsored by Alpha Tau Omega. Participants will bike 30 kilometers and run 6 kilome ters. Registration fee is $15. Those who register before April 26 will receive a T-shirt, but registration will continue through May 3 at lo cal sporting good stores, bicycle shops and 24-Hour Gyms of Texas. A free one-year mem bership to 24-Hour Gyms of Texas will be given to the first male and female to finish. The March of Dimes Walk America will be April 27. There is no fee to enter. Sponsorship forms are available at KORA ra dio station, 7-11 stores and the March of Dimes office. Those who wish to enter can preregister at the office or register at 8 a.m. before the walk. The walk will be gin at 9 a.m. at the First City Na tional Bank in Bryan. April is Cancer Awareness Month, and the American Cancer Society is having a door-to-door crusade, which began Monday and will continue through next Monday. Betty Miller, the residential chairman for Bryan, said the so ciety is gathering donations and is trying to educate the people about cancer by handing out bro chures. Last year the society re ceived $8,000 in donations from Brazos County during the cru sade. The Cancer Society also is sponsoring a stop-smoking clinic May 6. There is a $10 incentive fee that the participants will get back if they finish the clinic. The American Heart Associa tion is having a Dance for Heart fundraiser that began the last week in February and will con tinue through May 15. Eleven local dance shops and clubs competed against each other to raise the most money, said Sarah Van Pelt, association chairman. Dancers signed up at one of the dance shops and danced for four hours. Body Dynamics raised the most money w'ith Jazzercise a close sec ond. A total of $9,703 was raised during the Dance for Heart Com petition. American Heart Asscociation Assistant Sue Carpenter said the Dance for Heart is expected to raise about $350,000 state-wide. 4 nillitS""’ 1 J SatunlirJW StudintuHtWfl J|| «atl l«W Hance renews his loyality to Democrats, dispels rumor Associated Press ITiviSH" (VIRES FwnllJ Family Nl« j With Cvirttlin Wed. t AUSTIN — Rumors he might be a Republican candidate for office next year are “wild speculation,” for mer congressman Kent Hance said Tuesday. I The Democrat said it is highly un likely he will switch parties and too loon to say if he will run for any- |hing. ■ ■“I don’t know what I’ll be doing ■next year,” Hance told T he Asso ciated Press in a phone interview from his Lubbock law office. “Right liow, I’m concentrating on my law .business.” I Hance, a conservative who nar rowly lost the Democratic U.S. Sen ate nomination last year, said the party needs to do some “soul search ing” about whether it has a place for conservatives and moderates. However, he said, he isn’t plan ning to join the GOP. “1 don’t see that is in cards,” Hance said. “I’ve been asked, ‘Would you never, ever switch?’ In politics, you learn never to say never — but I don’t see that in the cards.” Hance decided not to seek re-elec tion to the U.S. House last year, in stead making a bid for the Demo cratic Senate nomination. He lost the runoff by fewer than 1,400 votes to liberal state Sen. Lloyd Doggett, who in turn was overwhelmed by Repub lican Phil Gramm in November. Since the election^ rumors have been circulating among Texas poli ticians that Republicans were court ing Hance as a possible GOP guber natorial candidate. “All this is wild speculation,” Hance said, adding that he knows of no concerted GOP effort to lure him to that party. “If I go to a reception or some thing, there’s usually someone there who tells me I ought to switch,” he said. 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