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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.”
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By SUSAN MCDONALD
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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.
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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.
Hance, who resumed practicing
law after the election, said he has
been too busy with that business to
devote much attention to politics.
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