Monday, November 11,1985AThe Battalion/Page 5
by Scott McCullar
ishing well
lervice sorority project will help battle cancer
By MOLLY PEPPER
Reporter
eople passing by Rudder Foun
tain this week can make a wish to
ielp cure cancer at Omega Phi Al-
iha's wishing well. Contributions
|m the well go to the American
• Society, service committee
fcember Pat Quijano says.
■The well, which is cardboard with
Mover holding a bucket on it, will be
tt Rudder Fountain today through
Wednesday from 10 a.m. until 2
~p.m.
|The base of the well is a wading
tool which holds water to catch coins
from passers-by.
■Quijano says the group chose can
cer as their theme because it’s a uni-
jjersal concern. She says the well was
«sen because it’s something pass
ers-by can take notice of without
having to stop and listen to a speech
or pick up a pamphlet.
aBOPA hasn’t set a money-making
jpal for the w-ell because nobody
allnows what the reaction to it w ill be,
Pledge Master Corina Rodriguez
says.
ik*The group chose to give the prof-
o« from the well to the American
■ncer Society because the organiza
tion concentrates on research for
children with cancer, Quijano says.
eiiipShe says the group seems to be
pnore interested in children than in
other age groups because OPA con
sists of only females.
The American Cancer Society
predicted 6,000 children will get
cancer this year and 1,700 will clie
from it. The society also says cancer
causes more deaths in children ages
3 to 14 than any other disease.
OPA at Texas A&M is a chapter
of the national service sorority with
the same name. The well is a project
for National Service Week during
which chapters nationwide will hold
special projects, Quijano says.
OPA also is sponsoring the Aggie
Blood Drive this week with its
brother fraternity, Alpha Phi
Omega and Student Government.
Rodriguez says the blood drive is not
considered a part of National Serv
ice Week because OPA works on it
every year.
This is the First year that OPA has
held a National Service Week, says
A&M’s chapter president, Carla
Curry.
OPA holds several service projects
on campus and in the Bryan-Coilege
Station community throughout the
year.
On Halloween the group held a
party for the children in Married
Student Housing and visited with
children in St. Joseph Hospital, Ro
driguez says.
A pot-luck dinner also is planned
to raise money to buy Thanksgiving
pports are
scular Dystrophy, alconol aware-
s and mental health, Rodriguez
Texas crater may be from exploded planet
Associated Press
^ODESSA — The meteorite that
jjermed the world’s sixth-largest
prater near this West Texas city may
■ s have come from an exploded planet
iet ante located between Mars and Jupi-
says a geologist.
The desert still bears the scar
f s i ( from an impact 20,000 years ago
equivalent to an H-bomb.
■“Between Mars and Jupiter, there
was another planet and that planet
ol disappeared — fragmented,’ says
buliDr. Emilio Mutis, chairman of the
geology department at the Univer
sity offexas of the Permian Basin.
I “Most meteorites come from the
re," he says. “So it is fragments of
that planet that have fallen on the
Earth.”
The Odessa crater is the nation’s
second-largest. The largest meteor
crater is Canyon Diablo near
Winslow, Ariz.
T he Odessa crater is about 500
feet in diameter. Originally about
100 feet deep, it has filled in
through the centuries and is now
about six feet deep. Three small
craters were once located near the
main crater, but they have since
been filled.
An area of about two square miles
was showered with nickel-iron mete
orites. The large crater was formed
at this time from a meteorite that
was estimated to have weighed 1,000
tons.
The University of Texas at Aus
tin, during a scientific investigation
from 193§ to 1941, removed about
six tons of meteorite fragments from
the area.
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dinners for needy people in the
community, she says.
OPA also participated in CROP
Walk on Nov. 3 to raise money to
stop hunger in Brazos County and
the world.
Other organizations can call on
OPA when they need help, Rodri
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Memorial Student Center Camera
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tures.
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Other causes OPA su
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says. .
OPA members are required to do
a certain amount of service work
each semester. Active members must
do 25 hours a semester and pledges
30 hours.
“We’re helping people,” Rodri
guez says, “but in a way we’re doing
it for ourselves because we get such a
kick out of helping people.’ s
Members of the sorority will be
supervising the well and will try to
answer any questions about the well,
cancer or OPA, she says.
Some scientists believe that both
the Odessa and Winslow craters
were formed by a meteorite that sep
arated in flight.
“Some speculate that this one may
be a piece of the meteorite that hit in
Winslow, Ariz.,” says Brent McAfee,
associate professor of geology at
Odessa College.
Scientists value meteorites in un
derstanding the Earth’s formation.
The Odessa crater was designated a
national landmark in 1965.
“We think that the sun, all the
planets and moon in our solar sys
tem — formed at the same time,
from the same materials,” says McA
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“So if we can get hold of those
fragments, they will have the same
composition as, for instance, the cen
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