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By KELLI THOMERSON
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The chilly weather puts some Christmas spirit into the hearts of
Aggies. Lambda Sigma member Sheri Steele (right) sells Wes Wil
liams (center) and Steve Ash a Christmas tree. Lambda Sigma will be
selling the trees all this
Commons.
Photo by GREG BAILEY
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If most students think they spend
too much time in the library studying,
they need to think again.
Members of the Texas A&M De
bate l earn spend an average of 20
hours every week researching and
preparing for tournaments, says
Wayne Kraemer, the team’s coach.
“Preparation is over the entire
year," Kraemer says. “At the end of
the summer we get a debate topic that
is selected by the debate coaches all
across the nation, and we’ll research
that topic all year long.”
The topic is announced in April
and tournaments start in September.
The team debates on two different
resolutions or areas, the National De
bate Tournament and the Cross-
Examination Debate Association,
Kraemer says.
The NDT resolution involves any
thing that requires a course of action,
a policy, he says. CEDA is an off
shoot of the NDT topic and deals
with values instead of policy.
The debate focuses on the over-
lying values of the resolution instead
of policies, Kraemer says. I he CEDA
resolution is for people who don’t
have as much time to do research as
the people on NDT do, he says.
There are five two-man teams on
each resolution. Each team first re
searches and writes arguments on the
chosen topic.
“Part of the research involves writ
ing an affirmative case, which means
we have to go out and research a
problem area within the confines of
the resolution,” Kraemer says. “We
then offer a workable solution for
that problem and the advantages that
stem from specific solution.
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By JUI
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By JO BETH MURPHY
Repot ter
The Texas A&M Association of
Amateur Ast ronomers will have tele
scopes set up in a local park Friday
and Saturday to give the community
an opportunity to see I falley’s Comet.
Halley’s Comet is seen only every
76.09 years because it takes the comet
that long to orbit the sun.
Darrin I .ewer, a co-founder ol (he
association, says it hopes to have at
least lom telescopes set up at South-
wood Parkat 1601 Rock Pi ait ie Road
in College Station. He says more tele
scopes might be available if the Uni
versity’s physics department is able to
loan them to the group.
The eight-and 10-inch telescopes
will be set up 1 t om 7 p.m. to midnight
on the youth soccer fields.
There is no charge to look through
the telescopes or to get into the park,
but there will be a donation box. Con
tributions will be used for equipment
upkeep and repair and to fix up a
dark-sky observing site, Lewer says.
He says the telescopes and the
knowledge of the association's mem
bers are being provided f or commun
ity awareness.
“Basically, one of our f unctions is
to help die community become aware
of astronomy and astronomy events,”
Lewer says.
He says that members of the asso
ciation include people from the com
munity as well as A&M students.
An interest in astronomy is the
only membership requirement, he
says.
Lewer says clear weather is neces
sary for‘viewing the comet.
If the weather^ had. thh viewings
will be called off,'he says, which is
what happened on the Nov. 16
attempt to see Halley’s Comet.
Halley’s Comet was the first for
which a periodic pattern was deter
mined.
It was first sighted by astronomer
Edmund Halley in 1682, hut ancient
peoples sighted it as early as 240 B.C.
Comets often were thought to be
forewarnings or the actual cause of
human or natural events and disas-
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