Thursday, December 5,1985/The Battalion/Page 5
r@n| Weather forecaster predicts
old, wet east Texas winter
Associated Press
LUFKIN — The signs are all
line, says YV. Valentine — Unl
it h in lor a cold, wet winter, possi-
vitj severe as the winter ol 1983, it
jot worse.
Vilentine, ;t Forester whose hobhy
piplicting the weather h\ using
im|ils and other signs ol nature,
.is taught the skill ol veins ago In
Init|icle with more than 120 years ol
xptfi iciue in his Family. He was 94,
n lldian, and very alert, Valentine
lidlaiul wits known as the weathet-
imliimong the people in Cherokee
ioiitnv.
Ill 19‘M, the old Indian, who him-
Jltad been Forecasting For 04
stinted showing Valentine the
— how the squirrels build their
lests closer to the ground when a
|i)l(I winter is coming iind the moss
. n trees "knots up."
- ‘The squirrels will leave the hard-
(«»s and get into the pines For
noie cover," Yhilentine s;iid. He also
,ii<l ilte imimals' Fur will he darker
ml thicker.
Valentine makes most ol his pre-
lictlms about the winter months
uisll on whitt he sees in August and
t‘|)K nthei.
"Anything that happens alter Oct.
1 is not going to tell you much about
your winter months," Valentine said.
Hut when you see leaves curling in
the middle of August and crickets
and other hugs starting to seek in
door shelter in September, you
know it's going to he cold, he said.
"Clod lurs given them a sixth sense
to take care ol themselves," Valen
tine said. “They are not horn in this
world just lo die."
American Indians were the First
weather Forecasters, he said, and
“percentage-wise, they ;ue better
than the National Weather Bureau.”
But people nowadays just aren’t
interested in perpetuating the art.
Valentine said most oF the oldtimers
who did it For years are now dead
and his own children do not share
his fascination For Forecasting.
Some other weather indicators are
tree bark, corn shucks, and veins in
the leaves oF trees.
"Svcamores can tell you a whole
lot," Valentine said. “They will put
on an extra slough of hark when it’s
going to he cold." Hie color ol the
hark is also a sign, he said.
Slouch
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AUSTIN — San Antonio Mayor
SCiirv Cisneros, reviving talk ol a
cgional airport to serve San Anio-
tiiiiincl Austin, is urging Austin olfi-
hls in consider such a project .
Cisneros told Austin delegates at a
chamber of Commerce meeting in
an Antonio on Tuesday that a joint
upon would he “instantaneous jus-
icaiiou" lot economic growth
long Interstate T"> between the cit-
"It would make the corridor a jus
tifiable trading region in the eyes of
the world," Cisneros said.
Mayor Frank Cooksey of Austin,
who attended the session hut was not
present For Cisneros’ remarks, said
lie would request a meeting with Cis
neros to discuss a joint airport.
A joint airport has been men
tioned For several years as a way to
solve crowding problems at Austin’s
Robert Mueller Municipal Airport,
but San Antonio officials had not en
couraged the idea.
Although Cisneros had said the
joint facility was among his long-
range goals, he told an Austin air
port task force last year that Austin
should not look on a joint airport as
a solution to problems at Mueller.
He said then that San Antonio
would not need a new airport For 25
to 55 years. San Antonio just com
pleted a SI 10 million airport expan
sion.
“The quickest way both of us can
overcome our air traffic problems is
with a combined effort,” Cisneros
said. “In Texas, Dallas is the hub,
and it’s dif ficult to get to San Anto
nio and Austin, and many corpora
tions mentioned that in looking at
this area for possible relocation.”
Cisneros said San Antonio and
Austin need to encourage airlines to
provide more direct flights between
the two cities and such other major
cities as New York, Chicago, Wash
ington and San Francisco.
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What’s up
Tiwrscljiy
fEXAS A&M EMERGENCY CARE TEAM: is meeting at 7
p.m. in d()4 Rudder,
?HI LAMBDA UPSILON: is meeting at 5 p.m, in 229 Chem
istry Building.
FAMU STUDENT ART FILM SOCIETY: is showing Pasoli
nis "The Canterbury Tates'’ at 7 p.m. in 105 Soil and Crop
Sciences Building.
ISC TRAVEL: is meeting to have Aggieland pictures taken
at 7 p.m. m the MSC lounge.
:iETY OF WOMEN ENGINEERS: is meeting at 7 p.m.
i the Zachrv lobby.
►ELTA SIGMA Pi: is meeting for elections at 9 pan. in 150
Blocker.
FAMU SYMPHONIC BAND: is having its annual fall con
cert at 8:15 pan. in Rudder Auditorium. Tickets are $1 for
students and $5 for non-students.
INTRAMURALS: there will be an informational meeting for
1 all basketball officials at 6 p.m. in 164 Read.
SC CEPHEID VARIABLE: will show the movie ‘Things to
Come” at 7:50 and 9.45 p.m, in 701 Rudder.
)ANCE ARTS SOCIETY: will take yearbook pictures at 6:50
p.m. in MSC. Wear street clothes,
Friday
SR VARSITY CHRISTIAN FELLOWSHIP: will have a
banquet for graduating seniors at 6 pan. in 206 MSC. Cost
is $10.
CM>P STUDENTS REGISTRATION: Students scheduled
to work on co-op in Spring 1986 must register now lot
their co-op course in the Central Co-op Office in 107 Har
rington. for students who do not; yet have their co-op job
assignments finalized, co-op registration will continue
through December 15.
Items for What's Up should be submitted to The BaWdion,
2it> Reed McDonald, no less than three days prior to de
sired publication date.
Friends
A&M Mentors hear student criticism
By KAREN KROESCHE
Reporter
Amidst mounting assignments
and n imei ous Frustrations, students
call their professors many things
throughout the semester, but friend
is not usually one of them.
The Texas A&M Faculty and staff
members of the Mentors program
would like to change that. Members
hang signs on their doors with the
Mentor logo to let students know
they are available and willing to talk
about anything.
“We are Faculty and staff mem
bers who would simply like to serve
students as friends,” Dr. Jim Mc-
Neal, coordinator For the Mentors
program, says.
f ile group met Wednesday eve
ning to talk with students about ways
the group can improve its services.
Sophomore Camie Erickson, a bi
oengineering major, told the faculty
and stall members that their major
problem is a lack of exposure.
“Most people don’t know there's
anywhere to go,” Erickson said after
admitting that she previously did not
know the Mentors program existed.
Dr. Bill Bassicnis, an associate
professor of Physics, agreed with
Erickson, comparing the mentor to
the Maytag Salesman, ready to serve
people but lacking customers.
"A lack of student participation is
a major problem for us," he said,
“ft's a little disturbing to hear that
people don’t even know of our exis
tence.
Several suggestions were offered
by the students who attended, in
cluding increasing public relations
and informing students of the men
tors' Friendship policy.
T hat policy, a willingness to listen,
is the group’s sole purpose, Bassichis
said.
The Mentors program orginated
in 1980, according to McNeal, with
25 to 50 members. Since then the
group has grown to more than 500
participants and has been striving to
reach out to the "lost and lonely” stu
dents on campus who have no one
else to turn to, he said.
McNeal, a marketing professor in
the College of Business, stressed that
the Faculty and staff who volunteer
as mentors do not try to act as pro
fessional counselors, but rather just
make themselves available to stu
dents who want to talk.
“We’re not trying to take the place
of anybody,” he said. “We just want
to he a Friend."
Mentors have many resources
available to them, and one of their
primary purposes is to let students
know about people or programs that
might be able to help them with their
problems, McNeal explained.
An article in the 1984-85 Enroll, a
student handbook, described the
group as “only one of many ways
that FAMU faculty and staff dem
onstrate that they care about Ag-
gies.”
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