Image provided by: Texas A&M University
About The Battalion. (College Station, Tex.) 1893-current | View Entire Issue (April 27, 1987)
if s - "-I 1 P-iH. in Pavilion. >ilske will daptabili- 'N: Char- 11 Airlines port club- in- in 115 ront ol'G, in. in 301 7 pan. in m. in 201 ).m. at the <1 student mier Cal- Battalion, g days be- )in deli aht d team organi- kes sure foodl assistance ait ? ht - anergencyCatt dical asssistantt nsure lighten nergency niedi- We are here lot .nocked out oi i\’e have oxygei ; also call an aat ary.” » were no majoi bloody noses, iiie gets hum are so good,"h low the fighttt is hurt." expense Sig* have this w* insurance h | organizatiot serve alcohol i spectators sai drink at Figfc alcohol didn sales or aiten i about 2,600ffl senior civil eif wanted todrinl exercise volunteers techn»l- d ^ and did”’ 1 unan ; C t. It WaS ^ n.” ghts nt Congratulations Aggie Graduates Hard Work Deserves The Best Rewards Bud Ward is your Aggie Connection for Fine German Cars. Grad Finance Program 90 Day Defered Payment Low Down Payment No Prior Credit AH '87 Grads Qualify* Come By or Cali Today for Details * Subject to credit approval BUD WARD Volkswagen-Porsche +- Audi “The Dealer With A Heart” 1912 Texas Ave. Under the water tower in College Station 693-3311 WHY WAIT? Super-Low Summer Rates In Effect Now til May 15th On New Leases Move in Mow & Save Hundreds of Dollars Additional discounts On 12 Month Leases EFF 1 Bdrm 2 Bdrm As Low As As Low As As Low As $130. 00 $148. 00 $173. 00 Free Summer Apt. Storage Available Ask About It-Limited Apt Space Avail-Huny! 2 Swimming Pools Shuttle Bus 3 Laundry Rooms Large Party Room 24 hour Emergency maintenance On Site Management HJillowick apartments "Come live it... You’ll love it!” 502 Southwest Pkwy 693-1325/693-1326 Office Hours: Mon-Fri 8:30/5:30 Sat 10-4 Sun 1-4 If you want to TEACH, you’ll want to come to GOOSE CREEK PERSONNEL OFFICE P.0. BOX 30 BAYTOWN, TEXAS 77522 (713) 428-2553 Salary Range Bachelor’s Degree $22,000 - $31,000 Master’s Degree $23,100 - $35,600 Benefits Program • Local Pension Plan — District con tributes from $1363 to $2567 a year — no employee contributions. • Five days sick leave each year, no limit on accumulation. • Five days approved personal business and/or serious illness in the immediate family. • Up to five days absence due to the death of a member of the immediate family. • $1020 district contribution to the group insurance program which includes hospitalization, dental, and life insurance. CONSOUDATED INDEPENDENT SCHOOL DISTRICT GCCISD will be interviewing on the TEXAS A&M campus on MAY 5-6, 1987 Monday, April 27, 1987A~he Battalion/Page 5 Nautical students search for 2 ships used by Columbus By Audrey Cardenas Reporter Gallega and Vizcaina are names from the past, but these two ships still are being sought by a group of Texas A&M nautical archaeology students. The ships, which were a part of Columbus’ original journey to the new world, were abandoned in 1502 by Columbus and his crew at St. Anne’s Bay, located off Jamaica’s northern coast. “The two vessels are being sought after because no identifiable ship has been found from this time period,” said Mark Meyers, an A&M anthro pology graduate student. The period from 1492-1522 is of particular interest to archaeologists because this was the period of explo ration and discovery in which ships were sailing around India lobking for trade in the New World, Meyers said. “Columbus’ ships were the first true ocean-going ships,” Meyers said. “They were the first to make trans-Atlantic voyages, but there is zero archaeological evidence to show how these ships were built.” The drawings archaeologists have are crude, he said, because there was no science of drawing or any techni cal recordings at that point in his tory. For four years, groups of A&M nautical archaeology students, led by Roger Smith, a field scientist for the Institute of Nautical Archaeology, have been searching St. Anne’s Bay for the shipwrecks, but have had little success. “They have found odds and ends, but nothing of much significance,” said Karen Gardner, an A&M an thropology graduate. One of the reasons for this is the weathering of underwater land for mation by river and ocean currents, she said. This weathering process has expanded the bay area by hun dreds of feet, which has made sur veying the area a difficult process, she said. “The area now does not match up exactly with the way it was when Co lumbus was there,” Gardner said. “For example, there is a swamp in part of the bay that used to hot be there.” While searching for the location of the wrecks, the students used sub bottom sonar, a technique which sends sonar pulses irito sediment and records th& sedimentary den sity, Meyers said. The more dense the area, the more likely there is something to be found, he said. Also, core samples from the bay were taken to tff to help reconstruct it to its formation of the days when Columbus sailed the area, Meyers said. “The trouble with a lot of sites is that you never know what it looked like 500 years ago and there are no accurate maps. The techniques used now are really helpful,” he said. Unfortunately, the techniques were not enough to help the A&M students locate the ships. “Any sort of bad heavy Veather, like a hurricane, could have de stroyed them,” Meyers explained. “It’s suprising how many ships do last than those that don’t, but it was feally no suprise that we couldn’t find the ships we were looking for,” he said. Although the St. Anne’s Bay ex ploration proved disappointing, these students afe seeking other shipwrecks in an attempt to learn; more about ships from the explora tion and discovery period. t Anti-abortion signs cause B-CS conflict n By Patricia Lowry Reporter Several anti-abortion signs have appeared around Bryan-Colhege Station and have caused controversy between pro-life and pro-choicC groups advocating their sides of the delicate abortion issue. Six signs, 4 feet by 8 feet, were placed at various churches and busi nesses and read, “4,000 Americans died today, and yesterday and the day before and the day before; stop abortion.” Warren Grote, owner of B-CS Trophies in Bryan, has a sign in front of his store and said the idea to post the signs came about at a New Life in Christ Church meeting. “I know I was supposed to do this — take a stand,” Grote said. “I feel people should be aware that 4,000 people do actually die every day be cause of abortion.” Grote said he has not had many complaints about the sign, except from some members of the Texas A&M chapter of the National Orga nization for Women, who have threatened to picket his business be cause of the sign. Dede Whitley, vice president of A&M’s NOW chapter, confronted Grote about the sign. “I wanted to find out who was be hind the sign — if it was one source or several — and if the sign was placed there legally,” Whitley said. * Dr. Wendy Stock, faculty adviser for NOW, said, “It is a gross distor tion to equate these signs with a woman’s right to determine her re productive future. “We find them an affront to women everywhere.” Rita Shea, a senior community health major from La Marque, agreed that the signs are offensive, but for a different reason. “I think everyone has a right to his or her opinion, but I don’t feel they should use their business to express their personal opinions,” she sard. Grote said, “You express your opinion through your life, and my business is my life. Our life is supr posed to be patterned after Christ and opinions should be expressed all the time. v “It would be hypocritical por tray my business life different from my personal life.” Grote said there has been some vandalism to the sign, but it hasn’t been a big problem. “We had a few eggs and beer bot tles thrown at the sign, and a few weeks ago someone spray-painted it,” he said. Whitley said NOW is going to dis cuss the signs with some of the mem bers of the New Life in Christ Church. “If nothing earn be worked .out,, we are not adverse to picketing the busi nesses where the signs are located,” she said. Houston’s Hobby airport has many near-collisions HOUSTON (AP) — The number of near collisions between aircraft reported at Hobby Airport in the last four years was nearly nine times the number recorded at Interconti nental Airport, the Houston Chroni cle reported Sunday. In a copyright story, the Chroni cle reported that Federal Aviation Administration records show that between Jan. 1, 1983 and the end of 1986, 17 near collisions occurred within 15 miles of Hobby. But only two were reported within 15 miles of Intercontinental, where there is slightly more air traffic. There have been two near misses reported this year, and both still are under investigation. The latest oc curred last week when an American Airlines Boeing 727 pilot took eva sive action to miss a small, twin-en gine aircraft about seven miles southeast of Intercontinental, offi cials said. According to the FAA, when a collision is avoided by chance rather than pilot action, the incident is clas sified “critical.” Less than 100 feet separation would be considered crit ical. A classification called “potential” is used when a pilot avoids a proba ble air collision and generally means two aircraft came, within 500 icet of*) one another. There were 10 “critical” near colli sions reported within 15 miles of Hobby and one within 15 miles of Intercontinental in the four-year pe riod. Seven such incidents at Hobby were classified as “potential,” and > Intercontinental had only one. Six near misses within 15 miles of Hobby were reported to the FAA r> last year, half of them critical. Encounters at congested satellite ; airports like Hobby, where commer cial airlipeis and private aircraft op erate. side by side, provoke concern in the aviatioil (fchlrnuhJtyi.^ ‘‘Hobby’s crazy,” said one Conti-; nental Airlines captain not identified by the Chronicle. “You’ve got bug smashers (light private aircraftjj) you’ve got helicopters buzzing* around everywhere; you’ve got stu-i dent pilots coming in and out. The| place isjust crazy.” But the FAA’s top controller at Hobby, Curtis Jenkins, defended the- ; traffic mix saying there was nothing unsafe about it. “I don’t consider the traffic a.? problem at Hobby — I consider it a challenge,’* he said. “Any time you have a transpoftafibn system of any kind in a big city like Houston, it’s a challenge.” •ftre W' SHORT ON CASH??? Soil voui books ^ at \ •Diversity Book Stores Northgate & Culpepper Plaza Problem Pregnancy? we listen, we care, wy help Free pregnancy tests;" concerned counselors Brazos Valley Crisis Pregnancy Service! jj We’re local! ! 1 1301 Memorial Dr. 24 hr. Hotline . - 823-CARE : i l OR. JOHN T. 1IHIM Sears FAMILY DENTISTRY DOS Routine Cleaning 00 X-Rays & Exams v ^ ^ * with coupon 846-4999 505 Univei CO WHOP Chopped Beef Sandwich with Iced Tea Only $2. 00 1 per coupon Expires 5/18/87 $tudent $pedals $J29 Roll St Coffee French Toast St Coffee Two eggs, two bacon or sausage, two slices of toast ALL-IJ-CAN-EAT BUFFET Lunch Buffet $ 1; 69 $ni m JSmi m $ 2# 5d with A&M orBlinn LD. good thru April[ ^ t -i- 1 • •. _. All Bryan/College Station Kettle Locations n Ti Tl' p** II jw I Contact Lenses Only Quality Name Brands [Bausch & Lomb, Ciba, Bames-Hinds-Hydrocurve) 00 -STD. DAILY WEAR SOFT LENSES -STD. EXTENDED WEAR SOFT LENSES SPARE PR ONLY $20 with purchase of 1st pr. at reg. pHoe- $99. 00 -STD. TINTED SOFT LENSES SPECIAL ENDS MAY 29, 1987 AND APPLIES TO CLEAFt STAN-;* DARD EXTENDED WEAR STOCK LENSES ONLY Call 696-3754 For Appointment * Eye exam and care kit not included CHARLES C. SCHROEPPEL, O.D., P.C. DOCTOR OF OPTOMETRY 707 South Texas Ave., Suite 101D College Station, Texas 77840 1 block South of Texas & University i ti Wellborn BAR-B-Q Specials Monday. dtt&iday FREE CHEESE CAKE w/any BAR-B-Q Plate AGGIE SPECIAL Chicken Fried Steak $3." Fries, Salad and Texas Toast must have Aggie LD. w/o $4." 'U/edtteAday Faculty and Staff Special BAR-B-Q Plates All Day Choice of two: Beans, potatoe salad, cole slaw w/Texas Toast* Downtown Wellborn Bar • B • Que Wellborn, Texas Orders to Go 690-0046 Happy Hour 4-7 Miester Brau 41. 23 Pitcher Pool, Games, Dominos, Longnecks