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What’s up
Wednesday
CIRCLE K INTERNATIONAL: will meet at 7 p.m. in 302
Rudder.
ALPHA EPSILON DELTA PREMED HONOR SOCIETY:
will meet and a speaker will talk at 7 p.m. in 501 Rudder.
YOUNG CONSERVATIVES OF TEXAS: Jaques lordaan,
vice consul of South Africa, will speak at 7 p.m. in 301 Rud
der.
ADULT CHILDREN OF ALCOHOLICS: will meet at 7 p.m.
in 308 Rudder.
ALCOHOLICS ANONYMOUS: will meet at noon. Call 845-
5826 for meeting place.
NARCOTICS ANONYMOUS: will meet at 8:30 p.m. in 145
MSC.
BAPTIST STUDENT UNION: will have Bible study at noon
at the Baptist Student Center.
AMERICAN INSTITUTE OF CHEMICAL ENGINEERS:
will meet at 6:30 p.m. in 225 MSC.
BEAUMONT HOMETOWN CLUB: will have a social at 7
p.m. at The Flying Tomato.
STUDENTS AGAINST APARTHEID: will meet at 8:30
p.m. in 308 Rudder.
NATIONAL SOCIETY OF PROFESSIONAL ENGI
NEERS: will discuss “Professionalism and You” at 7 p.m. in
102 Zachry.
EUROPE CLUB: will meet at 9:30 p.m. at The Flying To
mato.
COLOMBIAN STUDENT ASSOCIATION: will meet at 7
p.m. at Mama’s Pizza.
MANAGEMENT SOCIETY: Mike Thompson will discuss
“Career Development” at 7 p.m. in 165 Blocker.
AGGIE TOASTERS: will meet at 7 p.m. in 104B Zachry.
UNITED CAMPUS MINISTRIES: will have an Aggie sup
per at 6 p.m. at the A&M Presbyterian Church.
FELLOWSHIP OF CHRISTIAN ATHLETES: will meet at 8
p.m. in the letterman’s lounge.
MODERN LANGUAGES: Linda Henderson will discuss
“Modernism in the Fourth Dimension” at 7:30 p.m. in 701
Rudder.
Thursday
ECONOMICS SOCIETY: will meet for happy hour at 5 p.m.
at Rocco’s
PRE-LAW SOCIETY: will take pictures for the Aggieland at
9:30 p.m. in the Zachry lobby.
HAMILTON COUNTY HOMETOWN CLUB: will meet at 7
p.m. in 302A Rudder.
INTERNATIONAL DEVELOPMENT FORUM: Dr. Kath
erine Dettwyler will present slides and discuss “Infant Nu
trition in Developing Countries: A Study in Mali, West Af
rica” at 7 p.m. in 510 Rudder.
Items for What’s Up should be submitted to The Battalion,
216 Reed McDonald, no less than three working days be
fore desired publication date.
A&M researchers
study behaviors
of Texas alligators
Police Beat
The following incidents were
reported to the University Police
from Nov. 2 through Monday:
MISDEMEANER THEFT:
• A student reported that his
roommate had several backpacks
in their room. Upon investiga
tion, an officer found that one of
the backpacks had been reported
stolen from Sbisa Dinning Hall.
ATTEMPTED THEFT:
• A student saw four men try
ing to remove the street sign at
the corner of Ross and Spence
streets. When the student ap
proached the men, they fled in
two cars.
UNAUTHORIZED SOLICITA
TION:
• Officers arrested several
members of a Mississippi Hare
Krishna organization who were
soliciting donations at the A&M-
La. Tech football game.
ATTEMPTED BURGLARY OF
MOTOR VEHICLE:
• Someone tried to break into
a 1984 Mercury Cougar and a
1983 Toyota Celica in Parking
BURGLARY OF MOTOR VE
HICLE:
• Four vehicles in PA 56 were
broken into and four stereos, a
set of speakers, a radar detector,
cassette tapes and a camera were
stolen.
THEFT OF SERVICE:
• Someone used 24 coun
terfeit $1 bills to get change from
a campus coin machine.
INDECENT EXPOSURE:
• A student told police she saw
a man exposing himself on the
second floor hallway of Francis
Hall.
CRIMINAL TRESPASS:
• Officers found several stu
dents on the roof of Bolton Hall.
The students were given criminal
trespass warnings and were told
to leave.
ROBBERY:
• A man told police that two
men knocked him down and took
$70 from his wallet.
By Mary McClenny
Reporter
From the time Texas alligatorsap-
pear in March until they retreat to
their underwater nests in the fall,
Texas A&M professor James R.
Dixon studies these intimidating ani
mals for clues to their behavior pat
terns, sex ratios and lifestyles.
For one of his major studies,
Dixon, a wildlife scientist, gathers in
formation about alligator nest tem
peratures with doctoral student
Louise Hayes. Dixon says tempera
ture is a key to determining the sex
of unhatched alligators.
Hayes says knowing the number
of alligators of each sex in the nest
and in the wild is the best way to de
termine the maximum number of al
ligators that can be taken during the
21-day hunting season without en
dangering the population.
“This is a huntable animal in the
state now,” Dixon says. “Primarily
we want to harvest excess males, and
this is where our research becomes
important.
“If we keep altering the habitat,
we may start producing all one sex
and they may be males. This would
cause the population to drop be
cause we are not getting enough fe
males in the population.”
With funding from various agen
cies in the United States and abroad,
Dixon and graduate students in the
Wildlife and Fisheries Sciences De
partment conduct research activities
in alligator-inhabited areas that need
their services.
Hayes is now working on a mark-
recapture study she conducts in the
J.D. Murphree Wildlife Manage
ment Area near Port Arthur.
Hayes is researching sex ratios of
alligators in different Texas cli
mates. She does this by placing elec
tronic devices in selected alligator
nests to monitor temperature.
In the study, Hayes captures alli
gators up to four feet long — some
times longer — tags their feet and
then turns them loose. She checks
them periodically to determine
growth and survival rates.
Hayes sacrifices the eggs in these
nests to determine the sex of each al
ligator.
“There is a definite rela
tion between nest temper
ature and sex of the alliga
tors. With a higher
temperature, you get
males, and lower, you get
females. ”
— Louise Hayes, doctoral
student
“There is a definite relation be
tween nest temperature and sex of
the alligators,” Hayes says. “With a
higher temperature, you get males,
and lower, you get females.”
Hayes says it’s important to know
about different alligator habitats be
cause it allows her to know which sex
is coming from each area and if
there is a variation.
Dixon says they are trying to find
out how Texas alligators respond to
their environment.
“We want to find out if we are get
ting mostly male or female or if we
are getting a good mix,” Dixon says.
He says the research is helpful in
managing and hunting alligators.
In past hunting seasons, there
have been between 900 and 1,000 al
ligators taken.
Hunters keep the hides and the
meat, but scientists obtain much of
the remaining alligator carcasses for
research.
“You have to know a lot about the
biology of a species to be able to har
vest it,” Dixon says.
“You just can’t go out there and
indiscriminately shoot and expect to
keep that population arouno. You
will probably overshoot it.”
Dixon says one problem with alli
gator hunting is that different agen
cies have opposing ideas about the
validity of hunting these animals.
“You have to satisfy both of the
opposite extremes — the hunters
and the conservationists,” Dixon
says. “We have to make them realize
there is a place for both. We are the
predators now, and it is our respon
sibility to sustain this population.”
FSUC begins lawsuit
against shareholders
LITTLE ROCK, Ark. (AP) —The
Federal Savings and Loan Insurance
Corp. filed a $279 million lawsuit on
Tuesday against the former chief ex
ecutive of First South Savings &
Loan Association of Pine Bluff,
Ark., and two Dallas developers who
were among the thrift’s shareholders
and principal borrowers.
The FSLIC alleges they engaged
in a pattern of racketeering conduct.
The suit named developers
George S. Watson and A. Starke
Taylor III, both of Dallas, and How
ard J. Wiechern Jr., FirstSouth’s for
mer chairman of the board and chief
executive officer.
The FSLIC’s suit came four days
after Watson and Taylor filed a law
suit in Los Angeles seeking $30 mil
lion from the agency, which was
named receiver of First South last
December after federal regulators
declared the institution insolvent.
The FSLIC suit alleges that the
defendants became involved in rack
eteering activity in 1982 and contin
ued through 1986, during which
time Watson and Taylor were con
trolling shareholders of First South.
According to the suit, Watson and
Taylor — without investing any of
their own funds — benefited from
more than $300 million in loans, as
well as millions in cash through
other transactions financed by the
savings and loan.
FSLIC seeks to recover damages
arising from the alleged misapplica
tion of First South loans used for
speculative real estate deals in Dal
las.
Burleson School board votes against teaching creationism
BURLESON (AP) — The Burle
son school board has decided not
to change its policy allowing cre
ationism to be taught along with
other theories about the origin of
man.
In a 5-2 vote, the board advised
its school staff Monday that cre
ationism can be taught, but it re
jected a request to add the subject
to its curriculum.
The board added that teachers
will not be required to offer cre
ationism as an alternative to evolu
tion.
Charles Boardman, chairman of
the science department at Burle
son High School, said he and the
teaching staff will continue as be
fore and not introduce creationism
material.
Attorney Marilyn Walker, rep
resenting 15 parents who sought to
add creationism to the curriculum,
said the group was not asking that
the Bible be brought into the class-
-room.
She said the group just wanted
students to hear other theories on
life’s creation that would dispute
the theory of evolution.
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