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Zey said she has seen many
changes at A&M, especially in the so
cial sciences and humanities.
The College of Liberal Arts has
come into its own,” Zey said.
Enrollment in these fields has in
creased, she said, and the Universi
ty’s national visibility also has in
creased and become more positive.
These facts make recruiting fac
ulty easier, she added.
“I’m very excited about the insti
tution as a whole,” she said.
Zey came to A&M from the Uni
versity of Illinois, where she did
post-doctoral work after receiving
her doctorate in sociology from
Louisiana State University.
Organizational deviance, which is
commonly referred to as “white-col
lar crime” is Zey’s main interest right
now. Specifically, she is examining
how insider trading and securities
fraud occur.
When Zey returns to A&M, she
plans to continue her research and
teaching, in addition to starting a
third book. She currently is working
on two books.
Loyal to u/s masts* , Scratch makbs sure
Herbert never oversleeps.
Scientists study Viking artifacts
to unlock secrets of ancient life
BIRKA, Sweden (AP) — The cen
ter of the Viking world 1,000 years
ago is under siege by archaeologists
who are trying to pry secrets from
beneath the pastures that now cover
this farming island.
Historians believe that Birka, a
settlement on an island in Lake Ma-
leren just west of Stockholm, was
home to about 1,000 people. The
site now is covered with grids, in
which workers dig by hand through
the seven feet of dirt covering the
settlement.
Two sections have been excavated
since the dig began this spring, and
although the findings have not been
startling, they hint at a wealth of arti
facts to come. The project is to last
until 1994.
Animal bones, remnants of meals,
colorful beads, combs and house
hold utensils that could shed light on
Viking home life have turned up.
Archaeologists also found Arab
coins, evidence of how far the Vi
kings roamed.
Europe, and their spirit of adven
ture drove them far afield, to Ice
land and North America.
The Vikings thrived from the late
8th century to the 11th century.
Their raids struck terror throughout
Birka has been recognized since
the Middle Ages as the cradle of
Christianity in Sweden. It was here
that Ansgar, a missionary from Bre
men and later bishop of Bremen-
Hamburg, first preached around
830.
But while some Viking towns flou
rished, Birka was deserted at the end
of the first millennium. Where trad
ers once exchanged goods from all
of the known world, sheep graze in
meadows and on grassy mounds
containing the graves of Viking trad
ers.
Historians say Vikings from the
Birka region, a people known then
as the Rus, sailed eastward across the
Baltic Sea and lent their name to the
land of Russia. They reached the
Caspian Sea.
Although Birka was the Vikings’
center, it has remained mostly unex
amined while extensive digs were
conducted at Viking settlements in
York, England; Dublin, Ireland; He-
deby, West Germany; Kaupang,
Norway; and Staraya Ladoga,S»
Union.
The Viking era generally ii
garded as having begun in 792,i
year a raiding party attacked:
Lindisfarne monastery on Briai
North Sea Coast. But evidenced
be uncovered indicating that thei
began earlier, Bjorn Ambrosian
Stockholm’s Museum of Natio:
History, said.
The only previous excavation
Birka was conducted 100 years;
by Hjalmar Stolpe, a zoologist
came in search of insect fossili
1871 and stayed 24 years to dij
many of the 2,500 Viking)
graves.
Stolpe touched very little ofi
town of Birka, which stoodatthe
cus of a heroic chapter in Scandt
vian history. Ambrosiani andotl
experts are eager to find out to
was built and developed.
The project is being financed
one of Sweden’s richest men, ini
trialist Gad Rausing.
“If you go digging you sh<
have proper resources, other*
you do more damage than
Ambrosiani said.
Proposal threatens habitat
Squirrel fights extinction
MOUNT GRAHAM, Ariz. (AP)
— The survival of a half-pound ro
dent that has lived here for 10,000
years, the Mount Graham red squir
rel, has been pitted against a propo
sal for a $200 million astrophysical
observatory.
The squirrel, genetically distinct
from 24 other subspecies of red
squirrels, now numbers fewer than
150. Environmentalists contend con
struction of the University of Arizo
na’s Mount Graham International
Observatory will mean extinction.
Emerald Peak, at 10,500 feet, and
its stands of majestic, mature Engel-
mann spruce and corkbark fir, are
the object of a battle as heated as the
Arizona desert below.
The mountain road twists
through the lush Coronado National
Forest in southeastern Arizona, and
eventually pavement gives way to
gravel and dirt. At 9,200 feet, a year-
old, two-mile dirt route barely a ve
hicle wide knifes amid aspens, Doug
las and white fir and Southwestern
white pine.
Emerald and nearby High Peak,
at 10,720 feet, are the crown jewels
of what environmentalists, wildlife
specialists and scientists call a unique
“sky island,” an ecosystem that has
been called “probably the most sensi
tive barometer of global warming in
North America.”
On Emerald, encircling a clearing
cut years ago to harvest trees
downed by heavy winds, several
hundred Engelmann spruce — cor
doned inside 1 !4 acres and wearing
painted numbers — await the ax to
make way for the New Vatican
Submillimeter telescopes and n»
tenance facilities.
A third instrument, theColunil lead er
Telescope, destined to be thewoi
most powerful, would occupy an
ditional two acres.
While the construction, inclui
the road, would encompass onl)
acres, opening the spruce-fir can
and exposing its damp, cool, m
covered floor would magnify
“degraded edge effect” over
rounding acreage, forest exp'
say.
Temperatures would increase*
with more wind, land would dryt
“These animals need moist, cik
habitats,” U.S. Forest Service biol
ist Kathleen Milne said.
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