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nber12,ls Wednesday, September 12,1990 The Battalion Page 7 iters also lid J crn for theff car unless dJ Never open] into a trail requests you« gel etui ofave ilicers instnit. may ask you ig a traffic ij. riding what it esnot have it ights in traffi he officer wi ticket rathe ur signature j , it’s just you disposition o! :of the peart Red Cross, fraternity co-sponsor blood drive ■a re-entem e vehicles wi if way as v rely, ic ticket, al- should not in ir complaint lerely doing to make the your friend Service fraternity Alpha Phi Omega and the Central Texas American Red Cross Blood Cen ter will co-sponsor a blood drive today until Friday. The blood drive will be at the Commons and Academic Plaza from 8 a.m. to about 4 p.m. Gerald Byrn, administrator for the Central Texas Blood Center, said donated blood will be given to 30 central Texas hospitals. He encourages students to par ticipate to help those in need and also to win the blood drive chal lenge between Texas A&M and Baylor. Students who give a pint of blood will receive free key chains. For more information on the blood drive, call the Student Pro grams Office at 845-1515. Slocum to speak about drinking and driving Texas A&M head football coach R.C. Slocum and Univer sity of Texas graduate Rusty Combes will speak about drinking and driving at 7 p.m. in MSC 201. Combes, who was involved in an alcohol-related accident in 1981, is trying to encourage peo ple not to drink and drive. Campus Crusade for Christ will present the speakers with Mothers Against Drunk Driving as part of its monthly function, “Greek Life.” Food Continued from page 3 and to prepare songp’yon, or cres cent-shaped rice cakes. A thick, rice flour pastry is used to make layers of rice skins. These skins are filled with a variety of in gredients like beans, chestnuts, sweet red beans and sesame seeds. The traditional colors for rice cakes are white and green, but today artificial coloring can be used to pro duce a pink songp’yon. Once these cakes are molded into crescent shapes, they are alternated with layers of pine needles and placed in a steamer. The pine needles give songp’yon its unique taste and prevent the pas try from sticking together. The Other important food during Chu’sok is torant’ang. This delicacy is a taro soup made with beef, kelp and scallions This Korean specialty is served with songp’yon during many traditional festivals. Other dishes also are made as of ferings only during these annual cel ebrations. A typical offering table is piled high with chestnuts, dates, pears and other fruits and foods. Most of the food is made to thank ancestors for answering prayers and for a plentiful harvest. Offerings also are prepared spe cially without garlic, red chili pepper or kimch’i (pickled cabbage) because these ingredients are believed to ward off spirits. Table settings differ during va rious festivals and throughout re gions, but many similarities remain to entice the curious into trying a slice of Korean culture. Religion Continued from page 3 ;ins mvict — An m * a city police ine traffic c ■clericksburj For instance, in the same family he women may be Buddhists while he men may adhere to the philoso- hy of Confucius. The lack of religious uniformity Hows Koreans to combine stan dards of the modern world with na ive traditions. Folk festivals also are a major part of remembering the nation’s past nd celebrating customs and tradi tion. These festivals often involve a haman ritual called a kut. During the kut, the shaman sings and dances and tries to commune with spirits. He also prays for a good har dest, wealth, happiness or a person’s asy passage to heaven. Another interesting facet of many r e Bill Ham Country town iviie Buntn.| instead of or tl> e L™ ool in Austin ng it in asm! own folk festivals in Korea is a Korean pantomime called a t’allori. This tra dition involves individuals who sing, dance and crack jokes for their audi ences’ pleasure. More than 200 nori, or games of the festival, combine to add greater dimensions to the many festivals cel ebrated throughout the Korean countryside. These games include kite-flying contests, seesawing and group activ ities, such as tug-of-war. Most folk festivals are celebrated in autumn, and each event em phasizes important regional tradi tions. One of Korea’s most important seasonal festivals is the celebration of Ch ’usok. Traditionally, this festival cele brates the harvest and thanks Mother Nature and ancestral spirits. Ch’usok begins on the 15th day of the eighth lunar month, which means the festival can take place anytime in September or October. The festival falls on Oct. 3 of this year, which coincides with the na tional holiday celebrating the foun dation of Korea 4,323 years ago. Ch’usok, however, dates only to the Shilla Kingdom (43 B.C. to 935 A.D.) when King Yuri, the third Shilla ruler, created the festival. It originally was a weaving contest but now is a celebration of the Ko rean family. On the first morning of the festi val, participants get up early and wear traditional dress to participate in ceremonies honoring the family’s ancestors. Family members also take food to their ancestors’ graves. The festival’s highlight is when the group climbs a nearby hill and greets the full moon as it rises. The group prays to the moon and plays games and dances in the moonlight. More than 200 festivals, including Ch’usok, are celebrated annually in villages throughout South Korea and have an integral role in Korean society and culture. The festivals also give the Korean people a unique place in the Asian world. Poll. Continued from page 1 Caravels Continued from page 1 ' I lari' lion privileges. Tribble Carter, director of facili- ies for A&M’s Residence Hall Asso- iation, said in an interview Sept. 5 he decision to change the visitation ule about allowing residents to be in thers’ dorm rooms was made to de- rease the noise levels in the resi- ence halls. ■ ■ If residents of coed halls, exclud- ia ' e j Ing the coed honors dorm, wanted to Harris |h an g e t heir present visitation ? can t P jlpours, more than 90 percent of the II treat the' || orm j tor y to approve the t decade f. hange . Lechner Hall, the coed dorm for I to begin' honors students, is excluded from an abunda j|, e new p 0 u C y because a majority of he dorm’s residents are first-y< Itudents who might not be iedia coven er j antes could ! could lie June- ( 0 med to coed-hall living. year accus- The non-coed halls’ visitation hours are from 10 a.m. to 11 p.m. on weekdays and 10 to 1:30 a.m. on weekends. RHA President Kyle Jacobsen said in an interview Sept. 5 other A&M dorms reacted to the Eppright ’resident hall vote to change visita tion rules by drafting their own pro posals that would allow similiar visi tation policies. However, Jacobsen said because of A&M’s conservative nature, more time would be needed to convert non-coed dorms. The Battalion Poll is a survey of Texas A&M students intended to measure opinions about campus-re lated issues. The poll, which will be conducted periodically, is taken from a random sample of students attending school. A sample of 401 on-campus students was obtained from telephone inter views. A random sample of 400 yields a margin of error of plus or minus five percentage points with 95 percent confidence. This implies that if the total stu dent population were surveyed, the results obtained in the present sam- f ile would be within plus or minus ive percentage points. The poll was conducted exclu sively for The Battalion by Research Associates, a firm operated by A&M students Alister Miller and Mitch Peck. Miller and Peck are graduate stu dents in the sociology department. Cindy McMillian, editor of The Battalion, asks students to call The Battalion office at 845-2647 if stu dents participating in the poll en counter any problems. By identifying the artifacts around the vessels, it might be possi ble to identify differences between officers and men with some sort of segregated living arrangements, he says. “Examination of the archaeologi cal deposits will shed light on the relationship between the marooned Spaniards and the indigenous In dian population,” according to the Columbus Caravels Archaeological Project proposal. The purpose of the project’s sec ond phase is to identify the shoreline of St. Ann’s Bay in 1504 and use re mote-sensing equipment to identify targets that might be the caravel re mains. The project will use new equip ment called sub-bottom profilers, designed by Steve Schock of the Florida Atlantic University in Boca Raton, Fla. This machine uses a sound pulse to penetrate the ocean bottom and take pictures underneath the sur face. “Since we are looking for the re mains of two ships, we are thinking this system may show two separate piles of stone representing the cara vels,” Parrent says. “We have a primary, secondary and a third search area,” he contin ues. “If we don’t find them in the first areas, we will move on and may have to search the entire bay. But we feel comfortable that the caravels are there and that they are findable.” If caravels are found, the excava tion and conservation of the artifacts will begin, Parrent says. It could take five to ten years of study intervals to recover and conserve all the arti facts. The success of the Columbus Car avel Archaeological Project relies on several historical sources, including a written account of Columbus’ ex plorations by his son Ferdinand. Parrent began the preliminary re search and planning phase in March 1988 at the request of Dr. George Bass, archaeological director of INA. The project is a joint venture be tween the INA, a non-profit re search organization that affiliated with A&M in 1976, and the Jamai can government. It is being funded by A&M and the INA but has received in-kind services by Datasonics Inc. of Catau- met, Mass., and Westin Geophysics of Boston. Korea Continued from page 3 | for them. Many of those who hold J doctorates in South Korea received ( them at A&M. Huh said a friend who attended A&M was at a grocery store across the street from the headquarters of II the 8th U.S. Army Division in Seoul |j and wearing a Texas A&M T-shirt | when a fellow Aggie in the Army j: came up and introduced himself and j: bought him a six-pack of beer, j That quality is what Kim said he Bikes about Americans. Huh would like to teach at a South Korean uni- |!|versity or try to find work in lucra tive oil fields in South Korea. Many people in Korea, which has few nat ural resources, would like to explore for oil, but no one has attempted a large-scale effort, Huh said. Oil has been found in Korea, but not in great quantities, he added. Kim also hopes to teach at a South Korean university or participate in Korea’s fledgling aerospace industry as a researcher. They may have more opportuni ties if North and South Korea reu nify. The general feeling is that Ko reans are one people and they should be a part of one country and Kim said he is optimistic about reu nification, but not anytime soon. South Korean students have been ri oting and the South Korean govern ment is shaky. Kim said South Korea is traveling down the same path as Japan and hopes to be as economi cally powerful as Japan someday. South Korea manufactures the Hyundai automobile. Because Kim’s father was an offi cial of the South Korean govern ment and traveled frequently to the United States with his family, Kim did not experience culture shock or have a problem adjusting to the cus- tums or language. Both men said their wives had not yet adjusted to the slow pace of life in Bryan-College Station after living in Seoul, a bustling city of about 13 million. Korean students jokingly say that after learning to speak slowly at uni versities in Texas, they are teased when they return to South Korea be cause they talk too slow. Group of former hostages returns home BALTIMORE (AP) — A group of former Middle East hostages reached the United States Monday, and one woman among the 164 on the freedom flight stopped to kiss the ground as she got off the jetliner that brought her home. “It’s good to be home,” said an exhausted Phil adelphia woman, who had been in Kuwait to visit her brother and was trapped after Iraq invaded last month. “It’s a ghost town,” she said. “Everything is broken down. They (the Iraqis) stole everything. Supermarkets, there is no food.” The woman identified herself by her first name, Angel, saying she wanted to protect her brother and his family, whom she left behind in Kuwait. The plane carried 164 former hostages, most of them women and children, who went to cus toms on their way to a red, white and blue wel come set up by state officials in a hangar at at Bal timore-Washington International Airport. State officials wore yellow ribbons and deco rated tables in red, white and blue. “We have customs and immigration officers, child care, counselors, and psychologists ready to help,” said Helen Szablya, director of public in formation of the state Department of Human Resources. “There’s the Red Cross and the Salva tion Army, and hostess stations with beverages and food.” TAMU STUDY IN DOMINICA TROPICAL ISLAND BIOLOGY WHERE WHEN Arctibold Tropical Center Summer Session I WHAT Field Studies and Individual Programs (WFSC 300, SP TP 485 - 6 hours) Courses at Archbold Tropical Research Center will expose students to tropical island biology, including in tensive studies of tropical rain forest, elfin woodland, dry scrub woodland, and seashore environments. Both plant and animal components will be investigated. Prerequisites: Introductory biology or ecology course Informational Meeting Thursday. September 13 2:00-3:30 510 Rudder or contact: Study Abroad Office 161 West Bizzell Hall 845-0544 MAKE THE MOVE 1st General Meeting Sept. 12 Zachryl02 7 p.m. TM PEKING express Over 20 Selections of Salads & Entrees, Iced Tea, Desserts ALL YOU CAN EAT 2 For Only $ Dlne-ln Only Reg. $4.19 & $4.59 11:00 a.m.-8:30 p.m. Dally One coupon per person per visit Expire Sept. 19,1990 Not good with any other offer. 606 Tarrow 764-8960 NerMpy m.rtm «... Graduate Student Organizations at Texas A&M Saturday, September 15 9:45 - 12:00 Room 112, Eller (O&M) Building Trying to start a new Graduate Student Organization in your department, or trying to improve an existing GSO? We’ve got a workshop for you! Learn how your Graduate Student Organization can make a difference for your department. Learn what benefits GSO’s can offer your students, your department, your college, and Texas A&M University. You’ll here representatives from the Student Affairs Office and from some of our active GSO’s. We’ll help you understand the mechanics of forming a GSO, getting campus recognition, and we’ll share our experiences with you. Please let us know if you'll attend — we want to be sure to have plenty of food! Call or write the Office of Graduate Studies, 845-3631, Mail Stop 1113. Claudette Sims presenting Black Women and Black Men: DATE: Wed, Sept 12,1990 TIME: 7:00-9:00 p.m. PLACE: 701 Rudder Tower sponsored by Memorial Student Center Black Awareness Committee Sspin to w ®niaitp gSuimfr t^l Ctve tfie fustoru and culture of Central Europe and" earn TAMU credit (Pending Course Approval) mtfi tfist 402: germantj Since 181S Prof. Arnold Hrammer 549-Harrington 845-7108 MUSC 201: Music Appreciatio Prof, Potor Litruarttn 402-A Academic 645-56S0 Informational Meeting Thursday, September 13 2:00 - 3:30 510 Rudder 161 W. Bizzell STUDY ABROAD OFFICE 845-0544 NEW FLU STUDIES We Are Taking Blood Samples ($5,00 compensation) to Determine Eligibility for Hew Flu Vaccine Studies « Monday - Friday, September 10-14, 1990 For Information and to give Sample Come to: Commons Lounge (Krueger) 10:00 AM - 6:30 PM (Monday - Wednesday, Sept 10,11,12) or Beutel Health Center, Room 03, Basement 10:00 AM - 4:00 PM (Thursday, Sept 13) 10:00 AM - 1:00 PM (Friday, Sept 14) Dr. John Quarles 845-3678