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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
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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.
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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
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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
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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<
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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
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| 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.”
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Field Studies and Individual Programs (WFSC 300, SP TP 485 - 6 hours)
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tensive studies of tropical rain forest, elfin woodland, dry scrub woodland, and seashore environments. Both
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Prerequisites: Introductory biology or ecology course
Informational Meeting Thursday. September 13 2:00-3:30 510 Rudder
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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
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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
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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