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State & Local Monday, September 2, 1991 The Battalion Page 3 a&M dancers prepare for second season Report: Mars Dance team shows spirit ^JaeTooner By Liz Tisch The Battalion i Texas A&M's dance team will kick and spin its way into another busy year of training and perform ing before A&M basketball and baseball fans as the troupe establishes itself on the University campus. Twenty-eight female students were chosen last spring as members of the 1991-1992 Texas A&M dance team — the second year for A&M to have a recognized dance troupe. The team's faculty advisor, Kirsten Brekken, said the dancers were well-received by the student body I last year. "It went very well," she said. "Although we • didn't have many performances, we were so well re- ; ceived that we were tickled to death." During the first year, the dancers performed at I five basketball games. They were also invited to dance at various events in the community including Dance for Heart," sponsored by the American Heart I Association. The team, which performs kick, jazz, and a vari ety of other dance routines, was created after two fe- Imale students, Terry Valladarez and Mary Lou Ar- mador, decided A&M needed a recognized troupe. I A&M was one of the last schools in the Southwest 1 Conference to organize such a team. Moreover, the founders said they wanted to con- i tribute to women's image at A&M. Felicia Hall, a sophomore psychology major and captain of the team, explained that not having a dance team would be taking away from the female students. "It's how we support our school spirit," she said. "And because dancing comes from the heart, we felt it was being taken away without a dance team." Brekken said that because they are so new, her main goal is to establish a much stronger team and to create campus and community awareness. "The girls want to develop a stronger team and see what this year brings," she said. "They will dance at basketball and baseball games." Brekken said, however, the student body is not quite ready for the dancers to perform at football games. Hall said they are willing to wait as long as it takes for everyone to accept them. "Most of our support came from the Corps of Cadets. We were really thankful," she said. "We've received nothing but positive feedback, " Hall said. Despite the enthusiam from the student body. Hall said the team is lacking financial support. "Most of the money comes from our own pock et," she said. "We plan to do some fundraisers." In addition, the team will spend the spring semester training extensively to improve dance tech niques, stamina and control. The team, under the di rection of Brekken and faculty adviser Shawnee Jones, practices for two hours, four nights a week. Brekken said the hours increase during perfor mance season. "We expect a big commitment from these girls." Alcoholic beverage commission takes wine, beer labeling seriously HOUSTON (AP) - Liquor la beling is no joke according to the ^bles of the Texas Alcoholic Bever age Commission. It seems that other brews have Uaken the heat of the agency's ! wrath before the authority was spooked by Louisiana's Dixie Blackened Voodoo Lager or placed limits on the Bud Man's ! generosity, the Houston Chronicle reported in Sunday editions. Voodoo Lager was temporari- i ly banned from sale in Texas be- • cause the name conjured up im ages of witchcraft. The commis- jsion put a stop to a recent Bud j Man promotion because it is ille- | gal in Texas for manufacturers to i induce customers to buy their products with any kind of give- | away. The promotion, which is le- ■ gal in most other states, offered 1 cash and beer as prizes. Last January, the agency banned the sale of Original Hoot er's California Chardonnay and White Zinfindel wines because of the label wording. The labels stated: "A selection of the Iowa wine valley's finest grapes (just kidding!) delicately stomped into a full bodied, robust, voluptuous, sensuous blend that any wino could savor, bag or no bag.'' The commission ruled that ref erence to "winos should be delet ed as alcoholic beverages should not be sold to a person who is in toxicated or is a habitual user of alcoholic beverages.'' The agency also objected to the jocular reference to Iowa grapes, even though the label clearly iden tifies the wine as a California vin tage. Texas was the only state to take action against Hooter's wine. Another brewery that had sales stopped in Texas was Little Kings' Kentucky Derby Ale. The commission objected to the beer name because it conjured up images of gambling. Pari mutuel betting takes place at the Kentucky Derby. Then there was Black Death Vodka, which has yet to grace the shelves of Texas stores. The vodka was banned because the label shows a grinning skull donned in a black top hat. "We feel that the label's ap pearance and description is detri mental to the alcoholic beverage industry and against the peace, welfare and safety bf the general public," the comitiisfeion ruled. These kind ot rulings have la beled the Texas Alcoholic Bever age Commission as somewhat stodgy among those in the liquor industry. "Texas is one of the more rigid states, as far as getting anything controversial through the ap proval process," said Marie Nikic. AUSTIN (AP) - The first manned flight to Mars could be made several years earlier than proposed by a Bush administra tion plan and at a savings of $400 billion, according to a former NASA deputy' who now heads the University of Texas system. According to an article by Hans Mark, University of Texas chancellor, and Harlan Smith, a UT professor of astronomy, the current plan for a Mars mission would not take off until 2019 and would cost $500 billion. Mark and Smith's plan calls for a much leaner budget, about $100 billion spread over 15 years, al lowing three humans to visit the red planet by October, 2003. "Exactly as we got Apollo to the moon from a dead start in eight years," Smith said, "if we pulled out all the stops, we could be at Mars in a decade." The two scientists criticize Bush's 1989 proposal and current NASA planning. They say the pro gram is so costly it becomes mean ingless considering Congress hasn't funded it for fiscal 1992. Mark, a professor of aerospace engineering and a former deputy administrator of the National Aeronautics and Space Adminis tration, teamed up with Smith in the August issue of Aerospace America, the journal of the Ameri can Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics. "In order to expedite the pro gram, save money, and most im portant, produce benefits for in dustry and education ... existing technologies that have not yet been used in space should be used," the two wrote. Their plan calls for a return to the moon in 1995, where they be lieve there is ice beneath the polar caps delivered by eons of crashing comets. Because ice is composed of hy drogen and oxygen, the ice could be used to fuel rockets to Mars more cheaply than hauling fuel from Earth. But even without moon ice, Mark and Smith say a spacecraft about three times the size of the old moon-mission Apollo capsule could be assembled in orbit on the space station with the help of an international coalition. The journey itself could be re duced from the more than a year Appliances may cause insomnia AMARILLO (AP) - Radia- ! Hon from everyday appliances ’ may be keeping their users up at • night, according a researcher who I studies sleep disorders. Dr. Russel Reiter of the Uni- I versity of Texas Health Science -!j Center at San Antonio told the I Amarillo Globe-News that electro- ; magnetic fields generated by pow- i er consumption reduce the pro- j duction of a hormone that controls i sleep. Reiter said as a person sleeps, | the brain's pineal gland produces a hormone called melatonin. Among other functions, melatonin controls the body's rhythm, telling it when to sleep and when to rise. When light diminishes the pro duction of melatonin, the person wakes up. Conversely, darkness stimulates the pineal gland, mak ing a person sleepy. Electromagnetic radiation con sists of a large spectrum of wave lengths, including radio and tele vision signals, the infrared radia tion we feel as heat, light's visible spectrum of colors, ultraviolet ra diation, microwaves. X-rays and gamma rays. "We live in a heavily electri fied environment," said Reiter, professor of cellular and structural biology. "Every time a switch is pulled, the wiring in the wall ex poses us to a very complex web of electrical and magnetic fields. "It appears the pineal gland recognizes this non-visible radia tion just as it recognizes light." Reiter's research measures the melatonin levels of mice and rats after they are exposed to weak electromagnetic fields. The animals are placed in a cage between two electrified cop per wire coils producing a weak magnetic field. Every five minutes for one- hour periods, researchers throw a switch that reverses the magnetic field's direction. The rodents' melatonin levels are recorded at me end of the experiment. Reiter's research confirms his hypothesis: The animals' mela tonin levels drop after the field's direction is repeatedly changed. ADVERTISING INDEX How to Find What's Advertised Today. 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