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Kappa Alpha Theta earned awards in the three categories of Chapter Achievement, Best (New) Member Education and Best Schol arship Program. chapter Achievement, Best Ser vice Program and Best Leadership Program Awards were presented to Chi Omega. For the second consecutive year. Alpha Delta Pi won the Chapter Ex cellence Award along with their first Overall Best Chapter award. Other winners included Zeta Tau Alpha and Alpha Chi Omega in the category of Chapter Merit. Kappa Kappa Gamma and Pi Beta Phi won Chapter Achievement Awards. Groups awarded for promotion of diversity Texas A&M's Department of Multicultural Services and the Of fice of the Executive Vice President and Provost joined to present the 1996 Diversity Awards. The efforts by individuals, fac ulty members, administrators and organizations to add diversity to the A&M campus were acknowl edged at the ceremony. The Provost's Office Individual Awards were presented to Dr. Robert Armstrong, Dr. Raymond J. Carroll, Dr. Pierre Catala and Dr. Enrique "Rick" Rigsby. The Department of Educational Psychology and the College of Archi tecture's Faculty Excellence and Di versity Committee received the Provost's Office Group Awards. The Department of Multicul tural Services presented awards to Kisha Jackson McDonald, Teri Heimer, The Battalion, Christi Moore, Dr. William L. Perry and Dr. Cherry Ross Gooden for their encouragement and promotion of multiculturalism at A&M. Cadets vs. Greeks The Corps of Cadets will take on the Greeks tonight at 7 in the 7th an nual Corps-Frat game at Olson Field. Admission will be $2, and all proceeds from the event will go to cadet scholarships and families in need sponsored by the Interfrater nity Council. Traveling diaries today and Thursday The Texas A&M Department of Landscape Architecture and Urban Planning and the Bryan-College Sta tion Metropolitan Planning Organi zation will be sending travel diaries to 3,300 Texas A&M staff, faculty and students. The diaries, which will be sent today and Thursday, will be used to assess travel demands by mode of transportation, to make policy decisions for future transportation needs, and to assist local planners in developing a transportation model to determine what improve ments must be made. The survey is necessary for trans portation planners to analyze the type and magnitude of travel on the A&M campus. Author Rick Bass comes to A&M By Tauma Wiggins The Battalion Environmentalist author Rick Bass presented his “anti- Republican environmental be liefs” and creative writing tal ent Tuesday night. During the presentation, which was sponsored by the A&M English department, Bass read exerts from some of his widely read and highly ac claimed books. Bass said that in the future, he would like to see more wilder ness areas and a commitment to build fewer roads to preserve the “ beauty and mystery” of nature. He said his biggest adversaries are apathetic individuals who dis agree with what is happening en vironmentally, but postpone get ting involved by not registering to vote, refusing to take part in elec tions or protest against legislation that could hurt the environment. Though Bass holds anti-Re- publican views where environ mental issues are concerned, he said he does not fall into an extremist category or consider himself controversial. Bass refers to himself as “disgust ingly moderate.” Surprisingly, Bass enjoys hunting, which attributes to his childhood in Texas, where his family often went hunting. Bass, who is originally from Houston, now lives in a wood ed area in Yaak Valley, Mon tana, which he considers to be “the wildest place I’ve ever seen,” referring to the heavily forested lands. Currently, Bass is figh% White House-backed plan to a 344 acres of Gunsight Mountain near Yaak that was recent!) damaged by fire. Bass said that though alloflii writing involves his deep-rootfi interest in nature and the et? ronment, his fundamental (tin for writing is simply his pass for the art. “Artistically, I write ata:i what touches me mostdeeplj, Bass said. “I choose to do wk! do (write) best.” Jeff Truly, a junior civil ee neer major who attendedBas presentation, said he admire Bass for his dedication to theet vironment and for givingupli job at an advertisementagenc: pursue a job he truly enjoys. “In college a lot of people Ini study what they really love,’Tni ly said. “I admire him for girii; up working for a big agency tel what he really loves.” Bass has written many la and magazines, and is nowm ing on a novel titled, Where li Sea Used To Be. Kathleen McGinn, a grafa English student and tedinio writing professor, engineered !fi idea and helped raise fundinn Bass to come to A&M. McGinn said she wu pleased with the readingn hoped that he madeapoii about the nature of enviro: mentalism to the audience. “It is possible to have area able attitude about environm talism,” she said, “and he clearlr showed that we are connected! the environment, physically ar spiritually.” A&M archeologists finJ boat in Sea of Galilee Christians believe it belonged to Jesus By Pamela Benson The Battalion Texas A&M archaeologists have recently reeled in a boat from the 2,000-year-old Sea of Galilee on the border of Israel and Syria, and some Christians in the area have proclaimed that it is the boat that Jesus stepped from to walk on the waters. The fishing boat was actually discovered in 1985 by two archae ologists who found the boat buried in a mudbank. Shelley Wachmann, an assis tant professor of biblical archaeol ogy in Texas A&M’s Nautical Ar chaeology program, was responsi ble for directing the excavation and preservation of the boat. Although chances that this boat actually belonged to Je sus are small, there is little doubt that the boat did sail during the time period when Jesus preached. In a press release, Wachmann said the hull of the boat will help answer questions about seafaring in a time and place that is virtu ally unknown. In addition to directing the ex cavation, Wachmann has written a book that discusses the discov ery and the history of that region, as well as its biblical significance. The Gospels in the Bible are all reflective of the area around the Sea of Galilee. The writings of Matthew, Mark, Luke and John all make references to the sea and fishing. These writings have aided re searchers in identifying that the boat was functional for about 1 to 20 years during that period, The Gospels also make refe ence to two boats directly relali to Jesus. Richard Steffy, A&M prof® emeritus of nautical archaec? said discovering this bort also allowed archaeologists 135 amine the constructionollb fishing boats in that age. “The construction technfs are in unison with another that I worked on in Italy,’Ste} said. “The hull of this boat is sii ilar to other hulls foundduri) that period.” The archaeologists were jB to determine that the boat ti constructed during the time ped od between 100 B.C. and AD,! 1 Currently, the hull is kt displayed at the YigalAl Center Museum at KibbutzG nosar, which is near to then! cavation site. William Charlton, anAS! nautical archaeology gradmt student, built a model ofthetai which accompanies the bull ofi boat in the museum. Charlton said findingti boat has given archaeologiil an opportunity to study a is sel that they know nothis about and compare shipb# ing techniques. He said the boat represec:^ important part of history til will help archaeologists leii more about a time in history i still has a lot of questions. “Archaeology is useless it’s passed on,” Wachmann si 1 “You have to pass on what)# found to others.” Pams $289 London $309* Frankfurt $349* Madrid $375* r nmcMAM. Fami o >TAUNG tfTWKN $3-$4S, DtrtNtMUG C i ro«aoN GOV«RNM» WE CAN GET A EURAILPASS TO YOU WITHIN 24 HOURS VIA FEDEX! We Sell Student Tickets that allow STAYS UP TO ONE YEAR. Plan your Summer Early CALL TODAY! Council Travel 2000 Guadalupe St. Austin, TX 78705 512-472-4931 http://www.ciee.org/cts/ctshome.htm We are eurail experts! 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