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Page 2 • The Battalion
Campus
Wednesday • April 17,1
news
BRIEFS
Sororities receive
recognition Monday
The second annual Greek Ex
cellence awards, sponsored by Or
der of Omega, were presented to
sororities to recognize the achieve
ment and development of pro
grams and education in their
chapters on Mon., April 15 at 8:30
p.m. in the MSC.
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.”
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