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t'iSfcH Page 6 • Friday, February 26, 1999 N EWS kittal Quiz Time Oceanography & Meteorology Department to host the second annual National Ocean Sciences Bowl BY APRIL YOUNG The Battalion High school students from throughout Texas will be quizzed on their knowledge of ocean sci ences at the Texas Ocean Sciences Bowl tomorrow at the Halbouty Geosciences building. The event, hosted by the Oceanography & Meteorology De partment, will run from 8 a.m. to 5 p.m. An awards ceremony will follow the competition. This is the second year of the National Ocean Sciences Bowl, which began as a celebration of the international year of the ocean. Admiral James D. Watkins, founder of the Ocean Bowl and president of Consortium Oceano graphic Research and Education, will begin the tournament by dis cussing the importance of science and the ocean. Dr. Edwin Shaar, operations manager for the Department of Oceanography, said the primary goal of the Ocean Bowl is to in crease knowledge and awareness of the oceans. “The Ocean Bowl will serve to increase knowledge of the oceans on the part of high school students, their teachers and parents, and to raise the visibility and understand ing of national investment in ocean- related research,” Shaar said. “This is a standard bowl where two opposing teams compete tour nament-style in a question-and-an- swer format, which will challenge the students’ basic knowledge of the ocean sciences,” he said. First, second and third place winners will receive a trophy for their school and plaques for indi vidual team members. Each school will get an ocean science-related text book for their school library. The winners of the tournament will advance to the national com petition in Washington, D.C. At the national bowl, partici pants will have a chance to win a oceanographic cruise, scholarships, and computers for their school. Shaar said although the Ocean Bowl is organized for the high school students, everyone is invit ed to attend. “Anyone who is interested in oceanography or wants to help with the bowl is encouraged to come out,” he said. COSGA Conference brings forum for idea exchanges concerning campus issues Annual Slavic Convention! • . • recognizes new acquisition of 35,000 books to librarj BY CARRIE BENNETT The Battalion A variety of Slavic disciplines will be discussed in both presenta tions and roundtable discussions at the Southwest Association Slavic Convention Saturday. The Department of Modern and Classical Languages will host the event which will be in the Sterling C. Evans Library Annex 410 from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. The convention is held annual ly at Texas universities and was last at Texas A&M six years ago. Dr. Brett Cooke and Dr. Olga Cooke, associate professors of mod ern languages, will host the event. Dr. Woodrow Jones, dean of the opening address. Cooke said speakers will come from universities throughout the southwest region to speak on the tradition of music in the Russian Church and the Pushkin Bicenten nial. Roundtable speakers will discuss the 10th anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall and the Balkan crisis. “We will have a musicologist from the University of Missouri at Kansas City, and a historian from Southern Methodist University,” she said. “The roundtable discussions will be led by representatives from the University of Texas, the University of St. Thomas and Rice University. ” dedicated to recognizingtki acquisition of 35,000 tel Evans Library, Cooke said ".i -aui the conventions, to everyone and admissions! "Every year theconvenif grown in number,” Codes " We are expecting repress from Austin, Dallas,] San Antonio.” Cooke said the term “$w| eludes Russian, Polish,! vakian and Serbo-CroatianJ guages. "We want to spread theii to more than just Russian,' said. "The Slavic professors id know more than one Slad College of Liberal Arts, will give the Part of the convention will be guage, Russian plus oneottel BY MEGAN E. WRIGHT The Battalion Methods of improving student programs will be among the topics discussed this weekend at the 19th annual Conference on Student Gov ernment Associations (COSGA). COSGA, sponsored by the Stu dent Government Association, will host 475 delegates from 111 uni versities throughout the nation and will begin Saturday and extend through Tuesday. Jill Wenger, director for COSGA and a senior business manage ment major, said the purpose of the event is to bring together stu dents from various universities to exchange ideas. “The neatest thing about COS GA is the fact that it isn’t just for A&M’s gain,” Wenger said. “The greatest source of knowledge and information is from all of the dif ferent delegates. We send dele gates to represent A&M, but we aren’t the focus.” The conference will include workshops, roundtable discussions and seminars. Universities in at tendance will have an opportunity to present their school programs at a “swap-shop” Tbesday. The roundtable discussions will allow the delegates to exchange ideas concerning prevalent issues on their campuses. The delegates will be arranged in discussion groups according to the size of their schools and by public, private and constituency categories. Andy Norton, operations execu tive for COSGA and a senior bio medical engineering major, said the roundtable discussions will break down the issues presented to the groups during the seminars. “After the main group meets, the delegates will split up into the round table discussion groups and talk about the important issues brought up in the large room,” Norton said. Wenger said this year’s confer ence will likely focus on alcohol on campuses. “Every year we discuss normal issues like student apathy, elections and constituency,” Wenger said. “This year we are expecting a dis cussion about recent problems on the different campuses with alco hol. It really seems like administra tions are taking a step to be more proactive in student life, not just campus issues.” Over 100 students volunteer i 4th annual Aggies Up All Niglii BY ANDREA BROCKMAN The Battalion Boys and Girls Club celebrates Black History Month, presents musical ‘Let Freedom Ring’ At the fourth annual Aggies Up All Night, more than 100 student vol unteers will stand in Duncan Dining Center from 6 p.m. tonight until 6 p.m. Saturday to raise money for needy children in the community. Aggies Up All Night, formerly known as the Texas A&M Dance Marathon, is a student organization that benefits Children’s Miracle Net work (CMN). Jacque Vargas, adviser for Aggies Up All Night, said CMN helps fami lies with sick children cover medical expenses, and supports organiza tions like Scotty’s House and Boys and Girls Club of the Brazos Valley. “This year our goal is to raise $30,000,” she said. “CMN guaran tees that 100 percent of all funds will be spent to support local needy chil dren.” Vargas said some of the kids ben efiting from the event will attend. “The kids appreciate the support,” she said. “For them, it is like having Aggie big brothers and sisters.” Sara Elliot, event coordinator and a senior accounting major, said reg istration will be two hours before the event, and participants in the marathon are required to donate at least $50. “We urge everyone to stop by and give their support to a great cause,” Elliot said. “If everyone on campus donated small change, we could raise thousands of dollars.’ t gua igular- the / Nebrask Elliot said participants haw on their feet for 24 conseoitiw! and can earn seconds will be allowed to sit downtsl spirited or winning a game. "Also, a friend maybuya ipant some sit time,” shesi dollar might buy 30seconds.' Students, campus t and the community will prwi tertainment, games, food, date prizes. Performers will include Wranglers, Freudian Slip, ‘Magineers, and Fade to Blad Rita’s, Shipleys, Schlotsky’s, and Outback Steakhousewill food for the marathon partied m Horwood BY AMANDA STIRPE The Battalion The first “Let Freedom Ring: March and Musical” presented by the Nia Panthers Keystone Club of the Lincoln Recreation Center Boys and Girls Club will start at 10 a.m. Saturday. Cheletia Johnson, program di rector for the Boys and Girls Club Lincoln Center Unit, said the march, which is a Black History Month event, will pay homage to those that marched before and fought for the freedom of African- Americans today. The Nia Panther Keystone Club, organized two years ago for boys and girls between the ages of 14 and 18, is affiliated with the Na tional TeenSupreme Keystone Clubs of the Boys and Girls Clubs of America. Each Keystone Club unit selects a name. “Nia means purpose, which is one of the seven principles of Kwanzaa,” Johnson said. “Panther is the mascot for the Lincoln Recre ation Center.” Johnson said the Nia Panthers are a part of the brotherhood pro gram to promote unity and is com prised of eight boys and girls. The march will start and end at the Lincoln Recreation Center at 1000 Eleanor Street. The march will travel on the south side of College Station. A press release said the Nia Pan thers’ purpose is to create and maintain high standards of service, leadership, brotherhood, educa tion, free enterprise and social recreation activities. It also promotes health, charac ter development and citizenship in order to meet the responsibilities of the democratic way of life. The musical will start at noon and will showcase various Bryan and College Station youth choirs, including United Voices, a Boys and Girls Club choir. Johnson said the event is open to all Bryan and College Station res idents. Continued from Page 1 “For many years, we’ve been building a house of diversity,” he said. “A few years ago, they took away our hammers. Construction has slowed some, but individuals have taken up whatever tools they had in hand to keep building this house.” He said A&M and incoming stu dents share the responsibility of cre ating a welcoming environment for students. He said the University should emphasize the importance of form ing relationships on campus. Jan Winniford, associate vice president for student affairs, said A&M’s minority retention may ben efit from approaching the issue from a glass-empty perspective. She said rather than praising the system for high retention rates, officials should focus on the percentage of students who withdraw. “How can we get our hands around the whole issue of retention and keep those students we worked so hard to bring to the institution?” she said. Winniford said her plan can be accomplished through identifica tion of goals and determining the reasons students withdraw. Mary Miller, associate vice presi dent for administration, addressed the Hopwood decision as affecting staff. rather than student, recruiie| The Division of, presides over the Human Rest’. Department, Research] ing. Traffic and TtansportatK vices. Food Services, Seen® the University Police ] Physical Plant, Airport Ope® the Faculty Club, theGrapli Center and the Child CareCdl She said the division plans! velop programs to n qualifications of all applicants. One of the proposalsislo|s|i n n 0 : nize a training program for Blpd t 0 S{ who are deficient inEnglisl). [he Tex be lot |nst Co; game [he Ag [e at he strai; 27 in: cats. -Ve are fh Peg Y gam he gar contes lerson pred b _ heA 8! flourna: Kill go in • A&Iv [first rc d slide Its thi; era Ah [demic nly tv* Soph honor; A&M is ■Pile si “One of the things webeli? tor. 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