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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!
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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
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to everyone and admissions!
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grown in number,” Codes
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from Austin, Dallas,]
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guages.
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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.’
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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
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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.
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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.
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