NEWS
The Battalion I 1.20.15
6
BASKETBALL
P
2
a
Tanner Garza — THE BATTALION
Radio host Dave South and men's basketball coach Billy
Kennedy discuss this season's Aggie basketball team live on
the air Monday evening at Wings 'N More.
Blair, Kennedy
discuss the state
of their programs
By Brandon Wheeland
T exas A&M women’s
basketball head coach
Gary Blair and men’s basket
ball head coach Billy Ken
nedy returned to Wings ’N
More Monday night for the
latest installment of their radio
shows.
Blair, joined on air by Steve
Miller on 1620 AM, discussed
the No. 11 Aggies recent 58-
49 victory over the Ole Miss
Rebels Sunday at Reed Arena
and previewed the upcoming
matchups with No. 16 Geor
gia and No. 1 South Carolina.
Joining Blair were junior
guard Courtney Williams as
well as senior forward Achiri
Ade. Topics ranged from on-
court success, Martin Luther
King Jr. Day, past giveaways
as well as future promotions
for the fans attending Reed
Arena.
After the conclusion of
Blair’s one-hour segment,
Kennedy joined Dave South
for the men’s basketball seg
ment of the show.
Kennedy highlighted the
recent success of the A&M
squad, including a win over
Mississippi State as well as a
road victory in Baton Rouge
against LSU for the first time
since 1941.
The weekly radio program
will skip its next show before
returning to the usual Univer
sity Drive location on Feb. 2.
RESEARCH
Profs research featured in 'National Geographic'
The discovery of human skeletal remains belonging to a
teenage girl in a Yucatan cave changed what archeologists
thought they knew about the first inhabitants of the
Americas. As part of a National Geographic article
explaining the skeleton of the young girl, which is
12,000-13,000 years old, anthropology professor Michael
Waters was sought out to shed some light on the Western
Hemisphere’s earliest inhabitants. Katie Canales, life &
arts editor, sat down with him to discuss his field research.
THE BATTALION: How does your work in the
field continue your current focus on the first
inhabitants of the Americas?
WATERS: Where we gather our data to make our
interpretations is by going out into the field, so we
need to go locate sites that have evidence of the
first Americans, which isn't always easy. Some
times you have to do surveys, look around and
depend on people to tell you if they find things.
And then actually get out into the field and test and
excavate those sites. Because it's from the excava
tions of sites every summer that we get stone tools
and the bones and material for radiocarbon dating
that we can then determine the age of the archeo
logical site and the artifacts we find there and then
compare them to other sites. So eventually as soon
as you start doing this enough and other people are
working in the field, too, then you can compare what
you find to what they find and you can put together
a large picture of what it looked like at the beginning
of the Pleistocene [the last ice age].
THE BATTALION: The site that you are known
to work on, the Friedkin site in Central Texas,
shows the earliest signs of habitation in the
Western Hemisphere. Are there other sites in this
region that have similarly early findings?
WATERS: It's one of the earliest sites in North
America and South America, in the Americas for
sure. It's dated until about 15,000 years ago. But
there are sites, like in Wisconsin there's a site, that
dates 14,800 years ago, and we're working on a
site in Florida that dates 14,400 years ago and we
worked at other sites that are 14,000, 14,200 years
Shelby Knowles — THE BATTALION
Anthropology professor Michael Waters is part of a
research team that conducts field exploration to expand on
current knowledge of the Americas' earliest inhabitants.
old. So they're kind of all in the same ballpark, the
14,000-15,000 year range. And prior to investigat
ing those early sites, there was a ruling idea that
the first people to have come to the Americas
were known as Clovis and they had these large
lancelet spear points and it was thought that they
came through the Ice Free Corridor and very quickly
populated North America and then moved all the
way within a thousand years to the southern tip of
South America. And those Clovis sites date roughly
to around 13,000 years ago, the oldest ones. But
what we're finding at the Friedkin site is evidence of
people being here 2,000 years before Clovis, 15,000
years before Clovis, 1,800 years before Clovis. And
so it's showing that there were people here before
Clovis and it's probably from these early people that
Clovis developed.
FULL INTERVIEW AT THEBATT.COM
REVEILLE CONTINUED
forward. ”
After the university announced
that Reveille VIII will retire at the
end of the 2014-2015 academic year,
a letter was sent out across the coun
try to collie breeders, trainers and
rescue organizations with the re
quirements for the next Texas A&M
mascot.
According to this letter, the new
mascot must be a mature female col
lie or dog with a collie-like appear
ance, medium to large size, approxi
mately 1-1.5 years of age or older as
of March 1, 2015 and in good physi
cal condition. Taking into account
temperament, the letter also asked
that candidates not be afraid of noise
and portray a genuine affection for
people of varying ages in one-on-
one and large group settings.
Interim Vice President for Student
Affairs and Chair of the Reveille IX
Search Committee Tom Reber said
the search was narrowed down from
approximately 20 applicants by elim
inating those that did not meet the
required characteristics. The most
common disqualifier was for indi
viduals who submitted male dogs to
be the next Reveille, while other ap
plicants were 4-5 years old, making
them too old for consideration.
“The search will start to intensify
this semester as the committee will
start to vote for their favorite dogs
and we will then have to decide
which dogs to visit and then bring to
campus to meet the committee so we
can make final recommendations,”
Reber said.
The committee will be reviewing
dogs from Houston, Ohio, Michigan
and Minnesota, Reber said. He said
the committee may have finalists as
early as late February to the begin
ning of March.
The possibility that a rescue dog
will fit all the requirements and be
come the next Reveille is something
that has stirred talk among current
and former students.
“I am not opposed to [her being
a rescue dog],” said Jacob Malek,
junior industrial engineering major.
“The starting place of Reveille isn’t
as important as the Aggie raising
of her. As long as she is a properly
trained dog, then all Aggies should
be proud.”
Reber said that he has heard from
many students and former students
requesting a rescue dog be consid
ered as the next Reveille.
“From the beginning, the com
mittee was committed to finding the
best dog in regards to the characteris
tics that we felt were very important
for Reveille IX to have a successful
career,” Reber said. “If the best dog
is also a rescue dog I think that would
be a good thing.”
Once the selection is made, Rev
eille IX will be introduced to the
university community at the Corps
Final Review and Reveille VIII will
be cared for at the Stevenson Animal
Life Care Center on campus.
* * • • * • » # m #•**♦*##*•«#*•** # %.
» sligi§®Lsiit& i: „ #
agmn..* tht* year b* *
Make Reservaffom for *
■■■■■■
jTW & m
Saturday, February 14th
:
!
• $10 Studio f«* pm ponon,
l phathtM.attaf rcupofettr
pMil if
#
ft
ft
i
■t
*
§
«■
*
#
* 9€€ Mauvy. Md. *695JS€€ • upamtUxtmi *
» • ft • # « * • ft «r # * * • * ft-* * • * * * « « » * ftt
Bwntmv nttmnwm mawrar •wiwtem tmemmtf. wmmmt apwrawi Ttfrawart dxtmmtr ratmam mmttwt tgnMnwm
| MANUFACTURE’S COUPON / EXPIRES 5.1.15 |
! ^AVF $1 00 !
I vMr Lmhi
| On any one (1) VanaPain 4 8oz. or VanaPain PM Qoi. product in store. |
| v 0358809-084972
iTfgrfi)
RETMLER: GM RwmAoeuticats INC ramburse you the face value of lifts coupon plus 8 cents handbng
1 ftocofdftnoe our nedempbon pobcy (copy avartaftte upon request). Consumer must pay any sates tax
Send si redeemed coupons GM Pharmacc-uticafe INC, MandSk & Rhodes. PO Box 490, Dept #1347,
Tecate, CA 91980. Faflure to produce invoices on request prowcEng purchase ert stock covering coupons
Aim-wax
MANUFACTURE'S COUPON / EXPIRES 5.1.15 |
® Mk. !l K ■— db m t\f\ i
SAVE $ 1 00 i
I On any one (1) TexaClear* 8oz. product in store. I
| www.TexaClear.com
fttCMqeU Consumer most per,- ary s&krs tfct Send all rudewied coupons to GM Pha
INC. Mar*** « Rhode*. PO Box 490. Dept #1347. Tecate. CA 91980
FiL&jre 1o pnsducs irwoiccs on prowdiog purcnM# ofl slock covering coupon;
msmm w&ttwm wwvm *{*#&»* mmm nmm#* •mfnm inmwi
cqPPg copri
(1 per table with meal purchase)
Expires 2/16/15
not valid with any other offer
LiSS'n. mmn, downtown bryan
. (9 :/9y 82M6-75
www.theplaceforitalian.com
Regular Price is $14.00
Expires 2/2t/?01S
Walk Ins Welcome
Next to Village Foods
1770 Briarcrest Dr.
Ceratol be < ombnrerl w«tH *ny ott>e»
Bryan. Texas 77802
979-846-0722