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Zookeeper 'Jungle Jack' visits A&M
Allison Bradshaw — THE BATTALION
Jack "Jungle Jack" Hanna hosts a meet and greet before his "Into the
Wild Live!" show Saturday in Rudder Auditorium.,
'Revolutionary' zoologist calls
for animal conservation
By Lenae Allen
Wearing his characteristic Aus
sie outfit, Jack Hanna and his cast
of live animals from across the world
captivated an audience Saturday in Ag
gieland.
Bringing in tow a variety of hand-
raised and rescued animals, ranging
from owls to alligators, Jack Hanna,
known to most as “Jungle Jack,” is on a
cross-country tour with his series “Into
the Wild Live!” During the show in
Rudder Tower, Hanna promoted the
protection and conservation for wild
life management and animal welfare.
“My speeches are for education and
they’re a lot of fun, but there are seri
ous issues mentioned in the speeches
that are presented in a way everybody
out there can understand,” Hanna said.
“I’ll be speaking from anywhere from a
3-year-old to a 100-year-old out there,
and when I talk I hope everybody can
learn something.”
Between each animal appearance,
Hanna showed videos of other species
in their natural habitats, such as black
bears and mountain gorillas.
“You’ll notice in some countries, if
you don’t see animals or pets or things
like that, where everything’s gone, you
know there’s a problem,” Hanna said.
“I used to do prison talks to prisoners,
and I’d ask'TOO prisoners, ‘How many
of you had a net when you were grow
ing up?’ And maybe three out of a hun
dred would raise their hands. So, I set
an example of teaching young people
to go to a zoological park.”
Hanna said zoological parks are very
important and estimated 176 million
people went to zoos last year.
“That’s more than pro football and
Nascar,” Hanna said.
Hanna’s show “Jack Hanna’s Animal
Adventures” first aired in 1993. Since
then, first appearing on television as a
zookeeper trying to educate the public
about animals, Hanna has traveled all
across the globe documenting creatures
big and small and the people who care
for them.
“I was really excited that he was
coming to College Station,” said Bev
erly Crocker, veterinary medicine stu
dent. “I grew up watching his shows
and I’ve always loved animals. Watch
ing his shows on the weekends were
the highlight of my Saturday mornings
— instead of watching cartoons I was
watching him, reading anything I could
about him or learning all the facts about
animals. It was really exciting for me to
actually see him, kind of like a child
hood dream come true.”
While Hanna’s first appearance on
“The Late Show with David Letter-
man” in 1985 jump started his media
career, Hannah is also known for his
work revolutionizing the zoo industry
as director of the now-famous Colum
bus Zoo and Aquarium beginning in
1978, said Rachel Csaszar, communi
cations assistant at Jack Hanna’s Co
lumbus Zoo office.
“He travels about 200 days a year,”
Csaszar said. “He’s actually the master
of PR without even knowing it. He
built the Columbus Zoo from pretty
much nothing. It had been owned
by the sewers and drains department
in the 70s. The zoo has been around
since the 1920s, but zoos have changed
a lot since then. Animals were living on
concrete behind bars, and that’s how
people saw them.”
YELL LEADER CONTINUED
Ginty said. “We felt like we’d be
jeopardizing the integrity of the
organization and process if we did
that.”
Trantham said the elections will
be run according to the rules laid out
in the Yell Leader Constitution and
every effort will be made to respond
to appeals in a timely manner.
“The voting count will not be
conducted using an instant runoff
vote or single transferrable vote pro
cedure,” Trantham said. “Each stu
dent voting will be able to cast up
to three equally-weighted votes for
Senior Yell and two equally-weight
ed votes for Junior Yell. All votes
will be tallied in one round and the
candidates with the highest number
of total votes — after assessing any
penalties — will be declared winners
of the election.”
McGinty said the separation from
SGA was the only way to ensure an
accurate representation of student
body opinion.
“I talked to the election commis
sioner before we came out with our
decision,” McGinty said. “I wanted
to make sure we answered any ques
tions or concerns she had before go
ing public with [our decision]. The
impression I got from our conversa
tion is that she understood where we
were coming from and wanted the
best course of action.”
Douglas said the program SGA
uses to count votes still uses the in
stant runoff system for tallying votes,
and does not have the capability to
count the votes according to the Yell
Leader Constitution. Douglas said
she respects the decision to separate
and hopes all issues between the two
parties can be solved in the near fu
ture.
“I haven’t talked to Yell yet about
what we’ll do in the future, but sen
ate is already passing a rule to fix the
process,” Douglas said. “They’re
looking to make it just a plurality
vote, and once they fix that, hope
fully we can deflect back to just hav
ing one election.”
McGinty said all of the candidates
were in agreement that another
election was the best solution for a
proper result.
“We want to ensure the Yell
Leaders next year are there for the
right reason — because the students
elected them,” McGinty said.
Rudder Complex welcomes new
sculpture to honor 40 years of 0PAS.
MORE AT TX.AG/BATT6
DANCE AGGIELAND: Dance
convention hosts choreographers from
around the nation.
MORE AT TX.AG/BATT7
LUNAR NEW YEAR: Bryan-College
Station celebrates the Year of the Goat.
MORE AT TX.AG/BATT8
MARTIN CONTINUED
anyone who wants to write,” Martin
said. “One of them is keep your day
job. Or get a day job. Writing has
been very, very good to me, but it’s
not a profession for anyone who needs
or values security. It’s a profession for
people who are a bit of a gambler and
are ready to have highs and lows and
triumphs and failures.”
He said if a writer is really passionate
about writing, however, then the rest
should fall in line naturally.
“If you’re an intelligent, capable
young person who has many interests
and can pursue many different careers,
it would probably be best to pursue a
different career,” Martin said. “I think
writing is not a rational choice. Writing
is a choice that you have to make —
you can’t not write. There’s something
in you, these stories in you, that you
have to get out. And even if nobody
would buy them or want to pay you
a cent for them, you would want to
put down those stories ... I think most
writers are like that. It’s not a rationally
selected career path. It’s something
that’s inside you, that’s part of you.”
Martin said writing is such a big part
of his life that he plans to continue do
ing so for the rest of his life.
“I’ve been meeting some friends
here who are my age and they’ve re
cently retired from their careers,” Mar
tin said. “Writers can’t retire. I could
never retire. I’ll be making up stories
until I die. I’ll be halfway finished with
one, because the stories just keep com
ing. Yes, I write them slowly — I know
that — but they’re still there and I’ll
continue to write them for all time.”
During the presentation Martin read
an excerpt from “The Hobbit” and re
flected on the influence that fantasy and
science fiction has had on his life. He
touched on how he draws inspiration
from history and from the past. Martin
explained that, to him, preserving lit
erature and culture is crucial.
“Even in our modern centuries ...
we’re losing stories,” Martin said. “All
of this is incredible [tragedy] to me.
That’s where I think libraries, like the
great Library of Alexandria, are the for
tresses of our civilizations. The stories
that we tell each other, the stories that
we grow up on, the stories that help
shape our values and shape our lives,
we still love and remember. This is the
stuff that should be preserved.”
Martin further said it doesn’t matter
if the volume is supreme literature or
pop culture, it should all be maintained.
“All of it should be preserved,”
Martin said. “Not just the stuff that we
deem high culture, but popular culture
and ordinary culture and ephemera and
juvenilia, preserve all of it because we
don’t know what we’ll want 50 years
from now, what’s going to be impor
tant 100 years from now, or whether
indeed 1,000 years from now, Stan Lee
will stand next to Shakespeare.”
The first edition copy of “The Hob
bit" will be on display in Cushing Li
brary starting March 2.
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