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THE BATTALION
WEDNESDAY JANUARY 23, 1974
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BELFAST, Northern Ireland
(A*)—Northern Ireland’s trouble-
plagued provincial assembly broke
up in disorder Tuesday with mili
tant and moderate Protestant
legislators trading punches over
a place to sit.
It took six hefty security men
to carry out the Rev. Ian Paisley,
a burly hardline leader. As he
was dumped outside, Paisley
boomed: “We shall be back.”
Paisley had vowed before the
I session, the first since the prov-
I ince’s new government took of-
; fice, that his supporters would
occupy the front-bench seats allo-
I cated to chief executive Brian
Faulkner and his coalition ad-
[ ministration of moderate Prot
estants and Roman Catholics.
The trouble flared when Faulk
ner and his men tried to take
their seats—and Paisley’s sup
porters refused to move.
Paisley, leader of the Demo
cratic Unionist party, shouted:
“You’ll not jackboat us with your
armored cars and your British
army.”
He was referring to the rein
forced cordon of troops and police
that ringed the Stormont assem
bly building, on Belfast’s out
skirts, in expectation of trouble
from hard-line Protestants.
Behind the brawl was the mili
tants’ vow to wreck the assembly
and Faulkner’s coalition execu
tive, the first in the province’s
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to share power with the majority
Protestants.
Speaker Nat Minford ad
journed the session. It finally
reconvened 70 minutes later, but
only four of the 30 hard-liners
were in their seats.
The militants are gunning for
Faulkner and his coalition be
cause they charge its policy of
boosting links between the mainly
Protestant province and the pre
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lic constitutes the first step in
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million Protestants fear they
would be swallowed up into a
Catholic state after unification.
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British.
Earlier Tuesday, the Protes
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once ruled the province elected
former Agriculture Minister Har
ry W. West as its leader.
Ed Huckaby points out one of the “joints” fundamental to
the stability of the tensegrity he and two other students
built. (Photo by Roger Mallison)
Grads build tension tower
There is a tensegrity on the
lawn of the Architecture Build
ing.
A tensegrity is a building
frame superior to conventional
frames because it uses cables in
stead of rigid supports. The full
size model stands about 30 feet
tall.
The model was built as a proj
ect for a creative structures class
by graduates Ed Huckaby, Dave
Trevino and Steve Foster.
“We were told to construct a
model of one of the six natural
forms,” Huckaby. “Most of the
models were made of cardboard
and matches but we got inter
ested in the tetrahedron, the bas
is of the tensegrity and decided
to go all out.”
Trevino said they worked most
of the summer on the model.
“The Architecture Building is al
most home, so when we told our
wives we were going out with
the boys to build a tensegrity,
they understod.”
The total cost for the mate
rials, about $217, was split be
tween the students and the col
lege. Now that it’s up, the col
lege is going to reimburse the
students and keep the model for
future students.
Huckaby explained Buckminis-
ter Fuller made the biggest ad
vances in tensegrities 25 years
ago working on the principal
that steel performs better under
tension than compression.
“There are several advan
tages,” Huckaby continued. “This
whole structure could be col
lapsed in 45 minutes and put in
the trunk of a car; it takes four
hours to construct. You can con
trol how rigid the structure is
by adjusting the tightness of the
cables.”
The first time they knew it
Would work was after they had
put it up, said Foster. “We knew
the theory was sound but we
weren’t sure we had chosen the
right materials.
“The night we got it up a rain
storm came through town. We
were really pleased the next
morning to find that it was still
standing. The thing’s surprising
ly stable.”
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grity.” (Photo by Roger Mallison)
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