\E Professor
iietires, Will
li ake New Job
lonft’-time research engineer
i civil engineering teacher at
day' ;M will retire Aug 31 — only to
very e up new duties in his home
■ eij’ te of Alabama,
age > rof. Henson K. Stephenson, a
Thi il engineering- faculty member
cla 19 years, received his certi-
asheate lof retii-ement from Presi-
]10 ( it Earl Rudder, Friday.
pl a beginning Sept. 1, Stephenson
thef l be on the University of Ala-
s . na civil engineering faculty to
, ^elop a graduate program in civil
, »-ineering. He will also plan
iduate and undergraduate pro-
r mis in structural engineering.
teaStephenson is well known in
(; gineeri|ng circles for his re-
irch in development of highway
.tlges, and studies important to
ess of heavy trucks on high-
ys.
Engineering Professor Be tires
Henson K. Stephenson, (second from right), civil engineering department head. Stephen-
for 19 years a research engineering and civil son will join the University of Alabama
engineering professor, receives a Certificate staff September 1 to develop a graduate
of Retirement from President Earl Rudder, program in structural engineering. (Texas
Looking on are Fred J. Benson (left), dean A&M Photo)
of engineering, and S. R. Wright (right),
rmiti
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Speaker Says M0MOLE Crew
flay Not Find Crust On Ocean Floor
>1 if A theory that the ocean floor
keys -s no crust and that the deep-
)om rth probe, Project Mohole, will
——feal less-than-anticipated fossil
tory is advanced by a guest lec-
rer here.
r. Robert S. Dietz of the Navy
ctronics Laboratory, San Diego,
lif., outlined his hypothesis be-
e A&M participants in the Na
nai Science Foundation summer
gram here.
he Navy oceanographer said
: because the ocean floor has
buoyant crust, powerful con-
tion heat forces, — from within
earth’s mantle—has caused the
arating and spreading of con-
lents on earth.
t is his contention that the
tinents are the true crust of
earth. At the same time, the
floor continued to spread — as
ch as a half inch a year.
Heat Powers Mass
owering this mass movement
large-scale thermal convection,
Med by decay of radioactive
berals operating within the
fHntle.
SBlietz’ theory is based on what
Iji called the “steady-state earth
; pothesis.” This is in contrast
th the conventional geological
theory that the earth’s continents
and ocean basins are the results of
the steady cooling and shrinking
of the global mass.
Growing scientific evidence in
dicates that the earth’s continents
have not always been fixed and
anchored in their present positions.
The relative shapes of coastlines
of North and South America ap
pear to fit roughly together like
separated pieces of a jigsaw puz
zle with Europe and Africa.
Then, too, studies of the mag
netic orientation of rocks in Ant
arctica? Australia, and the southern
regions pf South America and
Africa indicate these widely sep
arated land masses were once
much closer together.
More Study Needed
Dietz points out that since there
is no apparent deformation of
the sea floor such as a moving
continent would cause, more study
should be given to another possi
bility.
That is: perhaps the sea floor,
itself, has moved and carried with
it the continents — thus separat
ing the pieces of the jigsaw puzzle,
so to speak.
This movement is caused by the
heat from convection currents in
lomputer Science Graduate
degree To Be Offered In Fall
graduate program in corn-
science will formally get
erway this fall at A&M.
he new graduate program, de-
• ned for men with bachelor de-
* [fees in engineering, mathematics
Jm physics, will lead to a Master
Computer Science degree. *
Working with the new program
ai* the Department of Industrial
yigineering will be Robert L.
lith, Jr., head of the Data Proc-
iing Center.
ite k*rhe new program—one of the
aai'st of its type in the South—
s formally approved this spring
jndjitha Texas Commission on High-
ittle 1 'Education.
Jp to 20 graduate students a
ith Aar will be accepted in the new
fetflSgram. Smith said many indus-
3S are calling for computer
5 j anJence graduates and the Army,
[1 sftvy and Air Force are interested
sending selected officers to en-
3 pie? the program.
toryFocil point of the new graduate
free program will be the Data
s poibcessing Center that is packed
ldbe ! ;h more than S4 million worth
computer equipment.
jthiflHeart of the Center is the IBM
noart ! pf|y':
rent,!;
asH.
ook Store Plans
reslnnan Branch
r jvetA special branch of the Ex-
juMnge Store is being established
the lounge on the ground floor
, ie of Leggett Hall, so that students
Mng books in September can
j] ie «/e a little more space and ease
a |,oiil movement.
looks for freshmen will be
ei , s decked in the temporary branch,
• er rJ ,; ile all upperclassmen may buy
4r books in the usual section of
^ Exchange Store.
| go fo*VIanager Carl Birdwell said the
xtra%gett Hall branch will remain
>n for a week after the regis-
jgl, option period. “Temporary es-
ilishment of the branch store
unbeing done as a convenience to
’ i' students,’’ Birdwell said.
, r Liillian Price of the store staff
13 Nl manage the freshman branch.
709—a complex of 21 units capa
ble of reading and writing at the
rate of 15,000 characters per sec
ond and computing information at
the rate of 40,000 arithmetical
operations per second. A recent
addition of a tape-oriented IBM
1401 computer has quadrupled the
input and output of magnetic
tapes and vastly increased the ef
ficiency of the 709’s capabilities.
Curriculum for a master of com
puter science degree includes grad
uate courses in numerical analy
sis, computer methods, computer
languages, numerical methods in
differential equations, computer
methods in applied sciences and
logic of information processing.
the plastic material of the mantle.
The circulatory motion caused
from the hotter materials moving
upward and the cooler materials
downward to ' take its place form
“convection cells.”
Two such convection cells, flow
ing opposite directions in the mid-
Atlantic would gradually move the
continents away from the area
where the heat was rising at the
mid-Atlantic ridge.
Dietz said that Mohole drillers
will discover much less in the way
of fossil history of the earth than
they expect when sediment cores
ORIENTATION
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in another general assembly in the
coliseum. J. Gordon Gay, coordina
tor of Religious Life and General
Secretary of the YMCA will preside
at this meeting.
After an early breakfast Friday,
those who did not register on
Thursday afternoon will begin
their registration. Then at 1:15
p. m.^ Dean of Students James P.
Hannigan will tell the entering
freshmen about “Student Lilt; at
A&M” and “Student Activity Pro
grams” in a program in the Coli
seum.
At 3 p. m. cadets will stay in
the coliseum for a meeting with
Col. Joe E. Davis, Commandant of
the Corps of Cadets. Civilian stu
dents will move to the Assembly
Room of the MSC for a meeting
with Director of Student Affairs
Bejmie A. Zinn.
Saturday Schedule
At 8 a. m. Saturday all cadets
will again. meet in the Coliseum
with Col. Davis and Corps Com
mander William D. Nix, who will
explain Corps life at A&M.
Saturday afternoon the students
have free time to use as he sees
fit. Recreational facilities will be
open for use.. Students wishing; to
leave the campus can secure per
mission to do so, but Ransdell ad
vised they be back no later than
9 p. m. Sunday in order to prepare
for the beginning of classes ; on
Monday.
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COKTIUBNTAL A1RLIMCS
are brought up from the ocean
bottom because the sea floor is
geologically young.
■“jT'j-jjl! BA i TALION Thursday, August 25,19(52 College Station, Texas Page S
SPEAKER SAYS RESPECT LOST
More People’s Cooperation
./ v::d . ■'In LawEnforcement
A greater awareness and more
cooperation by citizens at all levels
are needed to help police combat
the growth of crime in the United
States, ‘A. F. Brandstatter, nation-
ally-recognized police administator,
said here.
Speaking at an Institute on
Police and Community Relations,
Brandstatter warned the more than
60 participants that they must
make the public more aware of
the increase in crime.
Brandstatter is director of the
Michigan State University School
of Police Administration and Pub
lic Safety. The four-day institute
will end today. It is sponsored by
the Texas Engineering Extension
Service.
New frontiers which challenge
the police and needing both re
view and radical change are police
personnel management, police pa
trol practices, organizational pat
terns, the concept of crime pre
vention, and activities which have
been scrutinized by every con
gressional and state investigating
agency; said Brandstatter.
gan to witness a slow but steady
loss of respect for the law en
forcement arm of government,”
Brandstatter said, “and perhaps it
has reached its peak in 1961 and
1962. If not, I fear for the future
of law enforcement as we know it
today.”
Federal authority is creeping
ever closer to assume additional
enforcement responsibility for local
ci’ime problems, he said, adding
that the most recent legislation
proposed seeks authority for fed
eral agencies to have jnrisdiction
over football pools that corrupt
university and college football
players.
“If this type of legislation con
tinues,” Brandstatter declared, “we
will, in fact have a national police
agency. What is needed in Amer
ican law enfoi’cement is an or
ganization exclusively for the mu
nicipal police officer, organized in
such a way that its board of di
rectors would comprise the senior
police administrators of munici
pal police service.”
Development of a successful po-
Beginning in the 1920’s we be- lice and community relations pro
gram demands a re-examination of
ourselves at the community level,
Brandstatter said.
“We must define the kind of com
munity in which we want to live
and to rear our children — not
relinquish its definition to the
handful of people who seek to ex
ploit ignorance and weaknesses of
the human flesh,” he declared.
“A sound society will not be
assured until we achieve a high
level of individual self-control and
responsibility which characterize
moral men,” he said. “New laws
and social controls are not the sole
answej*. We must respect the spirit
of the law, as well as the letter
of the law.”
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