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THE BATTALION
College Station, Texas
Thursday, September 6, 1962
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BATTALION EDITORIALS
Program For Beginners
Was Success From Start
The announcement Wednesday that college officials have
been completely satisfied with this summer’s new counseling
and testing program for beginning students hardly come as
a surprise.
Allocades for the program have been readily heard from
all corners all summer, especially from the beginners who
have now had a chance to familiarize themselves with the
campus, meet and talk with their scholastic advisors and
even be assigned cadet units.
Even more benefits will no doubt be realized immediately
after the freshmen and transfer students arrive next week
for New Student Week. No longer will campus maps be in
such dire demand, no longer will lines at the bookstores and
other area business be so long, and, of course, no longer will
many freshmen get off to such poor starts academically that
it will take them sometimes as much as two years to catch up.
It was also encouraging to see such a high percentage
of this fall’s beginners participate in the programs. Probably
each and every one will be able to attest that only two days
were never more wisely spent.
The administering of tests during the two-day programs, |y!
however, may prove in the long run to be the most valuable
aspect of all.
Sad, indeed, is the tale of woe many students can relate
about a freshman year literally wasted in a field that tests
later proved they were not cut out for. Besides time and
effort saved, the tests may also prove a most economical
step, especially when students that would have graduated in
five years begin receiving degrees in the usual four years.
It is, without a doubt, difficult to find any fault with the
program. The Battalion rejoices with college officials that
the initial step was made with such success, and hopes for an
even better, more productive program in the future.
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More
May Get
Workers
WASHINGTON OP)—President
Kennedy on a late August after
noon urged a group of college
students working as summer in
terns in government agencies to
consider government careers.
Texas Rep. Lindley Beckworth
contends that if summer govern
ment jobs are as important an
introductory step toward federal
service as the President indi
cated, they should be equally ap
portioned among the states.
Officials estimate 5,000 college
students were on Uncle Sam’s
payroll the past three months.
According to Beckworth, 70 per
cent came from the District of
Columbia, Virginia and Mary
land. He bases his figure on
data obtained through corres
pondence with 23 departments
and agencies.
A BILL BECKWORTH intro
duced would amend the civil
service act of 1883 so rfs to re
quire that these temporary sum
mer jobs in government be ap
portioned among the states on a
population basis.
The Beckworth bill was ap
proved by a 15 to 1 vote of the
House Civil Service Committee
and is expected to come up on
the House floor about the middle
of September.
The lone vote against it was
by Rep. Joel T. Broyhill, a Re
publican who represents northern
Virginia.
“If it is good for these young
people in this area near Wash
ington to know something about
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said, “it is just as good for those
living elsewhere throughout the
nation.
“AND THE OPPORTUNITY
to come here and work in govern
ment jobs would mean much
more to one who has not grown
up in Washington or its suburbs.”
Concerned about this job issue
for along time, Beckworth had
to write all the agencies sep
arately and get the Library of
Congress to tabulate the results
in order to learn the distribution
of jobs by states.
“They. are the hardest figures
in the world to get,” he contin
ued.
“The figures I obtained are for
the year 1959—the latest avail
able. So far as I know there is
no breakdown by states for any
year except this I have obtained.”
Here are some highlights of
that 1959 study: There were 2,321
summer government jobs for
students. It showed that 490
went to District of Columbia res
idents, 546 to Virginians and 628
to Marylanders. Next ranking
state was New York with 110.
Half of the states had fewer than
a dozen. Texas had 14.
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Arrive For Study
Junior high school science
teachers from 19 states have ar
rived here to participate in an
academic year institute spon
sored by the National Science
Foundation.
Coleman Lloyd, NSF programs
co-ordinator, said the 29 teachers
will do advanced study in general
science subjects to upgrade sci
ence education in secondary
schools.
The teachers, who have a total
of 153 years of teaching experi
ence, are taking leaves of ab
sence to attend the institute un
der a $189,000 grant to A&M.
Each participant will receive
a living allowance plus funds for
dependents, tuition fees and
books.
During the first semester of
study in the institute, the teach
ers will take courses in biology,
chemistry, analytical geometry
and calcuhis, physics, oceanog
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seminar. The second semester
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Experiments in measuring the
lipids (fatty oils) in sea water
will be described by an A&M sci
entist at the International Con
ference on Organic Geochemistry
in Milan, Italy, Monday through
Wednesday.
.From experiments that may
have far-reaching effects in
learning more about life cycles
of marine organisms, Dr. Don
ald W. Hood, chemical oceanog
raphy, will report how the lipids
were extracted and measured in
ocean water.
So far as is known, Hood’s
report is the first in scientific
literature on the composition and
content of hydrocarbons in ocean
water. Assisting him in this
Office of Naval Research spon
sored project were Lela M. Jef
fery, research scientist in ocean
ography, Brian F. Pasby, doc
toral graduate student and Ber
nadette Stevenson, research as
sistant.
A GREAT DEAL of interest
in these fractions of organic wa-
'ter has develop because of their
apparent significance to the
growth of marine organisms,”
Hood said.
The amount and kinds of lipids
apparently influence the migra
tion and schooling of fish. Oys
ters and barnacles tend to feed
when the water contains a cer
tain amount of organic matter.
Research of this type on ocean
water has not been done earlier,
mainly because the means of
measurement were not available.
Using samples of sea water
taken from the Pacific Ocean
near San Francisco and the Gulf
near Port Aransas, analysis was
conducted by thin-film chroma
tography, gas chromatography,
infrared analysis and miscellan
eous chemical tests.
THE SEA WATER samples
were shown to contain hydrocar
bons, sterol esters, triglycerides,
free fatty acids, free sterols, di
glycerides, monoglycerides and
phospholipids, along with many
other unidentified constituents.
These, in turn, were separated
into eight major fractions. The
concentrations and individual
constituents of the eight frac
tions varied in surface water
samples and between surface wa
ter and bottom water taken from
the same station.
Hood said other researchers
have indications that sea life,
such as oysters and barnacles,
responds to the effect of these
lipids in the ocean water.
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