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Watching an amoeba through a
ijlicroscope can be a frustrating
I fcperience for new biology stu-
jljlents—especially if it turns out
I) be an air bubble.
11 And, a microscopic cross-section
av 6isK a plant stem can be completely
f|l«ffling to budding scientists, but
■ Bsed-circuit television here may
cent! Irrect these stumbling blocks to
idem Ireater knowledge.
&iSilhl“Our problem is getting across
s”oal)the student what they are see-
ing or supposed to see in the micro-
hip ii lope,” says Dr. Lawrence S. Dil-
s ail In, professor of biology here,
andi I Because the microscope is a ba-
lilesBc scientific tool in industry as
ell as biology, he and his col-
tagues believe students should
S6nl®aster the use of microscopes
jiawMhile they are in basic biology
:p, iJourses.
sefil TO DO THIS, they are utilizing
i ■ $2,500 grant from the School of
Biw-ts and Sciences teaching im-
iBrovement fund to test using a
fflBlevision camera mounted atop a
;o((Mght microscope. This will permit
Irojecting accurate microscope
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Views of specimen slides through
a closed-circuit TV system to lab
oratories.
Closed-circuit TV also may save
instructors from aching backs and
cricks in their necks from bending
over a multitude of students’ mi
croscopes.
This semester, as in a majority
of semesters, there are more than
1,000 students enrolled in biology
and vertebrate zoology courses.
All are required to spend three
hours a week in the laboratory
using some 120 microscopes.
THROUGH USE of closed-cir
cuit television, Dillon expects to
project microscopic specimen view
to as many as three laboratories
at one time.
With the assistance of Dr. A. B.
Medlen, associate professor of bi
ology, and biology instructors W.
V. Robertson and John Murad,
Dillon hopes to have the TV equip
ment installed and operating by
the opening of the spring semester
in February.
“Through use of this closed-cir
cuit television microscope, the in-
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structor will be able to project
on the TV screens an image of pre
pared slides, live protozoa or other
material which the students are
studying,” Dillon said.
The slide can be moved about
to show different areas and en
larged to suit the instructional
needs, he added. Students will be
expected to make more efficient
use of their microscopes.
“IT IS NOT unusual for a new
biology student to spend time
watching an' air bubble, which be
cause of light refraction and grav
ity movement, appears to be an
amoeba,” Dillon said. “Some have
even made drawings of such speci
mens.”
The entire closed-circuit plan is
part of preliminary planning for
the new Biology Building wing
that will be built soon.
THE BATTALION
Thursday, November 15, 1962
College Station, Texas
Page 5
Wendy Parriott, 12, a 4-H Club member
from La Puente, Calif., shares a cool drink
with her 804-pound Hereford “Hadacal,” as
Wendy gets ready to enter the animal in
competition for grand champion honors at
the 37th GWE Livestock Show.
FOR SOUTHWESTERN TITLE
Checker Players Set Meet
Serious-minded checker players
— many of them champions — will
arrive here over the Thanksgiving
holidays to take part in the South
western Open Checker Tourney
Nov. 24-25 in the Memorial Student
Center.
The tourney is open to players
anywhere in the world. and the
winner will be recognized as the
“checker champion of the South
western U. S.”
According to J. Wayne Stark,
chairman of the tourney steering
committee, play will begin in
earnest at 9 a.m. Saturday, Nov.
24. The tourney will be conducted
on a modified “Swiss System” and
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only. There will be seven rounds of
tourney play, with two games con
stituting a round.
PRIZES FOR the tourney in
clude $100 and a trophy for first
prize and $50 for second place.
In addition, there will be many
book prizes. Official referee and
scorekeeper for the tourney is R. E.
Hawkins of Dallas.
H. L. Cravens Jr. of Brownwood
is chairman of the tourney prize
committee. A professor of politi
cal science at Howard Payne Col
lege, Cravens is the state checker
playing champion for 1962 and
looks upon checkers as a pastime
that requires patience, knowledge
of the game itself and concentra
tion.
“No one has ever been able to
figure out the number of variations
possible in a game of checkers,”
says Cravens. “There are 137 dif
ferent plays possible at the open
ing of a game.”
Many A&M Education Majors
Concentrate On Math, Science
With greater emphasis on sci
ence and math subjects in public
schools, more than 28 per cent of
the men in education courses here
are preparing to teach in these
fields.
A&M has 518 students studying
to become school teachers, Dr.
C. H. Groneman, co-ordinator of
oVlMAlVIieS I i=0rex WORTH
the A&M Council on Teacher Edu
cation, announced Wednesday.
Noting Nov. 12-17 is National
Education Week, Groneman said
6.2 per cent of the A&M students
are enrolled in teacher education
programs.
A total of 149 students have de
clared teaching majors or minors
in chemistry, math, science, phy
sics and biology.
The students are enrolled in
teacher education programs offer
ed by the departments of education
and psychology, health and physi
cal education, agriculture education
and industrial education, he said.
In addition to more than, 500
men in undergraduate teacher edu
cation programs, 244 students are
enrolled in graduate classes with,
25 in the industrial education doc
toral program, Groneman said.
Cravens can play 30 oi
checker opponents at a time.
MSC Radio Group
Plans Steak Fry
To Raise Funds
The Memorial Student Center
Radio Committee will sponsor a
steak fry in Hensel Park Dec. 1
as part of a fund raising campaign
to buy a new receiver for the club
station, W5AC.
The new receiver, a Drake Model
2-B, will provide more selective
reception of messages. Members
won’t have as much trouble with
unwanted signals once the new
set is in operation. Faster and more
efficient student service for hand
ling messages and phone patches
will also be possible.
Two people can actually carry
on a telephone conservation over
the air because of the phone patch
service. Through special features
of the set actual voices of one
party may be picked up by the
transmitter and conveyed to the
receiver where they are heard by
the second party.
Friday during Convocation, W5
AC will have communication sta
tions at five locations on campus.
At the stations visitors may send
messages, obtain information con
cerning the day’s activities and ga
ther information about the cam
pus. These stations will be in oper
ation from 7 a.m. - 5 p.m.
White House
Confirms JFK
Charity Gifts
WASHINGTON hP) — Presi
dent Kennedy has contributed all
of his government salaries to
charity since 1947 when he entered
Congress, White House sources
said Wednesday.
In line with this, informants
said, Kennedy will contribute his
$100,000 presidential pay to char
ities this year, as he did last
year. However, the 1961 salary
didn’t quite hit that total since he
was not inaugurated until Jan. 20.
Kennedy is doing the same as
another wealthy president before
him, Herbert Hoover, did three
decades ago.
Kennedy is able to pay his own
personal expenses because of iden
tical trust funds set up by his
multimillionaire father, Joseph P,
Kennedy, for all of his children
in 1926, 1936 and 1949.
AT THE TIME of Kennedy’s in
auguration, his press secretary,
Pierre Salinger, told newsmen
that the President had a gross
net income of about $500,000 a
year — about $100,000 after taxes
— from the trust fund investments.
Newsman calculated that figur
ing an average return of about 5
per cent on the investments, a
$500,000 anual income would rep
resent principal of around $10
million.
Kennedy and his brothers and
sisters get control of the principal
in their trust funds on a step-by-
step basis.
When he was 40, Kennedy re
ceived title to one-fourth of the
principal invested for him. When
he reached 45 last May he re
ceived another 25 per cent.
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