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EDUCATIONAL EQUIPMENT
Technicians keep an eye on monitors and other facilities
being exhibited in the Ramada Inn by aronnd 20 firms for
the Creative Application of Technology to Education Cen
ter. Attending the exhibition are superintendents, princi
pals, teachers and school board members from the 39-
county CATE Center area.
Nuclear
First In
Degree
Texas
Texas A&M is the first school
in Texas and most of the South
west to offer a bachelor's degree
in nuclear engineering, Depart
ment of Nuclear Engineering
Head Dr. Robert G. Cochran has
announced.
Cochran said the new under
graduate curriculum added this
semester has already attracted 10
freshmen and 14 undergraduate
transfers.
The University of Mississippi
and Kansas State University are
nearest competitors to A&M for
Aggie Players
Cast Announced
Cast members for the Aggie
Players fall term major produc
tion, “Which Death To Die,”
were announced yesterday by di
rector Robert W. Wenck.
Members include Paul Bleau as
Shwartz, Paul Stewart as Rob
erts, Roger Williams as Arm
strong, David Morley as Shrimp,
Larry Baugh as Southall, Shir
ley Whatley as Anna, Marie
Crook as Ma Twiddle and Jean
Reyna as Jill.
Also, Jan Gannaway as Sandy,
Sandra Rose as Cindy, Nancy
Wick as the nurse, Tim Shaunty
as the recruiter, Roger Killings-
worth as the first rescuer, Ted
Boriskie as the second rescuer,
Ray Evans as the orderly, Hen
ry Vanderscuyssen as the an
nouncer and Steve Thurman as
Santa Claus.
The play, written by Robert
C. Stewart Jr., Bryan Daily Eagle
managing editor, will be pre
sented Dec. 1-3 and 5-7.
The play deals with five men
trapped, without hope of rescue,
in a sunken battleship at Pearl
Harbor. How they handle them
selves in this situation and how
each meets death provides the
theme.
Crews for lighting, sets,
properties, costumes, publicity
and house management will be
announced later, Wenck said.
attracting undergraduates for
nuclear engineering studies.
A&M has offered masters and
doctoral studies in nuclear engi
neering since 1959, and is adding
the B.S. to meet the expanding
demand for nuclear engineers.
‘Many bachelor’s degree win
ners will go into reactor physics
and manegement of power reac
tors,” commented Cochran. “Elev
en power reactors generating
many megawatts of electricity are
already in use in the United
States, 20 more are under con
struction, and others are approved
for construction.
“The nuclear power industry is
growing rapidly,” Cochran con
tinued. “ It is an exciting engi
neering field of the future. Op
portunities will become greater
as more power reactors are used
to generate electric power.”
Cochran spoke of nuclear pow
er as a future competitor for gas
power and other fossil fuels.
“Nuclear power has at least
one big advantage over fossil
fuel,” he explained. “There is no
release of by-products to pollute
the air or water.”
Students working toward the
bachelor’s in nuclear engineering
will be required to complete 137
hours, slightly less than for most
engineering programs.
A&IM''s facilities are among the
best in the nation. Students have
access to the AGN-201 Labora
tory, the Nuclear Ccience Center,
a small accelerator which pro
duces neutrons, and a radio iso
topes development laboratory.
With completion of the Cyclotron
Institute, students will have an
other sophisticated research fa
cility at their disposal.
The nuclear engineering facul
ty includes Cochran, formerly a
nuclear physicist and group lead
er at Oak Ridge National Lab
oratory; Dr. Robert S. Wick from
Westinghouse; Dr. C. G. Chezem
of the Los Alamos, N. M., Scien
tific Laboratory; Drs. Donald E.
Emon. Daniel M. Gibson Jr.,
Walter H. Kohler and Richard D.
Neff; and John E. Simek,
be Battalion
Volume 61
COLLEGE STATION, TEXAS THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 29, 1966
Number
European Focus
SCONA XII Releases Prelim Plans
Preliminary programs for the
twelfth annual Student Confer
ence on National Affairs have
been released by Chairman Bob
Heaton.
Sessions will be held Dec. 7-10
in the Memorial Student Center,
with three speakers scheduled to
address the delegates and
“Round - Table” disc u s s i o n s
planned for various times during
the three days.
In addition, a panel discussion
has been set for Dec. 8, accord
ing to Heaton.
The 1966 topic is “Europe and
the United States: Challenges of
Nationalism and Cooperation.”
Among those who have agreed
to serve as Roundtable co-chair
men are The Hon. Gerald Simp
son, British Consul General; The
Hon. Yves Rodrigues, Consul-
General of France; Dr. William
A. Luker, Head of the Depart
ment of Business Analysis and
Research at Texas A&M; John
Savaso, Dow Chemical Company;
Dr. L. A. Fabel, visiting profes
sor in the Foreign Language Di
vision, German Department, the
University of Houston; The Hon.
Tore Hoegstedt, Consul General
of Sweden, and Dr. Tyrus R.
Timm, Professor and Head of the
Department of Agricultural Eco
nomics and Sociology at Texas
A&M.
Heaton said four tentative
agreements have also been re
ceived. They came from The
Hon. George Elliott, Consul Gen
eral of Belgium; Dr. Claude H.
Hall, Professor of History and
Government at Texas A&M, and
from undesignated representa
tives of the U. S. Military Aca
demy Department of Social Sci
ences and the German Embassy
Staff.
So far no principal speakers
have agreed to appear at the con
ference. Negative replies have
come from President Johnson and
Secretary of State Dean Rusk, ac
cording to Heaton.
The SCONA Planning Commit
tee has announced the formation
of a panel consisting of Simpson,
Rodrigues, and Gen. Robert J,
Smith, president of Texas Pio
neer Corporation. Smith has
agreed to moderate the discus
sion, which will be held the sec
ond night of the conference.
Finance Chairman Mark Berry
said the SCONA XII budget is
$17,000, much of which was
raised in finance drives this sum
mer in Houston and San Antonio.
Berry said the fund is still short
of the goal by almost $4,000 and
that his committee plans to ask
the MSC Council for $2,400 for
the operation of the project.
Rain Unlikely
For Tech Clash
Umbrellas and raincoats won’t
be required for Texas A&M’s
home football game Saturday,
though a rainy spell tomorrow
and early Saturday will lead into
the Texas Tech encounter.
The Aggies and Red Raiders
kick off at 7:30 p.m. Saturday.
The Weather Station in the
Department of Meteorology esti
mates late week precipitation and
cloudiness will break by game
time.
“We’ll have a chance for rain
tomorrow, running over to Sat
urday morning,” forecast Jim
Lightfoot, weather station man
ager. He said a cool high cen
tered in the Midwest and Eastern
U. S. and a series of minor waves
moving through the Gulf to the
east should introduce low clouds
and precipitation tomorrow.
„ Lightfoot said the station’s
five-day outlook, ending tomor
row, indicates heavier than nor
mal precipitation and tempera
tures six degrees below the aver
age mean temperature.
“At game time, the weather
should have 73 to 75 degree tem
peratures, winds out of the north
east at 10 miles per hour and
partly cloudy skies, breaking out
clear,” he added.
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SATURDAY’S SEATING CHART
The Student Senate released the Kyle Field
seating chart for Saturday's Texas Tech
game yesterday. Seniors and graduate stu
dents will enter Ramps O and P, juniors
enter through Ramp N, sophomores through
Ramp M and freshmen through Ramps J
and L. All civilian students must present
seating cards in order to be admitted to the
proper section.
Civilians Require
Seating Tickets
Director of Student Affairs
Bennie Zinn said yesterday all
non-Corps students must have a
seating card for home games in
order to be seated in the proper
sections at Saturday’s Texas
Tech game.
Students who did not secure a
seating ticket at registration
must call at the proper counse
lor’s office by 5 p.m. tomorrow.
Counselor’s offices and areas
are: W. G. Breazeale, 1-H Pur-
year—Dorms 10, 12, Hart, Law,
Puryear, day students; Eugene
Oates, Lounge B—Dorrms 13, 14,
16, 19, 21, Mitchell and Leggett;
and Howard Perry, Lounge C—
Dorms 22, Walton, Milner, and
Student Apartments.
Paper Uniforms
For Waiters?
With khaki uniforms nearly
phased out, Duncan and Sbisa
mess hall volunteers may be in
for another change, this time to
paper uniforms.
The change is under prelim
inary consideration by the Food
Services Department, says Direc
tor Col. Fred Dollar.
“This move,” Dollar explained,
“might be taken if a paper gar
ment could be found, strong
enough to withstand the active
routine of the waiters in both
mess halls.”
To date Dollar has received
only one such sample garment
Projects Total $26,5 Million
Campus Construction Rises
By JOHN FULLER
Battalion Staff Writer
The Data Processing Center ad
dition is the first of the current
campus construction projects to
taling $26.5 million to be com
pleted, according to Charles E.
Brunt, assistant manager of
physical plants.
Brunt said Institute of Statis
tics staff members moved into the
addition earlier this week.
“Although there are still a few
minor corrections being made, we
ceased charging time on the con
struction last week after univer
sity officials accepted the addi
tion,” Brunt noted.
The addition, part of a Space
Science Center project totaling
$2.25 million, was built by War
rior Constructors of Houston.
Brunt said the other building in-
the center complex, also con
tracted by Warrior, should be
completed by the first of No
vember.
THE BUILDING to house
A&Ms’ $6 million cyclotron is
scheduled for completion by the
end of October. Brunt said the
project is about 91 per cent com
plete, adding that the actual cyclo
tron apparatus installation was
recently begun by Bechtel Associ
ates of California.
The cyclotron, expected to be
operational in January, will oc
cupy a 10-acre site at the comer
of Spence Street and Farm Road
60. It will reputedly be the larg
est in the South.
Another major project is the
addition to Cushing Memorial
Library, which Brunt expects to
be completed by the end of 1967.
The four-story addition, built at
an estimated cost of $3.6 million
by Temple Associates of Diboll,
will double the library’s volume
capacity to 1,000,000 books and
will provide an additional 200,000
square feet. The project is pres
ently approximately 15 per cent
complete.
THE FOUR-STORY expansion
of the Biological Sciences Build
ing is about 40 per cent complete,
Brunt noted. The addition will
increase facilities for research
and graduate studies. Labora
tories in the building will concern
research in bio-chemistry, micro
biology, bio-chemistry and marine
biology. Radiation laboratories
will be installed in the basement
of the $2.75 million structure,
scheduled for an Aug. 20, 1967,
completion date. Stokes Construc
tion Company of San Marcos is in
charge of construction.
In addition, a Services Building
to house University information
and publications is reportedly 10
per cent complete and is expected
to be finished Aug. 26 of next
year. The $1.25 million project
was contracted by Vance and
Thurmond of Bryan.
Also under construction is a
$3.6 million laboratory which will
be the nation’s largest toxicology
research facility. One main build
ing and 12 smaller outbuildings
will comprise the laboratory,
which will be used for research on
pesticides and insects affecting
livestock.
THE SPACE Science Center, on
the eastern side of the campus,
will house such space research
facilities as the A&M Activation
Analysis Laboratory and facilities
designed for plasma physics re
search, space life sciences studies,
and research on space structures,
space capsule materials, space
electronics, and space chemistry.
Other construction projects in
clude a $2.5 million Veterinary
Medicine Sciences Building addi
tion, a $1 million Veterinary Med
icine Hospital addition and a $3
million project calling for the
renovation of Guion Hall, air con
ditioning of G. Rollie White Coli
seum and addition of a new wing
to the Memorial Student Center.
Brunt said a possible project
for a new auditorium is in the
discussion stages and that one
phase of a contract for a new
civil engineering facility is “on
the drawing board.”
HE ADDED that a Complex
Engineering Center is also
planned for the future but no
definite plans have been made.
As for the shortage of parking
spaces, Brunt said some construc
tion has been scheduled but such
projects are usually piecemeal. He
pointed out workmen are nearing
completion of a parking area on
the old Wellborn Road on the west
side of the campus. Additional
spaces are being added on land
southeast of Kyle Field.
Chilled water pipes to extend
the campus refrigerated air sys
tem to G. Rollie White Coliseum
are being installed, and Brunt
said the 12 dormitories in the
Duncan Dining Hall area will be
air-conditioned by September of
1967.
from a paper manufacturer. This
sample, however, flunked the
grade, and many more inquiries
will be sent before the depart
ment determines whether the idea
is feasible.
“The final type to be adopted,”
Dollar explained, “would prob
ably consist of more than one
layer of strong paper, with an
intermeshing of nylon threads
spaced about an inch apart. This
reinforcement would provide nec
essary durability.”
Another factor in any ultimate
acceptance of the garment would
be its cost.
“Currently, two cents is added
onto the wages of student waiters
to compensate for the cost of
cleaning their uniforms.”
Dollar indicated that if such
apparel could be phased in at a
savings, the balance could go into
additional upgrading of food
service in the mess halls.
The sample uniform, obtained
through inquiry, consists of a pair
of pants of fairly strong con
struction, complete with elastic
waistline, a coat similar to pres
ent ones, and a cap.
For upperclassmen thinking of
sending freshmen on commando
raids with matches, the final type
accepted could very easily be,
among other things, fireproof.
First Bank & Trust now pays
5% per annum on savings cer
tificates. —Adv.
BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES ADDITION
. .. about 40 per cent complete.