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i i. 'Ill*' . iijiwr! ■ f mr £ i i H 1 it t Vi:.!! C Page 2 THE BATTALION College Station, Texas Wednesday, December 7, 1966 CADET SLOUCH by Jim Earle Tractor Discs Aid A&M’s Alaminos Gentlemen, there’s a barricade here, this street is closed, and this area is hazardous! Access to this building is limited due to construction modifications with access expected to be worse later today! I can’t say this will be a routine mis sion, but perhaps you can find your way to class! A&M Memorials Are Disgraced Campusology: How are the 52 Aggies who lost their lives in World War I commemorated? “The 52 Aggies are commemorated by 52 trees around the main drill field, which have 52 stone markers; 52 flags fly over Kyle Field at each football game. A granite me morial is situated at West Gate.” Perhaps this answer would have been correct in the past, but no more. The flags still fly in Kyle Field, and the granite marker is still at West Gate. But the markers—each with the name and place of the death of an Aggie killed in the war—no longer number fifty-two. There are 30 markers left. Twenty-seven have name plates. Three have been torn off the stones, and all of the remaining nameplates have been shamefully defaced, dented, and surrounded by a conglomeration of weeds. Today, as we recognize the 25th anniversary of the disaster that touched off an even greater loss of American lives, this apparent disregard for the upkeep of our World War I memorials is especially unfortunate. Texas A&M has always shown justifiable pride in its war record; its me morials have traditionally been points of interest to visitors on the campus. But those visitors might now reasonably ask, on seeing the thirty battered markers around the drill field, how well we are remembering our Warld War I dead. By MIKE PLAKE Texas A&M has successfully tested a new light weight anchor to be used on its research ship Alaminos. Dr. W. E. Pequegnat, professor of biological oceanography, said said the anchor weighs about one third that of a conventional an chor. “It’s a new design incorporat ing the use of tractor discs. The discs are welded on two iron limbs attached to a maip stem pipe,” he added. “The whole thing doesn’t weigh over 300 hundred pounds and it holds the ship secure, even in heavy seas.” How heavy? THE PROFESSOR said that on the last cruise they tested the stability of the ship in 25 m.p.h. winds and eight foot swells. The ship dragged a little at first, but as more cable was let, it became stationary. The final test showed about 15,000 feet of cable used to secure the ship. Two other instruments were tested on cruise No. 16. A tripod, built to hold a current measur ing device 10,500 feet below the surface of the Gulf, was tested successfully. Fifteen feet tall, it was lowered to the bottom and adjusted. A current meter hangs from its apex and measures the flow of current between the tri pod legs. THE NEXT TEST was con ducted on a housing for the cur rent meter. Because most cur rent meters are pressurized for distances of up to about 5500 feet, the electronic recording appara tus in the meter was in danger of being water damaged. The technicans of the A&M oceanography department put their heads together, and invented a casing sufficient to withstand the pressure. In addition to testing equip ment, the cruise was used to ex ploit an old theory about the wa ter curents of the Gulf. UNTIL NOW, it has been pre supposed that there was little or no current movement on the bot tom of the Gulf. However, in recent tests and on this cruise, evidence indicated differently. In stead of an ooze-type bottom, con- sistihg of decomposed plant and animal life from the higher wa ter levels, the scientists found a hard, clean material, later ana lyzed to be “ironstone” because of its density content of that element. Added to this was the dis covery of sea anemonies small animals normally found at differ ent depths who subsist by attach- THE BATTALION Opinions expressed in The Battalion are those of the student ivriters only. The Battalion is a non tax-supported non profit, self-supporting educational enter prise edited and operated by students as a university and community newspaper. Members of the Student Publications Board are: Jim Lindsey, chairman ; Dr. David Bowers, College of Liberal Arts ; John A The Associated Press is entitled exclusively to the use for ...uis—i:— -,i i.v— jji-j •- .x — not origin n.suto u matter herein are also reserved. Second-Class postage paid at College Station, Texas. News contributions may be made t or 846-4910 or at the editorial office, R' For advertising or delivery call 846-641 by telephoning 846-6618 YMCA Building. oom 4, 6415. : J :hr; College of Engineering; Dr. Robert S. Titus, College of Vet erinary Medicine ; and Dr. Page W. 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We were 325 miles due south of Panama City, so there was hardly any nearby shore.” Pequegnat came here in 1963, from Washington, D.C., where he was a program director for the National Science Foundation. Senate Shorts By BARNEY FUDGE Basketball season is underway, and the Aggies have their work cut out for them. The team is young and should gain much valu able experience this year. Things are looking pretty bleak as far as the revival of the 12th Man Bowl is concerned. Con struction on the new and improv ed Kyle Field has begun, making it impossible to hold the contest on campus. Also, the game would have to be held this semester be cause the equipment can’t be used during the spring semester. All in all, we might have to “wait ’til next year” for the return of the bowl game. At the last Senate meeting the Welfare fund was the main point of discussion. This fund was established with the slogan, “a Dollar from an Aggie, for an Ag gie.” The money is to be used in cases of true need. 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