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Page 2 THE BATTALION College Station, Texas Tuesday, February 7, 1967 Town Is Big Hall Extra Success The Town Hall Committee is to be commended for bringing The Globetrotter Show to A&M. It brought lots of laughs and warmth to a crowd of about 6,500 Aggies gathered in G. Rollie White in spite of the freezing temperatures outside. The hot action included several balancing and juggling acts along with the world famous roundball clowns. There were even several beauties that brought “Whooagh- whooagh” from the attending males. But the stars of the evening were Meadowlark Lemon and his group of comedians who not only provided the audience with a brilliant display of basketball, but also an outstanding performance of comedy. Time after time they proved that “the hand is quicker than the eye” as they completely dazzled their opponents and the spectators. They repeatedly made “impossible” shots that left the crowd disbelieving their own eyes. The Globetrotters certainly provided A&M with a wonderful evening of entertainment and our hat is off to the Town Hall Committee for its work in making it possible. In the words of the Globetrotters, we wish to “nice shot!” Computer Program Employed say, “I had all day Friday off, no classes after 3:60 and Monday mornings off, but I couldn’t get but six hours that way!” Researchers Seek Answers To Lunar, Human Problems Color Procedure To Be Explained By Camera Club Dr. Herbert Yule is listed of ficially as an associate research chemist at the Space Research Center. Actually, he quizzes computers on reactor neutron activation analysis problems. “How much gold is in this sam ple?”, he asked the IBM 7094, most sophisticated computer in A&M’s Data Processing Center. Quickly, the computer chattered the requested information — 26 micrograms. In the process of conducting activation analysis research, Dr. Yule looks at the spectrum of gamma rays after samples are irradiated with reactor neutrons at A&M’s Nuclear Science Cen ter. He studies radioactivity with a high resolution gamma ray spectrometer in a Space Research Center Laboratory. Dr. Yule observes responses of individual chemical elements and estimates the minimum quantity which can be detected by activa tion analysis. “We’ve found that a fairly Jjarge number of chemical ele- -Mnents can be detected in quanti ties of less than a [billionth of a gram,” he said, emphasizing the minuteness of the sample by not ing 454 grams in a pound. Dr. Yule said activation analy sis is one of the main tools used in studying meteorites because smaller amounts of chemical ele ments can be detected. “We hope to apply this knowl edge to the analysis of lunar rock when the Apollo Project is suc cessful,” Yule commented. “Cur rent plans call for 50 pounds of lunar materials to be returned to Earth for research. “It appears the moon should be of the same type material as me teorites,” he added. “At least, there is no evidence that it is not composed of the same material.” Dr. Yule prepares his experi mental data in a form suitable for use in the computer. The 7094 is then programmed to pick out specific features of materials while ignoring other features. “Activation analysis can aid in determining what materials are in a given example of anything . . . copper, tin, silver . . . you name it,” he remarked. “And the use of computers in research has relieved the scientist of a great deal of laborious calculation.” Careful about predicting future uses of activation analysis, Dr. Yule outlined the possibility of studying the role of trace ele ments in the human body. “Someone has shown a corre lation between the amounts of certain trace elements as to the presence of disease,” he noted. If we could understand the relation ships to the body as a biochemi cal system, we might get clues on cause and cure of any number of diseases and disorders. Trace elements are defined by Yule as one part per million of a given unit. “There is a great surge in knowing the exact nature of vari ous materials,” he said. “Some transistors must be made from ultra-pure materials. If impuri ties exceed one part in a billion, the transistors might not work.” The 35-year old Yule earned his doctorate in nuclear chemistry at the University of Chicago. Through the university’s pro gram, he bypassed bachelor’s and master’s degrees. Yule came to A&M last year after three years in the activation analysis pro gram of General Atomic, a divi sion of General Dynamics. Be fore that, he conducted oil re search for the California Re- search Corporation in Los Angeles. 19-Week Contractors School Scheduled To Begin Feb. 19 A 19-week specialty contractors school begins here Feb. 19. R. L. Patrick, coordinator for the Engineering Extension Serv ice program, said a week of schooling has been deleted from the school. Forty instructors from indus try will teach business and job management, related academic subjects, principles of super vision and other subjects. Patrick said experience and better scheduling have allowed TEES to trim four weeks train ing from the program since the pioneer course in 1965. Graduates of the school, Patrick noted, will work as construction superintendents or project man agers at salaries up to $12,000 annually. Twelve men, most with appren tice training background in me chanical construction jobs, are expected to register. Boyer Will Move To Midwestern U. Calvin J. Boyer, acquisitions librarian since 1964, has been named director of libraries at Midwestern University. Boyer, 27, assumes the post March 1. He succeeds Paul Vagt who will become head librarian at the new Tarrant County Junior College. Boyer received a degree in edu cation at Eastern Illinois Univer sity and his library science mas ters at Texas in 1964. He is native of Charleston, 111. 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Press Association Service Franci: Represented nationally by National Educational Advertising idces, Inc., New York City, Chicago, Los Angeles and San City, Chicago, Angeles Publisher Texas A&M University Student Editor Winston Green Jr. Managing Editor John Fuller News Editor Elias Moreno, Jr. Staff Writers Patricia Hill, Mike Plake, Robert Borders, Jerry Grisham Sports Editor Gary Sherer Staff Photographer Russell Autrey Beverley Braley TRAVEI MEMBEfe Offers to all students and members of the Faculty and Staff the following Travel Services: 1. Airline reservations and ticketing. 2. Student Rate . . . Air Tickets. 3. Student Tours to Europe—from $680.00 4. Car Purchase—U. S. Financing Available. 5. Steamship Space Available—Student Groups. 6. Beverley Braley’s Fine Student Tours to Europe. 7. Call For Your Airline Ticket Delivery. f£L We also offer a 30 days open Charge Account to all members of the Faculty and Staff, and will deliver your tickets. Memorial Student Center 846-7744 and in Bryan 312 East 25th 823-8188 Color darkroom procedure will be explained to Texas A&M Camera Committee members by Southwest Camera color con sultant Odin Clay Thursday. The 7:30 p.m. meeting in Memorial Student Center Rooms 2C and D also will register mem bers for the spring semester, an nounced President Ken Reese. The 1967 Aggieland group pic ture will be made. The committee has installed color equipment in one of its darkrooms in the MSC. Only members attending the color orientation meeting will be issued with color darkroom cards, Reese added. Chess Tournament To Start Friday The Texas A&M Open Chess Tournament will begin Friday in the Memorial Student Center, ac cording to John Moffit of the MSC Chess Committee. First-round matches will be played at 7:30 p.m., with com petition open to students and fac ulty members. Time limit will be 40 moves per hour. ! : Moffit said trophies will be given to the top three finishing students. The first computer program copyrighted at Texas A&M will be used to operate debate tourna ments at Tulane and New York Universities and possibly the University of Kentucky, an nounced A&M debate director Carl Kell. The computer - match debate program, under which A&M’s last two tournaments have been op erated, has been copyrighted and is pending registration, Kell said. Tulane used the program for its first Mardi Gras Invitational last weekend, to pair teams from 80 schools in preliminary rounds. “NYU and Kentucky debate coaches are interested in using the program,” Kell noted. “NYU is tentatively planning to employ it in thier April 21-22 tourna ment.” Kell gave Tulane permission to use the program this year, and assisted in rewriting it in For tran language for use in Tulane’s 7044 computer. The program is described in an article by Kell, “Power-Matching by Computer,” in the winter, 1967, edition of the American Forensic Association Journal. Kell first visualized the power- match process by computer in the fall of 1964, when he came to A&M following master degree studies at the University of Ar kansas. Kell, Data Processing Center programmer Jim Fore hand and Manfred Zerbe, Texas Transporttion Institute design and traffic engineer, worked out the program for first tournament use at A&M Dec. 3-4, -1965. “The program was modified somewhat and used again in our tournament this year,” Kell pointed out. “Dr. Alex Lacy of Tulane was here for both of the computer-match tourneys.” “Student help and leadership made the program successful,” Kell said. He said David Maddox, Ron Hines, David Gay, Wayne Prescott, Mark Caperton and sev eral other students were instru mental in student work that assured tournament success. The effervescence of “morning after” tablets is helping engi neers design slosh-suppression devices for space rockets. The columns of bubbles provide a pic ture of fluid agitation. Sloshing fuel in a rocket’s tanks can throw the vehicle off course. Degree Candidates in: BS, MS, PhD degrees in ChE, Chem. BS, MS, degrees in ME, PetE. Meet the Man from Monsanto February 13 Sign up for an interview at your placement office. This year Monsanto will have many openings for graduates at all degree levels. Fine positions are open all over the country with America’s 3rd largest chemical company. And we’re still growing. Sales have quadrupled in the last 10 years ... in everything from plasticizers to farm chemicals; from nuclear sources and chemical fibers to electronic instruments. Meet the Man from Monsanto — he has the facts about a fine future. An Equal Opportunity Employer Jones To Teach Education Cours An educator who has lived in every Latin American country will instruct a new Education and Psychology Department course, comparative education. Dr. Earl Jones, Director of Programa de Educacion Inter- americana, will conduct Educa tion 402 classes from 5 to 8 p.m. Mondays beginning this semes ter, announced Education and Psychology Head Dr. Paul Hen- sarling. “Dr. Jones is uniquely quali fied to teach this course,” Hen- sarling noted. The new Title III program director joined the faculty in Jan uary, coming to A&M fro® University of Chile. Since i| Dr. Jones has resided in c Latin American country signments with the Orga: of American States and as ing professor from UCLA, speaks Portuguese and Spi fluently and lectured in Spi at the University of Chile. Comparative education, a credit-hour course, will s contemporary national gj of education. Resource such as American visitors to eign countries and internati; visitors to A&M will be empli Dr. Hensarling said. M m Read Battalion Classified On Campus with Max9hulniaji| (By the author of “Rally Round the Flag, Bo!/s!" l | “Dobie Gillis,” etc.) STAMP OUT YOUNG LOVE It happens every day. A young man goes off to college, leaving his home town sweetheart with vows of eternal love, and then he finds that he has outgrown her. What, in such cases, is the honorable thing to do? Well sir, you can do what Crunch Sigafoos did. Si i* ■ When Crunch left his home in Cut and Shoot, Pa., to go off to a prominent midwestern university ( Florida State) he said to his sweetheart, a wholesome country lass named Mildred Bovine, “My dear, though I am far away in col lege, I will love you always. I take a mighty oath I will never look at another girl. If I do, may my eyeballs parch and wither, may my viscera writhe like adders, may my ever-press slacks go baggy!” Then he clutched Mildred to his bosom, flicked some hayseed from her hair, planted a final kiss upon her fra grant young skull, and went away, meaning with all his heart to be faithful. But on the very first day of college he met a coed named Irmgard Champerty who was studded with culture like a ham with cloves. She knew verbatim the complete works of Franz Kafka, she sang solos in stereo, she wore a black leather jacket with an original Goya on the back. Well sir, Crunch took one look and his jaw dropped and his nostrils pulsed like a bellows and his kneecaps turned to sorghum. Never had he beheld such sophistication, such intellect, such savoir faire. Not, mind you, that Crunch was a dolt. He was, to be sure, a country boy, but he had a head on his shoulders, believe you me! Take, for instance, his choice of razor blades. Crunch always shaved with Personna Super Stainless Steel Blades, and if that doesn’t show good sense, I am Rex the Wonder Horse. No other blade shaves you so comfortably so often. No other blade brings you such facial felicity, such epidermal elan. Personna Super Stainless Steel Blades take the travail out of shaving, scrap the scrape, negate the nick, peel the pull, Head preser The Chapte taries ninth taries “Pro the th will b 8:30 a. Center The a.m. v Sharor '( Dr. profes ing, h NASiA inforci Pre: oust the ouch. Furthermore, Personnas are available both in double-edge style and in injector style. If you’re smart —and I’m sure you are, or how’d you get out of high school —you’ll get a pack of Personnas before another sun has set. But I digress. Crunch, as we have seen, was instantly smitten with Irmgard Champerty. All day he followed her around campus and listened to her talk about Franz Kafka and like that, and then be went back to his dormitory and found this letter from his home town sweetheart Mildred: Dear Crunch: Us kids had a keen time yesterday. We went down to the pond and caught some frogs. 1 caught the most of anybody. Then we hitched rides on trucks and did lots of nutsy stuff like that. Well, I must close now because 1 got to whitewash the fence. Your friend, Mildred P.S I know how to ride backwards on my skateboard. Well sir,'Crunch thought about Mildred and then he thought about Irmgard and then a great sadness fell upon him. Suddenly he knew he had outgrown young, innocent Mildred; his heart now belonged to smart, sophisticated Irmgard. Being above all things honorable, he returned forth with to Cut and Shoot, Pa., and looked Mildred straight in the eye and said manlily, “I do not love you any more. I love another. You can hit me in the stomach all your might if you want to!’ “That’s okay, hey!’ said Mildred amiably. “I don’t love you neither. I found a new boy.” “What is his name?” asked Crunch. “Franz Kafka!’ said Mildred. “I hope you will be very happy” said Crunch and shook Mildred’s hand and they have remained good friends to this day. In fact, Crunch and Irmgard often double-date with Franz and Mildred and have barrels of fun. Franz knows how to ride backwards on his skateboard one-legged. * * * ©1%7, Max Shulman So you see, all’s well that ends well—including a shave with Personna Super Stainless Steel Blades and Personna’s partner in luxury shaving—Burma-Shave. It comes in menthol or regular; it soaks rings around any o her lather. PEANUTS By Charles M. Schulz SHE DIDN'T BEAT MV AftVL. 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