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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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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.
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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.
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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,
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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
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