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if Page 2 THE BATTAUON College Station, Texas Tuesday, February 21, 1967 CADET SLOUCH by Jim Earle Researchers Crash Signs With Electronic Computer Imagine a car crashing into a highway signpost inside an elec tronic computer. Texas Transportation Institute researchers have developed a mathematical simulation which will allow such tests to be con ducted on Texas A&M’s brainy IBM 7094 computer. The technique can be used to predict reduction of speed of au tomobiles which collide with breakaway posts. Primarily, the computerized crash tests will help reduce the number of costly and time-con suming field tests of motor ve hicles. Dr. Tom Edwards, supervisor of breakaway sign support re search for TTI, developed the mathematical simulation from data gleaned in 50 crash tests conducted during the past 14 months at A&M’s Research An- “. . . . Engineer’s Week? Do you mean you came bustin’ in here at 2 o’clock in th’ morning to tell me this is En gineer’s Week?” Wrong Side Given On LSD’s Story An attitude of sensationalism by the press toward LSD, lysergic diethylemide acid, has resulted in strongly biased public opinion against a chemical which may be one of man’s most beneficial discoveries. LSD was discovered in 1935 by a scientist in Sandoz Laboratories, Inc. of Switzerland who accidentally breathed the fumes of the new chemical he was testing. “I saw my body lying dead on a couch,” he relates, “and I saw my soul walking around the room.” LSD is the most powerful of the halucinogenic or psychedelic, “mind-manifesting,” drugs which include mari juana and paote cactus seeds. LSD, unlike alcohol, is self-limiting. After three days of use, LSD has no effect, and a person must wait a week or more to be affected again. It is ironical that although alcoholism is one of the worst diseases of man and no permanent harm has been traced to LSD, society allows the widespread use of alcohol and condemns and rejects LSD, which has been helpful in treating alcoholics. LSD has been used to give terminal cancer patients some relief, “The pain was still with me, but I could stand out side myself, away from it, and I could accept the coming of death,” one patient said. LSD may be a tool to unlock the mind of man, but inappropriate attention paid the offbeats and amateurs who use it may build up such a barrier for the serious professionals experimenting with LSD that knowledge which might be of great value may be a long time coming. THE COMPUTER simulation is part of a $367,600 TTI re search project for 13 states and the District of Columbia to im prove highway safety. Drs. Nei- lon J. Rowan and Robert M. Ol son are project directors. Breakaway signs developed by TTI are being used by the Texas Highway Department and depart ments of several other states. Re cent reports indicate no injuries have resulted from 45 motor ve hicle collisions with breakaway signs on Texas interstate high ways. The THD requires breakaway signs on new freeways and has authorized modification of high way signposts on 1,100 miles of interstate highways, Olson point ed out. In the computer simulation process, Dr. Edwards is conduct ing parameter studies to develop basic design information. INPUT INFORMATION for the simulated tests involves a va riety of vehicle weights and speed, weight and sizes of sign posts, size of the breakaway base and components. Based on this and other infor mation, designers can ask the ma chine a multitude of questions, New ROTC Plan Set For Students January Rainfall Below Normal January precipitation in Bryan and College Station averaged .57 inch, according to Water Re search Project 5002 officials at Texas A&M University. The below-normal rainfall meas urements were taken by 29 re porting stations in the research project to determined runoff from a built-up area. Dr. Robert A. Clark directs the research. Station 45 near Finfeather Lake gauged .42 inch for the low measurement. Station 50 in the Country Club Lake area took the top reading, .74 inch. Stations are located in the Bur ton Creek watershed, which takes in most of Bryan and part of Col lege Station. The January average was .13 inch more than that averaged by 27 stations in the East Yegua base north of Dime Box. Students who missed the first two years of the ROTC program may qualify for a new U. S. Army Commission through a two- year program. The undergraduate who en rolled as a civilian student and graduate students less than 28 years of age are eligible, an nounced Col. D.* L. Baker, A&M commandant. Interested students should con tact Maj. Donald F. Fenton, Room 208, Trigon (846-5720), for infor mation on scholastic require ments, aptitude tests, physical exam, officers board interview and summer camp requirements. “The student is deferred as soon as he passes required tests,” Major Fenton noted. 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. 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Address: The Battalion, a student newspaper at Texas A&M is published in College Station, Texas daily except Saturday Sunday, and Monday, and holiday periods, September througl May, and once a week during summer school. ay, igh MEMBER The Associated Press, Texas Press Association Represented nationally by National Educational Advertising Services, Inc., New York City, Chicago, Los Angeles and San Publisher Texas A&M University Student Editor Winston Green Jr. Managing Editor John Fuller News Editor Elias Moreno, Jr. Amusements Editor Bob Borders Features ~ Patricia Hill Sports Editor — Gary Sherer Sports Writers —.— Jerry Grisham, Charles Rowton Staff Photographer Russell Autrey Beverley Braley TRAVEL Offers to all students and members of the Faculty and Staff the following Travel Services: 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. Airline reservations and ticketing. Student Rate . . . Air Tickets. Student Tours to Europe—from $680.00 Car Purchase—U. S. Financing Available. Steamship Space Available—Student Groups. Beverley Braley’s Fine Student Tours to Europe. Call For Your Airline Ticket Delivery. 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 such as what is the deceleration of a vehicle weighing 4,200 pounds when it crashes into a specific post at 55 miles per hour? Design engineers can modify the program to study develop mental posts to determine their safety feasibility. All states do not use the same type of high way signs for various reasons, but can check their designs quick ly and economically in mathe matically simulated tests. EDWARDS’ METHOD offers guidelines to engineers rather than dictating designs of sign posts. Another study involves the ef fects of wind loads on sign sur faces. Hayes E. Ross Jr. is TTI’s supervisor for the research. He is studying the use of lighter ma terials in construction of signs. The lighter materials must, how ever, be strong enough to with stand high wind velocities. Ross also is testing louvered signs for wind resistance. A maj or problem in the work is select ing louver angles which will allow wind to go through without af fecting the solid background ap pearance of the sign. Solid and louvered signs are tested in the subsonic wind tun nel at A&M. Solid background signs also are subjected to natu ral wind forces in tests at A&M’s Research Annex. Measurements are made by electronic instru mentation. ULTIMATELY, ROSS plans to compare wind tunnel and field test results by reducing data from all tests to a configuration suit able for computer investigations. Ross also is conducting an eco nomic study of highway signs. He is probing the economics of de signing a sign to withstand the 100-mile-per-hour wind velocity of a hurricane in an area in which winds normally blow about 10 miles per hour. In this case, especially in areas where hurricanes strike in fre quently, Ross feels it might be more economical to build a sign to last 10 years, thought by many highway officials to be the life expectancy of a sign, than to build a more costly sign to en dure 25 years. Mother’s Weekend Is Up In The Air DENISON, Tex. <A>> _ Mrs. Carol Loper is a school teacher who spends her weekends jump ing out of airplanes. She wears a parachute, how ever, so the worst thing that hap pens to her is the sudden jar when the main chute opens. “It’s kinda like jumping off a chair to me,” she said. The teacher of the second grade began sky diving a year and a half ago and so far has made more than 105 jumps. Her husband, Donald, an elec tronics technician in a Sherman plant, has been diving 2% years and has 240 jumps to his credit. She says he is a “terrific sky diver.” Carol and Donald went sky div ing on their honeymoon and made a kiss pass in mid-air. Then she got what she calls her perfect wedding present—a black jump suit. Mrs. Loper’s small daughters haven’t yet taken up thfe daring sport. During the week, when she teaches classes at St. Xavier’s Parish School, the family is or dinary enough. But come the weekend, it’s a different story. “Most sky divers have a mal function maybe one time out of every 100 or 200 jumps,” she said. “Well, out of my first 30 jumps, I had five, which is very un usual.” When the minor malfunctions occur, the chutist pulls the rip cord on the reserve chute. She’s landed in trees 11 times; hit a barn; and landed on an is land and had to swim to shore. a woman tends to panic more quickly in a desperate situation. Mrs. Loper, who has won sev eral diving awards, says a be ginning parachutist can get a complete sky-diving rig for as little as $30, but the better out fits cost up to $300. The highest altitude she has dived from was 15,000 feet, when she also did a 90-second free fall. An average jump is from about 7,200 feet. Mr. and Mrs. Loper agree that parachuting is a great sport. She said that when a person is sky diving, he’s got his mind on what he’s doing and nothing else. “Besides, it’s really very relax ing,” she added. But skydiving isn’t her only sport. She’s also a snow ski en thusiast. Her husband, though, doesn’t care for snow skiing. “He thinks it’s too dangerous,” she said with a straight face. Brazos Engineers Set Aside Week One time, she landed in a field, the farmer-owner of which didn’t take kindly to such goings-on. He pulled a shot gun on her. “I just gathered my parachute up around me and told him to leave me alone, and then I got out of there,” she said. “He ac tually shot at some of the other divers as they were coming down.” She says anyone can sky dive as long as he keeps his head. She believes that generally men are better divers than women because The Brazos Chapter of the National Society of Professional Engineers has announced plans for local observance of “Engi neer’s Week” which began Sunday and ends Saturday. Chapter President Peter D. Weiner, assistant professor of mechanical engineering at Texas A&M, said local activities will be highlighted by a 7 p.m. banquet Thursday at Briarcrest Country Club. Featured speaker will be Rex Bailey of Bryan, regional manager for Southwestern States Telephone Co. Weiner said a local engineer deemed to have made the most significant contribution to his profession during the past year will be cited at the banquet, along with an outstanding young engi neer. Approximately 150 engineers from the Universtiy, Bryan-Col- lege Station and the surrounding area are expected to attend. The theme for this year’s “En gineer’s Week” is “Engineering for the Human Environment.” WHATABURGER 1101 S. College — Across From Weingarten “WORLD’S LARGEST PURE BEEF BURGER” • 14 Lb. Pure Beef In Every Whataburger • MADE WITH 100% PURE BEEF GROUND DAILY AT WHATABURGER PHONE 823-1864 — Your Order Will Be Ready Players Director Elected To Board Of Theater Assn. C. K. Esten, director of the Aggie Players, has been elected to the board of directors of the Texas Educational Theater Asso ciation. Esten, a past president of the association, also was named chair man of the TETA Festival Com mittee. He is a member of the TETA Visitation and Minimia Criteria Committee, which makes accreditation rulings regarding universities applying for member ship. Representing A&M at the TETA annual convention in Waco were Dick Gustafson, Millie Foy, Marie Crook and Kirk Stewart. Esten said TETA promotes good theater on all levels in the state and advises secondary schools in theater work. MmlccArl Supjlj ‘Pidtu/te. puwKut*- .919 5»C©lUj« Ar*-&ty*i l Ti*i ATTENTION Corps Sophomores and Juniors Picture schedule for Aggie- land ’67 to be taken at the University Studio in North Gate. Feb. 20 to Feb. 25 - G-L Feb. 27 to March 4 - M-R March 6 to March 11 - S-Z ATTENTION Civilian Sophomores and Juniors Pictures scheduled for 1967 Aggieland to be taken at University Studio. 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