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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.
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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.”
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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.
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March 6 to March 11 - S-Z
ATTENTION
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Pictures scheduled for 1967
Aggieland to be taken at
University Studio.
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