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About The Battalion. (College Station, Tex.) 1893-current | View Entire Issue (Jan. 5, 1968)
S'j&v>,v ■' v.',.y..- . i Wrect \\ Junioi h, junior aninj Cexas A&MiJid is received it ristmas Day ersity officii; i. the son of fit illey Mills, (jene Buth, is graduate st, ces were cos Gateville. Work-Study Outline Pushes Engineers IM ^ : An increasing number of in dustrious Texas A&M engineer ing and science students are cramming five years of study and work into four—and have more money to enjoy their college life. Secret to their success is co operative education, a work-study plan which dates back more than a half-century but has received new emphasis in recent years. Cooperative education, ex plained A&M Assistant Engi neering Dean J. G. McGuire, is a year-round program in which students split their time between campus studies and industry or government work, with short vacations sandwiched in. While students sometimes ex- I tend their schooling, the coopera- | tive education plan can be com pleted in four years wtih careful planning, Dean McGuire observed. Basically, a co-op student has a one-year experience edge on his non-participating classmate at graduation—and an inside track for a job at the firm with which he has been associated. The one-year experience jump is the sum total of the three semesters the co-op student nor mally spends on the job during a four-year period. BiC Medium ’ Point I9t Seminar Series Will Play Host ToChicagoProf A seminar series on education featuring Dr. Frances S. Chase of Chicago will be presented by Texas A&M’s College of Liberal v rts Jan. 9-March 12, announced /an Frank Hubert. /Chase seminars will explore //feas of “Federal Strategy and |Tactics in Education,” “New 3tyles of Educational Planning” ind “Educational Implications of Mew Knowledge and New Views U if Knowledge.” f IB K Attendance will be on an invi- f >/ ■ I .ational basis for A&M graduate f AI■ students and faculty, superin- mfU j tendents, local school officials, ffflfJMlB state education officials and | Regional service center directors, Hubert added. Dr. Chase, 68, is the former K (education department chairman Hand graduate school dean at the B University of Chicago, where he * is presently involved in examina- J tion of new educational research j^nd development institutions func- I [tions. He will be on winter quarter J leave of absence as a visiting pro- essor at A&M, Hubert said. , Federal agencies and educa tional institutions and organiza- — I Ijtions have called on him for study iati mi* j ^ 0 f s tate school systems, the TJ. S. JwjL J Office of Education, education I Organization and administration * IU<<N J |iand teacher satisfaction and | morale. The Virginia native received VI Schul|e bachelor anc * nias t er degrees at the University of Virginia, his Ph.D. at Chicago and an honorary doctor of letters at New York University. He was a Virginia public schools teacher, principal and superintendent before accepting a professorship at Chicago in 1951. Dr. Chase was department head 10 years and served in dual capacity for six years when he was dean of the graduate school. His activities include develop ment and direction of several education services and centers, direction of a Pakistan advisory program, chairmanship of the President’s Committee on Public Higher Education in the District of Columbia, plus studies leading to publications such as “The 48 State School Systems,” “Educa tion Faces New Demands” and “The High School in a New Era.” Dr. Chase has done Boy Scout work and served on a hospital board and panel for the study of emotionally disturbed children. His numerous educational organi zation affiliations include Phi Delta Kappa and the American Educational Research Associa tion. ington, HI. All EER! E For BEST RESULTS TRY BATTALION CLASSIFIED McGuire said the co-op student also has the advantage of having worked with people in a profes sional status, in addition to hav ing a technical head-start. Only students who have and maintain at least a 1.5 grade point ratio (based on a three- point system) are eligible for the program. Generally, the students are assigned to participatnig indus trial or government firms during their sophomore and junior years, with the freshman and senior terms devoted strictly to class room work. The student nor mally spends an equal amount of time on campus and on the job during his two middle years. Students are paid salaries com mensurate with their educational level and experience during their work periods, McGuire noted. He said a typical starting salary would be $440. “Once a student is admitted to the program,” he added, “we assume he will continue with the same employer until graduation.” “It is understood, of course, that the student must do the work required of him by the em ployer,” McGuire continued, “and be able to work successfully with those with whom he is associated on the job.” The dean said A&M now has more than 130 students enrolled in the co-op program, with the number increasing between 10 and 20 per cent each year. Industrial and governmental participants in the program in clude oil, pipeline, chemical, air craft, electronics, electrical power and steel firms and federal agen cies such as NASA’s Manned Spacecraft Center at Houston. a-A'L' i THE BATTALION Friday, January 5, 1968 College Station, Texas Page 3 ■ ■ NewComputerHelps W ith Student W ork >/ ' sssars-.. i AGGIE BACKGROUND Three Air Force officers assigned at Texas A&M don’t really need to bone up on history. Maj. Thomas W. Comstock, Lt. Col. Glendon P. Jones and Maj. Eric E. (left to right) are A&M graduates who returned to instruct AFROTC courses. Aggie Miller Three AFROTC See Alma-Mater Officers Make Good A&M Prof Heads Education Confab Dr. Paul R. Hensarling of Tex as A&M will head a program and appear on a closed circuit TV panel of the 100th American As sociation of School Administra tors conference in Atlantic City, N. J., in February. The Education Department head was invited to participate in a TV program, “To What Extent Is Curriculum Being Structured by the U. S. Office of Education?” Feb. 18. Hensarling will chair a final day session on “Education Data Processing Potential for Fiscal, Instructional and Administrative Organization.” The AASA conference wall be held Feb. 17-21. Program invita tions w f ere issued by the associa tion president, William H. Curtis, superintendent of schools at Man chester, Conn. Thi-ee Air Force officers as signed to the Texas A&M AF ROTC instructor staff last sum mer returned to Aggieland at an opportune time. The trio-Lt. Col. Glendon P. Jones of Crockett, Maj. Thomas W. Comstock of Houston and Maj. Eric E. Miller of Bartlett - are A&M graduates. While they were students, A&M football fortunes soared to SWC and national championships, victories over arch-rival Texas and bowl successes. “We’re good for the Aggies,” quipped Colonel Jones, a 45-year- old assistant professor of aero space studies who interrupted his college studies to join the Air Corps in 1942. The gray-templed officer at tended classes with Joe Boyd, John Kimbrough, Marion Pugh, the late Marshall Robnett and Derace Moser and others of the 1939 national champion Aggies. They defeated Tulane in the Sugar Bowl and Fordham in the Cotton Bowl. “I saw the Tulane and Fordham games,” Jones said. “Our class volunteered as one and had gone into the war when A&M played Alabama in the 1941 Cotton Bowl. I didn’t see that one.” A&M lost, 29-21. Major Comstock, a 1952 gradu ate who was the Aggie swimming team’s Kiel Trophy (most valu able) swimmer in 1951, and Maj or Miller, 1954 grad and three- year letterman at end, were pre sent when A&M nudged Texas, 22-21 in 1951. Colonel Jones was also assign ed to the Air Force detachment at A&M in the mid-1950s. The 1956 Aggies defeated Texas at Austin, 34-21. Among his stu dents were gridders Dee Powell, now an Aggie assistant coach, and Dennis Goehring, College Station banker, of the SWC champs. A cadet captain of “B” Athlet ics in the corps his senio ryear, Major Comstock was stationed at Bergstrom AFB and saw several A&M games before shipped to Japan in 1957. In AFROTC classes this fall, while the Aggies were enroute to a 6-4 season and the cotton Bowl host spot, he raised student eyebrows. “Until I was assigned to A&M this year, the last time I saw the Aggies play they beat Texas,” he told them. Aggies look forward to having the three officers around for at least two more years. Texas A&M’s new IBM 360/65 computer is blinking its lights like a post-season attention- hungry Christmas tree after it was plugged in at the Data Processing Center. The new machine has a much bigger memory than the IBM 7094 computed which was sent to the Cyclotron Institute. Robert Bower Jr., acting head of the DPC, said Friday “It’s workihg real good. It’s already doing some student problems.” This means it’s humming along on the “Dr. Pepper Runs” and doing the “Happy Hour” work more efficiently. To the uninitiated, “Dr. Pepper” runs are student problems requir- in less than a minute’s time and 1,000 lines printing which are made at 10 a.m., 2 and 4 p.m. daily. “Happy Hour” is the time dedicated to student work from 7 to 10 p.m. weekdays. FOR AWHILE, however, the 360/65 is having to do an imper sonation of the former 7094 com puter. Many of the computer programs for university payroll, student records and such were designed for the 7094. “So the new machine is equipped with a compatibility feature which makes it act like a 7094,” said Bower. The 360/65 has four times the magnetic core storage, or mem ory, capacity of the old machine. Not only this, but the new one gets to its memory faster. Mem ory access time is 750 billionths of a second, as compared to only two millionths for the old ma chine. TO ACQUAINT people with the new 360/65, the Data Process ing Center is sponsoring two semi nars for staff and graduate stu dents. The first, held this week, was for those who have had little or no computer experience. The second seminar will be held in two-hour sessions from 4 to 6 p.m. Monday through Thursday in the Geology Building. This is to acquaint present users of com puters with the new system. “We’ve already had 58 people sign up for this one,” said Bower. Although the on-line storage capacity of the new machine is large at the present, it will be increased further in March. “We’ll replace the six disc drives with a big storage device contain ing nine disc drives, eight of which are connected to the com puter at one time. This will allow on-line storage of 207 million characters,” added Bower. WHILE THE new computer is primarily a teaching and research tool, it serves a great variety of users and can do several tasks at the same time. “At any given moment, it might be punching cards on Job 1, print ing Jobs 2 and 3, running Job 4 and reading cards on Job 5,” said Bower. One minute, the computer might be asked to consider a student simulation of a business and the next be asked to perform theo retical calculations in science and engineering. “Students have made up foot ball and baseball game simulation programs and the people in Humanities do some concordances and stylistic analyses of various authors,” Bower noted. Although the machine is pow erful and impressive, “It’s still an idiot—it does exactly what you tell it, no more, no less,” he de clared. Coffee Research Exposes Problems By ELIZABETH LYNE Alan Waters, A&M professor of economics, has completed re search on African coffee produc tion aided by a Rockefeller Foun dation Grant. Waters said his purpose was to find out the cost of coffee, that is, the cost of a country as a whole to produce coffee rather than some other product. He was trying to decide what resources are used in growing coffee and what the alternative uses ax-e. The economy of Kenya is gov ernment - oriented. Government marketing boards deal with ev ery major crop. Since coffee, produced in mountainous Kenya, constitutes 25 percent of Kenya’s foreign exchange, its production is government controlled. There is, according to Waters, an “international situation where price is held up to induce pe<ynle to produce more, but each country has got to try to find ways to prevent people fi - om producing more.” “Before you can find these ways to prevent over-production, you have to find out how much it costs to produce,” he added. Waters said coffee in Kenya was produced mainly by two groups. Foreign owned bigger states produce one-half of the crop and small farmers produce the other half. If the government takes action on one section, he continued, “it might have some major effect on the other group.” Waters is co-author of the book, “Planning for Profit and Prosperity” published by the East African Publishers of Nairobi, Kenya in 1967. He has also writ ten articles for the “East Afri can Management Journal.” He plans to use his research material to earn his doctorate from Rice University. While in Africa, Waters, whose second language is Swahili, taught one year at the university in Nairobi. He said the students have a “sort of manana” attitude and don’t work very hard, but they are politically minded. He said the 1,000 students rep resented many different races in cluding Europeans and Arabs. But the majority were Indians, the middle class in the colonial system. “The Indians tended to groups,” he added. They “kept to their culture and spoke their different dialects among their own groups.” This is a “great pity,” he con tinued, “because there are all sorts of problems in Kenya due to independence that require flex ibility to get along with all the Europeans.” Notice To Bidders Sealed Proposals, in duplicate, addressed to Brazos Coun ty A&M Club, Box 4, College Station, Texas, will be received at College Station, Texas, on the 15th day of January, 1968, for the following described three tracts of land: 1. Lot Number One (1) in Block “D” in the Country Club Estates No. 2, and addition to City of Bryan, Brazos County, Texas, according to plat of said addition re corded in Vol. 150 page 121, DRBCT, and being the same land conveyed by Joe Sosolik by deed dated March 13, 1963, and recorded in Vol. 226 page 469 of the Deed Records of Brazos County, Texas. 2. One Acre, more or less, in Zeno Phillips League, Abst 45, City of Bryan, Texas, adjacent to Munnerlyn Vil lage, being described in deed dated 6-30-48 and record ed in Vol. 136 page 58 of the Deed Records of Brazos County, Texas. 3. 180’ x 100’, containing 0.41 acres of land, in Zeno Phil lips League, in City of Bryan, Brazos County, Texas dated 7-26-48 and recorded in Vol. 136 page 59 of the Deed Records of Brazos County, Texas. This property is South of Bryan Municipal Golf Course, facing Link Street, Tee Street, and Ehlinger Street. A build ing on this property, known as the clubhouse of the Brazos County A&M Club, is to be included in this sale. Bids will be evaluated by the Seller, Brazos County A&M Club. The Seller reserves the right to select the bid which best suits its needs, whether the price is the highest or not, and also reserves the right to reject all bids or waive informalities. Brazos County A&M Club Box 4, College Station, Texas a ' ; : ..V'V ' - v , . 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