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About The Battalion. (College Station, Tex.) 1893-current | View Entire Issue (Dec. 11, 1968)
vy .v.v.;. >.y.y ■ -..Y,:' y-yy-'v - y'y’y-'.’' mm — bill carter *-B, 3-C, & Art Roon rences —3-B, 3-C, & ^ Conferences p.m.—3-B, 3-C, & Ait Conferences Saturday i.m.—2-C & 2-D- it i.—-3-B, 3-C, 3-D iscussion i a.m.—3-B, 3-C, & j. rences p.m—Assembly Roon son p.m.—3-D— ices >.m.—3-D— ces .441 Minutes r Eat-In A HUT Ave. ES MORE V POLICY! in - Amicable, ervice is the jet this com- anent profes- you in plan- surance Plan- ROTECTION SINCE I9I0’ EMISSIONS ^logical Seminar' Street 78705 rlca M. Sdt» THE BATTALION Wednesday, December 11, 1968 College Station, Texas Page 3 Strikers Stone California School SAN FRANCISCO UP>_Rock- throwing strikers broke windows in two San Francisco State Col lege buildings Monday but quickly marched off the campus when police reinforcements arrived. The college has been torn by violence, vandalism and fights with police since the Black Stu dents Union called a strike Nov. 6. AT THE end of a rainy-day lunchtime rally in the main quadrangle, attended by about 300 strike supporters and 1,000 onlookers, a BSU speaker, Tom Williams, suddenly shouted: “Classes are going on in the BSS. Let’s move over there and close it down.” The activists raced across the quadrangle and threw stones and bricks at windows in the Business and Social Sciences Building and what was left of the glass doors, Bulletin Board TONIGHT Aggie Christian Fellowship will meet in the YMCA upper floor. George and Bonnie Ma lone will speak on “Romance or Love?” Waco-McLennan County Home town Club will meet at 7:30 p.m. in the YMCA. Christmas party will be discussed. Finance Society will meet at 8 p.m. in room 2-A of the Me morial Student Center for a busi ness meeting. University Apartment Council will meet at 5:15 p.m. in room 3-A of the MSC. Hillel Club will meet at 7:30 in the Hillel Building. Friday night services will be held at 8 p.m. THURSDAY Corpus Christi Hometown Club will meet at 7:30 p.m. in room 3-C of the MSC. Christmas Party will be discussed. Austin Hometown Club will meet at 7:30 in room 108 of the Academic Building. Plans for the Christmas party will be made; Bring your $2 for the tickets. Polo Club will meet at 8:30 p.m. in room 213 of the Animal Science Building. Garland Hometown Club will meet at 6:15 p.m. behind Gu^n Hall. Club is going out to dinner. Brazoria County Hometown Club will meet at 7:30 p.m. in the YMCA reading room. Christmas party plans will be ftiade. Galveston Hometown Club will meet at 7:30 in the Birch Room of the Memorial Student Center. Last meeting before Christmas dance. shattered in battles last week. THEY THEN surged over to the Administration Building, and broke several windows there. As 200 police held in reserve off the campus, rushed in, the strikers marched across busy 19th Avenue to the Protestant Ecu menical House, a staging point for demonstrators. Just as the rally exploded into violence, Nesbitt Crutchfield, an other BSU leaders, told the crowd, “We are involved in a war and we are going to close this . . . place down.” THE BUSINESS and Social Sciences Building is a prime tar get because most students there have attended classes regularly since the campus was reopened Dec. 2 by Dr. S. I. Hayakawa, acting president. His predeces sor had closed it Nov. 13 because of violence. Most of the 18,000 students have attended classes under police protection. Strikers demand an autono mous Black Studies Department under student control, an Ethnic Studies Department, promotion of some teachers and firing of others, admission of all non white applicants, and reinstate ment of Black Panther George Murray as a part-time instructor. Hayakawa offered several con cessions last week but strikers turned them down. A&M Gets Grant A&M has been awarded a $62,- 670 National Science Foundation grant for a 1969 summer insti tute in physics for college teach ers, President Earl Rudder an nounced Tuesday. The institute directed by Dr. Donald F. Weekes, professor in the A&M Physics Department, will provide a special program of study for 30 physics teachers from small colleges and junior colleges. Instruction in the 12-week in stitute will cover electricity and magnetism, quantum physics, electromagnetic fields, thermody namics and statistical mechanics, Weekes said. C. M. Loyd, NSF programs co ordinator here, noted the insti tute will begin June 2 and run concurrent with A&M’s regular summer sessions. r Participants for the 1969 insti tute will be selected by staff members. Application inquiries should be addressed to Dr. Weekes. Calhoun Gets Praise From SecretaryUdall Dr. John C. Calhoun, A&M vice president, has drawn high praise from Secretary of the Interior Stewart L. Udall for his work in preparing a report on noise Caused by supersonic aircraft. Calhoun was chairman of an Interior Department appointed study group of 11 prominent scientists which submitted a re port entitled “Noise and the Sonic Boom in Relation to Man.” A four-point program was recommended in the report for anticipating and meeting the problems created when aircraft break the sound barrier and set up a continuous stream of thun derclaps as they travel. In a transmittal note the Secre tary of Transportation Alan Boyd and the White House, Udall termed Dr. Calhoun’s report “cogent, dispassionate and con structive.” “I believe this report will have a significant—and maybe decisive —influence on future policy making in this area,” the secre tary told Calhoun. “It is both thorough and compelling—and any officials here attempting to come to grips with this issue must come to terms with this report.” SECRETARY Udall said the report represented a “splendid service” rendered to both the de partment and nation. The “blue ribbon” study group, representing scientists from di verse fields, recommended: • That non-military supersonic flight at this time be regarded as an experimental technological development. • That supersonic flight over populated areas be allowed only on a controlled experimental basis while full determination of the effects of noise and sonic boom is being made. • That immediate large-scale experiments be carried out with existing supersonic planes, to simulate, insofar as possible, intercity commercial supersonic operations. • That a Presidential commit tee be established with a mandate to hold public hearings in all regions of the country that are likely to be affected by a sonic boom from commercial supersonic flight, and to make recommenda tions. DR. CALHOUN served As sci ence adviser and special assistant to Secretary Udall from 1963 to 1965. He joined Texas A&M as dean of engineering in 1955 and was appointed vice president for programs after returning to the university from the Washington assignment. AIL Se/7/o/?s G-RflDUATEL / MAKE SURE YOUR PICTURE WILL BE IN THE 1969 AGGIELAND YEARBOOK PICTURE SCHEDULE P-Q-R — DEC. 9-DEC. 13 S-T-U —JAN. 6 - JAN. 10 V-W-X-Y-Z — JAN. 13 - JAN. 17 CORPS SENIORS: Uniform: Class A Winter — Blouse CIVILIANS: Coat and tie. PICTURES WILL BE TAKEN from 8:00 A. M. to 5:00 P. M. NOTE: BRING FEE SLIPS university stu 115 No. Main — North Gate Phone: 846-8019 Two TU Students Given Big ‘Bash’ By Hammermen AUSTIN UP)—Two University of Texas students were enjoying a quiet evening at home when the front door to their apartment came crashing down. Robert Galvan, San Antonio junior, and Mike Schoenfeld, Houston junior, told police they were sitting in their apartment about 8:30 p.m. Monday when their door was suddenly smashed in. Galvan said three stocky men, wearing Western clothes and carrying a sledge hammer, walked into the room. “Hmmm, wrong place,” said one intruder and the three left with out another word. Police said today they are look ing for three men, with a sledge hammer. HOMECOMING QUEEN AND JUDO EXPERT Barbara Britton, 19, University of North Dakota homecoming queen, is pictured at Grand Forks, N. D., in dual role — left as proficient in judo and, right, taking radio-television course. On Texas Freeways Oil Drums Save Lives Old oil drums are the newest life-savers on Texas freeways. Researchers at the Texas Transportation Institute here have discovered that approxi mately 30 ordinary 55-gallon barrels strapped together make excellent cushions for immovable roadside objects such as concrete abutments. The barrel network, technically called an “impact attenuation de vice,” can bring a speeding car to a relatively slow and much safer stop than if the vehicle plowed directly into a rigid ob ject. When struck, the barrels collapse in domino fashion. IN TTI’S last formal test of the system, a car traveling at 60 mph was brought to a com plete halt in 14 feet with only moderate front-end damage and headlights still intact, noted Dr. T. J. Hirsch, research engineer heading the project. Such a crash would normally push the engine back in the front seat, he re marked. Dr. Hirsch said the Texas High way Department and U.S. Bureau of Public Roads, which have ac cepted the concept on an experi mental basis, now have installed three barrel networks in Houston and one in Dallas, all on free ways which are also _ designated interstate highways. Several other Texas cities are scheduled to re ceive similar installations. NONE IN actual service has been hit head-on, Hirsch noted, but at least one installation in Houston has been “brushed” a few times. TTI researchers originally vis ualized a much more sophisticated system. “The barrels were initially em ployed strictly as an expedient, a quick remedy for a hazardous situation,” Hirsch explained. “But after extensive testing, we still have not found a better solution.” The engineer pointed out the devices are simple to design and easy to fabricate and install. They also are extremely economical. With old barrels costing about 75 cents each and new ones only $6-7, a highly dangerous point on a freeway can be made much safer for as little as $50 for materials. DR. HIRSCH noted, however, additional expenses will be in curred for site modification of many existing facilities, but the devices may actually reduce costs when included in original con struction. Houston, he said, is planning to install the barrel networks at about 15 additional points along new freeways. 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