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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.
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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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WHITE REFLECTIONS
BLACK POWER
Charles E. Pager
Former Assistant To Martin Luther King and A Critic Of
The Poor People’s March Discusses
“WHITE REFLECTIONS ON BLACK POWER”
TONIGHT
8 p. m. MSC Ballroom
Aggies & Wives — Free
Faculty & Patrons — Nominal Admission Charge
PART II-BLACK AMERICA SEMINAR
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