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ers Chasti iis Du Bennett •raf, Lt irrell,ft rIonta!|i in, Lui nes, Kti •cheer, 1 Sheek,| erryj Tisclii -tor C,| i, Eddj ■ Yat«. r > C h * 0 Freshmen Question Visiting Engineers Practicing engineers are taking their experience back to the class room. Recipients are freshmen engi neering students in the Engineer ing Graphics Department, head Dr. James H. Earle disclosed Wednesday, the second day for visiting engineers on campus. "It’s an attempt to provide freshmen with a better under standing of engineering and its application through the coopera tion of visiting engineers from various industries,” he added. Earle said 36 engineers will give a day out of their schedule in the next two weeks to work "closely with 1,050 students.” It is the second visit on campus by many of the engineers who work in teams. Similar teams were at A&M in October. Earle noted the program is an added feature of his “Graphics 105” course. It is structured to introduce the student to engineer ing design, problem solving, engi neering application and communi cations. "Emphasis is placed on the use of the graphical process to origi nate and develop ideas as well as present them in an engineering form,” he stressed. Class members, like visiting engineer teams, are divided into teams. Each team spends approxi mately 40 manhours on a design project. Class team members make a final presentation before their class and the three-member engineer panel. “These engineers are consult ants,” pointed out Earle, who noted they are rotated between different classes “to participate on three different projects and have direct contact with all stu dents.” Although students ask ques tions of the engineers, “they are not expected to provide problem solutions, but instead offer gen eral guidance and evaluation of preliminary ideas of the teams,” Earle emphasized. Engineers are encouraged to refer to their company’s opera tions and their methods of de velop products or solving prob lems. One of the big advantages of the program, Earle said, is that “it provides the student with an exposure to an engineering evalu ation” of his project. Jj-|E BATTALION Thursday, January 9, 1969 College Station, Texas Page 3 Economic Guide Provided By Development Council THIS IS TENSION David Hoelscher, junior yell leader, watches as the Red Raiders fight from behind during Tuesday’s night game. The past home opponents have rallied from a large deficit to make the game too close for comfort. (Photo by Mike Wright) Ags Aid Rehabilitation A book on the facts of life, economically speaking, will soon be available on those counties which comprise the Brazos Valley Development Council. A&M’s Industrial Economics Research Division is currently working with council members to provide potential investors an in dustrial facts book on Brazos, Burleson, Grimes, Leon, Madison and Robertson counties. James R. Bradley, division head, is project director. Field visits to the various gov ernmental units, commercial and civic organizations and agencies within the council started this week. The researchers are Worth M. Blake, A&M assistant research economist, and A. C. Johnson, assistant director and planner for the council, v. Glenn J. Cook, council execu tive director, reports that the survey, which began in December, will require approximately 90 days to complete. Cook added the main purpose of the survey will be the publica tion of the industrial facts book which is a compendium of facts about the facilities, people, econ omy and resources of the six- county area. Bradley said research division and council staff members will “spend considerable time in the area interviewing leaders and gathering information.” Greyhound Bus Lines 1300 Texas 823-8071 Inexpensive Charter Serv ice for student groups or classes. Group accomodations arraneed. Black Students (Continued From Page 1) shock and amazement over this student act.” After a 2%-hour meeting, the faculty voted 153-18 to “utterly condemn the forcible takeover of the university premises. We be lieve we cannot confront the prob lems of the university under threat and coercion. The faculty demands that the students in volved vacate Ford Hall and en ter negotiations of any grievance with the university administra tion.” The dean of faculty, Peter Dia- mondopoulos, delivered a copy of the resolution to the Negro stu dents and asked them to leave. They refused. Rehabilitation of Texas Depart ment of Public Corrections of fenders at Huntsville will be as sisted in 1969 by the first of several A&M psychological re search projects. The studies will be related to but not a fiscal part of massive state rehabilitation programs, su pervised at Huntsville by Wilbur D. Kutach. The assistant director in charge of treatment is an A&M education graduate with bachelor and master’s degrees. Dr. Larry B. Christensen’s pro ject with Arnold LeUnes, A&M psychology instructor, will deter mine psychological characteris tics of the public offender. Psychology Department faculty members also plan to examine other areas, according to Dr. Wil liam R. Smith, head. “THE CHARACTERISTICS project is only the beginning of A&M psychology involvement,” Kutach said. As a descriptive study, the Christensen-LeUnes project will attempt to identify psychological characteristics of law breakers by standardized tests. Parameters will be evaluated for use in fitting offenders into the best type of re habilitation, to maximize state programs. “We’ve got one major problem,” Christensen said. “Standardized tests we will employ were con structed for literate persons.” “The situation at Huntsville is unique, if in no other way but that the average persons we will test had only a fifth to seventh grade education,” he pointed out. “Some had no public schooling and others completed high school. But all must be considered sharp Start the New Year with your own copy of the Texas A&M DIRECTORY Student Listings Faculty-Staff University Calendar Campus Map Student Senate Listings On Sale STUDENT PUBLICATIONS DEPT., EXCHANGE STORE SHAFFERS UNIVERSITY BOOKSTORE, MSC GIFT SHOP in terms of common sense, if not in literacy, the assistant profes sor added. CHRISTENSEN SAID the pro ject will be conducted in two stages and should be completed by next summer. “First, we will test our tests,” he said. A battery of six psycho logical tests will be adapted to the offenders’ intelligence level. “Test testing on a group of about 50 will determine whether responses and information ob tained is reliable. This should be completed by mid-March,” Chris tensen indicated. “If the tests check out, they’ll be given to a larger group, say 300 to 500, depending on time fac tors,” he went on. In the second phase, character istics will be analyzed by types of offenses, into which the tested group will be broken down. CHRISTENSEN SAID the bat tery of tests will measure person ality, interest, self-concept, intell igence quotient, specific aptitude and value orientation of each in dividual. The Minnesota multi- phasic personality, general apti tude test battery and group in telligence tests are given as part of Corrections Department pro cedure. 12 Men Saved After Research Vessel Sinks NEW YORK — Twelve men were rescued Wednesday af ter a commercial research vessel, at sea on a confidential mission, sank nearly 300 miles out in the North Atlantic. The ship, carrying two men from the U. S. Navy’s Underwa ter Sound Laboratory, was dis covered missing Tuesday when it failed to report its position en route to a rendezvous with a Navy nuclear attack submarine. The men had spent 26 hours in the open sea and were reported wet and cold but otherwise un harmed. Winds were 20 to 25 knots and waves 8 to 15 feet in the area, the Coast Guard said. The men abandoned the foun dering vessel at midnight Monday, 20 minutes before she sank about 280 miles southeast of New York. 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