I Listen Up the bait forum Editor, class notes and term papers, in ward for his honesty and return The Battalion: the saddle basket of my bicycle. of the materials, I was confronted To adequately describe the With the wind whistling past my with: “No, I figured you were Spirit of Aggieland, with its many ears I was unaware that the an Aggie too, and we help each ramifications and multiplicity of case had bounced out until I other." demonstrative activities, would be reached home. Heartsick, I drove My sincere thanks to David a formidable task even for the the car back over the course I Barr, a junior in Marketing and most accomplished journalist. But had just traveled by bicycle, but Finance and to his companion, perhaps one segment of this great did not find the briefcase. When Clay Harper, for a most impres- spirit can be communicated I returned home my wife told me s j V e (at least to me) demonstra- through the medium in this case. someone had called. Yes, he had tion of one element of The Great It was a cold, dark and windy the briefcase. When I arrived at Aggie Spirit, night early in January, 1969. I the man’s dormitory room, re- yf Lhjyd Gheen had placed my briefcase, con- ceived the briefcase (complete Graduate Student taining the usual indispensible with contents), and offered a re- ★ ★ ★ Editor, Nuclear Science Addition Th ; B 1 atta ' io ' : itt ,, Enclosed is a loiter cupped rr - m — —-j m m • A from the Austin Statesman ap- l o l hjXISting AYQCl proximately two weeks before the A ^ Christmas holidays. Please ex- The $80,000 addition currently building expansion of the seven- plain to Mr. Rich (.as only an under construction at Texas A&M year-old center, located south of Aggie can) that pageantry is not University’s Nuclear Science Cen- Easterwood Airport. purpose of the Aggie Band ter will more than triple the fa- The million-dollar complex, ad- an< ^ that only those who do not cility’s existing laboratory space, ministered by the Texas Engi- understand military marching according to Donald E. Feltz, cen- neering Experiment Station and think that their performance is ter assistant director. headed by Dr. John D. Randall, is always the same. Thousands of Building on the 3,200 square the largest university reactor fa- patriotic Americans each year foot wing adjoining the center’s cility in the Southwest. view the Aggie Band performan- reception lobby began in late De- .jl. .jl. .jl. ces with tears in their eyes and cember and should be completed a feeling of pride in their souls and ready for operation in April. A U U A L 1 because they understand and re- Feltz said that the split-level rl. Well UO VFI <1111 spect what our boys in uniform brick structure will house seven rri Tyr 1 C* *. represent. laboratories, several administra- 1 O I l UCJ.C31* LdlXd* As a close friend to several Ag- tive offices and a conference „ a p m i a • gie Band members of past years room. . , , , , _ . and as the mother of an Aggie . . , , , . Center has been awarded an $11,- ^ j . ., , . ... A key laboratory in the new . . ,, . , . Bandsman at the present (with -i, • i . 900 grant from the Atomic En- ,, addition will be the animal stag- „ . . , ^ another son entering the band ... . . ergy Commission, announced Dr. , . , ., . mg lab, where animals are pre- T , , ,, . ,. . next year), I can only say that , j . . . ,. John D. Randall, center director. , ’ ., ' , , pared for experiments in radia- . , , , . those boys love the band, love tion dosage,” he said. “Hopefully, grant has hs«l to the w<>rk ^ do for * , f , “ • . -n / order two new fuel elements for _ . .. . . research done m this area will be there is a firing squad at sun- . . ., , the radioactive core of the cen- . .. . f ., . ^ . . valuable in determining the physi- . , + >» ^ u nse, they must love that, too. At . , a i v •a tGr s reactor, ur. xCandaii ex- . .. . . cal and mental limits a man can . . , any rate they continue to produce stand when exposed to varying ., , .... . exceptional halftime performan- j - „ With the addition of the new . ...... j doses of radioactivity.’’ j? i i ±. u j i j ^ j ces in a dignified manner—and * • ii u j fuel elements, scheduled for de- . . T, . , , . Three laboratories will be used .. ... xv . -n all voluntarily, no scholarships, . , livery this month, the reactor will .. by university researchers for , , , . . ,. no remuneration, no course credit. . . ., .. i • „ s.. be a ble to generate a megawatt , work in activation analysis, the „„„ ... .. . . . Gig em! , , . . , / ’ . (1,000 kilowatts) of power at any & determination of substances in t - me he noted Mrs> Walter Fischer muterials using radiation tech- longer we ^ ^ give Rockdale. Texas t-. i! i i. Hi. j .,, the rector hours-long 'rest periods’ Mrs. Fischer enclosed a clip- ac a wi e equippe wi after a scheduled shutdown,” Ran- ping of the letter from Rich, a system of pneumatic tubes for dall said which asserted that the Aggie transporting sample materials by Each 35 _ pound fuel element Band -‘performs essentially the cy in ers o e reac or an ac . contains only a third of a pound same halftime show for a number Other laboratories in the new G f the isotope uranium-235, the of years,” while the Longhorn addition includes a shop for as- actual fuel of the reactor. Band “strives to varv its weekly sembling equipment and a low- The million-dollar center, larg- pageants.” He added that peoib* level counting lab where radio- es t university reactor facility in able penalty for missing a single active samples with low radiation the Southwest, is administered by countermarch in the Aggie ftnnd levels will be counted. the Texas Engineering Experi- is a firing squad at dawn.” The new wing is the first major ment Station. —Ed. THE BATTALION Opinions expressed in The Battalion Mail sub.scHptions are $3.50 per aemester; $6 per sehool ii j. i a •_> 1 year; $6.50 per full year. All subscriptions subject to 3% are those Of the Stltdent 'WVVterS only. sales tax. Advertising rate furnished on request. Address: The Battalion is a non-tax-supported, non- Texas Ba T784s?’ Room 217 ’ Services Buildin8r - Co, iege station. profit, self-supporting educational enter- —^ — 7- • t • * 7 7 , _ 7 7 .7 . 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