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£ Che Battalion Vol. 65 No. 5 College Station, Texas Friday, September 19, 1969 Telephone 845-2226 Ags Seek Saturday Night Victory In Season Opener Against Tigers m ...m * -V < “ s ^ ‘ ^ * WATCH OUT TIGERS The Aggie football team walks through some plays Thurs- contest. Gene Stallings, head football coach, plans to give day afternoon in preparation for their season-opening clash many of the sophomores on the A&M squad a chance to Saturday at 7:30 with the Louisiana State University pick up some experience during the game. (Photo by Mike Tigers in Baton Rouge. The team invades Tigerland looking Wright) for a victory after nine defeats and a tie in the annual Prompted by ‘Tremendous’ Student Influx Strictness on Speed, Stopping Planned by Campus Security By Janie Wallace Battalion Staff Writer Campus Security will strictly enforce regulations regarding speeding and stopping at stop signs this year because of the tremendous influx of students, Asst. Police Chief Morris Mad dox told The Battalion Thursday. “We have no radar on campus for speeding violators, but more security vehicles will patrol the area,” Maddox said. “The patrolman can clock a car by following it one-fourth of a mile keeping the same distance between him and the car,” he said. “If a car is clocked at 50 m.p.h., for example, a ticket for a serious moving violation will be given.” Maddox said that these tickets are cleared through the Justice of the Peace Court in College Station, not the fiscal office on campus. “The fines can range from $1 to $200, but the usual fine is about $15,” he added. Students who park cars s on campus were also reminded that Campus Security officers will be gin to patrol the student parking lots Monday. “We try to give the students a week to get their cars registered before checking the student lots,” Maddox commented. “The only tickets that were given out this week were for parking illegally in staff lots and in no parking zones.” Another regulation that will be enforced strictly is “backing into parking spaces.” Students may back into parking spaces that do not have a curb as a boundary “A driver should not back into parking spaces because the tail of the car is longer than the front. If someone backed into a space, he could hit another car or ruin shrubbery lining the parking lots,” Maddox said. The reinstatement fee, $2 for parking and $3 for speeding, did not change, but the University has added a $5 penalty to tickets not cleared within the allowed 72 hours. Thus, these tickets will cost $7, according to Maddox. “If someone continues to ig nore a parking ticket, we send him a letter notifying him of his delinquency,” he added. “When a person does not clear the ticket within five days after the letter is sent, it is filed in Justice of the Peace A. P. Boyett’s court.” “Then, the student is respon sible to the judge, not to the school,” Maddox noted. By Richard Campbell Battalion Sports Editor Mike III, if you’re not familiar with him, is a full-blooded Bengal Tiger, and, incidentally, is the mascot of Louisiana State Uni versity. When Mike roars, so do over 68,000 fans who haunt Tiger Stadium in Baton Rouge for every home game. The sweltering heat will get to you on early fall eve nings and if it doesn’t, then the screaming crowd will, and finally if both of those fail, then the LSU football team is always there to plow you under. Coach Gene Stallings will take his sophomore-laden squad into the bayou country tomorrow night in hopes that he can find the right combination to tan the Tigers’ hide. The Aggies have not won a Baton Rouge contest since 1956 from the Bengals when they eked out a 9-6 de cision. LSU is the reigning champion in the inaugural Peach Bowl after edging Florida State for the crown, 31-27 in 1968. Coach Charles McClendon expects the Tigers to be ready for their first game with 33 returning letter- men and a host of unproven but talented sophomores. With only four offensive start ers back it would seem to be a lean year for the scoring side this year but this may not neces sarily be so. Retux-ning to the fold this season is left-handed quarterback Mike Hillman, who shined in the Peach Bowl, along with senior splitback Jim West, the top Tiger receiver, and All- America candidate Godfrey Zond- bracher at center. The defensive situation for the Bengals looks like previous Mc Clendon bunches and may remind some of the now-defunct Chinese Bandits. Returning are six start ers including two top linebackers in Mike Andex-son and All-Ameri can hopeful George Bevan. Other stalwax-ts for the defense will be end Buddy Millican, defensive tackle John Sage, and safety Craig Bux-ns. A&M’s hopes will fall heavily on the shoulders of sophomores Saturday night because Stallings has indicated that maybe as many as 11 or 12 will start for the Aggies. Basically the Ag’gies will be running the same formation which they ran last year with the exception of moving one of the split ends in tight. At weak end soph Billy Joe Polasek (5-9, 173) will start with soph Robin Davis (6-0, 207) tabbed at weak tackle. At weak guard will be Jim Unit to Combat Hijackings Developed by A&M Staff SOLD OUT An A&M student receives a sympathetic “no” from an Athletic Department employee as he vainly checks on the availability of tickets for the A&M-LSU game. The Aggies take on the Tigers tomorrow night at 7:30. (Photo by Mike Wright) A silent and harmless electronic inspection system designed to de tect concealed weapons on com mercial airline passengers has been developed by researchers at A&M. Frank M. Ivey, project direc tor, and Dr. Lloyd E. Fite, asso ciate head and chief electronics expert at A&M’s Activation Analysis Research Laboratory, confidently say the detector will pick up any object that might be used to divert aircraft. Fite explained that the elec tronic equipment can be pur chased from any retail electronics dealer for about $1,500 per unit. All equipment operates on x-egu- lar current, he said, and there is no need for a technician to operate it. Ivey contends the model is more advanced than any they have heard about and it has instant response, where others take up to five seconds. The system operates on magnetic impulse. Bryan Building & Loan Association. Your Sav ing Center, since 1919. —Adv. BB&L. Six magnetic detection probes, three on each side of a frame the passenger must pass through, are used to detect the magnetic field caused by a weapon. Fite said any object which has a high enough magnetic field sets off an alarm and light warning system. The passenger is then asked to step aside and he is checked for a possible concealed weapon. The problems created by the earth’s magnetic field were elimi nated by using a pair of Helmo- holtz coils above and below the probes. The coils, he explained, cancel the earth’s field by orient ing their axes parallel to the earth’s field and passing a cur rent through the coils in a direc tion and magnitude that will cancel the earth’s field. Fite explained that the mag netic field caused by a metal mass is the only magnetism detected by the magnetrometer probe. Ivey, chief of the Law Enforce ment Studies and Technology section of the Texas Engineering Experiment Station, said the system will be demonstrated soon to the Federal Aeronautics Ad- Parker, a 6-1, 205-pounds junior. The center will be three-year starter Jack Kovar (6-1, 205). The strong guard slot will be manned by 6-3, 222-pound soph Leonard Forey and the strong tackle will be soph Andy Philley (6-4, 235). The tight end will be senior Ross Brupbacher, a 6-3, 210-pounder returning to play in Louisiana where he was a school boy star. Running the Aggie attack at the quarterback slot will be junior Jimmy Sheffield, a quick 6-0, 180-pounder. At wingback will be senior Barney Harris (6-2, 196) and opening at tailback will be soph Steve Burks (5-11, 170), replacing All-America candidate Larry Stegent, who is sidelined by a pulled hamstring. Opening at fullback will be Marc Black (6-2, 213), also a sophomore. Handling the punting will be Sheffield because regular punter Mitch Robertson burst a blood vessel in his leg Monday and will be out for a month. The place kicker will be Mike Bellar, a 5-10, 170-pound transfer sopho more. The defensive team will also be loaded with youth but has enough experienced players there to make it salty. Starting his third year at left end will be Jim Piper (6-0, 203) while Soph-Of-The-Year in ’68 Mike DeNiro, a 6-0, 210- pounder will man the other end. At tackles will be two sophs, Van Odom (6-0, 215), and Wayne Wheat (6-5, 225) and at middle guard will be Van’s brother, Lynn, a 5-10, 203-pound senior. The rover will be soph Steve Luebbehusen (6-0, 195) and the linebackers will be two seniors, Buster Adami (6-0, 212) and Mike Caswell (6-3, 214). Soph sensation Edwin Ebrom (5-10, 190) will be at the left halfhack spot while junior letterman Dave Elmendorf (6-1, 196) will play the other. The safety will be soph David Hoot (6-2, 190). 5 Experts to Talk In Lecture Series The 1969-70 University Lecture Series will pi'esent five of the nation’s leading authorities in a vax-iety of fields, including Dx\ George F. Carter, A&M's distin guished px-ofessor of geogx*aphy. The series opens Oct. 15 with Di\ Paul E. Sigmund discussing “The Px-ospects for Democracy in the Developing World.” An au- thoi-ity on American, European and Latin Ameidean politics, Dr. Sigmund is associate professor of politics at Princeton and acting director of that institution’s Latin American program. Dr. Carter, honored as “Fac ulty Lecturer of Texas A&M Uni versity” for the curi-ent academic year, will be the speaker Nov. 18. His topic will be “Px*oblems in Pre-Columbian Cultural Ex changes Between the New World and the Old World.” Carter has received national at tention for his theories on anti quity of man in America. He be lieves man came to the New World about 100,000 years ago, long before the date accepted by many of his colleagues. He also contends Columbus missed the first boat to America by about 4,500 years. Dr. Charles L. Dxake, chairman of Columbia’s Department of Geology, will be here Dec. 16 for a lecture entitled “The Continen tal Margin of Eastern North America.” The nationally promi nent geologist and geophysicist was formerly associated with Co lumbia’s Lamont Geological Ob servatory" and has served as chief scientist on oceanographic re search cruises throughout the world. “Huey Long and His Politics” will be discussed Feb. 19 by Dr. T. Harry Williams, Boyd Profes sor of History at Louisiana State University. He is currently pre paring a biography of the color ful Louisiana politician. The season’s final lecture will be presented March 19 by Dr. James F. Crow, one of the na tion’s outstanding medical gene ticists. The chairman of genetics and medical gentics at the Uni versity of Wisconsin will discuss “Heredity, Evolution and Man's Future.” Dr. George M. Krise, chairman of the University Lectures Com mittee, said the six-year-old se ries is designed to give the fac ulty, students and general public the opportunity to hear renowned authorities speak on subjects of broad social, political and intel lectual interest. No admission is charged for the lectures, he noted. All lectures will be conducted at 8 p.m. in the Memorial Stu dent Center ballroom. ministration and Secret Service in Washington. “Recent skyjacking of aii’craft by armed gunmen to Cuba and other countries has led to a need for a detection system for the carrier company and general pub lic,” the former agent pointed out. Ivey said the detection station should be placed between the ticket line and debarkation gate. It is a federal offense punishable by death, to carry a concealed weapon aboard aircraft, he noted. The idea for the detection system was conceived in January, 1969, by Dr. Charles F. Squire, who was acting head of the A&M Physics Department. Dr. Richard E. Wainerdi, director of the Activation Analysis Research Laboratory and associate dean of engineering, also worked on the project. It has been under the super vision of Gen. A. R. Luedecke (ret.), associate director of the Texas Engineering Extension Service and associate dean of engineering. University National Bank “On the side of Texas A&M.” —Adv. M| t*4 hhhbhhhh SIGNS OF PROTEST Discarded protest signs grace the inside of G. Rollie White Coliseum following Secretary of Agriculture Clifford Har din’s “listening conference” Thursday. Related story, page 3. (Photo by Mike Wright)