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Vol. 65 No. 5
College Station, Texas
Friday, September 19, 1969
Telephone 845-2226
Ags Seek Saturday Night Victory
In Season Opener Against Tigers
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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.
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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.
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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)