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Fall work over
for drill team
THE BATTALION
Wednesday, December 2, 1970 College Station, Texas Page 5
The Fish Drill Team closes
out fall semester work Thursday
toward a fourth national cham
pionship with a two-unit appear
ance in the annual Bryan and
College Station Chamber of Com
merce Christmas Parade.
FDT units headed by Cleo D.
Moore of Houston and John W.
Richard of Port Arthur will be
the 30th and 44th elements in the
70-unit Thursday night parade.
The Ross Volunteer Company
and a police escort leads off the
7 p.m. parade at South Bryan and
West 28th Streets.
FDT senior advisor Richard A.
Hanes of San Antonio said the
Thursday performance by the 50-
man team will be its last work
until the start of the spring se-
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TAMU Special Attractions presents
THE NATIONAL PLAYERS’ PRODUCTION
of George Bernard Shaw’s
ARMS AND THE MAN
Shaw's famous anti-war satire
BRYAN CIVIC AUDITORIUM
Wednesday Night, Dec. 2, 1970i—8:00 p. m.
All Seats are Reserved, Prices:
$1.00, $1.50, $2.00, and $2.50
Tickets and information at MSC Student
Program Office 845-4671 and at door.
mester Jan. 18.
For the first time in several
years, the team which won the
National Intercollegiate ROTC
Drill Championship in 1968, 1969
and 1970 will not compete in a
fall semester meet. The FDT ap
peared as a unit for two home
football game march-ins, per
formed an exhibition at the Tyler
Rose Festival and for a group
meeting at A&M.
“A solid month of inactivity
will be pretty tough,” Hanes said.
“We’ll have to buckle down quick
at the start of the spring semes
ter. The team will have a tight
schedule, with nearly every week
end accounted for.”
He added that the Gulf Coast
Drill Competition in which the
fish usually march was postponed
from next weekend until Jan. 30.
Hanes said that the team’s 50
members were divided 30-20 be
tween units “A” and “B” for the
Bryan Christmas parade. Junior
advisors Louis B. Ullrich and
Michael L. Burkett of San An
tonio have supervised preparation
of the two teams.
They will compete with Sam
Houston State’s Lowman Rifles,
two teams from Allen Military
Academy and a Texas National
Guard-sponsored Boy Scout team
in the parade’s drill unit category.
Theater arts
being moved
to building J
Theater arts instruction will
continue through the spring se
mester, although the English De
partment section will be chang
ing location.
The theater arts section di
rected by C. K. Esten expects to
move from Guion Hall to Build
ing “J” during the next few
months.
Guion Hall is facing imminent
removal to make way for con
struction of an auditorium com
plex and the continuing education
tower in connection with Me
morial Student Center expansion.
Esten noted that 21 semester
hours of the theater arts sec
tion’s 58 hours course work will
be offered during the spring se
mester. The seven three-hour
courses, most of which are avail
able to all students for elective
credit, include technical theater,
directing I, acting II, voice, chil
dren’s creative dramatics, theater
history II and theater arts prob
lems.
Robert W. Wenck of the sec
tion said students may elect the
theater arts program as a minor.
Secondary education students
may take it as a second teaching
major or elementary education
students can use theater arts as
an area of academic specializa
tion, he added.
The program includes 12 hours
each of acting and directing,
theater history and criticism and
theater electives, 13 hours of de
sign and technical production and
nine in theater education.
Study is enhanced through par
ticipation in productions of the
Aggie Players, directed by Esten.
Chess tournament
begins Saturday
The annual Brazos Open Chess
Tournament squares off 50 play
ers Saturday at A&M for compe
tition sponsored by the Memorial
Student Center Chess Committee.
Play set up under five-round
U. S. Chess Federation-rated
Swiss procedure will begin at 9:30
a.m. Saturday in the MSC As
sembly Room, announced George
Lockwood, committee chairman of
Fort Worth. The competition
continues through Sunday.
Lockwood said observers and
visitors are welcome.
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SERVICES MANAGER’S
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MONDAY EVENING
SPECIAL
BROILED SALISBURY
STEAK
W/SAUTEED ONIONS
Choice of two
vegetables
Rolls - Butter
Tea or Coffee
$0.99
TUESDAY EVENING
SPECIAL
YANKEE BEEF
POT ROAST
Potato Pancake
Choice of One Vegetable
Rolls - Butter
Tea or Coffee
$0.99
Registrar Robert A. Lacey, standing, and System Analyst Elliott 0. Bray work the Sand-
ers 720 Cathode Ray Tube terminal in the Student Records Office. The new computer
ized information system makes student data available in less than one second.
Computer information system
stores student’s full records
WEDNESDAY
EVENING
SPECIAL
CHICKEN FRIED STEAK
WITH CREAM GRAVY
Rolls - Butter
Tea or Coffee
and
Choice of
any two vegetables
$0.99
A&M has developed a com
puterized information system to
provide faster and more accurate
student record service.
Registrar Robert A. Lacey said
the remote system consists of
Sanders 720 Cathode Ray Tube
terminals connected to the Data
Processing Center’s IBM 360/65
computer by a private telephone
line.
The Cathode Ray Tube (CRT)
is similar to a television screen.
Lacey noted A&M is the only
Texas college or university using
the CRT system.
Eleven displays on each student
are stored in a data cell, a direct
access device which replaces mag
netic tape. Each display takes less
than one second to be shown.
Purpose of the system is to
have up-to-date information on
all students, Lacey explained.
Currently the Richard Coke
Building has three CRT sender-
receiver sets, one used exclusively
for information input on new or
returning students.
Another CRT is located in the
YMCA Housing Office to handle
all student address changes.
Approximately five percent of
the data cell capacity is used for
the fall semester enrollment of
14,406 students.
Elliott O. Bray, systems analyst
who developed the program, said
a student’s academic record can
now be updated in a matter of
seconds. The magnetic tape com
puter process sometimes took
three to four weeks.
The registration card packet
was the start of the uniform
record system in February, 1966.
It is the basis for all student
information.
Students update personal his
tory during registration. Academ
ic updating goes through the
Registrar’s Office and usually
deals with grade point ratios,
graduation checks, course of
study, hours completed, classifi
cation and name changes.
While students tend to dis
regard personal history mistakes,
academic errors generate quick
responses, the registrar said.
Lacey said the new system will
eliminate many of the errors and
bring confidence to the records
system.
New student records were put
on the data cell on Feb. 1, 1970,
and the entire student enrollment
was completed Oct. 15.
Bray added the uniform records
are the heart of the system.
Other current benefits from
the terminal are classroom assign
ments for the spring semester
and enrollment reports to the Co
ordinating Board, Texas Colleges
and University System.
Future plans include updating
student record files for gradu-1
ation candidates, add and drop
courses after the 12th class day, J
faculty teaching data, master
class schedules and possibly in
stant registration and scheduling J
for all students.
The Graduate College currently
has a terminal system for all
graduate students, Lacey pointed
out.
The registrar said his office is
working closely with the Associ
ation of Former Students to get
it connected to the system and
have former students’ records on
a data cell.
$278,100 granted
to sea research
The National Science Founda
tion has awarded A&M a $278,-
100 grant for continued assist
ance in operating the R/V Ala-
minos, the institution’s oceano
graphic research vessel.
Dr. Richard A. Geyer, head of
the Oceanography Department,
noted the 1971 award represents
a $41,100 increase over NSF sup
port for the current year.
The Alaminos is a 180-foot
vessel used for a variety of stud
ies in the Gulf of Mexico and
Caribbean.
THURSDAY
EVENING
SPECIAL
ITALIAN CANDLELIGHT
DINNER
ITALIAN SPAGHETTI
Served with
Spiced Meat Balls & Sauce
Parmesan Cheese
Tossed Green Salad
Choice of Salad Dressing
Hot Garlic Bread
Tea or Coffee
$0.99
Swap or sell
or tell on
BCS-K TV/Channel 9.
Swapshop, another exclusive feature of BCS*TV, will provide free air time
for household swaps, garage sales, want to buy or sell announcements from any
non-commercial organization or individual.
Enclose a 35mm color slide of the merchandise you have to sell or trade and
we will air that, too.
Civic service and educational organizations will want to utilize this service for
free spot announcements of upcoming events and activities of interest to the
community. Enclose a 35mm slide of the activity and we will air that free, too.
Swapshop was designed to be a useful, public service. Take advantage of it
often. Mail your announcements to BCS*TV at Box 3867/Bryan or drop them off
at the studios within Midwest Video's new offices: 3609 Texas Avenue in the
Ridgecrest Shopping Center.
And remember: if you're on Midwest Video's cable system you're going to
see more . . . including swapshop.
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Midwest's nearly 10,000 viewers now include 192 new families and 30 reconnections
of former customers: Oct. 20-Nov. 20, 1970.
FRIDAY EVENING
SPECIAL
OCEAN
CATFISH FILET
Tarter Sauce
Cole Slaw
Grandma’s Cornbread
Rolls - Butter
Tea or Coffee
and
Choice of
any two vegetables
$0.99
SATURDAY
SPECIAL
NOON AND
EVENING
SLICED BARBECUED
PORK LOIN
Choice of Two Vegetables
Rolls - Butter
Tea or Coffee
$0.99
SUNDAY SPECIAL
NOON AND
EVENING
ROAST TURKEY
DINNER
Served With
Cranberry Sauce
Cornbread Dressing
Rolls - Butter
Tea or Coffee
Giblet Gravy
and your choice of any
two vegetables
$0.99
For your protection we
purchase meats, fish and
poultry from Government
inspected plants.
“Quality First”