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Wednesday, March 17, 1971
WEDNESDAY—Clear to partly
cloudy. Northerly winds at 5 to
10 m.p.h. High 73, low 41.
THURSDAY — Partly cloudy.
Southerly winds at 5 to 10
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CLASSICAL GUITARIST Robert Guthrie gives a concert
Tuesday night in the Memorial Student Center. Guthrie’s
performance was sponsored by the Contemporary Arts
Committee. (Photo by Steve Dunkelberg)
By CHERLYN PERKINS
Civilian Week-Weekend (April
19-25) will have something for
everyone, Leon Drozd, Week-
Weekend activities chairman, said
Tuesday.
Events begin on Monday, Drozd
said, with a car show featuring
high performance cars. The show
will be held on the quad west of
Sbisa Dining Hall. Refreshments
will be served for the event held
from noon through the afternoon,
Drozd said.
Tuesday is Residence Hall Day.
Drozd said the events featured
during the day will be traditional
games such as the molasses drop
and egg toss with new events
including an egg rolling contest,
a greased pig contest and a goat
roping contest put on by Walton
Hall. “Each hall may choose an
event and new ideas will be wel
come,” Drozd explained.
Aggie Muster is set for Wed
nesday. Also on Wednesday is the
Faculty Awards Luncheon at noon
in the Memorial Student Center
Art films here Friday
International prize-winning films assembled in
Ihe Kinetic Art” will be presented in a Friday film
low here by the Contemporary Arts Committee.
The 8 p.m. Memorial Student Center Ballroom
ratation will include “La Vita,” or “Live in a Tin
in" by Bruno Bazzeto of Milan and other challenges
ithe senses of sight and sound.
‘ ‘Kinetic Art’ is 11 films ranging from 55
conds to 55 minutes in length and a new and
mulating approach to film entertainment as a
(forming art,” commented David Dacus, Contem-
oiaiy Arts pubUcity chairman of Dallas.
He noted that the series is on a nationwide tour
id has keynoted top film festivals such as New
ork’s Lincoln Center, the High Museum of Atlanta,
iratoga Summer Festival and the Corcoran Gallery
[Art in Washington’s Lisner Auditorium.
Bazzeto’s “La Vita” counterpoints alternately
iarious and satirical views of life in its monotonous
and familiar reality against rare moments of escape
into fantasy, Dacus described.
A black comedy of bizarre combat in an
antique carnival setting is offered by Jan Svankmayer
of Prague.
Also featured are “Phenomena” by famed San
Francisco artist Jordan Belson, 55 seconds of charm
by Germany’s Lothar Spruce titled “Happiness,”
“Cruel Diagonals,” a dramatic post war episode;
Japanese artist Yoji Kuri’s “Two Grilled Fish” and
“Why Did You Kiss Me Awake?” dadaist film joke by
Hellmuth Costard of Germany.
Dacus noted that a New York Times Critic
called the series “a lively sense of the visual... as
exhilarating as it is indescribable.”
Tickets, at $1.50 for adults and $1 for students,
are available at the Student Program Office, along
with special descriptive brochures.
Admissions also will be sold at the door, Dacus
said.
(MSC). “This is probably the most
meaningful area of the civilian
week activities,” Drozd comment
ed. He explained that each club on
campus is expected to submit the
name of a member of their par
ticular college who is considered
the most student-oriented faculty
member. Also at this time civilian
students who have shown schol
astic excellence and outstanding
interest in civilian activities will
be presented.
Throughout the week, intra-
Great Issues
Thursday talk
won’t be held
Walt Rostow, University of
Texas at Austin professor, sched
uled to address a Great Issues
audience in the Memorial Student
Center Ballroom Thursday night
at 8 has canceled his speech, Great
Issues Committee member Kirk
Hawkins said Tuesday.
Rostow, who was to speak on
U. S. foreign policy, canceled a
few days ago because of other
plans in Washington, Hawkins
said.
mural contests in mud football,
volleyball, pushball, spades, chess
and billiards will be going on,
Drozd said.
All games will be played at 5
p.m. There also will he a powder
puff football game and a go-cart
race on Saturday. Drozd urged
persons interested in intramural
activities to contact Terry Van
Dyck, Law Hall president.
Thursday evening is a grove
movie sponsored by the Aggie
Cinema. Drozd said that the movie
will probably be “Butch Cassidy
and the Sundance Kid” or “How
the West Was Won.”
A “Gay ’90s Casino” will high
light Friday night. Held on the
second floor of the MSC, it will
include an ice cream parlor, a
sing along, and live entertain
ment. Drozd said tickets will be
$2 per person, and that all cur
rency used past the door will be
play money. “Games such as dice,
blackjack, beat the dealer, etc. as
well as three roulet wheels will
be available,” Drozd explained.
The final casino event will be an
auction.
The “Second Annual Grand
Prix Go-Cart Race” is scheduled
for Saturday afternoon in parking
lot 50 near the new engineering
building, Drozd said. There also
will be a rugby game against the
University of Texas at 3 p.m. on
the drill field.
The Three Dog Night is featur
ed in concert at G. Rollie White
Coliseum that night. The Civilian
Hall sweethearts will be present
ed on stage before the concert
with crowning of Civilian Sweet
heart at the presentation dance
immediately following in Sbisa,
Drozd continued.
Card packets may be purchased
for $12 for holders of hall spring
activity cards. For fall and spring
card holders, the cost of the Week-
Weekend is $8. Those having only
fall activity cards may obtain the
card packet for $9.40. For non
card holders, the events will cost
$13.50. Tickets purchased sep
arately are $7 per couple for
Three Dog Night, $4 per couple
for the casino, 50 cents a person
for the Aggie Cinema, and $4 per
couple for the Sweetheart Pre
sentation Dance.
Aerospace senior tries
to make better frisbee
The “build a better mouse trap
and the world will rush to your
door” principle didn’t work for
A&M aerospace engineering maj
or Charles E. Holt.
The senior from Center
Committee wants
aid in city clean-up
Singing Cadets set record
Performances Friday and Mon
day will notch the Singing Cad
ets a new school record for ap
pearances in one year.
The Robert L. Boone-directed
Texas A&M glee club will sing at
the 2 p.m. St. Joseph’s Hospital
dedication in Bryan Friday, an
outdoor ceremony to be attended
by Cong. Olin E. Teague.
Monday, the 55-member chor
al group will perfonn at a First
United Methodist Church Lenton
revival in Bryan. It will be the
Forum subject
ustment in
married life
49th performance of 1970-71 sur
passing a record set several years
ago.
It also will initiate a two-week
breathing period for the group
that performed twice on national
telecasts this year. The Singing
Cadets have been on the road for
the last three weekends, chalking
12 performances in sexben cities
before 8,000 persons.
The 1,750-mile tour raised the
organization’s off-campus concert
count to 33 for 1970-71, erasing
a record of 30 set in 1968.
Sponsored by various groups
as well as mother’s and A&M
clubs, the Singing Cadets are vet
eran “Ambassadors of Aggie-
land.”
“We’ve stayed in the homes of
people throughout Texas, and
this very effectively gets the im
age of Texas A&M to those who
might not hear our concerts,”
commented David Kesey, Cadets
publicity manager of Pecos.
Kesey noted the recent tour in
cluded the Singing Cadets’ last
two-hour concert until the April
23 concert at the Bryan Civic
Auditorium.
By MIKE STEPHENS
Battalion Staff Writer
A plan to clean up College Sta
tion which will involve community
and campus organizations, groups
and individuals has taken its final
form, announced the chairman of
the College Station Beautification
Committee Tuesday.
Mrs. Clara Sandstedt said April
3 has been designated “Clean Up
College Station Day.” She invites
any A&M organization, dorm or
individual to take part.
She said several A&M organi
zations have already shown in
terest in the drive, including Stu
dent Council on Pollution and the
Environment (SCOPE) and Com
munity Improvement Service Cen
ter Organization (CISCO), an
architecture group. SCOPE has
promised 145 men and trucks to
help.
The plan is to have some groups
clean up highways and roadsides
and some groups with the trucks.
Residents of College Station have
been urged to participate by put
ting all their trash beside the
streets running by their homes.
Trucks will pick up all refuse
along the road on that day.
“We will cover every part of
the city and intend to really do
a good job,” Mrs. Sandstedt said.
Working on the plan since
January 28, she has sent out 115
letters to every group in College
Station. She said the response in
favor of the program has been
overwhelming.
“I believe the new awareness
in ecology by more people has led
to the success of the program,”
she said. She said the mayor has
proclaimed March 28-April 3 as
“Clean Up College Station Week.”
Any organization, group, dorm
or individual interested in helping
by supplying trucks or man
power, is urged to contact Mrs.
Sandstedt at 846-7628 or 823-5220
in the mornings.
brought his knowledge to bear
on improving the frisbee, the
hand-thrown flying plastic toy.
Holt found that though his im
provements had detracting ef
fects, analysis and design tech
niques he has studied for work
ing with airfoils, fuselage and
other aircraft problems worked
on the frisbee.
“Purpose of the experiment,”
he stated in a report to Dr.
Charles Rodenberger, “was to
analyze flight response and char
acteristics of a frisbee and to
re-design or modify it, hopefully
for the better.”
The aero senior is a 1967 Cen
ter High School graduate who
transferred to A&M from Ste
phen F. Austin College.
Though Holt’s approach em
ployed mathematical analysis, he
used his 10%-inch Master Tour
nament Model for data measure
ments and modification tests.
A stopwatch and yardstick
were used to derive the frisbee’s
average velocity, one of two
measurements needed for his
analysis.
An ingenious idea was em
ployed to find the thrown fris
bee’s angular velocity. Holt
glued a drinking straw upright
to the center of the curved disk
and attached a length of twine
to one side of the straw.
“By giving the frisbee an av
erage toss and recording the
number of times the string
wrapped around the straw and
the time of flight, angular ve
locity was determined,” he re
ported.
The frisbee, thrown with a
wrist snap to impart spin and
forward movement, develops lift
much as does an airplane wing.
Holt’s first improvement at
tempt was to increase the de
vice’s coefficient by attaching
around its edge 20 downward
bent one-inch lengths of drink
ing straw. A 13 per cent lift in
crease was obtained, but it made
the frisbee bank and fly off line
more.
“This is thought to.be due to
the advancing side having a
greater velocity and thus great
er lift than the (right) receding
side, as thrown by a right-hand
ed. person,” Holt noted. “This
produces a rolling moment to the
right.”
He then rotated the straws a
half turn, forcing air upward to
try to cancel out unequal lift
amounts. Roll was reduced 70
per cent, but a nose-down atti-
(See Aerospace, page 4)
Pop singer to perform
adj
Dr. W. R. Smith, Psychology
Department head at A&M, will
open the university’s Student
“Y” Association “Marriage Fo
rum” series at 7:30 p.m. Wednes
day in the Memorial Student
Center Assembly Room.
Dr. Smith’s topic is “The Prob
lems of Transition from Single
to Married Life.”
Dan McQueen, “Y” publicity
chairman, said the forum series
is open to the public, not just
A&M students. He noted past
sessions have included couples
married 10 years and longer.
“We especially urge young
marrieds to attend,” McQueen
said.
Purpose of the three-part series
is to bring the public into contact
with experts in various fields to
discuss marriage and marriage
problems.
Two additional sessions are
scheduled March 24 and 31.
Alan Ramsey, National Coffee
house Circuit performer who has
popular recordings, in Texas
shops, will play at the Basement
Thursday, Friday and Saturday
at Texas A&M.
Ramsey is a regular at the
Rubyiat in Dallas—his home
town—and the Chequered Flag in
Austin, where he made the first
step in the entertainment field.
Basement chairman Gary Reid
of Stanton said the Memorial
Student Center’s three sessions
this week will begin at 8 p.m.
The Aggie coffee house is located
next to the MSC barber shop.
Admission will be 75 cents per
person.
Ramsey uses the six-string
guitar and a harmonica to do
what he calls “a kind of light,
folky, current, pop, country, little
blues here and there type of
stuff.”
He says it is somewhere be
tween Stephen Stills, James Tay
lor, John Mayall, Paul Simons,
John Sebastian and The Band.
Ramsey does Sebastian’s
“You’re a Big Boy Now,” “Sunny
Skies” by Taylor, Still’s “Suite:
Judy Blue Eyes,” ‘Guinivere” by
David Crosby, “And When I Die”
of Laura Nyro, “Up on Cripple
Creek” by J. R. Robertson and
several of his own compositions,
such as the whimsical “Barney’s
minus
S. A. River
green dye for day
Golden Missile.”
Lyrices by the former Dallas
resident deal with stripteasers
(“A guy walks into a bar and
finds his girlfriend on stage”),
little boys (“Myself included,
about me and materialism”) and
whirlwinds and tornados, an
analogy of bad women and the
weather.
For nine years Ramsey lived
in a well-to-do part of Dallas
from which came future doctors,
lawyers and business executives.
“I never really thought about
folk music as a legitimate career
until I got away from that sphere
of influence,” the NCC performer
said. After trying his luck at
UT-Austin coffee houses, Ramsey
began playing regularly. Two
months later an Austin folk club
manager convinced him to take
the professional step.
Ramsey has played Denver’s
College Inn and Cafe York, the
River Roost in San Antonio and
Houston’s Sand Mountain.
University National Bank
“On the side of Texae A AM.”
—Adv.
A LIVE, JEWEL INCRUSTED beetle, displayed by customs officials to officers inspect
ing baggage at Rome AFB, N. Y., appears here in photographic closeup. It is illegal to
have one in the United States despite their red, white and blue rhinestones—and golden
leash. Hundreds have been seized recently, most of them from Mexico. (AP Wirephoto)
SAN ANTONIO <^)—They’ll
be celebrating St. Patrick’s Day
on the San Antonio River Wed
nesday, but one ingredient will
he missing in the name of ecology.
It has been he custom for the
past two years to dye the river
green.
But the Paseo Del Rio Asso
ciation, a group of businesses
along the downtown section of
the river, decided against it this
year.
Spokesmen said the dye, simi
lar to food coloring, had been
used previously with no harmful
effects, but it was felt any fur
ther use should await tests by
the Texas Water Quality Board.
No local or state agency has
ruled against the dye, associa
tion officials said. The group said
it decided on the tests as a pre-
cution. They are expected to be
finished in about four weeks.
Meanwhile Wednesday, clubs
and restaurants on the river will
be serving green beer and such
dishes as green ice cream and
Irish stew.
“I’ve got 10 pounds of beauti
ful green dye in my office,” said,
the association’s executive direc
tor, Claire Regnier. “Maybe we’ll
celebrate St. Patrick’s Day on
May 17.”
Banking is a pleasure at First
Bank & Trust.
Alan Ramsey