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THE BATTALION Thursday, April 22, 1971 College Station, Texas IE At is> lENlUij 1L U Page 5 Rice wins computer contest A team representing Rice Uni versity is the winner of the 2nd Annual Texas Computer Pro gramming Championships hosted by A&M. A University of Texas-Austin team finished second in the week end competition, followed by A&M and Southwest Texas State. Twenty teams representing 14 Texas colleges and universities participated in the contest believ ed to be the only event of its type in the nation. The winning team was compos ed of Michael Donegan, Randall Neff, Scott K. Warren, and Eu gene Mutschler. They shared a $100 cash prize. The UT entry received $50 and A&M and Southwest Texas, $25 each. Prizes were provided by Atlan tic Richfield, Computer Technol ogy^ General Dynamics, IBM and Shell Oil Co. Dr. Roger Ellitt, A&M indus trial engineering professor who coordinated the event, said no team successfully completed all three of the assigned program ming tasks. He said the Rice team, which scored first in the competition using the university’s big IBM 360/65 computer, was declared champion at the expira- Novelist explains tion of the four-hour time limit. Other schools competing were the University of Houston, Bay lor, East Texas State, Sam Hous ton State, Stephen F. Austin, Tarleton State, West Texas State, LeTourneau, Texas Lutheran and San Antonio College. The third place A&M team was captained by computer science graduate student Robert Bartho lomew of Bryan and included Den nis Dance of Fort Worth, Ray Ganner of Milwaukee, Ore., and Ronald Ward of Snyder. Members of the A&M chapter of Upsilon Pi Epsilon, national honor society for computer science students, organized] the event which originated here last year. We Buy Books Every Day Whether they are used on this campus or not. 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While writing, one minute he was laughing, he said and the next he was feeling guilty for laughing at a mentally retarded person. “This is the way I want my reader to feel,” Keyes said he then told himself. Keyes said he had to write the novel which took him 3 years be- ables lY G [, BLIGHT 1ETTI i fc Sauce ese >alad ressing sad VING '(ole of female changing n the rural ‘Old South’ “You’ve come a long way, ba- 11 might be just a catchy slo- n to some people, but the con- pt in the jingle is reverberat- f through southern communi- «. The role of the female is chang- ; and its effect is being felt, cording to Katheryn Thomas, ciologist with the Texas Agri- Itural Experiment Station and member of the Texas A&M jricultural Economics and iral Sociology Department. Miss Thomas studied male and male attitudes about marriage d children. The study was com- >sed of 165 students in rural »st Texas areas characterized low median family incomes id a large Negro population, ic found differences between ys’ and girls’ concepts about e expected role of the wife. The differences were consistent over a two-year period from middle to T»te adolesence. “In contrast to the hoys’ almost none of the girls, Negro or white, appeared to ad here to the traditional idea that ‘a woman’s place is in the home’,” Miss Thomas said. “While their positive orienta tion toward marriage and chil dren demonstrates that the girls do not intend to reject the tra ditional, feminine roles of wife and mother, the overwhelming majority desired to supplement the role of wife, at least, with an achievement-oriented work role.” The girls, regardless of race, want to work at least until they have children. The majority of Negro girls also intend to com bine mother and career roles. The catch, of course, is the boys’ attitudes toward working wives. i “Over half of the white boys did not want their wives to work at all. Those who did preferred that their wives work only part- time until a child arrived,” Miss Thomas reports. The researcher points out that the consistency of these conflict ing views over a two-year period suggests they may extend to the time of marriage and, therefore, have unfavorable implications for at least the initial marital ad justment. The fact that these students, regardless of race, both desired and expected small families (from two to four children) might fa cilitate the female’s desires to work “because it would lessen the number of years which the girls feel obliged to devote to the motherhood role.’ cause the story of Charly con tinued to haunt him. Keyes said one publisher turn ed down the story because he re fused to allow a publisher’s change in the ending in which Charly returns to his original re tardation. In a television rendition of the story, in which Robertson also played the lead, the actor was supposed to be paging through a book at the close of the program and suddenly get a shine of enthu siasm in his eyes. A fade out was to follow. This was a compro mise measure because the produc ers of the program said the American public could not toler ate the letdown, Keyes said. In the actual program which was telecast live, however, this didn’t happen. Keyes said that Robertson later told him: “I just couldn’t do it. Charly wouldn’t let me. Keyes said, the short story “Flowers for Algernon” has been anthologized 35 times, and that the movie, which cost $1% mil lion to produce, made $18 million for Robertson in the United States alone. “I wish I had a piece of that action,” he said. “Actually though I’m very happy.” Keyes’ most recent novel “The Touch,” about a radiation leak accident which affects a young sculptor and his pregnant wife, has recently been released in pa per back. 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