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^•fo v*. - HI Page 2 THE BATTALION College Station, Texas Thursday, April 29, 1971 CADET SLOUCH by Jim Earle From other campuses Student backs beliefs, matches talk with action By JAMES R. JACKSON Chris Stegman, a student at Washington State University, is taking a definite stand for his beliefs. According to the student newspaper there, he has decided that by paying the $71 of income tax that he owes and by consent ing to be inducted into the armed forces, he would be violating his principles. He has refused to do both. Stegman sent his 1040 to the IRS with the following printed in large letters: WE WON’T PAY. STOP THE WAR. STOP THE DRAFT. NO MEN & NO $ = NO WAR. In a leaflet he is distributing across campus, Stegman explains his positions and some of his rea sons for arriving at these posi tions. “In short,” the statement reads, “I will not cooperate in any way with the United States Govern ment until it changes its priorities from destructive (warlike) to constructive (peaceful) meas ures.” ★ ★ ★ According to an article in the SMU student newspaper, hundreds of former GIs marched from the locked gates of Arlington Nation al Cemetery to the step of the Capitol Monday to protest U.S. involvement in the Indochina war. They carried a huge red and white banner proclaiming, “Vets Against the War.” Shouting anti war slogans, the demonsti’ators, many of them wearing the olive fatigues they wore in Vietnam, raised clenched fists and shook them at President Nixon’s heli copter when it flew over. As they marched, the protest ors shouted such slogans as “Pow er to the People,” “Hidi, Hidi, Hidiho, Mr. Nixon’s got to go,” “Peace Now,” and sometimes, “One, two, three, four, we don’t want your f...:.. war.” They complained about not be ing allowed inside the cemetery, but held a memorial service out side the iron gates and left two wreaths of roses, asking that they be placed at the Tomb of the Un knowns in honor of Americans who died in Indo China. ★ ★ ★ An article in the V.M.I. Cadet, student newspaper at the Virginia Military Institute, described the new movie, “Bramlet,” soon to be released. According to the article, Col. Bramlet is just the hero our coun try needs. It says it’s about time we returned to glorifying the “true American man.” The movie will cover Bramlet’s fiery and often stormy career from his famous “mad dash” hair cut inspection before Christmas furlough in the winter of 1970 to the dark days following his fa mous “drink heard round the world” which almost brought his Army career to a halt by forcing him to leave VMI prior to gain ing his commission. for ■ Perhaps the highest point in Col. Bramlet’s career came dur ing his second tour in Vietnam, in which he shot a correspondent from Associated Press. “Hell/ 1 he laughed, blowing the smoke from his revolver, “I thought the long-haired freak was a water buffalo!” The movie is expected to bring the antihero trend in the movie industry to a halt. Computer keeps an eye on heart performance “No issue in particular, just all issues!’ David Middlebrooke WASHINGTON (NASA)—Cri tically ill patients recovering from open-heart surgery someday may have a computer to thank, as well as the doctors, if an experimental system developed at the National Aeronautics and Space Adminis tration’s Lewis Research Center works out. The Lewis Center, in Cleveland, has turned over to St. Vincent Charity Hospital in the city a small, inexpensive analog com puter that can continuously moni tor changes in a patient’s blood pressure and cardiac output. The computer, designed by Vernon D. Gebben and John A. Webb, Jr., of Lewis, took about a year to de velop and cost about $1,500. “The computer measures trends such as the increase or decrease of the stroke volume of the heart, or changes in how long the heart valve stays open, for instance,” Gebben says. A nurse or doctor thus could detect certain abnor malities very early. The analog system, known as the PPC (pressure pulse contour) cardiac computer, was modeled after a digital computer program in regular use at the Latter-Day Saints Hospital in Salt Lake City, Election Commission strikes again Utah. The analog computer uses the same equations as the digital computer to calculate cardiac out put from continuous readings of pressure with time. However, the analog system is both cheaper and smaller than its counterpart, making it more practical for small hospitals to use. The Lewis engineers who de signed the cardiac computer are experts in control systems and instrumentation for jet aircraft. Because of their experience in this field they have helped solve problems of artificial heart valves for St. Vincent Charity Hospital, and have developed a control sys tem for an experimental artificial heart for the Cleveland Clinic. Slower than a speeding snail, less effective than a used high lighter, the Election Commission has gloriously completed its third year of mishandling student elec tions, the third in a seemingly endless series. In case you’re wondering what that’s all about, let me begin by explaining that, while the polls closed at 8 yesterday, the election results were not available until shortly before noon today. More about this in a moment. Some of you who have been here a while will remember the big uproar two years ago concerning AI Reinert, a candidate for Stu dent Senate president. The Elec tion Commission couldn’t seem to decide what grade point ratio meant—whether it should include just A&M work or work from other schools—as far as election eligibility was concerned. When it was all over, Reinert —who had won the election—was disqualified, and a new election had to be held. Last year, no one seemed to understand the election regula tions, except in relation to how they benefited him or his cause. This year, though, the problem is not even that complicated. The Election Commission has simply discovered—and been overwhelm ed with awe for—the computer. All of this year’s election re sults have been tabulated by the computer. Data Processing Center personnel have cooperated in the matter, and we now get more ac curate results, the Commission tells us. But is not the price of this ques tionable accuracy—the long delay between poll closing and final re sults—perhaps too high? Is the computer really more accurate, or is it a labor-saving device for commissioners, and not much more ? In the case in point, commis sioners were supposed to (or at least they should have been) take ballots over to the DPC through out the day, so when polls closed not much would be left to key punch and tabulate. Well, no bal lots found their way to the DPC before 6 p.m. The DPC people just couldn’t handle all of it that fast. Came 9 p.m., they had to go home with the work unfinished. So, keypunch operators did not finish their job until this morning, and results were not out until near noon. This is hard on everyone—can didates especially, the DPC, and (you might have guessed) The Battalion and the A&M Press peo ple. The old method of voting ma chines and paper ballots sure was a lot faster. 1 think those meth ods should be used, not the com puter. It might save money, and certainly is less trouble than the computer method. And when you get right down to it, why have an Election Com mission ? The Student Senate could just as easily handle elec tions. And they’d have to do a better job—l don’t see how any one could do a worse one. Projects such as these are part of NASA’s continuing effort to make the fullest possible use of its technology and cooperate with local institutions. After all, in local, state and national elections, vote counting goes on until the task is finished, even if it takes until 3 a.m. Do A&M students deserve less? Bulletin Board 6 Aggie-Exes get new ranks 2:30 3 (5) Edge of Night 15 (12) Sesame Street (PBS) (Repeat of Wednesday) 3:00 3 (5) Corner Pyle 3:30 3 (5) Town Talk 15 (12) Jean Shepherd’s America (PBS) 4:00 3 (5) That Girl 15 (12) The World W T e Live In (NET) 4:30 3 (5) Bewitched 15 (12) What’s New (NET) 5:00 3 (5) General Hospital 15 (12) Misterogers' Neighborhood (PBS) 5:30 3 (5) CBS News 15 (12) 6:00 6:30 3 (5) 3 (5) 15 (12) 7:00 3 (5) 15 (12) 7:30 15 (12) 8:00 8:30 3 (5) 15 (12) 9:00 10:00 10:30 11:30 15 (12) 3 (S) 3 (5) 3 (5) Sesame Street (PBS) Evening News Family Affair Campus and Community Today Jim Nabors The French Chef (PBS) Masterpiece Thea tre: The Spoils of Poynton (PBS) CBS Movie Entertainment Now Fanfare (NET) Final News Dan August The Detectives Bingo—Weekdays at 5, BCS*TV/9. Nothing to buy. You need not be present to win. Promotion of six Texas A&M graduates in the U. S. Army was recently announced. Robert E. Bradley, 1956 gradu ate from Sherman, pinned the silver oak leaf of lieutenant col onel. Captain’s bars went to Jose A. Dodier, class of 1968 member of Laredo. New first lieutenant’s are 1969 graduates Jack R. Cole man of Huntsville, Nelson R. Remmler of New Braunfels, Wil liam F. Schlener of Johnson City and Neill W. Wait of Miami Lakes, Fla. Bradley heads the technical re search branch of the Army’s Mis sile and Munitions Center and School, Redstone Arsenal, Ala. A history major at A&M, he was in Battery “B” Field Artillery. Dodier received his promotion as safety officer at the Fort Sam Houston Medical Training Center. He was in Company H-2 and an industrial distribution major. Schlener, supply and motor of ficer of the 7th Ordnance Com-1 pany in Korea, studied economics at Texas A&M. Shop officer of the 3rd Infantry Division’s 703rd Maintenance Bat talion in Schweinfurt, Germany, Remmler received his degree in industrial technology. Wait studied history and is with the 172nd Infantry Brigade in Alaska. Coleman commands Headquar ters Company, 553rd Supply and Service Battalion, 13th Support Brigade, at Fort Hood. An agron omy major, he was freshman and sophomore class president and 2nd Battalion executive officer as an A&M senior. TONIGHT Snook PTA will sponsor a don key basketball game at 8 p.m. in the old Snook gym. Phi Eta Sigma will meet at 5:30 p.m. in the Aerospace Engineer ing Department conference room to hold the year’s final initiation ceremony. Development of this computer was the result of a cooperative research program between NASA and Dr. Earle B. Kay and Dr. Akio Suzuki, specialists in open heart surgery at St. Vincent. They plan to use the computer on an experimental basis before application to human patients. The doctors are particularly inter ested in using the computer to measure the effects of drugs giv en patients who remain critical after open heart surgery. Experience at Salt Lake City has shown this type of computer can detect complications in pa tients earlier than can standard methods of monitoring. In operation, the computer would be directly linked to a patient. To obtain a precise meas urement of blood pressure, a tiny Teflon tube is inserted through an artery in the patient’s arm up to a point near the heart. A transducer attached to the tube outside the arm converts the pressure measurement into an electrical signal that can be handled by the computer. Rela tions between pressure and time are used to compute changes in blood flow. The computer displays six measurements or calculated re sults: end-diastolic pressure, the lowest point in the blood pres sure; the notch pressure, showing the blood pressure when the aortic valve closes; the systolic period, or length of time the valve remains open; the heart rate in beats-per-minute; the calculated per cent stroke colume change, a measure of volumetric change; and the calculated per cent car diac output changes indicating changes in the heart’s efficiency. Such a profile provides an ap proximate picture of what is hap pening. It’s not completely ac curate, Gebben explains, becaus? the equation used by the com puter cannot take into account changes in the elasticity of blood vessels that occur as a drug wears off in a patient. Gebben points out the computer also could be hooked up to a tape recorder and a strip chart record er to give a doctor a representa tive sampling of the heart’s ac tivity for days at a time. For this purpose, the tape re corder would turn on automatical ly, say, every 15 minutes, to re cord the pressure signal for 10 beats of the heart. Later on the taped pressure signal is replayed through the computer and dis played on the strip chart, thus producing a dynamic trend record for analysis. The ebatl i itest MSG /) An < i hel< r, cht “We rgan i: Inion Eng ebatir igic, 1 ebatir aid. The licha r < essor tadelr allege ate cc ector Itate T Afte j udio t. Inion < eth G tickle j Correction The Battalion may have given a false impression in its Wednes day story on the board of direc tors' meeting. W’hile the story suggested Stu dent Body President Kent Caper- ton received his information on the coed housing issue from board member William Lewie Jr. of Waco, Caperton said Wednesday afternoon he received his infor mation from A&M President Dr. Jack K. Williams and from his presence at the board’s meeting, lilit: frida More .m'y i w. me day 4(f per J 0 X tx 846-: 965 1 -j C vd, liosit ?ive si nobile 1971-72 corps staff members receive commandant’s okay No tra models SATURDAY Chemistry Wives Club will hold a Chemistry Department picnic at 12:30 p.m. at the American Legion Hall, Highway 21 South. Tickets may be purchased at the department office. MONDAY Wildlife Science Wives Club will meet at 7:30 p.m. at 705 In wood, Bryan, to elect club officers. A volleyball game will begin at 6:30 p.m. TUESDAY Williamson County Hometown Club will meet at 7:30 p.m. in the MSC Social Room to discuss a barbecue. Members of the 1971-72 Cadet Corps staff have been approved by Col. Jim H. McCoy, com mandant. The 13-member corps staff will work with next year’s corps com mander, Thomas M. Stanley, and deputy commander Jack Carey. The staff makes the corps self- operating, providing the com mander assistance in various op erational areas. It consists of nine seniors as cadet commissioned officers and six juniors, serving as cadet non commissioned officers. The for mer will be cadet lieutenant col onels. Non-coms will be cadet master sergeants. Senior members are Jimmy D. Ferguson, adjutant of Garland; David L. Moore, information of ficer, Dallas; Ray H. Kopecky, inspector general, Pasadena; Bryan Loyd, supply officer, Terre Haute, Ind.; James T. Ham, op erations officer, Fort Worth; Stanley Friedli, scholastic offi cer, San Antonio, and Jimmy L. Cook, chaplain, Houston. Juniors are Ronald L. Krnavek, sergeant major, Corpus Christi; Fidel Rodriguez, scholastic ser geant, Bishop; Wade F. Seidel, administration sergeant, Bren- ham; Juan F. Gonzalez, supply sergeant, Eagle Pass; Gerald R. Betty, operations sergeant, Springtown, and Ronald F. Peter sen, personnel sergeant, Munich, Germany. Artcraft rfect com i bath, s' dulled- 8, Two bedr ilhroom. rt. 4303 823-4187 Lincoln Union will meet at 8 p.m. in the MSC Birch Room for an organizational meeting. For information, call 846-3294. Build Your Library at LOU’S Expense 1000 Reference Books 45c to 95c These were $6.00 to $10.00 Books i,(i' 1: PLAY IT SAFE! Cbe Battalion Opinions expressed in The Battalion are those of the student writers only. The Battalion is a non-tax- supported, non-profit, self-supporting educational enter prise edited and operated by students as a university and community newspaper. The Battalion, a student newspaper at Texas A&M. is published in College Station, Texas, daily except Saturday, Sunday, Monday, am} holiday periods, September through May, and once a week during summer school. LETTERS POLICY Letters to the editor must be typed, double-spaced, and no more than 300 words in length. They must be signed, although the writer’s name will be withheld by arrangement with the editor. 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