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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.
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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)
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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.
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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,
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1971-72 corps staff members
receive commandant’s okay
No tra
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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.
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information, call 846-3294.
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