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•• • ■■ ::: . ■ * ' .••••* lliiliplfp MION rd id Tenure, ,culty Adviso^ W. Sorenson chard E. Vroo- ; Norman A, idministration; ker, education; nail, engineer , Kimber, geo- in H. Nelson, inorn Tsutsui, »mmy L, Bi edicine. Che Battalion Hot summer Thursday and Friday — Partly cloudy to cloudy, afternoon rain or thundershowers. Southerly winds 10-15 mph. High 89°, low 71°. days Weekend — Partly cloudy. Southerly winds 10-15 mph. High 90°, low 70°. Vol. 66 No. 128 College Station, Texas Wednesday, June 16, 1971 845-2226 Policy change will not affect Silver Taps plane. Texas A&M’s nuclear reactor is in the lower right corner, above the trees. (Photo by Debi Blackmon) serve flying buffs Texas A&M’s Silver Taps observance will continue in its traditional form. Dean of Students James P. Hannigan said a recent notice that the ceremony honoring deceased students would be limited to once a month was the result of a misinterpretation. “As in the past, Silver Taps will normally be held on the day of the student’s funeral, or as close to that date as possible,” Hannigan empha sized. The report of a change in the tradition stemmed from a faculty-staff-student study leading to adoption of new general procedures for flying campus flags at half-mast. University officials said campus flags are often at half-mast many days each month in honor of retired faculty-staff personnel and, less fre quently, for active faculty-staff and current students. “It was felt the frequent lowering of the flag detracted from the significance of the gesture,” Hannigan explained. Officials also pointed out that with the rapidly expanding number of faculty-staff, both retired and active, the trend was sure to continue. The new policy calls for flying a portion of the campus flags at half-mast on the last Tuesday of each month to honor the memory of members of the faculty-staff in the Bryan-College Station area who have died during the month. Hannigan said the center flag in front of the System Building will be flown at half-mast only on Memorial Day or by proclamation of the President of the United States. On any occasion when the center flag is flown at half-mast, the other eight smaller flags in the vicinity will not be flown. The other three main flags on campus will be flown at half-mast on any occasion when the flag in front of the System Building is flown at half-mast, as well as on days when Silver Taps will be observed and on the one day per month designated for honoring deceased faculty-staff members. Cards noting Silver Taps ceremonies will continue to be placed on the base of the flag pole in front of the Academic Building, with the ceremonies conducted on the Academic Building lawn that evening, the dean added. By DEBI BLACKMON Texas A&M’s Aeroclub, the only flying organization in the Bryan- College Station area, is promot ing hobby-flying this summer at Easterwood Airport for the many flying enthusiasts, providing spe cial instruction rates and discount plane rentals for over 130 of its members. “The Texas A&M Eeroclub be gan in May of 1969 when we started with ten people and one little determined Cessna 150 Sier- 6,500 attend first summer session here First-session summer enroll ment at Texas A&M University is 6,507, up slightly from the same period last year. Registrar Robert A. Lacey said enrollment on the main campus totals 6,137. The Texas Maritime Academy, currently on its summer cruise, registered 159 students, includ ing 89 in the “Summer School at Sea” program. The Texas A&M Adjunct at Junction has an enrollment of 141 and the Marine Laboratory at Galveston, 70. Included in the total enrollment are 1,144 women. Enrollment for the first sum mer session last year was 6,460. ra, and we have grown in mem bership to 130, and our club now operates three aircraft,” explain ed Eldon Oxley, president of the club. The Aeroclub is not affiliated with the university, as is the Fly ing Kadets, presently a nonactive club. Membership in the aeroclub is limited to those connected with the university, including faculty, staff, all undergraduate and graduate students, their wives, and alumni. A&M’s Aeroclub is a self-sup ported, private club offering all branches of aviation study, in cluding an instructor service and a discount plane rental. Club members operate six home regional scanner units which monitor the club’s planes, keep ing track of those in active use. Some of the club officers started out two years ago as beginning pilots and have gone to the com- merical pilot’s level. “The main aim of our club,” Oxley explained, “is to provide a way in which more people inter ested in flying can afford to go out for an afternoon of flying, or maybe jump to Houston on a bus iness trip, or put in their hours toward a higher level licence.” Besides handling the actual training of the student pilots, the Aeroclub sponsors a ground school for its members to teach the technical side of aviation. “The ground school is good background for the student be cause it will give him a better understanding of what is going on,” explained Donald F. Weseli, we haven’t lost anybody or had chief flight instructor of the Aer oclub. “Although it isn’t required in order to obtain a licence under Federal Aviation Agency (FAA) rules, we urge our students to take R.” In addition to the FAA rules and regulations, the Aeroclub re quires a yearly check flight with a qualified instructor to make sure the pilot hasn’t picked up any sloppy or dangerous habits during the year. “The main thing is the stu dent’s safety, so we try to give them as much experience in actual flying and flying problems as we can,” added Oxley. During the training session, the instructors, including Jerry La- Boid, John Richardson, Don Lit tle, George F. Kerkhoff, Dean Eveslage, and Mrs. Imogene Chamberlain—the only woman in structor—dream up some pretty interesting problems. “An instructor may blindfold a student and give him the controls a few hours later, telling the stu dent to take him hcpare. So far, Shortcoming of the ramjet at subsonice speeds and turbojet above twice the speed of sound led a Texas A&M student to study combining the two air-breathing engines. George W. Walton of San An tonio says he believes the two anyone seriously injured, so I think the students’ record stands for itself,” Oxley added. Participating in flying meets is another of the club’s outside activities. In May of 1970, several club members attended a 10-day Intercollegiate Fly Meet in Bos- mon, Mont., where Frank Gertson brought hack the navigation trophy. “Right now, we are debating sending two of our lady members to a Powder Puff Derby compe tition,” Oxley said. “Next year we will be competing with all three of our planes.” The Aeroclub owns three air craft at Easterwood Airport. The two small planes are Cessna 150s two seaters which are used as the training planes, and the larger one is a Cessna 172 which will seat four and is used for the long er distances like the cross coun try flights. “In the near future,” Oxley said, the club plans to buy a faster plane to meet our growing mem- Good weather a boon to campus building (See Aeroclub, page 3) Good weather and a minimum of material and labor problems have Texas A&M University’s major building program on sched ule, reports Charles E. Brunt, as sistant manager of construction. Brunt said the 320,000-square- foot Engineering Center will be completed this fall, with some parts of the building ready for student and. faculty use by the start of the fall semester Aug. 31. The Engineering Center is the first building in the program scheduled, for completion. Con struction is in progress on seven other major buildings, with com pletion ranging from next sum mer to the spring of 1975. Brunt said $63.7 million in other Student ‘marries’ jet engines powerplants can be fused into one, providing an aircraft the advant ages of both. ‘The ramjet and turbojet are complimentary,” Walton said. “It is possible they could be com bined, with each overcoming the other’s shortcomings.” in ramjet power increments of one, two or three times the front al area of the reduced-size turbo jet, said the Air Force ROTC cadet who graduated and was commissioned in May. The senior aerospace engineer ing major said that such a “mar riage” would enable a plane to fly high and fast or cruise ef ficiently at subsonice speeds. Ramjets are most efficient at high altitude flight above Mach 2.5 (two and a half times the speed of sound) but cannot op erate at power levels suitable for take-off, low-altitude maneuver ability and landing , Walton noted. The afterburning turbojet op erates with increasing inefficiency above Mach 2. Walton’s study shows that the combined jet system can lengthen aircraft speed range, increasing ceiling and push the thrust-to- weight ratio to twice that of an afterburning turbojet. Thrust, fuel consumption, weights and configurations, drag and level flight ceilings for three powerplant combinations considered. were projects includes the Memorial Student Center expansion, audi torium and conference complex; Oceanography and meteorology Building; 1,000-student dormitory complex; Educational Television Building for KAMU-TV; eight- story office and classroom build ing; Chemistry Institute Annex; and utility expansion. He gave the following summary on each project: —Engineering Center. Sched uled, for completion in the fall of 1971, the four-floor and basement structure will cost an estimated $10 million. —1,000-student dormitories. To be used by both male and female students, the 270,000 square feet include four floors of student rooms and a two-story commons building. Scheduled completion is the summer 1972 at a cost of $8.5 million. —Educational Television. This one-floor, 17,000-square-foot building will house A&M’s edu cational television station KAMU- TV. Scheduled for completion in the summer of 1972, the building will cost $600,000. —Oceanography - Meteorology Building. A 15-story structure with 100,000 square feet built for $7.6 million. It will be completed by the fall of 1972. —Office - Classroom Building. Scheduled for completion in the fall of 1972, the eight-story build ing has 114,000 square feet. It houses faculty offices and class rooms. The cost is $3.6 million. —Chemistry Institute annex. The $4 million addition has five floors and 77,000 square feet. Completion is scheduled in the fall of 1972. —Auditorium and Conference Complex. Built on the former site of Guion Hall, the complex in cludes an 11-story conference building and three auditoriums seating 2,500 persons, 750 and 250. Scheduled for completion in the fall of 1973, it will cost $10 million. —Memorial Student Center ex pansion. The MSC expansion will be completed in the spring of 1975 at a cost of 8.5 million The two-story and basement structure includes 94,000 square feet. The university also has over a half-million dollars in minor building projects now under con struction. Projects estimated to cost $20 million are currently in design stages, Brunt said. They include a student health center, athletic dorm, two-story classroom building, College View Apartments, utilities expansion, Easterwood Airport resurfacing, Texas Maritime Academy dorm and dining hall and a forestry field laboratory. KAMU to air CS candidates Friday at 8:30 Walton’s mating of the two engines places the turbojet in front of the ramjet, with two pairs of movable doors. One door on a bulge at the junction-point of the engine would remain shut for turbojet operation and open to supply air for ramjet opera tion. Grove to feature i tiger flick ’tonight A nose door opens for turbojet propulsion and closes when the ramjet is used. The 1967 San Antonio Highlands High School graduate diagrammed the engine so that the ramjet could be used as an afterburner for the turbojet. Easterwood Airport again, this time as the men in the control tower see it. (Photo by James Hopkins) After establishing minimum turbojet size for take-off, cruise and landing, level flight ceiling of the plane must be considered The Texas A&M nostalgia equi valent of “No, No Nannette” will be seen tonight at the Grove The ater. Movies-under-the-stars patrons will see “We’ve Never Been Lick ed” in a double feature. The first show, starting at 8:30 p.m., will be “Texas Across the River,” starring Dean Martin and Joey Bishop. “We’ve Never Been Licked” was filmed by Universal Produc tions at Texas A&M in the early 1940s. Dealing with A&M student life, it provides pictorial record of several student traditions. Campus scenes, clothing styles and dialogue also emphasize the extent of change in 30 years. “We’ve Never Been Licked” fea tures Robert Mitchum, Noah Ber ry, Jr., Anne Gwynn and Martha O’Driscoll in a story plotted around the presence of a foreign intelligence agent on the campus. Grove chairman Richard Mc Henry said that the Texas A&M film relic will follow the regular feature. The second movie will start at about 10:15 p.m. A&M students are admitted to Grove movies by ID card. Tickets for others are 50 cents per adult and 25 cents for children under 12. In case of rain, Grove movies are shown in the Memorial Stu dent Center Ballroom. The KAMU-TV News and Pub lic Relations Department and the League of Women Voters Friday at 8:30 p. m. will present Meet the Candidates for the Tuesday College Station special election. Four candidates, Ed Miller of 504 Guernsey, Eldon W. Oxley of 510 First Street, C. A. Bonnen of 201 Lee and J. D. Lindsay of 1029 Walton, are seeking the two places vacated by College Station Councilmen Cecil B. Ryan and C. H. Ransdell. The meeting, open to the pub lic, will take place in the Channel 15 studios at Bagley Hall. The format will be the same as past Meet the Candidate pro grams. Each candidate will be allowed a limited time to speak to the group, followed by a ques tion-answer session. The program, which will be shown to viewers live Friday night, also will be taped for re broadcast Monday at 10 p. m. University National Bank “On the side of Texas A&M.” —Adv.