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Hot
and
humid
College Station, Texas
Wednesday, July 14, 1971
Clear to partly cloudy. High
temperature, 96 to 98; low tem
perature, 71-74. Scattered after
noon rain showers Sunday.
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Education not
reported well,
editor claims
Mrs. Robert Anderson and George Breffeilh (center
boat) sail to victory during last weekend’s Sidewinder
sailboat competition. (Photo by Debi Blackmon)
First Sidewinder Regetta held
Winners to represent B-CS
By DEBBIE BLACKMON
Battalion Staff Writer
George Breffeilh and Mrs. Rob
ert Anderson will represent the
Bryan-College Station area in the
Sidewinder National Champion
ship Race Aug. 6-8 in Brie, Penn.
The two won the first annual
District 4 Sidewinder Sailboat
Championship last weekend at
Somerville Lake. The Sidewinder
Regatta was hosted by the Texas
A&M Sailing Club, Mar-Jons
Sailboats of Bryan and the Braz
os Valley Sidewinder Fleet. It
was the first district champion
ship race held for the Sidewinder
class of racing sailboats—a rela
tively new, light design.
Dr. John Goeschl, head of the
regatta’s race committee, explain
ed the races were conducted in
accordance with the International
Yacht Racing Union and the
Sidewinder Class Association
rules.
The racing pattern was a basic
Olympic triangle course which
covered almost five and one-half
miles.
“It gave the boats an oppor
tunity to sail not only with the
wind, but into it,” explained Gary
Halter, faculty advisor for the
Texas A&M Sailing Club.
The first championship race
was held Saturday morning and
won by two A&M students —
Charles Temple and Gary Gut-
kowski.
Originally planned as a three-
race series, the regatta’s sched
ule was drastically changed when
a quirk frontal line swept 35 mile-
per-hour winds over the lake dur
ing the second race, overturning
several boats and causing mild
damage.
“The Sidewinder design is a
small, light craft that is capable
of taking wind up to 30 miles per
hour effectively, but Saturday
afternoon’s sudden wind change
was a surprise for the sailors
and too strong for them to han
dle,” said John Colp, owner of
Mar-Jon Sailboats.
Racing was discontinued for
the rest of the day, and was re
sumed Sunday morning with no
mishaps. Several of the previ
ously damaged boats sailed. The
first of the competition races was
won by Breffeilh and Mrs. An
derson sailing the Anderson boat.
Peter Kersting and Allen Denton,
Texas A&M students, took third
and fourth places in the first
race.
After the championship races
were concluded, the A&M Sailing
Club sponsored a “watermelon
race” won by the Breffeilh-An
derson team which was the first
to return to shore with one of the
watermelons floating in the lake.
Trophies awarded to the win
ners of the District Champion
ship races were donated by Mar
tha and Jon Colp, A&M Sailing
Club.
“Besides the races at Somer
ville Lake, our club also sponsors
a series of sailing lessons at the
Municipal Lake in Bryan,” Colp
said. “Our more experienced club
members instruct lessons on shore
as well as actual sailing on the
lake.”
“More sailing races are being
planned,” Colp said.
Club members sail in many
out-of-town races in Houston
and Austin.
The Texas press is guilty of not telling the
general public about higher education in the state,
the editor of the Waco News Tribune said here
Tuesday.
“Newspapers and broadcasters are too busy
looking at something else and don’t tell the
education story properly,” claimed Harry
Provence, vice president of Newspapers Inc., and a
member of the Coordinating Board, Texas College
and University System.
Provence said Texas schools are not receiving
top-level press treatment and in most cases
reporters assigned to cover education stories “are
second stringers.”
Newsmen are ignoring the story that
“involves the lives and pocketbooks of just about
everyone in town,” he told new college adminis
trators attending a two-week semester.
Provence said a good example is that nobody
knows what the Coordinating Board does, yet it is
shaping higher education for the entire state.
The 30-year newspaper veteran said the
public is going to take a close look at education in
the future. He suggested the 62nd Legislature’s
refusal to grant faculty salary raises “may be a
straw in the wind.”
Provence said there are some who feel
money spent on Ph.D. programs should be spent
on vocational-technical schools, especially since
the demand for doctorate graduates is small while
the demand for training workers is high.
Provence claimed the public looks to educa
tion with two eyes, one looking for more and
better educational opportunities and one looking
for self-interest.
The public is disturbed, he charged, by
“sky-rocketing changes in the amount of money it
takes to do it (educate their children).”
Provence said local partnership and political
muscle created problems felt today. He gave the
example of one small city with two large public
colleges while most Texas metropolitan areas have
no public colleges.
“More and better individual leadership” is
needed in higher education today,” Provence
asserted. “I hope college administrators take the
initiative.”
Room change
deadline told
Room changes for students liv
ing on campus will be allowed
next Tuesday and Wednesday,
Housing Manager Allan M. Made-
ley said Tuesday.
Students wishing to change
rooms must report to the Hous
ing Offic between 8 a.m.-5p.m.
either day, Madeley explained,
and pick up and process reassign
ment papers. He said all people
involved in a given move must
report together to secure new as
signments, thus avoiding con
flicts.
He said all moves must be com
pleted within 24 hours of reas
signment, and any additional fees
must be paid at the Fiscal Office
before new keys will be issued.
Madeley also said students who
fail to clear their old room,
check into the new one and re
port a completed room change to
the Housing Office by 5 p.m.
Wednesday will be charged $5
for an improper move.
New AFROTC head named
‘Healthy’ tan really not, article claims
The sun-bronzed body that so
many people equate with fitness
and beauty, is a serious threat to
health, warns Fitness for Living
magazine in its July issue.
Says the article, “The Myth
of the Healthy Tan”: “Tanning is
actually a response to ultra-violet
injury and the cumulative dam
age that results from excessive
exposure to sunlight is a major
factor in premature aging of the
skin. Also, it has been established
that mid-ultraviolet rays of the
solar spectrum — those that pro
duce pigment — are the main
causative agents of skin cancer.”
The tanning process, which for
so many people starts out with
some degree of sunburn, creates
danger all along the way, claims
the magazine.
“A single, moderately severe
sunburn affects the blood vessels
feeding the skin so strongly, that
it takes 4 to 15 months for them
to return to a normal state. Re
peated sunburn, over a period of
years, dries out the skin to the
point that elasticity is lost. The
color darkens and becomes blotchy
brown or yellow. Thus the en
tire scope of aging occurs to
skin exposed to excessive sun
light.”
A more serious problem caused
by excessive sun is skin cancer.
Reports Fitness for Living,
“Skin cancer (brought on by ex
cessive exposure) most often af
fects blondes, as their skin con
tains little pigment and are un
able to produce more pigment,
which is part of the skin’s pro
tection against the sun.”
For people who spend a lot of
time out-of-doors during hot sum
mer days, there are several steps
that can be taken to safeguard
against the sun’s rays. Among
them are:
Use suntan lotions. There are
several different types: some
work by reflecting the sun’s rays
away from your skin; others ab
sorb the rays before they come in
contact with the skin and some
allow only certain rays to reach
the skin . . . including tanning
rays. However, this too has its
drawbacks. Some people suffer
bad reactions when a particular
chemical on their skin come in
contact with the sun’s rays.
Choose vaction spots wisely.
Radiation is one and one-half
times greater in the southern half
of the country. And keep in mind
that more radiation comes
through a higher altitudes be
cause the air is less dense.
Don’t rely too much on beach
umbrellas to protect you. When
sunlight hits the earth’s atmos
phere, air molecules and dust and
water particles scatter the ultra
violet rays. This results in ac
counting “sky radiation which
comes at you from all sides.
When possible, drive or ride in
air-conditioned vehicles, where the
windows are shut. Window glass
used in a home or automobile
permits infra-red heat waves to
come through while holding back
the rays which cause skin dam
age.
Confine summer out-of-doors
activities to the hours before noon
and after 5 p. m. And keep in the
shade.
Col. Robert F. Crossland of
Dallas has been named professor
of aerospace studies.
His assignment as ranking of
ficer of A&M’s Air Force ROTC
program becomes effective July
26.
A Southern Methodist Univer
sity graduate, Crossland will suc
ceed Col. Keith C. Hanna and
acting PAS Lt. Col. Thomas W.
Comstock as commander of the
Air Force detachment that in
structs the AFROTC cadet pro
gram leading to reserve and regu
lar officers commissions.
Crossland, as PAS, and Army
Col. Thomas R. Parsons, newly
assigned commandant and pro
fessor of military science, will be
responsible to the military serv
ices and university for the respec
tive officer training programs.
Parsons is a 1949 A&M graduate.
Crossland earlier this year com
pleted two years on the National
War College faculty. A command
pilot, he was a tactical airlift
division chief, 7th Air Force, in
Vietnam during 1967-68. Prior to
the Southeast Asia tour, he was
director of personnel assignments
at Tactical Airlift Command head
quarters, Langley AFB, Va.
He wears the Bronze Star, Air
Medal with three Oak Leaf Clus
ters and Commendation Medal.
A 23-year veteran, he was com
missioned through the aviation
cadet program.
Col. Robert Crossland
A&M gets first new ship
Texas A&M has been selected
to receive the first of a new class
of oceanographic research vessels
to be built for the Navy.
Each ship is expected to cost
about $3.5 million, including scien
tific equipment.
A&M President Dr. Jack K.
Williams said delivery of the
ship is expected in the winter of
1972. The craft will be berthed
at the university’s new Mitchell
Campus on Pelican Island in Gal
veston.
The University of Hawaii also
will receive a ship built under
the Navy’s new program. Texas
A&M will be responsible for out-
Banking is a pleasure at
First Bank & Trust.
fitting and installing scientific
instrumentation aboard the Ha
waiian vessel, with the work to
be done at Galveston
Texas A&M, the states only
institution of higher learning with
seagoing capabilities, currently
operates three oceanographic ves
sels, in addition to three craft
used for water pollution research
in bays and estuaries. The uni
versity’s Texas Maritime Acad
emy also operates a converted
oceanliner as a training ship.
Dr. Richard A. Geyer, head of
the Oceanography Department,
said the new ship will be 165 feet
long and accommodate 28 persons,
including scientific party and
crew.
The twin-screw steel-hull craft
will cruise at 12 knots with a
range of approximately 8,000
miles.
Geyer said the new ship will
be used for long-duration cruises,
such as currently assigned ex
clusively to the 180-foot R/V
Alaminos. The department’s two
smaller vessels are used for stud
ies in coastal waters.
“This new vessel will greatly
enhance our capability to conduct
a comprehensive program as we
continue to expand our deep
water programs in the Gulf of
Mexico, Caribbean and Atlantic,”
Geyer said.
University National Bank
“On the side of Texas A&M.”
—Adv.
CAPT. ALFRED PHILBRICK (left) and cadet John
Meeks of the Texas Maritime Academy present a set of
Texas longhorns to officials of Denmark’s Rebild Society,
a group of Danish-Americans who meet in Aalborg each
year to celebrate U. S. Independence Day. TMA students
and staff visited Denmark as part of the academy’s annual
summer cruise. Meeks, executive officer of the TMA
Corps of Cadets, is from San Marcos. The horns were
provided by Paul Hedeman of Houston.