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..... .A , ~ . • S«P¥*ftV ’ THE BATTALION Page 2 College Station, Texas Wednesday, July 14, 1971 CADET SLOUCH by Jim Earle Apollo 15 to carry satellite for prolonged moon study “There’s just something about a man in uniform that’s irresistible!” While circling the moon, the Apollo 15 spacecraft will launch an 80-pound subsatellite that will remain in lunar orbit and radio scientific data to Earth for a year after Apollo returns. The hexagonal-shaped device, 31 inches long and 14 inches in diameter, carries three of eight new experiments housed in a bay of the Apollo Service Module pre viously occupied only by an oxy gen tank. The scientific instrument mod ule (SIM) bay, as it’s called, is shielded during Apollo’s three- day journey from Earth by a door that will be blown off by small explosive charges about 4!/& hours before the spacecraft begins cir cling the moon. The subsatellite, housed in a box-like container similar to a rural mailbox, will be pushed out by a spring mechanism shortly before the spacecraft leaves lu nar orbit for return to earth. When clear of the spacecraft, the subsatellite will put out three evenly spaced five-foot booms. On one of these is a magnetometer that will measure interplanetary and earth magnetic fields near the moon. The other two booms balance it to stabilize the little satellite as it spins at about 12 revolu tions per minute. The orbit will range from 55 to 75 nautical miles above the moon. The subsatellite, powered by so lar cells and a rechargeable bat tery, also carries charged-particle sensors and equipment to detect variations in lunar gravity caus ed by mass concentrations of dense material within the moon. Other instruments in the SIM bay are: —A gamma-ray spectrometer— on the end of a 25-foot boom— to determine the concentration of radioactive elements in the lunar surface; —An X-ray spectrometer, to determine the concentration of major rock-forming elements in the surface; —An alpha-particle spectro meter, to locate radon sources in the surface; —A mass spectrometer, on the end of a 20-foot boom, to obtain data on constituents of the lunar atmosphere; and —A laser altimeter to measure precisely the spacecraft’s altitude above the lunar surface. Two other command/service module experiments will use the spacecraft’s communications sys tems to detect variations in lu nar gravity caused by mass con centrations and to obtain data on lunar electrical properties, sur face roughness and depth of the surface layer of rubble. Also carried in the SIM bay are a large 24-inch panoramic camera to take high-resolution photographs of the lunar surface, both stereo and monoscopic, and a three-inch mapping/stellar cam era to obtain simultaneously ex posed high-quality photos of the lunar surface and star fields to determine the precise location of the spacecraft. To retrieve the exposed film, astronaut Alfred M. Worden will climb out of the command mod ule hatch and maneuver hand- over-hand along the service mod ule during the homeward jour ney. His “space walk” will be televised live and in color for viewers around the world. Reference person selection important matter Picture the time when you found someone you felt was worthy of modeling your life aft er. Maybe it was Ringo Starr or the local English teacher or your father. Whoever it was, practi cally everybody at some time dur ing his life identifies with a friend or a parent or a brother or someone whom he wishes to emulate. Perhaps, though, these refer ence individuals, as sociologists call them, differ according to your sex or the location of the place where you grow up. In any case, it isn’t a minor matter. People’s lives are changed by reference individuals and, through an understanding of their selection, we might be able to in fluence life decision-making and growth. Therefore, Dr. Wayne Oberle, sociologist in the Texas Agricul tural Experiment Station At A&M University in Collfege Station, has focused study on 478 metro politan and nonmetropolitan low income Negro 10th graders to at tempt to understand the differ ences place of residence and sex make on reference individuals se lected. “There seem to be a lot of common sense notions around that parents are instrumental or very influential in influencing a child’s whole orientation toward life, work and other things,” said the sociologist. “But there really has been very little, if any, research to document the extent. For ex ample, parents are more or less influential in a comparison with teachers or peers. “It seems, as an opener, that different socialization agents are more or less important at differ ent states of development.” Oberle, also an assistant pro fessor in the Department of Ag ricultural Economics and Rural Sociology, asked the high school sophomores to “Think of the per son who you would most want to fashion your life after.” The stu dents had to choose one of the following: a teacher or school counselor, father or mother, an older brother or sister, a relative not in the immediate family, a close friend, a movie or T.V. star, a famous athlete, an important government official, or some oth er person. Little difference between non metropolitan and metropolitan youth in their selection was ob served, indicating that their life models are not so different as many persons have hypothesized. “The traditional ‘rural-urban’ distinction seems to be less rele vant than it used to be,” Oberle said. “In this study, nonmetro politan and metropolitan 10th graders had fairly similar choices for reference individuals, indicat ing that they are not different homogeneous groups.” They are similar in that met ropolitan and nonmetropolitan males aspire to emulate glamour figures first and parents second. In both types of communities, fe males hold teachers in high re gard, although nonmetropolitan girls also select glamour figures as the most common reference in dividual. Oberle did find, even though there are similarities between metropolitan and nonmetropolitan youth, that metropolitan youth se lect friends more often than do nonmetropolitan youth, and non metropolitan youth select glamour figures more often than do met ropolitan youth. A significant finding in the study is that sex differences are quite substantial. M»^s select glamour figures more often than females, and females select teach ers, relatives and friends more often than do males. Oberle also found that the more often a youth is likely to select a glamour figure for a reference individual, the more often also are parents selected and the less often are relatives and teachers selected. The more often relatives are selected, the more often friends are selected. “In terms of suggestions for future research,” he said, “we certainly have added a real ques tion in the necessity of analysis that focuses on the difference the place of residence makes. At least in terms of our analysis here, place of residence differences in the selection patterns of reference individuals were relatively minor. In terms of sex differences, we found they’re quite significant because sex does make a signifi cant difference in the selection of reference individuals.” ALLEN Oldsmobile Cadillac SALES - SERVICE “Where satisfaction is standard equipment” 2401 Texas Ave. 823-8002 ATTENTION STUDENTS Opportunities Available — Full and Fart Time. A Young and Growing Company With a Bright Future. Mr. Ulmer 846-6267 After 5. The Episcopal Church WELCOMES YOU ANY SUNDAY St. Andrews, Bryan 217 West 26th Services June: 8 a. m. and 10a.m. July & August 7:15 a. m. and 10 a. m. St. Thomas, College Station 906 Jersey St. South Side of Campus Services 8:0q a. m. and 9:15 a. m. Adult Class 10:30 a. m. Try kindness toward your homif planet and its residents, anil j smile, God believes in you LAKEVILW CLUB 3 Miles N. 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The Peruvian expedition, now in its second field season, has Franchi-Singing Cadet record now available in B-CS area A stereo single recording of “No Man Is An Island” by Sergio Franchi with the Singing Cadets of Texas A&M is now available at several local record dealers. The 45 r.p.m. record is on sale at the Tip Top record shop, Me morial Student Center gift shop and Exchange Store at $1 each. It also is available for $1.50 through Singing Cadets Director Robert L. Boone in the Student Program Office of the MSC. “No Man” was performed by Franchi and the A&M glee club on an Ed Sullivan Show telecast in January. Franchi arranged the single is sue and made it possible for the Singing Cadets to share in pro ceeds from the sale. The record, with Franchi’s “I Search the World for Love” on the flip side, features “No Man” with a modern beat and full orchestra backing. Franchi first heard the song through Boone and the Cadets at the Miss Teenage America Pageant in Fort Worth last De cember. He lined up their appear ance on the Sullivan show to join him doing “No Man Is An Island.” Franchi’s suggestion of the single was in part the result of a programming problem on the Sullivan telecast, on which the Cadets were cut out of a separate number. led already to a new understand ing of the age of prehistoric man in South America, said Bryant. He explained some crude tools were found in direct association with the bones of extinct Pleis tocene mammals. A radiocarbon dating test from that deposit yielded a date of 12,200 B. C., making it the oldest record of man in South America. The study is being conducted near the town of Ayacucho in the Andean highlands. Its ob jective is “to search for the ori gin of agriculture and to discover the relationship of this phenom enon to the development of vil lage life and ultimately to civil ization in New World Centers.” Included in the interdisciplinary study are biologists, geologists and ecologists, as well as an thropologists and archeologists. Bryant’s main field of research is ethnobotany, man’s utilization of plants. While in Peru, he will be seeking to determine the types of plants prehistoric man in that area used for his food. FOR BEST RESULTS TRY BATTALION CLASSIFIED 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. LETTERS POLICY Letters to the editor must be typed, double-spaced, and no more than 300 words in length. 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