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THE BATTALION
College Station, Texas Wednesday, September 1, 1971
CADET SLOUCH
by Jim Earle
By Phi Eta Sigma
Freshmen offered tutoring
A new tutoring service is be
ing offered to help the incoming
freshman adjust more easily to
the academic rigors of A&M.
The service is being offered
for the first time this semester
by the A&M chapter of Phi Eta
Sigma, the national freshman
academic honor society.
The Texas A&M Scholastic
Service (TAMSS), is the largest
of its kind in the nation. The
tutors for this special service are
members of the Greek organiza
tion, Phi Eta Sigma.
Membership for Phi Eta Sigma
is selected on the basis of su
perior academic performance and
a grade point ratio of 3.5 or bet
ter in their freshman year.
TAMSS is composed of 112 tutors
who form the 25% of the Phi Eta
Sigma membership.
Each student who elects to
make use of this special service
will be assigned a tutor with a
high GPR and an “A” average
in the course area in which the
student desires tutoring.
The tutoring service is avail
able free of cost to all students,
with incoming freshmen getting
top priority in the scheduling of
tutors.
Salahuddin Sharia Yosutzai, a
sophomore chemical engineering
major from Dacca, East Paki
stan, is chairman of Scholastic
Service. He is assisted by dormi
tory representatives who are re
sponsible for overall coordina
tion in their respective sectors in
both civilian and corps areas.
“Registration for the TAMSS
is tentatively scheduled to start
at 8 a.m. on Sept. 9 and will con
tinue till 5 p.m. the same day,”
Yosutzai said. “Depending upon
the response, registration will
continue through the same hours
on Sept. 10.”
“TAMSS is scheduled to start
operation on Sept. 13, when each
NASA working toward
quieter large jet engine
student will be assigned a tutor,”
Yosutzai continued.
Tutoring will be available in
three different course areas—
math, chemistry and history. The
tutoring will be concentrated pri
marily in the freshman math and
chemistry courses.
Courses involved in the tutor
ing service are: Chemistry 101,
Analytic Geometry 104, Calculus
209, Biology 113. Also, subjects
offered on a limited basis are:
Algebra 101, Algebra 102, Math
ematical Concepts - Pre - Calculus
130, Analytic Geometry and Cal
culus 121, Calculus 122, Calculus
210, Calculus 307, Differential
Equations 308; and Chemistry
102, Structure and Bonding 103,
Chemistry of the Elements 104,
Physics 218, and History 105,
History 106, Animal Science 107,
Mechanical Engineering 112, Ge
ology 205, Geology 206, English
103, English 104, and English
101B.
The National Aeronautics and
Space Administration continued
its attack on jet aircraft noise
as the first ground tests of an
experimental, quieter jet engine
began this week in southern Ohio.
“ . . . . but sir, maybe my haircut makes me look like
a girl, because I am a girl!”
Food prices to hold steady,
Ag economists believe
President Nixon’s new economic
program for dealing with infla
tion, employment, and the world
position of the dollar has all sec
tors of the economy guessing as
to the eventual implications. Two
major questions are (1) what
will happen after the 90-day pe
riod and, of particular interest to
agriculture, (2) how will the ag
ricultural domestic and export
markets be affected ?
These questions were posed by
Dr. Carl E. Shafer, associate pro
fessor of agricultural economics,
and a committee of Agricultural
Extension Service and .Experi
ment Station economists in the
Department of Agricultural Eco
nomics at Texas A&M Univer
sity. The committee, headed by
Shafer, was recently appointed
to determine what effects the
new economic program is having
on Texas agriculture.
Shafer’s committee reminded
Texas producers that “all farm
level unprocessed products are
exempt from the price-freeze
provision while retail food (ex
cept for unprocessed items like
eggs and lettuce) and fiber prod
uct prices are subject to the
freeze. Of course, prices of items
farmers buy are controlled. This
should restrain the cost part of
the price-cost squeeze dilemma
farmers have had to face.”
economists indicated that “farm
level prices could vary selectively
depending on the strategy of food
marketers as dictated by current
cost and margins. However, with
retail and wholesale food prices
frozen, there is little reason to
expect farm level prices to in
crease to any extent.”
“Possibly the most significant
aspect of the new programs could
be the psychological effect of the
turn-about in the administration’s
economic policy,” pointed out
Shafer. “If confidence in the
economy is renewed, inflation is
restrained, and unemployment
drops significantly, then the de
mand for food could increase.
This would result in increased
sales at the stabilized retail
prices.”
The agricultural economic
group cited an example. If the
demand increases for high con
sumer preference items such as
beef, there might be some in
crease in cattle prices due to buy
ers bidding for the given supply.
But, again, cattle prices could
not rise much because of market
ing costs and fixed retail prices.
Prelimary tests were conducted
earlier this month to check put
the mechanical integrity of the
engine. Harry Bloomer, a Lewis
Quiet Engine engineer, said it
proved to be “a very smooth
running engine” with no prob
lems from vibration or stress on
the fan blades. The engine also
produced no visible smoke, an
other NASA objective and a de
sired trait of future jet engines.
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The engine to be tested, known
as Engine A, uses the same gas
generator core as the commercial
CF-6 and TF-39 engines built by
GE for the DC-10 and G5A, re
spectively.
The committee of agricultural
Tonight
Intervarsity Christian Fellow
ship will meet at 7:30 in room
146 of the Physics Building.
During the next three months,
23 tests will be made to determine
just how quiet the system is.
Engineers will operate Engine A
at conditions typical of take-off
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and landing (when noise is most
noticeable) while changing the
types of inlets and exhaust noz
zles used.
The full scale test engine was
built for the NASA Lewis Re
search Center, Cleveland, Ohio,
under a contract with the General
Electric Company’s Aircraft En
gine Group. The initial noise
tests will be conducted by GE at
its Peebles, Ohio, site.
Later in the test program
various flow passages will be
lined with acoustically absorbent
material to reduce noise further.
Once noise tests at Peebles are
completed, Engine A will be de
livered to Lewis where it will
be mated to an acoustically
treated nacelle (engine housing)
to form a complete propulsion
system for further ground test
ing.
“Except for Analytic Geometry
104, Calculus 209, Biology 113,
Chemistry 101, and English 101
in which incoming freshmen stu
dents will have first preference,
tutoring in all subjects will be
available on a first come, first
serve basis,” Yosutzai said.
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