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BATTAUON Wednesday, September 15, 1971 College Station Texas Pa ge S ampus briefs Profs, student invited to conference Jfc* km SGT. CAROLYN BIGGS, of McChord Air Force first policewoman in the Air Force. Sgt. Biggs away at the male chain-of-command for a year, refusing its negative replies until she got the A || change its regulation forbidding policewomen, photo) Expanded travel arranged for A&M students in ’71-72 Mtiry ■3 0. Expanded between - semesters European travel opportunities have been arranged for A&M stu dents during 1971-72. “TAMU European Tours ’72” features trips to Spain, Moscow, London, Geneva and La Plagne, Prance, the latter as the third annual “Ski the Alps” jaunt, dur ing Dec. 25 to Jan. 3. Memorial Student Center Trav el Committee Chairman Jim Sum mers said the basic contractual agreement for the nine to 10-day trips is between “TAMU Euro pean Tours ’72” and Group Trav el Associates Inc. of Chicago. Students, faculty-staff, active alumni and their immediate fam ilies are eligible for participation oh the tours, for which travel by Air France or another certificated scheduled air carrier will be ar ranged. Spain, Switzerland, Russia and England tours are basically simi lar to the tour option available on previous “Ski the Alps” trips, in which sightseeing by lease car is possible. Vehicle travel is riot included in the Moscow package. First and last nights in the Mos cow tour are in Paris. Last nights on the Spain, La Plagne and Switzerland packages also ani in Paris. All are 10-day events except Moscow (nine) and London (sev en). Rates vary according to the tour. Four 40-person groups de part for Paris Dec. 25. A fifth leaves Jan. 3, 1972. The five groups connect with other air carriers in Paris for respective destinations. Fi'-e A&M professors and one graduate student have been in vited to attend the Penrose Con- (V rence on Fracture Mechanics id Earthquake Source Mechan- i.s in Aspen Colo., Sept. 26-30. Attending will be Dr. John 1; idlin, Dr. Melvin Friedman, Dr. John M. Logan and George M. Sowers of the Center for Tec- tv, iophysics; Dr. Anthony F. A ngi of the Geophysics Depart ment, and J. Terry Engelder, geol ogy graduate student. Purpose of the meeting is to discuss the state of knowledge re garding earthquake prediction and modification, noted Dr. Handin, director of the A&M center. Dr. Handin wil chair a session on pore pressure effects. Dr. Lo gan will present a discussion on the frictional properties of sedi mentary rocks at high strain rates, and Dr. Friedman will dis cuss residual stress in the earth’s Engelder is one of only five students selected to attend the national meeting, Dr. Handin not ed. Participation in the confer- <.iice has been limited to 80 per- ★ ★ ★ Greenhut returns from visiting professorship Dr. M. L. Greenhut, distinguish- ied professor of economics at A&M, has returned from a “win ter term” visiting professorship at the University of Cape Town, South Africa. Several divisions of the Univer sity of Cape Town invited Dr. Greenhut to present a lecture se ries on economic spaces during The lectures, each five hours, were on equilibrium sizes and shapes of market areas, the prop- erties of economic space and their impacts on microeconomic theory and industrial location. Dr. Greenhut lectured to stu dents and faculty in the Grad uate School of Business, Depart ment of Economics and School of Urban and Regional Planning. ★ ★ ★ Benton joins staff as police instructor Ralph B. Benton, 1955 graduate of A&M, has joined the Engineer- ing Extension Service’s Police Training Division as a law en forcement instructor, announced Chief Instructor Ira E. Scott. Benton will be responsible for the development and coordination of justice of the peace short courses throughout the state, in addition to regular teaching as signments, Scott noted. A&M recently received a $153,- 679 grant from the Texas Crim inal Justice Council to conduct 10 educational short courses for state justices of the peace. ★ ★ ★ Dr. Chui to speak at math colloquium A joint mathematics colloquium and open meeting of the Seminar on Analysis and Applications will hear Dr. Charles K. Chui Thurs day at A&M. Chui, associate professor in the Mathematics Department, will be gin his talk on “Approximations of the Integral” at 4 p.m. in Room 207 of the Academic Building. ★ ★ ★ Black art show on exhibit at MSC “Black Images,” an art show sponsored by A&M’s Black Awareness Committee, goes on two weeks exhibit in the Memorial Student Center this weekend. Joe Thomas, member of the MSC committee, said the display consists of 60 photographs mount ed on 15 panels. They will be ex hibited in the MSC lobby through Sept. 27. Black Images is an Association of College Unions-International art exhibition and premiered at Cornell University. It was prepared under super vision of Earl J. Hooks, Fisk Uni versity are professor, and one of his students through a $2,500 grant from Educational Displays Inc. ACU-I commissioned the work. ★ ★ ★ Hartley reappointed to evaluation panel Dr. H. O. Hartley, director of A&M’s Institute of Statistics, has been reappointed as a member of the evaluation panel for the Ap plied Mathematics Division of the National Bureau of Standards. The appointment was made by the National Research Council of the National Academy of Sci ences. Dr. Hartley, who has served as a panel member the past three years, also has received a special assignment to represent the group in deliberations of an evaluation panel appointed to advise the Cen ter for Computer Science of the National Bureau of Standards. This panel will meet in Washing ton, D. C., Sept. 27-28. The Applied Mathematics Di vision panel will meet Dec. 9-10 also in Washington. ★ ★ ★ Cricket to begin ninth season at A&M Cricket will enter its ninth straight season at A&M during 1971-72. Practices are held Saturdays at 3:30 p.m. on the Memorial Student Center drill field, an nounced A&M club president John Griffiths. The meteorology pro fessor said students or faculty interested in participating or who would like to have the game ex plained should meet with the team Saturday. “I’m sure there are some here who are unaware we have a team,” Griffiths said. Season matches are being arranged, he added. The A&M team captain is Dee- pak J. Bhambhani, geophysics graduate student of India. ENGINEERING' AND OFFICE SUPPLY CORF, 10% Discount T© Students ENG. & ARCH. SUPPLIES GRAPHIC ART SUPPLIES OFFSET & BLUE LINE COPIES Credit Terms 402 West 25th — 823-0939 OUR SPECIALTY 1/5 Carat Eye Clean Diamond For Senior Ring, $40 plus tax C. W. 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