THE BATTALION
Page 2 College Station, Texas Tuesday, September 21, 1971
CADET SLOUCH
by Jim Earle
Listen up
Why
not call the ‘Maggies’ Agettes?
“It was th’ best football weekend I can remember!
I’m only sorry that we didn’t know the game wasn’t going
to be in New Orleans until after we got there!”
Editor:
Why don’t we call the girl
students “Agettes”? The name
“Maggie” makes one think of an
old grandma who wears a bonnet.
Take a poll of the girls to see
if I’m right.
Pat McCallgham
Why not call them Aggies,
they go to school here just like
the rest of us.—Ed.
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Editor:
Why doesn’t the university do
something about the lack of in
formation on campus regarding
memorials, traditions, etc.?
Is it the Corps’ fault the ci
vilian population is so uninform
ed? It is not! Why should Corps
members go out of their way to
explain such places as Spence
Park, when people such as Jim
Zeman, who I take for granted
is a senior, fly off the handle at
something they know little or
nothing about, and haven’t both
ered to find out.
Traditions are part of A&M,
why don’t civilians wake up, it’s
their school, too.
Vicki Lilley
Why should people go out of
their way to scream at freshman
coeds? You must remember that
there are two sides to this cam
pus and that Spence Park is on
one that the civilians, much less
coeds, hardly ever see. Too, like
Mr. Zeman seems to have a hang
up on the Corps, you seem to have
one about civilians. They know
there are traditions here and do
a good job of voluntarily follow
ing them. Why don’t you wake
up to that fact?—Ed.
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Editor:
We have a fine football team
this year with a bunch of guys
who are willing to play their
hearts out for our school. Well,
they did just that Saturday night
in Baton Rouge. Only thing is,
they didn’t win. They played just
as hard if not harder than last
year and their desire to win was
even more.
Due to the fact that they did
lose, all the fair-weather Aggies
just completely shook them off.
What I’m driving at is the fine
reception our team received from
the mighty Twelfth Man at the
airport after the game. There
were about twelve men there,
alright. How many went to meet
last year after the game with
L.S.U. ? Could 13 seconds make
that much difference in a team’s
performance or the distance to
Easterwood ? Sure, everyone loves
to win but we won’t ever if our
support dies When one of the
nation’s top ten teams beats us.
Wichita State supporters don’t
turn their backs and laugh when
their team loses. You say they
have reason to lose. Well, our
fair-weather fans have hurt our
team the past years more than
the plane crash hurt Wichita. The
team has all it needs this year
to be a big winner but some
loyal fans to support and be with
them win or lose. Those fans
aren’t going to come from t.u.
A very down hearted member
of the Fightin’ Texas Aggies
said to me at the airport, “Stick
with us, we’ll be a winner this
year.” I believe him, do they have
to beg you for support?
Larry A. Oldham *73
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Dear Editor:
Ever heard of ISA?
Is it the Institute for Security
Agents? Or the Illiterate Staff
Association? Is it the Irish Sal
vation Army or a thermodynamic
unit?
It is the International Student
Association. This is an organiza
tion started last year with the
explicit purpose of promoting a
greater understanding among the
students of all nations attending
Texas A&M University.
The Association offers I
foreign student an opportunitj
to share his culture and custom
with other students, and espedil
ly S.S. students who in their tun
offer as much.
Any A&M student can becom
a member by simply stating lii
wish to do so at one of the m»
ings.
Our next meeting will be heli
on Thursday, Sept. 23, at Mi
p.m. in the Assembly Room i!
the MSC.
For more information cal
George Halikas (846-0576)
Michael Raphael (84 6-0418).
George Halikas
Michael Raphael
Bulletin Board
Tonight
Physics Club will meet in room
145 of the Physics Building at
8:30 to hear Dean Prescott speak
on the undergraduate in the Col
lege of Science.
AGC will meet in the Architec
ture Auditorium at 7:30. Guest
speaker is Robert B. Little of
R. B. Little, Inc.
Bonfire Committee will meet in
Lounge B of the Corps area at
7:30. All interested are invited.
SAE and AIIE will meet at
7:30 in the Geology building for
a program on the Lunar Rover.
Young Democrats will hear
Lane Denton, state representa
tive from Waco, speak at the old
College Station city hall at 7:30.
Junior Class Council meeting
will be held at 8 in the library
conference room.
Wednesday
Lincoln Union will debate the
Bonfire in the Architecture Audi
torium at 7:30. All are invited
and may participate.
Model Airplane Club will meet
in room 202 of the Physics Build
ing at 8:30.
Steve Hayes
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Editor’s note: This is the
first of a weekly column deal
ing with the ecology and what
is being done about it and to it.
Being an environmental activist
isn’t easy these days . . . the
Right thinks environmentalists
are pinko-freaks, challenging the
backbone of America-Big Busi
ness; the Left suspects that ecol
ogy is a government ploy to
divert our attention from the real
concerns of society: the War,
poverty, urban and rural ghettoes,
and unemployment; and the aver
age American isn’t sure what he
should think.
The plight of most Americans,
indecision and consequently, in
action, is understandable, for even
the least perceptive of readers
can see that there are now an
overabundance of ecology “ex
perts” polluting the air with the
greatly over-used word, pollu
tion.
From Everywhere, Mr. Normal
is stoned with the word, P-O-L-L-
U-T-I-O-N. News articles, adver
tisements, commercials, bill
boards, nearly everyone and
everything says pollution at least
three times a day. With this
oversaturation, it is not unlikely
to expect many people to simply
turn off, tune out, and “leave it
to the experts.”
At first this might seem like a
great - idea, for who is better
equipped to solve complex en
vironmental problems, than com
plex environmental experts? But
who is an expert? There really
can’t be too many trained ecolo
gists, as ecology has just recently
come into wide acceptance as a
science. Yet nearly everyone is
claiming to be an expert of sorts.
Everyone says that they are
concerned .... even General
Motors, a company responsible
for a large portion of all
air pollution in this country. GM,
bless their hearts, now claims to
spend forty million dollars an
nually on pollution control. Im
pressive that this may sound, this
is only .17 per cent of its annual
gross revenues.
There are other persons who
maintain that the real solvers
of environmental problems are
engineers. After all, environ
ment is an engineering problem
more than anyone else’s, for they
will be the ones who build the
Engineering instruction
Aerospace engineering instruc
tion at A&M will be described
at the 22nd International Astro-
nautical Congress in Belgium in
late September.
Stanley H. Lowy will present
a paper titled “Another Method
of Teaching Aircraft and Space
craft Design at Texas A&M Uni
versity.”
The Sept. 20-25 Congress will
be held at the Palais des Congres
in Brussels. In addition to pres-
is to be described
entations on design, propulsion
and materials-structures in astro
nautics, the congress will devote
sessions to bioastronautics, appli
cation satellites for atmosphere
and ocean pollution study, space
rescue, orbital international labo
ratory and a 14th International
Colloquium on the Law of Outer
Space.
Lowy is an associate professor
in the Aerospace Engineering De
partment at A&M.
controls on the pollution prob
lem. Notwithstanding that there
are esthetic values that cannot
be solved by engineering alone,
pardon me if I am not too com
forted by any thoughts of an un
controlled engineering branch
solving problems.
Many of the pollution problems
that are overwhelming us today
are really those problems of the
past “solved” by the recent gen
erations of engineers. The engi
neering profession too is still suf
fering from its stereotypic image
of being overly concerned with
controlling nature, and not the
quality of living in the future.
“They seem,” said a student, “ig
norant of any esthetic values in
life. If they see a river, they
want to dam it, and if a chasm,
to bridge it.” As an official of
The Friends of the Earth said,
“The Corps of Engineers is like
a beaver, neither can stand the
sight of running water.”
the fact that unlimited growth
continues in the world, and by
that alone we cannot afford to
maintain parts of the ecosystem
. . . especially those parts which
have very little effect on us.
“Man,” their critics maintain, “is
adaptable.” Also, biologists have
been “called to court” for lack
of reasonable economic alterna
tives to the problems of today.
Biologists, many of whom are
among the first to accept the
idea of ecosystems, have been ac
cused of not taking in the reali
ties of life . . . most pertinently,
So who is an expert? Don’t
look at me. I’m not sure either,
but I do know that acquiescense
is not the answer. Silence can
only be interpreted by wholesale
polluters and destroyers of the
environment as acceptance of the
present quality and trend of life
in America. Personally, my
health and my countryside mean
too much to me. I cannot be
silent to what I feel, and blind
to what I see. I simply cannot
afford to be, nor can anyone else.
Every person owes it to himself
and his family to become as ade
quately informed as possible.
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Extraterrestrial in origin
Amino acids found in meteorite
Researchers at the National
Aeronautics and Space Adminis
tration’s Ames Research Center
have discovered additional life-
related molecules — amino acids
and pyrimidines — believed to be
of extraterrestrial origin in me
teorites.
The finds appear to strengthen
recent Ames-discovered evidence
suggesting that there may be a
basic pattern for the chemical
evolution process, possibly lead
ing to the origin of life.
The discoveries were announced
at the annual meeting of the
American Chemical Society,
Washington, D.C., Sept. 16.
The team of scientists at the
Ames Research Center, Moun
tain View, Calif., now has found
six amino acids of apparent ex
traterrestrial origin in a third
meteorite, the Orgueil.
These are similar to but not
identical to amino acids found in
living cells. Amino acids are
among the principal constituents
of living cells.
Previously, the researchers had
found identical sets of 18 differ
ent amino acids in each of two
other meteorites, the Murchison
and the Murray.
The six amino acids newly-
found in the Orgueil are included
among the 18 amino acids found
in both the Murchison and Mur
ray meteorites. The researchers
found five other “life” amino
acids in the Orgueil, but these
were determined to be largely
contaminants.
All three meteorites are be
lieved by scientists to come from
the asteriod belt, and to date
from the time of the formation
of the solar system, about 4.5
billion years ago.
The new find supports the
“pattern - of-chemical - evolution”
thesis, which suggests that the
specific set of amino acids and
other life chemicals now found
complete or in part in three me
teorites may be a part of the
pattern leading possibly to the
origin of life.
The scientists also announced
the finding of eight types of
pyrimidine molecule in all three
of the meteorites. All eight of
these pyrimidines are similar to
the “life” pyrimidine molecule
which is one of the principal
building block molecules of the
DNA genetic code chain, the
blueprint molecule for virtually
all living organisms.
In addition to strengthening the
idea of a pattern for chemical
evolution leading to the origin of
life, the theory accepted by most
scientists, the discoveries, further
strengthen the possibility of
chemical evolution leading to life
in other parts of the solar system
and elsewhere in the universe.
The eight pyrimidine molecules
and 11 of the amino acids found
in the three meteorites are like,
but not identical to, those found
in living organisms on Earth.
However, several of these mole
cules could easily be conceived
to be constituents of a non-earth-
ly life form, comments Dr. Cyril
Ponnamperuma, formerly chief of
the Ames Chemical Evolution
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