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THE BATTALION Friday, February 4, 1972 College Station, Texas Page 3 cience fiction course taught by English, physics, psychology profs >F*EN! ’ ClJcOMMERCE, Tex. <^> — From *ity Drift s Only r moviesi 3 A Weejf es 16 Price A four-man team of instructors ogy and English. hour credit course. “I hope that ensure the student that the course meet. We’ll be looking at the ma- sics facts and very careless about "Late, Late Show" to the fllege classroom. That’s where hence fiction is heading, with a course being offered at East has State University. is teaching an undergraduate course in science fiction. The course, listed in the university catalog as Physics 416, is directed by instructors in physics, psychol- ERROR-FREE TYPIN6 NYLON TVPINC RIBBON CORRECTION RIBBON ry Club mo ENCl ICE il Loam ION 16-3708 srs SDAY 172 1 n't ERRORITE AT YOUR BOOKSTORE OUT OF BUSINESS — WHOLESALE PRICES ALBUMS — $2.68 TAPES — $4.59 Wednesday Thru Saturday 9 a. m. - 5 p. m. In House at 901 Beck St. — Bryan Dr. Arlen Ray Zander, assist ant professor of physics, is the primary instructor. Assisting him are Dr. Steve Ball, instructor on psychology and special education, and Drs. Mike Brown and Jim Reynolds, instructors in the Eng lish Department. All four teachers are under 30 years old, and all began teach ing here in the fall of 1970. “We’re really trying to make this an interdisciplinary course,” Zanders said of the new three- the students react in an unbiased manner to it, that they treat it as a new kind of course rather than a physics course.” In naming the course an in terdisciplinary one, the four in structors are attempting to com bine the scientific, literary, and psychological aspects of science fiction. Films, guest lecturers, open dis cussion and possible telephone hookups with leading science fic tion writers will be employed to is interesting. “One of the things that we want to show students is that a physicist can talk to an English professor,” Brown explained. “People ought to be concerned about scientists and scientists ought to be concerned about peo ple.” Reynolds said that from a lit erary standpoint the two English instructors want to give the stu dents “a kind of awareness of the area where science and fiction terial from a humanistic stand point ... in terms of literature.” How does psychology enter into the world of science fiction? “I think psychology is a sci ence in the first place,” Dr. Ball said. “I’ll be concerned with whether or not the human re sponses the author shows us are truthful and valid from a psycho logical point of view.” “Many science fiction writers are very careful about their phy- their psychological facts," the in structor said. “We’ll be checking to see if the characters in the sci ence fiction stories are psycho logically realistic,” Roller, Dahm awarded NSF grant Two A&M professors have been awarded a National Science Foun- ARE YOU INTERESTED IN FLYING? (at reasonable rates) The Texas A&M Aero Club is an organization based on the enjoyment of flying. We’re composed of Texas A&M students, staff, & faculty. GET INVOLVED IN THE FLYING ACTIVITY AT TEXAS A&M UNIVERSITY • Private, Commercial, Instrument & CFI Flight Instructions • Pilot Re-Currency • Flight Instruction by FAA Certified Personnel • New Aircraft • Planned Social Activities (NASA High Altitude Chamber Ride, Picnics, Speakers, Field Trips) • Discounts On Pilot Supplies • Continuously Operated Private Pilot Ground School On Campus • Monthly Meetings FOR INFORMATION CALL 846-2288 TEXAS A&M AERO CLUB, INC. dation grant expected to total $890,000 for basic studies con cerning the role of hormones in development. The grant was awarded to Dr. Herbert A. Roller, professor of biology, and Dr. Karl H. Dahm, associate professor of biology and chemistry. They have been work ing as a team since 1966. Dr. Roller said the NSF grant is intended to support basic re search to learn more about insect hormones and, in turn, about hor mones in general. Insects are the best-suited or ganisms for studies of this nature, Dr. Dahm pointed out. “The development of a normal full-grown organism from a single egg cell is an extraordinary achievement,” Dr. Roller noted. “Hormones have been recognized as taking part in these events, participating in the process of growth, morphogenesis and differ entiation in both plants and lower and higher animals.” Through previous research, the two professors are credited with the isolation, elaboration and chemical synthesis of the juvenile hormone, one of the two hor mones in insects which regulate developmental processes. Their findings have served as a basis and stimulant to indus trial development of hormonal methods of insect control. “The central strategy for this new approach to pest control is the derailment of normal develop ment by substances which imitate the insect’s own juvenile hor mone,” Dr. Roller explained. Several chemical companies have already obtained encourag ing results in field tests, and A&M has record spring enrollment A&M has a record spring en rollment of 13,816 students, Reg istrar Robert Lacey reported Thursday. Nirenberg to present math lecture Prof. Louis Nirenberg, direc tor of New York University’s Courant Institute of Mathemati cal Sciences, will present a grad uate lecture Feb. 14 at A&M. The lecture, sponsored by TAMU’s Mathematics Depart ment and entitled “Remarks on Linear Partial Differential Equa tions,” will be held at 4 p.m. in Room 207 of the Academic Build ing. BATTALION CLASSIFIED WORK WANTED GRADUATES—SENIORS! 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The registrar pointed out the figures include cadets enrolled at the Texas Maritime Academy in Galveston. Lacey noted spring enrollment is traditionally lower than in the fall. Last fall the university en rolled 14,775 students, but 996 were graduated at mid-term. He said the enrollment totals are based on figures compiled as of the twelfth class day, the offi cial reporting date specified by the Coordinating Board, Texas College and University System. commercial development is in progress. The materials used ap pear to be completely non-toxic to other forms of life, the profes sors emphasized. The new NSF grant includes research involving chemical com munication among’ insects. Dr. Roller and Dr. Dahm join ed the TAMU faculty in 1968 aft er previously working together at the University of Wisconsin. The NSF grant includes $154,- 000 for the current year and pro vides for awards of slightly larger sums for the next four years. 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