THE BATTALION
Friday, February 4, 1972
College Station, Texas
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cience fiction course taught by English, physics, psychology profs
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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-
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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-
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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
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Coed, enrollment this spring to
tals 1,774, for an increase of 363
over the spring semester last
year.
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figures include cadets enrolled at
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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.
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are based on figures compiled as
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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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the two professors’ previous stud
ies, research funds for the project
are expected to total more than
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year period.
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