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Page 2 College Station, Texas Wednesday, July 5, 1972 THE BATTALION Listen up Faculty answers registration editorial Editor: On behalf of this department, I would like to express my strong objections to the tone of your editorial June 28, on the “regis tration hassle.” Your vitupera tion was untypical of this campus and equally uncalled for. In the first place, you must know that many faculty are dedi cated to the welfare of students and put the interests of students first in making administrative arrangements. Further, some faculty are also students and suf fered equally from registration difficulties (imagine being a grandfather and having to re quest permission to live off cam pus!) Indiscriminate fulminations against faculty are therefore un just. In the second place, the faculty of this department made certain recommendations for registration for the second summer session, some of which emanated from students, which differed both from the solution suggested by the Registrar’s Office and from the one agreed by the Academic Programs Committee. Thi» indi cates that men of good faith can have different ideas and that they should not be treated with disrespect with whom one disa grees. If the decision of the Academic Programs Committee was defec tive, this is more likely to be be cause the human intellect is frail than because the committee was seized with the need to protect faculty from inconvenience. In deed, the very idea that academic deans should harbor such inten tions would be difficult for many faculty to comprehend. have unduly maligned the faculty without presenting the whole story. I was present during the entire registration procedure, and certainly the bottleneck was not at the departmental registration stations. Kenneth S. Most, Head Department of Accounting We would be shocked if some faculty members did not disagree with the editorial. No words by the editor of The Battalion should be able to make the good look bad or the bad look good. Your actions speak louder than our words ever will. If the shoe fits, wear it.—Ed. ★ ★ ★ Editor: Your editorial on the “Regis tration hassle” has disturbed me greatly, because I feel that you Indeed, one of the major prob lems was that the lines outside at the assignment card issuing stations were so long that the students were unable to get into Duncan in time, so that the last of them didn’t get to the depart mental stations until about 1:30. In inquiring into the cause of this delay, I find that the Registrar’s Office had hired a considerable number of students to help in passing out the assignment cards, but many of them failed to show up. I don’t see any emphasis placed on this defaulting on a commitment by the students. Three manned Earth orbital missions scheduled after December’s Apollo 17 Three challenging Earth orbit al manned space flight programs are scheduled to follow the final Apollo Moon landing mission in December: Three Skylab missions in 1973 will log more than 9,000 manhours in space. The first international manned space flight is planned for 1975 when American astronauts in our Apollo spacecraft and Russian cosmonauts in their Soyuz will link up in space. Manned Earth orbital test flights of the reusable Space Shuttle are to begin in 1978. Skylab will be the first U.S. space station in orbit. The space craft and launch vehicles are elements of the Apollo program which became surplus after sev eral Apollo test flights in 1907 and 1968 proved that the equip ment was qualified to carry out lunar landing missions. The larg est segment is the workshop or space laboratory, the size of a six-room house. It is a third stage of a Saturn V launch vehicle made habitable for a crew of three men. Attached to the workshop will be an airlock, dock ing adapter and a large solar tel escope. These will be launched into Earth orbit wtih the first two stages of the Saturn V rocket from the Kennedy Space Center, Fla. About one day later, three astronauts will be launched in an Apollo spacecraft by a smaller Saturn IB vehicle. They will maneuver the spacecraft to dock with the Skylab laboratory for missions ranging from 28 to 56 days. The workshop will be outfitted with equipment to carry out more than 50 scientific, biomedical and technical experiments in Earth orbit. The solar telescope will be man’s first opportunity to study the Sun’s activity outside of Earth’s atmosphere which filters out some of the solar phenomena and prevents ground based telescopes from recording important scientific events. Extensive biomedical studies will be conducted to study the effects of long duration space flights on the human body and test possible methods of prevent ing deconditioning of the muscu lar, skeletal and cardiovascular systems in the weightlessness en vironment. tory on May 1 to begin their four- week mission. Earth resources sensing sys tems aboard Skylab will survey crops, vegetation, geological for mations, underground water and minerals and global wind, sea and weather conditions. Skylab technology and engineering ex periments will investigate the possible use of space for process ing materials and testing equip ment which may enable man to maneuver and perform more ef fectively in space. Launch of the unmanned work shop is planned for April 30, 1973. If all goes well, Astro nauts Charles Conrad, Jr., Dr. Joseph P. Kerwin (a medical doctor), and Paul J. Weitz will be launched and will dock their Apollo spacecraft to the labora- Late in July the second Skylab crew, Astronauts Alan L. Bean, Dr. Owen K. Garriott (an elec trical engineer) and Jack R. Lousma will enter the Skylab laboratory for a visit of up to eight weeks. The third crew, Gerald P. Carr, Dr. Edward G. Gibson (a physicist), and William R. Pogue will carry out the last Skylab mission of eight weeks beginning late in October. The United States and the Soviet Union have signed an agreement to carry out a joint manned space mission. Space officials of both nations are planning for American astro nauts in an Apollo spacecraft to rendezvous and dock with a Rus sian Soyuz spacecraft piloted by Soviet cosmonauts, probably in 1975. A tentative flight plan is for the Apollo spacecraft to be launched from the Kennedy Space Center, Fla. A few days later the Soyuz would be launched from the Soviet Union. The Apollo craft, outfitted wtih a compatible docking hatch and airlock will maneuver and link up with the Soyuz. They would remain docked for about two days: The Space Shuttle will provide the most effective and economical means for the United States to utilize and advance its capabili ties in space and at the same time reduce substantially the cost of space operations. Cbe Battalion Opinions expressed in The Battalion are those of the student writers only. The Battalion is a non-tax- supported, non-piofit, self-supporting educational enter prise edited and operated by students as a university and community newspaper. LETTERS POLICY Letters to the editor must be typed, double-spaced, and no more than 300 words in length. They must be signed, although the writer’s name will be withheld by arrangement zeith the editor. Address correspondence to Listen Up, The Battalion, Room 217, Services Building, College Station, Texas 77843. The Battalion, published in Colleg Sunday, May, and a student newspaper at Texas A&M, is in College Station, Texas, daily except Saturday, Monday, and holiday periods, September through once a week during summer school. MEMBER The Associated Press, Texas Press Association The Associated Collegiate Press Mail subscription ptions are §3.50 per semester; $6 per school year ; §6.50 per full year. All subscriptions subject to 5% sales tax. Advertising rate furnished on request. Address: ear ; $6.50 per ' ' ng rate furnished on request The Battalion, Room 217, Services Building, College Station, Texas 77843. Members of the Student Publications Board are: Jim Lindsey, chairman ' H. F. Filers, College of Liberal Arts ; F. S. White, College of Engineering; Dr. Asa B. Childers, Jr., College of Veterinary Medicine; Dr. W. E. 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One of the strong points of our university is that by and large the faculty are dedicated to work ing with the students, and spend far more time on the campus than is done at many other in stitutions. I know, for example, that at some schools the faculty does not assist whatsoever in helping at registration, not even to the extent of being on campus for counseling. I’m afraid that if no real schism exists between the stu dents and the faculty, your edi torial might foment one, and if one has started, it can do little but acerbate it. If I have my facts wrong, I will be glad to be corrected. A. R. Burgess, Ph.D. Professor A meeting is scheduled today and another Friday to complete plans, and the decision for registration procedure next Thursday will be in next Wednesday’s Battalion, the day before it happens again. —Ed. ★ ★ ★ I’m not familiar with the rea sons for not staying with the de cision to devote a full day to reg istration at the second summer term. I know that in times past registration for the regular se mesters has occupied as much as a day and a half, and we seemed It's about time first summer session registration was forgot ten and next Thursday is thought about. At the meeting held more than three weeks ago, solutions to the difficulties you have men tioned were discussed and decid ed upon. The problem now seems to be finalizing plans for July 13. Editor: While recognizing the need for continuing development of the TAMU physical plant, we feel that the traditional landmarks of this campus should be left intact. We commend the administration for the outstanding expansion that TAMU has made during the past year. However, we feel it is our duty to point out to the De partment of Planning and Ana lytical Studies that the present construction also involved the demolition of certain A&M land marks. All the street lamps on Military Walk have been par tially or completely destroyed. While we feel progress is most necessary and commendable, the preservation of A&M’s atmos phere and landmarks also con tributes to the continuity of our past, present and future. Bruce Rocholl ’74 Dale Martin ’73 St. Thomas Episcopal Chapel and Student Center Wed 906 Jersey Street (southern boundary of campus) Telephone: 846-1726 Summer Schedule: Sunday, 8 and 9:30 a. m. and 8:00 p. m. The Rev. James Moore, Chaplain. The Rev. W. R. Oxley, Recto ARE YOU UNDER AGE 25? Auto Insurance at Manual Rates If your driving record is good (not perfect) BusiekJones Agency Bryan College Station 3523 Texas Ave. 846-3708 1055 Highway 6 So. (Homefinder Bldg.) 846-1614 IMPORTED 3 & 10 SPEED KIKE' Sales - Service - Accessories £A Gitane 10-SPEED TANDH Now In Stock CENTRAL SUPPLY 715 S. 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