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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
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I’m afraid that if no real
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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.
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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
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