CADET SLOUCH by Jim Earle Listen Up
Laundry Troubles Repeat
Editor:
Having just retrieved m y
clothes from our so called laundry
service (a vast misnomer for that
incompetent group of starch-hap
py seamsters), I find the same
unmistakable quality that has
plagued A&M for quite sometime.
Now don’t get me wrong—I
don’t mind those bumbling butch
ers taking my clothes for three
days at a time (Friday drop off
and Monday pickup), but one
would think that in that length of
time, better service could be ren
dered.
Again I put explicit instructions
in my laundry bag, only to obtain
the same results as last year.
Now, I don’t know what the
problem is—maybe the laundry
help is illiterate, or lackadaisical
or belligerent—or maybe just
plain stupid.
But when I say I don’t want
my shirts and pants starched or
pressed, I mean it. As long as
laundry fees are mandatory, I
think A&M deserves better laun
dry service that is is now getting.
Jay McElroy ’75
Editor:
Let me relate to you an unjust
incident that occured at the
organizational meeting Monday
night for the Phi Eta Sigma
Tutors. After beginning the
meeting 25 minutes late, the
speaker (he did not identify him-
A&M Gains $20,000 Robot
“If everyone studied, everyone would make good grades
which defeats the purpose of the grading system. Follow
me?”
The Texas Division of Dow
Chemical Co., U.S.A. has made
an unrestricted gift of an indus
trial robot to A&M College of
Engineering, Dean Fred J. Ben
son announced.
Dean Benson said the AMF
Versatran, valued at more than
$20,000, will be used for teach
ing and research in the Indus
trial Engineering Department’s
Automation and Mechanics Lab
oratory.
Dr. A. R. Burgess, professor
of industrial tool engineering
and mechanization, noted the
new equipment was tested at
Dow’s Freeport plants and was
Batt News Summary
By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
HARRISBURG, Pa.—Imprison
ed antiwar priest Philip Berrigan
and a Roman Catholic nun were
sentenced Tuesday to federal
prison terms for smuggling let
ters into and out of prison.
At the same time, the govern
ment said it would not seek new
trials for Berrigan, Sister Eliza
beth McAlister and other mem
bers of the so-called Harrisburg
Seven on the conspiracy charges
upon which a jury deadlocked last
April.
Berifigan was ^sentenced to two
years on' 3 'each of four counts of
smuggling, but a federal judge
ruled that the terms should run
concurrently with his present
term.
Nixon’s re-election campaign
won’t be hurt by the furor over
last June’s break-in and bugging
of Democratic party offices, John
Mitchell said Tuesday.
The former Nixon campaign
chief spoke to newsmen after
completing 1 hour and 45 min
utes of secret testimony in the
Democrats’ $1 million lawsuit
over the June 17 incident.
gent Shriver in New England,
Vice President Spiro T. Agnew
appearing at the Southern Gov
ernors Conference at Hilton Head,
S.C.
WASHINGTON — President
WASHINGTON — Democratic
presidential nominee George Mc
Govern hunted votes along the
West Coast Tuesday while Pres
ident Nixon campaigned for the
environment in what the White
House called a nonpolitical visit to
San Francisco.
Vice presidential campaigners
were at work, too, Democrat Sar-
TALLAHASSEE, Fla. — U.S.
Supreme Court Justice William O.
Douglas ordered the release Tues
day of four antiwar veterans held
for contempt after they refused
to answer grand jury questions
about an alleged conspiracy to dis
rupt the Republican National Con
vention.
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SAIGON — North Vietnamese
forces attacked a third South
Vietnamese outpost in the central
highlands Tuesday amid growing
government concern of a possible
threat to the base city of Pleiku.
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Bicyclitis,
Borrow Your
Or Can I
Tire Pump?
By SAM BAYS
Throughout the South the inci
dence of Bicyclitis in our college
and university communities has
reached nearly epidemic propor
tions. Previously believed to infect
only small children (who usually
recovered spontaneously after a
few years) and slightly eccentric
college professors (who wore san
dals and a beard when everyone
else had a crewcut anyway), the
disease has spread in recent years
to virtually every segment of
campus society.
Clearly, this disease constitutes
a clear and present danger to our
health and well-being. The causa
tive organism, technically known
as Bicyclus academicus but com
monly called the two-wheeled
chromium beastie by serious stu
dents, is believed to have been in
troduced into this country from
Europe by unassuming scholars
who contracted the infection while
on post-doctoral fellowships at
Heidelberg and Oxford.
long established as breeding
grounds for other subversive and
degenerate social diseases, Bicy
clus academicus spread to the
South and West where the warm
climate allowed it to multiply at
a disgracefully rapid rate. Many
varieties of this dangerous exter
nal parasite have been identified,
ranging from the small and heavi
ly armored bananicus strain to the
larger and highly evolved multi-
gearus strain.
Bicyclitis can be diagnosed
most easily by a heavy metallic
chain or cable that typically en
circles the body of the infected
individual. Closer examination
may reveal pedal-like depressions
on the soles of the feet, stooped
posture, green sack-like canvas
growths on the back, and in prac
tically all cases, chronic overexer
tion and fatigue.
Originally confined to the large
Eastern universities which have
The disease apparently affects
the mind as well since both suici
dal and homicidal tendencies have
been observed. Weaving in and
out of moving automobile traffic
and driving at high speed off
curbs or down steps have been
noted as classic suicidal activities
while harassing or actually at
tacking pedestrians seems to be
the most prevalent homicidal
characteristic. No known deaths
have occurred to date, but the
potential is obviously present.
Since very little is known about
the course and cure for Bicyclitus,
everyone not presently infected
should take care to avoid extend
ed contact with either the organ
ism itself or diseased persons.
Preliminary research does indi
cate, however, that some individ
uals, particularly Ag students and
ROTC personnel, may have at
least partial natural immunity.
For the unfortunate people who
have already contracted the dis
ease, purchase of an automobile,
acute attacks of laziness, and
avoidance of chains and padlocks
have proved to be reliable reme
dies. If none of thes alternatives
, can be pursued, at least these piti
ful souls should fight the almost
irresistible urge to confront ce
ment trucks and brick walls head
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found unsuitable for use in the
corrosive atmosphere where it
was to be used.
Dr. Burgess said the robot is
an automatic material handling
device suitable for picking up ob
jects weighing up to 150 pounds,
raising the object, swinging the
arm through as much as a two-
thirds circle and depositing the
load in a new location.
“The chief application of this
type of robot,” Dr. Burgess
pointed out, “is to relieve human
muscles of the strain of handling
heavy articles, especially where
the working conditions may be
unpleasant or hazardous.”
He added the robot can be pro
grammed and controlled through
a large number of motion pat
terns. It will be employed to il
lustrate many basic principles of
simulating manual motion.
T A M U undergraduate and
graduate students will study the
machine as part of regular course
work, Dr. Burgess said.
self) began the business. In time,
he came to the business of who
would be editor of a fraternity
publication. He stated that only
one person qualified for the edi
torship and that if there were no
objections then that person would
be editor.
At that time, I raised my hand
to object—since I wanted to have
the portion of the constitution
read which pertained to editor
qualifications, and since I wanted
to volunteer for the job.
The speaker did not recognize
me. I stood up and still was not
recognized. The speaker began
some new business. At that, I
stated, “This meeting is undem
ocratic,” and left the meeting
room.
My question for you is this:
What type of school do we have
where an organization like the
Phi Eta Sigma can hold meetings
of the above mentioned sort?
I hope the members of Phi Eta
Sigma and the tutors will read
this and seek a solution.
Douglas W. Kirk ’74
TRY
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