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V •. A* TS 'nha Lambda Holds 'LASSIF;:fcei>tion In MSC ception for Alpha Lambda, scholastic honor society for in, will be held at the Me- |1 Student Center, Social on the evening of Wed- I’LATFOlfay. twenty-seventh of ■mber, at 7. ■| s 0 f ^ |lnvitations have been sent to men eligible for membership. ■ requirements are as fol ios anst’fil fttudent must have at least ■semester in residence at IK. A prospective member ■ be a second semester fresh- r first semester sophomore an overall GPR of 3.5 and currently enrolled as a full- nelstudent minimum 12 hours), ■v coed that has not received limitation and meets the above ltd requirements is requested cjll the Dean of Women’s Of- :efet 845-1741. ★ ★ ★ faction is Bchers To Meet In ipment f^-Day Workshop i Avfi ■ g *' s ^ teachers of a 15- Cinty district of the Texas Joint j§lish Committee for Schools Bcolleges (TJEC) will meet ir a one-day workshop Oct. 7 MM. Campus Briefs THE Tuesday, September 26, 1972 BATTALION College Station, Texas Page 5 EN bile ac IRVICE Workshop areas on various phases of teaching English will be conducted for teachers at all school and college levels. Dr. Gary Tate, Levy Profes sor of English at Texas Christian University, will make the main address and Mrs. Ruth Denney, director of the Houston School for the Performing and Visual Arts, will speak at the workshop luncheon. ★ ★ ★ Foreign Exchange Program Available The U. S. national office of the International Association for the Exchange of Students for Techni cal Experience (IAESTE) has an nounced that program materials for its 1973 exchange ai’e now available from its new offices in Columbia, Md. The IAESTE program provides opportunities for on-the-job, prac tical training in a foreign country for students (sophomore through graduate levels) in engineering, architecture, agriculture and the sciences. Students are placed with foreign companies, research insti tutes and educational institutions for 8-12 weeks during the summer vacation with some long-term openings of up to one year also pi’s Crime Center Teletype coring Hits For Patrolmen Tb afe • i l ui Two highway patrolmen work- - Interstate 10 near Sierra ■ca, in sparsely-settled far Store f eg , Texas, radioed for informa- !WELRlBon a suspicious car with Cal- 84(k'®ia license. Th Department of Public Sty office in El Paso put the • n|h r y on teletype to the Bis National Crime Informa- HCenter (NCIC) and scored a Ig Fish BDriver of the car was wanted ) ^connection with a Phoenix, K., bank robbery six days ear- Lunch er - Inking the man and a woman ■panion in custody, the high- . , ay patrolmen recovered $1,600 ncl 1 “ 1 I jiundred-dollar bills. The FBI tlldenb gji m0( j investigation of the B, and the man returned to 94 tkona for prosecution. Jhis is one of an increasing ber of “hits” being scored by |as police agencies seeking -supporting inform at ion Sough the Texas terminal of FBI’s National Crime Infor- ion Center. Since early this year all law orcement agencies in the state 1th a teletype terminal have in able to make inquiries for inal information to NCIC, ugh the automatic switching lity at the Texas Department Public Safety. he Criminal Justice Council funded every state planning [ion in Texas to develop a re al teletype network compat- le with the state system. As a It, 290 agencies now’ have type terminals, and equip- int has been upgraded. Auto- tic machines now in operation smit and receive at 100 words minute. Messages reaching the DPS Itching facility, also funded by !C, are directed automatically their destination. In July such issages numbered 833,532. Of this number 32,581 were lIC inquiries. They produced ,214 hits for an average of 14 per day. Seven hundred hits a day were ng made by NCIC on inquiries from all over the nation. A hit is defined as a positive reply, providing lead information. Of the more than 12,000 NCIC inquiries from Texas police agen cies in July, 395 were classed as “Q” inquiries, usually meaning a suspect is in custody. The oth ers are “Z” inquiries, which are those of an administrative na ture. Hits of many different kinds are being made on inquiries from all over the state. The sheriff’s office at Edin burg, for example, requested in formation from the NCIC wanted file on three persons being de tained and learned one was wanted for forgery in Michigan. Longview PD had a suspect in custody on a felony charge. NCIC check revealed he was wanted by the FBI in Albuquerque on drug charges and was considered a high escape risk. U.S. Customs, Laredo, inquired on three persons and found one of them had been wanted for more than a year in Wisconsin. Snyder PD made a double hit on a check of a man in custody; he was wanted in California on drug charges and in Kansas for murder. Hits are being made daily on a wide variety of inquiries, based on many types of leads. With automatic teletype terminals in almost three times as many po lice agencies as before CJC start ed funding communications net works, time required to send a message and receive an answer has been sharply reduced. Previously, sending messages across the state and getting a reply often took hours. Now it can be done in minutes or sec onds. Where centralized, computer- stored information from other states was nonexistant, such data now can be retrieved instantane ously. A “serious” delay, when the equipment is busy, is one of three or four minutes. Answers usually are available in 18 to 20 seconds. Kent Ellis, Evangelist “REMEMBER ALSO THY CREATOR” Having considered various ways in which man may live, he writer of Ecclesiastes gives his wise counsel as to how he should live. His last chapter begins with the words of our title: ‘Remember also thy Creator.” Upon reflection it seems in credible that anyone would need this instruction, yet nothing is more obvious than that multitudes live their lives ignoring or forgetting their Creator. Like the Gentiles and Jews of old, they refuse to have Him in their knowledge, or forget Him days without number (Rom. 1:28; Jer. 2:32). How ungrateful to live life ignoring the One Who gave it! How foolish to misuse life defying the One Who will judge it! Think of one living his life with total disregard for his parents, then multiply that infinitely and you begin to have some con ception of the offense of ignoring God. Ecclesiastes especially stresses the need to remember the Creator in the “days of thy youth,” the formative years. In the days ahead, in the midst of all the things you must remember, when so many things de mand your time, attention, and energy, “remember also thy Creator.” Be mindful of God, before “the dust returneth to the earth as it was,” before He brings “every work into judgment,” before man goes “to his everlasting home” (Eccl. 12). If you forget the Creator, no matter what else you remember, all will be “vanity and a striving after wind.” TWIN CITY CHURCH OF CHRIST 3610 Plainsman Lane Bryan, Texas Phone 846-4515 or 846-0804 available. The foreign employer pays the trainee a maintenance allowance with the student cover ing the cost of international trav el, insurance and miscellaneous expenses. Placements are available in 40 other countries, although most are in Western Europe. Fluency in language is required for some countries and useful in others. There is a $50 application fee and the application deadline for the 1973 program is Dec. 15, 1972. Further information and applica tion forms may be secured from: IAESTE/US, American City Building, Suite 217, Columbia, Maryland 21044. ★ ★ ★ Presnal Appointed To Interim Committee State Representative Bill Pres nal has been appointed to an Interim Committee to Study Water Districts in the State of Texas. House Speaker Rayford Price today announced the ap pointment of the committee. The House committee is charged with the responsibility to deter mine if the passage of water dis trict legislation passed during the 61st and 62nd Sessions of the Legislature was in the public in terest, whether appropriate con trols should be exercised over the passage of any such future legis lation, and, if so, what those con trols should be. New Judo Club Organized Here; Students Taught Self-Defense An opportunity for men and women at A&M to enjoy them selves in a unique recreational sport is being offered free of charge. The A&M Judo Club instructors are three competent black belt holders in judo, all students at the university. Judo, a sport originated by Dr. Jigoro Kano, in 1883, is based on the art of Japanese jujitsu. He unified the art under a single principle—the maximum efficient use of the mind and body, thus giving an individual a unique sense of accomplishment. All individuals interested in learning judo are invited to at tend the first club meeting at G. Rollie White Coliseum Annex Room 253, at 5 p.m. Friday. Girls will also be given special training in self defense, including techniques in Aikido, another one of the martial arts. Questions about the club can be answered by calling Gibbs. Dibrell, at 846-6439. FOR BEST RESULTS BATTALION CLASSIFIED ERROR-FREE TYPING ? w ? i n j i ? ill r»j l CORRECTION RIBBON ERRORITE AT VOUR BOOKSTORE 5< A COPY The MSC at our new quick-action copy center. Open 7 days a week Try This Convenient NEW Service Soon! Pick Up The Meter Key At The Main Desk In The Lobby Of The M.S.C. easy-to-use XEROX" equipment! We invited a few friends for dinner and they helped clean up the Genesee Rive^ With the aid of a few thousand pounds of microorga nisms, we’re helping to solve the water pollution problem in Rochester. Maybe the solution can help others. What we did was to combine two processes in a way that gives us one of the most efficient water-purifying sys tems private industry has ever developed. One process is called “activated sludge,” developed by man to accelerate nature’s microorganism adsorption. What this means is that for the majority of wastes man can produce, there is an organism waiting somewhere that will happily assimilate it. And thrive on it. The breakthrough came when Kodak scientists found a way to combine the activated sludge process with a trickling filter process and optimized the combination. We tested our system in a pilot plant for five years. (At Kodak, we were working on environmental improvement long before it made headlines.) And the pilot project worked so well, we built a ten-million-dollar plant that can purify 36-million gallons of water a day. Governor Rockefeller called this “the biggest volun tary project undertaken by private industry in support of New York State’s pure-water program.” Why did we do it? Partly because we’re in business to make a profit—and clean water is vital to our business. But in furthering our own needs, we have helped further society’s. And our business depends on society. We hope our efforts to cope with water pollution will inspire others to do the same. And, we’d be happy to share our water-purifying information with them. We all need clean water. So we all have to work together. 19 Kodak More than a business.