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THE
College Station, Texas
BATTALION
Wednesday, February 28, 1973
A&M Tied To
Seismic Station
The Geophysics Department has
acquired a seismograph terminal
that receives signals by telephone
from the world-wide standard sei
smic station at Junction, Texas.
Dr. Anthony F. Gangi, profes
sor of geophysics, initiated the
proposal, the planning and the
acquisition of the terminal. Dr.
Gangi said the instrument at
present measures only the verti
cal motions of the earth’s crust,
but the capability to measure hor
izontal motions will be developed
soon.
The terminal signal, according
to Dr. Gangi, is from a short pe
riod instrument with a peak re
sponse of one cycle. The terminal
represents an investment of ap
proximately $4,000.
Dr. Gangi worked with Dr.
Terry Spencer, head of the Geo
physics Department, to obtain the
terminal facility through depart
mental funds.
Dr. Gangi will serve as the di
rector of the new installation. He
said the terminal will provide the
faculty and students in the Geo
physics Department with an op
portunity to do research in a va
riety of areas in geophysics such
as seismicity, the rate of occur
rence of earthquakes; microseism,
ground motion set up by storms at
sea, and the effect of depth in
the earth’s crust on wave propa
gation velocities.
Edward (Smokie) Stover of the
Geophysics Department is in
charge of operating and maintain
ing the instruments in the ter
minal installation. He said the
terminal is able to record earth
quakes from all over the world.
“We were able to get an ex
cellent record of the recent earth
quake that destroyed Managua,
Nicaragua,” Stover said. “The
Managua quake registered a mag-
Initude of 6.2 on the Richter
Scale.”
Stover said that several other
records of recent quakes off the
Philippines and the Japanese
mainland which exceeded 7.0 on
the Richter Scale were recorded
by the terminal equipment.
“The reason they were not
publicized,” he said, “is that they
occurred at sea and no loss of life
or property was reported.”
There generally are fewer than
six earthquakes a year from all
over the world that have magni
tudes exceeding 7.0 on the Rich
ter Scale, Stover noted.
The Geophysics Department
plans to cooperate with the seis
mic station in Denver, Colo, to
improve communications on data
acquisition from the Junction sta
tion.
Buffalo Springfield was a rock
group too far ahead of its audi
ence to gain stardom. More or
less, it was made of Rich Furay,
Jim Messina, Neil Young and
Stephen Stills. When they split
in ’69, Stills teamed with Gra
ham Nash of the Hollies and Da
vid Crosby of the Byrds, while
Neil Young began a short-lived
solo trip.
So that left Messina and Fu
ray, and they formed Poco. Mes
sina has since departed to play
with Kenny Loggins, but he left
his country music leanings with
Poco.
Pocq has been around for three
or four years now, its latest ef
fort is called “A Good Feeling to
Know.” Messina’s replacement,
Paul Cotton, is every bit as skill
ed on the guitar and wrote three
of the album’s songs. A long
haired steel guitar player still
looks odd but when it sounds like
it does on “Good Feeling” every
thing seems natural.
This new record shows Poco at
its best. Their country tainted
rock is just right for the songs
included. The title tract is my
favorite. It communicates what
the lyrics say. The second best
song is its version of Stephen
Stills old Buffalo Springfield
number “Go And Say Good Bye.”
Poco’s optimism is what grew
on me as I listened to “Good Feel
ing” for the second time. On
about the third listen I began to
catch its rhythm and expertise at
creating the desired tempo, not
as simple as it would seem. In
its “cosmic-country” category,
“Good Feeling to Know” is at the
top.
, Recently, Crosby, Stills and
Nash got back together to do a
new album. Neil Young declined
the family reunion invite, since
he was (and is) on an extended
national tour with his back-up
group, the Stray Gators. His con
certs are all sellouts, and his per
formances have received good re
views. So, Young took advantage
of his stardom to release an al
bum that is below the standards
his past musical efforts set. It is
called “Journey Through The
Past.”
This double record deal is sup
posedly from a movie soundtrack,
but if it really is from a movie,
its probably from one of those
that we’ll never see, unless its at
the Campus at 12 o’clock Friday
night.
Young does an unusual thing
on this album, most of the last
side is other people’s stuff. The
Beachboys’ “Let’s Go Away for
Awhile” in borrowed, as are the
excerpts from Handle’s “Mes
siah.” I must credit Young with
guts to sandwich between those
works his own “Soldier,” the only
new song on the album. But what
ever he was trying to say wasn’t
made clear enough.
The other three sides are dif
ferent versions of old music. In
cluded are numbers by C,S,N and
Y, Buffalo Springfield, and a few
off his own “Harvest” album, be
sides some Stray Gator efforts.
“Journey Through the Past”
doesn’t compare with Young’s
other albums, since whatever is
on “Journey” sounded better in
its original version.
Both these records were pro
vided for my analysis by Donnie
and Ed at Budget Tapes and
Records in Northgate.
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