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Page 6 College Station, Texas Wednesday, July 18, 1973 THE BATTALION Teacher Education Goal Of Program Continuing education for voca tional industrial teachers in Tex as secondary schools is the pri mary objective of the Teacher Education Division of A&M’s En gineering Extension Service. LAkl YIIW CUJI 3 Miles N. On Tabor Road Saturday Night: Peggy Sue, Lonnie Wright & Band From 9 - 1 p. m. STAMPEDE Every Thursday Nit* (ALL BRANDS BEER 35*) ROBERT HALSELL TRAVEL SERVICE AIRLINE SCHEDULE INFORMATION FARES AND TICKETS DOMESTIC AND INTERNATIONAL Um CALL 822-3737 lOltf Texas Avenue — Bryan "It's Something Different' PEANUT GALLERY Dance — Wednesday & Friday Nights Featuring Danny Keetch, Disc Jockey & Scotty Price on Drums Serving Beer, Wine, & Mixed Drinks .yfll i 813 Old College Road 846-9978 The program offered by the education division seeks to refine and extend the abilities of voca tional industrial teachers who teach students destined to be come producers in the labor force. The increase in ability, accord ing to Gene Fisher, acting head of the division, is needed because of the increasing demand by the public and industry for more rel evant education, especially voca tional education. very instrumental in assisting vocational industrial teachers in achieving the refinements neces sary for implementing effective programs of vocational industrial education. The Engineering E x te n s i o n Service, in cooperation with the Industrial Education Department of A&M and the Texas Educa tion Agency, has proved to be The summer school program offered by the division is coordi nated by Bob Wagner. The teach ing staff consists of six regular A&M staff members and four teen guest instructors. The guest instructors teach in vocational in dustrial programs throughout the state and are invited to partici pate in the summer program be cause of their excellent perform ance in the field of vocational industrial education. Students enrolled in the sum mer program, according to Fish er, are presently teaching or will be teaching in secondary or post secondary level positions. A sur vey of the teachers in the pro gram was taken recently and the results showed that 77 per cent are male, 67 per cent are native Texans and 90 per cent are mar ried. The survey also showed that while 73 per cent of the teachers completed high school through traditional means, the remainder obtained equivalency certificates by successfully completing G.E.D. test series. Several of the Auto Insurance Reductions Ordered participants were also found to have completed work on ad vanced degrees. The number of males who re sponded to the survey have ac cumulated 3,008 years of trade experience and the females have accumulated 784 years. Of those AUSTIN—The State Insurance Board, as predicted, last week said it will order auto insurance reductions averaging 4.3 per cent for private cars and totalling at least $25 million. Even further savings may be allowed under new competitive rating effective September 1, which allows companies to devi ate above and below standard rates set by the Board. However, insurance industry spokesmen warned, other new laws going into effect may drive rates up substantially next year. Rates cited by the Board do not include, for example, effect of new optional additional cover age for medical expenses and wage losses (up to $2500 for driv er and passenger). Actually, the coverage is added automatically unless the car owner rejects it in writing. Industry officials estimated the $2500 additional “personal injury protection” will cost from $8 to $23 a year, which would exceed the cost of savings on other cov erage in the same territories. Changes in the “guest statute” —which will allow passengers other than members of the driv er’s family to sue in event of accidental injury—will add at least another five per cent to premiums^ according to a top in dustry source. The new comparative negli gence statute will increase prop erty damage liability costs at least 10 per cent, estimates the Texas Automobile Insurance Of fice, which represents companies writing 98 per cent of Texas auto coverage. The guest statute and compar ative negligence law changes will not be reflected in premiums or dered into effect August 27, since there is no experience to base cal culations on. Rates vary substantially among 40 rating territories. An average statewide cut of 11.2 per cent was ordered last year. who responded in the survey, 54 per cent served in the military service and in many cases this is directly related to their teach ing specialization. Average size of the schools the participants represent is about 1,600 students, according to the survey. Highway Safety Center Projects Awarded Funds The Highway Safety Research Center, a division of A&M's Tex as Transportation Institute, has been awarded funding for two similar safety research projects. The projects, headed by princi pal investigator Eugene Buth, deal with testing vehicle-impact characteristics of a light pole and an emergency telephone sta tion. The light pole project, funded with $4,000 from Kaiser Alumi num, consists of impacting a ve hicle with a newly-developed structure featuring a new style breakaway base. Funds Received For Atomic Equipment Gig 'Em Aggies y Lafayette’s Widely Acclaimed LR-1500TA UFAYETTESQR-20 4-Channel SQ AM/FM Modular System A Major Breakthrough In High Fidelity Music Listening VH I £ / iii* V " 240-Watt AM/FM Stereo Receiver Only $33775 W W / With Case \aAA 2 YEAR GUARANTEE^ $17995 lAF/WETTE T-^OoLtO ETCfZtAxHOtCA I associate store OWNED & OPERATED BY SANTRONICS IN REDMOND TERRACE SHOPPING CENTER NEXT TO GIBSON’S COLLEGE STATION 9:30 - 6:00 MON. - SAT. Funds for undergraduate in structional equipment have been acquired by A&M’s Geology De partment from the National Science Foundation. The NSF matching grant was made through its Undergraduate Instructional Scientific Equip ment Program. Total value of the grant is $16,800, according to Dr. Robert B. Scott, associate professor of geology. He said the money will buy- an atomic absorption spectropho tometer and related equipment. It will be used in the laboratory course Geology 451, introduction to geochemistry. In addition, a PH meter will be purchased to enable students to measure ion activity in natu ral solutions. “We are excited about this equipment,” Scott said. “It is easy to run and gives excellent data. This will upgrade our geo chemistry course to the profes sional level.” A prototype pole has been suc cessfully tested by TTI, and the results, according to Buth, meas ured up to the company’s expec tations. He said the next test would be on a production model to verify the first test’s results. The telephone station test in volves the Motorola Motorcall highway emergency telephone system. The structures will be placed along interstate highways at regular intervals to aid motor ists in emergencies or distress. The tests at A&M will involve full-scale impact tests to deter mine momentum and deceleration changes a vehicle would experi ence when striking one of the telephone mounting poles. Computer simulation tests also will be run, and the results be tween the two will be compared. If a common point can be estab lished, the remainder of the tests will be run in computer simula tion, avoiding destructive tests on the structure and TTI auto mobiles. Since the telephone support poles will be installed on federal highways, the government has set guidelines for crash charac teristics of the poles. The Mo torola system will be tested to see if it fits the guidelines, Buth said. 1 crp MEDITATION AS TAUGHT «Y MAHARISHI MAHESH YOGI TRANSCENDENTAL MEDITATION IS A NATURAL SPON TANEOUS TECHNIQUE WHICH ALLOWS EACH INDIVID UAL TO EXPAND HIS MIND AND IMPROVE HIS LIFE. 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