THE BATTALION
FRIDAY, APRIL 11, 1975
Page 5
Rape, smoking major campus concerns
Various and sundry individuals
sometimes point out to other vari
ous and sundry individuals that liv
ing in the Bryan-College Station
and attending Texas A&M Univer
sity is synonymous with living in a
fish-bowl . . nice and self-
contained, untouched by human
hands.
Following this train of thought a
little farther, living in a fish-bowl
has its advantages. Sometime
within the past two weeks the sub
ject of rape has been referred to at
least once by every Southwest Con
ference university newspaper we
exchange papers with. The TEXAS
TECH newspaper pointed out that
city crime in Lubbock increased in
1974 by 17.7 per cent. Rape in
creased 43.4 per cent, with 76 rapes
occurring in 1974 and 53 in 1973.
A spokesman for the campus
police said, “Rape on TEXAS A&M
UNIVERSITY campus within the
past year has been extremely (stress
extremely) rare.”
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However, just because we live in
a nice fish-bowl, that’s no reason to
strain out trends that may be helpful
to your health. No smoking signs in
the Business-Economics Building at
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THE UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT
AUSTIN read (do signs “read” or do
they “say”?), “You have no right to
foul the air I breathe”.
The Daily Texan says that the
signs do seem to have a positive ef
fect on non-smokers. It gives them
the courage needed to ask someone
to stop smoking in their presence.
Perhaps sometimes THE UNI
VERSITY OF TEXAS AT AUSTIN
does have a few good ideas.
Little known fact: state law pro
hibits smoking in public places. This
law dates back to the days when
most of the buildings were wooden
and smoking presented a fire
hazard.
The DAILY TEXAN quoted Sen.
William T. Moore (that’s the senator
from this district) as saying, “The
Senate shouldn’t vote to bust a man
(Walter Sterling) because some
rabble rousers at the University of
Texas decide they are going to set
policies here. Students are always
against the establishment and that’s
probably the way it should be. If the
man had been a member of the
Communist Party instead of the
John Birch Society, this group
would probably be for him.”
The DAILY TEXAN said,
“Surely, your average college stu
dent would not agree with Moore’s
logic on why Sterling should be con
firmed as a University regent.
Surely, your average college stu
dent would be insulted at being cal
led a rabble rouser when others —
who take the same action — are cal
led lobbyists. Surely, your average
college student would think Moore
was mad and surely your average
college student would attempt to
but this man in the next senatorial
election. But the question is this: Is
your average college student an
Aggie?”
The question that deserves an
answer is not the rhetorial one. Hell
no, the average college student isn’t
an Aggie. If he was, then 23,000
current students and God knows
how many former students of
TAMU wouldn’t take pride in being
an Aggie.
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Photo by University News Service
William D. Rumbaugh (left) and Paul W. F. Yust with their ver
sion of the Foucault pendulum which can be seen in the Zachry
Engineering Center.
Engineers build replica
of 18th century pendulum!
gers a voltage that turns on an elec
tromagnet in the middle of the plat
form and attracts the bob back to the
center.”
Benefit
party nets
$50,000
AUSTIN (AP) — Almost $50,000
was raised April 7 at a special benefit
reception to help Bicentennial pro
jects in Texas, Mrs. William P.
Hobby Jr. said Thursday.
The gala at the Lyndon B. John
son Library was hosted by Mrs.
Lady Bird Johnson, American Na
tional Insurance Co. and state
Bicentennial officials.
Mrs. Hobby, president of the
Bicentennial Association of Texas,
said the event “was a successful be
ginning for the celebration of our
nation’s 200th birthday with prog
rams of lasting importance to the
people of Texas. ”
She said that 210 Texas com
munities have undertaken projects
designated as official bicentennial
activities.
Texas A&M student engineers
have duplicated the pendulum ex
periment of 18th century physicist
Monsieur Foucault with a perma
nent display in the Zachry En
gineering Center lobby.
Members of the Tau Beta Pi en
gineering honor society constructed
the display which features a 46-foot
pendulum with a 255 lb. bob at
tached to the end.
Foucault showed that the earth
rotated without resorting to direct
observation. In College Station, the
pendulum rotates about 185 de
grees in a 24 hour period.
The group added a Compass
Rosette underneath the pendulum
to show the points and an elec
tromagnetic device to keep the
pendulum in perpetual motion.
Graduate student, William Rum
baugh said the idea was conceived
when “it was suggested that we
build some displays which show
some of the fundamental physical
principles. Our adviser noted that
this kind of display acquaints stu
dents with the theories before they
were faced with them in the clas
sroom.”
About the mechanism Rumbaugh
said, “After we built the pendulum,
we had to power it. We put a coil
around the platform and a perma
nent magnet near the tip of the bob.
The bob passing over the coil trig-
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