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About The Battalion. (College Station, Tex.) 1893-current | View Entire Issue (June 11, 1975)
THE BATTALION Page 5 WEDNESDAY, JUNE 11, 1975 Time on road well spent for geology students Geology students at Texas A&M University spend more time on the road than a traveling salesman—al most anyway. "Fundamentally, geology is the stu dy of rocks and rocks are outside,” said Dr. Travis Parker. “We feel that students studying geology need to get out of the classroom and see things first-hand.” To accomplish this, the geology curriculum includes four required field courses which send the stu dents from Northwest Colorado to Florida. “We want our students to see as many different kinds of rocks, struc tural features, and land forms as possible,” Parker continued. “There are different stratigraphic units in Colorado than in West Texas, for example.” Students get their first exposure to field work in the fall semester of their sophomore year. Under the supervision of Dr. Karl Koenig, the students make short, weekend trips to such places as Marble Falls and Llano. During a two-week period in May at the end of their junior year, the (students head out to Northwest Colorado with Dr. Robert Scott. Vans are loaded with personal belongings, lanterns, stoves, tents, and so on; cooking and other responsibilities are assigned and roughing it begins. Here the structure of the Rocky Mountains is exposed for study. This group arrives back on cam pus just in time to sign up for sum mer school, wash the Rocky Moun tains out of their clothes, and pack up again for a six-week jaunt to West Texas with Koenig. The study area is the Marathon Basin between Al pine and Big Bend National Park. The geology student gets a chance to show what he knows during his senior year on a field trip with either Scott or Dr. Mel Schroeder. Typically, Schroeder takes his group into the Arbuckle Mountains area of Southeast Oklahoma and the Ard more Basin. “This is a three or four day camp- out trip dealing with stratigraphic and structural problems,” Schroeder explained. “It is designed to see how well the student can perform on his own in deciphering what the geologic events have been in this area.” A field course run by Dr. Wayne Ahr is required for students majoring in geophysics but may be taken as an elective by qualified geology stu dents. “We start right after New Year’s Day and drive along the Gulf Coast to upper Florida,” he began. “After examining the great sink holes of this area, we go to the Florida Keys and set up camp. “We study rocks in the process of being formed and the Keys area is a model for classical limestone de position,” Ahr noted. “We go out in the bay and also take a charter boat to the Straits. The students examine underwater reefs by snorkel- ing, or those who are qualified can scuba dive. 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In general, the students fare better on the field trips than their profes sors. “Of course, we always have one to two seasick cases every year,” Ahr noted. “Anti, someone always finds he’s not as brave as he thought he was when he first encounters a barra cuda or spotted ray.” Meter reading economists offer rebates Texas A&M University economists have begun reading electricity meters of 130 randomly-picked College Sta tion residents in a unique research project. The researchers, in cooperation with College Station Utilities, are experimenting in the area of “re bates” for consumers who use less energy in the form of price re ductions and/or packages of energy conservation information. The team wants to find out if electrical consumption will go down if consumers are given price cuts and tips on how to conserve energy. “At present, the price of energy we use is actually reduced if we use a lot. We want to see what happens if the reverse occurs,” explain Drs. John Kagel, R. C. Battalio and R. C. Winkler, faculty economists leading the research. The College Station participants are all volunteers. Duration of the research is approximately through mid-August. Student services relocating in student center Offices providing specialized stu dent services have been relocated at Texas A&M University. Now in the Memorial Student Cen ter are offices of the student legal ad visor, international student advisor” and Texas Rehabilitation Commis sion. The campus TRC counselor, Don Gardner, is in the MSC west wing. Ken Robison and Charles Hornsteiii have facilities in the second floor administrative area, near the Brows ing Library and MSC director’s of fice. Robison aids students with legal problems. His counsel may be sought for a variety of matters, but the chief problem so far encountered has con cerned apartment leases. International students’ special needs are served by Hornstein and Corky Sandel. They coordinate cam pus-wide resources to assist an en rollment of 1,000 students from out side the U. S. during a regular se mester. Vocational rehabilitation counselor of the state agency, Gardner is lo cated in Room 146, near the west MSC entrance nearest Wofford Cain Hall. In helping handicapped TA- MU students, the branch of the Bryan TRC offices provides information and assistance for many kinds of disabilities. Telephone numbers of the three services remain the same. The legal advisor is at 845-2610; international students advisor, 845-1824, and TRC, 846-4782. arnuumi If you want the real thing, not frozen or canned ... We call It “Mexican Food Supreme.” (Dallas location-." [3071 Northwest Hwy. 352-8570