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The TAMU wind tunnel, the baili wick of aeronautical engineers, is being used to test the effect of cam pus buildings on the university en vironment. The large buildings ap parently modify the prevailing winds and cause unusual pheno menons. Vicki Moen adjusts a pitot tube at the base of the Ocean ography and Meteorology Building while Steve Jones gives directions from behind the new architecture building. Page8 THE BATTALION WEDNESDAY, JUNE 11, 1975 NOTICE!!!!!! MEMORIAL STUDENT CENTER BARBER SHOP ATTENTION: Students, Staff, Faculty, and the General Public Barber shop is now open and ready for business. We have three full time barber-stylists to serve you. HOURS: Monday-Friday 8 A M. to 5 P.M. PHONE: 846-0629 A Diamond in your Aggie Ring ... —the final touch. ” \Carl Bussells \/Diamond Rood 3731 E. 29 846-4708 memdcr AMcnr" an gcm sociciy Journalism faculty gains two members Two new faculty members are joining the Department of Jour nalism at Texas A&M University, Department Head C. J. "Skip” Leabo announced Wednesday. George A. Flynn will join the staff as assistant professor of journalism to teach advanced newswriting and reporting and graphics. Fie has been a reporter and city editor of the Fort Lauderdale Bureau, and editorial promotion director for the Miami Herald. Flynn has also been involved in the applications of social science methods in news development and interpretation. Flynn during his career has also covered the Cape Kennedy Man ned Spaceflight Center and was Key West Bureau Chief during the time of dramatic and near-daily escapes of Cubans from the Cas tro regime. He holds an M.A. from Florida Atlantic University. The second new staff member is Gael L. Cooper who will serve as an assistant professor of jour nalism and Director of Student Publications. Cooper comes from the Courier-Journal and The Louis ville Times, Louisville, Kentucky, where he worked as an editor and desk man and was intimately in volved with "new technology" for newspapers. This included developing and coordinating a new program in video display terminal (VDT) editing. The University of Missouri graduate will be a second genera tion TAMU instructor. His father taught English here when Cooper was a youngster. Oceanography building under whirlwind study Students around TAMU can tell that when a heavy north or south wind blows strange things hap pen around the 15-story Oceanography and Meteorology Building. Winds sometimes blow in the opposite direction, form whirlwinds, and occasionally doors get hard to open. As a result a pair of environ mental design students taking a dvil engineering materials course decided to see just how much the buildings on campus were affect ing each other and the physical environment of the people around them. Initially, Steve Jones of Dallas and Vicki Moen of Bryan attached streamers to the side of the O&M Building and set off smoke gre nades so they could record the wind currents on film. They then built a small wind tunnel model of part of the cam pus to see if they could reproduce the effects they noted on the ac tual building. The testing has progressed from a one inch to a 16V2 foot model that fills the Texas A&M wind tunnel. Wind flow, wind patterns, and the pressures they produce will be recorded and compared with the on-site read ings. They will produce winds up to 60 miles-per-hour on the minia ture campus. With their figures complete, Jones and Moen hope to be able to calculate the effects of new con struction on the environment. 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