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Page 4 THE BATTALION WEDNESDAY, JUNE 18, 1975 i \ki;vii:\\ ci.hi 3 Miles N.on Tabor Road Saturday Night: Ray Sanders with Hank and Bridget Singer From 9-1 p.m. STAMPEDE Every Thursday Nite (ALL BRANDS BEER 35 cents) Space radar to check floods Every Tuesday Nite LADIES FREE MEN $2.00 All Brands Beer 8-12 35c Music furnished by the Brazos Sounds ROBERT HALSELL TRAVEL SERVICE AIRLINE SCHEDULE INFORMATION FARES AND TICKETS DOMESTIC AND INTERNATIONAL •Atil tm CALL 822-3737 1016 Texas Avemie — Bryan The space shuttle and the loads it can carry into space are going to open up a new frontier for scientists of the world. TAMU scientists from the Re mote Sensing Center are develop ing the types of systems that will provide high resolution radar ob servations of the land, sea and at mosphere. The center, a division of the Texas Engineering Experiment Station, has been funded to an additional $19,000 by the Jet Propulsion Laboratories to specify the needs of the shuttle radar. The shuttle will deliver into space a sophisticated radar system capable of providing photo-like images of the earth’s surface, even when the earth is covered with clouds. “We are picking out the major applications for the radar and are defining the experiments,” said team spokesman Richard Newton. “Microwave sensors provide excel lent images of the surface regardless of the weather or lighting condi tions. Therefore, they offer the only means of collecting information about areas having frequent cloud cover, such as the Northeast U.S. “For instance, the U.S. Depart ment of Agriculture wants to monitor watersheds,” Newton con tinued. “The observations can be used for planning dams and reser voirs. With these readings, run-off information that would take years to accumulate by conventional means could be done in a short time by satellite. This would allow flood forecasting to become a reality.” Another area of application/is for Great Lakes ice navigation. The satellite radar can note the size and shape of ice flows and ice thickness while measuring the roughness and the ability of ships to penetrate the ice. This method could also be used to map the polar ice cap. Mineral exploration is an area of research where radar can penetrate vegetation and the earth’s surface to note composition of rocks and aid in petroleum exploration. The equipment can monitor the progress and extent of floods, hur ricanes, blizzards, destructive winds, fires, tidal waves, earth quakes, and volcanic eruptions. This can be done in any weather during either the day or night. The satellite radar could also be sensitive to vegetation types and conditions while recording land use patterns and changes. Finally, there could be observa tions of ship activities in support of international agreements, espe cially in the economic coastal zone. “This is only part of a two-year, NASA-funded study by the JPL and TAMU to identify applications of the radar data that will establish a demand for a shuttle radar and pro vide guidelines for the sensor de sign,” Newton added. The radar system can be put into orbit and picked up by the large capacity shuttle. The shuttle can be used as a versatile platform for col lecting radar data or as a launcher of unmanned satellites equipped with radar systems. “The space shuttle will be a reus able truck for payload deliver), re trieval, service and operation, Newton said. Engineers say red tape causing sewer backups “At the top of a lot of federal agen cies are mostly lawyers and economists who don’t give a damn about professional engineers,” an Environmental Protection Agency (EDA) official contended here last Thursday. Harold P. Cahill, Jr., director of the municipal construction division of the EPA, spoke before the 39th Annual Meeting and Engineering Exhibition of the Texas Society of Professional Engineers at TAMU. Cahill was speaking of the EPA’s efforts to cut red tape and begin building under the government’s $18 billion federal waste water treatment program. Consulting en gineers claim they are hamstrung by regulations and restrictions. Gain'll High school sports may help universities 2700 SOUTH TEXAS AVE. More research is needed, thinks a TAMU sociologist, to pinpoint the role high school sports have in in fluencing athletes to go on to col lege. High school sports don’t seem to hurt grades or college aspirations of Oil exploration hazards, study for researcher Oil and life in the oceans of the world have become more and more entwined as the search for pet roleum creeps over the Continental Shelf and on the ocean bottoms. The American Petroleum Insti tute has funded Texas A&M Uni versity biologist Dr. Jack Anderson with $95,000 this month to sound out possible ecological dangers to marine life as the search for energy accelerates. He has established a laboratory base on a Shell Oil Company Offshore production platform in the Gulf of Mexico. Anderson plans to study the growth and reproduction of marine life over a long period by shuttling researchers from TAMU back and forth. This will introduce chronic petroleum types of pollution for ex tended periods. Biological studies on organisms from the Gulf are significant since this body of water receives more than two-thirds of the total dissol ved chemical load discharge into the oceans from the Continental U.S. Also the Gulf supports large fisheries for shrimp, blue crabs, oys ters, and several species of fish. Along with the studies of the ef fects of petroleum hydrocarbons, members of the research team will introduce experimentally heavy metals like mercury, cadmium and lead into various tanks to determine their effect on marine life. athletes, said Dr. J. Steven Picou. In fact, his evidence suggests athle tic participation may actually en hance development of educational plans. However, more in-depth studies are necessary, he said, to bring the theory into clearer focus. Picou and Ohio State University researcher Dr. Evans Curry ex amined replies from 3,200 Louisiana high school seniors. Findings suggest that participa tion in high school sports has an en couraging effect on the student- athlete to attend college. This is especially true if the ath lete is from a rural area and was not particularly inclined toward college before competing. However, problems may arise for some athletes who experience an “inflated aspiration from the visi bility and laurels that accompany success in high school sports. More research is needed in this area, said Picou. “It appears that our data provides relatively modest support for the athletic participation-educational aspiration hypothesis. Participation in high school sports does not con strain or hinder development of high-level aspirations for educa tional achievements,” he said. “However, because previous in vestigations failed to isolate the in dependent effects of athletic par ticipation on aspiration level, the magnitude of the relationship may be somewhat exaggerated. “Further clarification of the role of high school athletics for social mobility could emerge from the studies. “Additionally, high school athle tic competition and achievements may be more important for minority youths’ mobility orientations and achievements,” Picou said. At present, Picou is completing a study on the role that athletic suc cess plays in the development of educational achievement values among high school youth. said by working together with (lie EPA many problems can be over come. “Engineers have to stop com- plaining and start lobbying,” he said in an earlier press conference. "Tlie goals of the program are by 1977-78 to achieve secondary treatment for municipal wastewat ers and by 1983 to achieve swimma- ble and fish sustaining national wat ers,” he said. "But it’s not going to get done without the help of the states, Cahill continued. “ The EPA's budget has tripled since 1973 hut the start hasn’t. So if these water projects are to get done a lot of the work has to be done on the local and state level. "These projects have to moveand show progress, ” he pointed out. "If they start running into trouble,con sulting engineers will be forced into competitive bidding and we cer tainly don't want that. “It would be like having doctors bid on your operation,’ Cahill said. “Professional engineering associa tions must see that this doesn’t hap pen. Many feel this would socialize the industry and most professionals would walk away from that kind of arrangement, leaving it tothedregs- of the profession. "The major task for Texas will be to obligate its $240 million portion of funds for waste water treatment facilities,” he said. "ButTexashas done a magnificent job to date, so there is confidence in yourabilityto do so. As you will recall, based on the 1974 needs survey, it will take $2 billion in Texas to raise treatment up to secondary or higher where re- quired by water quality.” Cahill also said that despite the state of the economy the EPA would not sacrifice environmental goals to provide jobs and stimulate the economy. 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