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Page 4 THE BATTALION WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 17, 1975 Air lab studies pollution By DON MIDDLETON Battalion Staff Writer Winnebago’s are good for several pur poses. Some persons load them with Texas A&M former students and drive them to football games. Others load them up and let them sit in the driveway because they can’t afford to put gas in them. Dr. Andrew R. McFarland, of the Texas Engineering Experiment Station, has found a use which may have a more lasting value. McFarland has converted the recre ational vehicle into a mobile air quality lab. The purpose of the mobile lab is to travel to areas where air pollution is particularly severe, such as major metropolitan and in dustrial regions, to take samples of the at mosphere, McFarland said Monday. The samples are then brought back to the A&M campus for analysis. “Since air pollution is not severe in Bryan-College Station, we have to go elsewhere to hx>k at significant pollution problems, McFarland said. McFarland is currently engaged in an Environmental Protection Agency project to determine the size distribution of parti cles in the atmosphere, and the chemical composition of those particles. The apparatus which McFarland uses to take atmosphere samples is called a Low Pressure Impaetor, and separates air pollu tion particles by size. The average size of naturally occuring particles, such as dust and pollen, is about three and one-half microns. There are roughly 25,000 microns in one inch. The impaetor works on the same princi ple as driving a car too fast around a corner, McFarland said. Air is drawn in through the top of the impaetor and forced through several jet nozzles. The jet stream then strikes a plate which is covered with filter paper to catch the particles. When the stream of air is forced to go around the barrier, the largest particles are flung against the paper just as the car would skid off the road into a wall, due to the centrifugal force. The stream continues through a series of barriers, being drawn through smaller jet nozzles each time. This increases the veloc ity of the air and separates all particles down to one micron in size. “Equipment of this type has been in use for thirty years,' McFarland said, “but it doesn’t get the particles which are smaller than one micron. Those are the particles we are most interested in because when a per son takes a breath, particles larger than that are filtered out by the nose, while small ones end up in the lowest parts of the lungs. To solve the problem, McFarland has developed an addition to the impaetor which can separate even the smallest parti cles for chemical analysis. After the air stream passes the one- micron filter, the chamber increases to thirty times its previous volume. This creates a partial vacuum of one-thirtieth atmospheric pressure. At this reduced pressure, the air stream can be accelerated even more and the smal lest particles deposited on the filter paper. The mobile lab has recently returned from Ft. Collins, Colo., where samples were taken to determine the concentration of lead particles in the atmosphere. At that time, McFarland was on the staff of Notre Dame University. Since Sept. 1, McFarland has been work ing for Texas A&M, utilizing the $40,000 E.P.A. grant. Within the next two months, the lab will be traveling to Houston to determine the sizes and types of metallic pollutants. The information gathered by McFarland and his staff will be useful in formulating standards for regulation of pollutants such' as freon, which has been shown to damage the Earth’s ozone layer and increase ul traviolet radiation reaching the surface of the Earth. Also of concern to McFarland is the con centration of vinyl chloride which has been shown to produce cancer. Both freon and vinyl chloride are used as propellants in high-pressure aerosols. SlalT I'liolo In l)a\id McCarroIl Particle sorter Low Pressure Impaetor devel oped by Dr. Andrew R. McFar land of the Texas Engineering Experiment Station. The Impact- or separates pollutants from atmosphere samples enabling scientists to identify the particles responsible for respiratory dis- Baez’ “Diamonds folk music beauty, a different style One hundredth birthday Centennial plans made By STEVE REIS Battalion Staff Writer Calendar year 1976 is officially proc laimed the centennial year. Throughout the year, Texas A&M University will celeb rate its one hundredth birthday on campus as well as off. There will be four major dates of obser- vance for the centennial said Roger Miller, the Co-ordinator of Centennial Activities. The first of these will be the Feb. 2 Proc lamation ceremony. Gov. Dolph Briscoe has been im ited to attend the ceremony in the Rudder Center area. One of two pieces of donated sculpture will be unveiled at this ceremony. It will be a dedication to the students of A&M sculp ted by Pat Foley. The second piece is the centennial sculpture that is being donated by the class wfi.TfPn'It, is also being, sculpted by iFoley. The second major date is April 21, Aggie Muster. This muster will be different be cause of the planned statewide release of a documentary film about A&M. May 8 is the third date of importance. It is the day of commencement of the spring class of 1976. The final major date of importance is the October 4 Convocation. That is the one hundredth anniversary of the opening of A&M. There are main peripheral activities that will accompany the major dates. These will be publicized as the date approaches. Other centennial programs include the UN/i^ The official Centennial symbol for Texas A&M. Bicentennial-Centennial Cruise of the Texas Clipper next summer. The ship will visit historic eastern seaports rather than foreign ports, said Miller. Miller also explained that one goal of the centennial programming is to attract as many visitors to the campus through con ferences and conventions. “The best way to explain A&M to a person is to show it to him first-hand,” said Miller. The centennial is being celebrated through the release of medallions, limited editions of pewter plates and the publish ing of histories of A&M by the A&M Press. Another commemorative release is the Buck Schiwetz portfolio of campus scenes. These will be prints of new and old build ings on the A&M campus. Centennial scholarships will also be av ailable to high school graduates, said Mil ler. They will be based solely on merit rather than financial need. The funds for the scholarships will come from industries and businesses that benefit from A&M graduates. A member of the A&M faculty is also helping celebrate the centennial. Rodney Hill of the Environmental Design Depart ment and his wife Susan have can ed six walnut panels depicting the history of A&M. The panels are ten feet long and three feet high. They will be unveiled on October 4, 1976 in the Memorial Student Center. Throughout the next year, most of the campus organizations will be celebrating the centennial in their own way, said Mil ler. The Aggie Players will present plays that have historic themes and OPAS has named its program the Centennial Series. Miller also said that the November 1975 issue of the Texas Aggie will be the centen nial issue. It will be composed of histories and articles with centennial themes. One goal of the centennial programming is that it be a successful celebration without taking funds from other worthwhile ac tivities, said Miller. He also expressed the desire that stu dents will take an active role in the forth coming celebrations. By JOHN VANORE Reviewer With the printing of this article, any re maining vestige of the old “Rock Notes column dies. The exquisite beauty of Joan Baez’s “Diamonds and Rust LP finds me, quite readily, broadening my writing field to include folk music, and this is only the beginning. I’ve been under much pressure for quite some time now to review an album by a group that someone else has heard of. Well, that’s life First, a little background. Joan Baez made a name for herself in music by being extremely political, in both her public and private lives. Well, after quite a few years of singing what came from her heart, rather than the kind of stuff that sold like Top 40 product, the bucks began to run dry. Just prior to the release of "Diamonds and Rust, Baez announced that she was near bankruptcy, as a result of too much politics and too many benefit concerts. This album, then is by her own admission, her first commercially oriented LP. It is just plain beautiful music, with little, if any , political content. Personally, I’m glad. Immensely glad. Joan s overtly political nature in all her pre vious music alienated quite a large number of people, and, until the release of “The Night They Drove Old Dixie Down, she was basically regarded as an underground type hippie-commie-folk singer. This de mented line of reasoning shut many listen ers off from one of the most beautiful female voices in any musical style. Actually , “Diamonds and Rust is better described as post-folk. Baez is far beyond the pure folk/acoustic guitar bit — there are horn and string arrangements here, along with occasional synthesizer embel lishments by Joan herself. Four of the eleven numbers presented here are Baez originals; the rest are attri buted to, among others, Bob Dylan, John Prine, and Richard (Dicky) Betts. "Diamonds and Rust, the title track, is probably his best cut on the album. Baez s delivery of this response to an old flame on the telephone is the emotional high point of the album. An acute sense of sorrow per vades the ly ries when she sings about "that crummy hotel over Washington Square, with its reference to a gone-but-not- forgotten affair. Jackson Browne’s "Fountain of Sorrow follows in the vein of love songs, again with a touch of heartbreak. There is nowhere near as much tragedy here as in “Never Dreamed You d Leave in Summer, an old Stevie Wonder tune. The prominent piano accompaniment accents the intense emo tions in Joan s voice, with a little lielpfi® the Moog and synthesized strings. “Children and All That Jazz isavtn touching and human song written by Big done up with some fast jazz pianoliM Hampton Hawes. Baez borrowed more than words ii music from Bob Dylan on 'SimpleTwistj Fate. In her “first ever rock-and-nl song, " as acknowledged in the liner nolo Joan s ever-emotional vocal styletakeson distinctly Dylan-ish nasal quality thatisj once refreshing and absorbing. Lan Carlton on lead guitar does an especial good job of propelling the song. The oil word to describe this song is “outstanding as it defines the high-water markofjoani interpretive abilities. Dicky Betts’ "Bine Sky, whichhitlh charts when he recorded it, kicks offSii Two. Only af ter hearing the version byIki Allman Brothers guitarist does one life the only deficiency here. Betts guilt playing on the original is far more rictil textured, but, as can be expected, Baei fine vocal rendition more than madeupfu any complaints in the guitar work. On “Hello in There, Baez once mof! adopts the male persona of singer/storytei ler, just as she did in “The Night Iki Drove Old Dixie Down. It’s anotherven human song, all about the loneliness ami | insecurity of growing old. By virtue of its guitar intro, Janislam "Jesse is strongly reminiscent of Jin Croce’s “Time in a Bottle.’’ However, de spite the fact that Jam's Ian and Roberti Flack have already recorded the song,i develops into something imiquely-Baezu it moves on. According to the liner notes, "Windsd the Old Days" was written in responsetoJ the expected questions alxnit Boh Dylan return to touring. Quite simply, it’s aver moving and beautiful song. There isn’t much to say about "Dick except that Baez, shares the vocals with Joe Mitchell. It’s a pity, because a vocal combi nation like that on a stronger songwoulil base been outstanding. Only a singer with the strength and» tional [lower of Joan Baez could pull odi f inale like she does here. In a musical hi bute to the late Sam Cooke, Joan does) medley of “I Dream of Jeannie auJ “Danny Boy Larry Knechtel s solopiai# accompaniment highlights Joan’s voice!) make for a deeply men ing ballad. Nnff said. ★ ★★ ns Many thanks to Ernie at Musiclandfor providing the album used here. God no longer masculine Bible being rewritten nonsexism end result Married woman has boy husband approves, has friend; girl friend Associated Press NEW YORK — "Sex is only one percent of my life. Why is that all that any body s interested in? the beautiful countess com plained. Christina Paolozzi Beilin has raised money for hospitals in Cambodia and Ga- ben, orphanages in Afghanistan, sponsored a Vietnamese family, and supports 18 foster children. But it seems that these days the only thing people ask her about is her in teresting, unconventional married life. The 35-y ear-old mother of two young sons, Christina is married to Howard T. Beilin, a prominent New York plastic sur geon and for the last five years has been happily involved with Claude Dolgicer. “Just the way life is today, one man is simply not enough,” said Christina. "This life-style suits us,” said Beilin, who has a special girl friend as well. “We’d have an awful lot of tensions in our life other wise. With her enormous green eyes, blond hair, tawny skin and aristocratic profile, Christina, the daughter of an American heiress (United Fruit) and an Italian count, was a successful model when in 1962 Richard Avedon photographed her svelte nude torso for Harper’s Bazaar. That launched her career as the ultimate free spirit, the jet set’s answer to Lady Godiva, as she was hailed. More headlines were made when she married Beilin 10 years ago in a mixed mar riage of an Episcopalian and a Jew. “But now getting married across religi ous barriers is accepted,” said Christina. “And I’m sure our life-style will be ac cepted one day, too.” The Beilins live in a rambling 18-room apartment filled with a constant explosion of children, dogs, half a dozen servants, jangling telephones and walls papered with photographs and newspaper clippings of their adventures. Claude, a 33-year-old French-Israeli airline purser who always makes a point of bringing gifts back for the Beilin boys, is a frequent visitor. Occasionally the trio, plus children and dogs, board one of Beilin’s several planes he pilots himself and take off for the weekend. Their wide circle of friends (the Beilins entertain up to 60 at least once a week and the door of their apartment is alway s open for midnight out-of-town visitors) have ad justed to this open marriage with amusing diplomacy. “If it’s a black tie event, they 7 invite me and Howard because they know Claude hates formal dinners. If it’s for the ballet, they invite Claude because they know he used to be a dancer, explained Christina, fluttering her long fingers with dagger red nails. “I adore Howard. He’s brilliant, talented, exciting and imaginative. But Claude is wonderful, too. If I had to com pare them I would say Howard has the drive for life, and Claude has the art of living.” Associated Press DURHAM, VC. — Some Christians are taking the "Him out of the hymnals. They say if humans were "in the image and likeness of Cod, then God must be both masculine and feminine. “Unfortunately , some folks are attempt ing to see this as "nenterizing God, said the Rev. Robert Young, chaplain at Duke University. '"It’s more positiv e than that. Under the Rev . Mr. Young s guidance, a group of male and female Duke students are rewriting not only hymns and prayers but passages of Scripture. Ultimately, an entire "nonsexist Bible may develop. For instance, in a standard translation, John 15:13 reads: “Greater love hath no man than this that a man should lay down his life for his friends. The Duke group has converted that pas sage to: “Greater lov e has no one than this that one should lay down one s life for a friend. The Rev. Mr. Young said there Inis been no major opposition. “We aren t making total breaks, anylimv We still use the "Glory be to the Fatlienind to the Son and to the Holy Ghost, and,of course, the Lord s Prayer, starting, "Om Father, who art in heav en . . ., lie said In the main, he said, the Duke group lias been substituting “God for the pronoun "'Him whenever possible and, in some in stances, pray ing, "Oh God, our Father- Mother. So far, the group has left intact the mas culine pronouns referring to Jesus Christ. "Jesus was more than a man. He was tire fulf illment of "personhood, for all persons, both men and women, the Rev. Mr, Young said. However, he said: “There are students and some faculty who in their own private prayers are referring to God as "She or "Her . But that kind of thing is still ven personal, not public. Nielsen ratings out First-week shows hit, bomb By JAY SHARBUTT Associated Press AP Television Writer NEW YORK — Last week, 18 new shows began their fall season runs. Now, the national Nielsens are in, bringing the new folks the traditional good and bad news of “premiere week on the networks. Only four newcomers — CBS’ “Phyllis and “Switch and ABC s “Starsky and Hutch and “When Things Were Rotten — wound up among the 20 top-rated shows in the week ending Sept. 14. “Phyllis ’ got off to a nice third-place start, while “Switch” copped seventh place, “Starsky and Hutch took 10th place and “When Things Were Rotten” was rated 20th in viewer popularity. Four other new shows — NBC’s “Joe Forrester, ABC s “On the Rocks,” CBS “Joe and Sons ’ and ABC’s “Welcome Back, Kotter” — got good, fairly good and passing marks in the Nielsen audience samples. They were ranked 23rd, 28th, 36th and 37th, respectively, in viewer popularity out of 66 network shows rated last week. But 10 other new shows got sub-marginal to disaster grades in the ratings, most nota bly CBS “Three for the Road on Sunday. It was the lowest-rated of all network prime-time shows last week. The nine other slow-starting newcom ers, in order of their descending ratings, were NBC’s “Invisible Man, “Ellery Queen and “Doctor’s Hospital,” CBS "Doc, ABCs “Swiss Family Robinson,” CBS’ “Kate McShane,” NBC’s “Medical Story” and ABC’s “Barbary Coast” and “Mobile One. Keep in mind that the estimated “pre^ miere week” ratings for new and returning shows —- and more importantly, how they did against the competition in their time periods— may change markedly in coming weeks. Viewers now only are sampling the new-season wares, and it may be a month until any real viewing patterns emerge. Consider CBS highly-publicized “Beacon Hill. It premiered on a Monday three weeks ago against a “Lizzie Borden” rerun on ABC and baseball on NBC. It won its time period and was the week’s top- rated show. The next week, it again won its time period, starting in its regular Tuesday time period against TV movie renins on ABC and NBC. Last Tuesday, facing its first real test against NBC’s new “Joe Forrester” and ABC’s returning “Marcus Welby, it was third in its time period, getting a 27 per cent share of the estimated national audi ence aainst the winning 36 per cent share copped by NBC’s entry. Whether this will continue probably won’t be known until mid-October. But even if such is the case, CBS may stick with it to see what happens, as it did with “The Waltons, ” which now is in its fourth season. For the record, CBS’“All in the Family,” an instant hit when it premiered, is back at it again, despite its shift from Saturday to Monday nights this season. It reopened last week as the nation’s top-rated show. They Rent That-Away! " ’ .iL7m! I BEDROOM APARTMENTS FURNISHED FOR AS LOW AS SlO/MONTH All styles . . . and at different prices. Ask about our 6 month “Try it before you buy it” plan. 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