ige 2 THE BATTALION
WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 1, 1975
Scientific papers
The lighter side of editorial living ..
Among the more interesting
3ces of mail that cross my desk
ery day are the scientific and pro-
;sional papers.
Take today’s batch for instance,
ithout one word of warning or
ver letter of explanation I re
ived papers with the following ti-
;s: Irrecoverable Three-
mensional Stress Strain Relation-
ips for Christie’s Sand; The De-
rmination of Experimentally
sed Load-Deformation Proper-
s of a Mine Fill, and finally, Con-
illing Cockroaches Without
nthetic Organic Insecticides.
Looking over this all-star lineup I
cided to check into this business
out the cockroaches. After all, I
d believed for years that synthetic
;ecticides and organic insecticides
re two separate things. I had to
d the truth so I read on.
Here are some of the startling
ts. Comments in parenthesis are
' own and can be construed in any
y you like.
The article began kind of slowly
saying that cockroaches were
;h on the homeowners list of
sts. It further explained that
iches contaminate food with
:rement (whose excrement we
iy never know) and that they
ve an unpleasant odor (you would
too if you spread excrement on food
... or anywhere else for that mat
ter).
In the second part, entitled ‘Coc
kroach Description and Biology’, I
learned that cockroaches are in gen
eral (or for the most part) flattened
insects with oval shaped bodies,
spiny legs and long filamentous an
tennae (Now we’re getting to the
heart of the matter).
The article further stated that
young cockroaches resemble the
adults but are smaller and have
shorter wings (I suppose you can
check this out for yourself). It also
states that young roaches can be
found in the same places as the big
ones (probably where they learn
their nasty habits).
And did you realize that the
female roach drops or glues the eggs
in out-of-the-way places? (If you
were as well loved as a roach you’d
hide your eggs too.) However, egg
hiding cannot be generalized to all
roaches. The German roach carries
the egg case with her until the eggs
are ready to hatch (just goes to show
you can’t trust a German roach).
In part three, I learned that I
should identify which roach species
are present before I try to control
them. (This raised a question in my
mind as it shoidd in yours. I had
always believed that what was
deadly to one roach was deadly to
another. In deference to me how
ever this question was never
answered.)
What the authors did at this point
however was to launch into a
lengthy discussion of the different
types of cockroaches. Their names
read like an ancient Latin rogue’s
gallery. Periplaneta americana,
Periplaneta fuliginosa, Blattella
germanica, Supella longipalpa,
Blatta orientalis and Periplaneta
bunnea. And without further fan
fare this was the end of part three.
Under the heading ‘Cockroach
Control Measures’ the authors fi
nally got down to discussing what
they meant to discuss in the first
place (roach control). The part about
controlling roaches through sanita
tion is ridiculous (everyone knows
or should know that you can’t
sanitize a cockroach. It’s just impos
sible. Roaches move so fast that it’s
hard enough just to try and step on
them, much less sanitize them). Of
course the next section, labeled
trapping,’ might provide an answer
PEANUTS
\n instant replay
>f away games?
HEY, MA/ ^
STOP THE CAR'
THERE'S A 006
LOOKING FOR
A RIPE'.'v
liter:
To my surprise, I discovered that
i A&M Athletic Department does
t supply a film of away games to be
jwn to those unable to attend.
After listening to the great win
sr LSU, I was very anxious to see
; Aggie football team in action. I
led the athletic office to find out
tat time the showing would be. I
s disappointed, to say the least,
it no film would be shown.
I know that the Emory Bellard
ow is televised the day after the
ne and features highlights of the
ne. But there is no way that a frill
ne of highlights such as the LSU
ne can be condensed into a 30-
nute program and satisfy the urge
Aggie fans to see “their” team so
11.
This is a relatively small thing to
: of the Athletic Department after
listributed only 24.8 per cent of
; acquired tickets for the Tiger
ne to the students. It would not be
ficult to supply a duplicate of the
ne film to KAMU TV for showing
i later date or presenting the film
the Rudder Theater. They could
3n charge a small fee, if they
;hed, to help deter the cost or pos-
ly even make a profit, for I am
e that there are many Aggies that
uld pay 25 cents to 50 cents to see
:h a display of talent.
How about it Athletic Depart-
nt? Give us a chance to see our
m. Support the 12th man. '
Kevin Venner
Bus stop gripe
Editor:
The shuttlebus is transportation
that many students use to get to and
from campus. I’m sure it’s difficult to
work out routes to please everyone,
but complaints from students living
in Scandia II Apts, need to be consi
dered.
When the route sheets were given
out, they showed the buses stopping
near Scandia II’s office, not requiring
students to walk a great distance.
The route has been changed to split
the load between two buses. The bus
now stops a block down. Students
have to walk to the stop. The walk is
not bad when the sun is out, but
weather is changing.
Compare the time it takes to drive
down a block so that students
wouldn’t have to walk in the rain,
with muddy shoes and bad colds. I
find the comparison slanted to the
students side. Please try to think of
some way to remedy this situation.
Perhaps coming down a block to pick
students up is just the remedy.
Karen Smith
Tradition
Editor:
Emerson Rutherford (see “Listen
Up,” Sept. 25) and all others that
think traditions and especially the
“War Hymn” are obsolete should be
abolished.
Bill Raley
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to that, I thought. (Further inspec
tion revealed it did not.)
What it did say, however, was
that you could build an effective
roach trap from materials readily
available around the home (that is if
you have pint jars and vaseline
handy). Apparently the roaches
enter the trap, are unable to exit and
are thereby effectively held until
you can kill them, as the brochure
suggests, by dropping them in a pail
of hot soapy water (I guess is one way
of sanitizing a roach).
Boric acid, it seems, is also an
effective method of controlling
roaches. The authors believe that
the roaches don’t recognize the acid
as a poison and therefore don’t avoid
it (handy for the poisoner, unhandy
for the poisonee).
Aggietoons
After all this however, the au
thors come right out and tell us that
roach control is not the same thing
as eradication. It seems that we are
to be expected merely to reduce the
roach population to an unobjection
able number (the scientific mind
amazes me).
•Brad Foster
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