THE BATTALION
WEDNESDAY, JULY 28, 1976
Page 9
rof at Tarleton to teach equine courses
arleton State University has
ic a step closer to the title of
se Capital of Texas.
SU took a significant step to
ds realization of its proposed
11311 helor oi science degree program
*01 Production and Manage-
it with the hiring of an outstand-
horse specialist.
arleton president. Dr. W.O.
Trogden, announced last Thursday
that Dr. Lester B. Waymack will join
the agricultural faculty September 1
to teach four equine science courses
during the fall and spring semesters.
The courses will be Horse Produc
tion, Equine Health and Nutrition,
Horse Enterprise Management and
Principles of Equine Reproduction.
Waymack is a native of Pine Bluff,
Ark., and holds degrees in animal
science from the University of Ar
kansas, Mississippi State University
and Louisiana State University. He
has held various research and teach
ing positions at LSU and Alabama
A&M University, and has been an
associate professor at the University
of Arizona since 1973.
He has been actively involved in
nutrition research and in teaching
horse-oriented courses. Waymack is
also currently preparing a com
prehensive textbook on horse pro
duction and management. In addi
tion to these professional activities,
he is a competitive steer wrestler,
has coached collegiate rodeo teams
and is a farrier specializing in correc
tive shoeing of horses.
TSU’s proposal for a concentration
of study in Horse Production and
Management, a major within the
B.S. degree in agriculture, has been
under consideration by the Coor
dinating Board, Texas College and
University System, since early 1975,
according to Dr. Weldon H. New
ton, head of the Department of Ag
riculture.
Final action on the proposal,
which was developed in consultation
with horse industry leaders, is ex
pected in April, 1977. During the
interim, the Coordinating Board is
permitting Tarleton to offer the new
courses as animal science electives.
The proposed degree program
features 23 semester hours of equine
subjects, including a 10-week ap
prenticeship consisting of on-the-job
training with cooperative horse pro
ducers and related enterprises.
Supporting areas of study em
phasize business management.
communications and other fields of
animal science, each of which pro
vides additional flexibility of
academic training and career perpa-
ration.
Tarleton officials said Waymack’s
academic training, experience and
personal abilities promise to estab
lish TSU as one of the leading cen
ters for equine education in the na
tion.
)ne must get dirty to understand rocks, geologists say
^ exas A&M University geologists
eve that to learn the nuts and
olts of rocks and stones, one has to
;t I down in the dirt and live with
iem a bit.
As a result, the undergraduate
iPJficulum includes four formal
courses that take the students
[Jam pus, and often out of Texas,
sal with geological realities.
iis trend of the A&M geology
l^rtment is in the face of a
movement by other universities to
de-emphasize field geology, accord
ing to David W. Stearns, depart
ment head.
During the 1975-76 school year,
sophomores made one-day trips to
Llano, Austin, Waco and around the
Brazos Valley to observe all three
types of rocks—sedimentary,
metamorphic and igneous.
In an elective course, a group of
geophysics and geology students
took a January camping trip to the
Gulf Coast to study “soft rocks” and
coastal deposits. Much of the time
was spent in the Florida Keys exam
ining limestone deposition and coral
reef formation,
Seniors split into two groups for
one-week trips during the spring
semester. Some went to Possum
Kingdom Dam and Lake
Brownwood to study the Pennsyl
vanian rocks and fossils in those
areas.
A group of honor students
traveled to New Mexico and
Arizona. There they looked at en
gineering geology in action with a
guided tour of the Pima Pit, an
open-pit copper mine. They went
through the Cyprus Pima Mining
Co. mill where low-grade copper
ore is processed into 32 per cent
copper concentrate.
The students then followed the
mill concentrate through the
Magma Copper Co.’s smelter and
refinery, where the almost pure
copper is cast into plates for final
refining.
Departmental juniors take two
field courses. This year’s group of
students from geology and
geophysics was divided to tour
Carlsbad, Cloudcroft, Santa Fe,
Aztec and Grand Junction, N.M.,
and Boulder, Colo. The Colorado
trip included the field study of an
ancient Permian Age reef which
forms the core of the Guadalupe
Mountains of West Texas and East
ern New Mexico; cycles of deposi
tion of sediments of Pennsylvanian
Age; several collapsed calderas from
volcanic action and the formation of
folds. These observations provide
the background for the second field
phase of the junior year.
A six-week summer field course
follows the Colorado trip and con
cludes the junior year. The juniors
spend one week in the Llano area
studying igneous, metamorphic and
sedimentary rocks. The remaining
time is spent examining the intri
cately folded sedimentary rocks of
the Marathon area near Big Bend
Park.
ianning keeps Brownsville ship channel clean Prairie View A&M
experts call the Brownsville Ship
nne ^ one ^ ie effiauest facilities
o the coast.
|s a result of work and a desire to
their “cleanest” accolade, the
jrownsville Navigation District
^jded a team of Texas A&M Uni-
lity engineers with $25,(X)0 to
atinue a chemical and physical en-
jnmental study of the channel
Jed in 1972.
■obert L. Garrett, principal in
vestigator for the project, is a
member of A&M’s environmental
engineering division of the Depart
ment of Civil Engineering.
“Studies conducted in 1974 and
1975 have shown that the quality of
the Brownsville Ship Channel and
adjoining waters is very good,” Gar
rett explained. “However, the in
dustrial growth and increasing de
mand placed on the system, along
with a few minor problems revealed
by earlier studies, have been recog
nized and a further study seems
necessary.
“During the first two years we did
environmental physical and chemi
cal assessments and produced some
mathematical models for planning
future activities, primarily indus
trial, along the channel,” he said.
“Brownsville has been far ahead
by anticipating any pollution prob
lems and as a result has one of the
cleaner facilities on the coast, but, it
was kept clean by planning, ” Garrett
pointed out.
“We didn’t find many situations
where the channel did have prob
lems,” Garrett said. “However, this
year’s activity will focus on the minor
areas where problems did or could
develop and on the results of ecolog
ical measures that have been initi
ated.
“Specifically, there was one area.
a shrimping harbor about 12 feet
deep, where shrimp waste material
was accumulating, he continued.
“This caused an oxygen problem for
the marine life in the harbor. The
solution was to build a sewage and
waste collection system to each ship
berth that picked up shrimp and fish
processing throw-away waste. ”
For Battalion Classified
Call 845-2611
gets grant for teachers
Prairie View A&M University’s
Teacher Corps program has been
awarded another $234,916 by the
U.S. Department of Health, Educa
tion and Welfare.
The two-year extension will in
volve PVAM and Waller Indepen
dent School District in a program
that allows the two to work together
in training better-equipped public-
school teachers.
Begun in 1965, the federal pro
gram strengthens education avail
able in concentrated areas of low-
income families while encouraging
higher education and public educa
tion to work together on the prepara
tion of teachers.
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