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THE BATTALION FRIDAY, APRIL 15, 1977 olice students learn bout bullet physics Page 5 ike blood smi tify the need Davis said. •les has been ing us set up D, CoswicksaidB United Press International Ogist in theil, HUNTSVILLE — Explaining oiology. low bullets knock people down is ‘ room where(kthl business of physics professors, :l to be is evenJSt the knowledge also is proving other emergeotiiseful to policemen taking it all in at Sn Houston State University. ;ency rooms d; The university, which has one of good sense ijthl nation’s largest criminal justice i day everyojRgrams, offers a two-semester ■s) is on the fecoui'se called “Physics with Applica te logical to bans to Police Science.” night, everyosl Aside f rom satisfaction de- tor so it is In Jed from giving examinations to ere as well,” harmed students, creators Charles Mm ka and Jack Wilson say their three-year-old class makes more Jhisticated investigators of the 80 > Jdents who attend each year. HB'What we’re trying to do is to W gi[e the student enough physics so LJ tlmt he can make some decisions , |out things in his career environ- gomg presidet! rntnt,” said Wilson, vere selected li||“Physics does describe the real F.F. A. repielvhrld and how materials behave in ;riculturalCow|l|ture,’’ sa ’ c ^ Mnnka.And one of the olt and Timmei^ubtopics we teach is critical think- > delegates to thing, like Tf this happens, then that “ntion to be helMppens.’” 13-15. BFor example, said Wilson, “The ■ockdown power of the bullet is determined by the momentum of tli bullet, which is the product of its mass and speed. All of the bul let s momentum is transferred to I PI) — Clostil}],, body after impact. Therefore, -ally are a 4B e body has to move, but its mass is century westen| ily of the 1 'ociety igma greater than the bullet, so it’s going to move slower. The body then transfers its momentum to the earth on impact, but the earth is so big it doesn’t move at all.” Understanding principles like this, he says, helps policemen make reasonable decisions. “We want them to make logical decisions about physical facts and they need to know physical princi ples to make these decisions.” Wilson tells the story of a law enforcement officer from a rural Texas county who discovered in the classroom that for years he had in correctly calculated vehicle speed from skidmarks. “He was very surprised to learn that there was a nice relationship he could use to get the speed of the car from skidmarks and it wasn’t the one he’d been using,” Wilson said. Besides ballistics and skidmarks, the elective science course involves basic electronics radios, bugging devices, binoculars and spectro scopic analysis of evidence. “We go through neutron activa tion analysis, using neutrons from a nuclear reactor to activate, say, a hair sample, and then identify it from the radiation it emits,” Wilson said. “We use a reactor at Texas A&M for that.” The two lecturers prefer not to use the electric chair, “Old Sparky,” also located in Huntsville, as a teaching aid. “We use the au tomobile ignition and find we get along better with that.” We do get questions about whether it’s voltage or watts applied to the electric chair that kills you,” Manka said, but it’s not part of the course. Wilson said a few “old wives tales” are dispelled, like the slugs that bounce off bullet-proof shields on television. “In reality, it can knock you down and break a few ribs.” Summer sun hard on eyes and skin United Press International ROCHESTER, N.Y. — Summer sun is almost as harsh on the eyes as it is on the skin, says Gordon Taylor, director of research and develop ment for a lens manufacturer. Glare is the main factor in eye- strain and possible impairment of night vision. To be effective, Taylor said, sunglasses should filter out at least 70 per cent of visible glare and sun light as well as the invisible heat and sunburn rays: infrared and ul traviolet Campus Top of the News TEXAS A&cM Associate Dean of Agriculture, Dr.R.C. Potts, has re ceived a special award from the Texas House of Representatives for his long leadership in agricultural education. During A&M’s recent Agricultural Convocation, Dean Potts also received a plaque from College of Agriculture students cit ing his 42 years of service to Aggies. MOEBIUS, the first literary magazine to be published by the MSC Arts Committee in 22 years, will go on sale next Thursday, April 21 in the MSC. The magazine fea tures poetry, prose and art by Aggie students. Issues are $1. 89 per cent of the federal budget goes to benefit individuals, to grants to states and localities, to pay inter est on the federal debt, and to those things untouched by reorganization. National Texas THE HOUSE tentatively ap proved legislation legalizing the manufacture, sale and distribution of laetrile in Texas as a treatment for cancer, yesterday. The FDA has not approved this drug and patients that receive it must obtain it in Mexico or other areas where it has been legalized. LEONEL CASTILLO of Hous ton, President Carter’s nominee for head of the Immigration and Naturalization Service, says he op poses any program for issuing uni versal identification cards for American Citizens. FORMER AIDE to Eisenhower and Nixon, Stephen Hess, said that ONE SOVIET VESSEL has been released after being charged with violating the United States 200-mile limit, but another is being held while National Marine Fisheries of ficials examine its cargo. MIDNIGHT is the deadline to get tax forms off to the Internal Revenue Service. An IRS spokes man said that those that probably are going to get a refund have al ready filed. Of the first 47 million returns processed by the IRS this year, 39.7 million persons got re funds. The average refund was $448. Some post offices are to stay open later than usual Friday and to be cleared more often. HENRY FORD II, chairman of the board of Ford Motor Co., an nounced the creation of a three-man Office of Chief Executive. Ford will share the decision making with two other people. He will remain chairman of the auto firm until late 1982, if his health remains good. BY THE TIME the average American child reaches the age of 14, he has seen 11,000 television murders, an official of the National Parent-Teachers Association re ported in Albuquerque. “It is an appalling fact,” said Jean Dye, coordinator of legislative activity for the organization during the New Mexico PTA State Convention. Mrs. Dye, the mother of six, said the association is going to take a more active role in trying to have violent programs eliminated from television. FIFTEEN former pressmen at the Washington Post pleaded guilty yesterday to reduced charges in the destruction of the paper’s presses on Oct. 1, 1975 during a bitter labor dispute. The pressmen pleaded guilty to misdemeanor charges of simple assault, attempted grand lar ceny, property damage and disor derly conduct after prosecutors agreed to drop the felony charges, which included rioting. Superior Court Judge Sylvia Bacon set sen tencing for May 20. None of the charges the men pleaded guilty to carry a penalty of more than one year in prison. A JURY of six men and six women was chosen yesterday, ending 12 days of selection in the second mur der trial of Manson disciple Leslie Van Houten. The trial will begin Monday. Miss Van Houten origi nally was convicted, at her 1969 trial with Charles Manson and two other female followers, of taking part in the stabbing murders of Leno and Rosemary Labianca two nights after actress Sharon Tate and four friends were slain. She was serving a life sentence when a new trial was or dered because her defense attorney vanished during the trial. PRESIDENT CARTER said today he believes there is no reason to change the basic U.S. proposals for arms limitation, adding “I do feel encouraged” about the likelihood of ultimate success of the SALT talks. Carter, in his fifth news conference, said he would “welcome a chance to visit. . . on a regular basis” with Soviet party leader Leonid Brezhnev. Carter said he hopes to meet with Brezhnev “annually at least, and later this year in our own country.” A FEDERAL JUDGE has or dered Texas prison officials to draft an affirmative action plan for full de segregation of state inmates. Acting yesterday on a class action filed by two black inmates in 1972, U.S. District Judge Robert O’Conor Jr. set guidelines requiring modified racial quotas. O’Conor said the pro portion of a minority in each prison unit must be at least 70 per cent of that minority’s proportion in the total inmate population. World « PRIME MINISTER Ian Smith says progress in the search for majority rule in Rhodesia hinges on active involvement by the United States. The State Department an nounced that they would be willing to co-sponsor with Britain any new conference to work out Rhodesia’s future. ?arlier socieliti rce of stigma fa hi Id, wrote Ai> ien Pannor anl in an introcb “The Amerka chiatry” in 1975. ily a basis ofsef l from the ribes ... Tlf to the full coa- of the adoptive ptive familyi j d the need ing relationship nd all birth ret said evidence oers whose par 'd in anonymit) suffered more earlier sociefe >ose a substitute others turday CERAMICS arc [OUSE er Dr. ^ORCHID 5 ointrnert^^ ICE AGENCY lyjent 5 846-4774 ’""""SS.*;! Bert* 5 ■■ MANOR EAST 3 THEATRES MANOR EAST MALL 7:00-8:50 ^ A great new COMEDY SWITCH! WALT DISNEY PRODUCTIONS' Technicolor® Released-by BUENA VISTA DISTRIBUTION CO.. 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