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>; a. Page 8 THE BATTALION TUESDAY, APRIL 26, 1977 Welcome, Tri Deltas Let’s Get Together the B-CS Alumnae Chapter of Delta Delta Delta invites all collegiate and alumnae members to an Ice Cream Party Wednesday, April 27, at 7:30 p.m. Please call 822-3001 - Donna Dee Chastain or 846-1839 Mary Terrell We’d love to have you. P.S. If you can’t come, call anyway and let us know you’re here. 13-year-old boy building computer i ■. . to do homework United Press International PEORIA, Ill. — Brian Moran, 13, is working on a modern solution to an age-old schoolboy problem. He’s building a computer to do his homework. The project may be beyond the abilities of an ordinary 13-year old — and most adults — but Brian is “a very unusual child,” according to his mother. At 11, he devised and built a solid state transformer for his train set at one-third the cost of a store model. Last year, another computer project took him to the finals of the state science fair. 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If we go away r )n vacation, for extra security I car\ j us t put a few sensors around the hnnuf- T oonld have it call the fire departrn e„t or the police if anything happened, explaining that t^^ is a tape- recorded message. He has built a central processing unit board and a front panel, and now needs to hook up a TV tube so he can monitor the computer’s activities. ing” marks for both his paper and his exhibit. “Five or six people who were ex-' perts in the field grilled him,” re- J i called Brian’s father, Donald ' Moran, a businessman. After they questioned him for a while, one fellow’s comment was, l NEW eight of eluding order t( “And before I get into high school, I would lik,, to interface it with another well-known computer that knows the Eng) is h language — so I can do my hom e work and store it up a few months in advance.” For openers, he hopes to enter a year’s spelling assignments into the computer. Then, when an assign ment is due, he can instruct the computer to print out the com pleted assignment, ready to turn in. “Well, I’ve asked him everything I ;iS| shows ai know about the subject, so I’ll have uf I 1977-78 to take his word for it. ” nex t Sej “He’s a very unusual child,” said f- xhe Brian’s mother, Helen. When he b 0 p era sp His teachers at the Washington School for the Academically Gifted have encouraged his ideas. Brian calls his Computer “Sig- necomp,” after Sig het j cs Corp., of Last year, at the state science fair finals, Brian was awarded “outstand- was 3 or 4 years old, we’d find him ; looking through Newsweek to magazine rather than through his to nursery books. M, “It really bothers me. I wish he toto had taken up something that I could talk to him about.” Salts on plants can be removed United Press International LINCOLN, Neb, — About the time white stuff stops falling out doors it begins building up on houseplants indoors. The dirty white crU st that tends to form on soil and pots toward the end of winter con s i st s of soluble salts rising to the surface as the plants dry out quickly in the dry, warm environment. Don Steinegger, extension hor ticulturist at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln, says this white stuff can be avoided by using dis tilled instead of tap water. Because purchased distilled water is expen sive, he recommends substituting clean melted snow or drippings from a defrosting refrigerator. Salts that have already formed should be scraped off the soil sur face before adding some new soil mix. Leaching also works; set the plant in a sink or over a bucket and add fresh tap water as fast as the soil can absorb it. Use at least five times as much water as the pot would hold if it were empty. “Mary f comedy Country a situatii it was h “Oh Sus Gavin M from “1 show. The b mi KANM album playlist KANM PLAYLIST HITS Emerson, Lake and Palmer Works Volume I George Benson In Flight Jeff Beck with the Jan Hammer Group Live The Marshall Tucker Band Carolina Dreams Eagles Hotel California jjethro Tull Songs from the Wood [Steve Miller Band Fly Like an Eagle [Bad Company Burning Sky [Fleetwood Mac Rumours Kansas Leftoverture Peter Gabriel Peter Gabriel Kinks Sleepwalker Bob Seager and the Silver Bullet Band Night Moves Stevie Wonder Songs i n the Key of Life Electric Light Orchestra A New World Record The Band Islands Bob James The Bob James Four Return to Forever Musicmagic Nils Lofgren l Came to Dance Jesse Colin Young Love on the Wing Renaissance Novella Justin Hayward Songwriter REO Speedwagon You Get What You Play For Foreigner Foreigner Maynard Ferguson Conquistador Joan Armatrading Joan Annatrading Klaatu Klaatu Jennifer Warnes Jennifer Warnes Jimmy Buffett Changes in Latitudes, ( in Attitudes Jackson Browne The Pretender Al Stewart Year of the Cat Pink Floyd Animals Genesis Wind and Wuthering Rufus Ash Rufus Ui PITTS now foui import s; back son car marl nated. 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FOR AN APPLICATION AND MORE INFORMATION, COME BY ROOM B 216 MSC OR CALL 845-1515. CLASS OF 197 Boys Girls THE WEEK-END THAT YOU HAVE WAITED FOR . . Friday, April 29th Lakeview Bash 8-12 p m. Saturday, April 30th Banquet 6:30 p.m. Dennis Ivy & the Waymen Speaker: John Henry Paul AN Tickets And Information In The MSC Box Office Ring Dance 8-12 p.m. Ed Gerlach &His Orchestr