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Page 6 THE BATTALION FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 3, 1978 THE INTERNATIONAL STUDENTS ASSOCIATION announces a GENERAL ASSEMBLY 13th November, 7:30 p.m. Rudder 301 /upTnamlt* m Eddie Dominguez ’66 Joe Arciniega ’74 POINTS TO BE DISCUSSED: 1. CONSTITUTIONAL AMENDMENTS 2. ELECTION OF THE ISA PRESIDENT OPEN TO AMERICAN AND INTERNATIONAL STUDENTS. ALL ARE WELCOME TO JOIN, DUES 50 CENTS/SEMESTER. If you want the real thing, not frozen or canned ... We call It "Mexican Food Supreme." Dallas location: 3071 Northwest Hwy 352-8570 MSC AGGIE CINEMA SPRING ’79 MOVIE POLL The following is the MSC Aggie Cinema film poll for the Spring Semester 1979. Please turn in the polls at the Student Programs office (Rm. 216, MSC), or the Ballot Box in front of the Aggie Cinema display case on the first floor of the MSC. Deadline is Sunday November 5, 6 p.m. 1. Please circle one: a. Male b. Female 2. Please circle where you live: a. On-Campus b. Off-Campus 3. Please circle your classification: a. Senior b. Junior c. Sophomore d. Freshman e. Faculty/Staff f. Graduate Student Have you ever attended an Aggie Cinema movie? YES NO Would you be interested in attending a movie on Sunday evenings at 8:00 p.m.? YES NO Circle 8 of the following International films that you would like to see. 1. Anne of 1000 Days 2. Macbeth 3. King Lear 4. The Mad Adventures of Rabbi Jacob 5. Padre Padrone 6. Los Olvidados (The Young and The Damned) 7. All Screwed Up (Wertmuller) 8. Satyricon 9. Judgment at Nuremberg 10. La Strada 11. Small Change 12. Madame Rosa 13. The Bicycle thief 14. Cria 15. La Dolce Vita Circle 15 of the following Classic films that ytou would like to see. 1. Marx Brothers Festival Animal Crackers Duck Soup 2. Keystone Cops (Golden Age for) 3. East of Eden (’55) - James Dean 4. The Little Foxes (’41) - Bette Davis 5. Arsenic and Old Lace - Cary Grant 6. El Cid (’61) - Charlton Heston 7. Jane Eyre (’43) - Joan Fontaine, Orson Welles 8. The African Queen (’51) - Humphrey Bogarf, Katherine Hepburn 9. Joan of Arc (’48) - Ingrid Bergman 10. We’re No Angels (’42) 11. The Count of Monte Cristo (’34) - Robert Donat 12. Rebel Without A Cause (’55) - James Dean 13. Meet John Doe (’ ) - Gary Cooper 14. Mr. Smith Goes to Washington (’39) - James Stewart 15. Gentleman’s Agreement (’47) - Gregory Peck 16. The Best Years of Our Lives (’46) - Fredric March 17. Frank Capra Festival It’s A Wonderful Life (1946) Mr. Deeds Goes to Town (1936) 18. Sergeant York (’41) - Gary Cooper 19. National Velvet (’45) - Elizabeth Taylor 20. An American in Paris (’51) - Gene Kelly 21. My Man Godfrey (’36) - William Powell, Carole Lombard 22. Clark Gable Festival It Happened One Night (’34) The Hucksters (’47) Mutiny on the Bounty (’35) Red Dust (’32) 23. Spencer Tracy Festival Adam’s Rib Boys Town Captains Courageous The Old Man and The Sea ;l,’ V“ f ’ Cary Grant Festival The Talk of The Town (’42) His Girl Friday (’40) Holiday (’38) Notorious (’46) 25. The Big Country (’58) - Charlton Heston, Gregory Peck 26. Duel in the Sun (’46) - Jennifer O'Neil, Gregory Peck 27. Yankee Doodle Dandy (’42) - James Cagney 28. Going My Way (’44) - Bing Crosby 29. The Robe (’53) - Richard Burton 30. The Philadelphia Story (’ ) - James Stewart 24 MATINEE Circle 15 of the following matinee films which 1. Other Side of the Mountain (Part II) 2. In Casey’s Shadow 3. I Wanna Hold Your Hand 4. A Touch Of Class 5. Chitty, Chitty, Bang, Bang 6. Jonathan Livingston Seagull 7. The King & I 8. Sugarland Express 9. Murder on the Orient Express 10. The Lion in Winter 11. 1776 12. A New Leaf 13. Love Story 14. Twelve Chairs (Mel Brooks) 15. Crossed Swords you would attend: 16. Airport ’77 17. Paper Moon 18. Brother Sun, Sister Moon 19. The Great Gatsby 20. The Dove 21. Where the Red Fern Grows 22. The 3 Lives of Thomasina 23. You Light Up My Life 24. Winterhawk 25. Lost Horizon (’73) 26. Ten Little Indians 27. Brian’s Song 28. Echoes of a Summer 29. Man of La Mancha (’72) 30. The Ten Commandments MIDNIGHT Circle 15 of the following midnight films which you would attend: 1. The Boys in Company C 2. F.M. 3. Dog Day Afternoon 4. Shampoo 5. Freebie and the Bean 6. Return of the Dragon 7. Outlaw Josey Wales 8. Easy Rider 9. Last Picture Show 10. High Anxiety 11. Walking Tall 12. The Magic Christian 13. Three Musketeers 14. Four Musketeers 15. Start the Revolution Without Me 16. The Graduate 17. Rabbit Test 18. Bingo Long & The Travelling All-Stars 19. Last Remake of Beau Geste 20. Lenny 21. The Mechanic 22. The Front Page 23. Day of the Jackal 24. Grizzly 25. The Black Bird 26. Thank God It’s Friday 27. Which Way Is Up? POPULAR Circle 15 of the following Popular films that you would like to see. 1. Saturday Night Fever 2. Woody Allen Festival Take the Money and Run The Front Everything You Always . . . About Sex! Play It Again Sam Love and Death 3. Heroes 4. House Calls 5. The Choir Boys 6. The Greek Tycoon 7. Grease 8. Gray Lady Down 9. F.M. 10. First Love 11. Staight Time 12. The Boys In Company C 13. In Casey’s Shadow 14. Foul Play 15. Mel Brooks Festival Blazing Saddles High Anxiety Silent Movie The Producers Coma 17. The Cheap Detective 18. The Swarm 19. Silver Bears 20. The One and Only 21. American Hot Wax 22. Rocky 23. Semi-Tough 24. Clint Eastwood Festival Dirty Harry The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly Fistful of Dollars Magnum Force Paint Your Wagon (Matinee) Robert Redford Festival the Sting Butch Casidy Three Days of the Condor The Way We Were Waldo Pepper The Paper Chase Equus Patton What’s Up Doc Lab finds bugs make UFO glow United Press International WASHINGTON — Could some nocturnal UFOs be nothing more than swarms of glowing insects darting about erratically in a natural electric field? That’s a conclusion reached by an Agriculture Department scientist who was a military electronics specialist during World War II. He said Wednesday that insects — which sometimes travel in swarms many miles long — would trigger electrical discharges when flying beneath a storm front. “The glows, the fluorescent glows that came ofl’were very eerie," he said. “They resembled a discotheque, you might say, in the sky. They would glow blue — mostly blue because nitrogen is one of the gases involved — and you would get bright reds and greens.” An insect swarm would try to get out of the electric field, Callahan said, and as it darted around, it would be making a humming sound. Suddenly it would disappear because it would leave the voltage field and it would look like it shot away into the sky because there was no reference point looking up into the black sky. “So the effect on your eye would be exactly the same as the effect that these sightings are reported.” Callahan investigated agricultural records in Utah where there was an outbreak of UFO sightings between 1965 and 1968 and found there were infestations of spruce budworms in Utah for two years before the sightings. Spruce budworm moths have been known to fly in swarms up to 64 miles long and 16 miles wide. Callahan said the records showed that UFO reports occurred when mass migrations of the moths would be expected to occur. Besides providing a possible UFO explanation, Callahan said the research could have “tremendous agricultural potential” because a correlation of insect infestations with study of Air Force records show ing when and where such UFO sightings occurred could reveal much about the migration habits of damaging insects. The American Institute of Physics said if the electric field is large enough, electrons can be pulled away from pointed exposed surfaces — such as insect legs and antennae. An avalanche of such electrons would excite atmospheric gas molecules which would emit visible light. — JC^ - * * *'*■*'?'* ^ ^— »'* t m • V ».vT.vr>Wb * • . v vw:-vE3*=*-— ..... . . ... v~fr Gas-producing rocks Hydraulic frac tried The SOFT TOUCH ELEGANCE IN LINGERIE 707 TEXAS United Press international HOUSTON — Engineers soon will try to prove on a large scale that massive hydraulic fracturing of gas bearing rock formations will have the potential of doubling gas re serves in the continental United States. The “frac, ” as drillers call the pro cess, will be desirable especially in areas where the cost for drilling previously was prohibitive. George P. Mitchell, chairman and president of Mitchell Energy and Development Corp., said Wednesday the technique will be used in two weeks in a gas-bearing rock formation two miles under ground in Central Texas. Mitchell said the fracturing pro cess has been used successfully in a previous marginal well in the same areg, and that it allowed about three times the potential recovery from a Sun Theatres 333 University 846 The only movie in town Double-Feature Every Week Open 10 a.m.-2 a.m. Mon.-Sat. 12 Noon - 12 Midnight Sun No one under 18 ^ Escorted Ladies Free BOOK STORE & 25c PEEP SHOWS 846-9808 given well. The engineering objective is to open a 1-inch-wide, mile-long frac ture in the limestone formation by pumping one million gallons of fluid and nearly three million pounds of sand into an existing conventionally completed well. “We expect to gain an extra two to four billion cubic feet of reserves per well as a result of the frac,” Mitchell told reporters. “And, equally important, we expect to in crease the rate at which the well produces by 200 to 400 percent.” Massive hydraulic fracturing is a highly promising technology be cause it promises to unlock vast amounts of gas contained in so- called “tight” gas formations — those that have low permeability and porosity where gas flow is se verely restricted. Mitchell said a Department of Energy study concluded that tight gas basins in the Southwest, North ern Plains and Rocky Mountain areas were estimated to contain 400 trillion cubic feet of gas in places. Mitchell said with technological ad vances in recovery techniques — combined with new, higher prices — it was projected these baiiyld more than 180 trillion cubic feet of recoverable gas. “To put that in perspective, the same study put current proved ob tainable reserves of the lower 48 states at 184 trillion cubic feet.” ‘TP PLITT Southern 'TZeajt&i UNIVERSITY SQUARE SHOPPING CENTER 846-6714 8. 846-1151 CORNER OF UNIVERSITY & COLLEGE- COLLEGE STATION Mitchell said. “So we re talking about a technology that could dou ble the reserves of the entire lower 48 (states). “We can double reserves with tie new technology that we couldn’t gel gas economically otherwise. If we get enough gas, we reduce the neerl for imports. “You could get more gas by drill ing more wells — but we are trying to maximize recovery,” he said “Gas is one of the biggest hopes we have.” The DOE is contributing $553,000 to the $1.8 million to be spent for drilling and fracturing tie Muse-Duke well, Mitchell sail During the fracturing process, sand carried by a gel formulated from the water and chemicals is to be pushed through perforations in the steel casing at a depth of 11,1 feet. The tremendous pressure induce a thin vertical fracture spreading in two directions from tie core. When the fluid is recovered or dissipated, the sand will remain in place keeping an open channel, lowing gas to migrate from the rod into the well. “Our previous experience indi cates that the Muse-Duke will lx changed from a marginally eco nomic well to a very respectabli producer as a result of the frac. Mitchell said. The project will begin Nov. 15ii the Fallon Field near Mexia wierf Mitchell has been operating for tlx past seven years. The gas will be sold to Ten! Utilities. 25. 26. 27. 28. 29. ATTENTION! ATTENTION! Due to popular demand 20th Century-Fox presents the original.. MASH Roar once again with the original movie cast. Donald Elliott Sutherland Gould AS TRAPPER JOHN Sally Duvall Kellerman AS MAJOR BURNS 20th Century-Fox presents MASH An Ingo Preminger Production PG All Seats: $1.25 TICKETS GO ON SALE AT 10:30 P.M. Friday & Saturday Midnight Show tt mini ilium 11H.O Industries will share space lab United Press International HOUSTON — Government and private industry will share nseofi national research facility in Eartk orbit by the end of the century,! space agency official predicts. “We will see every kind of publit and private organization that does materials research using this facil ity,” said Anthony J. Calio, associate NASA administrator. Addressing the 25th anniversar conference of the American As tronautical Society Wednesday Calio also predicted development^ sophisticated industrial processes space by 1999. “Some of these inventions willi applied to improve materials p cessing on Earth, while others aK likely to offer a basis for product; that can be made in space and sol for a profit on Earth,” he said. Some 500 scientists and engineef, attended the meeting which ended Thursday. I N. “pati Arne Tli cove shou dom every Me classi lists s scare leavir com ii searcl Th< schoo aband all pr persoi patent coven ofWis discov decad< with V Mas Techn linois, nell 1) forefro patent: financi. scientii a pract Stan since 1 and lie than $' from licenses Thee Cornell licensin more t licensin years. C ulty me the rest Gi ns ne CINEM 5 a ^ y IT "SGT. PEPPER’S! l| LONEIY HEARTS Sal.-Sun. I 1:30 ' - . d Daily 5:40 7:40 Sat.^un