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Page 6 THE BATTALION MONDAY, JANUARY 15, 1979 serving the finest libations with salads, sandwiches, & jazz Happy Hour - 4:30-6:30 $1 BLOODY MARY'S Mon.-Sat. 11 a.m. Sunday 5 p.m. 913 harveyroad 1 in woodstone center 1 LOU’S CALCULATORS HAVE A MEMORY...SO DOES LOU! % X - WHEN YOU BUY A CALCULATOR FROM A SO-CALLED "DISCOUNT" STORE, OFTEN ONCE YOU'VE PAID FOR IT THEY FORGET YOU IF YOU WANT SERVICE YOU HAD BETTER BE PREPARED TO BE WITHOUT A CAL CULATOR FOR A LONG, LONG TIME. NOT SO AT LOUPOT’S WHEN YOU BUY A CALCULATOR FROM LOU HE REMEMBERS YOU. YOU GET 1 HASSLE-FREE EXCHANGE WITHIN 30 DAYS IF YOU FIND OUT THAT YOU ■ BOUGHT THE WRONG MACHINE FOR YOUR PURPOSES A FULL 20 DAY GUARANTEE, NOT FROM HEWLETT-PACKARD OR TEXAS INSTRUMENTS, BUT FROM LOUPOT'S. IF SOMETHING GOES WRONG WITH A CALCULATOR YOU BUY FROM LOU HE WILL GIVE YOU A NEW ONE RIGHT OH THE SPOT. NO PROBLEMS. HOW MANY PLACES CAN OFFER THAT???? THE RENT/PURCHASE PLAN IS A LOUPOT'S EXCLUSIVE. AFTER SIX MONTHS ALL YOUR RENT APPLIES TO THE PURCHASE..THAT'S EASY! rr ALL ADDS UP! YOU SHOULD BUY YOUR CALCULATOR/ FROM Q 3 (§)QD(p(2) , 0 , 27 cO AT THE NORTHGATE COLLEGE STATION College problems shared Doctors help students) United Press International BALTIMORE — College stu dents who have trouble dealing with school-related problems — grades, money, loneliness, fear of the future — are receiving help from Johns Hopkins University psychiatrists. Dr. Ghislaine Godenne, Hopkins’ director of counseling and psychiat ric services, said today’s students are more serious than their carefree predecessors. Many are worried about getting good grades in order to make graduate school and feel guilty because their parents are sac rificing to pay enormous tuition bills. In addition, she said, they face the same problems as others of their age group — loneliness, frustration and a fear of what the future holds. “Students are much more serious than they were when I went to IIVERSITY IREFRIGERATORSI "GRAPHIQUES! ' Battalion Classified Call &45-2611 FREE PICK-UP & DELIVERY |846-8350 •5 Has It All! I Whether you’re an engineer or an artist, an architect or an environmental designer, h as th® supplies you need Our College Station Store will open 8 a.m.-6 p.m. and 9 a.m.-3 p.m. EDG Workbooks "Graphics For Engineers" S 5 9 5 "Geometry For Engineers' $ 5 9S SPECIAL PRICES ON COMPLETE EDG KITS *29 95 $2495 Desk Model Study Lamp $ 19 95 Retail $23.95 NOW BALL-POINT PENS Medium & Fine Point All 4 Colors fTfeOd School Supplies SPIRAL NOTEBOOKS <70 ct.) 59c (120 ct.) 99c FILLER PAPER nrmrnmrmiv. 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During the counseling clinic’s peak periods — the three weeks prior to final ex aminations — there is sometimes a 48-hour wait. “An urgent problem, of course, never waits,” Dr. Godenne said. Students are never referred to a private psychiatrist. In fact, many have weekly appointments at the clinic for their entire college career, she said. “The university can only function optimally if all its members function adequately,” she said. “A graduate student struggling with financial problems, a senior frightened by the prospect of leav ing school, a faculty member having problems with his son — all affect in lesser or greater degree the har monious atmosphere of the univer sity.” Faculty members and their families are eligible for the service, hut students represent the bulk of the patients. They have changed through the years, according to Dr. Godenne. “There is a terrible em[ getting grades, more than ll on learning,” she said. “I When I was in school, westi learn. Here, you study to grades.” Dr. Godenne said thereii son for the stress on gradesl dents know there is greater) tition to he accepted into law and other graduate schi receiving bachelor’s degrees A breakdown of the inoit] 500 students the clinic treatj year showed 8.6 percent freshman and sophomore visited, compared with 10,5 of the juniors and 9.5 percent) seniors. Almost twice as women seek help as men. “The first six months dents are often lonely, thev used to the studying and the) to leave,” said Dr. Godenne they can stick it out for the year, they will usually cog the next year.” If one topic is mentioned! as grades, it is money "It almost always comesnj said. "Students may feel oii|| cause their parents are spa lot of money to send tin school.” There are other problems, incompatible roommates, John letters and sexual fra Dr. Godenne said the group counseling is popularli “many students come heretk they are the only ones who hrj. F problem. Once they are in they find others with similaiKl leans — and that often helgfwo men solve theirs. or the c Security code may Thorpe, 1 3ne meet cut computer crimes ho A If it makes you feel any better, a Texas A&M Univerr mathematician trying to crack one of the world’s best secret compc codes has found fewer than a dozen messages that can’t be hidc- Computer crime bilked Americans of S300 million in 1977 and future of electronic mail and large corporate transactions relies on j r security of codes. 8 an( j ^ G. R. Blakley mixes theory and calculation looking for a weaknesr j ri j] cc | the best of these codes, the public key cryptosystem that i nvo i|L*| t . ()n , 200-digit figures, long division and prime numbers. B n ^ The code, says Blakley, is like a numerical version of a English-French dictionary. In only rare cases will the word be same in both languages and thus impossible to code. ^ ] ( ^ () Massachusetts Institute of Technology and Stanford University ^..jj r ’ searchers came up with the idea of tearing the “dictionary in giving everyone else a copy of the English-to-French part. iBj a ’ n( j makes it easy to code a message by simply translating into ^ renc ^ fj rS { one set of numbers. K But it’s hard to decode since one would have to go .thrcragli^ as ' ^^ word-by-word to find the meaning of the French word. | e] .‘ s j( | ' ( | In the next decade, when home computers are no longer toji^^j' storing shopping lists and family budgets, such fail-safe codes wilffir,, y ^ important to keep personal and business transactions safe frompilM he (]° mg. Someone will probably break the public key cryptosystem, lers tones Blakley, as has happened with most earlier codes. gTam. Ie also shIrtst Sget Boan ' time, to rs in Ausl priation 1 ie and sm Woodstone Center 907 Harvey Rd. 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