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Page 6 THE BATTALION TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 20, 1979 Good looks can be an asset; attractive victims are helped more often, study indicates United Press International NEW YORK — Good looks is good. Of 602 persons who used a telephone booth in a large Mid western airport, 47 percent were willing to contact the good looking owner of a “lost” graduate school application — with photo attached — which was left in the booth, while the response from the “lost docu ments of plain-looking applicants was only 35 percent. The experiment, reported in an issue of Science Digest, was con ducted by a team of Penn State psy chologists to establish scientifically that good looks definitely pay off. Richard M. Lerner, psychologist at Pennsylvania State University and one of three researchers who planted the applications in the phone booth, also found that fat people are rejected by other fat people as well as by thin people. “A fat person is looked upon as stupid, sad, left out, not wanted as a friend, and as having many other undesirable characteristics,” he said. The Science Digest article points out, however, that merely thinking yourself attractive can improve your appearance in the eyes of others. Sun Theatres 333 University 84€ 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 Myers tackles degree, football Battalion photo by Lynn Blanco Frank Myers -starting lineman for the Minnesota Vikings. the Aggie Players present: THE THREEPENNY OPERA Bertold Brecht’s sardonic script and Kurt Weill's haunting music seize upon John Gay's 1728 "Beggar's Opera". . . and turn all of its lavish hypocracies and shark-like sentimentalities squarely upon the modern world. 8 pm Feb. 20 thru 24 RUDDER THEATER general admission: A&M STUDENTS $2 ALL OTHERS $3 Tickets at the MSC BOX OFFICE (845-2916) or at the door THE F-18 HORNET . . . NEW . . . FAST . . . YOURS TO FLY IF YOU QUALIFY! CHALLENGE YOU AGGIES TO ASK US ABOUT IT! WE The Marine Officer Selection Team will be available to discuss the Marine PLC Air Program on Feb. 19, 20, 21 in the Memorial Student Center. You may also contact the Team at 707 University Drive (next to University National Bank). The Marines are coming. By PHYLLIS PONDER Battalion Reporter Frank Myers, formerly an all-Southwest Conference offensive lineman, is back at Texas A&M University. After playing for Texas A&M from 1974-1978, Myers signed with the Minnesota Vikings. He started 13 games at tackle or guard for them last season. , But defensive linemen around the SWC need not worry. The 6-foot, 5-inch, 265-pound Myers is only here to finish a degree in agricultural economics. But while he agrees that football has glamour, he says it doesn t guarantee a player financial security for life. “Football is a career for the present. I feel my degree is important in my life — so I will always have something to fall back on, Myers said. Myers said he plans to play pro football for 10 more years. But, he said, “if something like an injury did end my career, I feel it essential for me to have a degree so I would be able to do something else with my life,” Myers said. Myers, said playing pro football makes men more susceptable to businessmen who would like to invest their money. Players usually put their money into some kind of investment such as land, which provides a shelter from income taxes, Myers said. Investments are good to fall back on, but they don t always last forever, Myers said. “I feel like going to school at Texas A&M is harder than playing pro football,” Myers said. He said there are more hours involved in going to school. With the Vikings, he said he practices two hours a <day and attends an hour-long meeting on most days. At Texas A&M, he attends classes for most of the day and then goes home to study. There are no free nights here as there are while playing football, Myers said. Myers became interested in agriculture while growing up in San Angelo. He said even though his family did not farm, most of his friends did and he knew someday he would like to own a farm. Myers plans to graduate in the spring of 1980. Upon graduation and during his off seasons, Myers said he might like to work as a state extension agent or do some farming in the Pecos Valley. A gs win | R college games ' ® Students from Texas A&M II,■ versity won the all-events tropk the second time in three yea„5 Association of College < Sa a tur e d S ay OUmament ^ About 40 Aggies beat stude, from 30 other universities to I the trophy at North Texas University in Denton. Texas A&M won 146 points j 64 points won in trap and si shooting competition. The Univ sity of Texas took second place#,. 130 points and the University Houston won third place w| 126.75 points. Taking first place in the men’sH Bards competition was RayBro*. who will participate in the natiosi finals at the University of Micfe at Ann Arbor April 4-7, Other winners are: MarkH and Chris Shomenta, first chess team; Mark Hulsey, place in individual chess compel tion; Shawn Foss, Steven Hoppe Glen Douglas, Christopher Stemt and George Strickhausen, foi place in team trap shooting; Qd Douglas, first place individually shooting, and Sandy Patterson,se ond place in women's billiards. Crime rate may make British cops tote guns United Press International LONDON — It was only 10 min utes — the time it took the unarmed London police officers to sign for a gun — but it meant the difference between escape and arrest for a fle eing convict. London is the only major city worldwide whose police do not carry guns. The force is proud of the fact. But incidents like the above in creasingly raise the question of whether growing violence in society may force British police to join the gun-carriers. Brixton, where the armed robber eluded capture, is a once prosper ous area that in recent years has be come a crime-ridden slum. To carry or not to carry guns in Brixton is an emotional and daily question. There are no easy answers. “I would hate to carry a gun,” said police constable Bob Milton, one of a two-man squad car team patrolling in Brixton. “But I have to admit there are times when patrolling in the squad car it would be better to have a gun on board.” “I think you need a gun in the cars,” agreed teammate Ron Toye. “If the criminals you’re dealing with are armed, it’s only rational you should have proper protection against them.” At the moment, police have ac cess to guns, but they are for emergencies and must be signed for. Local police can call on special permanently armed metropolitan London squads, operating out of Scotland Yard. A recent evening’s patrol in Brix ton was typical except for the pres ence of a reporter in the squad car. During the eight-hour shift, a gun was called for only in the incident with the armed robber. In the evening’s other incidents — breaking down a door to rescue an overdose victim; trying to locate an unlicensed driver; answering the alarm from a girl who was acccst on the steps of her apartment hot — no gun was necessary The question boils down to: ai! cop’s chances of getting shot hinis heightened or lessened ifb armed? “Don’t you think if you come: a situation where the other pet knows you’re carrying a gun, be more likely to shoot witkl questions asked than if he knew were unarmed?” asked Milton has been on the Brixton force b 1/2 years. “No,” said Toye, a 13-yearE: ton veteran. “You’re not about nice guys who would something like that. If they ve gun, they’ll use it. Theydontra wrecke University Flower & Gift Shop Come by now and select your and boutonnieres For The JUNIOR BALL Choose from roses, carnations, spring flowers or orchids. 1049 Texas Ave. Next to Sambo’s We Wire Flowers Worldwide the cop is armed or not. Neither man wanted to cam gun on foot patrol. “You see, if you start that, whole thing will just escalate, ton said. “England is lucky having the number of guns aroi that the United States does,! example, and we want to ketf that way. Last July Scotland Yard rejeii tivity. violent crime figures for L sion, which includes Brixton four other communities south of Thames, showing a rise of 42j lot of: cent in three years — to 2,® 1977 ■ •■U Walking around Brixton, itisi 1 to imagine it as the prosper.’ shopping center and bear# community for the West theatre district it was when Ronald Woodman came to in 1953. “There was a market here an d good quality shops pe , would come to from far away bus and rail strikes ended all the businesses went broke an was the beginning of the slide, the 57-year-old who joine police after 16 years with the Navy. . Brixton’s fleeing population[«■ room for an influx of unernp youths and immigrants with British law. Racial p r() certainly exist. , Woodman, as a home ea cer, patrols his square mile on tered old bicycle, speaking many of the 20,000 inhabitant possible in an approxima i| “village situation, as he put NEV repute, ployee first bij ■ash hi robber hangar New the FI are pn five otl Non. curren. gold, j< robbei Airpor red. 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