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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.
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Myers tackles degree, football
Battalion photo by Lynn Blanco
Frank Myers -starting lineman for the Minnesota Vikings.
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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.
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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
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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,®
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community for the West
theatre district it was when
Ronald Woodman came to
in 1953.
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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. .
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youths and immigrants
with British law. Racial p r()
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