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£2 ge be] sai ional ejudj PerJ O-yeatj : r fro® rishna J lid FiJ d M theaj the | rlaa ti ^pacitd withy 1 repofj hailed i entails indiJ menty liatrisliJ ts, if J voiildil i' - J . rulell vomat| nd oid reniptj artersf r-hoorJ amlfhl ‘ CUStM & pea © i vThe paper plane chase: uistance, time, originality By SCOTT PENDLETON Battalion Staff They really didn’t look like planes. Instead, an assortment of gyrocopters, missiles and parachutes made up the entries in the fifth annual paper airplane lontest, held Tuesday afternoon in the foyer of Zachry Engineer ing Center. There were some [onventional-looking entries, of bourse. Most of these were con structed on the spot out of potebook paper. I The purpose of the contest Jrasn’t to discover new jerodynamic principles, but just to have fun, said Karen Wessels, vice president of the Texas Soci ety of Professional Engineers. TSPE sponsored the contest. The 11 contestants competed for $5 prizes in one or more categories: design, longest time in flight, and distance flown. Judging the contest was Glen da Wiley, president of TSPE, and two industrial engineering professors, Robert Bateman and James Hennigan. Three engineering students soared to victory. First they inspected the de sign entries, testing them for stability and originality. A flying tube, entered by mechanical en gineering student Don White, won this category. Then the longest flight contes tants tossed, sailed or dropped their entries from the second floor balcony of Zachry. The toilet paper parachute designed by Bill Elmer, a chemical engi neering student, fluttered to the ground in nine seconds, almost a second longer than the second place time. Distance honors went to nu clear engineering student Rus sell de Castongrene, whose missle sped 74 feet 6.5 inches diagonally across Zachry before touchdown. THE BATTALION WEDNESDAY, APRIL 18, 1979 Page 7 For coverage of cult, company, siege Small papers win 3 Pulitzers United Press International NEW YORK — A weekly news paper with only one full-time re porter won the 1979 Pulitzer Prize for public service, the first time in 26 years a weekly has won jour- nalism’s most coveted award. The Point Reyes (Calif.) Light, a “mom and pop” paper with a circu lation of only 2,700, got the prize for an investigation of Synanon, the drug rehabilitation program turned cult. Two other small papers also won Pulitzers in the 63rd annual award ing of the prizes for journalism, let ters, drama and music Monday. Gilbert Gaul and Elliot Jaspin, reporters with the Pottsville, Pa., Republican, a daily with a circula tion of only 28,500, won the prize for special local reporting. And Thomas Kelly III, a photo grapher for the Pottstown, Pa., Mercury, a daily that has a circula tion of only 29,800, won the prize for spot news photography. His award came for a series of pictures on the siege of Richard Greist, who held his family hostage in a rural home. James Risser, Washington bureau chief of the Des Moines Register, won his second Pulitzer for national reporting. Washington Post car toonist Herbert Block and poet- novelist Robert Penn Warren each won their third. Asked to comment. Block said, “Can I call you right back? I’m right on deadline. ” He never called back. Richard Ben Cramer, 28, gave the Philadelphia Inquirer its fifth successive Pulitzer by winning the prize for international reporting. Novelist John Cheever, who won the National Book Award in 1958, was awarded the prize for fiction. IVou don’t Know WHERE TO EAT OUT? v' ffinnmnnnnnnr l ~»nnmryinnryfl-a-innryff-B-g-BTrBTnnrB-BTrrwTrro^^ GET ’EM BEFORE THEY’RE GONE! s BOOKS BOOKS BOOKS BOOKS BOOKS Check the Battalion ads! Humorist Russell Baker of the New York Times got the commen tary prize for his “Observer” column and said he might write a column about it. It was the first time in 26 years a weekly newspaper has won the pub lic service prize and only the fourth time in the awards’ history that a weekly won any Pulitzer. After a six-month investigation of the program, the paper charged Synanon was a money-making oper ation benefiting the family of its founder, Charles Dedrich. It also uncovered evidence of alleged beat ings, hoarding of weapons and re venge attacks. Risser, who won his first Pulitzer for national reporting in 1976, won his second for a seven-part series on pollution by farmers. He said he didn’t think he “had a chance” of winning. Cramer, who joined the Inquirer in 1976, won the international re porting prize for his coverage of the Middle East. At the time of the Is raeli incursion into Lebanon, he flew to Beirut and hired a cab to take him to the battle front. 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