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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.
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It was the first time in 26 years a
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After a six-month investigation of
the program, the paper charged
Synanon was a money-making oper
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founder, Charles Dedrich. It also
uncovered evidence of alleged beat
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Risser, who won his first Pulitzer
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pollution by farmers. He said he
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winning.
Cramer, who joined the Inquirer
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take him to the battle front.
Gaul and Jaspin won the prize for
special local reporting for a probe
into the demise of the Blue Coal
Corp., once a leading producer of
anthracite coal.
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