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THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 1, 1979
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By NANCY ANDERSEN
■was faced with a long hallway
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ting in and s I walked from the well-lit Gul
lets heavier per Plaza parking lot into the
it from thexness of the Jaycees’ haunted
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up later,”hlouid it have been my epic story
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rators usual e to protect me. Unfortunately,
was ineffei gronp was composed of 10 junior
hen oil hits h school kids and a married
to hit it har Plc with two kids. I’ll bet my
t it fast,”hf :or arranged that, too.
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lights. Safety at last, I thought.
However, my piece of mind disap
peared quickly as a hunchback
jumped out of nowhere at me.
A safe distance away, the guide
explained the first scene — a real
Texas-style hanging of a skeleton.
Walking along the uneven dirt path,
my group came upon an electric
chair excecution in progress. Our
guide quickly warned us to keep
away from the railing and to stand
on a wooden plank to insulate us
from a possible shock. Hastily we
obeyed.
Then some of the more blood
thirsty members of the group
started screaming to the executioner
to flip the switch and fry the victim.
He did and for a few seconds, the
insulated board began to vibrate
from the shock.
As we hurriedly moved on, a con-
ehead with a chainsaw jumped out
of nowhere at us.
Now truly on the move, we came
upon a peaceful fairytale-like scene
complete with a fire-breathing dra
gon, a damsel in distress and a castle
perched on a stoney peak. The
peace was shattered by the outbreak
of a swordfight between the castle’s
owner, an ogre, and a knight in shin
ing armor. After the knight dis
armed the ogre, the ogre unchivalr-
ously pulled out a gun and shot the
knight. It looked like something my
editor would do.
We scattered to the “good knight”
cemetery and while we looked at
the bones and mounds, a monster
jumped out of a coffin behind us.
Again we ran away, this time to the
exit.
Fortunately, that was the end.
Not only of the trip, but also the
end of my doubts about my editor.
Obviously, he must like me a little
since he so thoughtfully provided
me with such a good time for Hallo-
Inspiration and awareness are the
goals of Dr. Charles A. Roden-
berger, director of the Junior Engi
neering Technical Society (JETS)
and assistant dean of the College of
Engineering at Texas A&M Univer
sity.
Rodenberger is also the JETS na
tional president.
“JETS is good for guidance,” he
said. “I see it as working like the
Future Farmers of America, not to
recruit but to make people aware of
the effect of engineers and the pro
fession on society.
“Engineering’s greatest impact is
on pocketbooks, but people don’t
realize it,” Rodenberger said.
“We have great examples today in
electronics,” he said. “A television
set is less expensive today than
when they first came out.” Roden
berger predicts similar advances
soon with lasers, computers and au
tomation.
Recently, graduate students in
Rodenberger’s systems engineering
course presented an idea for a
braille computer terminal that could
open educational and career oppor
tunities for the blind.
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