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WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 7, 1979
campus
Pyramid making in Egypt
easier than believed?
issistant reactor
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an he had; supervisor named
j| Gregory Stasney of Bryan has
been named assistant reactor super
visor for the Texas A&M University
Ruclear Science Center, which op
erates a research reactor southwest
of campus.
I Stasney started work more than
e years ago as an electronic techni-
n and graduate of the Institute of
ectronic Science, a division of the
xas Engineering Extension Ser-
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In his new position, Stasney will
; act in the absence of the reactor su-
rvisor, who has direct control over
e atomic reactor. He will also be
|sponsible for keeping the exacting
cords on operation required by the
IRC, said Dr. John Randall, center
director.
Students win prizes
for book collections
4 m /tA/M Ten T exas A&M students won
MS f prizes and two $25 honor-
^ ■ l®le mention prizes in the seventh
St' dent Book Collectors Contest.
, u HThe eight top winners are:
—Larson B. Dunn Jr., a gradu-
me brain.student in chemistry from Cin-
-tnessjnnati, Ohio, for his collection,
a specilia^herlock Holmes,” the Louis A.
ay on acL Hartung award;
—Randall A. Kok, graduate stu-
Richard I :nt, chemistry, Fairfax, Va., ‘‘The
jury that!
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Phillips
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Writings of C. S. Lewis,” Library
Binding Co. award;
— Claude E. Mounce, graduate
student, mechanized agriculture,
College Station, “Illustrated Chil
dren’s Classics,” English faculty-
Thomas F. Mayo award;
— Brian C. Mustain, graduate
student, plant breeding, Bryan,
“Old Testament Studies,” library fa
culty award;
— Kay A. Poth, graduate student,
English, Raymondville, “Tarzan,”
Edith Gott White award;
— Stanton T. Ray, senior in En
glish, Plano, “Calvinism: Commen
taries and Theological Works,” Dick
Pucket award;
— Donald W. Watts, graduate
student, urban planning. Mountain
Home, Idaho, “The American Pris-
oner-of-War Experience in South
east Asia, ” W. Guy Shown Jr. award;
— Carlson W. Yost, graduate stu
dent, English, College Station,
“Prize-Winning Westerns,” Fron
tier America Corp. — Fred White
Jr. award.
Honorable mentions went to
Sonya Cashdan, English graduate
student from Cambria, Calif., for her
collection on sex variance in women,
and Dennis G. Fortassain, land
scape architecture graduate student.
College Station, for his collection on
the city.
CAST names Butler
as new council head
Dr. Ogbourne D. Butler, associ
ate vice president for agriculture and
renewable resources at Texas A&M,
is the new head of the Council for
Agricultural Science and Technolo
gy (CAST), effective Feb. 1.
Butler will serve one year as presi
dent-elect and then will assume the
presidency of CAST. He has served
as a member of their board of dire
ctors since the organization’s found
ing in 1972, representing the Amer
ican Society of Animal Science.
CAST is a consortium of food and
agricultural societies organized for
the advancement of understanding
and use of agricultural science and
technology in the public interest.
Campus head named
for co-op students
Steve Yates, 36, assistant dean for
cooperative education in the College
of Engineering, has been named
campus-wide director of cooperative
education at Texas A&M University.
Yates came to Texas A&M in 1976
after serving in a similar position for
more than two years at Alvin Com
munity College. He graduated from
Abilene Christian College in 1969
with a bachelor’s degree in business
education, and received his master’s
degree from the University of
Houston.
“We are looking forward to our
biggest recruiting year, both in
terms of the number of students par
ticipating in the co-op program as
well as the number of employers,”
Yates said.
This fall nearly 700 Texas A&M
students are actively enrolled in co
op programs where they alternate
semesters in the classroom with on-
the-job training in industry or gov
ernment.
McFarland will head
student financial aid
Dr. William E. McFarland will
assume duties as director of student
financial aid at Texas A&M Universi
ty Dec. 1.
McFarland previously served two
years as assistant director and coor
dinator and two years as assistant di
rector of financial aids for federal
programs at Oklahoma State Univer
sity.
McFarland, who is married and
has two children, received his doc
toral and master’s degree from OSU
and his bachelor’s degree from the
University of Arkansas.
Free enterprise center
selected for grant
Texas A&M University has re
ceived an endowment of $85,000 to
the Center for Education and Re
search in Free Enterprise from
Frank Borman, chairman and presi
dent of Eastern Airlines.
The funds were raised from a din
ner in New York honoring Borman
with the “Flame of Truth” award
presented by the Fund for Higher
Education. Unterms of the award,
Borman selected two educational in
stitutions, one in Israel, as recipients
of the funds. He selected Texas
A&M’s free enterprise center and
the Faculty for Aeronautics and En
gineering at the Technion in Israel.
“To me, Texas A&M seemed a
particularly appropriate selection for
this award,” Borman said. “The
school is recognized worldwide for
expertise in the technical sciences
and I believe the betterment of man
kind depends on advancement of
technology.
“Perhaps what we should really do
is create an extension of the free en
terprise center in Washington,” he
said.
Texas A&M President Jarvis Mil
ler accepted the award for the Uni
versity and said, “We are grateful for
this gift and promise to be good ste
wards of this money.”
United Press International
WASHINGTON — How many
men does it take to move a 1-ton
stone block by hand?
The National Geographic Socie
ty’s book “Ancient Egypt” reports
that a French investigator sought an
answer to that question in his efforts
to solve how Egyptians managed to
construct the huge pyramids before
the days of labor-saving machines.
He found that a 1-ton block of limes
tone resting on a track made of moist
mud from the Nile could easily be
moved by ropes pulled by — one
man.
Schools advised
o fix old buildings
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igs which includes modest altera-
ps instead of building new facili-
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lucation Administration Depart-
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‘inv'ried ■jjjgnts to evaluate the efficient use
ior tlih . 0 f sc h 00 i buildings in Livingston,
•it i or 'junction, San Saba, Yorktown and
■boll.
& "In education, facilities are a big
investment for which the commun-
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ime
Bd Nan Crowell, an interior desig-
m and one of Hawkins’ students
who has participated in the study.
The decision to build has important
ternab'onti implications both for the taxpayer
— A sim and for the education of children,
ites to bet she added.
nonienom llhe student evaluation team in-
d a minoi Beets a system’s existing facilities
room, sa; tod analyzes them for the use of
of Stanii |)ace, maintainability, esthetics,
; to the sii toergy conservation and accesibility
es, a dn o the handicapped. The team goes
i wastehi" through the structures looking for
re can ; Pys to use light, space and color
he agem which will improve the quality of the
ie easily classroom.
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dren’s behavior through the use of
color, light and the use of classroom
space,” Crowell said. “We can no
longer afford the luxury of making
mistakes with our children or their
school buildings.”
All elements of building construc
tion as well as those added after con
struction can be useful, especially
color, she pointed out.
“Very little is known about color in
the classroom. We just finished
some research in which we set up six
offices, all exactly the same, except
the colors used. Participants were
shown small swatches of color and
asked their reactions,” she said.
The researchers predicted the
reactions would be the same to the
small pieces of color as to the offices
painted in the same colors. Findings
showed the opposite to be true,
Crowell said.
In elementary schools, flexible
space is best, along with traditional
classrooms and rooms for small
groups, she said. Also recommended
are controlled lighting, which can be
turned down when not needed and
the use of double insulated windows
or buildings with small areas of glass
instead of walls of windows.
Crowell said it is best to steer away
from the institutional look and try to
create an atmosphere made for
people.
Tin Barn Furniture
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