THE BATTALION Page 3 WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 28, 1979 UT, A&M to pool programs Phillips gives $75,000 for research ion resti rvival. llli r a businei going to l cationah i at h; have ant he fabriciij nore I get martifi irt, and iJ r factor, li| uist By GRETCHEN GARRET Battalion Keporter A series of meetings between Texas A&M University and the Uni versity of Texas are being planned to discuss ways of combining programs at the two institutions. University president Dr. Jarvis Miller said at jthe College of Liberal Arts faculty neeting Tuesday. This, Miller said, will help streng- Ihen existing programs at Texas \&M. Texas A&M’s enrollment is level- ngoff, he said, and with this comes a Strategic turning point. “We are in volved in a major search for ideas,” Miller said. “We need a new sense of purpose, a new set of goals. ” Faculty input is needed to create these ideas, he said. Among new programs for fall 1980 will be a New Faculty Orientation Program. This program, Miller said, will consist of new instructors receiv ing an orientation-like welcome to the University — being shown around campus and being familia rized with the people and facilities they will be working with. Teaching programs will be a part of this, also, Miller said. These faculty development prog rams have been instituted with funds for government service, he said. Fa culty members can work with gov ernment services in their fields to receive information that will be be neficial to teaching. Student counseling (academic) is being expanded, Miller said. “I feel the majority of attention has been put on the student with problems, and not enough has been paid to the above-average student.” After Miller’s speech, awards were presented by the College of Liberal Arts Student Council to last year’s Outstanding Faculty Award nominees. These awards were given, Strom- mer said, because the Liberal Arts faculty members felt that these nominees had done considerable service to the students of, and to Texas A&M, for which they de served recognition. Receiving these awards were: Robert H. Baine, assistant regis trar of Admissions and Records; Dr. Warren Dixon, assistant professor of political science; Dr. Jack K. Wil liams, former chancellor of the Texas A&M University System; and Dr. Merrill D. Whitburn, former associ ate professor of English at Texas A&M. The Phillips Petroleum Co. has presented a $75,000 gift to the Center for Education and Re search in Free Enterprise at Texas A&M University. An additional $17,000 was awarded for various programs in the colleges of Engineering, Geosciences and Business Admi nistration, development officials announced. “This very substantial gift from the Phillips company will provide major assistance for continued studies by the center in the field of risk management and the effect of governmental regulations on the oil industry as well as help us develop a significant educational program for the public schools,” said Dr. Eugene Uselton, center director. The gift will provide $25,000 a year for three years to the center with an option to extend for two more years. ARE YOU A TEA-SIP? come find out at the iggies honor late King Ranch head — a situat n young! the line et, whicl expend de by nw o start, Kleburg bust to be unveiled Saturday orrowers lableonfi ' starts. 1 ourselw ve direelf tion isfarwos a nie d sculptor Electra Waggoner 'iggs- The sculpture of Kleberg, the ong-time head of King Ranch, will denceiM )e formally presented at 10 a.m. in he Kleberg Animal and Food Scien- Center by Board of Regents chairman Clyde H. Wells. Helen Cleberg Groves, daughter of the late Cleberg, will make a response. Jar- is Miller, Texas A&M University (resident, will preside. Biggs was chosen by the King lanch family and commissioned to reate the bust by the Texas A&M Jniversity System Board of Regents hortly after the opening last year of he building bearing Kleberg’s Another work of art will be added :o the Texas A&M University collec- ion Saturday with the unveiling of he Robert J. Kleberg Jr. bust by name. The late Robert J. Kleberg headed operation of the King Ranch for more than a half century, during which time he developed the Santa Gertru- dis breed of beef cattle. He was also a major influence on agriculture and a proponent of wildlife conservation. Biggs, also a rancher, has her stu dio on the Waggoner Ranch in North Texas. Her best known sculpture is of Will Rogers on his horse, located at the Will Rogers Coliseum in Fort Worth. Busts created by her of Pres idents Eisenhower and Truman, Knute Rockne and other works are on display around the nation and in Europe. In creating the Kleberg bust, Biggs faced some problems. Because she was not well acquainted with her subject before his death, she said she New products tested at A&M wind tunnel Storm-force winds lash at a house, inserting invisible fingers under solar panels on its roof. Forces build on the panels, but just before they rip away, the winds subside. Then the house, one-seventh normal size, is rotated on a steel table in the test section of Texas A&M University’s 7- by 10-foot wind tunnel so the air flow can strike it from a different angle. The study is one of many conducted at the facility, capable of producing 200 mph winds. The wind tunnel, part of the Texas En gineering Experiment Station, has been in operation since 1945. Test products range from researching aerodynamics of aircraft mod els to how much roll an offshore drilling rig can take in normal and high velocity winds without capsizing. Tests are conducted by students in the aerospace engineering department, faculty researchers and wind tunnel staff. Manager Joe Brusse said commercial tests for corporations, govern ment agencies and foreign countries are carried out. Wind loads on solar panels were measured for the U.S. Department of Energy in a project supervised by Dr. David Norton and Dr. Howard Chevalier. Data supplied helped determine the best way to fasten panels to a roof. One of the tunnel’s more famous projects was the space shuttle. The research here was conducted in the early 1970s when the National Aeronautics and Space Administration started the shuttle program. •oleum i on tW using so "| ns at lead ome es |ni tats nations , we’H neans urnal DIXIE CHICKEN SALOON 307 University Drive College Station Beer on Crushed Ice Progressive Country Music Hangdown Sausage Cheddar Cheese on the Wheel Authentic Turn of the Century Texana ok n0 lil n are