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THE BATTALION FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 29, 1980 local rofessors on display it Coffeehouse tonight By CAROLYN TILLER Campus Reporter Students going to the Memorial tudent Center Basement CofFee- ouse tonight may wonder if they hould have brought their class lec- ire notebooks once they see who’s t the microphone. Beginning at 8 p.m., several pro- issors and two teacher assistants ill participate during “Faculty l - ight — but the acts won’t be any- ling like a classroom lecture. Dr. Don Saylak, associate profes- >r of civil engineering, will play his xurdian for the crowd. Saylak said he put himself through illege playing in polka, country- estern and jamboree bands. At one me, he played in the same show as e , ennessee Ernie Ford. In Pittsburgh, where he attended hool. Saylak said he was exposed to wide variety of music from different iltures because of the mixture of eople who lived there. : “ijm going to play music from dif- rent countries of the world, he said. “I put together a medley and will let people figure out which coun try each song came from. “I’m going to play till they throw enough at me to get me off the stage,” he laughed. Dr. Ira Greenbaum, assistant pro fessor of biology, and his assistant Bill Harvey will be playing the guitar and banjo with the kazoo. “Greenbaum considers himself a poet of some renown, ” said Harvey. “We re going to sing some of his ori ginal compositions while I accom pany him on the guitar and banjo. “We will also play his rendition of dueling kazoos and banjo, he said. Harvey, a wildlife and fisheries sciences major, said, “We fish together, but never have done any instrumental work together. So, as he says, we might have to wing it. ” Tony Dinuzzo, graduate student in biology, will play his guitar and sing. “Tony has been playing in the Basement Coffeehouse ever since he was a freshman,” said Basement Spe cialty Programmer Gee Connolly. Chemistry Professor Dr. Rod O’Connor and Dr. Joe Marcello, a chemistry lecturer, will be doing a take-off on an archeological report about the ruins of an ancient civiliza tion in Texas unearth in the year 2080. The civilization is a group cal led “The Aggies.” “We determine from some photo artifacts that reptiles lived here,” O’Connor said. The “artifacts” are several “Thotz” cartoon strips. “As further evidence, we find a petrified egg,” O’Connor said. The “egg” is football. “Someone committed the sacred sin of kicking the petrified egg with his bare foot. He was later banned to a labor battalion called the pros,” O’Connor said. O’Connor said the most satiric part of the act will be about some-, thing that wiped out civilization. “That you will have to find out tonight,” he said. Almanac United Press International Today is Friday, Feb. 29, the 60th day of 1980 with 306 to follow. The moon is approaching its full phase. The morning star is Saturn. The evening stars are Mercury, Venus, Mars and Jupiter. Those born on this date are under the sign of Pices. On this date in hsitory: In 1872, Queen Victoria of Great Britain narrowly missed death at the hands of a wouldbe assassin, Albert O’Connor, 18, a revolutionary. In 1924, the former head of the Veterans Bureau in Washington, Charles R. Forbes, was indicted for defrauding the government of $250 million. In 1956, President Eisenhower put an end to many months of conjec ture when he announced he would run for a second term. In 1964, President Lyndon John son announced the United States secretly had developed a jet plane called the A-ll, capable of flying at more than 2,000 miles per hour at altitudes of more than 70,000 feet. A thought for the day: British statesman Winston Churchill said, “The truth is incontrovertible. Panic may resent it; ignorance may deride it; malice may distort it, but there it eye test developed, be aired Sunday night By CHARLIE MUSTACHIA City Reporter I Ae* Watching the tube might pay off unclay at 5 p.m. in£' Television viewers throughout ' lentral Texas will have the oppor- tut mity to take an eye test at home by ’Bhing their 'TV screens. Sijponsored by the Texas Society to Went Blindness, the test will be Bed as a public service by KCEN, lhannel 6, in the Temple-Waco- lilleen area, and the surrounding reas that receive KCEN by cable. The 12-minute test will consist of a feg of instructions followed by Hparts, said Mary Hughes, prog- 1ms director of the Texas Society to reyent Blindness. Part one checks sharpness of cen- Bdsion and part two checks scope f side vision, Hughes said. Viewers will be told the correct | Bers at specific points in the test, |S|said, so they will know whether mot they pass. The test was designed for mass TV lireenings for sight defects at Stan- ird University by Dr. Milton Flocks ad Dr. A. Ralph Rosenthal on a lint from the National Society to ©vent Blindness, Hughes said. Although this test is the first of its ind in Texas, it was given to a group fstudents at Stanford, then refined ad readministered on PBS televi- on in small areas in Colorado and lorth Carolina, she said. Texas Society to Prevent Blind- ess President Clymer Wright Jr. aid although the test is no substitute ar a professional eye examination, lilure to pass any part of it can mean he viewer has a problem and should ee an eye doctor. Huges said all the doctors in the viewing area have been notified in case viewer participation is as big as expected. She said the Temple-Waco- Killeen area was chosen for testing because it has “a good population for a target area test.” Wright said, “The society believes the development of the test is an important new use of television as a health care medium. “Every day seven Texans lose their sight,’ Wright said. “Half of this blindness is needless and can often be prevented if the person re ceives professional treatment in time. 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