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Page 12 THE BATTALION TUESDAY, APRIL 8, 1980 what’s up at Texas A&M TUESDAY MSC POLITICAL FORUM: Texas Attorney General Mark White will speak at 12:30 p.m. in 601 Rudder. Admission is free. AMERICAN HUMANICS STUDENT ASSOCIATION: Will meet at 6 p.m. in 607 Rudder. Representatives from youth organizations will speak. BRIDAL FAIR MARRIAGE SEMINAR: The topic “How to be a Student and Married” will be discussed at 12 p.m. in the MSC Basement Coffeehouse. At 5:30 p.m. the topic of “Theologians’ View of Marriage and Sex ’will be discussed. Admission is free. RANGE CLUB: Will meet at 7:30 p.m. in the Oceanography and Meteorology Bldg. WILDLIFE SOCIETY: Will meet at 7:30 p.m. in 301 Rudder. COLLEGIATE FFA: Will meet to elect officers at 7:30 p.m. in 105 Harrington. A door prize will be given. ECONOMICS SOCIETY: Will meet to elect officers at 7 p.m. in 140A MSC. Charles Bankstrom from E. F. Hutton will talk about getting into the stock market. PRE-MED/PRE-DENT SOCIETY: Dr. Ralph F. Coleman trom the Wilcrst Emergency Medical Center in Houston will speak on “What You Should Know Before Entering Medical School” at 7:30 p.m. in 302 Rudder. AGGIES AID TO SPECIAL KIDS: Will meet at 7:30 p.m. in 502 Rudder. MSC CAMERA COMMITTEE: Will present Peter Gowland at 7:30 p.m. in Rudder Theater. AGGIE BLOOD DRIVE: Will continue through Thursday with sta tions set up at the MSC from 12-9 p.m. and at Zachry Engineering Center from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. HORSEMEN’S ASSOCIATION: Will meet at 7:30 p.m. in 115 Kleberg. WEDNESDAY FINANCE ASSOCIATION: Will meet at 7:30 p.m. in 202 Francis Hall. Representatives from United Energy Resources’ Financial Planning Group will speak. Elections, resumes and the spring barbecue will be discussed. OMELET RODEO: The National Agri-Marketing Association will sponsor an omelet breakfast from 7-10 a.m. in the Kleberg Atrium. The price is $2.25. BRAZOS & A&M CIVIL LIBERTIES UNION: John Duncan, direc tor of the Texas Civiliberties Union will speak at 7:30 p.m. in 601 Rudder. LAMBDA SIGMA: Will meet at 7:30 p.m. in 504 Rudder. TEXAS A&M SPORT PARACHUTE CLUB: Will meet to elect offic ers at 7 p.m. in 607 Rudder. A film will also be shown. CRAFT FAIR: The MSC Arts Committee will sponsor the fair from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. at Rudder Fountain. RUDDERS RANGERS: Will have an equipment turn-in at 7:30 p.m. in 315 Military Science Bldg. WOMEN’S LEADERSHIP WORKSHOP: Registration for the April 17 workshop is taking place in the Student Activities Office, 221 MSC. There is a $5 registration fee. For more information come by 221 MSC or call 845-1133. SOCIETY OF AUTOMOTIVE ENGINEERS: Dr. Jerry Caton will speak about gas turbine research at General Motors at 7:30 p.m. in 203 Zachry Engineering Center. METAPHYSICAL SOCIETY: Alan Holt, a NASA astrophysicist train ing supervisor, will present a program on “UFOs: A View of Future Physics?” at 7:30 p.m. in 308 Rudder. Admission for non-members will be 50 cents. BIOMEDICAL SCIENCE ASSOCIATION: Will meet to elect offic ers and vote on a new constitution at 7:30 p.m. in 201 Veterinary Medicine Complex. UNIVERSITY APARTMENT COUNCIL: Will sponsor an Easter Feasl and concert, with dinner at 6 p.m. and the concert beginning at 7:30 p.m. in the park area between buildings Y-2 and Y-3 of Hensel Apartments. IEEE: Dr. G. D. Arndt of NASA will speak on the solar powered satellite at 7:30 p.m. in 103 Zachry Engineering Center. ABILENE AREA HOMETOWN CLUB: Will meet to elect officers at 7:30 p.m. in 401 Rudder. SOCIETY OF WOMEN ENGINEERS: Will meet at 7 p.m. in 103 Zachry Engineering Center. ARCHAEOLOGY LECTURE: Frederick van Doorninck will speak at 12 p.m. in 350 MSC. UNIVERSITY LECTURE SERIES: John J. McKetta will speak at 2:30 p.m. in 102 Zachry Engineering Center. SHARE GROUP: The Student Y sponsored group will meet at 9 p.m. in the Meditation Room of the All Faiths Chapel. BRIDAL FAIR: MSC Free University will sponsor talk on “Family Planning” and a talk on “The Legal Aspects of Marriage’ at 12 p.m. and 5:30 p.m. respectively in the MSC Basement Coffeehouse. Admission is free. SOCIOLOGY CLUB: Will show part three of “Who Killed 4th Ward” at 7 p.m. in 106 Bolton Hall. AGGIE SCOUTS: Will meet at 9 p.m. in 302 Rudder. TEXAS A&M HANG GLIDING CLUB: Paul Schaffer will speak on “Powered Hang Gliding” at 7 p.m. in 104A MSC. Plans for the year-end fly-in will also be discussed. Monkeys studied for clues to aging United Press International CORVALLIS, Ore. — Scientists at Oregon State University’s school of veterinary medicine are utilizing monkeys and computers to study the aging processes of the human brain. Prof. Esturo Uemura says the space age technology gives his gov ernment-sponsored research a pre ciseness that was unavailable a few years ago in studying the processes that affect the nerve cells controlling human thought, feeling and action. Subjects of the study are rhesus monkeys — small, brownish- colored, short-tailed primates native to India — that are housed at the University of Wisconsin’s Primate Research Center in Madison. Since most of the monkeys are born and raised at the Wisconsin center, Uemura said their complete histories are known including medic al problems they may have had and what medications have been admi nistered. “With humans, you never know for sure what type of medical prob lems there were, what the medical histories were,” he said. Uemura said another reason for using rhesus monkeys is the absence of “neuro-fibrillary tangles and senile plaque in the primates’ brain tissues. The tangles and plaques are le sions, disease or injury caused altera tions of nerve cells, that often are found in old human brain tissue and also in the brain tissue of persons suffering from dementia, where the intellectual faculties have deterio rated. “It has been hypothesized that some of the aging changes we see in humans are associated with those le sions,” he said. “But I can see the same type of aging changes in the rhesus monkey which has an absence of these lesions. That seems to indi cate the neuro-fibrillary tangles have nothing to do with the aging process, but rather are a byproduct unique to the aging human brain.” “What I’m interested in, ” he adds, “are the neuronal processes and how these processes change as we get old er. A brain’s neuron (the nerve cell) is like a tree, with branches going up and roots descending down. It has been clearly established that these neurons, like a tree, continue to branch out and down as we mature. “But what happens when we reach our 70s and 80s? “My study indicates the rhesus brain continues to maintain its neuronal processes during adult hood but the shortening and debran ching of neuronal processes appears to be an inevitable phenomenon for those older monkeys over 28, which is equivalent of a human 84 years old.” Uemura also is interested in the change that occurs in the l ribonucleic acid, or RNA, asaK gets older. RNA is responsl the protein synthesis in cellhJ “In humans, we’ve found tfctl drastic decrease — about 20p« — in the amount of RNA preswf.| ■■ i the brain as we get older, part!;j|. I. ly in persons over 60. VVe’vel* the same thing happening ife monkeys, which indicates piT1' metabolic change oecuring rf neurons.” “The problem with usings - - ^ scope as your primary tool isvtjjy miss very minute changes,’ kH "It's a difficult process, evenly th e s highly trained pathologist, -e order “But with a computerized ms ybi scope, we can detect niinukc:. e I som e Gasohol tax write-off may be phony ripoff United Press International NEW YORK — The fast-buck tax shelter promoters are hopping on the gasohol bandwagon and may be reaping a golden harvest by selling phony shelter schemes to gullible in vestors. William G. Brennan, the John stown, Pa., tax shelter expert, pub lished a denunciation of gasohol manufacturing tax shelter schemes in a recent edition of Brennan Re ports. Dr. Alfred Globus, head of Guar dian Chemical Corp., of Haup- pauge, N.Y., a pioneer advocate of alcohol-gasoline fuel mixtures, told UPI he gets scores of inquiries from persons asking his advice about in vesting in tax sheltered schemes based on manufacturing gasohol. He said not one legitimate shelter has come to his attention. There is considerable debate in Washington over whether Some legi timate tax shelter should be autho rized to encourage the rapid increase of ethanol alcohol for gasohol but no thing concrete has developed. Globus manufactures a catalyst for an alcohol-gasoline fuel mixture which presently is being mixed and sold in 18 locations around the country. Globus also said some farmers who want to make alcohol on the farm and mix it with gasoline or diesel fuel have come to him for advice and he fears many of these are doomed to make serious mistakes. “The kind of distilling equipment many of these farmers can afford to buy or build simply won’t make alco hol of high enough proof to mix with gasoline or diesel oil,” he said. While it is possible for a farm oper ation to produce 200-proof any- hdrous alcohol to be mixed with gasoline without a catalyst, or 190- proof alcohol, to be used with a catalyst. Globus stressed it will not be cheap nor easy. Brennan Reports criticized news papers which carry classified adver tisements for gasohol tax shelter promotions which, he said, appeared not to have been registered with the Securities & Exchange Commission. He said the schemes usually in volve building a plant and the use of a “secret,” sometimes patented, pro cess for conversion of various subst ances into alcohol. Rarely, Brennan said, is a specific site for the proposed plant given. Among other indications that a scheme may be fraudulent, he listed the following: —The general partner has little or no experience in the alcohol or motor fuel business. — The patent protection claimed is skimpy. — No studies have been made on the possible infringement of other people’s patents. — When franchise fees are in volved, no real basis is provided for valuing the franchises. — No financing is available for building the proposed plant. — Government aid commitments are claimed but the claims are not verifiable. — Investors have to sign recourse notes due 20 years hence to get the tax writeoffs. There is no assurance these notes will not be called. But, Brennan said, on second thought, the recourse notes are no real problem since the promoter no doubt will disappear. Often, Brennan said, “there is a gimmick to permit conversion of this debt to nonrecourse notes which the investor doesn’t have to pay off. But, he commented, the IRS just won’t buy non-recourse debt as a tax shelter. ATTENTION H0RT/FL0R Majors: Mr. Charlie Schnabel of the Texas Rehabilitation Commission will be speaking on Job Opportunities in Horticultural Therapy, Tuesday, April 8 at 8:00 p.m. in 113 PSB. Everyone is welcome. He will be interviewing for state positions Wednes day morning at the Job Placement Center. Please turn in your resumes to the Center before then. of neuronal processes and Jomeont the quantity of RNA. 1 can A e d fii single nerve cell from a speak; eV eral s and I know where that neuronBjmpla from and I can tell what quanlisl^larm quality of RNA is there.’ dk>sly. "ISP undersl lut, she y would Mime. LADIES NIT# All unescorted ladies drink FREE ALL NIGHT from 8:00 to 12:00 $2 Cover Happy Hour starts at 4 p.m. with 4 FOR 1 1401 FM 2818 — Doux Chene Complex Student: s route? mmer si Jion c nnmittei The new led idea sentativ jses Inc. 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