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BIOCHEMISTRY SOCIETY: Will meet at 7:30 p.m. in 607 Rudder.
TYLER HOMETOWN CLUB: Will meet at 7 p.m. in 109 Military
Sciences.
STUDENT AGGIE CLUB: Will meet at 8 p.m. in the Letterman’s
Lounge, G. Rollie White Coliseum.
MANAGEMENT SOCIETY: Will meet at 6:30 p.m. in 105 Har
rington.
AGRICULTURAL ECONOMICS: The club will meet at 7:30 p. m. in
108 Harrington.
AGRONOMY SOCIETY: Will meet at 7:15 p.m. in 103 Soil and Crop
Sciences-Entomology Center.
ENGINEERING TECHNOLOGY SOCIETY: Will meet at 7:30 p. m.
in 200 Heldenfels.
MSC MBA/LAW DAY COMMITTEE: Will meet at 7 p.m. in the
MSC Council Conference Room, 216 MSC.
RESIDENCE HALL ASSOCIATION: Will meet at 7 p.m. in 204
y Harrington.
BONFIRE CUTTING CLASS: Will begin at 5 p.m. in the Animal
Husbandry Pavilion. A card will be required at the cutting site.
SADDLE & SIRLOIN CLUB: Will meet at 7 p.m. in 118 Kleberg.
WILDLIFE BIOLOGY ASSOCIATION: Will meet at 7:30 p.m. in
321 Physics.
RECREATION AND PARKS: The club will meet at 7 p.m. in 140A
MSC.
SILVER TAPS: The ceremony will begin at 10:30 p.m. in front of the
Academic Bldg. The last shuttle bus will run at 11 p.m.
BIOCHEMISTRY SOCIETY: Will meet at 7:30 p.m. in 607 Rudder.
CORPUS CHRISTI AREA HOMETOWN CLUB: Will meet at 7:30
p.m. in 200 Harrington.
CATHOLIC STUDENT ASSOCIATION: The Nursing Home com
mittee will meet at 7:30 p.m. at St. Mary’s Student Center and a
Bible study will be held at 9 p.m. in Corps Area Lounge E.
OFF-CAMPUS AGGIES: Will meet at 6:30 p.m. in 267 G. Rollie
White.
PHI THETA KAPPA ALUMNI ASSOCIATION: Will meet to elect
officers at 7 p.m. in 104A Zachry.
HANG GLIDING CLUB: Will meet at 7 p.m. in 701 Rudder.
WEDNESDAY
TEXAS A&M PARACHUTE CLUB: Will meet at 7:30 p.m. in 110
Military Sciences.
HILLEL CLUB: Will meet for country-western dancing at 6:30 p.m.
in the Hillel Jewish Student Center.
SOCIETY OF WOMEN ENGINEERS: Will meet at 7 p.m. in 103
Zachry.
PROFESSIONAL CAREER PLANNING IN AGRICULTURE
DAY: Will be held from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. in 201 MSC.
EUROPE CLUB: Will meet at 8:30 p.m. at Mr. Gatti’s in College
Station.
SOCIOLOGY CLUB: Will meet at 6:30 p.m. in 104 Bolton.
RUSSIAN CLUB: Will meet to elect officers at 7 p.m. in 704A Rudder.
STUDENTS FOR ED CLARK: Will meet at 8 p.m. in 203 Har
rington.
PRE-VET SOCIETY: Will meet at 7:30 p.m. in 321 Physics.
CATHOLIC STUDENT ASSOCIATION: The Welcoming commit
tee will meet at 6 p.m. at 4300 F Boyett, and the Newman Club and
the foreign students will meet at 7:30 p.m., both at St. Mary’s
Student Center.
WOODSTOCK”: Features performances by The Who, Joan Baez,
Jimi Hendrix, Santana and Arlo Guthrie. The Film will he shown at
7:30 p.m. in Rudder Theater.
BONFIRE CUTTING CLASS: Will begin at 5 p.m. at the Animal
Husbandry Pavilion. A card will be required at the cutting site.
TAMU SPORTS CAR CLUB: Will meet at 7:30 p.m. in 202 Francis.
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Rain-making studied at A&M
Seeding method stimulates cloud reaction, increases crop productivity
By MARCY BOYCE
Battalion Staff
Weather across most of the South
west last summer was one big re-run
— sunny, hot and no rain.
Few farmers escaped substantial
losses due to the 100-plus degree
temperatures that had become the
norm for the heat wave. Long before
any county was ever declared a fed
eral disaster area, you can bet far
mers were wishing they had some
magical seed or a rain-making recipe
to bring long-awaited relief to their
wilting crops.
Dr. James Scoggins, head of the
meteorology department at Texas
A&M University, has such a recipe,
and for the past five years has been
researching weather modification on
the High Plains of West Texas in Big
Spring.
As part of the High Plains Cooper
ative Experiment (HIPLEX) re
search team, Scoggins has been
trying to learn how to increase rain
fall by flying into clouds at altitudes
close to 20,000 feet and sprinkling
them with silver iodide and carbon
dioxide (dry ice) particles, a process
called seeding. Silver iodide and car
bon dioxide are the two most com
mon agents used for seeding.
The two chemicals cause cloud
particles to freeze. This in turn
Off-Campus
Ags making
bonfire plans
OfF-Campus Aggies will have a
bonfire slide show tonight at 6:30
p.m. in 267 G. Rollie White Col
iseum.
“The structure, the cutting site,
the function of redpots, and other
things about bonfire will be ex
plained,” Paula Sorrells, OCA presi
dent, said.
Bonfire redpots will be in charge
of the presentation that is designed
to give off-campus students a chance
to take part in this year’s bonfire acti
vities, Sorrells said.
Interested students can sign up af
ter the presentation.
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would ' ,e i. ille purpose of the survey is to
nted by s,i ^!!)f are the results with those of the
h. 80 census to see if an undercount
jjjthe College Station population
Incurred in these areas.
: Surveyors will be around apart-
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causes smaller particles to evapo
rate, Scoggins said. Moisture conde
nses on the ice particles and as they
grow, gravity pulls them down,
creating a rain shower.
“If we can make it rain even a half
inch at the right time during the
growth of a crop, we can increase
productivity by several million dol
lars,” he said.
But, reassuring those who fear
weather modification could encroach
a little too far upon mother nature’s
domain, the HIPLEX scientific
adviser said the researchers are not
anticipating a year-round program.
“We’re not looking to alter total
rainfall very much ... but just at the
time when crops need it so badly and
a little bit of rain could make a big
difference in productivity. It’s a mat
ter of seeding on a few select occa
sions during growing season,’’ Scog
gins said.
But at its present stage, he said,
HIPLEX is not yet operative. It is a
research effort by the U.S. Depart
ment of Interior, the State of Texas
Department of Water Resources,
the Water and Power Resources Ser
vice in Denver, the Water District in
Big Spring, Texas A&M, Texas Tech
University, the Colorado Interna
tional Corp. and the National Center
for Atmospheric Research in Boul
der, Colo.
At the beginning, Scoggins said,
the research team expected it to take
10 years to prove or disprove that
clouds could be altered effectively.
Five years later and half way to the
end, he said the hypothesis is defi
nitely provable.
“We now know we can alter the
properties of clouds. We now know
what makes some clouds form and
others not. ”
Scoggins said some clouds natural
ly produce rain, so seeding would
have no effect on them. Others will
not produce rain under any circums
tances, seeded or not.
The purpose of HIPLEX’s present
research, then, is to identify that
small percentage of clouds which
would produce rain only if seeded, to
seed them and make them grow to
increase rainfall — a “big step,”
Scoggins said. And, he said, Texas
A&M students have played a parti
cularly vital role in this stage of the
research.
HIPLEX has been a “highly pro
ductive program in terms of student
participation,” Scoggins said, “and
they’ve made a tremendous contri
bution.”
Last year 19 students from at least
eight different departments were
hired to participate in the program.
After a fairly extensive program on
campus, the students were on loca
tion for two months in Big Spring.
They were primarily responsible for
collecting data of atmospheric condi
tions, processing the data and mak
ing forecasts used to determine suit
able seeding conditions.
They then returned to the Univer
sity to further analyze the data they
obtained while in the field, to con
clude why clouds formed, why they
didn’t and what possible effects seed
ing might have had on them.
In addition to the students, the
public also has been supportive of
the research effort, Scoggins said.
“We’ve had almost no adverse
reactions; rather the opposite.
We’ve had good public support for
what we re doing because people see
its potential,” he said.
Weather modification research,
although relatively new to the Uni
versity, has been around since 1947.
It is being used regularly to increase
the snow pack over the Sierra Moun
tains and to dissipate cold fogs over
airports in Utah and Alaska.
As for HIPLEX’s research, Scog
gins said, “There is no question that
it will be used. It’s only a matter of
time.”
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