Page 6 THE BATTALION WEDNESDAY, MARCH 4, 1981 Local Debate team places first, defeats five SWC teams By COLETTE HUTCHINGS Battalion Reporter Texas A&M University’s varsity debate team placed first in the Southwest Conference Debate Tournament Sunday. This is the first time since 1959 that Texas A&M has won the tour nament. The team defeated five confer ence teams, including Baylor Uni versity, Texas Tech University, the University of Houston, the University of Texas and the Uni versity of Arkansas. Texas Tech hosted the 10-hour tournament. Mike Shelby, a senior from Vic toria and Ruby Daniels, a sopho more from San Antonio, both members of the varsity debate team, won first place for Texas A&M in the negative division of the debate. The debate centered on argu ments about the United States sig nificantly increasing its foreign military commitments. Daniels was the second place speaker in the tournament. Junior varsity team members Jeff Rouse, a freshman from Bryan and Mike Feeny, a sophomore from Santa Fe, N.M., placed third for Texas A&M in the affirmative division. The tournament was judged by debate coaches from the South west Conference. Wayne Kraemer, director and coach for the debate team, said the team has received an invitation to participate in the “Heart of Amer ica” debate tournament at the University of Kansas March 7-9. “This is one of the oldest and most prestigious tournaments,” Kraemer said. The director said the invitation is usually extended to the top de- Small cars helped less by barriers By KATHLEEN WIATREK Battalion Reporter As smaller car numbers in crease, so does the concern that auxiliary safety structures, such as breakaway signs, crash cushions and guard rails may not protect small cars as well as loaded trailer trucks. “Roadside auxiliary structures are designed for 2,500-4,500 pound cars,” said Dr. Don Ivey, assistant director of the Texas Transportation Institute at Texas A&M University. Ivey said that car buyers who want the good fuel economy of the mini-compact weighing in at around 1,600 pounds should real ize that they are sacrificing crash safety. Ivey said that in a crash, the smaller the car, the lower the strength of the structure. Passen gers have less protection in smal ler cars, as well as less stability, Ivey said. But along with the increase of smaller cars, truck numbers are increasing. Of all vehicles on American highways in 1978, 83 percent were passenger cars and 17 percent were trucks. Safety statistics pro ject that by 1990, only 68 percent of all vehicles will be passenger cars, Ivey said. With more trucks on the roads, there has been pressure to legalize heavier and larger trucks. High way engineers are feeling national pressure to develop bridge and guard rails to accommodate large vehicles, Ivey said. “It is difficult to design safety structures for everyone on the highway,” Ivey said. “They aren’t designed for motorcycles, and are just now being designed for mini compacts.” There is a need for barrier sys tems that will work for the mini compact car and large trucks, Ivey said. The rigidity of bridge rails is a problem to smaller vehicles. More flexibility can be provided in a dual system where there is a flexi ble rail for the smaller vehicles and a more rigid rail for trucks and buses. But high performance barriers cost three to five times more than conventional barriers, Ivey said. Ivey predicted a gradual change in the design of auxiliary safety structures for small cars as new highways are built. But structures built within the last 10 years are still relatively good structures, he said. bate schools in the country. Har vard University, Dartmouth Col lege and Northwestern University are some of the schools that will participate, Kraemer said. The varsity team, Kraemer said, hopes to receive an invitation to the National Debate Tourna ment which will be held at Califor nia Polytechnic University in April. Kraemer said there are two ways a team can qualify for the national tournament: — The NDT Committee awards five first round bids to winners of district tournaments. — Nine second round bids are given to the highly seeded teams who fail to qualify in their districts. The team is optimistic about its chances to receive a bid, Kraemer said. The team’s won-loss record for this academic year is 67-31, he said. If the varsity team receives a bid to the national tournament, it will be the first time Texas A&M has been represented, Kraemer said. Ono-Lennon single being released By LAURA HATCH Battalion Reporter Yoko Ono-Lennon has released a new single, and another album of John Lennon’s work may be on the way. Lennon died Dec. 8, 1980, after he was shot outside his New York apartment. Lennon and Ono were in the process of mixing an album at the time of his death, said a spokesman for Sam Goody’s, a record store in New York. However, he was un sure if the album will be released. Yoko has released a single entitled “Walking on Thin Ice,” expected to sell in the top five in New York, the Sam Goody’s spokesman said. Ono’s new single may be in demand as memorabilia because the couple were working on it the day Lennon was shot, KTAM disc jockey Tom Kelly said. Both the words and the music are Ono’s, he said, but “the guitar track is his.” Lennon had just finished the track the day he died, Kelly said. “It’s the best thing she’s ever done, but it won’t get the air play,” Kelly said. “Walking on Thin Ice” was released ab out two weeks ago in New York. It should be in local record stores in two or three days, Jeff Mayer of the local Musicland store said. Sales of the “Double Fantasy” album by Lennon and Ono “just went through the roof,” immediately following Lennon’s death, the Sam Goody spokesman said. Be fore his death, sales were not going well. As soon as the album came out Lennon fans flocked to buy it, but sales slowed down until after Lennon died. His violent death and media coverage of it influenced the market a great deal, Mayer said. Sales in the College Station area have dipped now, he said, but for about three weeks after Lennon’s death, stores couldnl get copies of “Double Fantasy.” Other Lennon and Beatle albums have picked up in sales since Lennon’s death, Mayer said. “Abbey Road, “RubberSoul, “The Beatles 1964-1966” and the “Beatles 1967-1970” are selling better now, hesaid Lennon’s “Shaved Fish” album, released in 1975, is a steady seller now, Buck Janies of Budget Records and Tapes said. Other than the night of Lennon’s death, there haven ’t been many requests for local radio stations to play his or the Beatles music, Kelly said. There were more re quests for Lennon’s “Double Fantasy" works when he was alive, he said. energy, saver/ C ACCl/tf AV wiiftili C Wrl 1 Manor House Whole Grade 'A # Fresh Fryers r MANOR HOUSE FRESH FRYER PARTS! 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