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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.
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