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Page 6 THE BATTALION WEDNESDAY, MARCH 11. 1981 Local Aggies polled favor later drinking hours By WAYNE COOK . Battalion Reporter A recent Student Government survey shows a majority of Texas A&M University students polled are in favor of extending College Station drinking hours. Of the 1,209 responses, 1,060 students, 87.6 percent, favored extending College Station drink ing hours on weekends. And 63 percent, 762 of those questioned, favored extending the hours every night. Additional results indicated that 37 percent of the respondents are against extending drinking hours every night, and 12.4 per cent are against any extension of the current hours. Drinking hours in College Sta tion are currently 10 a. m. to mid night Monday through Thursday, 10 a. m. to 1 a. m. Friday and Satur day, and noon until midnight Sun day. But a proposal currently being considered by the College Station City Council calls for drinking hours to be extended to 2 a.m. every night. The distribution of students re sponding to the survey was: 22.1 percent freshmen, 23.2 percent sophomores, 23.4 percent juniors, 26.2 percent seniors, and 5.1 per cent graduate students. Student Government is plan ning to submit the survey results, taken Feb. 23 to 25 in the Memo rial Student Center, to the council. The proposal came to the atten tion of Student Government through its liaison to city council, said Sue Vito, the student senator in charge of the survey. Vito said Student Government wanted to present students’ views to the city council and have num bers to back them up. “We knew it (the proposal) would directly affect students, and that it was something they would be interested in,” she said. Student Government voted to Researcher says krill are valuable By FRANK L. CHRISTL1EB Battalion Reporter Krill, crustaceans which are ma jor sources of food for whales, are some of the most important living resources in Antarctica, the chair man of the Scientific Commission for Antarctic Research said Tues day night. George Knox, currently travel ing to different universities doing Antarctic research, spoke in the Langford Architecture Center to 17 members of the newly formed Environmental Awareness and Action Committee. Krill, small shrimp-like organ isms ranging, from microscopic size to five inches, make up about 50 percent of Antarctic plankton. Although whales and other pre dators such as seals and penguins, which are all considered to be valuable living resources, con sume a large number of these tiny creatures, krill are still abundant in Antarctic waters. Krill play a large role in the Antarctic food chain and in the overall economy of the world’s col dest continent, he said. Not only do they supply food for various Antarctic predators, but the high- protein plankton are also caught, processed and sold on world mar kets. Knox said an estimated 43 mil lion tons a year of krill are eaten by whales in Antarctic seas, and ab out 64 million tons are consumed each year by seals in the area. Overall, more than 200 million tons of krill are eaten each year by predators in Antarctic waters. He said one major problem in volving the use of krill is that they must be processed soon after they are caught. Several methods of processing have been tried. One of them is pressure cooking the krill for a few minutes right after they are caught. Knox said the seas around Antarctica keep high levels of pro ductivity because of many living resources. He said many of the processes of the world’s oceans are controlled by activities in Antarc tic waters. Knox said other resources that may be exploited in Antarctica are coal and oil. He said it may be difficult to recover coal there be cause of the intense cold. However, Knox said, there is potential for oil exploitation in Antarctica within the next 10 years favor the proposed every-night ex tension pending the results of the survey. A petition favoring the proposition also was available along with the survey. The petition gained 1,008 sign atures. Although Student Government originally believed the proposal to extend drinking hours would be considered at the Feb. 26 meeting of city council, the proposal was not on the agenda of that meeting, and it is uncertain when the coun cil will discuss it. Math jobs competitive, but plentiful By NANCY FLOECK Battalion Reporter High-paying jobs in industry and business are luring mathematicians away from universities, said a Texas A&M University professor. Industry and business jobs for mathematicians pay more at the entry level, but in the long-run those jobs seldom pay more than that of a full-time professor, said Dr. H. Elton Lacey, head of the math department at Texas A&M. “They’re going to industry because the initial salaries are anywhere to twice as much as they would make entering the academic world,” Lacey said. “But as they go on in years, unless they move into management, selling or marketing ... then their salaries would tend to top out somewhere around that of a good, full-time professor. ” Lacey said this demand in industry has aggravated the shortage of competent math instructors in public schools, colleges and universities. Because of this shortage in public schools, many students enter college without having mastered the basics of algebra, Lacey said, so university math faculty have to spend time teaching what should have been learned in high school. The shortage of math teachers in public schools has been prevalent for several years, he said, but it’s just beginning to surface at the college level. “A lot of state colleges can probably no longer get Ph. D. s, where a few years ago they could,” Lacey said. “They’re back down looking for people with master’s degrees.” This shortage is not only in the teaching profession; there are one-fourth more jobs for people with docto rate degrees in math than there are applicants, Lacey said. A 1980 survey by the American Mathematical Society said the ratio of applicants to jobs is .73-to-l, The number of students majoring in math began decreasing in the late ’60s and early and mid ’70s, when jobs for mathematicians became scarce, Lacey said. Computer science curriculums also became common around that time. “Once they started up they automatically siphoned off at least half of the people who were majoring in mathematics. Very few people major in math nowa days,” Lacey said. Texas A&M has about 100 math majors, he said. Potential math majors may have been discouraged in the past by stories of a lack of jobs in the field — a situation that no longer exists, Lacey said. 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