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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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