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MONDAY
WOMEN’S SOCCER TEAM: Will meet to elect officers at 7 p.m.
in 502 Rudder.
T-STAR: Will meet at 7 p.m. in 140 MSC.
QUONSET HUT RESERVATIONS: Reservations for the fell
semester can be made starting today in the Student Activities
Office, 221 MSC. Reservation requests are open to all student
organizations on a first come, first serve basis. A user fee is
required with the reservation — $50 for events Monday through
Thursday and $75 on Friday through Sunday.
TUESDAY
WATER SKI CLUB: Will meet to elect officers and plan the
summer’s activity at 7 p.m. in 308 Rudder.
AMERICAN INSTITUTE OF CHEMICAL ENGINEERS: Will
meet at 7:30 p.m. in 103 Zachry. Jim Massey, from Dow Che
mical, will speak on process control engineering and
polyethylene research.
WEDNESDAY
EUROPE CLUB: Will meet to elect officers at 8:30 p.m. at Mr.
Gatti’s in College Station.
LIBERAL ARTS STUDENT COUNCIL: Will meet at 6 p.m. at
Dr. Lute’s house.
RENEWABLE NATURAL RESOURCE ASSOCIATION: Will
meet at 7:30 p.m. at the Alamo. Jennifer Berry will speak on
“Environmental Issues of the 80s.”
FINANCE ASSOCIATION: Will have their spring barbecue at
6:30 p.m. at Hensel Park.
BETA BETA BETA: Will meet to initiate new members at 7 p.m.
in 601 Rudder. Dr. James R. Wild will he the speaker.
MATH CLUB: Will sponsor a help session for students in Math
130, 150, 151, 152, 230, 253 and 308. The session will be held
from 7-10 p.m. in 203 and 207 Academic. Admission is $1.
Committee will look into abuses
Finals policy reviewed by Council
By JANE G. BRUST
Battalion Staff
The Texas A&M University
Academic Council Friday decided
to look into abuses of the final ex
amination policies regarding
seniors.
Dr. J.M. Prescott, vice presi
dent for academic affairs, pre
sented a proposal to clarify the fin
al exam policies. The main part of
the proposal says that if an instruc
tor chooses to give undergraduate
degree candidates a major test,
before submission of grades, this
test must be scheduled to comply
with the registrar’s schedule for
the submission of grades for gra
duating students.
However, council members
questioned the next sentence
which says: “Those (seniors) who
do not qualify for graduation on
the basis of their semester aver
ages may take the regularly sche
duled final examination in any
course in which they wish to im
prove their grade in order to meet
graduation requirements at the
next degree granting time.”
Several council members felt
that wording would enable a
senior to miss finals when he
knows he is not going to graduate.
For example, they said, a senior
whose name appears on the regis
trar’s candidate list but who knows
he will not satisfactorily pass a par
ticular class to graduate, can still
miss the final exams given in his
other classes.
Dr. Charles Samson, acting
president, said an ad hoc commit
tee will be appointed to look into
possible abuses of the finals poli
cies with the University registrar.
The council did approve num
erous other revisions in the Uni
versity Rules and Regulations, in-
Blatchley managing time
between consuming jobs
eluding a new Appendix describ
ing misdemeanor penalties for
tampering with campus fire alarm
systems.
An item concerning criminal
offenses occurring off campus, is
another approved addition to the
rules and regulations.
The item says in the case of
such an offense not connected
with a University activity, the
University will take disciplinary
action against the student in
volved only if the student’s pre
sence on campus would hinder the
educational process and the order
ly operation of the University.
A definition for the term “soli
cit” will also be added to the rules
and regulations. “Soliciting” will
be defined as advertising, selling,
taking orders or donations or col
lecting and distributing literature.
The council also approved re
commendations concerning titles
of the graduate faculty members.
For example, extension service
personnel who are on the graduate
faculty will be known as “exten
sion specialists.”
Dr. George Kunze, dean of the
Graduate College, explained that
faculty members have been
assigned several different titles
because of their work in several
different areas of the University.
The recommended titles would
simplify the identification of facul
ty members, he said.
In other action which Prescott
said was “a particular pleasure,”
council members approved candi
dates for graduate and undergra
duate degrees to be awarded in
May, as well as the first class of
candidates for the Doctor of Medi
cine degrees to be awarded in
June.
Newly-elected Bryan City
Councilman Ron Blatchley says he
sees no real possibility of any con
flicts between his role as a council
man and his job as director of stu
dent affairs at Texas A&M Univer
sity.
Blatchley, who was elected to
Place 1 of the council in a runoff
Tuesday night, said both jobs are
very time consuming but con
tends, “I believe that one of my
strengths is my ability to manage
time well.”
Blatchley won the race against
Pete Palasota with 1,415 votes
(57.6 percent) to Palasota’s 1,043
votes (42.4 percent).
“My only promise to the voters
was to study the issues carefully
and help make decisions with
their best interests in mind,”
Blatchley said.
He said the issues he is most
concerned with are the same ones
the rest of the council is concen
trating on — crime prevention,
retention of good city employees,
maintenance of streets and parks
and an adequate growth plan for
the city of Bryan.
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lolor perception problem
ften hard to determine
By RUTH GRAVES
Battalion Beporter
Each person may perceive col
ors differently. What’s more,
these perception differences may
go unnoticed since people learn to
associate color names with the way
they see colors.
However, some people, espe
cially males, have color percep-
jtion problems that are evident be-
| cause they refer to colors by the
wrong names.
About eight percent of males
and .5 percent of females have
some type of “incomplete color
blindness,” said Dr. Barry Glenn,
a Bryan opthamologist.
Although color perception
problems are typically termed
“color blindness,” few people are
actually totally blind to color, he
said. “Color weakness” more
accurately reflects the problem.
Total color blindness would cause
aperson to see everything in tones
of gray, just like black and white
movies.
Although some color weaknes
ses can be caused by certain illnes
ses or drugs, the main culprit is
heredity, Glenn said.
Color weaknesses are carried
by XY chromosomes and are re
cessive. In other words, the usual
pattern of heredity is from father
to daughter to son. There is a high
er incidence of color weakness in
males, so the trait usually bypas
ses females in the link.
The colors that most people
have difficulty in seeing accurately
are red, green and blue, Glenn
said. Weaknesses in identifying
colors are usually caught in eye
examinations where people are
asked to identify a colored number
that is surrounded by a field of
different colors.
Many people with color weak
nesses can correctly identify col
ors that are isolated; however,
when one color surrounds
another, color weaknesses can be
detected.
The Department of Public
Safety gives color tests on original
driver’s license applications, but
these tests only include red, yel
low and green, said Department
ofPublic Safety representative Pat
Dean.
If a person can’t identify one of
those colors, he doesn’t automa
tically fail the test, she said. In
stead, tests are given to make sure
the person knows the order of the
colors on traffic lights.
Although color tests are done in
conjunction with routine eye ex
ams, a person may not find out for
years that he has a color weakness.
He may not have been given a
test, or he may have a problem
with colors that are not usually in
cluded on tests.
For example, Robbie Nohrn, a
senior from New Braunfels, didn’t
know until his junior year at Texas
A&M University that he had a col
or weakness. In describing a
Corps uniform over the phone, he
said the uniform shirt was dark
brown. His clue that he had a color
weakness came when his room
mate insisted the shirt was dark
green.
Naturally, some inconveni
ences can arise because of color
weaknesses. K.T. Graves, a for
mer football coach from Katy, said
that if he hadn’t seen the officials’
red flags as they were thrown, he
couldn’t have seen them on the
ground. Graves has a color weak
ness with greens and reds.
There is no way to determine if
he perceives colors the same way
others do, he said, but his weak
ness is evident when green and
red are adjacent.
“The red just doesn’t stand
out,” he said. For example, a per
son with normal color vision
would have trouble seeing a green
golf tee in grass. This is how a red
golf tee in grass looks to Graves.
Graves also sees certain shades of
blue and green as gray.
Reds and greens are also a weak
spot for Nohrn. However, he also
confuses green with white, and
brown with green or maroon.
As might be expected, prob
lems can arise when trying to color
coordinate clothes. “The hardest
thing to do is to get a suit
together,” Nohrn said. “I get the
guys next door to do that.”
When driving at night, Nohrn
said he can’t distinguish white
street lights from green traffic
lights at a distance.
Color weaknesses can also
affect people in their occupations,
especially in the armed forces.
Although color weaknesses don’t
stop people from driving, they can
keep people from performing such
assignments as flying if the weak
ness is severe.
Two color tests are routinely
given to personnel as they enter
the armed forces.
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A&M Travel Service, Inc
The most professional, most experienced
travel consultants in the area gives you
hometown service with computerized speed.
Let us plan your trips for business
and for fun.
A&M Travel Service became the
largest travel consultants in Brazos
County by giving the best service.
Now we offer our clients SABRE, a
space age computerized service
which provides instant availabilities on
495 domestic and foreign airlines and
instant space reservations.
SABRE can confirm every detail of
your trip. And has instant recall of your
favorite departure times, seat
preference, etc.
There’s no need to call back or wait for
a call to confirm your reservations.
A&M Travel confirms your
reservations as you request them.
With the use of our computer terminal,
you can get custom travel service
every step of the way.
A&M Travel has more travel
consultants and more travel
experience than any other agent in the
area. We deliver tickets to the campus
(or elsewhere in the community) and
we follow through on the details.
For your next trip, call A&M Travel.
We’ll book your reservations and
confirm them. All in one call.
A&M Travel Service, Inc.
Owned by Keith Langford ’39 (Houston) and Diane Stribling (President and Agency Manager)
111 University Drive (in the RepublicBank A&M Building) College Station / 846-8881
We support the Aggies with an annual donation
for a 12th Man Scholarship