Local
THE BATTALION Page 3
WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 30, 1981
andling stress in college life
Group therapy helps students
DanSKIN Headquarters
A Complete Line of Danskin Dancewear
For Men & Women
Junior Misses & Pre-Teen Fashions
Manor East Mall
779-6718
Bryan, Texas
By CATHY ANDERSON
Battalion Eeporter
The task of coping with every
day stress can be made simpler
with a little help from some
friends. For exanple, group coun
seling sessions af Texas A&M Uni
versity’s Personal Counseling Ser
vice can help students cope with
stress caused by college life.
Larry Roe, Personal Counsel
ing Service assistant director, said
group therapy helps students
learn how to deal with life. In
groups people have to learn how
to give and take, he said.
Group situations also help stu
dents develop social skills by hav
ing them share their experiences
among other people who have
similar concerns. Roe said.
The PCS offers 13 group ses
sions on such topics as stress man
agement and eating behavior con
trol.
Roe said some of the most popu
lar groups are the graduate stu
dent group, the women in transi
tion group, the relaxation training
group and the personal growth
group.
The biggest advantage in using
group therapy is that service can
be offered almost immediately,
Roe said.
The PCS has a waiting list for
individual counseling. After a pre
liminary appointment, a student
may have to wait up to six weeks to
begin counseling.
Roe said group counseling ses
sions are also economical in terms
of time because counselors can see
more people at once.
However, some people don’t
work well in groups, Roe said.
“Some students tend to fade into
the woodwork or monopolize the
group,” he said. Individual coun
seling is offered for these stu
dents.
Roe said the PCS counselors
spend about three-fourths of their
time in individual counseling ses
sions. Some problems faced by
students lend themselves to more
intense involvement than a group
can give, he said.
Generally, as people progress
through individual counseling,
they are moved into groups, Roe
said, they can learn how to in
teract with others, he said.
Students interested in group 1
participation or who have a parti
cular concern and would like to
discuss it with a counselor can con
tact the PCS. The service is lo
cated in the basement of the
YMCA Building.
ScM research funds hit record total
Research funding at Texas
A&M University during fiscal year
1981 totaled a record $84.4 mil-
lioii, for an increase of more than
512 million over the previous
year, announced Dr. Frank E.
Vandiver, Texas A&M president.
(Texas A&M’s total of $71.8 mil-
for research in 1980 ranked
among universities in Texas
the Southwest, according to
(illations compiled by the Na-
lal Science Foundation. The
lual NSF survey also has shown
fas A&M to have ranked among
nation’s top 20 research and
development institutions for the
past decade.
Vandiver said he was pleased
with Texas A&M’s volume and
growth, but he said he was even
more gratified by the underlying
confidence expressed in the Uni
versity and by the quality and
potential of many of the individual
projects.
“You have to be pleased when
you are among the leaders nation
ally, and the growth rate for re
search here is certainly healthy,”
Vandiver said, “but I take even
greater pride in the fact that offi
cials and representatives of so
many different agencies and orga
nizations — public and private —
have expressed such confidence in
the ability of our faculty members
and other researchers.
“That confidence, of course,
seems to me to be well founded. I
continue to be impressed with the
quality and breadth of research
here and the potential for solving
some of the pressing problems of
today and enhancing man’s basic
knowledge. ”
The federal government con
tinued to account for the largest
share of support at $38.4 million,
up from $31.9 million last year.
The largest percentage increase.
however, was in funding from pri
vate organizations, which in
creased almost 50 percent — from
$8.3 million to $12.3 million.
ggie engineers
ire machine search
hey called it “Doug’s folly”
n Douglas Kaspar of Shiner
|tacted an engineering labora-
at Texas A&M University, his
a mater, and asked them to
d a machine that exists no-
3re else in the world.
Executives at Kaspar Wire
rks Inc. of Shiner had searched
an advanced computer-
trolled, wire-forming machine
would control the movement
wire off a giant spool and
)ugh rollers, formers and cut-
We looked worldwide for a
bhine of this capability and it
ply didn’t exist,” said Kaspar,
b graduated from Texas A&M
t year. His father, Donald G.
Spar, Class of‘49, is president of
wire works.
The Kaspar plant makes display
p, wire grills, soft drink racks,
'* [guards and baskets, and their
e 2-3 11 Irch for the wire-forming
ns "l fchine is over: the machine is
tag readied for production.
The machine was developed by
tar Robert Young, an assistant
ifessor of industrial engineering
exas A&M, and his students in
fe industrial automation labora-
intS*'
In the lab, miniature machine
tools are constructed using plastic
parts from West German toymak-
er to simulate full-scale factory
machines that can cost millions of
dollars. Computerized controls
and stepping motors make the
miniature machines work like the
real thing.
Young assigned graduate stu
dent Gus Reid of Dayton, Ohio,
prime responsibility for develop
ing the Kaspar machine as a pro
ject for a special problems course.
Several other students helped in
the work.
Kaspar Wire Works bought the
microcomputer system needed for
the project and loaned it to the
Texas A&M lab for development
of the software.
“We created the design so that
an operator doesn’t have to have
any computer knowledge. The
program checks for errors automa
tically,” Young said. “The oper
ator feeds in data on how much
wire to feed, where to make the
bends and cuts, how many parts to
make and the machine does the
rest. ”
“The computer doesn’t know
whether it is working with a model
or the real thing,” Young ex
plained. “We can ‘de-bug’ soft
ware systems for computer
machine control at a fraction of the
cost of doing it the normal way.”
Plastic toy models of tools are
essential in testing the theory.
Young said. “Nobody is going to
give us a $1 million piece of equip
ment to work with while we test
our assumptions,” he said. Young
built his first plastic machine tool
while as assistant professor at
Wayne State University.
The small machine tools also are
used to teach students about a new
tool that is revolutionizing indus
try — robots.
General Electric and the
Vought Corp. have also worked
with Young’s lab on creation of
new machines.
SPIRIT BANDANNA
Ideal for:
• Waving at sporting events
• Wall decorations
• Gifts
• Promotional give-a-ways
• Fashion wear/head scarf
Featuring:
• Authentic school colors
• Colorfast
• 22* x 22'
Please send .
Bandanna (s) at
| $3.98 each, plus 50* for postage
| School Name (s).
■ Name
' Address
| City
I Zip
■ C
Send check or money order to:
I Janco Ltd.
| P.O. Box 59862 Dallas, Texas 75229 |
67cp
Enlarger
NEW...
A Beseler enlarger
for people with
small budgets and
small spaces.
Now you can have famed Beseler quality at a
very affordable price! And the new Beseler
67CP enlarger is also the most compact
Beseler ever... ideal for advanced darkroom
workers with limited space too!
■ Makes prints up to 11" x 14" on easel.
■ Accepts negatives and si ides from 110 thru
6 x 7cm.
■ Compact—just 14" x 1834" of counter space
needed.
■ Standard condenser head ideal for black-
and-white and color too.
■ Available with Dichro 67 colorhead.
■ Rugged die-cast construction.
■ Includes interchangeable lensboard and
35mm negative carrier.
With 50 mm f/3.5 enlarging lens,
and 35 mm negative carrier,
interchangeable lens board
$
179
95
With optional Dichro 67 col
orhead.
$219«
pm1A
“Color Analyzer
$ 17550
Prices through
Sat., Oct. 3 only.
PHOTO & CAMERA, INC.
1603 S. Texas Ave. — Culpepper Plaza — 693-1402
‘Professional Assistance & Service With Every Sale.
gipk"
Jjtotrf'
.
siT-
f
ft
PRE-LAW SOCIETY
Reception for Law School Deans
From
Boston College Law School
Loyola Law School (New Orleans)
New York Law School
Washington Univ. Law School
(St. Louis, Mo.)
WEDNESDAY, SEPT. 30
ROOM #145 MSC
7:30 - 9 p.m.
The "New" LSAT will be discussed
Basketball Shoes. Why Not The Best?
laws
Sitae Storied
Culpepper Plaza
M-Thurs. 10-8
Fri.-Sat. 10-6
p Ojsiy
Va ilabjZ n . Vas Hi-Tn
SIZES: 6V2 to 12, 13 (not all styles).
PRICED: 19.99 to 49.99 according to style.