June 29,11; state / national Battalion/Page 5 June 29, 1982 — mmm Tuesday 1U CO-OP STUDENT ASSOCIATION There will be a Jizza party — all you can eat for $2,09 at 6 p.m. at the Pizza Inn. ITERSKI CLUB:Anyone interested is invited to a general Meeting at 7 p.m. in 305 Rudder. JNG CONSERVATIVES OF TEXAS:Dr. Steve Pejovkh discuss various topics concerning free enterprise at 7:30 |.m. in 302 Rudder. Wednesday |lINGCLUB:A general meeting will be held at 7 p.m. in 401 ludder. JJBA CLUB:Possible dive trips will be discussed in a meeting ft 8 p.m. in 402 Rudder. jDERWATER HOCKEYtBringmask, fins, snorkel, suit and owe! to the meeting (Scuba Club-sponsored) at 8 p.m. in 402 ludder. College president finds text in vault Book may revise Jewish history United Press International PHILADELPHIA — The president of Dropsie College has found a rare, handwritten book he says could be one of the most significant discoveries ever in Judaic literature, revising hun dreds of years of Jewish history. Dropsie president, David Goldenberg, was searching the rare book vault for a different volume when he found the 1- inch thick book buried beneath microfilm and manuscripts. “When I pulled it out and started to read it, I couldn’t be lieve it,” he said. “I knew what it The discovery is a long-lost handwritten manuscript that Jewish history scholars believe is the most complete record of rab binic sermons delivered in Pales tine during Jewish holy days more than 1,500 years ago. The find has tremendous im portance, he said. “This presents us with an in credible picture of a slice of life — the cultural, political and eco nomic life of this period,” he said. “From a historical point of view, it tells us about Roman campaigns through Palestine, the architectural forms of syna gogues — things just dropped in passing to fill in gaps in our his- torial background.” Only two handwritten copies of the manuscript had been known to exist and both, in uni versities in Italy, were adulter ated and incomplete, Golden berg said. “There was no third manu script as far as I knew — as far as the whole world knew,” he said, recalling the discovery. The version, he said, “is 100 percent complete and seems to preserve the original sermons.” Goldenberg found a notation in the minutes of a long-ago meeting of the school’s board of directors which said the volume was presented to Dropsie in 1920 by its owner in London. The manuscript is called the Pesiqta Rabbati, an Aramaic- language title that translates to “The Great Chapters of Ser- olumbia crew conducts ilitary, drug experiments H United Press International rphcu.^iPKCANAVERAI Fla- ■ pilots of the shuttle Gol- Ka collected a sample Mon- ay irom a machine that may made tie ad to space drug factories, but week to ilpparently had trouble with one pe secret military experi- Its conducted for the first I in orbit. ■homas “Ken” Mattingly and e mry Hartsfield also attemp- ■to photograph a mysterious Tf on the “windward” side of (spacecraft that had showed 1 /"-* C (in pictures from the shuttle’s | ^ j ird flight in March. ■he astronauts were showing Bigns of the space sickness oiilv ()nf ^Bafflicted the last space shut- private phys r t ew ’ County. IflkB > to a privatti t clinic is f he pilots opened a new ned military-in-space era he United States Sunday by ing with the Defense De ment experiment package (king primarily of an in dent testing ways to spot Jane and missile exhaust |i orbit. arly problems with the mbly forced the astronauts ;et some trouble-shooting iJ ce radio from an Air P ' ’ free control center in Califor- the newer.* Defense Departmenl of fi. piogia 11 D hoped to avoid public ntdothat»p r r to be as fad ^Chemical wide. e extent, al| th services- - will be peiij funding foi| in Texas lot lion this fiscal 20 percent ft impting a n veness amotisl health de| icer Mary discussion of the payload opera tion. Mattingly was contacted by an anonymous controller in the military center again Monday. It was a cryptic conversation, ob viously designed to avoid dis closing operation of the secret payload, but the astronaut was told to remove covers and look for one experiment operating in the cargo bay behind the cockpit. He followed the instructions but told mission control at 10:20 a.m. EDT, “So far, I’ve had no j°y-” The space medicine job in volved an experimental device designed to take advantage of the lack of gravity in orbit to con centrate and purify valuable biological materials useful in fighting disease and overcoming biological deficiencies. Mattingly and Hartsfield had two soupy substances to work with. One was an attempt to separate complex proteins cal led albumins from a mixture. The contents of the other sam ple was a commercial secret. After collecting the first of six samples from the drug proces sor, Hartsfield reported seeing “very small bubbles” in the speci men collection tube. But he said he could see the substances separating. When Hartsfield first turned on the machine, he reported hearing “an awful clatter” in one of the fans in the device. “It sounded like a screw was loose in there bouncing along in the fan,” he said. He turned it off and then on again and it worked normally. The astronauts sounded chip per when they started their day Monday. “We’re ready to go to work,” Mattingly told mission control at 4:55 a.m. EDT as the Columbia cruised around the Earth on the 13th orbit of the planned 112- orbit voyage — its fourth flight in 15 months. Houston control had radioed' up a few strains of “Up, Up and Away” to wake the spacemen, but they already were up and about the spaceship. Mission controllers reported Monday all systems were operat ing normally. The Columbia is flying high er, at 185 miles, than it has be fore and it is heavier, at 114 tons. The prime objective of the seven-day mission is to clear the way for operational missions be ginning in November when Col umbia is to launch two com munications satellites for its first paying customers. The military instruments aboard the shuttle prompted the first radio communications be tween the shuttle and an Air Force satellite control center lo cated at Sunnyvale, Calif. It was an unplanned session made necessary late Sunday when Mattingly encountered problems in activating the hush- hush payload. The mission com mander, a Navy captain, twice held a cryptic conversation with an Air Force controller. Neither the Air Force nor the civilian space agency will discuss the military payload, but both agreed before launch to make all radio communications public, even if it involved discussion of the Air Force instruments. Although the Air Force ex periments are classified “secret,” they once were not classified and have been discussed in public documents. 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