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January 18,
Around town
Engineering students get awards
Seven teams of engineering students from Texas A&M
received national recognition for course projects entered in
the James F. Lincoln Arc Welding Foundation Engineering
Design Competition for 1982.
Awards go to graduate and undergraduate students for
their design work on a product, structure, mechanical device
or research project where arc welding has a significant con
tribution to cost reduction and improvement. Entries for the
35th year of competition were judged by a panel of educa
tors and professional engineers.
An award for $250 went to the team of Gary Feger, Tim
Koehn, Kirk Duncan, and Tony Marshall for their project
entitled “Pumping with Compressed Air.” Their advisor was
Dr. Ed Red of the mechanical engineering department.
Six $100 awards went to:
— Kevin Hielscher, Ronald Conklin, Randall Averitte,
Debbie Reimer and Richard Roeth for their project “Design
for Manipulator to Complement the Puma 500.” Advisers
were Dr. J. George Thompson and Ben Mooring.
— David McCall, Mike Briggs, Frank Jaime, Charles
James and Gordon Townsend for “Design of Manipulator
Arm for Plasma Spray Unit.” Their adviser was Dr. Mogens
Henriksen.
— Tom Patton, Deborah Riggs, Mary Louise Collins,
and John Scherrer for “Manually Driven Traveling Plat
form.” Thompson was their advisor.
— Steve Parker, Mark Hagan, Carl Bradshaw, William
D. Wightman and Dan York for “Rail Car Unloading Sys
tem.” Their adviser was John J. Engblom.
— Alejandro P. Lachica, Donald L. Snowden, Mark A.
Smith, and Richard R. Janert for their project “Cylindrical
Inspection Gripper.” Advisers were Mooring and
Thompson.
Engineering accepts $15,000 gift
The NL Foundation of Houston has given $ 15,000 to Texas
A&M for use in its engineering programs.
William, Welch, president of NL Baroid, a subsidiary firm,
and James A. Eckel, director of personnel for NL Industries
Inc., presented the check to Texas A&M President Frank
Vandiver.
A portion of the gift will be used to provide three $2,500
scholarships for senior engineering students.
NL Industries includes divisions specializing in chemicals
and in oilfield equipment and service.
Student gets sea grant internship
A 1 exas A&M graduate student and former Peace Corps
volunteer has been selected to receive one of 10 internships
sponsored nationally this year by the National Sea Grant
Program.
Rebecca Rootes, a political science major, will work in
Washington with the minority council of the House Mer
chant Marine and Fisheries Committee.
Rootes is a graduate of Southhampton College and is
studying for a master’s degree at Texas A&M. She is current
ly an assistant marine extension agent where she administers
a shrimp tagging project operated by the Sea Grant and the
National Marine Fisheries Service. She is a former Peace
Corps volunteer to the Philippines.
Vandiver elected to A AC board
Texas A&M University President Frank E. Vandiver has
been elected a member of the board of directors for the
Association of American Colleges.
AAC, founded in 1915, promotes liberal learning
throughout higher education in the United States. The asso
ciation, based in Washington D.C., provides a variety of
services, reports and publications to the 575 public and
private universities that comprise its membership.
Dr. Vandiver’s appointment to the AAC board was
announced at the association’s 63rd annual meeting current
ly in progress in Washington.
1 he AAC board is chaired by Dr. Stanley F. Paulson, dean
of liberal arts at Pennsylvania State University.
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McDonald or call Tracey Taylor at 845-2611.
Now
you know
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debunks the myth that American
wives are passive, prudish and
unwilling bed partners with their
husbands.
Findings of the Ladies’ Home
Journal survey of its readers are
in an article in the February issue
of the magazine.
Eighty percent said their sex
ual relationships were satisfying
and their marriages happy.
I hree-quarters said their mar
riages are still romantic and 78
percent said sex is important in
their marriages.
Ninety-five percent said they
sometimes initiate lovemaking,
and 82 percent said they did so by
pulling their husbands into their
arms and kissing them.
Eighty-three percent said they
wished they had more time to
make love.
Only 21 percent said they had
ever had an extramarital affair,
compared with 26 percent of the
women who told the 1953 Alfred
C. Kinsey study of female sexual
ity they had been unfaithful by
age 40.
The magazine research was
based on a 103-question, six-
page questionnaire that
appeared in its June 1982 issue.
Most of the 83,000 readers who
responded are 25 to 44 years old
and have been married an aver
age of 12 years. Sixty-six percent
have children, 68 percent hold
outside jobs and 69 percent live
in suburbs or in cities with under
1 million population. Most are
well-educated and their com
bined household incomes range
from $20,000 to $40,000 a year.
Thousands put
their fingers on it.
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Court declines prayer case
United Press International
WASHINGTON — The Sup
reme Court Monday declined to
get involved in the quagmire of
school prayer, refusing to re
view a Texas case where stu
dents were allowed to use clas
srooms to pray after school
hours.
The justices rejected an
appeal by the Lubbock school
system on a ruling striking down
its “equal access” policy allowing
voluntary student religious
groups the same right to use
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classrooms as non-religious
organizations.
The court’s action came three
days after a federal judge in Ala
bama let stand state laws allow
ing teacher-led prayers in public
schools on grounds the Sup
reme Court had misread history
when it banned such prayer 21
years ago.
Two dozen senators had
urged the high court to hear the
case to clear up “turmoil and
confusion” across the nation ab
out the prayer issue. Legislators
said pending legislation to strip
federal courts of their power to
decide voluntary school prayer
cases is the result of “a wide
spread perception” that the
courts are "hostile to religion.”
Sen. Mark Hatfield, R-Ore.,
said last week that he is planning
to introduce a bill Congress to
permit Bible studies and prayer
groups in classrooms during off-
hours.
The Lubbock Civil Liberties
Union in 1979 challenged the
school district’s practice of
allowing Bible readings, a
period of silent prayer ended by
“Amen” over the school public
address system, and classroom
prayers led by teachers.
The civil liberties group also
sought to end such practices as
distribution of Gideon Bibles to
students and assemblies with
evangelical speakers.
The schools discontinued
some practices, including the Bi
ble giveaway, but said it would
not ban “open prayer.” The
school district continued allow
ing voluntary student groups,
including religious ones, to meet
before or after regular school
hours in classrooms.
The school district said the
practice would “encourage the
development of leadership.
communicative skills,au||
and cultural awareness."
But the civil liberties
said the policy violatedsit_
First Amendment rrB
rights.
A trial court reji
group’s challenges. Bi
U.S. Circuit Court of
reversed, holding tl
advanced religion by
“recognition of religious'
ties and meetings as an
part of the district’sexi
tular program.”
Also, the court said,
the school facilities for
pei vised religious meetii
unconstitutional en
with religion.
Appealing to the
Court, the school system
that its policy was“neua
“non-preferential.”
Saying the outcome
case will affect 40 miUkcl
dents and 90,000 publicscl
Lubbock officials daimel
appeals court treated a pp r0 ximat<
iai constitutional prodBnjtted '
forbidding public schodfl. •
allowing the same freesBpT r,
on school propertv * ond “ 00 J
allowed to miners enter. Stud
In December 1981,tlrB ou t car
court ruled that studentrg|
at public universities have
stitutional right to holdreij
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Jailings found
racially related
worship services on school
erty
Lubbock argued its
forum” policy merelyallovj
dent-initiated religious
“to compete in this marki .
of student ideas and activif eu ™P s stI ,
an equal basis.” w, '; kend ' *
The civil liberties giK^I' 15 , 10 ex
plied that since college ' C 1, : n ,l
are "less impressionablt J' ded lder
younger ones, the sameitjjL or mor
turns on using school I. ice un jf onx
need not apply. ■ already
r persons sir
pjj Dec. 23
ill was stop]
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Bicer who I
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United Press International
DALLAS — In a copyright
story, a Dallas newspaper re
ported that the county’s criminal
justice system handed the killers
of whites punishments three
times as severe as it did the kil
lers of Hispanics.
It also was twice as harsh to
ward rapists of white women as
compared with rapists of black
women.
1 he Dallas Times Herald re
ported Sunday that Dallas
County courts have consistently
dispensed far harsher punish
ments for people convicted of
crimes against whites than for
those convicted of similar
offenses against minority vic
tims.
I he results were among the
findings of the newspaper’s
study of every available criminal
file on homicide, rape, aggra
vated assault and sexual abuse
cases which reached final dis
position in Dallas felony courts
during a 12-month period en
ding Sept. 30.
Using a computer, the news
paper compared average sent
ences on the basis of the victims’.
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Sunday ni|
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In cases of willful hoiftpibed as a v
the killers ol whites receiu:Jgj C j ievr() [ et
average prison sentence A motorist s;
years, compared with 25.3'« rn over>
for the killers of blacksai ;ec i m g anf j t ]
years for the killers of Hispij jnotorisfs
Criminals who aitf p roo f 0 f
whites with a deadly weapey intended v
faced stiller penalties thani| n( j e( j tQ see
who attacked minorities Unification, a
County judges and juries.^ ser j
sidering the recommend i ne) ” t j len g (
of county prosecutors, 8 a 'Waway.
average of 7.4 years in p :; ' The motori;
offenders who assaulted "fMAnglo-An
compared with 3.8 y eari i 01 early 30;
those whose victims were hes tall with
and 2.2 years for assaiW, was wear j r
Hispanics. fk his offic
In rape cases, the aV ®
prison sentence when th \ fevoman al
was white was 22.9 years sstopped Sai
the victim was black, the j Hi S p an j c
ence averaged 11.2 yeai' itorcyde anc
The biggest disparity with a 1
tencing was found in ^-Jl the woma
rapes by black men against Bing, and
women. r| u * n S he tol
Black men convictedot|a ticket for
ing black women receive When he sr
erage sentence of HL 't of the sp
while men convicted ol r 1 *
white women were senttopj^
for an average of 15.1