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Monday, March 21, 1983/The Battalion/Page 5 Uses for Pavilion lounge area studied / spe - by Ronnie Crocker Battalion Reporter IShe Department of Stu- ient Activities is considering several ideas for use of the TivUipty lounge area in the new- ( / Illy reno\.tied l’.i\ iliou. ''I Sutdent Activities Director Carolyn Adair said her de- ^Rment is not sure what to do with the open area, but t they have “lots of ideas.” Willis Ritchey, assistant re- , gistrar, said the primary use ,.^"of the area is for registration ^ and drop-add at the begin- 'ningofeach semester. He said that once registra- ' ' lion is completed, his office is finished with the area. HOne option for using the lkl1 area after registration is to put inlounge furniture and con- ' vert the area into a student 'hmfre | ()Un ge. es Prop*«fcave Bergen, student acti- iu* U. vides adviser, said the Univer- tehesc s i t y w ill have to pay for any u consi t yp r of lounge furniture for the area because no money is available. He said that Student Activities will have to organize the plans before asking for any funding. Adair said she is against the idea because of the difficulty of moving furniture out and storing it when the area is to be used for other purposes. She hasn’t asked for any lounge furniture. A lounge isn’t the only op tion for the area. Another option for the area, Adair said, is to allow va rious student groups to use it for blood drives, art exhibits or student elections. Donn Friedman, editor of the Aggieland, said he hopes the space can be used to distri bute Aggieland yearbooks. He said this will help because it has been difficult in the past to find an area with enough room to store the books while they are being distributed. Adair said she wants to allow other groups to sche dule functions in the Pavilion. Ritchey said he doesn’t want any meetings scheduled in the area before 5 p.m. each day because of the number of activities in the building dur ing the day. Adair will be in charge of the area after 5 p.m. Adair said daytime use is limited due to the snack bar noise. She said possible uses of the area at night could include folk dancing, showing movies and having speakers. Adair said a group from the Corps of Cadets contacted her about having a catered barbeque in the Pavilion. Adair said other groups that have moved into the building probably will want to use the area. These groups are Student Government, Stu dent Y, Off-Campus Aggies and the Residence Hall Asso ciation. be Fort i mein porateiilll i\m i brmer court justice out in protected cell ng tank ^ ll„ United Press International le ' atK HUNTSVILLF. — Former Texas Supreme Court Justice Don Yarbrough — whisked frofei a Caribbean island to Teias to begin serving a five- ^ yeat sentence for aggravated pemury— has been placed in a liet ' pnlected, private cell, a prison spokesman said Saturday. TOIV H|ay Byrd, a spokesman for ihejTexas Department of Cor- Huons, said Yarbrough was assigned to a private cell at the Diagnostic Unit of TDC while he agerfa' 5 formally processed into the konajr prison system. Room 11 E Senator nswithlw i lofthcflfk I o O f" C StaffC Uld^ LO Byrd said it is normal proce dure for officials to place any one involved in law enforcement in a separate cell area for protec tion from the rest of the prison population. Byrd said Yarbrough re portedly had complained of threats against his life, but such threats had not been confirmed. It is possible Yarbrough could remain in a single cell dur ing his entire sentence for secur ity reasons, he said. Yarbrough arrived at the TDC unit about 7:30 p.m. Fri day after state officials flew him ibmit f« i Reed president United Press International SOUTH PADRE ISLAND — U.S. Senate hopeful Bob Krue ger said Saturday Mexico’s financial problems are the result S of Ronald Reagan’s refusal to buy more oil from the economic ally beleaguered neighbor. * f , The New Braunfels Demo- J ^-j’/crat, who observers say will I Unmake a strong bid next year for ^ U.S. Senator John Tower’s seat, said Mexico looses $1 billion annually because the adminis- ?xas. I tration buys less crude oil from he Na'Mexico for the underground vasspe strategic reserves than it is au- 3 milli thorized to buy. MmiMf*' Krueger, 47, said Congress ir," To* authorized the president to buy r sakh 225,000 barrels yearly for the submar reserves. R ea g an buys 140,000 ts namf barrels annually for the re- n opp 01 serves, he said, icre th ;: '. mg." £ ,vA ye 0 -' .4© 0°^ Framing as low as $ 23 81 your choice of Metal or Wood Frame yfewb J-hwww 923 Texas 775-9292 Lay-a-way now for graduation Limited quantities after April 15th. i ret ia iomas| me the te. lU lent )0 Alii* ban l 2; : Gern' 1 t^ar piety » with 1 acefitl' ’he jo'" 1 i spy ij u, n 0 “And thanks largely to our SCONA experience, to the entire A&M population we reluctantly confess a hereto fore well guarded secret: It strikes us that to be an Aggie is an honor of which one can be most proud. ” — UT delegates SCONA 28 DISCOVER WHAT’S MAKING THE DIFFERENCE MSC Student Conference On National Affairs New Member Interviews Applications Available • Room 216 MSC MARCH 21 — APRIL 1 Lizards’ tails aid research The thrashing movement of a detached lizard tail may give sports researchers a better understanding of how athletes kick into “high gear,” says a Texas A&M biologist. Dr. Benjamin E. Dial re ported in a recent issue of Scien ce magazine that lizards which lost their tails when attacked by a predator escaped while their attacker pursued the moving tail. Dial and North Texas State University biologist Dr. Lloyd C. Fitzpatrick observed that the cat and snake used in the studies captured and ate all the lizards of a species whose detached tails did not move. While supplying important information on the relation be tween predators and their prey, the study also can have implica tions for humans, Dial said, be cause the detached tails provide one of the most vivid examples of anaerobic metabolism. Anaerobic metabolism occurs in humans when athletes such as long-distance runners need to run faster, Dial said. In such athletes, the body switches from aerobic metabolism that uses ox ygen to burn glucose for energy to anaerobic metabolism of gly cogen stored in muscles. Anaerobic metabolism increases levels of lactate in the blood. “In biology, we learn from looking to the extreme, and the lizard tail represents an extreme in anaerobic metabolism,” Dial said. “From these extremes we can more accurately describe how biological processes work. I plan to examine the ultra structure of these lizard muscle cells for special adaptations that permit such a high level of anaerobic metabolism. “We may be able to find out what lizards have that allows their tails to thrash so much,” he explained. Dial said predators do not bite off a lizard’s tail, but rather the tail is broken at a piece of cartil age within the tail vertabra. Movement of the tail after it is broken attracts the attention of a predator and gives the lizard time to run away. Dial and Fitzpatrick found the distraction allowed the lizards up to 40 percent more time in which to escape. 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