The Battalion. (College Station, Tex.) 1893-current, April 28, 1983, Image 4

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    Page 4/The Bat+a I ion/Thursday, April 28, 1983
Innertube sailboats sail
this weekend for project
by Cheryl Burke
Battalion Reporter
The question is whether a sail
boat made of'innertubes can sail
against the wind — or whether it
can sail at all. The answer will be
determined in the Joe Gray
Memorial Innertube Regatta at
1,0 a.m. Saturday at Lake Some-
ryille.
; Contestants, including sever
al environmental design stu
dents from Texas A&M, will
build homemade sailboats cost
ing $50 or less. Six students in an
advanced architectural design
class are building the boats for
one of their class projects.
Dr. Duane K. Cote, the pro
fessor of the course, says there
are real design problems in
volved in the projects, such as
gravity, buoyancy and balance.
Innertubes as well as scrap
materials such as plywood,
clothesline, and plumbing pipes
are used for buoyancy.
Cote says he has promised
that if any of the students finish
the race they will automatically
receive an A on the project. “Just
finishing would be no small
accomplishment,” he says.
Ed Doran, commodore of the
Brazos Sailing Club, agrees that
most of the entries probably will
suffer a watery fate.
“Half of them will probably be
turning over and turning
around,” Doran says. The trick
will be to get the innertubes to
tack — shift back and forth be
tween 45 degree angles, which
the sails must follow to make any
forward progress.
“The race really has two pur
poses,” Doran says, “First, there
is a technical question, but pri
marily it’s just a fun outing for
anyone who’s interested. There
will just be a bunch of crazy peo
ple out there with some crazy
boats.”
Doran expects about eight to
12 entries in the race. He says he
knows of one boat which is made
of five innertubes. Cote says
most of the boats his students
are designing use only one in
nertube, but they have other
additions, such as outriggings.
The innertube regatta experi
ment was the idea of Joe Gray —
a charter member of the sailing
club. The race was named in
memory of his contributions to
the club and to sailing, Doran
says.
The race will be held in Welch
Park at Lake Somerville, starting
near the boat launch. After the
race, the sailing club will hold its
monthly sailboat cruise down
the lake.
The race is sponsored by the
Cl
Brazos Sailing Club.
‘Good’ students
create society
by Kimberly Hix
Battalion Reporter
A member of the Society of
Fellows must have excellent
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Grand Opening
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grades and be a recipient of one
of four major types of scholar
ships.
The society provides students
who are bright and have extra
abilities with an opportunity to
organize, Lawrence Cress,
adviser to the newly formed
group, said recently.
The students in the group
consist of Lechner and McFad-
den scholarship recipients, Pres
idents Endowed Scholars and
National Merit Scholars.
“Maybe it is just another
organization,” Cress said. “Yet it
is different through its composi
tion itself. It caters to a different
group of students.”
Cress said the group will suc
ceed if they have regular attend
ance at meetings and activities as
well as good recruitment of stu
dents.
“They’ve got good leaders
who are working hard,” he said.
“It’s their organization — they
can do what they want with the
opportunity.”
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April 28, 1983
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Ted Callahan, president of
the society, agreed that it is an
opportunity.
“Students need more than the
technical education they receive
at Texas A&M,” he said.
The Society of Fellows pro
vides an opportunity for scho
larship students to gain more
than a classroom education by
offering guest lecturers, group
activities and trips, he said.
The organization was formed
last semester, but professors in
the Honors Program had been
planning to form the group for
about a year.
“There was a lack of manpow
er in the Honor’s office,” Calla
han said. “They couldn’t seem to
get it organized. I organized the
first party and after that it took
off.”
He said the society plans to be
fully organized by next fall.
Group committees include re
creation and programs, com
munications and recruitment.
The recruitment committee
will provide information about
the organization, advertise up
coming functions and establish a
big brother-big sister program
to aid incoming freshman.
“Incoming students often
need someone to talk to and to
help them get to know the cam
pus,” Callahan said. “We get to
know the freshmen before they
get here by keeping in touch
with high schools and prospec
tive members.
“We try to give an alternative
— something other than math,
physics or English courses. We
go beyond courses. Trips to
museums, to Austin or Houston
will be offered. It’s an opportun
ity, not a class.”
Blackheart man
Thomas Hanes, from Arlington, passes
a leaflet out to Eric Uhri to promote
the upcoming MSC Town Hall
concerts. Both are mechanical engin-
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Blackhearts will perform tonight «i
and Huey Lewis and the News
Adam Ant will perform on May 8,
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Tickets are available and will
be sold at the door for the Joan
Jett and The Blackhearts con
cert tonight.
Huey Lewis and The News
will open the concert at 8 p.m. in
G. Rollie White Coliseum.
The concert is sponsored by
MSC Town Hall and tickets are
$7.50, $8.50 and $9.50.
The Blackhearts have two
albums to their credit — “I Love
Rock and Roll" and “Bad Repu
tation.”
“Reputation” was the group’s
first album. It was produced at
Jett’s expense after the album
was turned down by most of the
major U.S. labels. “Rock and
Roll” followed “Reputation”
shortly thereafter, will) I
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CS Council discusses
Plan 2000 tonight
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by David Marchand
Battalion Reporter
The College Station City
Council will meet at 7 tonight at
City Hall to discuss Plan 2000.
The comprehensive plan
establishes goals and objectives
for the city’s economic, land and
housing development. Trans
portation and utilities develop
ment also are covered by the
plan.
Other items on the agenda
include public hearings on the
1983 block grant application for
community development and
on the question of rezoning ab
out 13 acres along University
Drive. The rezoning proposal
calls for rezoning the land from
a single family residential dis
trict to an administrative-
professional and a low density
apartment districts.
The question of rezoning sev
eral lots in the Prairie View
°f Rudch
Heights subdivision fromaiPatioii f<
mercial and an industrialdsEssional
to a neighborhood businessyut stud<
single family residential Barge.
tricts also will be consider#!
The council also will di»
resolution authorizing app
tion for a grant to implex
crime prevention program
animal control ordinance!
increased tag fees also id
considered.
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Woman puts her feet down
in concrete to protect wall
United Press International
DALLAS — A woman
angered by a neighbor’s attempt
to build a wall near her property
put her foot down — almost for
First
Presbyterian
Church
the last time.
The woman, 56, whom police
did not identify, tried to disrupt
workers trying to build a con
crete wall between two lots Tues
day. She stuck her feet into the
wet cement, police said, but the
workers continued.
“She sat down and put her
feet in the trench as they were
pouring the concrete, thinking
that would stop the contractor,”
said policeman C.L. Good*
“It didn’t. When wegot^
she was still sitting there«i-
f eet in the cement.”
Goodwin said the
who argued the wall
built on her side of thepr<![
line, was able to pul
free.
“But her shoes will
forever,” he said.
1100 Carter Creek Parkway, Bryan
823-8073
Dr. Robert Leslie, Pastor
Barbara Ridlen, DCE
SUNDAY:
Worship at 8:30AM & 11:00AMl
Church School at 9:30 AM
College Class at 9:30 AM
(Bus from TAMU
Krueger Dunn - 9:10 AM
Northgate
Youth Meeting at 5:00PM
Nursery: All Events
ATTEMPTED
•In rooms 108 and l*
Bolton Hall. No serious
was reported.
Now you know
Police beat
The following incidents were
reported to the University Police
Department on April 26.
THEFTS:
•A fall red parking permit
was altered to a spring permit.
The vehicle was in parking lot
40.
•A Schwinn 10-speed, from
the Commons front bike rack.
•A green car cover,
parking lot 40.
•A textbook, from th
in a men’s room intheBi#
Sciences Building.
United Press International
Ancient Chinese astronomers
first observed sunspots roughly
2,000 years ago. Westerners
took quite a bit of time to catch
up, first writing of thf
blot
lotches 1,700 years late 1 '
erroneously believing tl^
be small planets.
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