Page 12/The Battalion/Wednesday, June 15, 1983
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Enrollment sets record
by Jennifer Carr
Battalion Staff
Texas A&M has set yet
another enrollment record with
over 14,000 students enrolled in
the first session of summer
school.
Donald D. Carter, associate
registrar, said the unofficial
fourth class day records showed
14,144 students enrolled in clas
ses, a 6 percent increase over last
summer’s enrollment. The in
crease is due to a number of fac
tors, he said.
Many students are having a
hard time finding summer jobs,
especially in the Houston, Dallas
and Austin areas, so they come
to summer school rather than
just sit around, he said.
Graduate enrollment is also
up. Carter said. Graduate stu
dents account for 27 percent of
the summer enrollment with
3,826, compared to 15 percent
for the fall enrollment. The gra
duate percentage usually is
higher in the summer because
many teachers work on their
master’s degrees during the
summer. Carter said.
Texas residents who meet ail
other requirements for incom
ing freshmen but have low Scho
lastic Aptitude Test scores for
their class rank may be offered
provisional status.
The most significant increase,
however, is in the freshman pro
visional admissions program.
This means the student must
complete nine hours in two sum
mer sessions and maintain a 2.0
grade-point ratio with no failing
grades. Students meeting the
conditions are then granted
admission to the University.
Last summer, about 150 stu
dents participated in the prog
ram, Gale T. Wood, associate di
rector of admissions, said. This
summer there are abou
Wood said the increaseis
the raised admission si
that went into effectlaitj
There are no
ac commodating the ino
number of students, as a!
ties are available dun:;
summer, Charter said,
there are fewer faculty,
ments are familiar with
usually requested duriq
summer.
Carter said seconds
session enrollment will
be lower than thissessiirj
he expects another retort
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Tuesday was Flag Day.
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Michener attributes his suc
cess as a writer to his compulsion
to organize and his love of hear
ing or telling a good story. He is
not a typical writer in that he
started late, at the age of 40, but
he said the lateness accounts for
his stability as a writer. He said
he is neither awed by success,
nor destroyed by failure.
Michener, who has worked in
all aspects of print — as an edi
tor, publisher, writer and con
sumer — said he thinks of his
profession
constantly, and takes it seriously.
“To be a writer is one of the
glorious professions of this
world.”
Michener gets up every
morning at 7:30, and is at work
by 7:35. He writes, using two fin
gers and an old typewriter, until
12:30. He said he never works in
the afternoon, and rarely at
night.
He goes to bed after the news
each night and one of the things
he likes best about Texas is that
the news comes on at 10 p.m.
rather than 11 p.m.
He writes in big blocks, usual
ly 100 to 120 pages, he said, and
doesn’t correct his manuscript
until he finishes a block. If he is
stuck, he might turn to an easier
section, but can’t afford to in
dulge in writer’s block.
Michener said the easier parts
of his text he has worked on in
advance always are unusable,
because by the time he reaches
them again events have
changed. Hut he said they are
helpful because they get him
through a rough spot.
He said he does everything at
least twice, then employs some
one to read and criticize.
Altogether, five people critique
his work. When he is finished,
the book is read by the editor,
the text editor and someone the
publishing company hires.
“The problem of what to
write next is a painful one,”
Michener said. The phrase that
often comes to mind when he’s
working is a negative one — “It
doesn’t have enough weight.” It
may be a story, theme, character
or an entire novel, but if it
doesn’t have enough weight he’ll
drop it, he said, no matter how
far along, because he knows he’ll
lose interest.
Michener said he always has
seven or eight ideas for a l>ook,
and half are not as good as he
thought — they didn't have ade
quate weight. He said he has
nevet had less than tliret ;\y] u i t ; it i
ideas he could launch ;iEi,fr 0 f
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Because of the desire to use a
more advanced ship, the Na
tional Science Foundation
looked into the possibility of re
novating The Explorer — a sal
vage ship — into a drill ship, he
said. But, that would have been
too expensive, he added.
The National Science Found
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several drilling companies about
the possibility of leasing a ship
for the project, he said. There is
a surplus of drill ships because
of the slump in the petroleum
business, he said and leasing a
drill ship is the most economical
way.
One or two scientists from
Texas A&M always will go out
on the ship and about 15 scien
tists from the international com
munity will be involved, plus
technicians and other support
staff for a total of 40 to 50 crew
members, Rabinowitz said.
Texas A&M w ill be science
operator of the project for a
minimum of 10 years, he said,
and the cores will be stored here
permanently.
scientists will try to determine
how the ocean basins have
evolved through time.
Half of the cores will be arc
hived and the other half will be
studied, he said.
“The cores are in great de
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Some of the advantages of
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At that point, Gurrie con
tacted the Rescue Coordination
Centers at Sondrestrom, and
Trenton, Canada, about using a
search and rescue satellite, SAR-
SAT, to find the planes.
SARSAT, Currie said, is a
joint effort of the United States,
Soviet Union, France and Cana
da and is still in the experimen
tal stage. The first SARSAT was
launched by the Soviets on June
30 of last year.
Before this particular mis
sion, the satellite had contri
buted to four search and rescue
operations and the saving of
seven lives.
“About an hour and a half af
ter takeoff, w'e received the
SARSAT coordinates for the
ELT,” Currie said. The ELT is
the emergency locater transmit
ter on the planes. “As we neared
the predicted position, the
downed crewmen saw our air
craft and vectored us to their
position.”
Currie said the rescue team
then landed and fueled the un
damaged plane and returned to
the Canadian ice camp, Cesar.
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