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Page 4/The Battalion/Thursday, October 20,1983 Graduate student support needed Research club makes comeback by Brenda Bivona Battalion Reporter Increasing enrollment in the Texas A&M graduate school could mean added support for extracurricular student prog rams. One organization count ing on the graduate students for support is the Operations Re search Society of America. GRAS is a professional socie ty for students from any major interested in operations re search — a process of applying mathematical models to com plex systems in order to find a solution to a problem. Determining the parts needed to build a car is an exam ple of applying operations re search, Michael Ketcham, a Ph.D. student in Industrial En gineering, said. “First you would describe the system and then write a computer program to de termine the parts needed.” Rick Ingalls, a graduate stu dent in Industrial Engineering said, “The local chapter will be an opportunity for students and The society is trying to make a comeback after several years of inactivity. GRAS stopped meet ing in the early 70s. BALLOON BONANZA BE UNIQUE SEND BALLOONS (409) 764-0950 1405 B Harvey Road (409) 822-1617 405 N. Pierce “The society became inactive because it wasn’t getting enough student support,” Ketcham said. “The program is geared at gra duate students and so I think we have a better chance of making it this time because there are more graduate students.” The group is reorga nizing because it wants to offer a forum for students to discuss their operations re search ideas and to learn from speakers in different fields. operations research or manage ment science class. “ The society is for a lot of dif ferent people. Research opera tions can include transportation problems, forest management and scheduling of workers, to name a few,” Ingalls said. Local membership fees are $10 and national fees are $5. “There will be guest speakers at most of the meetings,” Ingalls said. “The speakers this semes ter will be from our campus, but af ter we get rolling next semes ter we will try to bring in prom inent speakers from other uni versities and industry.” Cass* OFF! ’ 3 ;; List $14C The group is reorj be- rgamzing l cause it wants to offer a forum for students to discuss their operations research ideas and to learn from speakers in different fields, he said. faculty to share interests, learn about new features of their field and keep up with the state of the art.” The society is open to anyone who has had or is enrolled in an The first meeting of GRAS will be tonight at 7 p.m. in 507 Rudder Tower. Dr. David Olson, assistant professor of business analysis, will speak on the techniques of decision making. Record Bar’s biggest sale of the year. 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The garden, on Houston Street across from the KAMU television station, is one of 58 floral test gardens in the United States. 1 he gardens are used to breed and lest different varia tions of plants and flowers. “There are about 500 to 600 dif ferent varieties of plants and flowers being grown m the gar dens.” William L. Vitopil, assis tant director of grounds and maintenance, said. You can walk through the gardens and feast your eyes on the array of plants and flowers any season of the year and any time of day — many people do. People can be seen roaming through the gardens at just ab out any time imaginable. “We’ve been really lucky tie- cause we don’t have the public going around and picking the flowers for their own use," Vito- pil said. “There are a lot of other gardens that sometimes have that problem.” Seeds for the variations are donated by seed companies from different parts of the Un ited States, but test seeds are donated by the All-Amti Selection Organization ol nois. Flower breeders send seeds to the selection oi (ion, which sends the dif ferent test gardens tin out the nation. A prop! port on the test plantsish the grounds and mainiti greenhouse grower Wurbs. When the flower is in its form it’s graded on how grew in a particular soil mate. The highest awardal ei breeder can hope toretj the All-American Award. The idea of starting a i test garden at Texas A&ll introduced by Gen. Earl R«l in 1967. In 1968, the It A &- M Board of Rett approved the idea, and Mi union began. 1 f you happen to bestw through the gardens adu the sights, be sure to take of the 40 to 50 varietieso( nias, 25 varieties of gerai eight varieties of ornamt peppers, marigolds and pe Vitopil said the only dm weather caused a probleu the garden was two years when the temperature fells degrees and killed everytlii the gardens except thepai ^ Police beat The following incidents were reported to the University Police Department through Wednesday: THEFTS: • A green Schwinn 10-speed bicycle from the student parking lot west of Wofford Cain Pool. INDECENT EXPGSURE: • A woman was jogpj Swine Center Road whe« passed a man who ex self to her. OTHER: • A person was arresid East Main Drive fordti while i n toxica ted. The ft 1 was taken to Brazos Count), 25 Watt with 7 E Equalize Cassetti Dolby E Reducti Fully Ai Drive T • Two W; Systerr