Tuesday, November 1,1983/The Battalion/Page 3
Signs announce
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by Pat Allen
Battalion Reporter
; The Texas A&M Tradi
tions Council will post signs to
day to remind students of Sil-
? yer Taps, Cyndy Davis, presi
dent of the council, says.
The three wooden and
bronze signs will be posted,
one on the grass in front of
Sbisa Dining Hall across from
the Fish Pond, one on Spence
Street on the grass across from
parking Area 18, and one on
the east side of the Memorial
Student Center next to the
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We tried to pick three real
high-traffic areas,” Davis said.
“We thought about posting
them at the bus stops, but a lot
onij of students don’t ride the bus.
So we picked locations where
we think the signs will be seen
the most.”
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Ken Johnson, the student
body president at that time,
along with Traditions Council
President John Hawrylak and
Silver Taps Chairman David
Imes, wanted to do something
to encourage student involve
ment in Silver Taps. They felt
that since two-thirds of Texas
A&M students lived off-
campus, a visual reminder of
the ceremony would increase
participation.
“We considered everything
[at first,” Imes said. "Our main
[concern was something classy,
[yet low-cost. We thought ab
out a multi-colored poster or a
nicely designed flyer, but Gen.
Simpson put his foot down on
anything made of paper. He
'didn’t want anything that
could be torn or tarnished,
! anything that would take the
dignity away from Silver
Taps.”
General Ormond R. Simp
son is assistant vice president
f Student Services and a for-
ler Silver Taps bugler.
“Gen. Simpson sent us to
?e Helen Bowers, head of
ducational Information Scr
ees, and she suggested mak-
ig the signs out of wood, and
sent us to the art department,”
Imes said. “So in the spring of
’82 we approached Steve Tur-
nipseed, an assistant profes
sor of environmental design.”
Turnipseed assigned the
design for a sign and a way to
display it as a class project.
Imes showed the finisned de
signs to students in his classes
and professors.
“Everyone seemed to like
the one designed by Robert
Doane, an environmental de
sign major from Lake Jack-
son,” Imes said. “I presented it
to the Traditions Council and
they really liked it so they
approved it.”
After approval by the Tra
ditions Council, Imes took the
design to environmental de
sign professor Rodney Hill for
advice on the building of the
signs. Hill suggested the coun-
cil take the design to
Ornamental Castings in
Bryan.
Steve Forman, the 1982
Traditions Council president,
is responsible for the funding
of the project, he said.
“Steve found out the Class
of ’83 had over $2,000 in its
treasury. He contacted the
Class of ’83 President, Joe
Meyer, and Meyer said he
would set aside $2,000 for the
project.”
The signs say “Silver Taps
Tonight,” and will hang from
wooden stands built by stu
dents in the Association of
General Contractors. The
Ross Volunteer Company will
put up and take down the
signs.
“Unless you pick up a Bat
talion, you don’t know if it’s
Silver Taps,” Imes said. “I’m
glad to see the project come
through because I live off-
campus and I know many stu
dents who never know when
Taps is being held.
“It’s a unique ceremony,
and I hope the signs will in
crease the turnout for the
ceremonies in the future.”
Petroleum economics talks
begin today at Texas A&M
by Julie Ennis
Battalion Reporter
Results of the recent OPEC
reduction in crude oil prices and
its effect on the profitability of
almost all petroleum related
companies have brought en
gineers, researchers and busi
nessmen to Texas A&M today
for a petroleum economics con
ference.
The rollback in the price of
crude has had a chilling effect on
petroleum producers, the ser
vice companies and the lending
agencies, assistant director of
the Texas Petroleum Research
Committee and conference
chairman Dr. Paul Crawford
says.
That effect was reflected by a
50 percent reduction in the
number of drilling rigs operat
ing in the United States, Craw
ford said.
“In our local area the Cham
ber of Commerce reported that
petroleum work was off by over
75 percent,” Crawford said.
The petroleum economics
conference will focus on pro
jected near and long term prices
of oil and gas, he said.
The Texas Petroleum Re
search Committee is sponsoring
the one-day conference for fa
culty, visitors and students at
Rudder Tower.
Jessie L. Koontz, vice presi
dent of W.R. Grace & Co.’s
Natural Resource Group, will be
the keynote speaker at the con
ference. Koontz will provide in
formation on projected oil and
gas prices.
Bud Isaacs Jr., senior vice
president and general manager
of property acquisitions for
Lewis Co. in Denver, will discuss
the acquisition of oil and gas.
Lewis has invested a few billion
dollars in recent petroleum ac
quisitions, Crawford said.
Methods of financing oil and
gas ventures will be presented by
Glen Carson, vice president of
First City Energy Finance Co., in
Houston.
B.P. Huddleston, president
of B.P. Huddleston & Co. of
Houston, will deliver the lun
cheon address entitled “How
Financial Institutions View Pet
roleum Engineering Reports.”
Other speakers include:
Richard Adkerson, head of oil
and gas for Arthur Anderson &
Co.; Dennis J. Graue, vice presi
dent of Scientific Software-
Intercomp; Martin Caylor, gen
eral manager of planning for
Gulf Oil Exploration & Produc
tion Co.; Bill Osborn of Osborn
Engineering Inc.; and Eddy
Claycomb and Paul D. Lerwick
of Williams Co.
The noon luncheon will be
held in the Memorial Student
Center. The cost for the lun
cheon will be $10.
Pushcart makes fast food faster
by Charles P. Dungan
Battalion Reporter
It’s handy, there’s no line, and
you can eat on the go.
“It” is the newest addition to
the campus food service — the
pushcart on the plaza in front of
the Chemistry Building. The
cart allows people to grab a quick
snack when they don’t have the
time to hassle with a restaurant
or cafeteria. It also fits the out
door atmosphere of the plaza.
From 8:30 a.m. to 2 p.m.,
food service worker Bethalyn
Williams, stands under the red
and white umbrella selling hot
dogs and doughnuts to students,
faculty and staff.
Response to the cart has been
good so far, she says. Williams
sells between $200 and $300
worth of food every day includ
ing about 150 hot dogs and eight
dozen doughnuts. Sales at lunch
time have become so hectic that a
second food service worker
must be there to help keep up.
Williams enjoys working at
the new stand. She says she felt
like a guinea pig at first, testing
the market for the department,
but enjoys working outside and
meeting people.
Williams says the most com
mon comment on the stand is
that it needs to expand. People
want hot mustard, chili, sauer
kraut and onions for their hot
dogs, and they would like to see a
bigger menu, she says.
Jay Maynard, assistant direc
tor for auxiliary dining services,
says the favorable response has
been a pleasant surprise for the
department, which was not sure
how students would react.
Students from the Blocker
Building have asked the food
services department for a cart at
that building, he says. A new cart
has been ordered and should ar
rive in two to three weeks. The
stainless steel carts cost about
$2,000 each and can keep food
hot or cold.
Maynard says the food service
department was not looking for
more work in setting up the
stand, but was trying to find out
if there was a need for additional
service.
The department serves about
50,000 meals a day, two-thirds
being lunches. The 12 perma
nent facilities currently being
operated cannot keep up with
the lunch hour pace, he says.
The new snack bars in Zachry
Engineering Center and the
Pavilion have been working at
capacity, he says. If the snack bar
in Zachry were three times the
E resent size it would still be full,
e says. The problem is the
number of people that want to
eat at the same time.
“If we could stagger them we
would not have a problem in
feeding all of them”, Maynard
says.
Maynard says the first choice
for a solution to the problem
would be a new permanant
establishment but the carts
would serve the purpose until
something can be built.
Bird expert to speak
birds
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5a olice beat
I The following incidents were
reported to the University Police
Department through Monday:
| THEFTS:
• A Pizza Hut case containing
two pizzas was stolen from a
11983 Yamaha motorcycle. An
■employee was delivering pizzas
in Puryear Hall at the time.
’ • $21 in cash was stolen from
230 Reed McDonald.
BURGLARY:
• A Pioneer AM/FM cassette
stereo was stolen from a 1976
Pontiac. The vehicle was parked
in the student lot west of Wof
ford Cain Pool.
INDECENT EXPOSURE:
• Two women were jogging
near the Floral Test Gardens
when they passed a man who ex
posed himself to them.
OTHER:
• University Police found the
gate arm to the staff lot west of
the Pavilion had been broken.
by Elizabeth Hascall
Battalion Reporter
Saving and recognizing
of prey will be the topic of a p
sentation tonight sponsored by
the Wildlife Biology Society.
John Karger, executive direc
tor of Last Chance Forever, an
organization that helps injured
birds of prey return to the wild,
will be the guest speaker.
Karger has worked to edu
cate the public about birds of
prey for many years, wildlife
professor and friend of Karger
Dr. Keith Arnold says.
Karger not only works with
birds of prey but also has trained
birds for television and movies,
Arnold said.
Karger will discuss how to
recognize birds of prey, what
they are, why they should be
saved and how to stop harming
them, Arnold said.
Karger will bring several
birds of prey and a chicken or
pigeon trained to respond as a
bird of prey, Arnold said.
Karger has worked with
veterinarians from across the
state, including some at Texas
A&M, receiving injured or sick Karger will speak at 7:30 p.m.
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