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r Page 6/The Battalion/Friday, December 2,1983 Ham operator flies high on board space shuttle United Press International Astronaut Owen Garriott, America’s highest flying amateur radio operator, said Thursday poor reception won’t discourage him from using the ham radio set he is carrying aboard the space shuttle Col umbia. “The reception up here is pretty weak. I was not able to pick out as many statons as I wanted,” Garriott said from the AUTO INSURANCE FOR AGGIES Call: George Webb Farmers Insurance Group 3400 S. College 823 8051 shuttle in a televised news con ference. “I heard them from California to Mexico City, and later in Chile and Argentina.” He missed an opportunity to contact ham operators in the eastern United States during the news conference, but said that as the mission continues, “I’ll have a greater number of opportuni ties for ham contacts.” Garriott — whose walkie- talkie barreled through interfer ence generated by West Coast hams trying to tune in Wednes day night — repeated the few call signs he heard 155 miles above the planet. Los Angeles ham Norm Chal- fin said Garriott sounded “as if he was in the next room. It de monstrates very definitely that a person in space can talk to a per son on earth with a hand-held transceiver.” Thursday morning hundreds of hams — including Garriott’s cousin, Gary — were at their sets, waiting for the shuttle astronaut. But Garriott and his five com panions were preoccupied with the news conference. Gary Garriott, who was moni toring a radio at an electronics store in Laurel, Md., said, “We won’t give up. We’ll be back tomorrow.” While he was trying to reach his orbiting cousin, another ham going to get “I’m looking burst on the air. “You’re not thing,” he said, im on TV right now.” Sally O’Dell, a first grade teacher and ham in South Wind sor, Conn., set up a radio in her classroom in hopes of catching the astronaut. “I’m disappointed,” student Driscoll Reia, 7, said. “I want to be an astronaut.” Garriott, a ham since he was a school boy, is expected to be on the air several times daily during the mission, which is due to end Wednesday. He can be heard on the fre quency of 145.55 megahertz during his spare time. Asked during the news con ference if there are any practical applications of ham radio to fu ture shuttle flights, Garriott re plied: “I don’t know. Our com munications systems are really quite reliable up here. We’ve got lots of backups, but as Comman der John (Young) has pointed out, one extra backup may not hurt.” Kids (continued from page 1) Views of the Adolescent Pro cess.” Coleman says nonconfor mity is an almost universal fea ture of adolescent behavior. He leans heavily on the theories of Psychoanalyst Pe ter Bios, who believes that in order for an adolescent to properly enter adulthood he must first go through a regres sive stage m which he exhibits behavior characteristic of a younger child. Bios believes this regression “explains many of the easily recognized features of adoles cent behavior such as emo tional turbulence, ambiva lence, rebelliousness, negativ ism and so on.” Teenage opinions were once again corroborative of the experts’. The students were asked to describe the characteristics of a rebellious adolescent acquaintance. It sounded like they were de scribing the same person. The typical answer was that rebellious person says he doesn’t need college or pa rents or guidance of any kind. He shuns advice, sometimes purposely doing the opposite. nd ot Drugs, sex, violence and other igs ‘tools” of rebellion were only secondary and superficial to the attitudes. The particularly assertive girl had spoken first, after rolling her eyes. She told of her former association with a clique she now considers to be the “wrong crowd,” a group of students that were continually protesting something. Even now, she said, the group is planning a sit-in be cause the student body was de nied an extra school day off due to a discipline problem. When she decided to leave the circle, her former “friends” egged the inside of her car, ana threatened to do more because of her “disloyal ty”— actions which convinced her she was right about leaving. The similarities between this behavior and behavior characteristic of the sixties is apparent. This similarity rein forces the assertions of Powell and Bios that rebellion is more a part of adolescence than the result of any particular cul ture. Differences of method and scope are explained li id ■ and other experts inte^ environment. The parents of sixtie dren were raised Depression and II. They knew what inn to be poor and vileged, Roe says,sowke economy surged in the parents were inclined overly generous and p; nth sive with their children Then, Roe said, tln'J nam War, integration sudden availability otil gave young people i processes through vent their adolescent! tions. Money wasn’t a; lem, so their efforts werti centrated on abstractioa they were free to rekf l formity. But she emphatitil pointed out thattnesixne | remembered mainly to: vociferants. There still) I many teens who state;f home, plannedcareersa fi goals for their life -t | who exhibited whaiskti “normal” rebellion. Moreno’s trial move granted from staff and wire reports The trial of Eliseo “Joe” Moreno, the man accused of kill ing six people, including two from College Station, will move from Waller to Fort Bend County. State District Judge Oliver Kitzman set Jan. 17 as Moreno’s trial date. Prosecutor Jim Keeshan did not oppose the move of the trial. Defense lawyers said it would be impossible to get a fair trial for Moreno in the Wallti! ty because all of the pi surrounding the case. Moreno, 24, a Bryn mower repairmen is am killing two of his in-law a lege Station, and then trooper and three eldeti pie in Hempstead spree that covered southeast Texas on Octi Moreno is also accused ingsix hostages as hetriei police. 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