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About The Battalion. (College Station, Tex.) 1893-current | View Entire Issue (Oct. 23, 1984)
Tuesday, October 23, 1984/The Battalion/Page 3 Ron Kelly, right, a senior business major from Chicago, braves the cool, wet weather to sell bookbags for the A&M Cycling Club. The club will be selling bags to raise funds until Friday. Their table is located by the MSC fountain. Possible student group to council [ BCC to consider from I By KIM JENSEN Reporter 7. BUlWMThe Bryan City Council voted jucanm Monday night to consider a request )reyoutiiifr ()m Texas A&M Student Govern- linent to appoint a campus liaison to I the six-member council, alien $po!il The student liaison would act as lui ex-officio member of the council Sami give input on issues important Texas A&M students. Represen- ) Htives from Student Government ■commended a liaison plan similar I to the one in operation in College Station. ■ The council denied a request f rom t,Editor ; the Bryan Downtown Improvement t| Committee to hire a city coordinator to oversee downtown renovation. Board eirp Co. coiil Committee chairman Travis Bryan Jr. said downtown Bryan is in “serious plight.” He said citizens expect im provements in the area because of the recent bond passage. Bryan said if a coordinator was hired, city sdles taxes would increase and new busi nesses would be attracted to the downtown area. The council extended annual con tracts with the International Paper Co. and Master Meter Inc. for utility poles and small water meters. The council approved a proposal by O’Malley 8c Clciy Inc. to provide engineering services for repair and painting of a one-half million gallon well field reservoir. request The council also approved a reso lution to buy a second building in the Bryan Original Townsite for municipal government purposes. The council approved contracts with Brazos Beautiful, Bryan, Col lege Station, Brazos County, the Brazos County Health Unit and the Sesquicentennial Committee for services rendered during fiscal year 1984-85. The council Approved payment to Bryan Independent School District for the city’s portion of net operat ing costs for the civic auditorium. The council also approved a rate increase request by the Texas Com mercial Waste Co. for commercial trash disposal services. nor ng Editor Editor s Editor Page Editor s Editor ■ditor iff Michelle Pw raezyi, La® Rts ....Mike bit ...John Hah gave Palms; s, Patricia t ALL RECOGNIZED STUDENT ORGANIZATIONS (Who have turned in their 1985 Aggieland Contracts) Jorangwjf , Texu im art ilw ^ inoinKntff] IminifWiofl"' itions. Remember to schedule with Yearbook Associates by Friday, October 26th Do it early and get a good date. KTijkiro^^l ■it effort imkrof*"*' rtrof, rs, except WO i/andW request 16 Indulge yourself at Padre Cafe’s Shrimpfest. A You’re going to love Shrimpfest! Dive into all the fried or boiled shrimp you can eat. Tackle crispy salad with homemade dressing. Savor hot rolls made from scratch. Munch irresistible french fries. And enjoy it all in the bizarre atmosphere of the Padre Cafe. Shrimpfest: all you can eat. $7.95 every Tuesday 5:00 p.m. - close. obe an t; - 3econJ -ityltfS Dominik Drive College Station-BY-THE-SEA Battalion Editor set to speak at symposium Wednesday “I don’t expect very many people— there because students are generally apathetic — they’re here at Texas A&M for jobs and dates,” said Bat talion Editor Stephanie Ross who’ll be speaking 1 p.m. Wednesday at this week’s Sully’s Symposium. Sponsored by sophomore honors society, Lambda Sigma, the sympo sium is held weekly next to the Law rence Sullivan Ross statue by the Academic Building. “The primary goal is still to im prove communication between the students and the student leaders,” said Robert Beard, the project’s pub licity chairman. Ross said she’ll discuss The Battal ion’s editorial policy, the Editorial Board, how letters are chosen for publication, censorship and the in ternal structure of the Battalion. “My main interest is answering questions and hearing student opin ions,” Ross said. Beard said Ross was asked to speak because of the prominance of The Battalion at Texas A&M. “We chose Stephanie because, in the position that she’s in, she has in fluence over The Battalion, and The Battalion, as the student newspaper, is read by the majority of the stu dents,” Beard said. A&M debate team wins honors; takes second place in tourney The Texas A&M Debate Team won second place last weekend in a debate tournament in Kansas. A&M’s debaters, Brent Brossman and Julia Sullivan, lost to a team from the University of Kansas in the final round of the 30th Annual George R. R. Pflaum Debate Tour nament at Emporia State University in Emporia, Kansas. The topic of the debate was whether the federal government of the United States should signifi cantly increase exploration and/or development of space beyond the earth’s mesosphere. Bruce Daniel, A&M’s assistant de bate coach, said the tournament was one of the largest and best in the na tion. Fifty-eight teams from 14 states participated. Dzlniel said A&M’s debate team is probably one of the top 16 debate teams in the nation. Chemist details theory By KATHERINE HURT Staff Writer “I was just lucky,” Professor Sir Derek Barton, a Nobel laureate, said Monday of his chemical re search, to a near-capacity crowd in Rudder Forum. His lecture, “Some Recent Pro gress in Natural Products Chem istry: How to Win a Nobel Prize,” chronicled his development of the fundamental theory and prin ciples of conformational analysis, the determination of the three-di mensional relationships among atoms in a molecule. Barton’s development of the theory and principles earned him the 1969 Nobel Prize in chemis try, which he shared with Norwe gian Odd Hassel. Barton, speaking to an audi ence of mainly chemists, said “E- veryone knows about conforma tional analysis, so this lecture will be mainly historical.” He spoke first about Hassel and the history of conformational analysis, then about the ethane barrier. Then he said, “Now I’m going to tell you about myself ... I was born in 1918 and will die some time in the 21st century ...” Barton earned his B.S. degree in 1940 and his Ph.D. in 1942 from Imperial College, Univer sity of London. In explaining why he chose Imperial College, he said, “There were 10 colleges where I could study chemistry ... I chose Impe rial College because, since it was 50 percent more expensive than the others, I figured it should be 50 percent better.” After graduating, Barton worked at his father’s lumber company, in military intelligence and in industry before he started teaching college-level chemistry classes. Barton taught at Glasgow Uni versity until 1957 and at Imperial College until 1978. Since 1978, he has been the director of the Insti- tut de Chimie des Substahces Na- turelles in Gif-sur-Yvette, near Paris. Barton has been a visiting pro fessor at the Massachusetts Insti tute of Technology and at the Universities of Illinois, Wiscon sin, Sheffield and British Colum bia. After discussing his publica tions, Barton showed slides of his colleagues, his chateau in Switzer land and the Institut de Chimie. He also showed slides of a French stamp honoring his achievements and slides of “his wife” and “him self,” actually two new breeds of Orchid that he developed and named for himself and his wife. He said in Switzerland, one can develop new breeds of Orchid and name them for whomever he chooses. When asked if winning the No bel Prize was the most important thing in his life, he said, “No, no, no ... I never did chemistry to win prizes, I did it to express myself.” Bargain $ounds Barqain Bonanza