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Wednesday, December 12, 1984AThe Battalion/Page 3 , Photo by FRANK IRWIN Ghostly images With finals week drawing to a close and the exodus of students, the area will soon become a “ghost town” until classes start in January. Multiple exposure was used to make these ghosts on the steps of Zachry Engineering Center visible. Scientist shortage hurts agriculture University News Service A shortage of trained scientists and professionals in food and agri culture sciences endangers the na tion’s long-term ability to provide food for the world, warns an agricul tural dean at Texas A&M, the na tion’s second-largest agricultural school. The recent attention focused on the millions of Africans suffering from malnutrition and starvation helps underscore the problem, said Dr. H.O. Kunkel, an authority on nutrition. “A critical element in meeting these challenges is the ability of the agricultural science and education- system to attract and train scientists and specialists with needed skills, such as moleular genetics, human nutrition, soil and water sciences, in ternational marketing, systems anal ysis and agricultrual engineering,” he said. Texas A&M officials learned this month they will receive grants total ing $189,361 from the U.S. Depart ment of Agriculture to train needed scientists. Texas A&M received $78,530 for five doctoral fellowships in agricul tural engineering, Kunkel said, and $110,831 for seven doctoral fellowships in biotechnology. Kunkel said the objective of the grants, which come from the USDA Agricultural Research Service’s Higher Education Programs, is to encourage outstanding students to pursue and complete graduate and doctoral degrees in an area of the food and agricultural sciences for which there is a national need. “The funds weren’t given to aid the universities,” he said, “but to in crease capabilities for recruiting ad ditional graduate students in areas where there are shortages.” Fellowships which were awarded to the Department of Agricultural Engineering will be used to support doctoral students studying soil and water conservation, microelectronic applications, crop processing, food engineering, biochemical engi neering, biosystems modeling and simulation and biomass energy sys tems, Kunkel said. Biotechnology fellowships awarded to the Colleges of Agricul ture, Science and Veterinary Medi cine willl support graduate research in plant molecular biology, large ani mal molecular biology and insect molecular biology, he said. “We’re pleased to have received the funds and to have received the maximum amount allotted,” Kunkel said. Restaurants report sales decline By MARCUS MILES Reporter “Bryan-College Station residents spent $184 on eating out in the sec ond quarter of' 1984, or 40.35 per cent of their total fb<xl dollar,” said Gabriele Ulrich of the Texas Restau rant Association in a recent IRA re port. Despite the increase in spending, many area restaurants are reporting adecrease in sales from last year. “Our sales are down from this time last year,” William Darling, General Manager at Red Lobster, said. “We feel that a lot of it has to do with the attendance at football games and the fact that many of this year's games started early. "Asa result, many of the f ans elect to return home because they have enough time to get there before dark. In the past, many fans would spend the night after a game and this increased our sales.” Another reason for the drop in sales, Darling said, is an increase in competition. Since December of last “7 he University plays a big role in the success of any lo cal business and the restaurant business is no excep tion" — Tommy Pearson, general manager of J.T. McCords. year, 16 new restaurants have opened in this area. “We (Red Lobster) decided to ex pand to the Bryan-College Station area over a year ago because of the the number of people in the area, its growth potential and the overall business climate,” Darling said. “These are the things we look for when we survey a potential market. We feel that a community with 100,000 or more people can support a Red Lobster.” JJ. Muggs is the newest concept from the Steak and Ale Restaurant Corp. Steve Whitis, manager of JJ. Muggs, said. The S&A Restaurant Corp. owns 3 area restaurants: Ben- nigans, JJ. Muggs and Steak and Ale. “We’ve been successful in our other areas, which includes fine din ing at Steak and Ale and college at mosphere at Bennigans,” Whitis said. “So we decided to open a res taurant that offers informal family dining (JJ. Muggs), for Bryan-Col lege Station residents.” Tommy Pearson, general man ager of newcomer J.T. McCords, said, “The local restaurant market is pretty well saturated but there is al ways room for good restaurants.” The University plays a big role in the success of any local business and the restaurant business is no excep tion, Pearson said. “This will be our first holiday sea son in the area and we are looking forward to it,” Pearson said. “We of fer convenience and an attractive price structure, which we feel is one of the reasons for the increase in the number of people eating out.” Because the Interurban Eating House was successful in Norman, Okla., owners decided to expand to another college town — College Sta tion. “We wanted to build more restau rants and we studied the market and decided that building a restaurant in the Bryan-College Station would be a good investment,” said Marla Coo- C er, assistant manager of Interur- an. “Even though, in the last 3 years there has been increased competi tion in the local restaurant business, we feel we made a good choice,” Cooper said. A&M creates institute to study eye diseases University News Service A first-of-its-kind institute to improve prevention and treat ment of eye diseases and disor ders has . been established at Texas A&M University. “Research for maintaining healthy eyes has been much too little for far too long,” said Dr. George C.Y. Chiou, head of the Medical Pharmacology and Toxi cology Department at Texas A&M. Chiou, a highly successful re searcher who recently found a new treatment for glaucoma, will head the new Institute of Ocular Pharmacology. “A great many diseases and disorders of the eye are asso ciated with aging,” Chiou said. “More than half of all visual im pairment occurs in people age 65 or older. People today are also liv ing longer, yet many are kept from enjoying certain benefits of this longevity by visual prob lems.” He said the institute will unite researchers from a variety of dis ciplines including ophthalmo logy, pharmacology, biochemis try, physiology and pathology. 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