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