Wednesday, December 12, 1984AThe Battalion/Page 3
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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.
Their research, and that of
others in the field, will be re
ported in the new Journal of Oc
ular Pharmacology to lie pub
lished by the institute.
Another goal of the research
center, he said, is the attraction of
outstanding ocular pharmacolog
ists to Texas A&M with endowed
chairs.
Since there are only a few se
nior ocular pharmacologists in
the nation, putting two or three
together in one institute would
create a unique organization,
Chiou said.
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