Friday, February 28, 1986/The Battalion/Page 5
First egg
Team wins with
53-point score
By ANTHONY S. CASPER
Reporter
Two Texas A&M students cat
apulted their team to first place
Thursday with a score of 53
points in the University’s First
Annual Egg Shoot on first floor
of the Zachry Engineering Build-
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Mechanical engineering ma
jors Stewart “Egg” Nolan and tea
mmate Mark Jaggers claimed the
championship after a runoff be
tween the top four teams. Each
team consisted of two to five
members and had to make its
own propulsion device. Twenty-
three teams entered the contest.
In the first round each team
fired a volley of three fresh eggs
into a target. Rings on the target
were assigned different point va
lues.
The top four teams then fired
a two egg volley in the runof f.
Jaggers said, “I’d say we won
this tiling with definitely the
cheapest model. We got the most
egg for our money.”
Their catapult was constructed
from a maze of hardwood dowels
held together by rubber bands
and tape. The egg holder was
made of waxed beer cups tied to
the end of the catapult arm.
Jaggers said his team built the
winning catapult the night before
the contest.
Nolan said, “We tried it out be
fore we got here. We ran two
dozen virgin eggs through it —
these weren’t the first eggs it’s
seen.”
Carl Erdman, head of the de
partment of nuclear engineering,
judged categories for creative de
sign and unique materials.
The winning creative design
apparatus was a tower standing
about 15 feet high. The catapult
was powered by weights hanging
from the end of a throwing arm.
The unique materials winner
was made with a modified mouse
trap.
The contest was sponsored by
the American Society for Metals.
shoot held at A&M
Photo by ANTHONY S. CASPER
Peter Mailhes steadies counter-weights on his teams’ catapult at
Thursday’s egg shoot in Zachry Engineering Building.
It was the idea of Jim Dubrouillet,
the secretary of the society.
Dubrouillet, a mechanical engi
neering major, said, “I got the
idea from the University of Mis
souri at Columbia. My brother
went there, and they had one of
these contests. He told me about
it so I thought it would go over
good here.”
Jenny Salazar, a mechanical
engineering major, said the stu
dents need contests such as the
egg shoot.
”1 think this is hilarious,” she
said. “This is kind of the way ar
chitecture and engineering ma
jors get to play.
“This is what an engineer does.
We don’t just sit there and do cal
culations in our classroom.”
Unlocked dorm rooms aid thieves
By BRIAN PEARSON
Senior Staff Writer
Two campus dorms recently have
been the prowling ground for some
one who has entered unlocked
rooms and stolen about $500 in cash,
a gold chain, a gold ring and a Texas
A&M senior ring.
Aston Hall and Dunn Hall have
had 17 such burglaries in two weeks.
Fifteen of the burglaries were dur
ing the morning hours of Feb. 16,
one on Feb. 17 and another Sunday.
Bob Wiatt, director of security
and traffic at A&M, said the burglar
ies probably were committed by the
same person. He said the suspect
probably tried doors at random and
entered unlocked rooms even if the
occupants were in the room sleep-
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Carlos Martinez, a junior finance
major from Weslaco who lives in
Dunn Hall, had $12 stolen from his
wallet Feb. 16.
“I was asleep,” Martinez said.“He
came in. I woke up and saw him
walking out the door with my wal
let.”
He said he got out of bed and
searched the hallway for the suspect
but couldn’t find him.
Martinez told University Police
the suspect appeared to be a 6-foot-
2, 180-pound black man with a me
dium muscular build and short hair.
Wiatt said that in another Feb. 16
incident in Dunn, a student awoke to
find the suspect standing in the
room. The student said the person
explained that he had come into the
room by accident. Wiatt said that af
ter the person left, the student
checked his wallet and found $5
missing.
The student told University Police
the suspect appeared to be a 6-foot-
1, 170-pound black male with a me
dium build, bad acne, short black
hair in the front and long curly black
hair in the back.
“The guy who is doing this is very
bold,” Wiatt said. “This is the type of
individual who knows how naive the
students are and he takes advantage
of them. The only deterrent to this
individual, who is on this campus to
rip students off, is to lock the door.
Students are just asking for it when
they ref use to lock their doors.”
Wiatt said a similar spree of about
12 burglaries happened during the
fall semester. He said he is not sure
whether these burglaries are con
nected with the current ones because
none of the Fall victims could de
scribe the suspect.
Recently, similar burglaries also
have occurred in unlocked rooms in
Hart, McFadden and Spence halls.
In the Feb. 17 Spence burglary, a
money bag containing $30 was sto
len. A wallet was stolen in the Feb. 2
McFadden burglary. In the Hart
burglary Friday, a $100 bill out of a
wallet and a Swatch watch were sto
len.
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