The Battalion. (College Station, Tex.) 1893-current, October 21, 1986, Image 5

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Tuesday
COLLEGE OF LIBERAL ARTS: will sponsor “Job Search
for Students Who are Older Than Average” at 5 p.m. in
404 Rudder.
DEPARTMENT OF ENGLISH: Rick Evans will present a
writing workshop, “What Does It Mean to Read Critically?”
at 6:36 p.m. in 153 Blocker.
ENGLISH CLUB: will host a speaker on careers for liberal
arts majors at 7 p.m. in 501 Rudder.
TAMU FLYING CLUB: will discuss the construction of a
new building at 7:30 p.m. at the airport club house.
TAMU ONE-WHEELERS: will meet at 6 p.m. in front of G.
Rollie White Coliseum.
ORTHODOX STUDENT ORGANIZATION: will have an
open discussion at 5:30 p.m. in Rudder Tower (check mon
itor for room).
NATIONAL ORGANIZATION FOR WOMEN: will meet at
8:30 p.m. in 502 Rudder.
INTRAMURAL RECREATIONAL SPORTS: entries close
for punt, pass and kick and bowling singles at 6 p.m. in 159
Read.
CLASS OF ’87: students can sign up for Senior Banquet Sub
chairman interviews today at the Class of ’87 cubicle in the
Student Programs Office.
AMERICAN INSTITUTE OF CHEMICAL ENGINEERS:
Howard Pagel, from Union Carbide, will speak at 7:30
p.m. in 102 Zachry.
MSC HOSPITALITY: will meet and have a yearbook picture
taken at 7 p.m. in the lobby of Zachry Engineering Center.
SADDLE AND SIRLOIN: will take pictures starting at 5:30
p.m. in the first floor lounge of Kleberg Animal and Food
Science Center.
CIRCLE K: will discuss “Your Steps to Success” at 8:30 p.m.
in 704A-B Rudder.
MICROBIOLOGY SOCIETY: will discuss graduate research
at Texas A&M at 6:30 p.m. in 103 Peterson.
AGGIE REPUBLICANS FOR GEREN: will hold an organi
zational meeting at 7 p.m. in 214 Pavilion.
STAMP CLUB: will have an organizational meeting at 7 p.m.
in 140 MSC.
WESLEY FOUNDATION: will sponsor a defensive driving
class from 6 p.m. to 10 p.m. Tuesday. For more informa
tion call 846-4701.
Wednesday
NATIONAL AGRICULTURAL — MARKETING ASSO
CIATION: will meet and host a speaker at 7 p.m. in 113
Kleberg.
COLLEGE OF LIBERAL ARTS: will present a program on
applying for graduate school, law school and medical
school at 5 p.m. in 308 Rudder.
FELLOWSHIP OF CHRISTIAN ATHLETES: will meet and
have a speaker at 8:30 p.m. in 145 MSC.
TAMU SAILING CLUB: will meet and give tests at 7 p.m. in
401 Rudder.
DEPARTMENT OF ENGLISH: Paul Meyer will present a
writing workshop, “Becoming a Better Writer Through
Reading,” at 6:30 p.m. in 153 Blocker.
ACCOUNTING SOCIETY: will have an “Office Visit Meet
ing” with Touche Ross and Tenneco at 7 p.m, in 701 Rud
der,
INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS ASSOCIATION: will meet
and elect officers at 6:30 p.m. in 124 Blocker.
STUDENT Y: bonfire cookie crew will meet at 7 p.m. in 601
Rudder.
STUDENT AFFAIRS: will sponsor “On the House Beverage
Bar” with “mocktails” ana posters from 10:00 a.m. to 2:00
p.m. at Rudder Fountain.
TAMU SPORTS CAR CLUB: will meet and present a movie
at 7 p.m. at the Pizza Pub in Bryan.
MATH CLUB: will meet at 7 p.m. in 105B Zachry.
PRE-VET SOCIETY: will meet at 7 p.m. in 230 Veterinary
Medicine.
WESLEY FOUNDATION: will have a Bible study at noon at
the Wesley Foundation.
STUDENTS AGAINST APARTHEID: will meet at 8:30
p.m. in 607 Rudder.
EUROPE CLUB: will meet at 9 p.m. at the Flying Tomato.
MSC CAMAC: will meet at 7 p.m. in 504 Rudder.
ALCOHOLICS ANONYMOUS: will meet at noon on cam
pus. For the location contact Student Affairs at 845-5826.
AGGIE RED CROSS: will meet at 7 p.m. at the Flying To
mato.
AGGIELAND ’87: freshmen and sophomores can have their
yearbook pictures taken through Oct. 31. Pictures will be
taken at AR Photography II, 707 Texas Ave.
MSC HOSPITALITY: pageant applications are available in
216 MSC through Oct. 31.
Items for What’s Up should be submitted to The Battalion,
216 Reed McDonald, no less than three working days
prior to desired publication date.
Attack spurs
safety worries
for police
DALLAS (AP) — Authorities are
concerned by the growing number
of attacks on police officers by crimi
nals released early from prison.
A sniper attack on a squad car Fri
day night marked the 21st time this
year that shots have been fired at a
Dallas officer, compared with 12 in
cidents over the same period last
year, statistics show. Six officers have
been shot, one more than last year.
“It is almost a sure bet that the
next assault on an officer is going to
be done by someone on parole, or
fresh out of the pen,” Deputy Police
Chief Marlin Price said. “I would
take that bet right now.”
The number of assaults on offi
cers rose from 239 last year to 269 in
1986, an increase of 12.6 percent.
Friday’s sniper attack appeared to
be a random act, Price said. A small-
caliber bullet shattered the wind
shield of the squad car as the officer
pulled into a parking lot.
Price said the department is trying
to reduce the risks to officers. Offi
cers are being extensively trained in
self-defense and in the use of a more
sophisticated police baton.
“Hopefully, the PR-24 will reduce
officer injury in scuffles and as
saults,” Price said. “However, there’s
not much we can do about outside
influences, the predators of the city
out there to do harm.”
SMU awarded
$2.8 million
for research
DALLAS (AP) — Southern Meth
odist University has received a $2.8
million Defense Department con
tract. to research uses of advanced
computer technology, the university
announced Monday.
Officials said the research could
lead to enhanced computer speed.
“SMU is in a uniquely good posi
tion to do this research because they
have good connections with other
universities in Texas,” said Craig
Fields, chief scientist of the Defense
Advanced Research Projects
Agency. “More importantly, they’re
right in the center of one of the ma
jor areas of defense industry in the
nation.”
DARPA is the Defense Depart
ment agency that finances innova
tive basic and applied research. The
contract was awarded to SMU in Au
gust.
The two-year award will be used
by the SMU School of Engineering
to buy a $400,000 computer to study
methods of achieving enhanced
computer speed, the Dallas Morning
News reported.
The computer will be equipped
with 20 main chips or central pro
cessing units, the newspaper said.
Increasing computer speed could
lead to advances in artificial intelli
gence, robotics, manufacturing,
computer chip design, signal pro
cessing and generation of realistic-
looking images with computers.
The contract came after an unsoli
cited proposal the school submitted
to DARPA a year and a half ago, said
Robert R. Possum, dean of the SMU
engineering school.
Research will focus on determin
ing how to adapt mathematical prob
lem-solving techniques for use on
the new generation of multichip
computers.
Standard computers with one cen
tral chip carry out computations one
step at a time and are known as serial
computers.
U.S. foreign oil dependence
on rise, industry survey shows
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HOUSTON (AP) — The plunge
[ in oil prices and subsequent decline
in exploration is permanently chan
ging the U.S. oil industry and leav
ing the nation more dependent on
[foreign oil, according to a survey re-
[ leased Monday by Arthur Andersen
& Co.
| “At today’s prices, it doesn’t make
economic sense to undertake explo
ration in the United States,” Richard
Adkerson, managing director of oil
and gas services for the accounting
firm, said. “We’ve just got to have
higher prices.”
Adkerson said a proposed $18-
per-barrel standard being consid
ered by OPEC oil ministers meeting
in Geneva will do little to improve
the plight of the domestic energy
producers.
I “At $18 per barrel, you do not
have high enough prices to stave off
higher levels of imports,” he said. “It
appears the goal of Saudi Arabia is
to shut off exploration, particularly
| in the United States.”
He predicted further layoffs,
t mergers and bankruptcies in Ameri
can firms, although he hoped the in-
• dustry would be starting a slow turn
around.
Asked if the bottom has been
reached, he replied, “I think so, but
I think we’re crawling along at the
bottom.”
He also acknowledged that most
Americans are enjoying lower en
ergy prices and that the decline in
inflation, fueled by lower energy
prices, has been beneficial. The
bloom, however, may be short-lived,
he warned.
“It’s virtually impossible to con
vince people to take a long-range
outlook,” he said. “The thing to
wake people up is when they have to
wait two hours to get gasoline.”
The accounting Firm’s annual sur
vey of domestic oil companies shows
sharp drops in capital expenditures
and re-investment and deteriorating
replacement of reserves, with inde
pendent producers taking the hard
est hits.
“The lower level of expenditures
will result in lower addition of re
serves in 1986, 1987 and 1988,” Ad
kerson said.
In 1985, according to the survey,
less than 65 percent of the nation’s
oil was replaced. In prior years, it
was more than 100 percent.
“The excessive supply of oil
worldwide, the depressed demand
for energy, and the challenges
caused by deregulation have let to
this situation,” he said. “A realistic
appraisal provides no evidence that
a significant economic recovery will
occur in the near future, particularly
for the U.S. oil and gas producing
industry.
“Survey results, combined with
ongoing developments in and future
expectations about oil and gas mar
kets, indicate that these conditions
will likely remain with us for the rest
of this decade.”
For U.S. oil firms, the accounting
firm said, the short-term effects of
the situation will be continued dras
tic reductions in cash flow, poor fi
nancial results, increased interest in
buying and selling reserves and
more consolidations and business
failures.
“The very significant falloff in
capital spending will take its toll,” he
predicted. “While the falloff in
prices will stimulate demand, there’s
no realistic analysis of data to indi
cate a boom in the near term.”
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