New Mexico State University - Swastika Yearbook (Las Cruces, NM)

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The Biology Departraent Biology maiors have a wide range of courses open to them in nearly any field they chose to enter. Courses are taught by an especially active, well-informed staff. Nearly all the In- structors In the biology department work on some sort- of research projects. Dr. and Mrs. Anderson (he heads the department), shown In the Beta Beta Beta picture, are working with parasites, and have found two undescribed species so far. The Andersons spend their sum- mers working at the University of Michigan Biological Research Station. Dr. Staffeldt, who made sensational progress on a cure for ring- worm ( athlete ' s foot ) is now in Lebanon study- ing various crops that might be suitable for growing here, hie has done research on cancer, cotton and peanut disease controls. The biology department ' s secretary, Mrs. Hanks, says It Is not unusual for him to hand her eight or ten letters, each about a different project In which he is involved. Dr. Dunford Is doing genetic research on gum weed, and ways to control the fruit fly population. Dr. Dick-Peddle is work- ing with the State Highway Department on ways to keep mesqulte and creosote bush away from the highways, and replace them with more attractive natural plants. Dr. Raitt Is doing research on the hybridization of quail, and Dr. Zimmerman Is doing more or less the same thing with water beetles. Dr. Whitford Is work- ing with spotted salamanders. Both Dr. Zimmer- man and Dr. Whitford have water resources grants and are doing studies on the Rio Grande. Tony Smith, Dave Moore, Dick Mays, Terry Best, Dr. Raltt (at the coffee-pot). Dr. Zimmerman, and Dr. Whitford take a mid-morning break in the coffee-room. David Moore, a graduate assistant, mounts a . . . bug?

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. If lbsl Dr. Dick-Peddie and members of a field ecology class make final preparations for a three-day field trip. Gerald is standing at the right rear of the truck. Gerald is trying to hide Dr. Dick-Peddie. Graduate assistant Mike Wright watches Darlene and Charles Betts, Susan Roederer and Ron- nie Milbourn take cats apart in Biology 201. Students and pro- fessors seated around the table in an advanced ecology course are Dr. Zimmer- man (back to the camera), Walter Conley, Gary McVickers, Dave Moore (end of table), Dick Mays, Tony Smith, Bob Little, Ed Free- man, Jess Hanks, Dr. Raitt, and Dr. Dick-Peddie.

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9 Nancy Aguilar, another Econ. 253 student, goes direct to General Hugh Milton, Vice President of the First National Bank of Dona Ana County, and discovers the importance of the Federal Reserve Sys- tem. Economics is everywhere — not only in the classroom. Professor Downs broadcasts on the Right to Work Legislation.