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WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 26, 1981
For the Campus Directory
This year there’ll be 2!!
FACULTY/STAFF VERSION — scheduled to be available for pickup Oct. 1.
It will be sold for $3.50 over the counter from Student Publications Office,
216 Reed McDonald Building —
— and will include —
Igi'* Emergency numbers, dialing
^instructions, calendars and
Ifschedules, maps and other
Hjgeneral information similar to that
Ifwhich has appeared in past
^Directory white pages, updated to
||include the latest information on
*§the new Texas A&M University
|telephone system.
Ijlj'" A revised general listing of all
^administrative, departmental, and
||staff offices and people, similiar to
|§the lists which have appeared in
||past Directories, but integrated this
Hyear into a single alphabetical list.
||(Requests, with an initial draft of
Ifthis list, already have gone out at
||all departments asking that
^corrections and updates on this
^information be returned no later
|§than Sept. 1 to Geneva Brewer at
^Physical Plant Office to be
^included in this year’s Directory.)
The usual faculty/staff individual
i|!listings. These come from the
^University’s main computer pay roll
||lists. A request already has gone
||to all departments, with a
j|!|computer printout of what currently
i||appears, asking that corrections,
If update and additions to this
Immaterial be returned to Data
| Processing Center by requested
I deadlines to be included in the
11981-82 Directories.
!§|i^ Student Government, Corps of
||i Cadets and Yell Leader lists, as
|l|well as list of all Dorm Room
Hi phone numbers, maintenance and
|| other service maps, a new list of
11 all Speed Numbers and other
|j material which has appeared in the
||| back pages of past Directories.
!*> All yellow pages and a full
|schedule of advertising, which has
|| been a feature of all past
II Directories.
STUDENT VERSION — scheduled to be available for pickup Oct. 30.
Will be the Directory furnished to all students who have paid their $2.50
Directory checkoff fee and who present fee slip at 216 Reed McDonald Building
Also available for over-the-counter sale at $3.50 —
and will include
I:j> ALL OF THE FEATURES
ILISTED ABOVE, PLUS —
H^Student Government and Corps
|of Cadets leaders’ phone numbers,
§|and listings of other material which
|§was not available at press time of
Hearlier Directory.
m
v* A full list of Student
Organizations and leaders,
unavailable at earlier press time,
as it has appeared in past
Directories.
A full list of all individual
students registered at the
University as of the 12th Class
Day, as furnished by University
computers.
Department
Heads be sure
complete, updated information for
your operation is sent to the proper
place to meet 1981-82 Campus
Directory correction deadlines
Students
be sure to check off for the $2.50
fee during registration
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United Press International
ST. LOUIS — When Jay Fleis-
chman talks, his microscope lis
tens.
It not only listens, it does what
he tells it to do.
Fleischman is an eye surgeon,
and his power over operating
room equipment is not limited to
the microscope. He speaks and
the room lights obey. He com
mands and a radio in the operating
room turns on or off.
Fleischman, assistant professor
of ophthalmology at St. Louis Uni
versity and director of retina-
vitreous service at Bethesda Eye
Institute, has devised a unique
voice-actuated computer system.
The system eliminates cumber
some foot pedals needed to oper
ate most equipment used in eye or
other types of delicate surgery.
“It bas an applicability to any
surgeon who uses an operating
microscope with multiple func
tions,” Fleischman said.
The 32-year-old doctor, who
was a computer science major as
an undergaduate at Columbia
University, said he devised the
voice system because he was tired
of the growing clutter of foot
pedals.
In most operations, the surgeon
sits in a chair and must have both
hands free to manipulate the va
rious probes and cutting tools
used in eye surgery. At his feet,
the surgeon can find a bewildering
array of foot pedals needed to op
erate the microscope and other
electronic equipment.
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NEW YORK — Cities and
states have had a rough time rais
ing needed money in the bond
market and the new tax laws could
have a further devastating impact
on the tax-exempt sector.
The new law lowers the tax on
unearned income from a max
imum of 70 percent to 50 percent
“making tax-exempt municipals at
least 20 percent less attractive,”
said Vincent Tese, tax counsel for
Century Securities, a bond trad
ing firm.
High interest rates and the de
pressed bond market already have
hit the municipal sector especially
hard.
Henry Kaufman, chief econom
ist at Salomon Brothers invest
ment banking firm, noted recently
that cities as large as Chicago have
had to pull back planned issues to
wait for a drop in interest rates and
smaller local bond issues are being
crowded out completely.
“There has been a two-year
bear market for municipals, which
in itself has created difficult condi
tions,” Tese said. “Many investors
and speculators have been burned
and aren’t anxious to repeat the
experience.”
Although yields are at record
levels and seemingly attractive
despite the new tax law, a sharp
drop in price takes a further toll.
James Lebenthal, who heads a
municipal bond firm bearing his
name, used a hypothetical two-
income couple with an annual in
come of $50,000 to figure that a 12
percent New York state tax-
exempt bond, now yielding
around 28 percent for a New York
City resident, will yield the
equivalent of 26 percent in 1982.
For a resident of a state with no
state tax, such as Connecticut, the
same $50,000 income couple now
gets an effective yield of 23.5 per
cent on a 12 percent issue and
would see that drop to 21.4 per
cent.
To illustrate the effect of the
price drop, Tese noted, for exam
ple, one tax-exempt issue that sold
last week at 97 (100 is par or
300 copies _
$1,000) with a 12 percenttt fog from a sc
was going for 90 early this, had to 69,0
That means an investor U ;et, Britain,
almost $100 on every $1,Pi lorridors of
initial investment, if he i or tj on to thi
even find a market. itj on lj s t.
“The withdrawal of speti ( n jght sa iri
and investors from the mini f or a WO rld ■
market has made it extreme! 1 a quarter of
quid,” Tese said. “ThatMi j blokes,”
with the fact the new tax pat 00-100,000 b
severely curtails the ratio* $^55
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place makes an illiquid"
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firm said “it’s gotten to tie? J e ^P an s
where even triple-A ratedt wes
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funds.”
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down, ” Lebenthal said,
“I still see a yield adyan^
our market. The lesser att
ness of tax-exempts will he]
outweighed by the prospf
economic recovery in
society. ”
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United Press International
WISCASSET, Maine — An
electronic paging intercom used
by state police to relay messages to
other state agencies accidentally
triggered the nuclear emergency
alert system at the Maine Yankee
nuclear plant, officials said.
“Apparently what happened
was the state police have a central
paging system, and Saturday,
when they used it to contact one of
their people, it set off the alert
system,” Charles Sharpe, director
of the state Bureau of Civil
Emergency Preparedness, said
Monday.
“The paging system is appa
rently on the same frequency as
the alert system,” Sharpe said.
“It’s something that
was overlooked when they,?
system in.”
The nuclear emergent)
system began operation
30.
A booklet given to allre>
living within a 10-mile P
the plant says the alarm 1:
posed to sound during an !
or likely major failure o'
functions or components^
for protection of the publk
Maine Yankee’s nine
sirens, spread across the 1
nebec Valley within the
radius, sounded three ti® f
Satuday afternoon, said ^ f
Moore, state police spokes"'
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