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Health Center nights
No cure for late-night blues
This is the fourth of a five-part
series on campus night owls and
how they cope.
by Laura Williams
Battalion Staff
At midnight, when most of
the buildings on campus are
closing down, two nurses at the
A.P. Beutel Health Center are
just starting their day’s work.
Registered Nurses Malinda
McGowan and Sonyia Richards
work at the health center from
12 midnight until 8 a.m. four
days a week and on alternating
weekends.
Despite the unusual hours,
both nurses agree that there is
always enough activity to keep
them awake.
“I’ve had as many as 11 come
in in one night,” Richards said.
“But we usually average five to
eight patients.”
Richards, 34, handles all out
patient and emergency-type
cases at the center. She has been
a registered nurse for 18 years.
“Weekend nights are usually
a lot more busy,” she said. “With
all the students out partying, we
usually have a car accident or a
motorcyle wreck. If its really
bad, we get the ambulance crew
up and send them over to St.
Joseph.”
Richards said the center is
equipped to handle most
emergency cases, but a doctor is
on call in case of questions.
Richards came to work for the
health center from St. Joseph
Hospital in September.
Four emergency medical
technicians live on the second
floor of the health center and
respond to calls from police and
witnesses of accidents.
One of the eight Health Cen
ter doctors is on call on
Health Center in September.
Beutel provides forty-four
rooms on the second floor for
in-patient care, and an
emergency examination room is
furnished with most necessary
equipment for emergency treat
ment.
“We’re always plenty busy,”
McGowan said. “I had as many
as 28 patients at one time, and
with people coming in too, we
stay pretty busy.”
weekends, but during the week a
doctor from Bryan or College
Station answers Richard’s ques
tions and offers advice.
McGowan, the in-patient
nurse, received her RN one year
ago and came to work for the
The nurses said mono, flu
and gastritis are the most com
mon illnesses.
“We stay busy because a stu
dent who comes in in the middle
of the night is going to be feeling
McGow
really bad,” McGowan said.
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“They’re Playing Our Song” will
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The story of a composer and
a lyricist who collaborate in
music and romance, sponsored
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p.m.
Vernon, an Academy Award
winning composer, and Sonia,
an off-beat lyricist, have a diffi
cult time making their lives as
melodious at their music.
Music for the play was written
by Marvin Hamlisch, who did
most of the music for “The
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Dressed in a pink bunny suit, night. Johnson and other members of
elementary education major Barbie the committee distributed paper ears,
Johnson tells children of faculty served punch and cookies, oversaw tht
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HAVE YOU MADE
YOUR MARK AT A&M?
A&M profs working
to make shuttle safer
The Former Students Association wants to
recognize YOU for your contribution to
Texas A&M even before you're a former
student.
20 Seniors 10 Sophomores
15 Juniors 5 Freshmen
and 2 Graduate Students
by Lisa Thompson
Battalion Reporter
Future space shuttle launches
may be safer due to the research
by three Texas A&M University
professors.
Pre-launch ice build-up —
which can form on the shuttle’s
main external tank from cold li
quid oxygen and liquid nitrogen
under certain temperature and
humidity conditions — could
cause damage to the shuttle.
The professors are researching
the National Aeronautic and
Space Administration’s plan to
halt the build-up.
The ice can fall off during
launch and cause damage to the
shuttle. To combat the ice,
NASA is planning to use an
arrangement of jet engine ex
haust nozzles shooting air onto
the tank to prevent build-up.
“What we are trying to do is
verify if that arrangement they
came up with is going to do the
job,” said Dr. Jose Porteiro, pro
fessor of aerospace engineering.
The plan calls for six pairs of
nozzles, three pairs on each side
of the tank. Three pairs are
attached to the gantry, the shut-
de-supporting tower from
which supplies and equipment
are loaded in the shuttle. The
other three pairs are attached on
the other side of the tank to a
tower designed for that pur
pose.
velocity would keep ice fm
forming,” Dr. David Norton,
professor of aerospace c«
gineering, said.
This is done with a wind tun
nel and models of the shuttle,its
support base, the nozzles anti
nozzle towers.
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be measured and correlated to
actual wind conditions to makt
nozzle adjustments, Norton
said.
The professors are taking
measurements of velocities, air
pressure and positioning of the
nozzles.
“We’re going to study the
flow around the tank and the
temperature of air around the
tank and we will deduce whether
that amount of temperature and
Another member of the re
search team is Dr. Thomas Pol
lock, professor of engineer^
design graphics. Pollock is assis
tant director of the Texas En
gineering Experiment Station.
Research ends in July, Por
teiro said, and the results will be
sent to NASA.
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