Budget cuts blow in
Woodall to retire
stormy weather days
/
I
See page 3
/ w ?•' i
/
See page 5
^tionsf
s Repaj
IRYAN
■8i Si
sestah
ikW
at.:
■sSt,
"TlCAll
ice 1935,
The Battalion
Serving the University community
75 No. 148 DSPS 045360 18 Pages
College Station, Texas
Wednesday, May 5, 1982
andiver delivers address
Phi Kappa Phi inidates
^0
L
by Denise Richter
Battalion Staff
(ifpre than 350 students and faculty
re initiated Tuesday into the Texas
fcM chapter of Phi Kappa Phi, a
Hnal honor society that recognizes
hievement in all fields of study,
iriiersity President Frank E. Van-
rer delivered -the main address,
pour excellence, diligence and
oWess entrust you with obligations
well as excellent opportunities,”
indiver said. “You are people of
hievement and high promise. Be-
pe you are, you share with each
her the obligation not to waste
urselves — you must use yourselves
the general good.”
Vandiver told the initiates to re-
eraber the role the University and
faculty has played in their achieve-
ents.
“Our faculty has sharpened your
inds with knowledge and has equip
ped you to change the world,” he said.
“This University will reach out to the
whole world with you as it brings the
skill and wisdom of the faculty to bear
on humanity.”
After the initiation ceremony, the
outstanding junior in each college was
announced:
College of Agriculture — George
T. Boozalis, a biochemistry major
from Lake Jackson;
College of Architecture and En
vironmental Design — Bryan Kirk
Teske, an environmental design ma
jor from Longview;
College of Business Administra
tion — Ellen Lynne Perkins, an
accounting major from San Antonio;
College of Education — Lynda D.
Beard, an educational curriculum
and instruction major from Bryan;
College of Engineering — Lorenzo
D. Presley, an electrical engineering
major from Port Neches;
College of Geosciences — Kelley
Elaine Carlson, a geophysics major
from Elgin;
College of Liberal Arts — Phyllis
Terry Henderson, a journalism ma
jor from Nevada, Tex.;
College of Science — Mary Alice
Mills, a chemistry major from Lub
bock;
College of Veterinary Medicine —
Chris Curtis Pinney, a biomedical sci
ence major from Houston;
Texas A&M University at Galves
ton — Kevin A. Lawrence, a marine
engineering major from York, Penn.
Henderson was named the overall
outstanding junior and received a
$750 chapter scholarship.
William C. Altman received a
$4,500 national Phi Kappa Phi fellow
ship, given to a student who plans to
continue his or her studies on the gra
duate level.
2.5
ile
vows to fight on
United Press International
Amid reports of a major sea battle raging near the
ilkland Islands, Britain vowed to keep up its war with
‘ ntina today despite the loss of up to 30 men along
tfi a $40 million destroyer and a Sea Harrier jet.
Irime Minister Margaret Thatcher faced mounting
e|sure in the fifth day of open hostilities with Argentina
domestic opposition and European allies for a cease-
e in a war that may also have taken hundreds of Argen-
|lives.
jhe HMS Sheffield was hit Tuesday by a French-made
'«x:et missile, one of naval warfare’s most lethal weapons,
■ed from a plane launched from the British-built 25th of
.ay aircraft carrier, U.S. intelligence sources said.
But intelligence sources in Washington, quoted by the
■
New York Times, said the attack was only a small element
of a “major naval battle” raging in the 200-mile combat
zone around the islands, 450 miles off the Argentine coast.
Argentina said it had rescued 680 survivors from its
cruiser General Belgrano, leaving 362 men still missing in
the icy sea. The ship, Argentina’s second largest, was tor
pedoed by a British submarine Sunday.
The U.S. Embassy in Buenos Aires, citing “the tragic
conflict in the South Atlantic and the unsettled condition it
has created,” said it would evacuate some embassy person
nel and dependents from the country temporarily.
A Foreign Office spokesman stressed, however, Fore
ign Secretary Francis Pym was considering new peace
initiatives by the United Nations and the United States.
illegal aliens picked up
||Representatives of the U.S. Im-
ieraiion and Naturalization Service
.cjcecl up 121 illegal aliens in Brazos
joiluty Tuesday in the second largest
>undup of illegal aliens made in the
l-county San Antonio district, an
N| spokesman says.
■The majority of the aliens were
’ofking at area construction sites,
he names of the companies have not
,een released.
■NS investigators were assisted by
Brazos County sheriffs deputies.
Sixty-seven of the illegal aliens
were kept overnight at the Brazos
County jail. The remaining aliens
were returned to Mexico at Piedras
Negras.
An INS spokesman said the raid
was not part of a nationwide INS
operation last week that has been the
target of international criticism.
“Operation Jobs” is an attempt at
rounding up illegal aliens who cur
rently hold high-paying jobs. The
Texas raids were concentrated in
Houston, Dallas and Fort Worth.
Last week, 64 illegal aliens were
rounded up in Austin.
The raids have been criticized by
civil liberties organizations and His
panic groups, and by Mexican Presi
dent Jose Lopez-Portillo and Alfredo
De Avila, state social services director
for the Texas Farmworkers Union.
Board may give Hansen house
' ort/-oil/"J /aoirmofr** A 11T' C T ( n TT i /"‘Vlnr'#*!_ »-»xr Tin 11 *-r-» r*
phancellor-designate Arthur G.
msen may become the first Texas
liM System chancellor to occupy a
i itnanent chancellor’s residence if
i 1H y| Board of Regents approves the
lea at its June 10 meeting.
I hC president of Purdue Uni-
ersity for 11 years, will replace Dr.
Ink W.R. Hubert as System chan-
ellorjuly 1.
Gen. Wesley E. Peel, vice chancel
lor for facilities planning and con
struction, said there is a pretty good
chance a proposal for a University-
owned chancellor’s residence will be
approved by the board.
Peel said a number of sites have
been considered, but none have been
chosen. However, the site that prob-
The Remote Computing Center, was
packed to near-capacity on Tuesday night.
staff photo by Peter Rocha
Crowds are a common sight — especially
when final programs are due.
Up-to-date computers
still pack in crowds
ably will be recommended to the
Board is off Jersey Street near the
West Bypass (Farm Road 2818).
Texas A&M has never had a chan
cellor’s home.
When Hubert became chancellor,
he already had a home in Bryan, so
building a chancellor’s residence
wasn’t mentioned, Peel said.
by Joe Sloan
Battalion Reporter
Students waiting 30 minutes or
more for their computer printouts
during the Remote Computing Cen
ter “happy hour” may have trouble
believing Texas A&M has one of the
most up-to-date computer systems in
the country, but the director of the
Data Processing Center says it does.
“If you take what we have here (at
the DPC), including all the super
mini-computers owned by the sepa
rate departments, we have probably
the most advanced computer system
of any university in the country — or
even the world,” Dr. Dick B. Simmons
said.
The Data Processing Center was
established at Texas A&M in 1959 by
the Texas Engineering Experiment
Station to establish a single central
processing center for the University.
When the DPC first opened, the
largest of the original three compu
ters, an IBM 709, contained 8,000
bytes.
The current system’s consists of
two computers and 16 million bytes.
A byte is the amount of memory
needed to record one character of in
formation.
The first of the DPC’s two current
computers, an Amdahl V6, was pur
chased in 1975 and replaced an IBM
370. The second computer, an
Amdahl V8, which supplements the
V6, was installed in December.
Each unit contains 8 million bytes
and together the two will have the
capacity to handle 1,700 remote ter
minals by next year.
The DPC’s first computer could
multiply 1 million by 1 million 5,000
times in one second.
The two Amdahls can communi
cate with 1,000 different terminals in
a fraction of a second.
So why the long wait during happy
hour?
“We have the capacity to run stu
dent programs 24 hours a day, but the
University limits us to four hours a
day,” Simmons said. “I don’t really
know why they do this.”
Dr. Newton C. Ellis, head of the
department of industrial engineer
ing, said he believes opening up the
Amdahls for 24-hour student prog
ramming could tie up the system.
“I have a half dozen students or so
who could tie up the computer so bad
ly that there would be no chance for
any other users to get onto the sys
tem,” Ellis said.
“There is a fine line between let
ting users have access and having too
many on the system.”
Continuous student use could pre
vent other such DPC customers as
state agencies and research centers
from using the center, Ellis said.
But Simmons disagrees.
Since adding the second compu
ter, the DPC is operating at a fraction
of total capacity, he said.
“With the addition of the new
Amdahl there is a lot more capacity
than the University needs,” Simmons
said. “That was one of the reasons for
adding the new machine.
“If we can handle all of the student
programs in one four-hour period,
why can’t we handle the same load
over a 24-hour period?”
Simmons said a computer system
could be compared to a phone system.
“You always have less capacity than
See DPC page 14
Necking
Lucius shows his
appreciation to Sherri
Wain wright, veterinary
technician from College
Station, for the care he has
received at the large animal
clinic of the Texas A&M
College of Veterinary
Medicine. Lucius is being
treated for a severe joint
infection and minor fractures
in his leg. The
two-month-old giraffe is from
the Fort Worth zoo.
staff photo by David Fisher
inside
Classified 6
Local 3
National 7
Opinions 2
Sports 15
State 4
What’s Up 9
forecast
Today’s Forecast: Cloudy today
with a 30 percent chance of rain
tonight, increasing to 50 percent
tomorrow. The high today will be
in the mid-80s, and the low tonight
will be in the mid-60s.