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September 24, 1982
Career Day set
for Saturday
The routine of a home football
weekend at Texas A&M will be
interrupted Saturday when
5,000 to 8,000 high school and
junior college students visit
Career Day ’82.
Career Day is an opportunity
for students, parents and coun
selors to visit the campus and
learn about career opportunities
available at Texas A&M, said
Elaine Saunders, assistant dire
ctor of the Office of School Rela
tions.
Career Day is on a football
weekend to get the people here,
1 she said.
Career Day, sponsored by the
Office of School Relations, is a
campus-wide activity that in
cludes organized tours, presen
tations and open houses. Infor
mal tours of the campus start at
the Rudder Information Desk if
requested.
Exhibits will be in the Acade
mic and Agency Building, Hal-
bouty Geosciences Building,
Heldenfels Hall, Langford
Architecture Center, O&M
Building, Veterinary Medicine
Complex and Zachry Engineer
ing Center from 10 a.m. to 3
p.m. Faculty and students will be
available from each department
to answer questions and show
people around.
Football tickets to the Texas
A&M-Lousiana Tech can be
bought for $3.
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Federal aid down;
contributions up
by Michael Larkin
Battalion Reporter
Although federal student
financial aid has declined in
recent years, private contribu
tions have helped keep scho
larships at Texas A&M Uni
versity on the upswing, Dr.
William McFarland, director
of student financial aid, said.
McFarland said former
students have been most
cooperative in trying to shoul
der some of the burden feder
al cutbacks have caused.
Still, 1,000 fewer students
are receiving financial aid this
year than two years ago.
Although 12,000 students
received aid in the 1980-1981
school year, only 11,000 stu
dents will this year, McFar
land said.
This decrease not only re
flects the cutback in aid, but
also a change in philosophy
concerning the requirements
for aid, McFarland said.
“There have been some re
ductions. Most of the changes,
however, reflect an effort to
return the aid programs to
their original purpose, which
was to help students cover the
cost of a college education—
not to carry the whole bur
den,” says a U.S. Department
of Education circular which
has been released recently.
1980-1981 to about $5 million
in 1982-1983.
But the $8.2 million ol fed
eral aid is an optimistic figure
because it is tentative. Until
Congress approves the figure,
the University can use only
half of that sum.
This is a reversal of the li
beral view of financial aid that
was prevalent during the
1960’s and 1970’s, McFarland
said.
McFarland cited these fi
gures:
— In 1980-1981, $23 million
was available for loans or
grants, but only $15 million
will be available this year.
— The federal share of that
aid in 1980-1981 was $16.5
million, but this year’s total is
expected to be only $8.2 mil
lion.
— Local donations have in
creased from $4 million in
Exceptions to that are the
National Direct Student
Loans and the Pell Grants.
Currently, the University can
finance the N.D.S.L. loans
with money it has collected
from repayments of previous
N.D.S.L. loans. This amounts
to $30,000, McFarland said.
The $2.5 million in Pell
Grants was unaffected. But
Congress is thinking of elimi
nating the Pell Grant in the
1983-1984 year, he said.
Because Congress might
not decide 1982-83 figures
until November, applications
for aid in the upcoming year
will be delayed by one month,
McFarland said.
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Battalion Reporter
The Texas A&M Department
of Chemistry has received a
$60,000 grant from the National
Science Foundation to build a
hydrogen research center in the
basement of the Chemistry
Building by April.
Bill Craven, proposed gener
al manager of the center, said
the center has not yet received
University approval, but he said
he is confident it will. The center
will be used by a hydrogen re
search group which formed at
Texas A&M in 1980.
The research will deal with
the three main problem areas of
hydrogen: production,
portation and storage.
The problem with hydrogen
production is basically financial,
Craven said. Hydrogen is inex
pensively made from natural
gas, but the price has to be
brought down on the produc
tion of hydrogen from water.
Transporting hydrogen is
hard because hydrogen can easi
ly crack pipes and containers,
Craven said. The hydrogen
molecule is so small that it can
work its way between the mole
cules of the container and break
its bond.
Michael Goad, chemistry de
partment Research assistant, said
trans- storage is a problem
roanoqi
because
the tradition of
the world’s great problem solvers.
Unquestionably, Leonardo
da Vinci possessed one of the
world’s great minds. Not only re
nowned as a painter and sculp
tor, da Vinci also applied his
exceptional talents to the me
chanics of flight, to cartography
for planning military campaigns,
and even astronomy
Today scientists and engi
neers at E-Systems continue the
tradition by expanding the practi
cal application of advanced tech
nology. E-Systems uses the
principles of flight mechanics as
the basis for major modifications
to aircraft, expands basic car
tography to encompass highly
sophisticated guidance and com
mand and control systems, and
has designed and built a sys
tem that greatly expands man’s
ability to study the universe.
That’s only a small seg
ment of the tough problems
E-Systems engineers solve in
the area of antennas, communi
cations, data acquisition, pro
cessing, storage and retrieval
systems and other systems ap
plications for intelligence and re
connaissance — systems which
are often the first of a kind in
the world.
For a reprint of the da Vinci
illustration and information on ca-
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reer opportunities'with E-Systems
in Texas, Florida, Indiana, Utah,
and Virginia, write: Dr. Lloyd K.
Lauderdale, Vice President
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hydrogen takes up a lot of room
but contains little energy. Tht
hydrogen must be compressed
and stored in organic liquids or
in a metal hydride, which is
similar to a sponge. Hydrogen
is flammable and also must be
stored away from sparks or ex
treme heat.
The many uses for hydrogen
make this type of research im
portant, Craven said. The main
use for hydrogen is making
ammonia for fertilizer. Hyd
rogen also is used as a natural
preservative for foods and is
used in the glass and steel indus
tries to rid the products of im
purities.
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used to fuel cars.
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Riverside, Calif, was on campus
Sept. 16 with his hydrogen-
powered car. He said air pollu
tion in some California cities has
been reduced by replacing fossil
fuels with hydrogen.
When hydrogen is burned,'
steam is given off instead of car
bon monoxide and dissipates
into the atmosphere. Hydrogen
is used in aerospace projects to
fuel rockets.
Craven said as the center ex-1
pands in size, the petroleum and
chemical engineering depart
ments also will be able to con
duct research that deals with j
hydrogen.
Our Garland Division will be on campus interviewing November 1, 2.
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