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\ Hocal Battalion/Page 3 September 27, 1982 ne ^ at lo n tin ttely. o ourlitr, ulty ntf duate 8 Spends problej lebatei 1 Kyle Fid educai probli icentrat isues, s, notfe obel Pri ask the center,! rs. out oft If Women’s issues focus of group by Kelly Krauskopf Battalion Reporter The Texas A&M Women’s Student Organization offers female students the oppor tunity to share interests and get involved in current women’s issues such as women in war and women in the work force. Leslie Hames, WSO presi dent, said the organization was formed last spring to obtain a better understanding of women’s lives and to prom ote an atmosphere of friend ship, unity and equality among other women’s groups and students. “To achieve this purpose, the WSO provides programs on women’s issues for educa tion and awareness and coop erates with other women’s groups on campus and in the community,” Hames said. “We just really started soli difying and getting our foundation last year.” Hames said the WSO is open to all ideas and issues. “The issues don’t necessari ly have to be ... feminist issues like equal rights,” Hames said. “We’ve had Planned Parent hood and the Rape Crisis Cen ter speak to our group.” With only 25 members, the WSO’s main goal this year is to start a “networking” program with other existing women’s groups such as the Society of Women Engineers and Amer ican Women in Science, Hames said. Networking, sometimes referred to as “women’s talk,” is a way for women to help each other de velop and use contacts for jobs, ideas, work strategies and inside information about their fields or companies. Hames said the women’s groups at Texas A&M are not currently united in any way. “I think there is a lot we could do for each other as far as establishing contacts, get ting publicity and even fund raisers,” she said. “These are things that are really difficult to do on your own as a small group, but as collective groups maybe we could work together.” Monopoles: future energy source? A&M scientists seek particles by David Johnson Battalion Reporter An experiment by two Texas A&M physicists could have the impact of the experiments that led to the atomic bomb. Drs. Robert Webb and Peter McIntyre, associate professors of physics, are conducting an ex periment to detect magnetic monopoles. McIntyre compared the effect of discovering mono poles to the discovery of the neutron in the early 1930s which led to the atomic bomb and modern physics. Webb and McIntyre said monopoles could be a source of energy if a method could be de vised to harness them. One monopole reaction has twenty million trillion times more potential energy than a hyd rogen fusion reaction. Mono poles are thought to exist on Earth in 1 to 2 billion-year-old magnetic ores. Both Webb and McIntyre said the discovery of the monopole is important because it would sup port the grand unified theory that ties together all the forces of the universe. The unified theory predicts that monopoles could be factors in the nuclear fusion process as catalysts and as the large body of hidden mass that is necessary to explain the oscillat ing universe theory (in which the universe eventually collapses in on itself and is reborn). Magnetic monopoles are thought to be slow, massive par ticles that were created in the Big Bang that scientists believe created the universe. These par- RESEARCH tides have a magnetic charge in stead of an electrical charge and are called monopoles because unlike a magnet — which has positive and negative poles — they have only a positive or negative pole. Like matter and anti-matter, positive and nega tive monopoles will destroy each other if they meet. McIntyre said monopoles ex ist only at very high energy states and were created in the first few microseconds of creation when temperatures and pressures were high enough to allow them to exist. In the fraction of a second after the fireball cooled, the monopoles were frozen into their present state. Webb said the theory that monopoles exist has been around for about 50 years, but until recently they were thought to be fast, light particles that could be detected through ordinary means. The recent for mulation of the grand unified theory changed the concept of the monopole to a slow, massive particle that would not show up in ordinary detectors. . The experiment is being con ducted in a salt mine under Av- ery-Allen, La. The detection apparatus is located 700 feet be low the surface to shield the de tector from cosmic rays. The de tector is composed of three layers of “Plexi-Pop” scintilla tion plastic, which is a type of plastic that emits light when a charged particle strikes it. Webb and McIntyre hope to record 12 to 14 passages of monopoles through the detector over the next year. Dorm key rule may limit thefts by Tracy Johnston Battalion Reporter The next time you find your self locked out of your dormi tory room, don’t ask a resident adviser to let you in. Since Sept. 1, RAs haven’t had pass keys. Dan Miser, area coordinator for Mosher and Aston Halls, said the policy was adopted to cut down on theft and to put more of the responsibilty on the students to keep track of their key. “We’ve had continued prob lems throughout the years with students on floors realizing that the RAs have keys, and they just rely on the RA to let them in. That’s not the primary role of an RA,” Miser said. Numerous pass keys have been lost or stolen in the past. Once a pass key is missing, all of the locks in the dorm must be replaced to ensure security. If a hall resident does get locked out, he or she must notify an RA. The RA will get a dupli cate room key from the head re sident’s office. The key must be returned immediately to the head resident after the door has been unlocked. If a student continually mis places or loses a key, he or she will be referred to the area coor dinator. The area coordinator will try to find out what the problem is. Miser said students should get in the habit of carrying their keys with them at all times. “Once you get out of the resi dent halls and move off campus, you’re on your own,” he said. “When you live in an apartment or house, you can’t rely on some body else to let you in.” Kay Mann, an RA in Mosher, said it’s a relief not to have to open doors for students. “I didn’t mind opening doors for somebody who was locked out of their own room but many times they would ask me to open a friend’s room,” she said. “It was hard explaining to them that I could not open another door even though I did have a key. Now I don’t have to worry because I don’t have a pass key to let them in.” Archie Introduces... THE NFL BOXED LURCH 310 N. Harvey Road, College Station On Wednesday September 29th, from 11 a. m. to 11 p.m., everyone who purchases an HFL Boxed Lunch will receive an FiFL team cap for 58<t. Quantities are limited and consist of the Dallas Cowboys or Houston Oilers. 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