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Photographers on campus this week
The photographers from Yearbook Associates will be in
137 MSC this week to take pictures for the 1983 Aggieland.
All juniors, seniors, graduate, medical ancf vet school stu
dents have until Dec. 17 to have their pictures taken. There
will be no makeups after this date.
The temporary studio is downstairs from the check
cashing desk at the hotel main desk. The photographers will
be there from 9 a.m. until 4 pan. every day next week.
Variety show applications available
Applications for the 1983 MSC Variety Show are available
now at the secretaries island in 216 MSC. This year’s show is
scheduled for April 15. Applications are due Feb. 4 and
auditions start Feb. 23.
For more information call 845-1515.
Bryan library offers line-free time
If you have overdue books checked out from the Bryan
Public Library, now is your chance to return them. Books
can be returned Fine-free at the library through Dec. 22. City
librarian Clara Mounce urges everyone to take advantage of
the amnesty period, since an increase in lines and fees will
become effective Dec. 23.
India Association donates records
1 he India Association donated 10 record albums of Indian
classical music to the MSC Browsing Library in a meeting
Sunday night. Rajesh Patel made the presentation on behalf
of the Association to librarian Peggy Klinkseik.
The India Association, with a membership of about 200,
represents all the East Indian people on campus and in the
Brazos Valley area.
SG to sponsor book exchange
If you have used textbooks to sell, Student Government is
accepting books for a Student Book Exchange.
To sell a book, make sure the book is being used in the
spring semester. Student Government has a list to check.
You set your own selling price. When you bring your books
in, fill out a card for each book. The book is f iled by subject
and course number. Sellers will have a mastercard in which a
record of all his or her books are kept and sales are recorded.
The cost to have a book in the exchange is 25 cents.
Things to remember:
— Books are to be deposited Dec. 13-17.
— The exchange is in 216 MSC.
— The exchange lasts from Jan. 12 to Jan. 21.
— Pick up money or unsold books Jan. 24 through Jan. 26.
— All money and books should be claimed in 216 MSC.
— All unclaimed books and money will go to Student Ser
vices.
If you have any questions call the Student Government
Office or Theresa at 260-0893.
Teaching seminar deadline next
week
Dr. Glenn Johnson will conduct his annual workshop on
Enhancing College Teaching for Texas A&M faculty and
teaching assistants from 8 a.m.to 4 p.m. on Jan. 13. The
deadline for enrollment in the workshop is Dec. 15.
Johnson has conducted the workshop annually for over a
decade. Last year over 100 Texas A&M faculty and graduate
students participated in the seminar.
For more information contact Betty Westbrook at 845-
8363.
Christmas party for staff children
A Christmas party for children of Texas A&M faculty, staff
and students will be held Wednesday at 7 p.m.
The party, sponsored by the MSC Hospitality Committee,
will be in 201 MSC. Children who are 10 years old or youn
ger are invited to make Christmas stockings, play games, sing
Christmas carols and. visit with Santa Claus.
St Joseph Hospital to break ground
The St. Joseph Hospital Community invites the citizens of
the Brazos Valley to a groundbreaking ceremony to be held
Sunday at 3 p.m. on the 29th Street side of St. Joseph
Hospital.
The ceremony will celebrate the beginning of construc
tion on the expansion and modernization project. Refresh
ments will be served.
Graduate student to receive award
Danelle Tanner, a graduate student at the Texas A&M
Cyclotron Institute, has been selected the first recipient of
the Minoru and Ethel Tsutsui Distinguished Graduate Re
search Award in Science from the New York Academy of
Sciences.
Tanner, who receives the award today in New York City,
will be given a plaque and a $1,500 prize in recognition of
her studies on experimental nuclear physics.
The prize honors the late Dr. Minoru Tsutsui, who was a
member of the Texas A&M faculty at the time of his death in
1981, and his wife, Dr. Ethel Ashworth-Tsutsui, who is a
professor of biochemistry and biophysics at Texas A&M.
If you have an announcement or interesting item to
submit for this column, come by The Battalion office in 216
Reed McDonald or call Tracey Taylor at 845-2611.
More electricity for A&M
by Michael Larkin
Battalion Reporter
A power line between the Bra
zos Electric Power Cooperative
Inc. and Texas A&M University
will provide the campus with
additional electrical power.
William Holland, associate
director for utilities in the Phy
sical Plant Department, said that
a power line, which will provide
about 138,000 volts of addition
al power for the University,
should be finished by May.
The new power line is the
first phase of a two-part project
to increase the campus power
supply. The first phase includes
construction of two transfor
mers to step down the 138,000
volts to the campus distribution
level of 12,500 volts.
Additional facilities to bring
the power from the transfor
mers to the campus will be built
in the second phase of the ex
pansion.
The University currently gen
erates 35,000 kilowatts of power
with the use of five turbines.
One gas turbine puts out 15,000
kw of power, while four steam
turbines generate a total of
20,000 kw.
In an emergency, the turbines
can be operated on either natu
ral gas or diesel fuel. If the natu
ral gas supply is cut off, Holland
said, the generators can switch
to diesel.
In preparation for such an
emergency, the University
keeps approximately 2.28 mil
lion gallons of diesel fuel on
hand. This would allow the
generators to supply the Univer
sity with electric power for three
months, Holland said.
Another power source for the
University is the existing 69,000
volt power line from the Brazos
Electric Power Cooperative. Joe
Estill, director of the Physical
Plant, said the line supplies ab
out 15 to 20 percent of the Uni
versity’s power.
Although the University has
power failures, Estill said, there
are no more problems here than
than in most cities. He said the
power system here is in no worse
condition than the one in
Houston.
Holland said loss of all power,
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failure of underground circuits
and failure of overhead circuits
are the three main types of elec
trical failures on campus.
The loss of all power, Holland
said, is due to major equipment
failure. Failure in the under
ground circuits is generally attri
buted to moisture that has
seeped into the circuits.
Although some open over
head circuits still can be found
on the west campus, most of the
University’s power circuits are
underground.
Overhead circuit failures can
be due to weather conditions
such as wind and lighting.
Animals, such as birds and
squirrels, also have been know to
disrupt power.
The time it takes to repair
power failures depends on the
type of failures, Estill said.
When the failure occurs, a cir
cuit breaker for that line is trip
ped. Once that happens, repair
men know what part of the line
is out.
If it is an overhead failure,
restoration of power takes no
longer than 15 to 30 minutes, he
said, and such failures don’t
affect the entire campus.
But spotting underground
circuit failures requires a diffe
rent procedure.
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circuit breaker is tripped. An in
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plant what type of failurtij
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The first meeting of the
Manufacturers’ Advisory Group
of Aeronautics Research, which
was on the Texas A&M Univer
sity campus Tuesday, accom
plished its purpose, the head of
the Texas A&M Aerospace En
gineering Department said.
Representatives from the
general aviation industry, the
National Aeronautics and Space
Administration and the aeros
pace engineering department at
Texas A&M attended the
meeting.
“So far, the response (from
participants) has been favor
able,” Dr. E.J. Cross Jr. said.
“They (the participants) are
interested in the liaison we’re
trying to (get) established.”
Texas A&M aerospace en
gineering professor, Dr. Stan
Milley, said the purpose of the
meeting is to critique the re
search efforts of Texas A&M.
“We are basically saying what
we’ve done and what we’d like to
do,” Milley said. “And we’re
making sure that the work we’ve
done is of use to industry.”
Larry Duke, of Avco Lycom
ing, a manufacturer of piston
and turbine aircraft engines,
agreed.
“It (the meeting) lets resear
chers know what industry wants
and lets the University know
what industry is doing,” Duke
said.
Cross said it also is important
for NASA to participate in the
meeting because NASA is the
primary financial backer of
aerospace research ail
A&M.
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Professor says A&M
needs wellness center
by Kordell Reid
Battalion Reporter
Texas A&M University has an
illness center — the A.P. Beutel
Health Center. And the Univer
sity soon may have a “wellness
center.”
Students go to the health cen
ter when colds or illnesses be
come acute, but students would
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go to the wellness center to learn
to prevent illness.
Dr. George Jessup, an associ
ate professor of health and phy
sical education who proposed
the wellness center idea, said it’s
an idea whose time has come.
“It is time to get people to
become wellness-oriented and
not illness- oriented,” he said.
“Texas A&M has a number of
student services for illnesses, but
there aren’t any services on how
to prevent them.”
The wellness center would
deal with topics such as drugs,
alcohol, birth control, stress and
anxiety, Jessup said.
Texas A&M has all the ser
vices needed to establish a well
ness center, he said, and the De
partment of Student Services
has established a steering com
mittee to study the center in
more detail.
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