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staff photo by Brenda Davidson
Bob Rumbarger, left, a business major, and
Mickey Peters, a physical engineering major,
hold up their end of a pushing exercise in
B-2. Both are sophomores from Eagle Pass.
by Stephanie M. Ross
Battalion Staff
Even though there are no more
bonuses or “happy hours" as a re
sult ofa new accounting system for
the use of computers by students,
there shouldn't be problems for
students completing course work,
Dr. Bruce McCormick, the new
department head of computer sci
ence, said.
Happy hour was a time when
students using the computer
could do work at a lesser cost than
usual. This allowed them to save
part of the money allocated to
them to work on their programs
throughout the semester.
“To my perspective, it was no
system that anyone could ever
plan because the rates were inde
terminant,” McCormick said.
"This year the data processing
center uses a hard cash basis for
the machines.
“When new rules were made
up, the problems of groups who
made significant use of happy hour
and bonuses weren t looked at,”
he said. He added that as time
goes on, the department will look
at the problems and try to either
redistribute money or change the
rates on the machines to solve the
problems.
Right now the center is running
at the same rate in terms of re
sources per student as last year, he
said, but earlier, when the money
was being allocated to the depart
ment there was a shortage —
there were only enough funds to
run the system at 40 percent of the
resources they had last year.
“Obviously those resources
were there last year, and obvious
ly they were being paid for — no
thing has changed that much,”
McCormick said.
He said that this is not a funding
problem, but probably an
accounting problem that will be
taken care of, and said he is not
very worried about it since the
system presently is running at a
rate equivalent to last year.
“It’s just that the transition to a
new accounting system for that
data processing center was so
abrupt and so difficult to estimate
that we ended up with inadequate
resources,” McCormick said.
“Right now we re running at the
same resources per student as last
year, he said.
McCormick said he sees the
new accounting system merely as
a “patch” on a larger problem that
will need an overall solution and
he already has begun looking into
the problem.
In an age when the technology
of electronics and computers is
changing and developing so rapid
ly, it is difficult for anyone to keep
up, he said. McCormick said the
centralized computer system is
outdated, and he hopes to change
to a new, less centralized system
within three years.
McCormick said he hopes to get
new equipment with the highest
teaching potential for the stu
dents, so they will be able to learn
more up-to-date methods than are
available on the current central
ized system.
by Karen Wallace
Battalion Reporter
Dr. Tex Taylor, associate pro
fessor of Veterinary Large Animal
Medicine and Surgery at Texas
A&M, says he is trying to build up
better donkey stock for people
who are interested in breeding
quality mules.
A growing interest in mules as
recreational and work animals is
creating a need to provide better
quality horses and donkeys,
Taylor said Tuesday.
“A mule is a hybrid,” he said.
“Its mother is a horse and its father
is a donkey.” The better quality
horse and donkey available, the
better quality mule produced.
Taylor said although the utiliza
tion of mules is not new, people
are interested in using mules as
recreational animals — like horses
— and as work animals in mule
teams.
“Some people who a few years
ago would ve used a tractor to do
their chores will use a team of
mules today,” Taylor said.
“The advantage of a mule team
is economic,” he said. Although a
tractor costs about the same as the
purchase and upkeep of a team of
mules, a mule team can perform a
wider variety of chores, he said.
For about the last ten years,
Taylor said he and his wife have
traveled all over the country
trying to put together a herd of
donkeys. He has used the latest
procedures in veterinary medi
cine on them in hopes of getting
the quality stock he desires.
“My goal is to produce good
quality in big numbers,” Taylor
said. The stock he has now is not
near what it needs to be, as far as
shape and size, he said.
“It will take a few years to come
up with a good stock,” he said.
Taylor hopes to have the quality
donkey stock he wants in about 10
There has recently been a good
demand for work stock abroad,
Taylor said. Some of the South
American and Asian countries use
mule teams because technologic
ally they are 70 years behind the
United States and don’t have the
education to manage technical
machinery.
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Temporary crash barriers
do well in safety testing
by Wanda Winkler
Battalion Staff
The Texas Transportation Insti-
;ute, a research agency of the
Texas A&M System, has com-
jleted its testing of a portable
rash barrier designed to protect
treeway maintence crews in
Houston.
TO worked closely with the
state Department of Highways
>nd Public Transportation to pro-
luce a practical harrier, sche
duled for use in October, Dr.
Hayes E. Ross, research engineer
of TO, says.
The barrier, a 44-foot steel
(ream suspended between two
trucks, was designed by Ross and
Hr, W. Lynn Reason, assistant re
search engineer of TTI. During
the tests at the University Re
search Annex, the barrier took a
50-mile per hour impact from a
size car and received only a
three-inch deformation, Reason
said.
Workers inside the barrier and
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cause cars are redirected upon im
pact, Ross said. The barrier is 27
inches high — the standard height
of guardrails.
“It s easy to transport, install
and move up and down the free
way,” Ross said. “You pull it like a
trailer.
Before work on the the barrier
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Houston road crew workers were
killed when they were struck by
vehicles, highway officials said.
“It’s designed to solve problems
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Ross said. He and Reason discus
sed and analyzed barriers of diffe
rent lengths and strengths to de
velop a practical, serviceable de
sign. Workers can set up the struc
ture in about 10 to 15 minutes,
Reason said.
Although the barrier project
still is in an experimental stage,
Ross said he thinks it will be used
and accepted. The degree of use
will depend on its performance in
Houston. Each new barrier will
cost less than $10,000 excluding
the cost of the trucks, Reason said.
Another TTI research project is
being conducted by John Strybos,
a civil engineering graduate stu
dent. Strybos has been testing an
emergency gate for concrete free
way barriers that provides
emergency vehicles access to van
pool and bus freeway lanes.
Damon Buffington and Dean
Sicking, civil engineering gradu
ate students, have been develop
ing a crash cushion to place at the
end of concrete barriers. A crash
cushion is a device that will stop a
vehicle safely in a short distance.
Ross said TTI benefits the Uni
versity and the state through its
graduate research programs.
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