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System saves A&M money
Sprinklers computerized
by Kellie Dworaczyk
Battalion Reporter
Computerized rain? Not yet,
but Texas A&M has a compute
rized watering system to water
the campus grass when nature
doesn’t provide enough rain.
Michael Goldwater, associate
director for ground mainte
nance at Texas A&M, says the
Texas A&M system is the only
one of its kind.
There are about 20,000
underground sjlrinkler heads
on the 500 acres of the main
campus. A central control in the
grounds maintenance building
turns them on and off according
to a schedule.
The system here differs from
other automatic watering sys
tems because it sends the “on”
message to the sprinklers by
radio waves. Most automatic sys
tems send messages by under
ground cables.
The watering schedules acti
vate sprinklers on different
parts of campus every night.
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Whether an area is watered or
not depends on the moisture in
the air, the temperature and the
rainfall in the area, Goldwater
said. The grounds department
looks at those factors and plans a
watering schedule.
Goldwater said the Grounds
Maintenance Department tries
to see that all the areas receive
one inch of water per week —
usually a combination of rainfall
and watering from the sprink
lers.
A rain gauge at the grounds
maintenance building measures
rainfall and can be set to cut off
the sprinklers. For example, if
the gauge is set at two-tenths of
an inch, and it rains two-tenths
of an inch, the sprinklers will not
turn on.
Watering the grass usually
starts around midnight because
the water pressure is highest and
there are fewer people on
campus.
The system was installed ab
out four years ago. Previously,
Texas A&M had an automatic
watering system, but it did not
have a central control. This
means the sprinklers could be
turned on by a time clock, but
men had to be sent to more than
100 controllers to turn the water
off if it rained.
Goldwater said that when the
present system was being de
signed the department looked
into the possibility of using
underground cables or tele
phone wires as a means of com
munication from the central
controller to the sprinklers, but
rejected both ideas.
Because of the many streets
and utility lines on campus,
cables would have been too ex
pensive and too diffucult to run
all over campus, he said. Tele
phone wires also were too ex
pensive, so the department
chose radio waves.
Goldwater said the biggest
advantage to the computerized
watering system is that a water
ing schedule can be changed or
shut off without having to go to
the site, and this saves money.
Because the rain gauge can turn
off the watering system automa
tically, the system does not have
to be monitered constantly.
Shutting the system off at
night can save about one million
gallons of water — about $500.
Manpower costs are saved also
because no one has to go to cam
pus and physically turn off the
sprinklers. Goldwater said the
computerized system saves
Texas A&M about $15,000 a
year.
In the summer about 10 mil
lion gallons of water a week are
used to water the grass.
The watering system can be
cut off at the physical plant
building if there is a fire on cam
pus so that all available water
pressure can be used to fight the
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‘Pirates’ entertainin
but not memorable
by Angel Stokes
Battalion Staff
With a drum roll and hoo
pla, “The Pirates of Penzance”
landed at College Station Sun
day night.
The first act was a flurry of
flirtatious dancing and sing
ing. Frederic, played by Lou
Valenzi, is an indentured pi
rate apprentice who on bis
21st birthday has come of age
supposed to be obnoxious,
they deserve applause.
Maria Muldaur was Freder
ic’s true love as Mabel.
Although given top billing,
she didn’t present a character
dynamic enough to compete
with the others. Her solos
were good, but she was lost in
the carnival effect of the en
semble.
(based men and fmallycaJ
one.
The performance wstj
niited just to the st
reached the pit —th
tra pit. The conductoriJ
the antics by usinghisbaid
fence with the PirateKiiJ
lost.
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and fulfilled his indentured
servitude. He has not laid eyes
on a woman since he was 8
years old, except for Ruth, his
47-year-old nurse maid.
Spying six young sisters,
Frederic realizes what he has
been missing and proceeds to
use all his manly charms to
capture ‘... One Maiden
Breast.’
A swagger stolen from
Elvis’s pelvis sent the coy
maidens into passionate
swoons. If the sisters were
One of the shining charac
ters was the Major-General
Stanley, the father of Mabel
and her sisters. Played by Zale
Kessler, he was a combination
of Teddy Roosevelt and Cap
tain Kangaroo. His outstand
ing solo in which he left the-
cast-the-orchestra-the-
audience breathless, literally,
was some pretty fast singing.
The pirates kepulicj,
alive with choreotrai
bumbling, stumblVJ
fumbling. The poly
used the typicalKeystOM
routine to battle wthilul
rates.
The songs werec
cult to understand, boil
music score kept ilfromfe
dull. The orchestrameiiil
a comic accessory to tlitj
were excellent music®
well.
The Pirate King, played by
Steve Steiner, used melodra-
matics to aid his comic swash
buckling.
Ruth was great when she la
ter joined the pirates in their
pillaging and plundering.
Played by Mary Stout, she
While the first actwl
moving, the secondactii
down ... almost toastoJ
Although entertaidnl
tales” isn’t memorabltj
fun.
“The Pirates of Pent
will perform at 8 toiii
Rudder Auditorium.
Marine battalion on
alert after bombing
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CAMP LEJEUNE, N.C. — A
Marine battalion that returned
from Beirut four months ago
was placed on alert Sunday fol
lowing the terrorist attack ear
lier in the day on Marines in the
peace-keeping force.
Grim-faced Marines moved
about with 80-pound packs and
M-16s. Others weighed jeeps, a
procedure observers said usual
ly means the Marines are getting
ready to go by plane.
“We have a mission to do,"
said Lt. Col. Edwin Kelley, com
mander of the Second Battalion
of the Sixth Regiment of the
Second Marine Division. “We
are going with a level head and
do the jol> we are assigned to do.
We are ready.”
Kelley declined to say how
many men were assigned to his
unit or where it might be going.
A Marine battalion usually is
made up of 800 men.
The Pentagon said jiM
afternoon there had betB’ ^
orders to deploy MarincBjiQ
am where, although thi I . ,
change.
As the Second Battali
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and h iends of memben ^
Marine contingent in mT ‘
waited anxiously for dein j.
the- Sunday attack. b
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