Tuesday, October 25,1983/The Battalion/Page 5
Nick Evandff, a senior from El
Paso majoring in chemical engineering,
wears cowboy boots instead of his
usual senior boots while changing
clothes after the Texas A&M vs.
Rice football game Saturday.
Computers aid
sports statistics
by Edye Williams
Battalion Reporter
J Computers are involved in
many aspects of life, from
offices for record keeping, bill-
ng and writing form letters to
tomes where for preparing
mlgets and playing games.
■Jplow they are in still another
jntl irea — sports.
Ql l®BDr. Charles Shea, professor
A' 0 ivitli the Human Performance
: onltl |ab. teaches a graduate class
c( ' now to utilize micro-processors
' in the area of sports statistics.
'Students program with the
SIC language and learn to
M'jtpply the programming to
'l' ec needs that could arise during a
jd teaching or coaching experi-
ediijnce.
's^MShea said the purpose of the
d program is to teach physical
m education students “practical
the applications of the computer.”
Most programs developed
!eJ [ keep track of all details of a par-
er ticular sport. For example, bas
ketball coach Tom Heath, wrote
JiRogram to keep track of play
ers! shots attempted, shots
made, fouls and foul shots
attempted and made. The prog
ram computes percentages of
the types of shots as well as the
total points per game. It prints
out a table of the figures, per
centages, names and numbers of
the players.
Another program developed
kept a total of the points won at a
Houston district track meet
according to events, while a
third program kept a detailed
account of a tennis match.
All that is required of the
operator is typing answers to
questions flashed on the screen.
The questions are asked in logic
al game order and usually can be
answered with one letter or
word.
Other programs deal with the
teaching aspect of physical edu-
cation. They are used for
grades, equipment inventory,
budgeting and player histories.
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ngineering Technology Society
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S. M. U. Game Rose Sale
at
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Rudder Fountain
Commons
Sbisa
Lobby-Fermier Hall
Preceeds benefiet the United Way
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Serving
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Sunday through Friday
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Plant, mine creating town growth
Students help with towns’ plans
By Michael Raulerson
Battalion Reporter
Community leaders in six
small Central Texas towns will
have help from Texas A&M
University graduate students in
coping with a population influx
that will result from the con
struction of the Limestone Elec
tric Cenerating Station and the
Jewitt Mine.
Growth from construction
and eventual permanent em
ployment by the plant will affect
Groesbeck, Fairfield, Mexia,
Buffalo, Jewett and Teague.
The towns are all within a 30-
mile radius of the plant.
Six graduate students are
working on the plans to help
cope with the growth. Each stu
dent is responsible for one of the
towns, Alfred Chai, a graduate
student in urban and regional
planning and project coordina
tor, says.
The students collected data
on existing conditions in each
town and set goals and objectives
with assistance from the people
in the towns. The students later
will develop alternative scenar
ios for the townspeople to con
sider, Paul McGregor, a student
in the planning department re
sponsible for Fairfield, said.
Other students involved in
the program are Narra Smith
Cox — Groesbeck; Lee Scott —
Mexia; Cameron Walker — Buf
falo; Jim Quirk — Jewett; and
Don Uram — Teague. Tim
Campbell and Guillermo More
no are in charge of graphics.
The students hope to have the
plans, which were started this
summer, completed by late De
cember, Chai said.
The plans will cover major
elements such as housing, land
use, transportation, community
facilities such as sewage treat
ment and utilities available now
and those needed in the future,
Chai said.
“Services may not be enough
to serve new people,” Chai said.
Gathering the information
for the base was tough because
some of the towns had incom
plete records of past planning,
Chai said.
Three companies that will be
involved in the operation of the
power plant are providing the
funds for the plans. Northwest
ern Resources, will mine the lig
nite for the plant, Houston
Lighting and Power will operate
the plant, and Utility Fuels Inc.
will transport the coal to the
plant.
The three companies came
together to sponsor,the grant,
James Gardner, a professor in
the urban and regional planning
department, said.
The companies could see a
need for guidance for the com
munities due to the changes aris
ing from construction of the
plant, Gardner said.
The department has a com
munity planning project every
semester, Gardner said. This
project is “unique in that there
are six towns being done at the
same time,” he said.
The plant will be constructed
about four miles northwest of
Jewett and is scheduled to begin
commercial operations in April
1987. The lignite will be mined
from the Navasota River north
of Marque to 1-45 north of Buf
falo.
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