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Thursday, December 1,1983/The Battalion/Page 3 j|ivubiak to try again r congressional seat $ by Robin Black Battalion Staff If at First you don’t succeed, *», try again. Democrat Dan [ibiak obviously believes this adage — he is taking his jond shot at the 6th Con- bsional District seat in the House of Representa- j Kubiak was defeated last bruary by Republican Phil amm in a special election the seat, but announced candidacy Wednesday in liege Station to run again in 1984 state primary. [College Station was Ibiak’s first stop in a one- 1 tour of seven cities in the Itrict. The announcement [icially kicked off his cam- |g n - IThe other cities he visited tdnesday were: Cleburne, Inroe, Corsicana, Fort Worth, Hillsboro, and Waco. There will be no incum bent in the race because Gramm, who now holds the 6th district office, is pursuing the U.S. Senate seat that will be vacated by John Tower. Kubiak said this will “make all the difference in the world” in the election. The most important issue in the campaign right now is experience, Kubiak said, be cause it is essential in fully rep resenting the people of the 6th district. One specific issue he addressed, was that of higher education. He said that it is important that higher educa tion receive the same support on a national level that it is receiving on the state level. Kubiak is a strong suppor ter of the Permanent Univer sity Fund, a state constitution- Dan Kubiak al endowment of money gen erated by the mineral rights to 2.1 million acres of West Texas land. The money is in vested to produce revenues for the Texas A&M and the University of Texas systems. Kubiak, who has only re cently moved to Brazos Coun ty, said he will take a stand on specific issues after he has bet ter established his campaign. A graduate of the Universi ty of Texas, he served as a state representative from 1968 to 1982 and has been named to a number of com mittees on agriculture and education. He is also a busi nessman and farmer. Before becoming a legisla tor, Kubiak was a teacher and coach at Cypress Fairbanks High School in Houston and Vernon High School in Vernon. Mid-term report bill passes Student Senate buttle fixed in flight stronauts researching by Stephanie M. Ross Battalion Staff A bill recommending that mid-term grade reports be eli minated for all students except freshman was passed to the academic affairs committee for research at the Student Govern- ment Senate meeting Wednesday. The bill recommends that fall mid-term grade reports con tinue being sent to freshmen. Senator Ronald Palomares introduced the Mid-Term Grade Policy Bill. He said that after much research his commit tee has found that the grade re ports are a waste of faculty time and university funds. He said students can easily find what their grades will be from their professors, and in some cases professors give “blanket” grades at mid-term. In talking to 15 different uni versities concerning their poli cies on mid-term grade reports, Palomares learned that only one of the universities, Tarleton State University, has a’ policy similar to the one here. Tarleton is part of the Texas A&M Uni versity System. Some universities contacted that did not have mid-term grade reports were the Universi ty of Texas, Baylor University, Southern Methodist Universtiy, Cornell and Stanford. While researching the bill, Palomares said he talked to many associate deans at A&M who agreed in part with the sug gested bill. Palomares said that grade reports are used primarily to advise students, and many colleges are too large to use the grade reports adequately for in dividual advising. Palomares also said that the university would save $9,000 each semester if mid-term grade reports were eliminated. After some questions from different Senators, Senate Speaker David Alders passed the bill to the academic affairs committee for further study. In other business, the Senate the bill re commending that a traffic light be placed at the intersection of Anderson and Southwest Park way. The recommendation will now be given to the College Sta tion City Council. The Anderson-Southwest Parkway Bill was introduced by the external affairs committee which has studied the traffic problem at the intersection. Donna Banfield introduced the bill and said that she has talked to the head of traffic con trol in College Station, who said that the problem at the intersec tion has also been looked into by the city. Wednesday’s meeting was the last meeting of the semester. 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Mission commander John Young and his “red team” of sci entists Robert Parker and Ulf Merbold worked the midnight to noon shift with co-pilot Brewster Shaw and his “blue team” of scientists Owen Gar- riott and Lichtenberg on the second shift of the around-the- clock mission. “Everything looks super,” said flight director John Cox. “It’s been a very good last couple of shifts.” Thirty-three of 38 instru ments aboard Spacelab had been started by the end of the first 48 hours of flight. to ippt 1 by ; have been affected by space mo tion sickness the first two days of flight, but he woke up Wednes day saying, “I certainly feel good today.” He commented later on sand wich making in weightlessness: “It’s a whole lot easier to make a peanut butter and jelly sandwich on the ground than it is up here.” The atmosphere discovery came from the operation earlier in the flight of a French ultra violet radiation scanner. It mea sured deuterium in the upper atmosphere for the first time. “The measurement is really a first, a real discovery in this mis sion,” said Dr. Karl Knott, mis-' sion scientist for the European Space Agency. Scientists had assumed that deuterium — a heavier cousin of hydrogen — had been in the up per atmosphere about 50 miles high, but its concentration was too sparse to be detected before. Because it is so light, deuter ium has an important role in the vertical mixing of gases in the atmosphere, Knott said. He said - the new finding will help resear chers better understand atmos pheric processes. The protein crystal growth experiment from the University of Freiberg in West Germany was started by Merbold Wednes day morning and it will run for 60 hours. Give the gift of appreciation. A gift of Krugerrand gold coin jewelry shows a unique combination of good feelings, good taste, and good sense. 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