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Program to offer motorcycle class
The Texas A&M Safety Education Program will offer a
class about learning to ride a motorcyle during the latter
part of April. The course will consist of eight hours of class
room instruction and 12 hours of on-cycle instruction. Reg
istration for the class will close at 5 p.m. April 2 and will be
on a first-come, first-serve basis. For more information call
845-3019.
Engineers to travel to Germany
Any Students interested in travelling to Germany this
summer through the College of Engineering are invited to
attend an informational meeting March 28 at 5 p.m. in 342
Zachry. The trip will be May 10-30 and will cost $1,000.
The entire fee is due April 10. Fear more information call
Lou Ann Morris, 845-72/0.
Variety Show tickets available
fitkets tor the MSC Variety Show are available at the
MSC Box Of fice.The show will be April 13 at 7 p.m. Tickets
are $3 for students and $3.50 for non-students.
Workshops offered to students
The College of Science will hold a series of workshops for
students interested in careers in biology and physics.
Speakers from business, industry, research and education
willl discuss career opportunities. The meeting for students
interested in physics will be March 27 in 105 Heldenfels
and the biology meeting will be March 28 in 100 Helden-
lels.
Student group cons peanut butter
Members of the Texas A&M Latter-Day Saint Student
Association helped can peanut butter at the Church of the
Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints cannery in Houston Fri
day. The church operates a number of canneries, farms, or
chards and ranches as a part of its welfare program.
Juniors host weekend octitivites
Ihe Class of ’85 will host its Junior Weekend March 30
through April 1. Activities include a mixer March 30 from 8
p.m. to midnight at the Elks Lodge and a playday April 1 at
the Royal Oaks Raquet Club. Tickets now on sale in the Me
morial Student Center.
Texatron may be largest of its kind
By SARAH OATES
Reporter
Texas.
The name conjures up vi
sions of things on a grand scale:
10-gallon hats, giant oil rigs, the
Astrodome and the Cotton
Bowl. And in keeping with the
state’s tradition of bigness, a
team of researchers from four
Texas universities is making
Texas the site of the world’s
largest atom smasher.
Four Texas research univer
sities recently received a $2.2
million grant from the Depart
ment of Energy to begin the ini
tial research on a multi-billion
dollar machine known to physi
cists as a superconducting su
percollider.
A team of researchers from
the University of Texas, the
University of Houston, Rice
University and Texas A&M will
be working at the Houston Area
Research Center at The Wood
lands, outside of Houston. The
team will research the design of
magnet conductors for the SSC,
prototypes of the magnets and a
prototype of the accelerator it
self. The research should be
completed in two years.
The DOE funding is supple
mented by $2.9 million from
HARC, its member universities,
the University of Wisconsin and
four national laboratories.
HARC is otie of three com
petitive national research
groups developing different de
signs for the machine. The oth
ers are the Fermi National Ac
celerator Laboratory in Illinois,
and a cooperative effort be
tween the Brookhaven National
Laboratory in New York and
the Lawrence Berkeley Labo
ratory in California.
Explaining the purpose of
the machine. Dr. Peter McIn
tyre, associate professor of
physics at Texas A&M, said the
SSC is an enormous microscope
used to delve into the nucleus of
an atom to explore its inner
structure.
He said the limit to what can
. be viewed by a microscope is
based on the Heisenberg Un
certainty Principle, which states
that the smaller the size of an
object to be viewed through a
microscope, the greater the en
ergy of light required to view it.
McIntyre explained with
each increase in the energy of a
microscope, new levels of struc
tures have been discovered.
He said the smallest particles
yet identified in the nucleus of
an atom, quarks, may not be en
tirely new structures, but are
probably new combinations of
the building blocks of matter.
McIntyre said that quarks
may be analogous to a passen
ger car. He said that if two
quarks collide while traveling at
extremely high speeds, the
“passengers,” or newly discov
ered fundamental structures,
fly out.
The purpose of the SSC is to
orchestrate these collisions.
McIntyre said there is every
possibility that new forms of
matter may be found inside
quarks. He said he believes the
SSC experiments will yield new
structures, and hence, new
technologies.
Fermilab is HARC’s most ar
dent competitor for the SSC
site. As many as 50 site propo
sals will be presented to the
DOE, perhaps including several
Texas sites. The location will be
decided by Congress.
The hunt for a site in Texas
is not federally funded, but will
be supported by private and
state funds.
“There are qualitatively lots
of fine sites for the SSC in Tex
as,” McIntyre said. “Some are in
East Texas and some are in
West Texas. We’ve been
looking over the whole state
since last summer.”
He said the ideal site would
have ground that is “geologi
cally suitable for tunneling and
be located near urban centers,
an industrial base and major in
ternational transportation.”
“It’s too early to nail down a
site in Texas,” he said, “but for
our own selfish interests, we
hope to have it as close to Texas
A&M as possible.”
McIntyre, who says he
spends “at least one-quarter of
my time” making speeches to
gather support for the project
around the state, said that Tex
ans have been “uniformly en
thusiastic about the project.”
He said he believes the pro
ject embodies a “Texan desire
for the largest, most visible sci
entific laboratory in the world.
It’s a lab that a place like Texas
would naturally desire to have.
So far, Texans have been asking
what they can do to help.”
fhe machine would consist
of a ring of superconducting
magnets 100 miles in circumfer
ence, housed in a tunnel 30 feet
underground. Including the
atom smasher, the project
would require 6,000 acres.
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I Zindler, in New York to sign
with the owner of KTRK, Capi
tal Cities Broadcasting, said he
will remain with his employer of
11 years despite being offered a
$2 million deal by rival KHOU-
TV.
The former sheriffs investi
gator said the deal he signed
f jaid him “in excess of $1 mil-
ion for more than one year,”
and that he considered it a life
time contract.
He said KHOU, newly pur
chased by the Belo Corp. of
Dallas, made him a rich offer.
KHOU denied talking money
or making a formal offer.
KHOU’s Tom Kenney, vice
pr esident and general manager,
said tire station did not offer
Zindler ”$2 million over three
years.
Zindler in 11 years has cham
pioned popular causes and in
one celebrated case put pres
sure on a former governor to
close the Chicken Ranch in La-
Grange. That crusade led to the
Broadway play and movie,
“The Best Little Whorehouse in
Texas.”
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sure. This is the time to use Predictor In-Home Pregnancy
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DATE:
Monday (March 26) and
Tuesday (March 27)
PLACE: Room 224 MSC
TIME: 7:30 p.m.
Pick up your complimentary tickets
on day of showing at these locations:
— 1st floor hallway of MSC (10 a.m. - 3 p.m.)
— Outside Sbisa dining hall (11-1 and 5-7)
— Inside the Commons (11-1 and 5-7)
A limited number of tickets will also be available at the door.
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