Thursday, July 12, 1984/The Battalion/Page 5 Around town Driver safety course begins Friday The TAMU After Hours Program will sponsor a Driver Safety Course on Friday and Saturday. This course may be used to have certain traffic violations dismissed and to receive a 10 percent dis count on automobile insurance. Registration is held from 8 a.m. to 5 p.m. Monday through Friday in 219 MSC. For more information, call 845-9352. English 660 offered 2nd summer session English 660-Technical Writing for Publications will be offered during the second summer session. The course, which had been scheduled for the first summer session and was cancelled because of low enrollment, was rescheduled after a number of students ex pressed an interest in taking the class. English 660, taught by Dr. Guinn, will meet Monday through Friday from 12 to 1:30 p.m. in room 201 Milner. >f a pareniJ ■er stickers, and a horseshoe tournament with gift certificates for the winners. Registration for Bastrop Fun Run begins The Bastrop Opera House Association is sponsoring a Lite Beer Fun Run in conjunction with Bastrop’s annual homecoming festivi ties on August 4. Check-in time for the 3.1 mile race will be at 7:30 a.m. near the entrance of Bastrop State Park. All runners will be given a Lite Beer T-shirt. Trophies will be awarded to the 1st, 2nd and 3rd place finishers in each division. The entry fee is $7. Entry forms can be obtained by writing to Lite Beer Fun R era House Association, B tion is encouraged. un, Bastrop Op- ox 691, Bastrop, Texas 78602. Preregistra- asically ermitting-; axes, he s red taxes f dll ultim stomers, ig farmers in danger if losing their hearing United Press International such as a chain saw (105 decibels). I LONDON — Pig farmers could go deaf from feeding-time squealing ; that can reach a decibel level higher [ than a roaring chain saw, the gov ernment warns. It suggested farm- i ers wear earmuffs as protection. I "At feeding time the noise of pigs squealing can reach 108 decibels,” i said Britain’s Health and Safety Ex- t ecu live, an agency of the depart ment of employment. P This compares unfavorably with [ other powerful farm noise makers, Feeding pigs make such a racket that a farmer “would receive his da ily dose” of potentially damaging loud noise after IV2 minutes, the HSE said. “People can be protected by wear ing earmuffs or ear plugs — these are available in a wide range of types — all have their limitations and dis advantages so it is important to pick types that are suitable for the job where they will be used,” the HSE advised. NASA up in the air with space station United Press International SPACE CENTER, Houston — About 800 space industry represen tatives gathered with space agency officials Wednesday for a briefing on the progress of the development of the permanent U.S. space station. Neil Hutchinson, space station program manager for the National Aeronautics and Space Administra tion, briefed industry representa tives on the status of the program, and then engineers outlined various concepts they have developed for a permanent space station. “There’s been a bee hive of activ ity,” said NASA spokesman Brian Welch. “They’re pulling together all the different conditions that a space station has to meet — everything from the technical side of the house to pleasing the science community.” Welch said experts with the Na tional Aeronautics and Space Ad ministration are informally seeking comments from industry on the de sign and construction of the space station before it formally seeks pro posals later this year and begins awarding contracts in early 1985. “NASA is looking for answers, loo. We want industry to tell us what they think we need, too,” Welch said. Welch said the space agency, as the prime contractor on the space station, already has drawn plans for seven different concepts for the sta tion. “Some of the names of the designs they’ve looked at include the Big T, the Power Tower, the Spinner, the Delta, the Condo and the Peg- board,” Welch said. “But they’ve narrowed that down to three and those are the ones they want industry to look at — the Delta, the Tower Power and the CDG Planar,” he said. Welch said the Delta looks much like a three-sided pyramid con structed of metal trusses from which solar arrays, docking and living modules can be attached to its three sides. The Power Tower is a 390-foot vertical square column of truss work with booms that could slide up and down its length to carry radiators and robot arms. Living modules would be attached to the base. A t- shaped cross bar that fits horizon tally across the top would hold an tennas and sensors. The Planar is similar to the Power Tower, except that it is based along a horizontal axis. It is extremely sym metrical, Welch said. Welch said work on the space sta tion will occur in four phases —plan ning, design, construction and launch. So far, the space station is still in the planning stage. NASA hopes to have the $8 billion space station program in operation by the early 1990’s. The Johnson Space Center is the rimary center for the estimated $8 illion project, although the Mar shall Space Flight Center in Hunt sville, Ala., and Goddard Space Flight in Greenbelt, Md., and the Le wis Research Center in Cleveland also have significant roles in the space station program. Court says NASA scientist not victim United Press International NEW ORLEANS — A NASA sci entist who lost his job at age 44 was not the victim of age discrimination, the 5th U.S. Circuit Court of Ap peals ruled Wednesday. Robert Boudreau’s job as senior atmospheric scientist with the Earth Resources Laboratory in Houston was abolished in 1975 as part of a re duction in force. At the time, the space agency was switching the em phasis of its research from lunar landings to the space shuttle, the court said. But NASA was also making an ef fort to hire younger workers. The current workers were mostly in their 40s, and the management of NASA and the Johnson Space Center feared a wave of retirements, the court said. Although NASA’s policy of hiring younger workers was “ripe for dis crimination against older employ ees,” the court said, Boudreau “failed to establish that age was a motivating factor in NASA’s deci sions to terminate and not rehire him.” Boudreau was one of six NASA employees who filed an age discrimi nation suit, but he was the only one who appealed to the 5 th Circuit. The ruling affirmed the decision of a federal court in Texas that Bou dreau was not entitled to damages from NASA. 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