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.
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The Schulenburg High School Athletic Department is sponsor
ing a Fun Run on August 4, in conjunction with the Schulenburg
Festival. The Fun Run is a 10 kilometer course over paved and un
paved roads in the rolling hills near Schulenburg. Each entry will re
ceive a T-shirt. Trophies will be given for the 1st, 2nd and 3rd place
finishers in each division. For additional information write to Schu
lenburg Fun Run, do Clay Gillis, 517 North St., Schulenburg, Texas,
78956.
Party held at Henderson Park Saturday
A party celebrating recent improvements made to Henderson
Park will be held from 10 a.m. to noon Saturday at the park. The
C will feature Mexican music and dancers, free ice cream,
>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
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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.
When Boudreau lost his job, he
applied for a job as chief of NASA’s
Sea Applications Group then as a
NASA mathematician, but he was
denied both.
Boudreau had applied for the Sea
Applications job earlier, but it went
to a 34-year-old man. When he ap
plied the second time, he said, the
qualifications for the job were
changed to exclude him.
The court, however, said the qualifi
cations were changed because two
jobs had been combined into that
one.
The court also agreed with NASA
that Boudreau was not qualified for
the mathematician’s job.
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