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i Friday, August 31, 1984^The Battalion/Page 7 day t MSC will be luction pm. A own at ts ■ Study 700 of anding "trough ovided change 'rations >nt$ u s Pro- w avail- am will :onduct history, :ceive a e weeks nanities tpplica- k JS forecast to Philippine ; killed, 201 t were de- lys of land- leashed bj ts compiled e Office o( Philippine vere a tani- ath when a lome and a . away bj to save a ■ted. M30 Irani ans of rice, e flew from :hool rshig i ship mes” 3<K=- ■\ HISD suit settlement reached Jeff Barnes, vineyard manager of the Mes sina Hof Winery in Bryan, checks the flow Photo by JOHN RYAN of juice from the grape press into stainless steel fermentation tanks. Family tradition kept at Messina Hof vineyards By LAURIE HEIDBREDER Reporter Messina Hof winery, located in Bryan, harvested their last grapes Thursday for the 19H4 season. I he winery is owned and oper ated by Paul and Merrill Bonar- rigo. Bonarrigo is a physical ther apist as well as a wine maker. “It is something that you have to really schedule your time for,” Bonarrigo said. Mrs. Bonarrigo graduated from I’exas A&M with a degree in marketing and is the general manager of tlie winery. Bonarrigo’s family had a win ery in Sicily. After moving to the United States, they kept making wine but did not continue the. vineyard. His father made the wine from bought grapes. “The tradition is that the First born son is called Paul and he is that generation’s wine maker,” Bonarrigo said. The Bonarrigos 2-yedr-old son, Paul Bonarrigo VII, will in herit the winery. The Bonarrigos organized the vineyard in 1976 and planted it in 1977. They began making the wine in 1980 and in 1983 they were bonded and had their first commercial release. “The grapes are harvested yearly,” he said. “It starts the first of July and usually Finishes about the First week in September.” The wine is made mostly by machines. However, there is some foot trodding of the grapes which Paul VII has already expe rienced. Messina Hof wines are distrib uted locally in Bryan and all over Texas. “We have some distribution in New Orleans, New York and in Florida,” Bonarrigo said. It is sold under the Messina Hof Wine Cellars label. “It’s named after Messina, Sicily where my family is from, and Hof, Germany where Merrill’s family is from,” he said. The Messina Hof winery makes 11 types of wine. Smoke detectors installed in dorms, local apartments By KIM TREESE Reporter A new law protecting tenants re quires all dwelling units occupied as residences prior to September 1, 1981, to install smoke detectors by September 1 of this year. W. G. Ferris, housing operations supervisor, said approximately 650 smoke and heat detectors are being installed in Texas A&M residence halls. “We’ve been working hard all summer,” he said. Harry Stiteler, of the Texas A&M Department of Health and Safety, said the alarms being installed are equipped with both heat and smoke seisovs. The smoke sensor wiH trig ger an individual alarm in the room where the alarm is only. However, once the room temperature reaches 135 degrees Fahrenheit a heat sen sor will trigger the main university alarm. Smoke and heat detectors have been installed in each room of the modular halls and m two balcony halls, Schuhmacher and Mclnnis. Installation is being completed in Hughes, Fowler and Keathley Halls. Twenty smoke detectors per floor are being installed in the halls of As ton, Krueger, Mosher, and Dunn Halls. Stiteler said even though these smoke detectors are not located in the rooms they still will meet the res- ideviVs’ the pvovecUou weeds. College Station apartments also have been affected by this law. Ger- rie Jillette, manager of Barcelona apartments, said about 250 smoke alarms are being installed in the complex. “We’re working like mad and putting them in right now,” she said. Elena Bosely, manager of the Tra vis House apartments, said that many of the units already had smoke detectors. Since July, however, 30 more have been added to the com plex. United Press International HOUSTON — The Houston In dependent School District settled a 28-year-old desegregation case Thursday by agreeing to a $ 13.4 mil lion improvement program and the recruitment of more minority teach ers. Four days of almost around-the- clock negotiations with attorneys for the NAACP and Mexican American Legal Defense and Education Fund ended about 1 a.m. The settlement still must be ap proved by U.S. District Judge Robert O’Conor. After negotiations began Sunday, O’Conor delayed a hearing that was scheduled this week on the plaintiffs’ opposition to a school board request that the suit finally be dismissed. The most expensive part of the settlement is the institution of a pre school program for 4-year-old chil dren from economically deprived areas. The program, which is to be gin in the 1985-86 school year, is ex pected to cost $8 million, HISD spokeswoman Geri Koningsberg said. A major demand of the plaintiffs was answered by the decision to set the ratio of minority to white stu dents at inner city magnet schools at 60-40. The ratio currently is 50-50, which NAACP attorneys said pre vents many minority students from attending the special schools. About 42 percent of HISD stu dents are black, while 34 percent are Hispanic and about 20 percent are white. The school board also agreed to increase recruitment of teachers from colleges with substantial num bers of Hispanics and blacks; in crease the number of teacher aides in bilingual classrooms; offer volun tary tutorial programs to any stu dent not achieving state or national norms; and continue to improve its school buildings. It also agreed to a demand by the Mexican American Legal Defense and Education Fund to make a study of dropouts and determine methods of keeping them in school. The district also will hire more people to act as liaisons between schools and the community. District Superintendent Billy Rea- g an said the five-year plan approved y the groups is the highlight of his 10 years with the district. He said children are the winners in the set tlement. O’Conor ruled in 1981 that the Houston district is “unitary,” saying it had done everything possible to desegregate. At that time, he said the court would monitor HISD for three years. The desegregation suit was Filed in 1956 on behalf of two black stu dents who were denied admittance to all-white schools. A&M team creating special software vides ^ tns, birth zz?| SS ids; : yflD Z23 By MARY COX Reporter ■ Texas A&M professors are cre- iting a software library for use in iigh school science laboratories. The University received a contract from Bio-Systems, a Healthdyne Com pany in Houston, to design the pro grams for micro-computers. Program coordinator Dr. Jon Hunter said one of the major weak nesses in American high schools is the lack of science laboratory skills. “We became concerned about the quality of secondary education back in December, 1982,” Hunter said. “As educators, we wanted to up- ■gralelabs. And the ideal thing is to use micro-computers.” SC1-LAB (Science Computer- based Instruction) will provide in struction and experiments in bi ology, chemistry and physics. The software will be used on micro-com puters manufactured by Apple, Texas Instruments and I.B.M. Per sonal Computers. “The computer is ideal for teach ing in four areas,” Hunter, an asso ciate professor of bioengineering and veterinary physiology/pharma cology, said. Hunter explains the computer will simulate complex problems in situations where lab experiments are too expensive. He said it will per form mathematic computations and it will present visual information such as reproduction of slides, which is necessary in the medical sciences. The computer will gather data and allow students to test hypotheses, he said. “My philosophy is computers are not ideally suited to teach, just as tea chers are not suited to compute,” Hunter said. “This is a very sophisti cated research tool for high school students. “While it takes one teacher for 30 or 40 students, we recommend three people per computer. T herefore, you would need eight or ten com puters per lab.” Hunter said each lesson in the software library will contain a title page, a ‘menu’ that describes the va rious topics covered in the lesson, the objectives and principles of the lessons, procedures, data collection, data analysis and a summary. The computer also will store information and will come equipped with a line printer. Students will be able to perform experiments with the addition of a sensor that plugs into the interface hardware. Testing pH levels and performing an electrocardiogram are some examples of the experi ments that SCI-LAB will do. “Anything that you can measure can be measured by this computer,” Hunter said. He said SCI-LAB will enable stu dents to study at their own pace. This will be helpful to the excep tional student as well as the slower student. Hunter said he feels that high school students tire tested too much. The idea behind SCI-LAB is to whet student’s appetite for knowledge af ter they have studied a text, he said. Hunter said the computer will be designed to be ‘student-friendly’ —- easy to operate and use. The software engineers that per fect the instructions and design the colorful grahics are research assis tants Randy Adolph, Anne Adolph and Sharon Pickett. Also working on the project are bioengineering grad uate students Tony Brown and Bill Randolph and electrical engineering graduate student Jan Williams. “These people are the brains be hind the software,” Hunter said. Dr. James Anderson, Dr. Larry Claborn, Dr. Don Clark (veterinary physiology/pharmacology) and Dr. John Hogg (chemistry) began work ing with Dr. Hunter developing the software June, 1983. The contract with Bio-Systems expires April, 1985. Hunter said the cost of the hard ware is between $2,100 and $3,000, depending on the particular com puter. The software is approxi mately $85 per lesson and the sen sors necessary for experiments rclnge between $20 and $100. Recently, the National Science Teachers Association selected the SCI-LAB development team to pre sent its software at the conference. It was the only team invited to display software to the select group of edu cators as well as computer manufac turers. Beach cleanup of oil stopped, left to nature United Press International GALVESTON — Officials have decided to let nature take its course in cleaning up oil on the island’s western beaches and have stopped the use of heavy machinery to scrape away sand, a Coast Guard spokes man said Thursday. “It’s one of those things of how much sand do you really want to scrape off,” Lt. j.g. Larry Clark said. “There comes a point (where you wait) and see what happens natu rally.” Clark said the ratio of oil to sand on the western beaches from a mas sive oil spill is now one to four pounds of oil per 100 pounds of sand. Tons of oil washed up on Galves ton’s beaches after the British tanker Alvenus split open July 30 off the coast of Cameron, La. The ship cur rently is in a Galveston Bay shipyard and will be lifted into dry dock Wednesday for repairs, Clark said. A major problem continues to be cleaning the thick mess from rocks at the bottom of the seawall. “They’re still working on it,” Clark said. “No one is finding a great solution (to get it off the rocks). You can always get it with a Brillo pad and a putty knife. So far a great solu tion has not presented itself.” Clark said the contractor hired by the ship’s owner has asked to remove work crews from the seawall to allow the oil to weather. However, the Coast Guard has not yet decided whether to grant the request. More than 100 workers are using a variety of methods to scrape the oil from the rocks, including high pres sure water or water mixed with sand, he said. While sand on beaches from the west end of the seawall to the west ern end of the island are discolored, the popular east beach tourist areas are clean, he said. Although the heavy machinery has been removed from the west beaches, they are on standby should large amounts of oil begin to wash on shore again. 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