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Around town
Who’s Who applications available now
Applications for Who’s Who Among Students in American Uni
versities and Colleges are available at boxes located in the Comman
dant’s Office, MSC, Student Activities Office, Zachry Engineering
Center, Sterling C. Evans Library, Kleberg Center, the office of the
dean of Veterinary Medicine, and the office of the vice president for
Student Services. Completed applications must be returned by 5
p.m. Sept. 28.
Students must meet requirements for grade points and com
pleted credit hours. From the qualified applicants, 55 students will
be selected to Who’s Who by a committee composed of faculty, staff
and students appointed by the vice president of Student Services and
the student body president. Any questions should be directed to
Chris Carter in 110 YMCA.
Driver safety course begins Friday
The TAMU After Hours Program will sponsor a Driver Safety
Course on Saturday. This course may be used to have certain traffic
violations dismissed and to receive a 10 percent discount on auto
mobile insurance. Registration is held from 8 a.m. to 5 p.m. Monday
through Friday in 21b MSC. For more information, call 845-9352.
Apply far research programs now
The National Research Council announces the 1985 Postdocto
ral, Resident and Cooperative Research Associateship Programs for
research in the sciences and engineering to be conducted in behalf of
21 federal agencies or research institutions, whose laboratories are
located throughout the United States.
Information on specific research opportunities and federal labo
ratories, as well as application materials, may be obtained from Asso-
ciateship Programs, Office of Scientific and Engineering Personnel,
JH 608-D3, National Research Council, 2101 Constitution Avenue,
N.W., Washington, D.C. 20418, (201?) 334-2760. Applications must
be postmarked no later than Jan. 15.
Keeping a budget
helpful to students
By TRENT LEOPOLD
Reporter
Preparing a budget and keeping a
record of where money is spent is
the best way for college students to
efficiently manage their money says
Nancy Granovsky, a home econo
mist with the Texas A&M Agricultu
ral Extension Service.
But many students feel they are in
a steel cast if they have to follow a
budget, Granovsky said.
“A student should not feel like his
budget is placing restrictions on his
lifestyle if he prepares it correctly,”
Granovsky said. “When someone
prepares a budget he should not just
decide to allocate his money to cer
tain areas, but prepare a trial budget
and then follow the plan.”
Granovsky said the amount of
money a student spends in a month
depends upon the individual.
“Some students spend what I con
sider to be extravagant amounts of
money while others pinch their pen
nies,” she said. “Each individual has
different circumstances.”
Although students have various
lifestyles, Granovsky said, everyone
has the common problem of a lim
ited income to satisfy unlimited
wants.
“No matter how much money you
make it will never be enough,” Gran- _
ovsky said.
The best way for a student to pre
pare his budget is to write down all
of the major expenses for a month
such as school supplies, housing,
food, clothing and entertainment,
Granovsky said.
“It is important for the student to -
write down the expenses as the
month progresses, not just at one sit
ting,” sne said. “After a student de
termines what his monthly expenses
are then he should prepare the bud
get and stick with it in the following
months.”
Solar heat
operation
costs less
By MARK VIGUET
Reporter
Using solar energy to heat water
for homes is an idea that appeals to
many budget-minded homeowners.
However, Dr. Paul Woods, who
teaches a graduate course in passive
solar design in the construction sci
ence department at Texas A&M,
says there are more things to ponder
than money when considering the
purchase of a solar water heating
unit.
“There are two types of solar wa
ter heaters, passive and active,”
Woods said. “Both of these will
probably have collector and storage
devices.”
Passive units simply heat the water
with the sun and store it in a well-in
sulated box, he said.
“Passive solar heaters have no
moving parts,” Woods said. “They
don’t need electricity or a pump to
operate, they last longer and may
cost less than the active type.”
Woods said an active solar water
heater enables the water to be stored
at a distance from the unit.
“With an active unit, a pump
moves the water where you need it
and then is heated by the stor
age/collection device,” he said. “And
an active unit may get the water
slightly hotter than a passive device.”
A homeowner must consider
equipment costs as well as operatio
nal costs when deciding between a
solar or conventional unit, Woods
said.
“Initial costs for a solar heater will
be much higher than for a conven
tional system.” Woods said. “But the
operating costs of the solar type will
usually be a lot less. Also, there are
tax credits for solar units you can’t
take advantage of with a regular
unit.”
Since the purchase of a solar sys
tem is an investment. Woods said,
one also should consider the interest
rates in his area if a loan will be
needed for the purchase.
“If the costs outweigh the benefits
in the long run, you obviously
shouldn’t make the purchase,” he
said.
Woods said solar units have been
gaining in popularity for the last de
cade.
“These solar units aren’t new.” he
said. “There were solar collectors
built almost 100 years ago, but the
technology of them has improved to
the point where they are more acces
sible to the homeowner.
“Their popularity tends to fluc
tuate with the costs and availability
of fuel. With a fuel price increase or
a decrease in the amount of fuel, the
units increase in popularity.”
Woods said a common denomina
tor among all solar water heating
units is the presence of a backup sys
tem.
“The sun doesn’t shine all the
time,” Woods said.
Death row inmate severely
burned by bomb explosion
United Press International
HUNTSVILLE — Two Death
Row prisoners, one with links to a
white supremacy prison group,
Wednesday threw a crude bomb in
the cell of a black inmate, who was
burned severely.
James Michael Briddle, 29, who
has refused to discuss his ties with
the Aryan Brotherhood, and War
ren Eugene Bridge, 24, both white,
were named suspects in the attack on
Calvin J. Williams, 24, at the Ellis I
Unit outside Huntsville.
Texas Department of Corrections
spokesman Phil Guthrie said the two
threw some kind of flammable
material, perhaps a firebomb, on
Williams and then tossed a crude
bomb fashioned from spray cans
into his cell about 8 a.m.
“We don’t know what caused the
fire. It broke out very suddenly
which made us immediately think of
the possibility of another device,” he
said.
He said guards were at the cell
“immediately” and used a fire extin
guisher to put the fire out.
Briddle and Bridge, who were on
their way to a recreation period at
the time, surrendered two home
made knives.
“That has us concerned also.
They do routinely shake down them
(in Death Row). It is a concern in any
high-security situation like that for a
prisoner to have a weapon. We’re
trying to figure out where they came
from and will check our proce
dures,” he said.
The two inmates were put in soli
tary confinement to preserve any ev
idence they might have in their cells,
Guthrie said.
Williams, who was stabbed several
times in an April 1983 incident on
Death Row, was taken to John Sealy
Hospital in Galveston and listed in
fair condition with burns on both his
legs.
After guards removed him from
his cell, they found a small bomb
about the size of a Coke can.
Guthrie said the bomb, a piece of
tubing with aerosol spray containers
on each end and a fuse, was deto
nated by a team from Fort Hood at
1:20 p.m.
“They described it as a slight ex
plosive,” he said.
He said it had not been deter
mined if the cause for the attack was
racially motivated.
“It appears to be more a case of
personal dislike and animosity to
ward the victim. We have found no
tie-in with the AB (Aryan Brother
hood),” he said.
Briddle has been linked with the
Aryan Brotherhood, a white su-
premist prison group formed at San
Quentin prison in California in the
1960s to protect members from
black and Hispanic militants. The
motto of the group is “Kill to get in
and die to get out.”
The FBI has described its mem
bership as “stone-cold killers.”
The group evolved from a Nazi
organization in prison and Briddle
wears a swastika and the Nazi SS
lightning bolt tattooed on his left
arm.
But Briddle, sentenced to death-
for the February 1980 rope strangu
lation of a Houston man, has been
very guarded in talking on the
Brotherhood, estimated to have 300
members nationwide.
“Listen to me,” he said in an inter
view two years ago. “I don’t fear the
death penalty hanging over me. But
I do fear a piece of steel in my belly.
Let’s not talk about the Brother
hood.”
Ruling furthers corporate responsibility
United Press International
DALLAS — Companies may find
themselves more responsible for
their employees’ conduct because of
a $600,000 settlement to the rela
tives of three people killed by a
worker who was sent home drunk
and had a traffic accident.
Two days before the suit against
Otis Engineering Corp. of suburban
Carrollton was to have gone to the
jury, the company agreed Tuesday
to pay $600,000 to the relatives of
three people killed in a 1978 car
crash.
Testimony in the trial, which was
authorized by the Texas Supreme
Court in November 1983, indicated
that Otis employee Robert Matheson
was ordered to go home when he
showed up for work drunk.
An autopsy of Matheson, who also
died in the accident, indicated he
had consumed the alcoholic equiva
lent of 18 cocktails.
Matheson lost control of his car
and crashed into another vehicle,
killing Janis Clark, 33, her son, Der
rick Grabauskas, 12, and her
mother-in-law, Geraldine Clark, 55.
Most legal attention has focused
on the Texas Supreme Court’s deci
sion to allow the trial, not the
$600,000 settlement that followed.
“The employer is now on the
horns of an insoluble dilemma as to
what to do,” John McElhaney, a law
yer for Otis, said.
“The employer doesn’t have the
right to keep an employee in custody
against his will,” he said. “I don’t
think any employee knows what they
can do now.”
The unusual case also drew the at
tention of the Trial Lawyers of
America in Washington, D.C.
The ruling takes corporate re
sponsibility “a step and a half farther
than what was accepted,” said Jeff
White, editor of TLA’s in-house
publication.
Baylor University law professor
Michael Morrison suggested the de
cision to allow the case to go to trial
was a landmark ruling.
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