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■MMHMMMMHiaiaaiiMiMMIHaaMBMBMM Wednesday, February 13, 1985/The Battalion/Page 3 wi 'ATE AND I OCTAI E IS Projects endure proposed budget cut By KIRSTEN DIETZ Staff Writer fl s )uad). Pu Girls nil md spor a idves. cs “chidsi ok vihmg st any P the n with girls aim* i likes toj ook pref I enjotf buy a i girl 1 :ie epitou niionofis topics i i in tot > 1 love it propt its she state university budget cuts should not affect current or planned con struction on the Texas A&M cam pus, says Daniel T. Whitt, assistant director for facilities ^planning and construction. The funding for many of the Uni versity’s construction projects comes out of Permanent University Fund (PUF) money generated from bonds sold prior to the passage of Proposi tion 2, Whitt says. “There is an amount of money that, even if all construction were halted, that money still would not be available for dny other purpose be cause the Constitution restricts its use to those purposes,” he says. “It (PUF) can be used only for the pur chase or construction of new facili ties and the initial equipping of those facilities at Texas A&M, Tarleton State, Prairie View A&M and agri cultural experiment stations throughout the state.” All projects currently under con struction on campus are scheduled to be completed by May 1986. • Next month, the Academic Building’s exterior renovation will be finished. Whitt says the project, begun in August 1983, has been de layed due to the contractor’s Finan cial difficulties. The building’s exte rior masonry was repaired and waterproofed, the roof was re- placea, the windows were refinished and the entryways were restored. While this is not the first time the building has been repaired, Whitt says, “I imagine there has never been a project of this size under taken before.” The outside of the building un derwent an organic pagination proc ess, where a fermented mix of cow manure and water is sprayed or brushed on the new brick. The mix ture is allowed to set and then it’s washed off. “That will maJte~The new brick look as near to the old brick as possi ble,” Whitt says. He says this is the same process lused on a major Washington, D.C. monument by the National Park Service. The total cost of the Academic Building’s renovation is $926,000. • The Medical Sciences Library, east of the Medical Sciences Building along FM 60, should be completed in April. The library will be con nected with the Medical Sciences Building by a covered walkway and with the Veterinary Medicine Com- Photo by WA YNE L. GRABEIN An overview of construction on the engineering and physics building and the new chemistry building. plex by a tunnel underneath FM 60. The library will serve both human and veterinary medicine. Construc tion began in August 1983. • The engineering and physics building, an estimated $18.8 million project, is scheduled for completion in January 1986. The building, on Spence Street across from the Bitu minous Lab, will house the physics department and a major part of the mechanical engineering depart ment. • Construction on a physiology research and conditioning lab, be hind the scoreboard at Kyle field, began in December. The $2 million building will be used by the athletic and physical education departments and contain physical education class rooms and weight rooms. The build ing also will be used for research on the effects of physical conditioning. It will be completed by March 1986. • The new chemistry building, to be finished in May 1986, will provide added space for the chemistry de partment. Construction, begun in June 1984, will cost almost $18 mil lion. The new building will be on Ross Street across from Halbouty Geosciences Building. Plans also have been made for fu ture campus construction. mrtm istforlh ltd editor tor Editor )r JaSnidn William* len Clad nderson- Bullard Cornett en Diet 1 (oranef ,1] Gates' i Parker ae Pov« y Malle” n Block a Mari'" ; n Stefty ike Lam leSniii" Benue" neH"' 1 Casper kin* an Sa«« | dJ ■dill' 1110 and la* ; it/ril' 1 : !h SPECIAL OFFER! DIRECT FROM TEXAS INSTRUMENTS Students. Faculty. Staff. Now get big savings on Texas Instruments Portable w Professional Computer. 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Offer ends March 15, 1985. • Construction of the track and field events center and the physical education and intramural playing fields will begin this month. Total es timated costs for both projects is more than $3.3 million and they should be completed in November. The track and field events center will have one of the best tracks in the world, according to Texas A&M track coaches Ted Nelson and Bill Nix. Program will be built in the area for the new research park across Well born Road. The building contract was awarded in January and the $5 million building is scheduled for completion in May 1986. • A $1 million west campus land scaping project also should be com pleted in May 1986. • In September, Whitt says, a contract will be awarded for a $2.3 million enlargement of the A.P. Beutel Health Center. The construc tion, scheduled for completion in December 1986, will provide more doctors’ offices and at least one X- ray room, Whitt says. • In May, a contract on a new en gineering building will be awarded. Scheduled for completion in May 1987, the building will be between Zachry Engineering Center and the Highway Research Center. It will house the civil engineering and engi neering design graphics depart ments and the Texas Transportation Institute. Because of space limita tions, current plans call for the building to be eight stories. • A new system administration building is under design, but the awarding of the contract is currently on hold, Whitt says. The building will be on the edge of the research park at FM 2818 and F’M 60. After it is built, Texas A&M President Frank E. Vandiver and his staff will occupy the current System Administration Building. Whitt says a special events center will probably be built one day. Ar chitects are currently developing de signs, but the project, in the $40 mil lion range, is awaiting funding. He says funds will probably come from a combination of sources, such as the PUF, Athletic Department funds and private contributions. Models and brochures are being developed to aid in the fund raising. “It (the fund raising) is probably underway already, at least in the preliminary stages,” Whitt says. “Our Board of Regents are doing it primarily at this point.” Tutor information service founded By LORIE WOODWARD Reporter Instead of wandering down empty halls and peering into dimly lit offices in search of help, students who need tutors now can get assistance through the Stu dent Counseling Service. “We’re not offering tutoring services,” says Aileen Goldstein, the graduate assistant responsible for the program’s development. “Basically, we’re a clearinghouse of tutorial information.” The program’s main objective is to provide students with a cen tralized source of tutorial infor mation, Goldstein says. “A lot of times students get really frustrated when a univer sity h^s gotten this big,” Goldstein says. “They know they need a tu tor but they don’t know where to s°-” Students will be able to find out what tutorial services are cur rently available at the Student Counseling Service’s Reference Library on the third floor of the YMCA Building. The tutorial services file in cludes listings of departmental recommendations and specific departmental programs, such as help sessions, Goldstein says. “Currently, every department does its own thing,” she says. “A student who needs help in Chem istry 101 and Math 253 must run around campus looking for help.” In addition to departmental recommendations, the file also lists the^ names of people inter ested in tutoring in that depart ment’s academic area, Goldstein says. To become registered in the file, a potential tutor must come by the counseling services office in the YMCA Building and com plete a data sheet, Goldstein says. The sheet includes the tutor’s courses, qualifications, fees, hours and telephone number. Tutors are responsible for keeping this personal informa tion current, she says. Students using tbe file to locate tutors are on their own, because the counseling service does not screen the applicants, Goldstein says. Another source of information is a booklet which lists all the tuto rial services available on campus, she s^ys. This listing includes de partmental help sessions, honor society programs, and specialized programs for athletes and cadets. Compiling the booklet was the first of three steps designed to en hance the program’s devel opment, Goldstein says. “First, we had to get down to what was currently available so we could give the students a basic idea of what was here,” she says. Next, departments were sur veyed to get ideas and feedback about existing services, Goldstein says. The third step is the identifi cation of individual tutors. Goldstein says response to the program has been positive. “I’ve talked to department heads, students and students’ mothers and they’ve all been really enthusiastic,” she says. “I’ve heard,‘Hey, we need that, that’s a good idea,’ if lot,” she says. History today Today’s highlights in history: Fifty years ago, on Feb. 13, 1935, Bruno Richard Hauptmann was found guilty by ajury in Flemington, N.J., of first-degree murder in the kid nap-death of the infant son of aviator Charles Lindbergh. The ver dict carried an automatic death sen tence. In 1542, the fifth wife of En gland’s King Henry VIII, Catherine Howard, was executed after being accused of adultery. In 1633, the Italian astronomer Galileo arrived in Rome for trial be fore the Inquisition. In 1920, the League of Nations recognized the perpetual neutrality of Switzerland. In 1945, during World War II, the Soviets captured Budapest, Hungary, from the Germans after a 50-day siege. Also in 1945, Allied bombing raids began against the German city of Dresden. £ l ? 1aggie^\Wcinema/ 1 A love story that is always new returns to thrill you anew A JOY STUNNING: “BEAUTIFUL.' 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