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MSC Visual Arts Committee
cordially invites you to attend
the
^ opening
of
Way of the Warrior
an exhibition of Japanese Swords and Prints
from
R. B. Caldwell’s Private Collection
special lecture
by
Mr. R. B. Caldwell
on
Wednesday, October 9, 1985
Lecture at 7:00 pm in MSC 206
Reception following in MSC Gallery
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TTI helps in development of crash barriers
AUTHORIZED HEWLETT-PACKARD DEALER
SOS CMUHCM STREET COLLEGE STATION,
By KELLI THOMERSON
Reporter
New crash barriers designed by
the Texas Transportation Institute
may be installed along Texas high
ways during the next year, says Dean
Sicking, assistant research engineer
for the project.
The Texas State Department of
Highways and Public Transporta
tion asked the institute to develop
safer end barriers for the concrete
safety barriers installed on Texas
highways. The highway department
also asked the institute, which is lo
cated at Texas A&M, to find a way to
make the end barriers maintenance-
free.
“In highly populated areas with
much traffic, such as Houston and
Dallas, we needed to find out how to
safely end these barriers,” he says.
“Standard concrete and W-beam
barriers are severe hazards. It’s like
running into a concrete wall.”
The safest devices to use as end
barriers are crash cushions, but they
are expensive and have costly re
pairs, Sicking says.
“There are four or five different
devices,” he says. “The best system
costs $15,000 to install and has a sig
nificant amount of maintenance —
$ 1,500 to $2,000 after impact.”
The state asked the institute to de
sign a new form of crash cushion
that could be expensive to install but
should not be expensive to repair, he
says.
“We looked for barriers that could
be restored in a minimal amount of
time under normal impact condi
tions,” Sicking says. “The best were
rubber cvlindrical energy-absorbing
devices.”
The institute conducted six full-
scale crash tests with the round, rub
ber barrels, which are designed to lie
on their sides. The crash cushions
withstood the impact of small cars at
60 mph and large cars at 50 mph
without any damage to the barrier
hardware, he says.
“The barriers can be restored for
under $100, using a three-man crew
for half of a day with no hardware,”
he says.
The barriers do meet safety stan
dards, Sicking says.
“They are not any better than
other crash cushions, but they are
just as good,” he says. “They are just
cheaper to maintain.
“The testing has just been com
pleted and the highway department
is very interested and hoping to in
stall them during the next year. The
state has the funds to install new end
treatments because of the gas tax,
but not enough for maintenance.”
Hayes Ross Jr., head research en
gineer, says the barriers won’t be
widely used for the next two or three
years.
“The barriers are being installed
on an experimental basis,” says Ross,
who is also an A&M civil engineering
professor.
“This is the field evaluation peri
od,” he says. “It takes time to be
proof-tested and have additional de
velopmental work. Although they
are real good, they have room for
improvement.
“I’m fairly sure they’ll perform,
but maybe something will show up.
But I don’t think so.”
Hunger relief group
in need of manpower
By LAURIE MATUSEK
Reporter
It’s difficult for any student orga
nization to remain in existence, but
it’s even tougher for an organization
that has only seven members.
Chris Debrecht, chairman of
Texas A&M’s Hunger Relief Effort,
fears the goals of the organization
may not be fulfilled if more people
do not join the club soon.
“The Hunger Relief Effort is a
non-profit, charitable organization
that seeks to serve humanity by help
ing the world’s needy,” Debrecnt
says.
“The only way the Hunger Relief
Effort can help others is if it remains
in existence,” lie says, “and it will be
hard if we don’t recruit some more
people.”
Debrecht is a senior electronics
technician at the Texas Engineering
Extension Service who says he does
not get to spend as much time with
the project as he would like.
“Because the organization lacks
man power, more work rests upon
the shoulders of the five committee
members,” he says. “It’s difficult for
me to donate 100 percent of my time
to the project.”
As a result, many of the projects
have not been carried out, he says.
The committee, consisting of
three professors and two students,
tries to discover ways to assist those
in the world suffering from hunger,
particularly those people starving in
famine-ridden countries such as
Ethiopia.
Selljng USA for Africa T-shirts on
campus in July during the Live-Aid
concert was the first money-making
project the Hunger Relief Effort un
dertook.
“We purchased 250 T-shirts from
the Live-Aid national organization
and sold the shirts in the Memorial
Student Center and in Post Oak Mall
for $13 a piece, all proceeds benefit
ing Live-Aid,” Debrecht says.
Debrecht says the project was a
success and estimates that only 100
T-shirts remained after the week of
sales.
Most of the purchases were made
by parents visiting the University or
by persons attending the Firemen’s
Training School.
Sicking says the current end treat
ments on crash barriers are metal
barrels that are welded together,
and they are very expensive to main
tain. If one is damaged, it is cheaper
to replace the whole barrier than the
one barrel,
Also, he says, maintenance is
costly because the state has to con
tract maintenance work with private
companies, and that costs money.
With the new barriers, he says, no
expensive maintenance force is
needed.
“When the new barr
crashed into, they are)
into place,” Sicking says.“I|
they cost so little to maintain, i
The highway departmeui,
interested in moving
project, he says.
“The highway department^
terest in funding," he sar
want to reduce even morel
tenance costs and pul iheni:
applications as well, su
The lunch hour was the busiest
time for student sales in the MSC,
Debrecht says. He attributes this to
the heavy flow of student traffic dur
ing that hour.
Debrecht says the group is con
stantly looking for new projects that
the seven-member organization can
handle on their own.
“The majority of the committee
meets every Wednesday in the Me
morial Student Center or in Rudder
Tower from 7 p.m. to 8:30 p.m., and
there are always different fund rais
ing projects on our agenda,” he says,
“but most remain in the talk stage
because we do not always have
enough people to help carry them
out.”
Bahman Yazdani, assistant ad
viser for the Hunger Relief Effort, is
making headway for the organiza
tion, though, Debrecht says.
Many local businesses allow Yaz
dani to collect bulk foods that the
stores can no longer sell. After col
lecting the food, he distributes it to
the local food bank and then to those
people in the community he thinks
are in need, Debrecht says.
If there were more people collect
ing, there would he more food dis
tributed to those people in need, he
says.
Figures of worldwide starvation
are staggering, he says. According to
the Hunger Project Source Docu
ment,35,000 people die of starvation
a day, 18,000 of them children.
Volunteer Michael Shields, a se
nior environmental design major,
says people cannot grasp the idea of
that many people starving every day.
“What if one morning you went to
school and no one was there?”
Shields asks. “If 35,000 people die a
day, imagine that 35,000 figure be
ing tolled from Texas A&M’s cam
pus.
“I bet that would wake up some
people!”
Before it comes to that, Debrecht
says he would rather see students
take notice of the problem and try to
do something about it. If anyone can
help just once, it is more help than
the Hunger Relief Effort had be
fore, he says.
What’s up
Tuesday
SOCIOLOGY CLUB: will meet at 6:30 p.m. in 123^
Bldg.
PALEONTOLOGY CLUB: will meet at 8 p.m.mIlf
Halboutv.
BETA BETA BETA BIOLOGICAL HONOR SOCir
w'tH meet at 7 p.rn. in 107 Bmlogual Sc iencesBkig.Eas
PHYSICAL THERAPY CLUB: will meetat6;$§p.ais
Read.
TAMU HORSEMEN S ASSOCIATION: will meetIt
in 115 Kleberg.
AMERICAN INSTITUTE OF CHEMICAL ENGOffiS
will meet at 7 p.m. in 203 Zachry.
ON CAMPUS CATHOLICS: will meet at 9;3&p.m;
Faiths Chapel,
TAMU ONE-WHEELERS: wtii meet at 5 p.m.aOkCrv
DEL RIO HOMETOWN CLUB: will meet at BUT
510 Rudder.
HILLEL .JEWISH STUDENT CENTER; will have H®?
lessons ; p.m. -9 p.m.
ALVIN HOMETOWN CLUB: v\ ill meet at 7:30p.nu!
Living Tomato.
SAILING TEAM: will meet at 7 p.m. in 109Trigoo.
CLASS OF ’88: will meet at 7 p.m. in 308 Rudder.
PHI ETA SIGMA: will meet at 7 p.m. in U)1 Rudder, j
BIOMEDICAL SCIENCE ASSOCIATION: will roei
p.m. in 201 V MS.
STUDENT COUNCIL FOR EXCEPTIONAL CHILDU
will meet at 8:30 p.m. in 402 Rudder.
TAMU ROADRUNNERS CLUB: will meet at 7:30[J
502 Rudder.
FELLOWSHIP OF CHRISTI AN ATHLETES: will id
8:30 p.m. in 145 MSC.
AGGIE ALLIANCE: will meet at 8 p.m m60i Rudder
SKEET AND TRAP CLUB: will meet at 7 p.m.inlll|
tary Sciences Bldg.
NRHH: will meet at 7 p.m. in 510 Rudder.
TAMU SCUBA CLUB: will meet at 8:30 p.m.in5021
COLLEGIATE FFA: will meet at 7:30 p.m. in 208fed
Hall.
INTRAMURALS: Entries close tor volleyball & pre-res
volleyball tournament at (> p.m. in 159 Read.
1986 MISS TAMU SCHOLARSHIP PAGEANT:'AjJ
dons available now through Oct i 8 in 216 MSC.
ALTERNATIVE CINEMA: presents “Shadows of Fori
Ancestors’* at 8 p.m. in the architecture auditorium. |
Wednesday
WOMEN’S BONFIRE COMMITTEE: will cnmaifeM
in A-1 l-ounge.
AGGIE G.O.P will have a reception for gubernatorial
date Kent Hance at 6 p.m. in 145 MSC.
CENTURY SINGERS: has auditions for an acOTfl
(who is eligible for a $250 scholarship) Mort-FriSul
p.m. in 003 MSC.
TAMU HUNGER RELIEF EFFORT: will meet at "p
305 Rudder. T-shirt sales for “We Are the World"ini
hallway 10 a.m.-2 p.m. through unlay.
MICRO SOCIETY: will meet at 6:30 p.m. in
Sciences Building East.
STUDENT Y: will meet at 8:30 p.m. in 701 Rudder.
AGGIE SPELEOLOGICAL SOCIETY: will meet at7
228 MSC.
MESQUITE HOMETOWN CLUB: will meet at8:3fl?4
| 410 Rudder.
UNITED CAMPUS MINISTRY; will meet at 6 p.riu'4
Presbvterian Church for an “Aggie Supper,”
AGGIE RED CROSS CLUB: will meet at 8 p.m.inl®*
1986 MISS TAMU SCHOLARSHIP PAGEANT: M
an informational meeting at. 6 p.m. in 200 HECC.
-VET SOCIETY: will meet at 7 p.m. in 230 VMA. [
>US CRUSADE FOR CHRIST: will meet at7p- $ |i
All Faiths Chapel.
POLITICAL FORUM: will meet at 7 p.m in 701 RrfT
STUDENT SENATE: will meet at 7:30 p.m. in 204«
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THE COMMITTEE THAT BROUGHT.,
JACQUES COUSTEAU • WILLIAM F. BUCKLEY • RALPH NADER • MILTON
FRIEDMAN • MADALYN MURRAY O’HAIR • G. GORDON LIDDY • MI
CHAEL DEBAKEY • MARGARET MEAD • BUCKMINSTER FULLER • LEON
JAWORSKI • JAMES WATT • TIMOTHY LEARY
GENERAL MEETING TONIGHT
7:00 P.M.
704 RUDDER