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Take me to the Scottish Highlands TAMU Academic Educational Exchange B. J. s Bunch 1103 Anderson #102 (at Holleman) College Station, Texas 77840 TOYS-LFGO BUILDING DISPLAY-BOOKS/k MACAZINES-HOUSEHOLD TIMES-GLASS LINEN-CRAFTS 8c DECORATIVE ITEMS COPIES .05r 409/093-1687 Mon.-Sat. 10-6 1 Year Program SHORT ON CASH??? Sell your books at University Book Stores Applications Still Being Accepted Northgate & Culpepper Plaza A minimum GPA of 3.0 is required For Application and Information, Contact: Study Abroad Office 1 61 Bizzell West 845-0544 Draft B«er 1*1 Idler #1.5© Served with Chips & Hot Sauce MTV & Sports in Aggie Room Approved Checks-Credit Cards 3109 Texas Ave. Bryan 823-7470 r CHECK THE CIASSIHEDS for All Your Needs Call Battalion Classified 845-2611 GO FROM COLLEGE TO THE ARMY WITHOUT MISSING A BEAT. The hardest thing about break ing into professional music is —well, break ing into professional music. So if you’re lex Ting for an oppor tunity to turn your musical talent into a full-time perform ing career, take a good look at the Army. It’s not all parades and John Philip Sousa. Army bands rock, waltz and boogie as well as march, and they perform before concert au diences as well as spectators. With an average of 40 performances a month, there’s also the opportunity for travel — not only across America, but possibly abroad. Most important, you can expect a first-rate pro fessional environment from your instructors, facilities and fellow musicians. The Army has educational programs that can help you pay for off- duty instruc- tion, and if you qual ify, even t help you repay your federally-insured student loans. If you can sight- read music, performing in the Army could be your big break. Write: Chief, Army Bands Office, Fort Benjamin Harrison, IN 46216-5005. Or call toll free 1-800-USA-ARMY. ARMY BAND. BEALLYOUCANBE. “I’ve got a terrible secret. 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Bryan TX 77803 .Greenleaf’s services are covered by most health insurance plans reenlca PSYCHIATRIC HOSPITAL AN AFFILIATE OF HGA Hosprtal Corporation , of America Page 4/The Battalion/Thursday, April 30, 1987 Thursday PHILOSOPHY COLLOQUIA: John J. McDermott will speak on “William James: Vestibule to the Twentieth Cen tury” at 3:30 p.m. in 302 Rudder. ADULT CHILDREN OF ALCOHOLICS: will meet at 6 p m Call 845-5826 for location. ALCOHOLICS ANONYMOUS: will meet at 12:15 p.m. Call 845-5826 for location. TAMU AMERICAN CIVIL LIBERTIES UNION: will meet at 7 p.m. in 604 A-B Rudder. ALPHA PHI OMEGA: will meet at 6:30 p.m. in 2 30-231 MSC. TAMU POLO CLUB: will meet at 7 p.m. TAMU ROADRUNNERS: will meet at der. STUDENT ACTIVITIES: deadline for organizations to submit dates to the endar is today. in 504 Rudder. 7 p.m. in 302 Rud- recognized student 1987 Summer Cal- Friday UNITED CAMPUS MINISTRY: will meet for a peanut-but ter fellowship at 11:30 a.m. at Rudder Fountain and for Bi ble study at 6:30 p.m. at A&M Presbyterian Church. CHI ALPHA CHRISTIAN FELLOWSHIP: will meet at 7 p.m. in 156 Blocker. INTERVARSITY CHRISTIAN FELLOWSHIP: will meet at 7 p.m. in the All Faiths Chapel. BLACK AWARENESS COMMITTEE: will conduct its spring formal at 8 p.m. in the Ramada Inn Ballroom. HORSEMEN’S ASSOCIATION: will meet for a banquetat7 p.m. at the Green Branch Center. TAMU BADMINTON CLUB: will meet at 7 p.m. in 351 G. Rollie White. TAMU HANDBALL CLUB: will sj >onsor the “Aggie Spring Classic” Friday through Sunday at the Read Building. BRYAN-COLLEGE STATION CHAMBER OF COM MERGE: applications for Outstanding Woman of the Year are available at the Bryan-College Station Chamber of Commerce and Visitors Center through Tuesday. Items for What's Up should be submitted to The Battalion, 216 Reed McDonald, no less than three working days be fore desired publication date. Geophysicists from A&M test salt-mine radai By Sondra McCarty Repxjrter Texas A&M has tested a new' ra dar system that allows miners to see through rock when mining for salt. The successful testing of the Bravo system took place in the Borth Mine in Dusseldorf, Germany. Dr. Robert Unterberger, profes sor of geophysics at A&M, and two graduate students in geophysics, John Mims and Michael Thornton, were invited to Germany by the Sol- vay Co., a Belgian salt mining com pany. Mims said they were asked last year to visit Germany by Solvay, which owns the Borth Mine, because it was interested in their research. Unterberger started the research in the late 1960s, Mims said, when the company he worked for wanted a tool to find salt domes while dril ling for oil. Unterberger said safety is the key reason for the research. With the tool, he said, someone mining to ward a cavity of water can see ahead to prevent any disasters. Another reason for this research is in planning, he said. Impurities in the salt can be found, then mined around, he said. Mims explains, “One reason we use the system is we wanted to find out with radar where there is anhy drite, a mineral commonly found in rock salt which has no value.” Thornton explains how the Bravo system works. “There are three different sys tems. There is Bravo, which is long wave; Charlie, w'hich is medium wave; and Foxtrot, which is micro- wave. Long waves see big particles or impurities and short waves see small ones,” Thornton said. The Bravo system works on megahertz, which is the frequenoi the carrier beam. This is extremt considering the electrical wiringim house is 60 hertz. A change in the kind of rochi give rise to reflections, he said. “Ultimately, we will wanttois the reflections and compare themit the geology of the salt mines, said. “A good system will taketliett flections and process them to seen actly what’s there.” Thornton said Bravo is from B-17 bomber parts. “Actually, this was its secondtif to Germany,” he said. Mims said Germany has a system, but the radar transmits ini directions. The Bravo system hasi beam of 24 degrees instead degrees, he said. Funding for the research from several companies that owns* mines. Unterberger said, “We re® funding from several people «1 own salt mines in the United Sta® one in Canada and one in Belgium “It probably cost build, but we insured it for$60,0$ Mims said Solvay paid for all3' penses on the trip, includingtn® portation, room and board. Thornton said, “We got g suits, but they weren’t what we a peeled. It could take years to ^ what we want — we have a lotlell 1 do.” Unterberger said, “We gt results. We can see through aW 600 meters, or 2,000 feet. We" 1 * to see up to 2 kilometers. “I want to see the research^ for the benefit of civilization.” Pennzoil committee to monitor procedures NEW YORK (AP) — Representa tives of Pennzoil Co. and Tenneco Inc. have been chosen co-chairmen of one creditors’ committee monitor ing the bankruptcy proceedings of Texaco Inc., while a Metropolitan Life Insurance Co. executive will head the other. Members of the two committees — one made up of seven oil compa nies, the other of 19 banks, general trade creditors and a union — were named Monday by U.S. Trustee Harry Jones. They selected their leaders in organizational meetings Tuesday. Pennzoil had said Monday that it wanted to chair or co-chair the oil company committee, in liglit of the fact that it is by far Texaco’s largest creditor. The Houston-based company was holding a $10.35 billion judgment against Texaco on April 12, when Texaco filed for protection under federal bankruptcy laws. Texaco of ficials estimated Texaco’s lilies at $15 billion. In November 1985, a jury that Texaco had wrongly interim with a merger agreement bet" 411 Pennzoil and Getty OilCo. anc’ acquired Getty itself. It aw Pennzoil $10.53 billion in daina?* an amount later upheld by a jud? 1 who added interest, but which^ subsequently reduced on aoD^ $2 billion. Jones said Monday hewassert up two committees, instead of 1 ' 1 more customary one, to helf case “proceed in a smooth am derly fashion.” He said he hoped the move" help the creditors concentrate substantive issues, such as „ the creditors paid and presefl" stockholders’ value. 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