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We are proud that we are different. “Besides, how do we know how Sarge acts? If he acts like he looks, he will scare the kids, and if he acts funny the student body will be em barrassed.” s pub lished in a letter to The Battalion] I Mail Call Monday warning the ABI student body that an Old Sarge mas cot-type costume was in the works J and called for Aggies to unite in op position before it became reality. (Continued from page 1) most 27 percent of fees to be given to the MSC and reserves of about $40,000 to be given to KANM in order for it to convert from cable to FM radio. Doug Baumann, chairman of the Finance Committee, said the budget probably will upset some directors but will serve the best interests of students. He said the Finance Committee allocated the fees on the basis of which organi zations provided vital services to students. Baumann said he hopes Student Services will follow past pattern and accept the budget as it is. In other business, the Senate, against the warnings of Faculty Senate representative Walter Buenger about faculty alienation, approved a final-exam schedule for next semester that would give instructors the option of not giv ing finals to graduating seniors. The schedule will be presented to the Faculty Senate as a recom mendation. If an instructor chooses to give finals to seniors, he will adminis ter two finals — one for seniors and one for non-seniors. The proposal would return the finals schedule to the way it was last spring — a five-day dead week preceeding a week of finals. Graduation ceremonies, Final Re view and Commissioning — for Corps of Cadets members enter ing the military — would be held on the weekend prior to finals week. As the schedule now stands, these ceremonies will be held the weekend after finals. Buenger, an associate history professor, said the Senate prop sal will alienate some faculty who won’t want to make two exams and won’t be seriously considered by the Faculty Senate. “Some (faculty) might see this as throwing down the gauntlet,” Buenger said. Cyclotron (Continued from page 1) the old cyclotron. This was a result of research on the compressibilty of atomic material. He said the A&M cyclotron dif fers from a “classical,” or basic, cy clotron in that it can overcome the fact that matter increases in mass as it approaches the speed of light, which is 186,000 miles per second in a vacuum. The basic cyclotron consists of three parts: a device for producing the atomic material to be accele rated, the accelerator itself, and the target and detectors toward which the material is directed. The first portion is called an ion source, and it removes parts of the atoms to be accelerated. This is nec essary because of the basic structure of atoms. Atoms are composed of a core of protons and neutrons or bited by clouds of electrons. The protons have a positive charge and the electrons have a negative charge. These charges normally will balance each other out and give the atom a neutral charge. But, Youngblood said, in order to make atoms collide, the electrons must be taken away, leaving what is called an ion. The cores of the atoms have a positive charge and they would normally repel each other, Youngblood said, so acceleration of the particles is necessary to over come this repulsion. Youngblood said the ion source in the old cyclotron could remove only four electrons from an oxygen atom while the new source can remove all eight electrons from the atom. This process doubles the number of electrons removed and quadru ples the energy that can be imparted to the ions by the magnetic field. From the ion source, the ions are injected into the magnetic field cre ated by the superconducting mag nets. The ions gain energy as they spiral outward from the ion source. Youngblood said there are 30,000 feet of niobium titanium supercon ducting wire that is cooled by liquid helium to within five degrees of ab solute zero, or minus 268 degrees Celcius, within the device. At this temperature, the wire loses all resistance to electric current and creates intense magnetic fields. These fields force the ions into spiral patterns inside two short cylindrical chambers called dees, named so be cause of their “D” shape. The dees are separated, and the gap in between them is what gives the ions their acceleration. The dees are connected to a radio frequency source that causes the polarity of the dees to be reversed and gives the particles additional acceleration each time they pass through a gap. At low energies, this type of cyclo tron would be adequate, Youngb lood said, but for research at higher energies, some changes must be made in the design. He said this is caused by a property of matter to gain mass as it approaches the speed of light. This problem is overcome by a technique called sector focusing. lat the particles are always. ‘rgy, the cyclotron following that spiral pattern,” Youngblood said. “Thevl are all getting back to the edgeofthel dee at the same time, so they are noil everywhere along that spiral path. If j you look at particles, they are in bun-j ches, but they’re all lined uponara-j dius. “Now that’s true if the massofthel particles is constant. When you up to higher energies, the mass I changes — a relativistic masi| change.” When the particles have achievedl their maximum orbit inside theacce l lerator, they are deflected fromtheirl circular path and sent along evac-[ uated tubes. Magnets are usedtode ] fleet and channel the ion towardva l rious targets in a network of| branching tubes. Youngblood said there are now I five such paths for ions to travel i the targets, but three additional! paths are planned. He said the tar gets are structures where the beams of ions can be directed at experi ments and detectors that are in a Maids at Boston hotel ordered to scrub floors by hand; union leaders object BOSTON (AP) — Chambermaids at Boston’s luxurious Copley Plaza Hotel have been ordered to put aside their mops and start scrubbing floors by hand, angering union leaders who say wash ing floors on hands and knees is demeaning. “A maid is a maid, and that’s just what she has to do,” said Alan Tremain, president of Hotels of Distinction, which operates the Copley Plaza for owner John Hancock Mutual Life Insurance Co. He said the hotel maintains its reputation by being “a hands-on business, with a lot of atten tion to detail.” “The minute the bags are carried from the car, they are given to a bellboy in the lobby,” he said. “The silver is polished when it’s put on the table.” The nearly 60 maids at Copley are not exempt, he said, adding he believes the Boston Hotel and Restaurant Workers Union Local No. 26 is pro testing the order because contract negotiations are coming up in December 1988. Union President Dominic Bozzotto said the hotel’s maids were ordered Nov. 10 to turn in their mops. Signs in the hotel told the women, who are paid $7.15 an hour, that,“There will be no mops used in the rooms of this hotel until fur ther notice! Please help yourself to as many clean rags as you like for hand washing floors.” Bozzotto said, “This means that they can only clean with their hands, and that means they’ll be on their hands and knees. The hotel knows that 99 percent of these maids are minorities and most, of them are older women. It’s just outra geous that in 1987, we have no cleaning instru ments to do this job. “The scene of a white male sitting in his hotel room reading the Wall Street Journal while the black maid is in the bathroom on her hands and | knees — it’s just preposterous.” Most of the maids are unwilling to speak out I against the new policy for fear of losing their jobs, Bozzotto said. One who asked that her name not be used said the maids planned ask for | a meeting with management. “I think the policy is downgrading for us la-1 dies,” she said. “We have to get on our hands and knees to clean. We’d rather use a mop.” The general manager of the Ritz-Carlton in I Boston said their maids can either hand-wash or mop floors. The housekeeping spokesman for New York’s Plaza Hotel said maids there have to | clean floors using a small brush. 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WIELAND SCHULZ-KEIL*CHRIS SIEVERNICH ^ JOHN HUSTON VE5TROn t W Vetkin Picaifs be An EStmo PICTURES PG PARENTAL GUIDANCE SUGGESTED ® SOME MATERIAL MAY NOT BE SUITABLE FOR CHILDREN ^ Thursday, December 3 7:30 p.m. 4r Rudder Auditorium 4r Free Admission with TAMU ID Presented by MSC Aggie Cinema AMERICA’S #1 MUSICAL Winner of 7 Tony Awards including Best Musical MUSIC BY ANDREW LLOYD WEBBER BASED ON OLD POSSUM S BOOK OF PRACTICAL CATS BY T S ELIOT April 14 & 15 Tickets available at Dillards Ticketron and the MSC Box Office 845-1234 VISA & MasterCard accepted. Call Battalion Classified 845-2611