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around.”
Hogan called the costume ‘laug
hable’ and said even if the new mas
cot plan was well-executed and
looked like the popular Old Sarge, it
would appeal only to people who
had never been to A&M.
“I appreciate what Jackie does he
re,” Hogan said. “He is out in the
student body, and doing charity and
has come up with some great things,
but I think on this one he may have
just had some ideas left from an
other school.
“That costume simply can’t work
at A&M. 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.
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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
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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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