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Friday, February 5,1988/The Battalion/Page 7 by Jon Caidara Prisoners can take vacations by state iaw so un.MiL imims mi m m RRom m mm m? sma m BOCK TO THE TfiUCH. arnngtor nixeratii ousefof 1 ; 210Pav,: s andgraj-; p alii:®; 3 A&M Pm ayalAoj; Sunday ' : i in 301 ft Warped by Scott McCullar NOW HERE ON THE V4RPD ■OUR. FOLKS, 15 PAULS PET, IaMILLE. SHE’S A SHAPE ■hanging ckeatuke FKOTA I ANOTHER DIMENSION... SHE HELPS OUT BT BECOM-] ING PROPS,SCENERT, SPECIAL EFFECTS...C'/WDA/,| CAM,CHANGE FOR US.. C'MON, CAM, SHOW 'EM HOW TOO CHANGE... CA/M, WAKE UP ANP.. ng relre* lation fol with Die ft 4701 BuildilO: Active r faldo by Kevin Thomas W, FOLKS, settle: down/ IAYID LETTCANAN'S TOP |f N LIST TONIGHT IS 4HT A FOOTBALL COACH IHOULD BE GRANTED A IROFFSSORSHIR " Top 10 Llil: Why ■ Football Coach Should Be Granlad a Professorship. 10. dlacounls on Astroturf for faculty lounge carpal. 0. Give players passing grades. 8. Invite faculty to Gatorada parlies. 7. Sisal towels from faculty restrooms. 8. Make extra money sailing — ticket, during clas*. ) i Top 10 List: Why a Football Coach Should Be Granted a Profeaaorshlp. . Search student body to recruit water boys. . Prefara to ba called "Teech.” . Ask Faculty Senate for valal aarvlca. Promote Mr. Potato-Head coatuma as school mascot. Vf 5 " DALLAS (AP) —Juries that send convicts to prison don’t have any idea that a new state f urlough law al lows the inmates to come back to their communities “on vacations,” police say. Passecl by the T exas Legislature last vear, the law gives prison offi cials sole authority over which in mates are furloughed and where they’re allowed to go. Police, how ever, say the practice threatens pub lic safety. Texas Department of Corrections officials value furloughs for inmate rehabilitation and claim they benefit only qualified prisoners. “I think they are opportunities for inmates to secure family ties and em ployment, which are the two most important things to have to stay out of prison,” TDC spokesman David Nunnelee said. “You can’t put these people in prison and just forget about them because they’re going to return to their communities sooner or later.” T DC officials used to honor re quests from police in seven counties — Dallas, Tarrant, Harris, Bexar, Ellis, Anderson and Lee — to limit inmate furloughs to funerals of im mediate family members. But in No vember, the TDC decided against al lowing such “blanket” requests, officials said. Dallas Police Chief Billy Prince wrote a letter of protest to a prison board member after an inmate on furlough was arrested in connection with a burglary last month. The prisoner had been granted a seven-day furlough to visit his sister in Dallas and earn money to put in his prison account, Nunnelee said. Police Lt. Larry Sellers said, “Typ ically they go back to the same set ting that sent them to prison in the first place.” esearchers prepare to delve Into ‘unknown’ with cyclotron ;it hi nicii> I'lnil /aiiSi By Jamie Russell Stall Writer [The world’s fastest plane travels at bund 2,200 mph, the fastest train [at more than 200 mph. But imagine uncing. atoms off each other at eds reaching 62,000 miles per ond. On the evening of Jan. 21, scien- tisis watched their new “state-of-the- an” K500 cyclotron at the Cyclotron Institute at Texas A&M accelerate its * Fust beam of particles. iHOn Thursday, government offi- fels and scientists toured the cyclo tron as part of a two-day Texas Re- J|.irch Seminar sponsored by A&M and the University ol Texas. ■A&M’s cyclotron institute and vis- Scientists will use the new cyclo tron to explore new frontiers in par- ftii ie acceleration, said Dr. Jeff lionson, a senior scientist at the Cy clotron Institute. ■ “We don’t know what practical ap plications will come out of it,” Bron son said. “If we already knew, there fouldn’t be a point in doing all this.” ■ The future of the cyclotron is in- (Jnerminate, he said; (here may be a |orld beyond what is known, but sci- fnisls must take its exploration one Jppal a time. The Jan. 21 test) is the first sig- “We don’t know what practical applications will come out of it. If we already knew, there wouldn't he a point in doing all this. ” — Dr. Jeff Bronson, Cyclotron Institute senior scien tist nificant step — for all internal parts of the cyclotron to work where a beam (of particles) is actually pro duced and accelerated inside the cy clotron,” Bronson said. What this means in basic terms is that the cyclotron is injected with particles called ions. The ions (nitro gen ions for this experiment) are at oms without all their electrons. The loss of some or all of the electrons from the atom leaves a magnetically charged core. As the ions spiral outward in a 26.5-inch circular vacuum, they are confined inside the chamber by a magnetic field. Energy is pumped in, causing the ions to spiral faster, reaching about 1/10th the speed of light. As the spiral gets larger, it eventually reaches and hits an insu lated metal probe placed about 15 inches from its center. During the test, the cyclotron only- produced a fraction of the energy it will produce at full power, Bronson said. Scientists have to test the ma chine little by little. “The further out you go with the beam, the more the parameters af fect the magnetic field,” Bronson said. “We have to tune the beam as we work it out. “Eventually, weTl pull the beam out of the machine, pipe it off some where and actually do an experi ment.” A cyclotron is made up of three main components: a magnet, which causes the circular path of particles; an oscillating radio frequency (rf) electrical field, which accelerates the particles, and an ion source, which provides the particles. Equipped with liquid-helium cooled superconducting coils rather than standard water-cooled copper coils, the K.500 achieves super-cold temperatures, reducing electrical re sistance and creating a stronger magnetic field. This enables re searchers to give the particles more energy while confining them with the stronger magnetic field. The K.500 and the building ex pansion was f unded in part by $6.25 million obtained through the Uni versity by a specific line item the Texas Legislature put into the state budget, Bronson said. An additional $1 million in sup port of chemistry research in T exas was donated by the Robert A. Welch Foundation. The complete cyclotron facility is worth about $35 million. “So building the new machine here where we can use a lot of the old facilities has ended up saving us a lot of money and given us an equiv alent of a very expensive facility he re,” Bronson said. Not only is the outcome — the K500 — notable, but the minds and physical labor behind the machine are remarkable, he said. “One of the byproducts of this is we now have the technical accelera tor group here at A&M that is one of about three in the world capable of building an accelerator like this,” he said. Ie (te*| gs onf fficials capture escaped bear from wild animal orphanage am 1 SAN ANTONIO (AP) — A 100-pound Hima layan bear named Cheech only had a partial day of freedom before he was captured and returned which he lives with his sister, invw 1 1 jenis' exart 1 to his cage, in ^™hong, officials said. Die 3-foot tall beat was recaptured Wednes- ay when dogs found him about a quarter-mile rom his cage at the Wild Animal Orphanage for bused and unwanted exotic animals. The bear was tranquilized and then moved back to his cage with Chong, who had remained behind. Carol Asvestas, the director of the refuge, was detained in the hospital because she was having a baby Tuesday when Cheech escaped through an opening in the cage. Several hours after giving birth, Asvestas left her hospital bed to help search for the 1‘/a-year- old animal. “He’s not an attack bear,” she said. “But he could hurt you. 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