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By Christina De Leon
Reporter
Aggie Update, a new radio pro
gram that allows Texas A&M stu
dents to broadcast information
about A&M events and organiza
tions, began airing on a local radio
station last month.
The minute-long program, spon
sored by the Texas Aggie Credit
Union, is broadcast on KTAM-FM
four times a day, Monday through
Friday.
“The highlight is that student rep
resentatives come in and record it
themselves,” said KTAM News Di
rector Marsha Carter, who coordi
nates and organizes the show. She
says that each organization writes
and broadcasts its own script.
The focus of Aggie Update, Car
ter says, is to report upcoming
events and allow students to talk
about a variety of topics — from per
sonality profiles to the merits of
their organization.
Scott Mendell, president of the
Off-Campus Aggies, says his organi
zation will concentrate their radio
broadcasts on informing students
about off-campus student activities
and general membership informa
tion.
“We just tell them meeting and
“The highlight (of the
program) is that student
representatives come in
and record it themselves. ”
— KTAM News Director
Marsha Carter, coordina
tor and organizer of the
radio show
event times and how-to-get involved
information,” he says.
Details of The Big Event and the
Swing of the Spring golf tournament
are among the many activities Off-
Campus Aggies discusses in the
broadcasts, Mendell says.
Other organizations such as the
Corps of Cadets, The Battalion and
Student Government have also par
ticipated in the program.
Since the Aggie Update program
began, Carter says, both A&M stu
dents and the local community have
been supportive.
“The students we’ve heard from
have been very positive,” she says.
KTAM came up with the idea for
a student radio program when
KTAM General Manager Craig Par
ker and Program Director Ro;
Garrett were considering ways
better represent students, Ca
says.
Although KTAM had
announced upcoming A&M evt
Carter says the station believer
more structured program
needed to attract botii students
listeners.
Laurie Heidbreder, an acc«
executive for Advertising Associa
which represents the Texas Af
Credit Union, says her agencv
lieves more publicity of A&M at
ities was needed in the commumti
“We felt there was a need.
be aware of things that that got*
campus,” Heidbreder says.
Although KTAM plans onbrcfl
casting the show throughout
spring semester, Heidbreder
the Texas Aggie Credit Union
sponsor the snow for as longasl
budget permits.
“It depends on the budget
says. “It could be six monthsot
weeks."
KTAM is uncertain whetherij
gie Update will be broadcasts
summer as well. Carter says.
Experts discuss effects, risks
of using nuclear power plants
How IBM’s newest computer
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By Shannon O’Neal
Reporter
The forces of nuclear power, busi
ness, science and consumers, lined
up Thursday night to present their
views in 201 MSC. Six authorities
from several concerns in the nuclear
industry gave their opinions in
sometimes heated exchanges with
one another and more than 50 stu
dents and faculty members at “The
Economics and Safety of Nuclear
Energy: A Public Forum,” spon
sored by the Texas A&M University
Green Earth Society.
Bryan Baker, president of the
Committee for Consumer Rate Re
lief in Houston, began the forum by
questioning the economic sense of
building nuclear plants when they
produce a small ratio of the total
power output.
“The South Texas Nuclear Power
Project is the most expensive plant
they have built,” Baker said. “It rep
resents only about 7 percent of their
power capacity and has eaten up half
to two-thirds of their net worth.
That is a very small return.”
Baker added that Houston Power
and Light Company has a 46 percent
power-reserve margin without the
plant scheduled to come on line.
He said the fact that reactors are
expensive to build would not deter
them from being built.
Other panelists said the high costs
are not the industry’s fault.
Jeff Pruitt of Gulf State Electric
Utilities Company said the increase
in cost was due to the effects of more
government regulation and the
larger and more powerful plants
that are being completed now. Many
of these plants have been designed
and redesigned and built and reb
uilt. The price had to increase, he
said.
Dr. Frank Iddings, a professor
emeritus at Louisiana State Univer
sity and affiliate of the Committee
for Energy Awareness, said al
though nuclear energy is not cheap,
it has saved the United States more
than 3 billion barrels of oil so far.
Stephen Fenberg, an editorial
writer for the Houston Post and the
Houston Chronicle, focused on an
other aspect of nuclear power, call
ing himself “a concerned human be
ing whose survival instinct has been
aroused.”
Fenberg said there were 3,000 re
ported accidents in nuclear plants
last year and many plants have alco
hol and drug abuse problems. He
said the Nuclear Regulatory Com
mission reported to Congress that
there is a 45 percent chance of a se
vere meltdown before the year2G
But Dr. K.L. Peddicord, an Ai
professor of engineering, said
3,000 accidents were really just
portable incidents and therefore
fleeted the efficiency of nud
safety systems.
Pruitt explained that the nude
power industry has the only dr
testing program where allempto:
are examined.
Concerns over safety were
in light of the recent Cnernobyls
clear accident in the Soviet Uni
though others pointed out that
Chernobyl reactor was not the
type as U.S. reactors.
Baker said he was living in Eui
when the Chernobyl aeddem
curred and radiation levels
times the normal background In
were not uncommon.
He asked if the effects of tho
dent could be predicted andpoini
out that the results of incidents:!
years ago only now are beingapp:;
ciated.
Iddings said these fears
baseless and drew parallels hew
the stories told now of nudt
power and the fears people b
when the train and automobile
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AUSTIN (AP) — A San Antonio
travel agency owner who Texas offi
cials allege bilked customers out of
$5 million disappeared from the
cruise ship Galaxy shortly before a
mutiny of its crew in Central Amer
ica, passengers say.
Fernando Inigo of San Antonio
left the ship in the predawn hours in
Puerto Quetzal, Guatemala, prom
ising crew members he would re
board in Costa Rica with money to
pay them, passengers told the Hous
ton Chronicle.
Inigo and his wife, Lorna, are two
of five defendants named in a law
suit filed last week by the Texas at
torney general’s office against
Golden Cruisetours Inc. and two of
its affiliates.
The three other defendants —
Fernando Mendrillo, Fermin Gu
tierrez and Manuel Fernandez —
maintain postal boxes in San Anto
nio but have unknown addresses in
Spain, officials said.
Assistant Texas Attorney General
Raul Noriega said he had visited the
Inigos’ house in San Antonio and
that their neighbors have not seen
the couple for several weeks.
They appeared to have taken
some possessions and left, Noriega
said.
Their child was removed from
school, and the family’s cars still sit
in the driveway.
Morris J. Kirschberg, attorney for
Golden Cruisetours, declined to
comment on the case this week but
did say through a secretary that he
has not had contact with the Inigos
since the lawsuit was filed.
After the vessel left Costa Rica
and passed through the Panama Ca
nal, the Galaxy’s captain had all pas
sengers leave the ship in Panama
City on Feb. 21.
The Galaxy is owned by Global
Cruises of Panama, one of the affil
iates named in the suit, of which
Inigo owns 5 percent, Noriega said.
“He (Inigo) was very nervous,”
Galaxy passenger Dorothy C. Hayes
of Houston told the Chronicle. “We
were told he wasn’t feeling well.”
Hayes said Inigo talked with her
and other passengers before leaving
the ship.
“He said that he had to leave in
Guatemala to meet with his bankers
(in Guatemala City) and then he
would catch up with the ship in
Costa Rica,” she said.
He never showed up, she added.
In a letter to the AssociatedPrf;
passenger Peggy Enger of Lai
wood, Colo., described condition 1
the ship when passengers fe
boarded Feb. 11 in Acapulco.
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it smelled of diesel Riel,” En£
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