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Scientists look
for monopoles
from Big Bang
By Allison Seale
Reporter
It’s like looking for a needle in a
haystack.
This is what the teams of scientists
searching for magnetic monopoles
seem to be finding out.
Magnetic monopoles are the pe
culiar subatomic particles that are
theorized tiniest fractions existing
the first instant after the “big bang”
opened the universe.
Despite the difficulty in finding
them, Texas A&M physicist Robert
Webb keeps searching anyway.
fied theories formulated to tie to
gether and explain the physical
forces that existed in the tiniest frac
tions of the first instant after the “big
bang” that opened the universe.
Hundreds of physicists around
the world have been searching for
the elusive subatomic particles since
their existence was first predicted.
Twice scientists had thought they
had found one but on both occa
sions, there was not enough statisti
cal proof to support the finds.
“If we find some, it will be really
exciting,” Webb said. “If don’t find
some, it also will be somewhat excit
ing, not perhaps as important as
finding some, but it will have an im
pact on the viability of many of these
grand unified theories.”
According to such theories, mo
nopoles are cosmic orphans left be
hind as the universe cooled below
the temperature and energy levels at
which a super “unified” force was
transformed into the three basic
forces — strong, weak and electro
magnetic— that physicists study.
What makes monopoles different
from other particles found in nature
is that monopoles have only one
charge — either positive or negative,
but not both.
Webb said the significance of
finding a monopole is that if one is
found, scientists will be able to gain
insight as to what role they play in
the grand scheme of things.
Magnetic monopoles which have
evaded detection by scientists since
their existence was first suspected.
They are predicted by grand uni-
Webb and his colleagues began
their search for monopoles at the
bottom of the Hockley salt mine in
1982 but moved their search to a
football-field sized detector in a
man-made cave in Italy.
Although there still is no proof of
their existence, scientists will con
tinue to search through the haystack
of subatomic particles until they
prove something.
Contract to decide
future of LTV Corp.
DALLAS (AP) — The Hummer, a
replacement vehicle for the work
horse Jeep that carried U.S. armies
through three wars, now carries the
fortunes of a division of a defense
contractor.
The future of LTV Corp.’s AM
General Division hinges on winning
a new contract to manufacture the
multi-purpose vehicles starting in
1990, a company spokesman said
Tuesday.
AM General announced plans to
discontinue manufacture of medium
and heavy trucks and concentrate on
a $1 billion competitive contract for
the Hummer.
“If we lose the Hummer rebuy,
we’re a fond memory,” company
spokesman Craig MacNab said.
AM General is taking a calculated
gamble on its ability to win a U.S.
Army contract to build 32,300 addi
tional Hummers from 1990 to 1994.
A sole-source contract by LTV to
build about 60,000 Hummers for
the Army ends next year, and the
Pentagon has decided to open the
next purchase to competition.
The multi-purpose vehicle is a re
placement for the Army jeep and
four other trucks.
The restructuring “resolves the
questions we previously raised about
the viability of AM General, and we
expect the division and its Hummer
business to remain a part of the reor
ganized LTV,” spokesman Charles
Palmer said.
The layoffs will include as many
as 550 workers in South Bend by
next February or March and imme
diate layoffs for about 150 workers
at its Livonia, Mich., facility, which
worked on medium and heavy truck
design and development.
The AM General workforce will
be reduced to about 1,600 from
about 2,300 as of the end of June.
A previous restructuring and cost
cutting plan announced in April had
reduced the division’s workforce by
400 salaried employees.
AM General president George
Maddox, in a prepared statement,
blamed the cutbacks on “costly capi
tal investments and limited profit
margins from possible future mili
tary contracts.”
Dallas-based LTV will take an un
determined charge to second-quar
ter earnings, MacNab said.
What’s Up
Thursday
TAMU INTERNATIONAL FOLK DANCERS:Will meet at 7:30 pm
Fountain to teach beginning and intermediate dances at a special ouldoc
sion. Singles and couples are welcome. For more information call Ellen a: j
2415.
ADULT CHILDREN OF ALCHOLICS:Will meet at 6 p.m. in 146 MSC.Fo
information call the Center for Drug Prevention and Education.
NARCOTICS ANONYMOUS:Will meet at 8:30 p.m. in 146 MSC. For more
mation call the Center for Drug Prevention and Education at 845-0280.
ATHEISTS, AGNOSTICS AND FREETHINKERS:Will meet at 7 p.m |
Lawrence Sullivian Ross statue in front of the Academic Building, todiscus|
and life.”
Items for What's Up should be submitted to The Battalion, 216 ReedMcDv
no later than three business days before the desired run date. We onlyx
the name and phone number of the contact if you ask us to do so. IWiafs:
a Battalion service that lists non-profit events and activities. Submissionsn
on a first-come, first-served basis. There is no guarantee an entry will run
have questions, call the newsroom at 845-3315.
Salutes
Faculty/Staff
Donald A. Maxwell, professor and associate head of the DepartmentofCr,
gineering, and cordinator of Engineering Computer Services at Texas AW
been appointed chairman of the Texas Automated Information andTelw
nications Council by Gov. Bill Clements.
The council has the responsibility to review and certify computer and te<
munications equipment purchases by state agencies. The council review
approves the long-range computer and telecommunications plans of alls
cies spending in excess of $1,500 on equipment; analyses and approvesa:
curements larger than $300,000, and holds public hearings to scrutinize-:
chases of more than $1 million.
“It s a challenging opportunity and a big responsibility," says Maxwell, wf;
is a research engineer for the Texas Transportation Institute.
Dr. James McNamara of Texas A&M's Educational Psychology Departrrr
been selected as coordinator of one of the nation’s four Woodrow 1
tional Fellowship Foundation Summer Institutes in Statistics.
The one-week workshop here, scheduled Aug. 1-5, is designed to prow®
secondary school mathematics teachers with new insights into the tear:
statistics. The workshops will be taught by four master teachers selectee:
foundation for their teaching ability and statistical knowledge.
Salutes is a community service provided by The Battalion to list students i
and staff who have received honors and awards (such as scholarships]
ment, etc.). Space is limited and is provided on a first-come, first-sew:: j
There is no guarantee that your submission will run. Submissions may:
fused if they contain incomplete or incorrect information. If you have ary,
tions, please call The Battalion at 845-3315.
No suspects found
in theft of weapons
ANGLETON (AP) — Brazoria
County investigators said Wednes
day they have no suspects in the
theft of 46 weapons, including more
than 30 high-powered rifies, from a
locked storage room at a state prison
armory.
The armory at the Ramsey rifle
range was broken into sometime be
tween Friday night and Monday,
said Michael Moore, Texas Depart
ment of Corrections director for the
southern units.
“It’s highly embarrassing,” Moore
said.
While the armory is near the only
access road to the three Ramsey state
prisons, Moore said traffic on the
road on weekend evenings is sparse.
The exact time thewejpi
taken is unknown because:j
spected the building dn
weekend, authorities said.
Brazoria County invetligl
the missing weapons area
estimated $16,200. The
taken include 33 highfl
semiautomatic rifles, a
rifle with scope often used
tage cases because of its I
accuracy, five shotguns at!
•357-caliber pistols.
But many weapons wet'!
hind, leading authorities:
late that the thieves may!
scared off and fled with*
could grab in a few minuted
Withdrawal from the medium
and heavy military truck business
will result in layoffs for up to 700 sal
aried and hourly workers in Indiana
and Michigan, MacNab said. This
will result in the loss of jobs for
nearly one-third of the division’s
workforce.
Harassment gets man probatio
AM General will also move its
headquarters from South Bend,
Ind., home of its military truck
plant, to neighboring Mishiwaka,
where it builds the Hummer.
The action apparently settles the
uncertainty about including AM
General in LTV’s Chapter 11 regor-
ganization plans, a spokesman in
Dallas said.
HOUSTON (AP) — A man who telephoned his ex
girlfriend as many as 100 times an hour and rammed
the back of her car has been ordered to stay away from
the woman and seek psychiatric treatment.
David Eric Herd, 23, was given probation after he
pleaded guilty to a retaliation charge.
Between July and September 1987, Herd called the
25-year-old receptionist at home and work contin
uously despite her repeated rejections.
“I love you, I love you,” he would say. “Please talk to
me.”
She would hang up on him, but often he called back
seconds later. Many of the calls were recorded.
“I tried (to break up) to do it gently, but he wouldn’t
let me,” the woman said Tuesday.
Herd, who had been charged twice with misdemea
nor harassment, later faced a felony charge in j
tion with an Aug. 20, 1987 incident.
Then, prosecutor Jim West said, Herd fol
woman and began bumping the hack of her!
When she got out, he threw her to the groj
passer-by ended the fracas by spraying Herd
woman’s can of chemical deterrent.
Faced with a trial at which tape recording
hundreds of calls would be played, Herd opted!
guilty to the retaliation charge.
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