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Bring this ad in when we disburse your GSL, SLS or Plus Loan & we’ll give you your 1st order of checks FREE! Your Student Loan Headquarters First Bank & Trust is now offering a guaranteed student loan program. To get into college, it takes intelligence, talent and ambition. We can help with the rest...financing. If you want change in your life, come talk to our loan officers...we want to make getting a student loan easy: •Fast turnaround time on loan processing-10 days •Open door lender •Eight locations in Texas •Loan kept in Texas FIRST B/VI\IK Si TRUSTS 1716 Briarcrest Dr. P.O. Drawer 1033 Bryan, Texas 77805 Member FDIC Serving Brazos Country for over 75 years (409) 268-7575 Lobby Hours: M-Th 9-3 Fri. 9-6 Drive-In Lanes M-F 8-6 A&M computer services expands raises high technology emphasis By Sherri Roberts Reporter As Texas A&M steps forward to meet the rising emphasis placed on high technology in the 1980s, com puters are becoming an increasingly visible presence throughout campus. Currently, the Computing Serv ices Center operates 12 computer ac cess locations which are available to all A&M students, faculty and staff. George “Butch” Kemper, assistant director of technical services at the CSC said the center is always ex panding, noting that 105 micro com puters are scheduled to be added to the public computer centers, hope fully, by the end of September. The purchase and installation of these new computers will be fi nanced, in part, by a portion of the $1.5 million computer access fee rev enue allocated to the CSC by the of fice of the provost and vice president of student affairs, Kemper said. At $3 per semester hour, the man datory registration fee has greatly enhanced the CSC’s capability to provide services to students, Dave England, director of the CSC, said. In additon to the purchase, instal lation and use of the computers at night, the fee pays for various com puter expenses including paper and repairs, England said. The fee, however, is one which many students question. “I think it’s bunk,” junior market ing major Todd Jones said. “I use it, but there are majors that may only use it one time, and they’re paying for other people’s use.” Larry Salerno, a sophomore rec reation and parks major, suggested access to the computers should be a fee option, authorizing the payment of the access fee by those students who choose to use the campus com puters. For those A&M students, faculty or staff who would like to use one of the estimated 4,000 micro comput ers or two mainframes on campus, but avoid doing so because of limited knowledge regarding their use, the Learning Resource and Devel opment Center on the sixth floor of the Sterling C. Evans Library offers a series of computer classes once ev ery week. At a cost of $35 per course, the LRD teaches 10-hour classes on the Wordstar, Wordperfect and Lotus 1,2,3 programs. In contrast, the six- hour Wordperfect and Lotus 1,2,3 classes offered by Computerland store in College Station cost $75 per course. Hal Hall, department head of the LRD, said of the center’s 250 pro grams, Wordstar, Wordperfect, and Lotus 1,2,3 are the most commonly used in the IBM environment, while MacWrite, MacDraw and MacPaint are the popular programs in the Ma cintosh environment. Students can make three hour res ervations of the center’s micro com puters up to a week in advance, Hall said. He added that reservations should be made two to three days ahead of intended use in the months of November and March, and five days ahead in December and May due to to a greater demand for the computers during these months. LOCATION TYPES OF EQUIPMENT OPERATING HOURS* Ground Floor Taagua Building 845-8300 IBM 3279. NEC. Geniaco. AED 1024 & 512. VT200. ACT-6A terminals; Xerox 9700 laser printara; IBM 1403 printer: Datagraphix microfiche printer It duplicator; Varsatac & Houston Instuments Plotters; Lasergraphics color plotter & film recorder M-F 24 Hour! S«t 0am-7pm Sun Ipm-IOprr Ground Floor Taagua Building 846-1366 AED 1024, Genisco G-1000. Tektronix 1014. IBM 3279 & 3192 Graphics terminals; Microtec 300 dpi scanner; IBM XT 8i Apple Macintosh PCs; Ml graphics camera; Numonics digitizer; Varsatac plotter; Apple LaserWriter M-F Sat 8»m-7pm Sun Ipm-IOpu Old Cuatiino Library 845- 8416 846- 4210 VT 220. Telex 17B, ACT-5A, IBM 3279 terminals IBM PCs; Xerox 4060 fk QMS LaserSt Printronix Printers M-F 24 hpun Sat 98m-7pm Sun Ipm-IOpir 1st Floor- Blocker Building 846-0808 Zenith 148. IBM XT, Machintosh. HP150 & Tl PCs; ACT-5A, VT100, Mime, IBM 3179 terminals IBM. HP, Tl, STC. Apple printers; HP plotters M-Th 7'46lm-l!nt Rl 7:4B*m-5 30pff Sal tani-tpm Sun 1pm-12n» Kleberg Center 845-2842 ACT-5A terminals; Radio Shack Model 1 & 2 PCs; Printronix RJE Printer M-F 0am-IOpm Closed Sal Closed Sun Room 23 Zachery 845-4123 ACT-5A terminals; Printronix RJE printer IBM PC's M-F 8im-12nt Closed Sat Sun Ipm-IOpn Room 12A Zachry 845-1025 VT220 Terminals M-F8em-I0pm Sat 12pin-5pm Sun Ipm-IOpn 1st Floor Zachry 845-1310 Terminals for accessing SIGMA/SUMMA/Engineering VAX system M-Th Bam-lini F 8«m-10pm Set Noon-lOpir Sun Noon-lim 120 G. Rollie White Colleeum 846-3290 28 Macintoshs, 3 ImageWriter printers and one LaserWriter Printer Bim-6pm Mon.Fti Call tor clan mp • xtsnadad hom Commons ACT-6A and VT220 terminals M-Sun 24 houri Sixth Floor Library 845-2318 IBM, Tandy 1000, TRS-80, Zenith, Apple2E (k Macintosh PCs, Apple LaserWriter; VT220 terminals M-Th Bem-llpn F Bem-Bpm Set Bam-dpin Sun Noon-tlpm H & FS Building Rm 206 3aa«m«nt of H«ldanfala 845-3781 ACT-5A Terminals Apple Macintoshes and one LaserWriter M-F 8am-5pm M-Th 8 30im*6 30pm Frl 8:30am-6pm Sun 6pm-6pm ‘Brat’ tells overseas tales By Cindy Milton Stuff Writer Joe Condrill is a 33-year-old brat. But being a brat has not stopped him from being a success. It has, in fact, made him a success. Condrill is the editor and publisher of Overseas Brats, a magazine that attracts brats just like him from all over the world. The magazine has grown to what he calls “an over night explosion” and a “national movement.” It has attracted nearly 1,000 subscribers since its first publication in 1986. Condrill defines an Overseas Brat as “anyone who has lived or gone to school overseas within the last 50 to 60 years” as a result of following military parents or parents with international careers. In an Associated Press article published in the Stars and Stripes, Condrill is sited as saying that military officials estimate more than 1 million people have gone to American schools overseas since 1946. Condrill is an Army brat who spent more than half of his life following his globe-trotting father across the world. “For 19 years I followed Dear Old Dad all over the countryside,” he muses. “That was 19 years, 21 homes and 12 schools, including three high schools.” He attended schools in Germany, France, Thailand and Iran, where he graduated from Tehran American School in 1973. The constant moves and changes in his life allow him to dip into his past with stories that sound like segments from high-adventure movies. He vividly and emotionally recalls moving to Thai land when he was 15 years old. He stepped off a plane and into a rude awakening: The reality of the war in Vietnam. It was July of 1970, he says, and his family was get ting off of a commercial Chinese plane in Camran Bay on the easternmost coast of Vietnam. He describes the event as though it happened yesterday: “I remember stepping off the plane and coming un der fire. We were being attacked.” Although he and his family made it to shelter safely, the event made its pain ful scars on Condrill. “I was shell-shocked. I didn’t eat for three days af terward, and I ended up catching malaria. “We didn’t know what we were getting into,” he con tinues, almost breathlessly. “My brother - who’s younger than me - thought it was great. Mom was seeth ing, and Dad was saying, ‘What did you expect? This is a war.’ ” Following this event, Condrill lived in Thailand, where his father was working for the Transportation t Corps, a branch of the U.S. Army. As a volunteer for the American Red Cross, Condrill met wounded soldiers and soon his interests sparked in medicine and counseling. “You’d see all sorts of things,” he remembers. “Psy chological shock, amputations . . . you were there to be friends with them (soldiers),” he said. Engineers may turn RGBs into salt By Velia Velez Reporter Chemical engineers at Texas A&M are working on a demonstra tion unit that will turn a toxic chemi cal into a harmless substance. Donald Sawyer, distinguished chemistry professor, has developed an electrochemical process which can convert toxic polychlorinated bi phenyl, or PCB, into table salt and baking soda. PCBs are used for various indus trial applications; they are used as a fluid in trial applications; they are used as a fluid that will conduct heat and as an insulating material for transformers and capacitors used in electrical power substations of utility companies. Because of their toxicity, PCBs have not been manufactured in the United States since 1972. The Envi ronmental Protection Agency has had court orders issued to clean up PCBs at utility sites and in soil that has been contaminated by dumping. PCBs are currently being elimi nated by incineration at EPA ap proved incineration sites. Fluids and soils containing PCBs are shipped to the incineration facilities to be de stroyed; the ashes remain toxic. The process that Sawyer has de veloped will allow the destruction of PCBs by an electrochemical process that will break down the PCBs and transform them into the equivalent of table salt and baking soda. Sawyer said the process involves superoxide ions that are able to react with PCBs. A superoxide ion is the result of adding an electron to a mol ecule of oxygen. A&M provides fresh meats to community ByJ ulie Mitchell Reporter Students who are tired of standing in the long lines at ice cream stores should visit one of Texas A&M’s best kept secrets. The A&M Food Science Tech nology Center on the west cam pus provides the community with beef, pork, lamb and dairy prod ucts while serving as an aid for teaching, research and extension services. The FSTC Store sells icecream produced at A&M’s creamery,on the south side of campus. Ray Riley, the manager of the FSTC, said the store sells a variety of flavors of ice cream: chocolate chip, vanilla, french silk, choco late and many other Havers. Other dairy products the store sells include milk, several types of cheese, eggs, butter, and quarg. Riley said the store sells meat products, and although some of the animals are used for research the meat is still high-quality. “When we say research ani mals, it is not anything that is un healthy because our inspection would not allow this,” Riley said. “The meat is state inspected, which is the equivalent of USDA inspection.” Riley said the purpose of the store was to recover the money put into processing animals used for animal science courses, re search and extension purposes. “We are trying to recover the cost of the animals, wrapping materials, boxes, labor and the up-keep of the facilities,” said Ri ley. actotfastf iiwiiy t/ M\mi' tiWn’ h aiirm MUM hi ifgtfWHiftl r > aiHmWi SPECIAL ^.EFFECTS Waterbeds 693-0563 *V;Post Oak Square ~ ;/<sV'= = 1104-C Harvey Road =^ \\ • (Next to Grandy’s) If I ■ill.!) Store Hours >> " Mon.-Sat. 10-9 * !T Sun. 12-6