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Capitol officials
stop employees’
contest call-ins
AUSTIN (AP) — After thousands
of outgoing phone calls knocked the
state Capitol phone system out of
service, officials have disconnected
state employees’ attempts to win big
dollars from radio station call-in
contests.
Carl Stringfellow, the state’s direc
tor of telecommunications, said the
change was made after phone serv
ice was disrupted several times by
workers trying to get through to a lo
cal radio station offering a $1,000
prize.
“It would shut it down,” Stringfel
low said. “It essentially left all major
agencies with no phone service.
“We thought we had just had an
equipment failure. But the second
time it went down one of our em
ployees suggested it was at the same
time as one of the radio contests.”
Officials discovered that the
phone failure occurred within a
minute of when a local radio station
started its contest.
The Capitol phone system has
about 14,000 lines, and its usual ca
pacity is about 2,000 calls.
The radio contest bumped the
phone traffic up to 8,000 calls,
Stringfellow said.
“I guess the economy is so bad in
Texas that everybody is trying to get
money,” Stringfellow said. “But you
shouldn’t be using state phones to be
calling on to radio contests.”
Officials reset the phone system to
g revent any calls to telephone num-
ers beginning with 390, the ex
change assigned by Southwestern
Bell for radio call-in contests.
“One guy called me raising hell”
about the decision to bar calls to the
contests, Stringfellow said. “I told
him I didn’t realize calling game
shows was state business.”
An official for a state employee
organization said there are no plans
to contest the decision to prevent
contest calls from state phones.
“It’s a shame they have to do
that,” Lane Zivley, executive director
of the Texas Public Employees Asso
ciation, said about the worker’s ef
forts to win money.
“I think there are even more state
employees trying to figure out how
to get food stamps because they
haven’t gotten a raise,” he said.
NASA investigates
alleged fire hazard
FORT WORTH (AP) — A con
troversial wiring insulation that has
been suspected in aircraft fires is the
target of a NASA investigation in
volving Kapton’s use in the space
?d 1
But, unlike other commonly used
insulations, Kapton can react vio
lently when exposed to an electrical
shuttle, according to a publishe d re
port.
Shuttle engineers have been di
rected to determine whether alter
native insulations should be used in
the wake of evidence Kapton can
catch fire, even in the oxygen-free
environment of space, the Fort
Worth Star-Telegram reported
Wednesday.
NASA officials said Kapton insu
lation being used aboard the shuttle
Discovery, scheduled to be launched
from Florida’s Cape Canaveral on
Sept. 29, would not be affected by
the reassessment.
Discovery has been deemed safe
to fly with Kapton aboard.
Laboratory tests on the insulation
were conducted in response to ques
tions from the newspaper in July.
The shuttle launch next week is to
be the first flight since Challenger
exploded 74 seconds after liftoff,
killing all seven of its crew members.
The Challenger disaster on Jan.
28, 1986 was caused by a fuel leak on
one of its booster rockets.
The material can carbonize and
become a conductor of electricity
rather than an insulator, providing a
path for the current to flow to adja
cent wires in a chain-reaction explo
sion known as flashover.
Du Pont sells an estimated $120
million worth of Kapton a year.
The company contends that prob
lems are rare.
The Star-Telegram earlier re
ported that Kapton-induced fires
nave occurred in both military and
commercial aircraft over the last 15
years.
What’s Up
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Thursday
WEL
HAVE
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HISTORY CLUB: will have an informational meeting at 8:30 p.m. in302Ri,: : i*—
AGGIE LEAGUE OF ENGINEERS: will have a general meeting at 7:30prp 8
203 Zachry.
A&M CYCLING TEAM: will meet at 7 p.m. to discuss team points criteria■;
Rudder.
MEXICAN AMERICAN ENGINEERING SOCIETY: will meet at 7 p.m.in;
Zachry.
INTERNATIONAL STUDENTS ASSOCIATION: will have a generalmeetv
7 p.m. in 601 Rudder.
DATA PROCESSING MANAGEMENT ASSOCIATION: will discusscarsj
data processing at 7 p.m. in the University Inn penthouse.
SOCIETY OF WOMEN ENGINEERS: will meet at 6 p.m. in 203 Zachry
MBA/MS ASSOCIATION: will have a guest speaker from Conocospear|
p.m. in 114 Blocker.
BETA ALPHA PSI: will have a professional meeting at 7 p.m. attheClaytof
liams Alumni Center.
WICI: will have a happy hour at 5:30 p.m. at Bombay Bicycle Club.
ATHEIST, AGNOSTIC AND FREETHINKERS SOCIETY: will meetal7p-
604 Rudder. ' JlginH [
ALCOHOLICS ANONYMOUS: call the center at 845-0280 for details on ik.|
meeting.
NARCOTICS ANONYMOUS: call the center at 845-0280 for detailsonfc|
meeting.
ADULT CHILDREN OF ALCOHOLICS: call the center at 845-0280Ion
on today's meeting.
MINORITY ASSOCIATION OF PREHEALTH AGGIES: will meet to lev;
A&M Medical School at 7 p.m. in the lobby of the Medical SciencesBuildine J
PRETHEOLOGY SOCIETY OF A&M: will elect officers at 7 p.m. intM
Methodist Church fellowship hall.
LAREDO HOMETOWN CLUB: will have an organizational meetingal7p;j
the Flying Tomato.
UNIVERSITY ART EXHIBITS: Dr. David Anderson, from the Englished
ment, will speak about “The Moral Power of the Image for the EighteetJ
tury English Collector," at 7 p.m. in 201 MSC.
LATIN AMERICAN CATHOLIC STUDENTS: will meet at 6:15 p.m at St
student center.
CATHOLIC STUDENTS ASSOCIATION: will discuss “Companions in a*
ney” at 6:15 p.m. at St. Mary's student center.
TYLER HOMETOWN CLUB: will meet at 7 p.m. in 302 Rudder.
TAMECT: will have a team meeting at 7 p.m. in 301 Rudder.
MSC COLLEGE BOWL: will have fall registration for intramural toumara
through Friday in 216 MSC.
PLACEMENT CENTER: will have an orientation session for all Decemtej
and August graduates at 2 p.m. in 504 Rudder through Friday.
THE AGGIELAND: Freshmen and sophomores may take their yeartoc*:
tos through Sept. 23 at Yearbook Associates behind Campus Photo a;'cj
gate.
Friday
FELLOWSHIP OF CHRISTIAN UNIVERSITY STUDENTS: will have a
study at 6:30 p.m. in 704 Rudder.
PUERTO RICAN STUDENT ASSOCIATION: will meet at 7:30p.m alSU
student center. ,
CATHOLIC STUDENT ASSOCIATION/NEWMAN: will leave for the 1 a
Light of the World" retreat at 5 p.m. from the student center
TAMU BADMINTON CLUB: will practice and play the faculty at 7p.m.it;
Rolle White.
NATIONAL SOCIETY OF BLACK ENGINEERS: Dr. Duncan willspea
p.m. in 607 Rudder.
ALCOHOLICS ANONYMOUS: call the center at 845-0280 for informatw
today's meeting.
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The world of Japan comesR*
to life in Texas art museuMvi
Documents obtained by the news
paper show NASA tests performed
in Florida showed the insulation can
catch fire in a vacuum — similar to
conditions in space — and that it can
arc and flame at much lower Voltage
than earlier thought possible.
Johnson Space Center officials
said the tests, although initially rais
ing safety concerns, did not repro
duce conditions likely to exist during
space shuttle flights.
Later tests conducted at NASA’s
White Sands Test Facility in New
Mexico have led the agency to con
clude that the potential of a Kapton
fire on the shuttle is low enough to
be an “acceptable risk,” officials said.
But space center scientists asked
the shuttle’s builder, Rockwell Inter
national, to determine if alternatives
to Kapton could be found.
They wanted to know if a new
material could be incorporated into
a shuttle craft now under construc
tion in Palmdale, Calif.
Kapton, made by E.I. du Pont de
Nemours & Co., of Wilmington,
Del., is an extremely thin and light
weight material.
It is used extensively in jetliners,
military planes and strategic missiles
worldwide.
CORPUS CHRISTI (AP) — It’s another world at the
Art Museum of South Texas right now. You start to feel
that as you go in the door and the feeling grows as you
pass along the display. Another world. But whose?
The art being exhibited is by the Japanese artist Ka-
zuo Kadonaga, so perhaps this is Kadonaga’s world.
Except it really isn’t, at least not primarily.
You may enter the world of Picasso when you enter a
Picasso show, and the same might be said of shows by
most other Western artists, but this exhibit, titled “Ka-
zuo Kadonaga: Wood-Paper-Bamboo-Silk,” is differ
ent. Kadonaga is not so much an artistic “master,” like
Picasso, as an obedient “servant.” The world of this
show is primarily that of the world which he serves,
which is the natural world.
Here is a great log which Kadonaga has subtly
worked upon, but less in the spirit of creating an object
than in the spirit of revealing the essence of what al
ready exists. That same spirit prevails in bundles of
handmade paper, lengths of bamboo and some of the
artist’s most famous creations — silkworm cocoons en
cased in cedar frameworks.
These latter works were among those featured in a
December New Yorker article.
Kadonaga is among artists who have been influenced
by a movement in Japan that was called “Mono-ha,”
usually translated as “the school of things.” A primary
ingredient in the movement was a respect for natural
material — and, as practiced by some artists, a respect
for the “sacred quality” of natural materials. A prescur-
sor of that attitude can be found in the ancient Japanese
religion of Shintoism, which features a reverence for di
vine spirits, “kami,” that are believed to inhabit trees,
rocks and other feaures of the natural world.
One of the best descriptions of Mono-ha, which flou
rished in the 1960s, is contained in a recent article by
Janet Koplos in Sculpture magazine. An excer
the article says:
“The works wer<
but they were neve
est, human scale re
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of the same period. The works retained theirfiuWj nov
without assuming man to he the center of the ur:pj^ t . ,
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as sculpture by Donald Judd or Carle And!!jL p u
never had the brutal and threatening qualitiesjg
ard Serra’s sculptures and they never took as a k 11^ C(
avoidance of intimacy or the sensuousness Ejpg a
materials, as Robert Morris advised. Mono-ha‘pfco
positive philosophy, intended to reconcile manaKda p
ture by recognizing the inherent characterand»:« ^ ar
the material would without succumbing to eliK|| en
ciousness or losing sight of the fac t that allth-jhtate
transient.” | es ea
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inspired by that spirit, as is apparent fromonto na i \
statements included in his show’s catalogue. I#ore tl
interested in creating beautiful objects,” it say. s
of interest to me is disc overing and (lisclosiig.. ^
ral beauty of natural materials.” t-Law
And it’s the materials to which the viewerisdri'fl
an act of empathy at this show. To be sure.we'reiB
that the artist has been at work. But the feeling v*"
primarily a feeling of walking amid what might®^—
scribed as “a forest of the naturally sacred. "Thtl
one senses, only acted as an intermediary in bnj
to us.
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