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Page 4/The Battalion/Friday, September 30, 1988
What s Up
Friday
MSC OPAS: presents “Verdi Requiem" at 8 p.m. in Rudder auditorium. Forticket
information call 845-1234.
CAMPUS CRUSADE FOR CHRIST: will meet at 7:30 p.m. in 108 Harrington.
UNITED CAMPUS MINISTRIES: will have a peanut butter fellowship from 11
a.m. -11:30 a.m. at Rudder fountain. There will also be a Bible study at 6 p.m.at
A&M Presbyterian Church.
CORPUS CHRISTI HOMETOWN CLUB: will go bowling at 6 p.m. at Chimney
Hill Bowling Alley.
MANAGEMENT 481: Robin T. Haney, vice president of Texas Commerce Bank
in Houston, will speak about “Change: Planning for it, Managing it, Living with it
and Surviving it" at 10 a.m. in 114 Blocker. Business attire is appreciated.
STUDY ABROAD OFFICE: will have an informational meeting about 1989sum
mer programs at 2 p.m. in 701 Rudder.
THE WESLEY FOUNDATION: will meet to go bowling at 7 p.m. at the Wesley
Foundation.
OFF CAMPUS AGGIES: will meet for yell practice at 11:30 p.m. at Mt. Aggie.
HILLEL STUDENT CENTER: will have Friday night services at 8 p.m. at the
Hillel Building.
LATTER-DAY SAINTS STUDENT ASSOCIATION: President Thortonsen ol
the Houston mission will speak at the sandwich seminar at the IDS Institute,
Dexter Drive.
SOCIETY OF WOMEN ENGINEERS: will meet at the Zachry fountain at 2:55
p.m. to tour the nuclear reactor.
CORPS OF CADETS: Anyone is welcome to run with the Corps at 5 p.m. on the
quad.
ALCOHOLICS ANONYMOUS: call the center at 845-0280 for details on todays
meeting.
CATHOLIC STUDENT ASSOCIATION MELTING POT: will discuss under
standing Anglo American culture through its folklore at 7 p.m. at the student cen
ter.
INTERVARSITY CHRISTIAN FELLOWSHIP: The dynamic Dr. Macyntire will
speak about “The Authority of the Bible" at 8:30 p.m. in 410 Rudder.
Saturday
KAPPA ALPHA PSI: will have a party at 10 p.m. in 212 MSC.
ASIAN AMERICAN ASSOCIATION: will have a picnic from 11 a.m. toSp.m.al
Central Park. The picnic is free for members and two dollars for non-members.
FENCING CLUB: will host a Texas-wide tournament in foil, epee and sabreat9
a.m. at DeWare Field House.
CORPS OF CADETS: will have “march in" at 12:30 p.m. at Kyle Field.
TAMU BICYCLING CLUB: will meet for a 22 mile bike ride at 9 a m. at Rudder
fountain.
COLLEGIATE 4-H: will have a bring-your-own-buns barbecue at 11 am. at the
Gazebo behind Kleberg.
Sunday
YOUNG LIFE COLLEGE FELLOWSHIP: will meet for Christian fun and
fellowship at 7 p.m. in 301 Rudder.
TAMU INTERNATIONAL FOLKDANCERS: will teach beginning and interme
diate line, circle and couple dances at 8 p.m. in 226 MSC. For more information
call Ellen at 822-2415.
OFF CAMPUS AGGIES: will meet for a non-reg cut at 8 a m. at Duncan Field
FENCING CLUB: “Wizardry and Warriors," a team laser tag with foils, isopento
everyone from 9 a m. to 4 p.m. in 404 Read.
FORT WORTH HOMETOWN CLUB: will have a picnic and volleyball from3
p.m. - 6 p.m. at central Park.
AGGIE ALLEMANDERS: will have square dance lessons from 8 p.m. - 9:30
p.m. in 226 MSC.
Monday
AMNESTY INTERNATIONAL: will meet at 7 p.m. in 410 Rudder.
MSC SCONA: will have a committee meeting with Dr. Harold Hawkins addres
sing "The Japenese Educational System" at 7 p.m. in 501 Rudder.
EAGLE PASS HOMETOWN CLUB: will meet new members and take group pic
tures at 6:30 p.m. in the lobby of the Academic Building.
TAMU SNOW SKIING CLUB will meet to discuss the Christmas ski trip at 7
p.m. in 607 Rudder.
STUDY ABROAD OFFICE: Jr. Fulbright grant applications are due by 5 pm.in
161 Bizzell West.
MINORITY ASSOCIATION OF PRE HEALTH AGGIES: Demetrius Pearsonol
UTMSC in Houston will speak at 7 p.m. in 302 Rudder.
Items for What's Up should be submitted to The Battalion, 216 Reed McDonald,
no later than three business days before the desired run date. We only publish
the name and phone number of the contact if you ask us to do so. What's Up is
a Battalion service that lists non-profit events and activities. Submissions are run
on a first-come, first-served basis. There is no guarantee an entry will run. IIyou
have questions, call the newsroom at 845-3315.
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SULPHUR SPRINGS (AP) When
James Rand begins talking about sci
entific knowledge of the strato
sphere, his eyes sparkle in hack of
his metal-rimmed glasses and a
bright smile crosses his face.
“We have dreams, of course,” he
said.
Rand, president and chief exec
utive officer of Winzen Interna
tional Inc., sees into the future as a
result of his scientif ic experience in
the past, and that vision reveals un
limited opportunities for his compa
ny’s scientific balloons, which reach
high above the earth’s surface.
The former Texas A&M Univer
sity professor lives in San Antonio
where the employee-owned compa
ny’s corporate headquarters are lo
cated, but he often makes his way to
its plant in Sulphur Springs where
the film that makes up the balloons
is produced. The balloons weigh
4,000 pounds, may carry a 4,000-
pound payload and need 1,000
pounds of helium for lift.
“There is an unlimited number of
problems that scientists are inter
ested in explaining about the origins
of the universe,” he said on a recent
visit. Many of those problems can be
invstigated by using high altitude
balloons, a use that is especially at
tractive to both government and
commercial projects because of cost
savings that balloons, unlike expen
sive rocket launchings, can provide.
“There’s all kinds of things that
can be done commercially. We’re
very interested in commercial activ
ities in this country,” he said. Chem
ists may be interested in growing
crystals and protein. Pharmaceutical
companies may discover new vac
cines. And the company has a pro
posal pending with the National
Aeronautics and Space Administra
tion for micro gravity experiments,
he said.
NASA is a major indirect cus
tomer of Winzen Inc., through the
National Scientific Ballooning Fa
cility at Palestine in East Texas,
which works with New Mexico State
University on research.
Other nations also use balloom
for scientific research. ‘‘We deal with
governments all over the world.
Rand said, naming Japan, the Euro
pean Space Agency, Australia.
China, Taiwan and the Soviet Union
as countries that conduct experi
ments with balloons.
Thirty to 40 percent of Winzen's
business is international, he said.
“It’s a significant amount and il'i
spread out all over the world,” he
said.
In Sweden, scientists are launch
ing balloons that rise to 120,000 feet
with rockets, Rand said.
The rockets are dropped from the
balloon in a free fall to earth, which
creates a 60 second micro gravitysit-
nation that lasts long enough to gain
scientific information about weight
lessness, for instance. Scientists from
the United States participate in the
Swedish experiments because the
technique is not available here.
“Those are experiments that can
be conducted in a balloon although
they aren’t in space,” Rand said.
Rand said a prospective customer
for Winzen Inc. is the Soviet Union,
which uses Winzen balloons now,ob
taining them indirectly from other
countries. Rand said he has corre
sponded with Soviet scientists and
has extended an invitation for them
to visit the company’s Texas facili
ties. “We expect a visit early neM
year,” he said.
To meet the balloon market de
mand, the Sulphur Springs facility
soon will be expanded by the addi
tion of a separate assembly plant, A
fire several years ago destroyed an
earlier assembly plant here, forcing
the company to move those opera
tions to a site in Paris, about 35 miles
away. Groundbreaking has begun
for the new Sulphur Springs facility
that will assemble the huge balloons.
Rand forecasts growth for the
film plant and new assembly facility,
and says engineers and chemistsare
constantly working to improve the
balloon material and assembly meth
ods.
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