The Battalion
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Tuesday, November 21,1989
uper collider meets initial price,
tandards despite ‘conceptual flaw’
I WASHINGTON (AP) — The su-
xconducting super collider will
[ill meet its original standards and
.9 billion price tag despite a “con-
(tptual flaw,” a high-ranking En-
gy Department official told mem-
lers of Congress Monday.
I Deputy Energy Secretary Henson
oore said DOE has no plans to
ove the collider from Texas, con-
ary to a published report that sug-
:sted a change in the SSC design
mid result in a smaller, less power-
il collider that would be unsuitable
>r Ellis County.
“As far as we’re concerned, noth
ing’s changed,” Moore said in an in
terview after meeting with Sen. Phil
Gramm and Rep. Joe Barton. “We
have no official reports, requests,
proposals any different than we’re
going to build the super collider
right there in Texas for $5.9 billion.”
The Washington Post, in a front
page story Sunday, quoted unnamed
U.S. officials and independent scien
tists who suggested extensive modifi
cations could reopen the battle for
the particle accelerator by allowing
other states to argue that Ellis
fen Tech students caught
in fake ID. card scandal
I LUBBOCK (AP) — Ten Texas
Tech University students face fed-
Jral or state charges in an alleged
tcpunterfeit drivers license scheme
that came to light when the fake li-
Itlenses were sent to a local film store
be developed, authorities said
Monday.
Four of the students face federal
Belony charges and six others face
■ate charges in a month-long inves-
|gation by the U.S. Secret Service,
the Texas Department of Public
.Safety, and Lubbock and Texas
■ ech police.
I Four students face federal
charges of manufacturing and sell-
Big the fake ID’s. Six others were
fcmd to be in possession of the li-
ftnses by DPS and Lubbock police
officers.
■ “We have turned over informa-
lon from the investigation to law en
forcement officials throughout the
Mate,” Captain Jay Parchman of the
MexasTech Police Department said.
■ Parchman said the major break in
Me case came from an employee of a
Mioto processing store in Lubbock,
■he employee became suspicious af
ter seeing a roll of film containing 22
photos of young people on prints
that also contained drivers license in
formation.
All of the young people in the
photos were later identified by
Texas Tech police as university stu
dents.
Seventeen of the students never
took possession of the licenses, so
they will not be charged with violat
ing state motor vehicle laws, al
though Texas Tech intends to disci
pline the youths.
DPS Sgt. Adelido Hinojosa says all
local photo processing businesses
have been alerted to possible viola
tions of Texas law from developing
film used in counterfeit operations.
Texas Tech spokeswoman Marga
ret Simon said students often think
it’s a “harmless misdemeanor” to get
a fake ID card.
The federal law against coun
terfeiting drivers licenses carries a
maximum penalty of 5 to 15 years in
prison and a $250,000 fine. Viola
tion of the state law against proc
essing and using a counterfeit li
censes carries a 2- to 5-year prison
term and loss of the drivers license
for up to 1 year.
Holders of altered or borrowed li
censes carry an automatic suspen
sion of drivers license for 90 days to
a year.
County is no longer ideal.
Moore said information in the
story was provided from people who
“are angry because we told them
there aren’t going to be any cost
overruns on this project.
“They’re people who . . . want to
take a house we had designed to
build and add a swimming pool to it
and add all kinds of extras to it, and
thought they could get it through in
the name of science. We told ’em
you’re going to build the project we
designed, you’re going to build it for
the price we contracted for,” Moore
said.
The contractor is to provide the
Energy Department by December
with recommendations for any tech
nical modifications to the collider’s
conceptual plan drawn up two years,
Moore said, adding that he sees
“nothing new, nothing different,
nothing holding anything up.”
“We’ve simply told them (scien
tists working on the SSC), make
whatever changes you want to, it just
can’t cost over $5.9 billion. And it
also has to achieve the standards set
for it originally.”
Congress recently approved the
first $225 million to build the col
lider over an eight-year period. The
site around south of Dallas was cho
sen in November 1988 after a
lengthy selection process involving
many states.
As planned, the collider would be
a 53-mile underground oval where
atomic particles would be hurled at
each other by superconducting mag
nets. Scientists would collide the par
ticles in an attempt to break them
down further to test theories about
the building blocks of the universe.
Gramm, R-Texas, said the prob
lem is with the size of the mechanism
that would inject proton beams into
the underground ring, and that it
was initially believed that the injector
could be the same size as the one
used at the Fermilab outside Chi
cago.
But because the super collider
would be 10 times as powerful as the
Fermilab accelerator, scientists be
lieve the injector should be enlarged,
Gramm said.
“With a 53-mile machine, you
have got to have more power to start
the particle around the track,”
Gramm said.
Gramm said DOE would come up
with various options and its pre
ferred choice for dealing with the in
jector problem, which he called a
“conceptual flaw,” in early January.
Tear gas canister calls short
country music AIDS benefit
FORT WORTH (AP) — A coun
try music concert to benefit people
with AIDS was halted after a tear gas
canister was hurled into the lobby of
the building where the event was be
ing held, police said.
No one was injured, and fire and
emergency medical crews helped
clear tear gas vapors from the Texas
& Pacific building, authorities said.
About 2,000 people were listening
to the country band Mason Dixon
when the canister was thrown in the
lobby about 1Q:40 p.m., said concert-
goer Leo Russell of San Antonio.
The concert was sponsored by the
Texas Gay Rodeo Association.
Russell said he and others inside
the building suffered burning noses
and throats from the tear gas. Many
fled through a back door.
“When we went around front, we
saw there had been a lot of people in
the lobby,” Russell told The Dallas
Morning News. “They were outside
coughing and crying.”
Police said they had received no
complaints about the incident late
Sunday.
Fraternity ransoms
sorority members
to raise food for poor
By Bob Krenek
Of The Battalion Staff
Several sorority members were
kidnapped in grand fashion
Monday and held for ransom by
members of the Sigma Nu frater
nity.
This was not, however, a silly
prank. The purpose was to raise
food for the needy on Thanksgiv
ing.
Sigma Nu’s “Snatch an S.B.”
program involved kidnapping so
rority girls and taking them to the
Flying Tomato in a limousine
where they waited until their so
rority sisters were able to bring 50
canned goods to obtain their re
lease.
“I doubt I’ll be rescued any
time soon,” Kappa Kappa Gam
ma’s Carrie Wiedenfeld said.
“But that’s okay, I’m having fun.
We may tell them to go back and
get 50 more cans when they do
get here!”
Kappa Alpha Theta’s Leslie
Grable agreed with Wiedenfeld
the can drive idea was a good one.
“The needy can always use
more food this time of year,” she
said.
Several sorority members ex
pressed surprise at the number of
items the drive produced.
“It’s amazing how the little bit
everyone gives adds up,” Karen
Joyce of Pi Beta Phi said. “This
has really added up to a lot.”
Sigma Nu historian, Harish
Chintapalli, said the drive re
sulted in the donation of a total of’
750 cans to the food bank.
This is very good news for the
food bank, Mendy Slone, a mem
ber of the bank’s board of direc
tors, said.
Slone said the bank has been
operating below capacity because
they simply have not received
enough donations.
The food bank has been giving
away about half of what it did last
year and the warehouse is only
one quarter full, Slone said.
Thd fraternity wanted to do
something to help the poor
through the holiday season,
Sigma Nu’s Service Chairman
Robert Kollman said.
“I like to see people have a de
cent meal on Thanksgiving and
Christmas,” he said.
Sigma Nu members are excited
about the future possibilities for
this program, Kollman said.
They plan to conduct another
food drive next year and expand
it to include other fraternities as
well as campus dorms and organi
zations.
“We think this was great to get
started with,” Kollman said. “I
wish we could have had a better
turnout, but we hope to be much
better organized next year.”
The Sigma Nu members were
a great help, but he was unable to
secure help from all the sorori
ties, he said.
“I’d like to thank all the sorori
ties that did help though,” he
said. “They were great.”
Kollman also credited the Fly
ing Tomato and Brazos Valley
Limousine for helping with the
project.
Kollman and Craig Baugh, the
assistant service chairman, orga
nized the project and said they
are eager to work on next year’s
program.
“We hope to issue a challenge
to all the fraternities to help raise
food,” Kollman said.
“We think this can really be big
next year,” he said.
Anyone interested in donating
to the Brazos Valley Food Bank
should contact the bank at 822-
2668 or Slone at 696-6213.
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