Fort Worth Independent School District
Seeks TAMU Graduates to Teach
In Fort Worth, Texas
Beginning Salary — $21,000
Campus Interviews — December 5 & 6,1989
Interviewing For All Teaching Fields/Coaching
Immediate Openings In The Following Areas:
Elementary
Special Education
Bilingual/ESL
Math
Foreign Language
Social Studies
English
Art
Science
Contact Placement Office at 845-5139 To Schedule Interview
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The Battalion
STATE & LOCAL 4
Friday, December 1,1989
KKYS jockeys
happy with move
to 50,000 watts
By Chuck Lovejoy
Of The Battalion Staff
KKYS-FM’s transition from 3,000
to 50,000 watts of transmission
power was a smooth one, the sta
tion’s program director said.
Chuck Redden said few problems
have arisen since the installation of a
more powerful transmitter, which
resulted in the'power increase, and
“X
I he switch to 50,000
watts more than doubles
our coverage area.”
— Chuck Redden,
KKYS-FM disc jockey
the station’s move from 104.9 to
104.7 on the radio dial a month ago.
“We’ve had no real technical
problems —just the usual small glit
ches,” Redden said. “Fortunately, we
were able to have engineers come in
the weekend before the change, and
they completely checked out the sys
tem.
“Everything has gone very
smoothly.”
In fact, Redden, who is also the
KKYS morning disc jockey, said the
only real problem at the station was
some minor confusion resulting
from the station’s switch to the lower
frequency on Nov. 1.
“We were really worried about
getting the word out that we were
going to change frequencies, but it
wasn’t too much of a hassle,” he said.
“I guess it’s better to just change .2
megahertz than to switch all the way
to a different number — like 101.”
Redden said the problem with the
frequency change is a small price to
pay for the improvements to the sta
tion the change has brought about.
The addition of the stronger trans
mitter has been a goal of the station’s
staff since it signed on the air in
1984, he said.
“The main thing we’ve wanted to
do was upgrade our power,” Redden
said. “The switch to 50,000 watts
more than doubles our coverage
area.”
He added that the station can now
be heard as far south as Hempstead,
as far north as Marlin and as far east
as Palestine. Redden said he was in
Austin last weekend and could hear
the station there.
“Our station came in just as clearly
as the Austin stations,” he said.
Nighttime disc jockey Lisa Hale
said friends have told her they can
hear KKYS in Houston on cloudy
days. She also said this fact makes
her nervous, even though she came
to KKYS from a 100,000-watt station
in Monroe, La.
“I feel a little more pressure
knowing we’re getting into Houston
— that’s where the big boys and girls
are,” Hale said. “There are some
very good disc jockeys in Houston.”
Hale said that since the switch, she
has been getting more calls during
her shift, which runs from midnight
to 6 a.m.
Redden said the only other
change planned for the station in the
near future is a relocation of the stu
dios and business offices from their
present location in Manor East Mall.
He said a new site has not yet been
chosen.
Visiting professor discusses role
of failures in engineering design
By Todd Swearingen
Of The Battalion Staff
A professor of civil engineering from Duke Univer
sity cliscussed the role of failure in engineering design
Thursday at Texas A&M University. Dr. Henry Pe-
troski presented a slide show of bridge designs over the
past several centuries as part of the Distinguished Civil
Engineer Lecture Series.
Petroski said that the science of engineering failure
essentially began when Galileo studied the failures of
ship designs of the 17th century. He said the ship build
ers of the period would simply scale up a successful de
sign to build a larger vessel, and Galileo discovered that
more than geometry was involved in a successful de-
sign.
As a result of his work, Galileo discovered that alter
ing a successful design does not always behave as ex
pected. To illustrate this point, Petroski refered to the
Space Shuttle Challenger disaster.
“The design for its solid propellant rockets was based
on a very successful Trident rocket,” Petroski said.
“Trie Trident rockets had single O-rings between the
sections.
“To make the Challenger safer, it was thought to put
two o-rings,” he said. “And evidently, doing that caused
the people that made that design change to think that
they didn’t have to worry about that detail.”
Petroski continued his presentation by detailing va
rious bridge concepts and the effect of failure on subse-
3 uent designs. Petroski said that like the ships of Gal-
eo’s day, bridges were made to span ever increasing
distances by simply lengthening successful designs
rather than re-engineering them.
He showed that following a failure, subsequent
bridges were over-designed for a limited period of time
until new materials or innovative theories were devel
oped. These new materials and theories were motivated
towards achieving lighter, more cost efficient bridges.
This would continue to the point where the bridges
were under-designed and would eventually fail, and the
process would begin anew.
Petroski said that engineers have a tendency to lose
sight of the lessons of the past when they become
blinded by new innovations.
Museums plan
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Texas evi^nt coincides
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group called Visual AIDS.
The event was organized to edit
cide with the World Health Organi
zation’s second “AIDS Awarenes
Day.”
Plans across the nation to marl
the day include darkening galleria I
and removing or covering artwork
Some organizations will mountspe
cial exhibitions or hold seminars. ;
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Monday, November 27
Tree Lighting Ceremony
Holiday Fashion 6how
sponsored by bridal boutique
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Allen Academy Choir
Wednesday, November 29
Century lingers
Thursday, November 30
Womens Chorus Octet
Friday, December 1
Voices of Praise
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