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The Battalion
Thursday, June 27,1S;
The Battalion
(USPS 045 360)
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The Battalion
Editorial Board
Editor
Timm Doolen
Managing Editor
Todd Stone
City Editor
Sean Frerking
News Editors
Jennifer Jeffus
Callie Wilcher
Art Director
Richard James
Lifestyles Editor
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Rob Newberry
Sports Editor
Jayme Blaschke
Opinion Editor
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Editorial Policy
The Battalion is published da
ily except Saturday, Sunday, holi
days, exam periods and when
school is not in session during fall
and spring semesters. Publication
is Tuesday through Friday dur
ing the summer sessions. The
newsroom phone number is 845-
3316.
The Battalion is a non-profit,
self-supporting newspaper oper
ated as a community service to
Texas A&M University and
Bryan-College Station.
The Battalion news depart
ment is managed by students at
Texas A&M University and is a
division of Student Publications, a
unit of the Department of Jour
nalism.
Opinions expressed in The
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rial board or the author, and do
not necessarily represent the
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dent body, administrators, faculty
or the A&M Board of Regents.
Comments, questions or com
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readers.
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prove the newspaper.
Grants allow
access time
for computer
By Susan Maguire
The Battalion
rant for some Texas
A new gre
A&M students provides access
to the University's supercom
puter, bypassing much of the
red tape students have had to
face when using the facility.
Victor Hazelwood, a systems
analyst with the center, said stu
dents first need to get a faculty
or staff sponsor to receive the re
search grant.
"The grant allows students to
get computer time for research
that a faculty member might not
be involved in," Hazelwood
said.
Students otherwise will have
to wait to use one of the slower
computers.
The supercomputer, called a
Cray Y-MP, is approximately
three times faster man the VAX
computers which students pres
ently are allowed to use. The
Cray is located in the Zachry En
gineering Center.
Hazelwood said the program
was set up to increase use of the
supercomputer. The grants be
came available in April 1991, and
22 grants have been given.
Forty graduate student re
search grants are allocated for
each fiscal year, with a maxi
mum of 20 hours per grant. Each
hour available costs $1,000, and
the money comes out of a gen
eral University fund.
Other grants for computer
time are designated by the sepa
rate colleges who contributed
money to buy the computer in
1989. Time, equal to the balance
of each college's contribution, is
given out at the beginning of
each fiscal year.
Hazelwood said computer
time is valuable because the CPU
— or central processing unit —
works faster than the older VAX
system.
ROBERT METZLER/Special to The BattaliOf
Duck, Duck, Goose
Erika Isbell, of Bryan, attempts to teed a duck at Central Park Wednesday. Her father, Eric Isbell, works for the Texas Transportation Institute
Fishing trio finds
partial body remains
EDINBURG (AP) — Hidalgo
County officers Tuesday investi
gated the gruesome discovery of
the partial remains of a man in a
canal north of Edinburg.
A man and two boys who
were fishing found the remains
Monday night. Deputies were
notified that the remains of a
body included a torso, from the
waist to the top of the legs, offi
cials said.
Officers believe the remains
may be of a man in his early 20's
or late teens.
A&M prepares warning system
By Robin Goodpaster
The Battalion
Texas A&M's Safety and
Health Office is taking steps to
institute an early warning sys
tem to prepare the University for
disasters such as tornados,
chemical spills and fires.
Dan Mizer, chairman of the
task force looking into the early
warning system, said some of
the factors involved when con
sidering such a system are how
to warn the public and how to
educate the University commu
nity for emergency situations.
Mizer said the committee has
only met twice since it has been
formed. He said one of the rea
sons for this infrequency is get
ting people together during the
summer.
The committee consists of
both students and faculty includ
ing Robert Stiteler, director of
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Student Body President Stephen
Ruth. Other committee members
are Angie Saylor and Lori Peter
son, directors of the Residence
Hall Association.
Mizer said the committee has
not yet settled on any one sys
tem, although it has considered
many ideas. One such option is a
telephone network system to
link the entire campus. Another
system being considered is a tor
nado-type warning siren.
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