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Thursday, July 18,1991
Generator reuses heat
energy for efficiency
Continued from page 1
during the summer and the rest
is bought from Brazos Valley
Electric Co.
Baxter said a smaller percent
age is generated by the power
S lant during the rest of the year
ecause there are more students
on campus and a larger amount
of power is used.
"The peak time is when stu
dents come back," he said.
The power plant uses a gas
turbine generator to produce
electricity and the heat left over
from the generator is used to cre
ate additional power.
This remaining heat is used to
produce such things as chill wa
ter for air-conditioning units and
steam for equipment used by
Food Services.
"It's using the energy twice,"
Baxter said.
Reusing energy is possible be
cause A&M is considered a small
utility area, making it easier to
generate power efficiently, he
said.
"We're able to produce all
those things from the same
place, which is more efficient,"
he said.
Farm workers face substandard life;
laws do nothing, investigators report
WASHINGTON (AP) — Fed
eral laws do little to protect farm
workers and their children from
exposure to pesticides or harsh
conditions in the fields, creating
a "working Third World" pop
ulation, lawmakers and congres-
sional investigators said
Wednesday.
"We want to work but also we
want to work with dignity," mi
grant worker Maria Gomez of
Pharr, Texas, testified in Spanish
during a hearing of the House
Select Committee on Aging.
The Environmental Protection
Agency estimates that each year,
agricultural employees suffer
20,000 to 300,000 acute illnesses
and injuries from exposure to
pesticides, while a Labor Depart
ment survey found one in 10
farm workers lack toilets and
drinking water at their work
sites, the General Accounting
Office said.
A GAO review of the living
and working conditions of the
nation's farm workers found fed
eral agencies responsible for reg
ulating pesticide usage and field
sanitation could do more to en
force laws to protect workers'
health.
Available information also
shows these agencies seldom as
sess penalties, and when they
do, the fines are too low to deter
violations, the GAO's Joseph F.
Delfico testified.
Rep. Edward R. Roybal, D-
Calif., the panel's chairman,
complained that the federal gov
ernment seems to turn a blind
eye to the "urgent need to pro
tect farm workers and their fami
lies" by allowing weak laws to
remain on the books and permit
ting loose enforcement stan
dards to continue.
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Lending to developers
root of S&L troubles
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"You can ask yourself how
many of the local apartment
houses, strip shopping centers
and raw land is now owned by
the RTC (Resolution Trust
Corporation)," he said. "It is a
The RTC is the federal
agency in charge of recouping
S&L losses from bad property
loans.
Fraser and Rose agreed that
the S&L industry got itself into
trouble primarily by lending
money to land developers
who never paid their loans
back.
"When they closed Vernon
Savings in 1986 or 87, they dis
covered that 96 percent of
their loans were past due, and
most of that was fraud," Fra
ser said.
In many cases, the devel
opers and S&L owners were
one in the same.
"What a real estate devel
oper wants most of all is un
limited access to money," Fra
ser added.
But unlike the financial cri
sis of the Great Depression,
neither Fraser or Rose said
they think that these recent in
stitutional failures will lead to
another depression.
"In the 1930s there were
runs by depositors from the
bank to their mattress," Fraser
said. "Today people are taking
their money from one inshtu-
tion to another. So the money
is staying in the system."
Fraser credited the Federal
Deposit Insurance Corpora
tion, FDIC, with allaying the
fears of today's investors.
The FDIC guarantees all de-
E osits of under $100,000 and
as taken on the burden of in
suring similar assets from the
S&L's that were once covered
by the now defunct Federal
Savings and Loan Insurance
Corporation (FSLIC).
Students, lawmakers
discuss budget effects
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jobs," she said. "We were talk
ing about what affected our lives
and futures."
Hartman, a junior speech
communications major from
Austin, said the students talked
to a number of senators and rep
resentatives from their respec
tive hometowns. She said the
meetings went very well but
nothing was certain.
"Things will get scary," she
said. "It's too soon to say if we're
out of the woods."
Talbot said State Comptroller
John Sharp's budget recommen
dations were unacceptable as a
whole, but parts of it, such as a
tuition increase, could be used.
"We promote and see the need
for an increase in tuition," Talbot
said. "It's not farfetched if the
money comes back to (the
schools)."
Hartman said the student rep
resentatives oppose the increase
if 75 percent goes back to the
state's general fund.
"It's like taxing our parents
twice," she said. "It's totally il
logical to use this money for
roads and prisons."
Biddle said the proposed cuts
would hurt incoming students'
education.
"If things don't go the way
we're hoping and they cut back
on programs at A&M, (incoming
freshmen) won't experience all
the things we did," he said.
Talbot said students should be
aware of the budget cuts and the
threat to higher education. "Stu
dents aware of the danger need
to rally behind (higher educa
tion)," he said. "They need to
understand without funding,
the possibility of a good educa
tion in Texas is doomed."
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Avalanche
buries village,
kills seven
TIONE, Italy (AP) — An av
alanche triggered by a thunder
storm buried a group of school-
children under snow, mud and
stones today. Officials in this Al
pine village said seven were
dead and nine injured.
The sudden thunderstorm
also spawned at least one tor
nado that injured six people and
caused some damage to camp
grounds and buildings at Lake
Garda.
Italian news media said the
dead included six of the 38 chil
dren in the group from the Our
Lady of Lourdes Parish in Pia
cenza and one adult guide. Six of
the injured were children, and
three were adult members of the
Parish.
Alpine rescue teams, police
and firemen dug 10 people out
alive, but one reportedly died
later in the hospital.
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Thursday at 5 p.m.
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"ringworm" are being recruited for a research study of an
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complete this study.
CALL
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776-1417
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you have been diagnosed with depression or would like to find out
more about this study, call VIP Research. $125.00 will be paid to
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