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About The Battalion. (College Station, Tex.) 1893-current | View Entire Issue (Aug. 28, 1991)
Page Cr Contim "Bio saeno model saeno have thene foaisi logy.' dersta Son group worry more thane "If orient ing tc owns "I do logy, oneir "W mal p ing 1: part : just i plant shoul phasi gy-" An than Ti Conth onstn nated est pr Pag many from I if \ WedaB State & Local August 28,1991 The Battalion Page: F allt who The Battalion ((ISPS 045 360) Member of: Associated Press Texas Press Association Southwest Journalism Congress Texas Daily Newspaper Asso ciation Texas Intercollegiate Press Association The Battalion Editorial Board Editor Timm Doolen Associate Editors Holly Becka Todd Stone City Editor Sean Frerking News Editors Douglas Pils Jason Morris Photo Editor Karl Stolleis Lifestyles Editor Yvonne Salce >orts Editor Jcott Wudel Do Ca arrie Cavalier Editorial Policy The Battalion is published dai ly except Saturday, Sunday, holi days, exam periods and when school is not in session during fall and spring semesters. Publica tion is Monday through Friday during the fall and spring semesters. The newsroom phone number is 845-3316. The Battalion is a non-profit, self supporting newspaper operat ed 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 di vision of Student Publications, a unit of the Department of Journal ism. Opinions expressed in The Battalion are those of the editori al board or the author, and do not necessarily represent the opinons, of the Texas A&M student body, administrators, faculty or the A&M Board of Regents. Comments, questions or com plaints about any of the editorial content of the newspaper should be directed to either associate ed itor at 845-3313. Subscriptions Mail subscriptions are $20 per semester, $40 per school year and $50 per full year: 845-2611 POSTMASTER: Send address changes to The Battalion, 230 Reed McDonald, Texas A&M Uni versity, College Station, TX 77843-1111. Second class postage paid at College Station, TX 77843. Advertising Advertising information can be obtained from the advertising de partment at 845-2696 Monday through Friday 8 a.m. to 5 p.m., or by visiting the office in room 015 Reed McDonald building. Advertising Manager Patricia Heck Battalion Adviser Robert Wegener LOUPOT’S Bookstores 3 Locations Northgate Redmond Terrace Southgate Departments receive funds for special research projects By Mack Harrison The Battalion Two Texas A&M departments have received federal grants for programs in alternative vehicles and special education. A&M's Department of Educa tional Psychology in the College of Education received $86,503 from the U.S. Department of Education for its Extended Generic Special Education Training Program, an experimental curriculum that in structs graduate students in spe cial education. Dr. Michael Ash, head of the educational psychology depart ment , said 90 percent of the funds will be used to pay students for their work in the program. Stu dents will receive money for working with handicapped stu dents as part of their education. "Almost all the money is for stipends for students completing the graduate phase of the pro gram," Ash said. "That's a good amount of money to get students to come here and study." The program will run for six years. Ash said the grant is renew able, which means the department can reapply for the money each year. "We don't have a guarantee, but there's a good chance (the grant will be renewed)/' he said. The federal government is looking into research as well as education. The U.S. Department of Energy awarded A&M's Texas En gineering Experiment Station (TEES) $102,250 for its work on electric and hybrid vehicles. The Center for Electrochemical Systems and Hydrogen research has two electric-powered vehicles already, said Dr. Lee Peddicord, an assistant director with TEES. In addition, engineers at the center are working on vehicles powered by hydrogen and natural gas. "(The researchers) are looking at other things to power vehicles besides gasoline," Peddicord said. KAMU to expand broadcast area by Greg Mt.Joy The Battalion Texas A&M's radio station, KAMU-FM, will dou ble its audience it can reach with a $68,000 grant from the U.S. Department of Commerce, a KAMU official said. KAMU manager Larry Jackson said the grant, which includes money for a new antenna and trans mitter, was desperately needed. "We're using 20 year old technology, and equip ment so old we can't buy parts for it," Jackson said. "To reach the area the government wants us to, we have to have the new equipment." Jackson said the grant was given to KAMU by the National Telecommunications and Information Ad ministration within the Department of Commerce for the sole purpose of expanding its broadcast area to include areas that do not receive public radio. "The new antenna will give us a power upgrade that will allow us to reach unserved areas to the north and east, including Huntsville," he said. "Our signal will be increased all the way around, though. It doesn't take much driving around, especially in College Station, to find weak spots in our signal." Jackson said the grant will also be used to pur chase state-of-the-art equipment including compact disc players and Digital Audio Tape (DAT) recorders. "This equipment will make KAMU a station without peer outside major metropolitan areas like Austin and Houston," Jackson said. "This will put KAMU into the 90's, and take us out of the 70's, where our equipment is now." Public radio usually leads the way in new audio technology, where top-quality equipment is con ducive to the types of programming it offers, Jackson said. "We were using CD players years ago, when oth er stations were still playing cartridges and TP's," he said. "The new DAT players and equipment will en able us to do the things public radio does best — things like news and classical and jazz music. Public radio involves more production than other stations; we don't just play the same records over and over." The grant will enable station officials to concen trate on smaller problems, Jackson said. "When we want to go on the air, we'll know we can go on the air," jackson said. [ . ^ . / Bus f= m the o cr \\\ WJb \ ... lers, Ihas jn I an u i S* (after sign a | petiti I tors s the xz havic RICHARD S. JAMES/The Battalio; Lofty aspirations law/' to sit R ! victir age It St day's ing i youtl on be Greg Lovelace holds a board while Kevin Mayo drills holes outside Law Hall Tuesday afternoon. The two were building a loft for their dorm. Teenage girl receives eight-year prison sentence for 1989 slaying of man HONDO (AP) - A 17-year- old described as a pompon girl with "ice water in her veins" was sentenced to eight years in prison for her part in a 1989 slaying, offi cials said. Angelique "Angel" Spurlin of San Antonio will be transferred from a Brownwood juvenile de tention facility to a women's prison in Gatesville when she turns 18 on Sept. 26, Medina County Attorney Maida Mod- gling said. Spurlin is believed to be the first juvenile sent to prison under the state's determinant sentencing law for juveniles, Modgling told the San Antonio Express-News on Tuesday. The law allows juveniles to receive prison terms of up to 30 years. Spurlin was sentenced last year to nine years, 11 months and three weeks of confinement after pleading guilty. The juvenile hearing to determine whether she would go to prison was Friday. Spurlin was accused of tak ing part in the slaying of Steven Holst, 19, of Castle Hills. He was shot four times in the chest in De cember 1989 after being abducted beaten and forced to withdraw several hundred dollars from his bank account through an auto matic teller machine. His body was discovered' in a brushy area near Medina Lake Dam. surrt and i nerh lieve near and] L flan! and: grou steps stooi take statei who P neatl White Diamonds Elizabeth Taylor Exclusively at Dillard’s! The spectacular new fragrance that captures the radiance of the woman who created it As white-hot as the depth of a diamond, as luminous as the legendary beauty of Elizabeth Taylor. A fragrance to treasure forever. 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