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H prc Ba< pn: ove C Cla sh< ref] pn A Juj Sw $2, E Page 2 The Battalion (OSPS 045 360) Member of: Associated Press Texas Press Association Southwest Journalism Congress 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 Sake Sports Editor Scott Wudel Opinion Editor Carrie Cavalier Editorial Policy The Battalion is published daily except Saturday, Sunday, holidays, exam periods and when school is not in session during fall and spring semesters. Publication 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 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 in the Di vision of Student Publications, a unit of the Department of Jour nalism. Opinions expressed in The Battalion are those of the edito rial board or the author, and do not necessarily represent the opinons of the Texas A&M stu dent body, administrators, facul ty or the A&M Board of Regents. Comments, questions or complaints about any of the edi torial content of the newspaper should be directed to either as sociate editor at 845-3313. Subscriptions Mail subscriptions are $20 per semester, $40 per school year and $50 per full year. Phone: 845-2611. POSTMASTER: Send ad dress changes to The Battalion, 230 Reed McDonald, Texas A&M University, College Sta tion, TX 77843-1111. Second class postage paid at College Station, TX 77843. Advertising Advertising information can be obtained from the advertising department at 845-2696 Mon day through Friday 8 a.m. to 5 p.m., or by visiting the office in room 015 Reed McDonald building. Advertising Manager Patricia Heck Adviser Robert Wegener BATTIPS 845-3315 The Battalion encourages its readers to contribute story ideas and suggestions by calling BAT- TIPS, The Battalion's phone line designed to improve communi cation between the newspaper and its readers. Campus Program conducts energy-cost audits By Karen Praslicka The Battalion Texas A&M staff members and students are working together in a state conservation program that saves schools and state agen cies money by cutting down on their energy costs. The LoanSTAR program (Loan to Save Taxes and Resources), de veloped four years ago when the Governor's Energy Office of Texas made a proposal to the federal De partment or Energy to use revenue from the Petroleum Violation Fund, also is known as the Oil Overcharge Fund. The fund was established with the money from charges to businesses which vio lated federal laws during the 1980s. The DOE approved the pro posal for a $98.6 million loan sys tem for the governor's office to fund conservation programs among schools and state agencies. Dr. Dan Turner, associate dean in the College of Engineering and program manager, said LoanSTAR works with schools and state agencies that request en ergy audits. The governor's office has sev eral engineering firms contracted to perform the audits, which de termine ways the schools and agencies could save money by conserving energy. A&M researchers work with the engineering firms after the au dits are conducted. Researchers review the results of the audit and install monitors at the school or agency involved in the audit. The 50 full- and part-time re searchers at A&M analyze data from the monitors to determine if the savings reported in the energy audits actually exist. "It's a very sophisticated and high-tech system," he said. "There are hundreds of channels of data to be analyzed." Turner said there are presently about 45 buildings across the state being monitored by A&M. By the end of this year, 20 more monitors should be installed, he said. The federal government has made proposals for programs based on a model of the state LoanSTAR program. Turner said. "It's interesting that the federal government is designing a pro gram based on a state program," he said. "It's the best program of its type in the country." There are part-time faculty members, researchers, graduate and undergraduate students, and full-time researchers working on the program, at A&M. Turner said so much traveling is involved that the program could not function with only stu dents involved. Graduate students interested in the program can contact a facul ty members on the project. Turner said students with a strong inter est in the energy area and those with a strong background in the Winging it Dudley Wysong of the Texas A&M Flying Club promotes while stationed underneath the wing of a Cessna 172o' the dub's activities and benefits to passers-by Tuesday the Gen. Ormond R. Simpson Drill Field. Four freshmen win space science contest By Alysia Woods The Battalion See Intern/Page 5 Four Texas A&M freshmen have brainstormed for the past three years and designed an expe dition that is literally out of this world. They designed a trip to Mars and, as a result, won a national competition called "Destination: Mars" and a visit to Washington, DC. Lee French, Tim Kieschnick, Zane Rhodes and Jason Korb, all recent graduates of Giddings High School in Giddings, a small town 50 miles south of College Station, have been chosen as winners of a space science competitions? sored by NASA and theNai Science Teachers Association Teams of high school stud- entered the nationwide com; tion. The team created a cost-6 cient model of how a spaceshif had a Taps pair o of Joj See Mars/Pa: Class How American Express helps you cover more territory For less money Become a Student Cardmember today and get 3 roundtrips on Continental Airlines, for only $129 or $189 each. Only the American Express® Card offers an exciting travel program exclusively for students—including three roundtrip certificates on Continental Airlines. And much, much more. Just look at the map and pick the place you’d like to visit. If it’s on your side of the Mississippi River, you can use a certificate to fly for only $129* roundtrip. 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