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Campus
The Battalion
Thursday, September 19,
Program offers jobs in energy field
HEALTH TIPS
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By Karen Praslicka
The Battalion
A program coordinated by a
Texas A&M faculty member pro
vides college students around the
state a chance to gain experience
in the energy conservation field
by working for state agencies.
Dr. Warren Heffington, coor
dinator of the Summer Energy In
tern program and an associate
professor of mechanical engineer
ing, said the purpose of the pro
gram is to provide short-term staff
help for state agencies that might
be short-handed during the sum
mer. But he said the program also
provides a quality energy conser
vation internship for students.
Heffington said 50 students
applied for the 20 available intern
ships last summer. For next sum
mer, the program will be limited
to about 15 students. More than
15 interns make the program too
large to coordinate, he said.
Applications for students are
sent to public and private univer
sities across the state with pro
grams related to energy conserva
tion.
Heffington and the assistant
coordinator review the students'
applications, interview and rank
the students before pairing them
with an agency that best meets the
students' qualifications.
Students meet with their per
spective employers before final
hiring decisions are made.
Most of the student interns
have a mechanical or electrical en
gineering background. But the
program is open to architecture
students who have had courses re
lated to energy conservation de
sign.
"The program allows for ar
chitecture students who may have
a technical background, but out
side the energy area," Heffington
said.
Students begin the program
with a three-day workshop at
A&M to learn what to expect from
the internships.
"Some of them are prepared,
and some of them aren't," Heffin
gton said. "We try to bring them
all to a certain level of know
ledge."
A&M coordinators stay in con
tact with the students throughout
the summer and evaluate the pro
gram halfway through the sum
mer and at its end.
Fa
tor," Heffington said. "We get to
deal with good students from
A&M and from across the state."
Heffington said he tries to
lace students at companies with
arge utility bills so students can
have more of an opportunity to
develop energy saving projects.
"During the past summer, stu
dents planned $1.6 million in en
ergy conservation projects," he
said. "Supervisors planned to im
plement half of those projects.
"From the standpoint of the
students, it gives them the oppor
tunity to focus in the energy con
servation area in a way that's very
applied and practical/ he said.
A final report describing their
internships is required from all
the students.
"It's a very interesting pro
gram to be a part of as an educa-
Mansoor Wasti, a mechanical
engineering graduate student,
agreed.
"It helps you make up your
mind about what you want to
do," he said.
Wasti was an intern last sum
mer at the Texas Department of
Criminal Justice in Huntsville.
One of the major projects he was a
part of involved calculating how
much money the department
would save by changing the
showerheads in all of the prison
units. The department plans to
implement the changes.
"It was a very unique experi
ence," he said.
Tips for easing stomach aches
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Editor's note: The Battalion will
provide a health column written by a
staff member of the A. P. Beutel
Health Center. Dr. Jane Cohen is the
health education coordinator.
By Dr. Jane Cohen
Special to The Battalion
Symptoms of diarrhea, nau
sea and/or vomiting, cramps or
pain and/or a feeling of tender
ness in the abdominal region,
thirst, headache or body aches,
and/or chills, with or without
fever may make you feel as if
you're turned inside out. Stom
ach upsets may be gastroenteri
tis, an inflammation of the lining
of the stomach and the intestines
due to a variety of causes.
While gastrointestinal upsets
can be brought on by irritation of
the small and large bowels, your
physician may check these areas:
1. bowel problems;
2. infections, toxins, viruses,
parasites or bacteria;
3. certain medicines, such as
anti-acids, antibiotics, aspirin,
saccharin (for some people), or
an overdose of laxatives;
4. psychological reactions, in
cluding fear, anger, anxiety, ner
vousness, over-excitement, eat
ing under stress;
5. food choices and allergic
reactions for some people, caused
by eating unripe fruit or too
many raw peanuts, foods that
disagree or may cause food sensi
tivities (such as strawberries
shellfish) or even drinking verj
cold liquids. Other factors
be eating an excess of certain
foods, such as prunes, beans,
spinach, apricots, dates, raisins,
or drastically increasing high
fiber foods;
6. over-consumption of alco
hol.
Prevention is encouraged
Try these tips to be sure you are
not contributing to possible caus
es:
* Eat slowly, eat at regular
times, obtain adequate rest,
establish regular elimination
times.
* Practice good handwashing
with soap ana water after using
the bathroom and before eating
or handling food.
* Do not share eating or
drinking utensils.
* Avoid milk, meat, or eg
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Organization plans fund-raiser for recycling site
By Alysia Woods
The Battalion
The first fund-raiser for a local non
profit organization will result in more jobs
and more money for a new recycling site in
Bryan-College Station.
Junction Five-O-Five, formerly called
the Geranium Junction, will sponsor a mov
ing sale from 8 a.m. to 5 p.m Saturday.
Items including a piano, organ, sofas, vacu
ums and an hour-long massage from
Aerofit will be available.
The sale will take place at the old Front
Porch Cafe location on 4410 College Main
Drive in Bryan, where the new recycling
site will operate.
Treasurer, Patsy Graham says proceeds
from the moving sale will help fund a new,
fenced-in recycling site. The site, about a
half a mile from campus, will be open for
business within a couple of weeks.
This will be the second recycling site
operated by Junction Five-O-Five, which
employs people with disabilities. They are
referred to tne organization by the Texas
Rehabilitation Commission.
The first recycling site is located behind
Cafe Eccell in College Station and has be
come "out of control," Graham says.
The site behind Cafe Eccell is not
fenced-in and some people use the area to
drop off trash, Graham says.
Junction Five-O-Five presently is work
ing with the city of College Station in an ef
fort to turn the area into a controlled, moni
tored site to be operated by both Junction
Five-O-Five and tne city. ^
'The new site will have a wooden fence,
a removable chain and specific hours that it
will be open," says Graham. 'This way we
can control what people drop off and when
they drop it off."
Graham says hours for the new site
have not been decided yet, but it will at
least be open from 8 a.m. to 5 p.m.
Graham says Junction Five-O-Five em
ployees will operate the new recycling cen
ter.
Presently, the organization employs
about 18 people in lawn maintenance, recy
cling, and park and roadside maintenance
for six counties.
Proceeds from the moving sale will help
buy a riding lawn mower, a van to trans
port employees, and a baler, which will
nelp crush the recyclables into hay-size
bales.
to control the drop-off of newspapers.
Office manager Christi Johnson encour
ages people to come out for the movin;
sale, which will be broadcast livebyaloca
radio station.
"We're all very excited about themov
ing sale because it is our first fundraiser,
Johnson says. "But we're really lookk
forward to the recycling site because itisof
fering us the chance to employ morepeo
pie, including high school kids."
Ifescyclables accepted by Junction Five-
O-Five include aluminum, cardboard, plas
tic and newspapers. Graham says newspa
pers, however, become worthless when
they are wet from rain. That is why it is im
portant, she says, to have someone on-site
Johnson says plans are in the works fe
a Halloween carnival in October. All funii
raising proceeds will help contribute to k
organization's overall mission - to emplo
disabled people and eventually prepars
them for other employment opportunities.
"We have a high turnover rate," John
son says. "We are continuously pushing
community employment and independence
for our employees."
High school girl kills
Crosby football captain
U.S. team will go to Southeast Asia to search for serviceman
Photos show GI in captivity
igh
football captain was shot and
killed today while standing on a
cafeteria line. A 15-year-old girl
was taken into custody.
Initial reports from the Harris
County Sheriff's Department said
Arthur L. Jack, 17, captain of the
Crosby High School football team,
was standing in line for breakfast
at the school cafeteria, when a fe
male student apparently shot at
him twice, hitting him once in the
head.
He was pronounced dead on
the scene shortly after 8 a.m., said
Hermann Hospital spokeswoman
Patti Riddlebarger.
School officials in the Houston-
area town said the girl had bran
dished a gun on the school bus
this morning, and reportedly told
other students she planned to get
even with Jack over an argument.
"I think what we have here is
an incident between two people
that was settled in the most
hideous way possible," a school
administrator said.
FORT WORTH (AP) — A San
Antonio woman, with the help of
photos taken in the last two years,
has persuaded U.S. officials to
send two teams to the jungles of
northern Laos in a search tor her
ex-husband.
Carol Collins said she is con
vinced that Army Capt. Donald G.
"Butch" Carr, snot down in Laos
in 1971, is still alive and being
held in a prison compound.
Tuesday, after meeting for 90
minutes with Collins, a high-rank
ing Pentagon official said the U.S.
government will send two teams
into Laos within the next several
weeks to search for Carr.
Recent photographs have
raised the possibility that the Spe
cial Forces officer may be in cap
tivity, Assistant Defense Secretary
Carl W. Ford Jr. said.
Collins said she was told
there could be a break in the case
within the next 30 days.
"I think they're optimistic,"
she told the Fort Worth Star-Tele
charge of the Pentagon's search
for missing Americans in South
east Asia.
gram.
Ford, a Vietnam veteran, is in
He made the Carr case a top
priority after examining photos
that purportedly show tne miss
ing serviceman in a prison com-
pound in northern Laos.
"All the people who've looked
at this case believe this is one that,
in fact, could be a case of an
American in Southeast Asia,'
Ford said in a recent interview
with the Star-Telegram.
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