State & Local
Page 2
The Battalion
Monday, January 24,1994
A chip off the old block ...
Senior Stephanie Williams, left, and Tanya Black Student Leadership Conference. He
Williams look on as Jesse Jackson Jr. speaks spoke, last Friday, on the importance of
in Rudder Auditorium for the Southwestern motivating black collegiates.
Super Collider closing forces scientists
to discover new jobs in private sector
The Associated Press
MIDLOTHIAN — By the time many
of his peers at the super collider finish
packing their computer disks and fami
ly photographs, Dave Lambert will
have started his new job.
The computer scientist began work
last week at the retail petroleum sys
tems division of Schlumberger Tech
nologies in Virginia Beach, Va.
He had worked for the company for
four years in Houston before taking a
job with the super collider in 1990.
"We're lucky. We've got a decent job
to go to," his wife, Tracee Lambert,
said.
"There's still people out there that
are stressed out looking for jobs that
don't have the kind of benefits package
that we got."
On Monday, the super collider will
undergo the first round of official lay
offs.
Personnel Director Doug Kreitz said
that 346 people already have received
60-day notices and two more waves of
layoffs are scheduled for February and
March.
Collider officials expect 963 workers
will be left by the end of March, from
an original 2,250 in October.
"We actually predict more than that
because the attrition rate is going up
through voluntary resignations," Kreitz
said.
Collider employees say that working
on the giant atom smasher, which Con
gress officially canceled Oct. 21, has
been a wild ride.
Lambert, who has three children liv
ing at home, said the family could not
make major decisions, such as whether
to build on to his Midlothian home,
without wondering about his job status.
"Constantly up and down. Up and
down. Are we going to do this? Are we
going to do that?" he said.
Collider employees say
that working on the giant
atom smasher, which Con
gress officially cancelled
Oct. 21, has been a wild
ride.
"if 1 could go into a state of sort of
suspended animation where ... govern
ment decided if they want to (continue
funding the super collider) or not and
they say, 'All right! You can start living
your life now,' I wouldn't mind."
Candy and Will Robinson left jobs
they both held more than 12 years at
Lawrence Livermore Laboratory in
Northern California to take positions at
the collider.
The couple, who have four children,
believed they were making a good deci
sion by moving away from nuclear test
ing to getting involved with a peace
time project.
Robinson likens his collider job to
"w'orking on the Titanic."
Mrs. Robinson, a software engineer,
and Robinson, an electrical engineer,
say they believe their skills will make
them employable.
Both were prepared financially for
the possibility that Congress would kill
the $11 billion project.
"There's a career day at school here
that I was thinking of responding to,
but I don't know if I'm doing ... these
students a favor in telling them to go
into engineering and science," Mrs.
Robinson said.
"I'm not sure that's what the coun
try needs right now."
Scientists had hoped to learn more
about the nature of matter by colliding
beams of subatomic particles at near
light speed in a 54-mile tunnel.
The science also could have provid
ed volumes of spinoff technologyii
banking, medical applications, commu
nications and other areas, Lambert said
The project's cancellation will set
back high-energy physics 10 years,
Robinson said.
"It's very difficult to believe we'd
take $2 billion and pour it down a hole"
and then abandon the project, Robinson
said. "But this country managed to do
it in first-class style. I've never seen
anything like it in my life."
Mond
in f
groi
at &
P
at 7:
reqt
696-
R
Firs
Kok
C
7:00
an ii
ed ir
(Stu
and
Free
E
302 :
Call
E:
form
Call
A
Fans
ese <
LRD
Reco
T(
First
202 1
764T
D
at 7:(
6524,
A
prok
9:00
0907.
Former Navy
The Associated Press
BEEVILLE— Three years ago, a hous
ing shortage was the last thing this town
expected.
But with Chase Field Naval Air Sta
tion being renovated into a mini-hub for
the state prison system, officials predict
a shortage of about 600 apartments or
houses later in the year.
"What many people took as a devas-
base turned prison brings employment boom to Beeville
tating blow to the community turned
out to be a tremendous opportunity,"
said Brad Arvin, executive director of
the area's redevelopment council.
The 1,500 military and civilian jobs
lost through the base closure are being
replaced with the 1,300 to 1,350 workers
who will staff the new prison facilities at
Chase Field.
The facility's annual operating bud
get is estimated at $40 million to $45
million, officials said.
The Texas Department of Criminal
Justice facility that is taking over 280
acres of the former base is a mini ver
sion of the prison system's headquarters
in Huntsville, said system spokesman
David Nunnelee.
In addition to an adult prison, he
said. Chase Field will have a warehouse
distribution center, training facilities for
guards and a boot camp for young of
fenders. .
The prime South Texas location and
easily converted ex-Navy facilities were
attractive qualities for expansion, Nun
nelee said.
"Everything we have here (in
Huntsville) will be there, although on a
smaller scale," Nunnelee said. "It makes
sense to establish ourselves out in that
part of the state. . . It's becoming one of
our major areas in the state. We are
making use of what already exists
there."
The boot camp for young, first-time
offenders is set to open next month.
Construction of two, 2,000-bed medi
um-security facilities should be finished
by May or June. Th^y will hold conn'd-
ed felons who are now in county jails
because of a lack df^late prison space.
The rest of the programs should be in
place within a year.
D,
A.u<
w/
dren i
ter-ca
TEXAS A&M
DANCE ARTS
SOCIETY
GENERAL MEETING
JANUARY 24, 1994
READ RM. 268
7:00 p.m.
*BRING STUDENT I.D. TO ENTER BUILDING
*FOR MORE INFO. CALL DANEDRA AT 696-6804
ATTENTION:
Fall 1994
Student Teachers
WHAT: Orientation Meeting
WHEN: Monday, February 7, 1994
TIME: 7:00 p.m.
WHERE: Rudder Tower,
Room 601
This meeting is MANDATORY!
&.
&
aft
Eft
^1-
Gst
e|:
St
^t
Git
c£
FLOPPY Jo E T
5oftwo.>-e s t o f~
SAYS
Welcome Back Aggies!
If you missed it last year,
you get anof/ier chance !!
Give line
r
l ONE YEAR
Taking CPSC 1 10 OR 120?
We have Turbo Pascal and Turbo C++.
We stock Borland and Lotus Student
Software including Quattro Pro,
1*2*3, and Ami Pro.
1705 Texas Ave. - Culpepper Plaza 693-1706
CONTACT LENSES
ONLY QUALITY NAME BRANDS
(Bausch & Lomb, Ciba, Sola/Barnes-Hind)
Disposable Contact Lenses Available
For Standard Clear or Tinted
FLEXIBLE. W.LAB Soft Contact Lenses
(Can be worn as daily or extended wear)
I + FREE SPARE PAIR
SAME DAY DELIVERY ON MOST LENSES.
ASK ABOUT OUR
“BUY MORE PAY LESS” PRICING
Call 846-0377 for Appointment
*Eye exam and follow up visits not included
CHARLES C. SCHROEPPEL, O.D., PC.
DOCTOR of OPTOMETRY
505 University Dr. East,
Suite 101
College Station, TX 77840
4 Blks. East of Texas Ave. &
University Dr. Intersection
The Battalion
JUU PHILLIPS, Editor in chief
MICHAEL PLUMER, Managing editor KYLE BURNETT, Aggie!ifeeditor
BELINDA BLANCARTE, Night News editor DEN A DIZDAR, Aggie!ife editor
HEATHER WINCH, Night News editor SEAN FRERKING, Sports editor
TONI GARRARD CLAY, Opinion editor WILLIAM HARRISON, Photo editor
JENNIFER SMITH, City editor ANAS BEN-MUSA, Special Sections editor
Staff Members
City desk - Lisa Elliott, Michele Brinkmann, Kim McGuire, Eloise Flint, Jan Higginbotham, Geneen Pipher, James
Bernsen, Laurel Mosley, Angela Neaves, Mary Kujawa and Karen Broyles
News desk - Rob Clark, Andreana Coleman, Josef Elchanan, Mark Evans and Drew Wasson
Photographers - Amy Browning, Chad Cooper, Robert Dunkin, Darrin Hill, Kevin Ivy, Mary Macmanus,
Jennie Mayer, Stewart Milne, Tim Moog, Gus Morgan and Amanda Sonley
Aggieiife- Margaret Claughton, Jennifer Gressett, Paul Neale, Traci Travis and Claudia Zavalela
Sports writers - Mark Smith, Drew Diener, Nick Georgandis and lose De Jesus Ortiz
Opinion desk - Jay Robbins, Lynn Booher, Roy Clay, Erin Hill, Michael Landauer, Jenny Magee, Melissa
Megliola, Frank Stanford, Jackie Stokes, Robert Vasquez and Dave Winder
Cartoonists - Boomer Cardinale, Chau Huang, George Nasr, Kalvin Nguyen and Gerardo Quezada
Clerks- Eleanor Colvin, Wren Eversberg, Jennifer Kerber, Tomiko Miller and Brooke Perkins
The Battalion (USPS 045-360) is published daily, Monday through Friday during the fall and spring seme'll'
and Monday through Thursday during the summer session (except University holidays and exam periods).i
Texas A&M University. Second class postage paid at College Station, TX 77840.
POSTMASTER: Send address changes to The Battalion, 230 Reed McDonald Building, Texas A&M Universil)
College Station, TX 77843.
News: The Battalion news department is managed by students at Texas A&M University in the Division 0 ^
Student Publications, a unit of the Department of Journalism. Editorial offices are in 013 Reed McDont |:l j
Building. Newsroom phone number is 845-331 3. Fax: 845-2647.
Advertising: for campus, local and national display advertising, call 845-2696. For classified advertising, 0
845-0569. Advertising offices are in 015 Reed McDonald and office hours are 8 a.m. to 5 p.m. Monday throu?'
Friday. Fax: 845-5408.
Subscriptions: Mail subscriptions are $20 per semester, $40 per school year and $50 per full year. TocMP
by VISA or MasterCard, call 845-2611.
raw st
house
festat
groun
Au
of He
inspe
some
also b
child
crimir
Tbt
inspec
care, 1
progn
North
Pn
Contir
as wel
Alt!
ter, M<
es in b