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BRIEFS
A&M wins second at NASA
The Lunar Shelter Team competed at NASA's Space Confem
Westbound Joe Routt
Blvd. reopened
The westbound (outbound) lane
of joe Routt Boulevard was re
opened yesterday evening.
Debris from the continuing de
molition of DeWare Field House
and the Downs Natatorium ob
structs the eastbound lanes.
PITS officials are not sure when
the eastbound lanes will be re
opened or whether the the west
bound lanes will remain open. The
roads will be closed again when the
dump trucks have to be loaded.
Demolition of DeWare and
Downs began three weeks ago.
Engineering prof wins
research award
Dr. Wilbert E. Wilhelm, an indus
trial engineering professor, recently
received the Institute of Industrial En
gineers (HE) David F. Baker Distin
guished Research Award for his re
search and contributions to assembly
systems design and operation.
The award recognizes significant
contributions to the advancement of
the industrial engineering profession
through outstanding research activity.
The HE cited Wilhelm for basic re
search contributions to assembly sys
tems that have led to "rules of
thumb" for intuitive managers and
solution methods that have produced
significant cost savings in industry.
Industrial engineering
receives endowment
Mildred and Ross B. George re
cently endowed $25,000 to the In
dustrial Engineering Endowed
Scholars Program at Texas A&M.
The Mildred and Ross George
'55 Endowed Scholarship will
award scholarships to outstanding
youth, ensure excellence in the stu
dent body, and provide for future
leaders in industry.
Each scholarship in the Industri
al Engineering Endowed Scholars
Program will provide a four-year
award of $1000 per year to scholas
tically superior students and quali
fied students with financial need.
The first George scholarship will
be awarded in Fall 1997.
DuPont gives grant to
Engineering college
DuPont and its subsidiary Conoco
recently presented an $80,000 grant
to the Dwight Look College of Engi
neering. The grant, made through the
DuPont Aid to Education Program, is
part of a $150,000 donation to the
University to enhance teaching and
research in engineering, science, busi
ness and minority education.
Included in the donation in a
$25,000-per-year research grant, re
newable for three years, that provides
start-up support for young professors
who may not have the reputation early
in their career to obtain federal grants.
By Brandon Hausenfluck
The Battalion
The Texas A&M Lunar Shel
ter Team won second place at
the 1996 NASA Space Confer
ence and Robotics for Challeng
ing Environments Competition
in Albuquerque, N.M.
Engineering students repre
sented A&M June 3 and 4 at the
Space Education Initiative Sub
committee of the Aerospace Divi
sion of the American Society of
Civil Engineers. The subcommit
tee was created to gain new
ideas for space exploration from
engineering students from
across the country.
The teams were required to de
sign teleoperated robotic equip
ment that could unload, carry and
place a scale-model habitat on the
surface of the moon from a stan
dard landing surface.
Natasha Gray, a team mem
ber and senior civil engineering
major, said in a press release
that remote control of the ma
chine is important.
“Radio waves take 26 minutes
to travel from the Earth to the
moon,” she said. “Live control
from the Earth would be impos
sible. The vehicle has to be able
to stop itself immediately when
it comes to a cliff.”
John Connally, lunar and
Mars mission designer for NASA
in Houston and co-creator of the
competition, said the competi
tion is good for the space indus
try because engineering stu
dents with little field experience
can often contribute new ideas.
“The competition is beneficial
to the industry because it pro
duces a whole new pool of talent
to help solve some of the problems
we are confronted with in space
exploration,” Connally said. “It’s
also very important because when
you have something on the moon,
you can’t go and repair it every
five minutes.”
Dr. Walter Boles, an assistant
professor of civil engineering
and chairman of the competi
tion, said in a press release the
competition was good for the
students because they can use
creativity to build something
NASA could use.
“NASA can look at ingenious
student solutions,” Boles said.
“Students participating in the
competition are not seasoned en
gineers with mental records of
past failures and strong ideas of
what is and is not practical and
workable. One wild idea might
be the next engineering break
through for the space program.”
Boles said the students had to
be aware of the moon’s terrain
and build the model accordingly.
“Knowing of the harsh envi
ronment, they (students) had to
use a lot of robotics,” Boles said.
“There are intense radiation
waves on the moon and it
thousands of dollars perpoj
to transport things from eart:
the moon. There’s reallym
more convenient way to Inst
[the shelter] than by usinf
golith (lunar soil).”
The team began meeting
October to discuss plans tc
prove previous years’ models
Ray Wells, a graduates
dent in engineering, consta
the habitat cover to holdths
golith. Gray invented a b:
loader to brush regolith or
conveyor belt, which thentaj
ports it into a holding bin.
Jim Griffin, a junior medi
cal engineering major, i
year’s model was better
to function on the moon.
"The brush loader is sign
cantly lighter and more effit:
than last year’s bulldozertr
scoop,” Griffing said.
Other teams in the com,
tion included CarolinaS
University, the Universiti
Washington, and the Univeis
of Mississippi.
Connally said the invita
to compete in the contest
global. He hopes more sek
will attend the next compi
tion in 1998.
As a reward for winnings
ond place, the Aggie team)
been invited to the Not
launch of the Space Sta
Columbia.
THU
July 1 8,
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By Jeffrey
The Battj
Time Wamer-Tumer deal cleara
WASHINGTON (AP) — A $7.5
billion deal combining Time
Warner and Turner Broadcasting
into the world’s largest media
firm can proceed — with strings
attached — under an agreement
Wednesday between the govern
ment and the companies.
Federal regulators had closely
scrutinized Time Warner’s pro
posal to buy Turner Broadcasting,
worried it could deprive Ameri
cans of variety in the cable TV
shows they watch or cause cable
prices to rise.
The Federal Trade Commis
sion’s five commissioners will
consider the tentative agree
ment Friday, said spokes
woman Victoria Streitfeld. Ap
proval is expected, clearing the
biggest regulatory hurdle to a
deal announced last September.
But it’s unclear when the final
vote will occur, Streitfeld said.
Under the agreement, “the
deal can go through and the
public interest will be pro
tected,” said William Baer,
director of the FTC’s Bureau
of Competition.
The deal as originally sir
tured had “serious potentia!
raise prices to consumers, ana
limit their choices by givingT: ;
Warner control over 40percer:
all programming,” Baer said.
Regulators were particula
concerned about the role ofTf
Communications Inc., thee
tion’s largest cable corapai
which now owns 21 percent c
Turner but planned to reduce
stake to roughly 9 percent of
merged company.
Gustafson steps down as UT baseball coacl
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AUSTIN (AP) — Texas base
ball coach Cliff Gustafson, the
winningest coach in NCAA Divi
sion I history, stepped down
Wednesday after questions were
raised about the finances of his
summer baseball camp.
School officials said an audit
of the camp revealed an account
set up by Gustafson outside of
university regulation,- a poten
tial NCAA violation. It was used
to pay Gustafson and his son,
Deron, a voluntary coach for the
Longhorns until last year, the
university said.
NCAA rules prohibit volun
tary coaches from being paid for
camp services.
“We are not saying he stole
money. We are saying he used
school funds for unauthorized
purposes,” said Patricia Ohlen-
dorf, vice provost and counsel to
the university president. “There
are three potential NCAA viola
tions that we have found.”
Gustafson, 65, who led Texas to
national championships in 1975#
1983 while building a record
1,466-377-2 in 29 seasons, |aidl
was unaware of regulations prever
ing him from setting up his own*
count for camp revenue.
He said any money paid to If
son “were considered gifts, whidi
am allowed to give to my children
"It’s not exactly how I woe!
have liked to go out,” Gustafsc
said. “But my conscience is clfcj
with the way we handled thesj
called ‘extra account.’
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