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Satellite
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The new satellite communications
network will have 26 small satellites
in low earth orbit, close enough for
users with handheld terminals to send
e-mail and data to other users any
where on Earth.
Georghiades said he and Spasojevic'
were first asked to review the satellite’s
communications system for future up
grades. After the first satellite experi
enced problems, Georghiades said, “the
future became present very fast.”
Spasojevic' said their work went
deep into the program.
“We were asked to do more than cor
rect errors,” he said. “It was really both
error correction and design. At this
stage, they (FAI) asked us to help final
ize the product, which entails design
correction and implementation issues.”
Spasojevic' has returned to A&M af
ter working in Maryland during the
past couple of months with engineers
from FAI’s prime contractor, Allied Sig
nal. He is now putting finishing touches
on his software in an effort to beat the
mid-August launch of the first proto
type satellite.
“I have enjoyed working on a real ap
plication,” Spasojevic' said. “Normally
it is not easy for a doctoral candidate
like me to get practical problems.”
Ogden
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increase in monies given to the Univer
sity, they could speak with President
Bowen and ask him to raise the GUF.”
Meredith Hardeman, a senior speech
communications major, disagreed with
Ogden’s suggestion.
“I would never directly ask for an in
crease in the GUF,” Hardeman said.
“That is just giving more money to the
bureaucracy of this school. ... I don’t
want to pay more unless I could direct
where it went.”
Ogden said despite GUF increases,
people are primarily concerned with the
quality of the education they receive.
“When given a choice, most people
are willing to pay,” Ogden said. “People
do not want to run the risk of eroding
quality.”
Ogden said he was optimistic about
attempts to change the situation.
“I think there will be a response be
cause this is a valid student complaint,”
Ogden said, “Personally, I will respond
to any initiative that the University
puts forth.”
Bowen said the first step in increas
ing the funds is realizing the problem
exists.
“I think people in Texas, including
our political leadership, need to decide
that higher education is a priority,” he
said. “When people have made up their
mind and those messages hit Austin,
more money will flow.”
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Magician maintains magic
HAMBURG, Germany (AP) —
Claudia Schiffer says, despite
gloomy reports in the tabloids,
there's still magic between her
and David Copperfield.
Rumors
have been
floating that
the model
and the ma
gician, to
gether for
three years,
are splitting.
"There's
absolutely
nothing in
it," Schiffer
told the Ger
man tabloid
Bild in an in
terview published Tuesday.
Schiffer said she and Copper-
field see each other regularly and
are, in fact, planning a Caribbean
vacation together.
Ford poses with
'greats' in portrait
Gore singing bluesi
birthday drawsneai
Dr. J/s son arrested
for buying crack
PHILADELPHIA (AP) — The
son of basketball great Julius fry
ing was convicted of buying $5
worth of crack and will spend
one year on probation.
Cheo Erving, 23, was sen
tenced Monday by Municipal
Judge J. Earl Simmons.
His lawyer, Donald Marino,
said the younger Erving "admit
tedly made a very stupid mistake,
and he has shown great remorse
for it. Something like this will
never happen again."
Marino said Erving, who was
accompanied in court by his
mother, Turquoise, lives with his
parents in Villanova and works
as a restaurant cook.
"He is, hopefully, in a phase
where rehabilitation could be ef
fective," Marino said.
ST. PAUL (AP) — During the
1970s, Gerald Ford, Valery
Giscard d'Estaing, Lord James
Callaghan and Helmut Schmidt
were busy grappling with
worldwide problems like the
energy crisis and human rights.
No wonder they didn't have
time to pose for a portrait.
Now, the ex-leaders of the
United States, France, Great
Britain and Germany have been
memorialized together in paint
by Min-
n e s o t a
artist Mark
Balma.
Ford
unveiled
the portrait
Tuesday in
the gover
nor's re-
cep t i o n
room at
the state
Capitol,
the setting
for the pic
ture commissioned by the
American Enterprise Institute, a
conservative think tank in
Washington.
The four men never met
there, but Balma said he chose
the room because of its rich de
tail: "I wanted to create the feel
ing that after an intense discus
sion at the table, the dialogue
continues with the vigor of
friendship."
Ford, Giscard d'Estaing,
Callaghan and Schmidt still
meet annually in Vail, Colo.
"It's a unique friendship that
developed under very tough
pressures and experiences, but
it's so genuine that it has gone
on and on and on," Ford said.
NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP
Guests at a birthday bash (orTi:
Gore may have to sing the
song a capel-
la unless or
ganizers find
a band that's
willing to
play.
The wife
of Vice Presi
dent Al Gore,
a Ten-
nesseean,
shares an
Aug. 19 birth
day with
President
Clinton and
the two will celebrate thedai
fore with simultaneous parte
Nashville and New York.
The New York party, which
Clintons will attend, is to lea!
Kenny Rogers and Aretha Frankie
So far, singer-sonw
Gretchen Peters has agreed Ic
pear at Gore's party.
Olympics muse must
over new baby boy
EDINA, Minn. (AP)-T*
days after his music welcou
the world to Atlanta, produi
Jimmy Jam and his wife®
corned a child to the world.
Jam’s wife, Lisa, gavebiiF
Sunday to an 8-poundsu
Tyler James.
“It feels absolutely wondc)
ful,” Jam said.-i
Jam and his co-produoj
Terry Lewis composed
song - “Welcome To TheVM|
for the opening ceremonies
the Summer Olympics.
by Chuck Johnson
Sk©tkh
By Quatn
Luckily for Big Ed, he had brought
his extra stomach.
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