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Computers
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John Rauser, project di
rector for operations for
Computing and Information
Services, said the lab will
be equipped with state-of-
the-art computers.
“The equipment will be cy
cled out every three years so it
should stay state-of-the-art,”
Rauser said.
The new computing and
group study facility will be
funded by the computer ac
cess fee. One dollar per
credit hour of the computer
access fee is dedicated to
the project. The money
generated pays for con
struction, equipment and
Energy
Continued from Page 1
and the Eller O&M Building
are being upgraded.
A loan from the Loan STAR
(Safe Taxes and Resources) Pro
gram for about $3.3 million has
been approved to upgrade the
HVAC systems in the Langford
Architecture Building, the Reed
McDonald Building, Heldenfels
Hall, and part of Sterling C.
Evans Library. The loan also in
cludes funds for efficiency im
provements in the chill water
control of approximately 70
buildings.
Texas A&M was the first
agency involved in the Loan
STAR program, which be
gan in 1989.
Since 1992, the University
has received $2 million in five
separate grants from the Insti-
tutional Conservation Pro
gram, which is administered
by the Department of Energy.
Darnell said loans are paid
back with the money saved on
energy costs.
Research
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that digs on the moon is differ
ent than one that digs on Earth.
“Excavation on Earth is
relatively easy,” Boles said.
“Tractors are just built to be
big and powerful, but it costs
several thousand dollars per
pound to carry equipment to
the moon, so the machines we
design need to be rather light.
We’re talking about having 10
or 12 horsepower motors run
ning these machines.”
Boles said because of the
KC-135 experiments, the
unknown force obstacle
could be cleared.
At a cost of $13,000, NASA
donated the flight time in ex
change for the research results.
• John Connolly, a lunar and
Mars mission designer for
- NASA, said there will be several
• benefits from the research.
1 “When we return to the
I moon, we need it to be afford-
i! able to live off the land,” he
I said. “Oxygen is the main
component in making rocket
fuel. We need to gather the
soil so we can extract the
oxygen, and the only appar
ent way to do that is by exca
vating it.”
the ongoing costs of operat
ing the facility.
Dinkel said this fee will
make it possible to maintain
advanced equipment.
Bevers said although she
is graduating, she is
pleased about the new facil
ity and its equipment.
“My brother is entering col
lege before too long and I’d like
him to have a facility like
that,” Bevers said.
The project is a result of
student initiative, Dinkel said.
Four or five years ago, a group
of Student Government mem
bers wanted to improve access
to computer resources. Those
students planned the financing
for the project.
Dinkel said the comput
ing facility should be com
pleted in late Fall 1996 or
early Spring 1997.
Turner said the Energy Sys
tems Lab monitors hourly en
ergy consumption and the chill
water systems of university
buildings throughout Texas,
not just at A&M, and deter
mine how much money has
been saved. Then the Lab
sends the savings reports to
the buildings being monitored
and to Loan STAR.
Turner said Loan STAR has
saved Texas over $32 million
in almost 100 Texas buildings.
Turner said the savings
may not be apparent at first
because they are still in the
process of upgrading several
buildings on campus.
“Our efforts to date are ex
tremely encouraging,” Turner
said. “I think there is a poten
tial for saving $2 million dol
lars in energy every year.”
Gaston said it is important
to get the faculty and students
to think about the issue of en
ergy conservation on campus.
“It is very difficult in a large
organization to get people
working together to reduce en
ergy,” Gaston said. “Every dol
lar we save is a dollar we don’t
have to charge students.”
Connally said student in
volvement in such projects
benefits space exploration
research.
“The folks doing this re
search are the only ones doing
it in the world,” he said. “We
(NASA) like to have universi
ty involvement because there
are many new and unique ac
tivities happening.
“By using student input,
we’re getting answers by
using the cool ideas stu
dents have. I guess we’re
just a bunch of overeducat
ed people who haven’t let go
of the feeling.”
The experiments were ben
eficial to the students in sev
eral ways.
Alysha Roerden, a May
graduate of aerospace engi
neering, said she hopes to
make a career out of space ex
ploration and the experience
of zero-gravity was helpful in
her decision.
“I wanted the opportuni
ty to fly on the plane,” she
said. “One of these days
we’ll go back to the moon
and our research will be
used in the future.”
Roerden and Scott will re
turn to NASA for further ex
perimentation on the aircraft,
tentatively set for Aug. 27
and 28.
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KFNNEBUNKPORT, Maine (AP)
— A 1 1/2-story chalet next to
George Bush's oceanside estate went
on sale Tuesday, abandoned by the
Secret Service and members of the
press who rented it during Bush's
four years as president.
The house
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Imelda Marcos to get
treatment in Boston
ered with
mildew and
there are holes
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But real estate
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sen said it's a
bargain at
$265,000.
"It's a presti
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across the street at President Bush's
elegant compound," Jacobson said.
The house has expansive views
of Sandy Cove, where Bush's boat
is often anchored, and its front
deck is aimed right at the Bush
compound.
York County Republican chair
man Robert Brandenstein said he
could understand why someone
would want to buy it: "Look at all
the security around there."
MANILA, Philippines (AP) — Imel-
da Marcos is coming back to the Unit
ed States with the approval of an anti
graft court.
She of the many shoes is being al
lowed to go to Boston — and
nowhere else — to receive treatment
for glaucoma, the cburt ruled Tues
day. Her stay is limited to 60 days.
Marcos is free on bail pending
an appeal of a 24-year sentence for
corruption.
The trip was criticized by the anti
graft court that convicted Marcos of
looting the country's treasury, but the
Philippines legislature felt it was the
right thing to do.
Marcos has not been in America
since 1991, the year she returned to
Manila to face charges following
the 1989 death of her husband, for
mer Philippines President Ferdinand
Marcos.
ed up in American hands at the end of
World War II and was kept for years
at Fort Knox, Ky.
Hungarian President Arpad
Goencz will present Carter with the
award.
Notorious B.I.G. gets
busted with dope
TEANECK, N.J. (AP) — Rap star
Notorious B.I.G. was arrested on mar
ijuana and gun possession charges af
ter police went to his house to ask
him to move a car.
The rapper, who is also known as
Biggie Smalls and whose real name is
Christopher Wallace, was arrested
July 23, police said Tuesday.
A police officer said he smelled
marijuana and in a search of the
townhouse found a Tec-9 pistol with
a 30-round clip, two guns fitted with
infrared, laser-targeting devices, a
revolver and about two ounces of
comfortable — "a certain coldness
chilliness" — because of ongoing'
problems between both Simpson and
his ex-wife, Nicole Brown Simpson,
and between Fischman and his ihen-
wife, Fischman testified.
"(Simpson) appeared tired. He was
quiet," said Fischman.
Simpson is being sued for wrong
ful death damages in the deaths of
Nicole Simpson and her friend Ron
Goldman, who were killed at her
home following the recital.
The former football star was
acquitted of their slayings in Oc
tober 1995.
Carter awarded for his
royal honesty
R. Kelly misses concert
because of brawl
LAFAYETTE, La. (AP) — R. Kelly is
singing the blues, but not where he
was supposed to be.
The rhythm and blues musician
had $300,000 in band equipment
confiscated by the Cajundome
Commission.
Why? For failing to show up Sun
day at a heavily promoted concert at
the arena.
Turns out Kelly and his entourage
were involved in a fight earlier in
the day.
He was playing basketball at a
health club, police said.
One man was treated at a hospi
tal. Police are investigating Kelly's
involvement.
Kelly is known for his multi-plat
inum album 12-Play, which includ
ed the hits "Bump-n-Grind" and
"Sex Me."
VAC, Hun
gary (AP) -
jimmy Carter
will receive a
state award
next month for
returning to
Hungary a na
tional treasure,
the Holy Crown
of King St.
Stephen.
Carter re
turned the
crown in 1977.
marijuana.
The serial numbers had been
scratched off the guns, police said.
Wallace and seven members of his
rap group, the Junior M.A.F.I.A., were
charged with marijuana possession.
Wallace was also charged with pos
session of illegal weapons.
Wallace has made much of his
past as a former crack dealer from one
of the toughest neighborhoods in
Brooklyn, Bedford-Stuyvesant.
In December, he was honored as
rap artist of the year at the Billboard
Awards.
Fischman,
who refused to
testify for
weeks until
threatened
with arrest,
said Simpson
had been dis
tressed for
months about
his relationship
with his e x -
wife.
"The last
few months
were, as
SIMPSON
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O.j. Simpson confused,
frustrated over ex-wife
According to
tradition, the
crown was
placed on the
head of King St.
Stephen on
Christmas 1000.
The crown
has come to
symbolize Hun
garian state-
iiood.
Stolen by the
Nazis in 1944,
the crown end-
LOS ANGELES (AP) — O.J. Simp
son was "confused and frustrated"
over his ex-wife's behavior in her final
months, and appeared tired and quiet
at a dance recital just hours before her
murder, a Simpson friend testified in a
deposition.
Dr. Ronald A. Fischman, an in
ternist and Simpson neighbor, said
Simpson "was not his normal effusive
self" at the June 12, 1994, recital.
"I'd never seen him quite like
that/' said Fischman, testifying July 10
in a deposition for a wrongful death
lawsuit against Simpson.
The mood at the recital was un
recall, very tumultuous,
and I think by the time it ended, he
was just very frustrated and con
fused about the way Nicole was be
having," Fischman testified, accord
ing to a transcript obtained by The
Associated Press.
Nicole Simpson left quickly at
the end of the recital, which fea
tured dances by the daughters of
Simpson and Fischman, and left
Simpson behind.
Simpson then asked Fischman to
have dinner, but he said he declined
because of other plans.
The testimony is the latest to de
scribe Simpson's increasing frustration
with his ex-wife, and his downcast
demeanor at the recital.
That view was countered at
Simpson's trial by a videotape taken
at the recital showing him laughing.
Fischman said Simpson was laugh
ing at a remark made by him.
"He had asked me something
about dinner, and I said, 'I'm going
out to dinner with the wife.' And he
said, 'Good luck,' because he knew
we were having (marital) problems/'
Fischman said.
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