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Council Travel 2000 Guadalupe St. • Austin, TX 78705 512-472~4931 http://www.ciee.org/travel .htm Students give Sunraycer new looli By Courtney Walker The Battalion It’s shaped like a fish, has four wheels and runs on solar energy. The Mach V Sunraycer, a solar powered vehicle designed by 40 Texas A&M students, will compete in a 1,200-mile cross-country race from Indianapolis to Colorado Springs, Colo., in the Summer of 1997. The vehicle, driven by one person, uses solar energy. The energy is converted to elec tricity using silicon photovoltaic cells that charge the car’s batteries. Steve Deel, a Sunraycer team member and a senior mechanical engineering technology major, said a typical day’s drive in the race is 120 miles. He said driving involves a lot of strategy. “It is just so much more demanding than regular driving because there is no air condi tioning or insulation and you have to concen trate on what you’re doing,” Deel said. One problem team members hope they will not have is a lack of sunshine. If there is no sun, the car will not run. Dennis Waugaman, Sunraycer team adviser and an associate professor of engineering, said a fully-charged battery provides enough power for two hours without the sun. But if it rains or is cloudy all day the car will run out of energy and stop. The Sunraycer team will compete, for the second time, in the biannual Sunraycer Solar Vehicle Challenge. But this time the team’s vehicle, the Mach V, will have a new look. Odetta Murray, a team member and a lEU R Al L.PASSES AVAILABLE BY PHONE! It’s time to... Get Real! THE WALL STREET JOURNAL Learn how the world of business really works— every business day. Subscribe today to The Wall Street Journal. Special Student Savings! . Send me a one-year subscription for $87.00 n i senior mechanical engineering techni major, said rebuilding the vehicle gives dents a chance to put their knowledge n test and work as a team. “To do this project we have to work tog er and there is no room for excuses anc helping," Murray said. Waugaman said teams must have the cle ready for competition by April 25. He not foresee any delays unless funding does come through. “The University is not paying for anyofi so students are having to get donations companies to pay for equipment andpe Waugaman said. “We hope to build thevel under a $100,000 budget, but we only $30,000 so far.” From replacing BMX bicycle tires ih; off every 30 miles, team members are pletely redesigning and rebuilding theM The tires are being replaced with high-! mance electric vehicle wheels. Waugaman said the old vehicle was plain old-fashioned. “It was our First try and the technoli more advanced now so we are using the advanced technology possible," he said. One of the main changes to the vehicle the design of the solar collective plates. In the new’ vehicle, the plates are int into the skin of the car, unlike last year'sm when the plates were on a flat panel over top of the car. “Instead of having the paint on top of new car, there will be solar collective pla. Waugaman said. “The plates are the! instead of the paint.” Deel said the new vehicle is completely nn The Ba To< ,we Tim Moog, The Battalion Sunraycer officers adjust a papier-mache mold of the ‘skin’ of the vehicle onto the frame. feivnt and u ill hr made <>! < omposlte | weight material. “A lightweight frame is important fore ciency and to keep any resistance off thee Deel said. "The frame of the old car was m< /0RlD*CLAS5 from aluminum tubing so it was a lotheavi ^ Although the team has not built thee fiberglass frame, the team has completee mock-up of vehicle’s frame and has the r to build it. . ra prefer a is-week subscription tor $33.00 I Name (please print) Address City Is this an on-campus address? | YES Room/Apt # State Telephone I I zip I University considers dorm improvements By Carla Renea Marsh The Battalion txmooi name aoioem i.u. if wnaiwwipiMiii, waxxfmtt KS Major Graduation Month/rear . Check enclosed: .AMEX; I Visa; . BI8 me later; . MasterCard; . Charge to my: . Discover Card; i Diners Chib Credit Card No. Exp. Date Signature THE WALL STREET JOURNAL. Mail coupon to: The Wall Street Journal 200 Burnett Road, Chicopee, MA 01020 or call toll free: 1-888-ITS-TIME ext. 123 ©1996 Dow Jones and Company, Inc. AH rigrts reserved. Offer good for a Bmfted time, and only the continental U.S, Subscriber is respons&rte for state sales tan. If applicable. In ?0Gi I PROFITABLE NUMBER! 845-0569 THE BATTALION CLASSIFIEDS Field inspection work on the status of Texas A&M residence halls and University-owned apart ments, part of a long-range plan to improve campus housing facilities, is nearing completion. The goal of the evaluation, which began July 15, is to develop cost estimates, time lines and pri orities for needed service and repair projects. Halff Associates, an architectur al engineering firm in Dallas, and R.G. Vanderwall of Boston are per forming the analysis of the 2.6 mil lion square feet of campus resi dence hall and apartment space. The Department of Residence Life and Housing is looking at ways to improve the housing facilities for students who live on campus. Ron E. Sasse, director of the Department of Residence Life and Housing, said it is more practical to improve the housing facilities rather than spend nearly $6 mil lion to build a new modular dorm. “We’re looking at putting “We’re looking at putting Ethernet [connections] in all the dorms in the next four years.” Ron E. Sasse Director, Department of Residence Life and Housing Ethernet [connections] in all the dorms in the next four years,” Sasse said. In order to improve the housing facilities, Residence Life and Housing will continue to increase housing fees in future semesters. In a previous interview, Kim Walter, an assistant to the director of Residence Life and Housing, said the increased fees will net more conveniences for residents. “The rent increase will be used to fund cable TV for the dorms,” she said. “The study will let us know how we can get cable to the halls.” In the next few semesters, Residence Life and Housing will compete with off-campus rates and costs. Sasse said current housing fees are still less expensive than off- campus apartments. Although some students dis agree, there are others who say that nothing compares to the experience of living on campus. Jesse Czelusta, Residence Hall Association president, said on-cam pus living offers many advantages. “Off-campus [housing] does not provide the convenience and the community that on-campus living does,” Czelusta said. A&M visitor dies Tuesday By Wes Swift The Battalion A man visiting Texas AM attend a conference died Tues? after suffering heart complicati: J Jniversity police officials said. UPD officers received a cal assistance around 1 p.m. fro emergency medical officers w were helping a man sufferii from heart problems in the lob! of Rudder Tower, reports said. The man was transported Columbia Medical Center College Station, where he died Police and hospital officii would not release the maj name pending notificationofi! next of kin. Police would only the man was not a student. 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