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Texas Aggie Volleyball VS. Kansas State 7 pm Saturday Tickets: 845-2311 AA ■ McDonald's VOLLEYBALL COLLEGE PARK G THEATRES 2080 EAST 29TH STREET BRYAN, TX MOVIE TIME GUIDE THE FOLLOWING INFORMATION IS VALID FOR FRIDAY-SUNDAY NOV. 14-16, 1997 GEORGE OF THE JUNGLE (PG) G.l. JANE (R) MONEY TALKS (R) AIR BUD (PG) SOUL FOOD (R) IVJEN IN BLACK (PG-T3) 2:00 4:15 7:30 9:50 BOX OFFICE OPENS 12:45 pm FRIDAY through SUNDAY LAST CHANCE! The show will close and you will have missed it The Qood Woman of Setzuan November 19-22 Rudder Forum, 8pm Tickets available at the MSC Box Office, 845-1234 $6 for students and $7 for general public For more information see our web page: www.tamu.edu/theater/ or call the Theater Arts Program office, 845-2621 Congratulations to theT997 New Inititates! £2 Lauren Berrey Allison Magmder Shelley Blevins Allison Mandeville Rebecca Brooks Angela May Aide Buchanon Ashley McGee Carolina Cullum Erica Merriman Brooke Damron Lindsay Meyer Jessica DeGroot Rebecca Miller Mandy Dotson Elizabeth Montfort Katie Easterling Laurie Moore Elizabeth Elder Paige Moore Melissa Esterline Kim Naron Katy Everett Lenzie Oliver Jodi Fillemen Virginia Parker Elizabeth Flewharty Meredith Pond Julie Gandy Stacy Pratt Andrea George Heather Pringle Jennie Gertz Melissa Rogers Katie Goodell Courtney Schmidt Sarah Gregory Caroline Smith Jocelyn Grisham Lauren Smith Jennifer Hansard Kay Lani Sturrock Lea Anne Heath Amanda Trott Kim Heisler Amy Watson Alissa Hoyt Julie Weber Jennifer Hurst Jennifer Wentzel Katie Johse Jenny Westerman Terri Jones Leann Wilkey Kim Kowalkowski Jl Allison Zarcaro Have You Ever Imagined Or* Southerland as Alex Trebek? We did. Aggieopardy Friday, November 21,1997 MSC Flagroom 12 p.m. Come watch two fellow Ags and a faculty member fight it out at MSC Political Forum’s take on the popular game show. Prizes will be awarded to the winning contestant. If the faculty member wins, a drawing will be held among audience members for the prizes! So, stop by on your way to class and watch the battle of the brains. Poiilical Forum C The Battalion AMPUS Friday • November 21, 1:45 4:00 7:25 9:30 1:30 4:00 7:00 9:35 2:00 4:25 7:15 9:55 1:50 4:20 7:20 9:30 1:40 4:15 7:15 9:45 A&M chemists seek solution to waste problei Project leaders aim to make disposal of radioactive elements easier and chea| By Colleen Kavanagh Staff writer Texas A&M chemists have found a way to clean up groundwater con taminated by the disposal of nu clear waste. The chemists developed a way to remove the most potent radioactive elements from the waste, making disposal easier and cheaper. The waste, at the Hanford Processing Site in Washington, has started to leak from the tanks it is stored in. Elizabeth Behrens, an A&M doctoral student, has been work ing on the project for four and a half years. She said the solution is feasible, but it is difficult to con vince the Hanford managers to test it because the solution came from a university. “Hanford works with various na tional laboratories on solutions to the nuclear waste problem,” she said. “It’s hard for us to get our ideas across when they work with labs who work on this kind of stuff all of the time. Our solution is the best for groundwater remediation.” Behrens said the production of “None of this (pollution of groundwater) is good for wildlife or the people in the area ” ELIZABETH BEHRENS A&M DOCTORAL STUDENT nuclear weapons at Hanford left be hind highly radioactive forms of the elements strontium and cesium. This waste was dumped into steel tanks and half-buried on the pro cessing site. Some of the tanks have started to leak, and highly radio-ac tive chemicals are migrating into the soil in the area. “Not only is there a problem with chemicals in the soil, but the Co lumbia River is nearby and radioac tivity can be detected in the water," she said. “None of this is good for wildlife or people in the area.” Behrens said that if the chem icals reach the aquifers nearby, they will contaminate drinking water supplies. "Strontium’s properties behave like calcium,” she said. “If ingest ed, it goes directly into people’s bones, where it decays and can cause cancer.” Normally such high-level ra dioactive waste must be turned into glass logs that are wrapped in steel and buried deeply. The U.S. government is looking for cheaper ways to convert this high-level waste into less harmful forms that s I can be disposed. Behrens’ method rd strontium and cesium frej waste and groundwater :| changing them with tliel harmful sodium. The p| uses an ion exchanger, acj that can selectively remml ments from a solution, place them with otherelet P 1 | After the radioactive iJ* ol | ents are removed, thewasB as l then be mixed with cemeii:l’‘ t | safely buried. A&M chemistry Profess* 11 ^! Abraham Clearfield B' 11 ’ ril , who supervises Behreirjxyeai ject, said the research haspraPstal compounds that are inexpe yet effective. “We have compared this to er solutions,” he said. "Outti vast array of materials to i from, this is one of the best Heavy metal A B.v". Max Mondelli, a junior mechanical engineering major, bends sheet metal in Thompson Hall. A&M voices interest in Naval Air Station Dallas ROBERT MCKAYAhe to form a box lid in an Engineering Technology 181 lab Thursday afternoon )ac FORT WORTH, (AP) — Texas A&M University is staging sepa rate talks with Dallas and Grand Prairie about its interest in using Naval Air Station Dallas for its ex tension programs. Sore feelings over the smaller city’s flirtation with the Mavericks has created a need for separate meetings, officials said. Two A&M deputy chancellors and two other system officials met with Grand Prairie and Dal las officials Tuesday. Grand Prairie City Manager Gary Gwyn Wednesday said A&M officials had spotted the tension. “They said something to the effect that they un derstood there was a rift between Dal las and Grand Prairie,” Gwyn said. Grand Prairie recently courted the Mavericks, whose team owners were looking for a site to build a new are na. Dallas won the arena battle. Grand Prairie and Dallas have an agreement to redevelop the NAS Dal las base together. The base, which straddles the boundary between the cities, was ordered closed in 1993, but the Navy is still there and sched uled to leave in September. Texas A&M could take over the majority of the base and move its engineering extension service, ex periment station and agricultural extension service to the base, or it could open a smaller, temporary training facility, A&M officials said. Dallas City Manger John Ware said the cities still have a relation ship, but when asked why Dallas had canceled the last three month ly meetings of a joint redevelop ment committee, Ware alluded to the arena battle. “We didn’t hear anything from them when they were trying to steal our teams, either,” Ware said. Senate Continued from Page 1 In other business, the Course Evaluation Tables Bill passed Wednesday. Craig Rotter, Student Services committee chair and an agricultur al education graduate student, said the Course Evaluation Bill will pro vide a forum for students to have access to information about profes- Holidays Continued from Page 1 “We decided to buy a tree in or der to encourage some of the other 36 agriculture organizations to do the same,” he said. Residence halls also are partic ipating in the holiday festivities. By Nov. 25, lights will be installed along the roofs of most halls and the Sys tems building. The Residence Hall Association (RHA) bought the lights, and the physical plant is installing them. Peter Schulte, vice president of sors during registration, “Our goal is to provide a fora® 1 students to find help in registrar and information about professor courses," Rotter said. "We areei about looking into other foruniss 1 as course evaluations on thevveit order to help the student body.’ The Professor Quality ance Bill, which would allowsi dents on-line access to a sor’s grade distribution, referred to committee. ST. LCl 1 lillips wl inis ind,-I lining bj gaud prl Phillips! tod ou I , Kafter ail in with Ai'- ih pro® iw ml io, skd'ta. administration for RHA sophomore meteorology said that after RHA was asl purchase a tree on New MainW in; the association decided to deco® 1 the residence halls also. “RHA is sponsoring a dornidj! as orating contest,” he said, there are enough participants^ want to invite families from Bryan-College Station area ant them tour through the halls.” All students and Bryan-ColleS Station residents are welcom® 1 ! 1 ! 8, attend a lighting festival at 7f Dec. 1 on the front lawn of Systems Building. Id him h(| artinglinl Phillips! er coni [good sll ring thj s hal lore yard) it only a: Vermeil I ive at a I dice. 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