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. Til
aPanthl
end a se\|
Team sor
alcohol
'nneil reful
Just befol
life end Lesl
imtodel
'me the rig
“We’re a|
O’Nel
,0 tings aren’t
til ption to tal|
A lot of j
fe journeyl
OPEN TO ALL MAJORS
Greece/Turkey Study Abroad Summer Term 1 1998
Follow Ulysses, St.
Peter and Alexander
the Great on an
odyssey through
Greece, the Aegean
Sea, and the sites of
Turkey. Visit famous
sites of preclassical,
Hellenic, early
Christian and Islamic
civilizations. We leave
from Houston May 20,
1998.
Earn 6 credit hours!
Courses will be
offered in The Arts
and Civilization and
Design
Communication.
All seniors
Class of ’98 pictures
are being made for the
1998
at A R Photography
(this semester)
For more information contact:
Dr. Charles White, 425 ELAC, 845-7859.
or visit our web site at:
http://www.archone.tamu.edu/neweb/resources/greece.html
I4II) Ttui Avw
tan Jason'i Mi
and bd my
at their new
location on
Texas Ave, to W
your free pictw’ 6
made today!
Hie
^Kansas State!
%homa@l
Oklahoma s|
^Ohio St. <
^Florida St i
^Wisconsin!
f7 UCU (-9
}1 lV\tehst@|
Alabama @#l|
^wboys @I
'kings® jed
)ol phins @ P|
Week
Emulative
^OTEirhl