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The Battalion jj* . : ^ ; firr* r>^/% Wednesday • February What's Up Wednesday Undergraduate Business Consulting Association: Arthur An dersen’s Business consulting group will speak on how to ask ef fective questions. Call J.T. at 823-3007 for details. ATM Womens Rugby: Come join! No experience needed. Practices are from 4 p.m. to 6 p.m. at the pitch on the corner of Texas Ave. and University Dr. Call Nikki at 6940084 for information. ATM Roadrunners: We will run 3 to 4 miles at 5:30 p.m. in front of G. Rollie White. All students and skill levels are welcomed. Call Steve at 847-7905 for details. 1 Agnostic & Atheist Student Group: General discussion on material ism will be held from 8 p.m. to 10 p.m. in 128D Zachry. Call Jason at 731-1126 for details. Phi Eta Sigma National Honor Society: A general meeting will be held at 7 p.m. at 410 Rudder. Call Amanda Smith at 847-3569 for details. Texas A&M Racquetball Club: A general meeting will be held at 7:30 p.m. next to Court #1 in the Recreation Center. Call Michelle at 694-2253 for details. Biomedical Science Association-Vet Med Branch: Dr. Blue McLendon will be speaking about wildlife and exotic animals at 7 p.m. in Koldus 110. Call Lindsay at 695-1759. Life Savers Bible Study: Join us for worship, praise, and stimu lating Bible study from 6 p.m. to 8 p.m. at the All Faiths Chapel. Call Donna at 260-9190. Career Center: Placement orientation for graduates will be held at 6 p.m. in 225 MSC. Career Center: Coop orientation will be held at 2:30 p.m. in 502 Rudder. Career Center: Placement orientation will be held at 10 a.m. in 225 MSC. Career Center: Company research seminar will be held at 5 p.m. in 209 Koldus. Career Center: Internship placement orientation will be held at 2 p.m. in 225 MSC. Thursday Delta Sigma Pi: A rush social will be held for all business and eco nomics majors at Fuddrucker’s at 7 p.m. Graduate Fellowship of Intervarsity Christian Fellowship (IVCF): Bible study for graduate and on-traditional students, followed by fellowship will be held at 7:30 p.m. See our web site for location and map at http://stat.tamu.edu~inlow/ivcf.html. Call Mark or Jennifer at 764-1552. Resurrection Week: There will be a general meeting held in Rud der 410 at 7 p.m. Native American Student Association: A meeting and discus sion for pow-wow will be held at 7 p.m. in MSC 146. Call Sandra at 862-2000 for details. ATM Womens Rugby: Come join! No experience needed. Prac tices are from 4 p.m. to 6 p.m. at the pitch on the corner of Texas Ave. and University Dr. Call Nikki at 694-0084 for information. Association on Baptist Students: A meeting will be held at 7:30 p.m. at 410 College Main. Call Bobby at 846-3223 for details. ATM Roadrunners: We will run 3 to 4 miles at 5:30 p.m. in front of G. Rollie White. All students and skill levels are welcomed. Call Steve at 847-7905 for details. UT student plays part on Mars Pathfinder team AUSTIN (AP) — Modifying radio-con trolled cars to make them faster was Uni versity of Texas engineering student Jeff Gensler’s childhood preoccupation. Lastyear, it paid off. Gensler, a junior me chanical engineering honor student from Irving, helped space engineers guide the re motely controlled Sojourner rover as it ex plored a patch of Mars. Gensler is proof that attending a top en gineering school such as UT br ings oppor tunities other undergraduates might miss. He is part of a cooperative arrangement be tween UT and the National Aeronautics and Space Administration that helps selected engineering students get a head start on their careers. “Our recruiters skim the cream of the stu dents,” said Donald Bidder, a mechanical en gineer who is supervising Gensler at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, Calif. “I want a dedicated, on-the-ff inge-nerd of an engineer who eats up the problems.” Months before the Pathfinder space craft arrived on Mars on July 4, 1997, Gensler helped space engineers test a twin of Sojourner on the rocky terrain of Amboy Crater, a dead volcano in the Cal ifornia desert. So when Pathfinder bounded onto the rocky surface of the Red Planet in a cocoon of protective airbags and released Sojourn er, California engineers controlling it by ra dio were ready. “Part of my job was picking out places to experiment with it,” Gensler said. “We’d de cide on this spot or another. So, indirectly, I had something to do with where it went, which was pretty neat.” Sojourner performed soil and rock chemistry experiments and radioed the re T suits to the nearby lander for relay to Earth. When the main batteries powering Pathfinder—the first of NASA’s new breed of “faster, better and cheaper” space probes — finally died Sept. 27, Gensler was pleased to see that Sojourner, at least, still was working. Space agency engineers determined that the rover named for Sojourner Truth, a 19th- century African-American who fought to abolish slavery, probably still was circling the lander, attempting to communicate with it. Pathfinder operated on the Martian sur face nearly three times its design life of 30 days, and Sojourner ran 12 times its design life of seven days. From the outside looking in ... > JAKE SCHRICKUV Eric Friesen, a freshman computer engineering major, checks his mail in theMSWi Pre Law Society do you want information on Baylor Law School?? 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