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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.
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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.
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