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105 YEARS AT TEXAS A&M UNIVERSITY THURSDAY July 22,1999 Volume 105 • Issue 174'6 Pages College Station, Texas aggielife • Stanley Kubrick’s final film, Eyes Wide Shut, shows the director s photographic talent. PAGE 3 today’s issue News 4 Battalion Radio Tune in to 90.9 KAMU-FM at 1:57 p.m. to hear how a dog cloning project at a Texas A&M laboratory is progressing. opinion • Drivers irresponsibility and immaturity contribute to the problem of road rage. SC to address odor cause hanges to sub-basement to eliminate air-flow problem BY RYAN WEST The Battalion Itructural changes will begin Ihe sub-basement of the MSC ijimedy a sewage odor leak into he . Wayne Stark Gallery caused lyp 25,000-gallon grease trap. During the past several weeks ley has been set aside and cf k orders have been signed to in these changes, everly Wagner, administra- iv4 secretary of the gallery, said mployees first reported the smell vnen the building was opened in .992. “People who visit the galleries complain it smells like sewage and ask why no one has done anything about it,” Wagner said. Bill Kibler, associate vice pres ident for student affairs, said there have been different people work ing on the odor problem for years. He said an engineering firm spe cializing in building air flow and pressure was recently hired to ex amine the area and give a series of recommendations. “Unfortunately, the recom mendations are very expensive,” he said. “Even just the structural changes will cost over $300,000. “[The smell makes] the quali ty of work-life an issue, not only that, but an art gallery is one of the worst places on campus for something like this to happen.” David Godbey, assistant direc tor of the physical plant for engi neering and design services, said the pressure in the sub-basement [the area in which the grease trap is located] is made up of a posi tive air pressure. The positive air pressure forces air out of the sub basement into other areas. This air is then emitted into the airway along the north side of the MSC. The gallery’s air vents pull in the fumes that make the air used in the gallery’s air-condi tioning system. “What we’re going to do is re verse the positive air pressure in the sub-basement [which forces the fumes out of the area] into negative air,” Godbey said. “We can then exhaust the noxious fumes into another area [away from the air vents of the Stark gallery].” Godbey stressed that although the noxious fumes are a nuisance, they are not a health hazard for those visiting or working in the building. BRADLEY ATCHISONAl m Bati Elizabeth Kennedy, a forestry science Ph. D candidate, views an exhibit i the J. Wayne Stark Gallery Wednesday. Officials say proposed structural changes to the MSC will eliminate an odor problem in the gallery. Tunnel vision in berg band Iding. Theb rate. c priorities ess will have pf a computet' epairthe pi# ed. uniting frivolo on punitivedt ce; narrowing: ass in a class- hat most for the share: pe. pre-limited legit blem,” ClintoI , no way reded revisions in at tors to thepossf ers, designed | jght fail ban. 1 becaitsf r 00 as CODY WAGES/Thi; Batialion Members of the Aloha Racing research team test their new boat design in Texas A&M’s low-speed wind tunnel Wednesday. The boat is being designed for entry in a nautical race in Sydney, Australia. Health Education expands services BY SUZANNE BRABECK The Battalion The office of Health Education Services is introducing two new pro grams this fall to help increase stu dents’ awareness of health issues. Health Education Services will launch the Aggie Health Ring Web site this fall, which will put all of the students services links such as Student Counseling Services, the Health Education Center, Gender Issues, Recreational Sports Depart ment and the Department of Mul ticultural Services on one site to make these sites more accessible to students. Health Education Services will also begin to place hang tags in the showers of every residence hall bathroom to educate women about breast cancer and men about testic ular cancer. Health Education Services, locat ed in the basement of A.P. Beutel Health Center, is a service that gives students an avenue to learn more about personal health. Margaret Griffith, a health edu cation coordinator for the Health Center and a sexual health special ist, said the location of the center both helps and hinders the pro gram. “Since it is kind of secluded many people don’t know about it,” she said. “But on the other hand it makes students feel like they have more privacy. ” Health Education Services offers the following to help students: •Aggie Health Ring Website (beginning this fall) •Advice for academic papers on health-related topics • Information on anonymous HIV testing • Available to speak with parents if they have questions or concerns •A policy of keeping complete confidentiality JP BEATO/Thk Battai ion Topics available for information range from smoking, sex, nutrition, time and stress management and anonymous HIV testing. The center even offers advice for academic pa pers on health related topics. “The main way that we reach out to A&M is through flyers, banners and by hosting programs for resi dence halls and organizations,” Grif fith said. see Health on Page 2. avy divers ind bodies crash site edition lead-: a statement : tl AQUINNAH, Mass. (AP) — Navy divers found l Channel, ^jle bodies of John F. Kennedy Jr., his wife and sis- rch. ''•■wy-in-law ’ n the wreckage of Kennedy’s plane 'Ilsterday, ending the painful, five-day vigil their .Imilies endured during the search of the waters •keyouwotf; Martha > s vineyard. e other tea J b oc ii es were brought to shore yesterday n answerer* | lt anc j taken to the medical examiner’s office for jons during Topsies. A family source said a burial at sea for \narlam capsu hy of the 3# issom’s l5t| aboard LM p him the $ ace lieved that pfthe watei anxious to $'■ USS Grasp *• The wreckage will be deposited on the USS Grasp after being raised from the ocean floor by the :t ship's steel cables The ship can haul up to 150 tons West ^ Tisbury^ ^ Mendmsha ?qdu\nah ^bhilmark 4 Airport •oak 1 Blufls Ac’vl EdQiartiswn Browsing Library offers study option AtUmric Ocean JFK Jr.’s body found Source: U S. Navy ried live on I K Jr. was likely, and broadcast reports said the [rnal televik j lac j g ran ted permission for such a ceremony. 1 The bodies were found 116 feet below the sur- a daylong 1 -' (| ce a ft er ships from the Navy, Coast Guard and /National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administra- tibilliondoli- t j on S p ent t i-, e night scouring a site 7 1/2 miles e moon, isputhwest of Martha’s Vineyard, m alsoinclu S ^ter a search that had the nation transfixed •dais to Wf|nce Saturday, the plane’s body, or fuselage, was te Housevis») 0 tt e d by underwater cameras at 11:30 p.m. Tuesday. The bodies of all three victims were found in the fuselage. Coast Guard Rear Adm. Richard M. Larrabee said. A large section of the fuselage that included the instrument panel was recovered. The effort to bring more of the wreckage to the surface will continue today. To keep TV cameras away, officials banned flights within five miles of the recovery effort, which was led by the USS Grasp, a Navy salvage ship. JFK Jr.’s uncle Sen. Edward M. Kennedy and his sons, Patrick and Edward Jr., were aboard the Grasp while the bodies were being recovered and accompanied the remains to shore. Larrabee said the bodies were brought to the surface “in a way that respected the situation they were in. It was something we were very sensitive to.” BY STUART HUTSON The Battalion Students seeking a study environ ment that is not as structured as a typical library on campus should look no further than the MSC Brows ing Library, located on the second floor of the MSC. Girish Murthy, a graduate student and manager of the Browsing Li brary, said that although the atten dance at the Browsing Library this summer has dropped to about half of what is common during the regular school year, he said he has no plans to make an attempt to increase at tendance. “We like having a relatively small group who have come here who have found out about it on their own or have heard about it by word-of- mouth,” he said. “It helps keep a family living room kind of atmos phere that a lot of students enjoy.” Murthy said the casual atmos phere makes the Browsing Library special. Students are allowed to eat while they study or read a newspa- JP BEATO/Thk Batialion Nicole Hurst, a junior biomedical science major, takes time out from studying Wednesday to flip through some magazines at the MSC Browsing Library. per or magazine from the library’s selection of more than 100 periodi cals. A student may select to listen to one of 14 different types of music broadcast via cable radio or a compact disc from the library’s selection of 500 compact discs by means of a headphone con nection in each of the 24 study carrels. Luke J. Altendorf, associate direc tor of the MSC, said the library or ders about 30 new compact discs two or three times every year, based on the popularity of the discs. see Library on Page 2.