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.
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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.
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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.
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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
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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.
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'Ilsterday, ending the painful, five-day vigil their
.Imilies endured during the search of the waters
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JFK Jr.’s body found
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[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.