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I uesdav, V.Febn, cstlav. February 27, 2001 ts in Bri t 'all teai toHow NATION Page 3B THE BATTALION News in Brief os to Houston, I!" fc r e ry, boat collide, dicing 1, injuring 2 ARCO ISLAND, Fla. (AP) —A erry carrying 120 passengers joollided early Monday in heavy og with a smaller boat about 15 miles off Marco Island, killing one oerson and injuring two others, one seriously, authorities said. ' | he person killed and the two injured were on the smaller boat, said Jorge Aguilera, spokesman for Collier County Emergency Mldical Services. Their names werfe not immediately available. Ea rthquake rocks San Francisco Bay ■SAN JOSE, Calif. (AP) — An earthquake sent a jolt through the San Francisco Bay area Sunday afternoon but no dam age was immediately reported. ■The quake had a 4.4 magni- tule, the U.S. Geological Survey reported. It was centered 11 mles east of San Jose. ■Earthquakes with a magni- tule stronger than 4.0 can cai se moderate damage. irs ’St The series e:; Aggies sale V at BaylorB;' iman pitchei i( J 3 2/3 inii; id junior sho: isky added ggies won, 8c ketwo swing A&M men's:; J two victories this weeker road trip, defeated tlie: Gators, 5-2,: 'ille.Fla.AM' !2nd-ranked!i -2, on Suike Fla. rs improved nd gave the overtop 25:: ost two wet' r Shuon Ma:: singles, he trip, defe; vranked , 64, and Mi 64,6-2. will take a on this wee to the coiii the Kansas wee, Kan, Hoop dreams Jonathan Monroe participates in a basketball practice at the Lincoln Center Monday night. STUART VILLANUEVA/The Battalion The practices are led by Project Sunshine and allow children with disabilities to interact. E er-cap it a power consumption low In California despite overall usage ■.OS ANGELES (AP) — California’s power Tilis has led neighboring states to accuse the jolden State of hogging electricity. But the num- tell a different story. B/alifomia does use a vast amount of electricity, it consumes less on a per-capita basis than all | rtfifcr states except Rhode Island. ■fhc mild climate and less heavy industry than )thc -states are part of the reason. Experts say cred- ta so must go to stringent conservation measures, ■■■it's true we’re big, and it's true we didn’t build ' kit of power plants.... But we're not energy hogs g P JujU,” said Arthur Rosenfeld, who sits on the five- ^ ne iber California Energy Commission. “We're 7 p.lMhnost as good as Western. Europe, and Western 7 Europe is about twice as energy-efficient as the ' P'"jnited States.” r-os :30 p.i ■Among the 50 states, only Texas consumes more mergy — measured by its total use of electricity, Kalifor alifornia: big, not wasteful California has one of the lowest per capita consumptions of energy in the United States, ranking No. 47. bp 10 states btal annual energy consumption er capita, in millions of British Jiermal units (Btu). ational verage: 351 laska 1,144 ouisiana 940 yoming 892 exas 588 orth Dakota 555 entucky 463 ndiana 458 labama 457 est Virginia 446 aine 445 alifornia 240 lote: Includes coal, natural gas, letroleum and electricity. Electricity usage Annual per capita electricity consumption for selected states, in millions of Btu. National average: 40 Note: Figures are for 1997, the most recent data lOD US/ 1 call 764^ Bypass 6 <RCE: U.S. Energy Information Administration, 1997 State Energy Data Report. natural gas and oil — than California, the nation’s most populous state. However, California ranks 47th in per-capita energy use — well below No. 4 Texas, No. 20 Washington and No. 27 Oregon, according to the Energy Information Administration, which is part of the U.S. Energy Department. When looking specifically at per-capita elec tricity consumption, California ranks 49th, at 24.2 million BTUs, the agency said. Californians’ per- capita electricity use is only 60 percent of the na tional average. For air conditioning alone, a typical Califor nia household uses one-third the amount of elec tricity consumed by a household in Texas or, Florida, according to the U.S. Energy Depart ment’s 1997 Residential Energy Consumption Survey. California has “a different climate, so even if you do have warm summers, they’re not humid, so you don’t have the big, huge air conditioning load you see in Florida or Texas,” said Robert Latta, the survey’s manager at the Energy In formation Administration. California also uses electricity, as well as natural gas, oil and coal, more wisely than most states thanks to ag gressive conservation efforts started during the oil shocks of the early 1970s, federal and state data indicate. Key to those efforts are stringent standards for new homes and commer cial buildings that dictate such things as the types of windows and lighting and the amount of insulation. “If it is not the leading state, they are at least tied for it” in efficiency stan dards, said Ed Wisniewski, deputy di rector of the Boston-based Consortium for Energy Efficiency. “Historically, they have been very progressive, and many of the programs we advocate nationally were started in California.” California’s per-capita use is lower because many energy-intensive industries are located else where. Aluminum smelting and paper manufac turing, for example, are clustered in the Pacific Northwest. The industries that are located in California, are generally more efficient in their use of electricity than industries elsewhere, according to 1998 fig ures from the California Energy Commission, which shapes state energy policy. Companies use just 0.2 kilowatt-hours of elec tricity to produce every dollar’s worth of goods and services in California,’while businesses in neigh boring states use twice as much, according to com mission figures. “The concept that California is a big, wasteful state really isn’t true,” said Latta, of the Energy In formation Administration. There is still room for improvement in Califor nia, particularly when it comes to conservation. California ranks just 17th among all states in spending by utilities on energy-efficiency pro grams as part of their revenue. In 1998, California utilities reduced spending on energy-efficiency programs, though the current crisis has prompted the major utilities to reverse that, according to the American Council for an En ergy-Efficient Economy. Gov. Gray Davis recently released a $404 mil lion conservation program designed to control growth in the state’s demand for electricity. Maintaining energy efficiency and keeping de mand in check as the population grows will be among the toughest challenges in the years ahead. Energy use per capita is up 10 percent over the past two decades. Californians used about 7,000 kilowatt hours per year in 1980, compared with about 7,700 kilowatt hours last year, ac cording to scientists at Lawrence Berkeley Na tional Laboratory. ms ,FRE FOR lATES r ;t rates PROGRAM] FOCUS ECIALS! WILL YOU SURVIVE mail us at m.c .corn) HE INTERNSHIP JOB SEARCH? When it comes to internships, the competition is tough! That’s why you need more than just basic survival skills. 77^2® . -THURST' ’ERATED Come to the workshop on Internship Search Strategies and get an edge on the competition... =>. Search Tools => Resumes =5 Interviewing ...becauseyou’re playing to win. Start your search TODAY! Tuesday, February 27 ♦ 4:00 PM ♦ 502 Rudder Want to go to Israel for free? Texas A&M has received 20 spots for the spring round of HillePs Birthright Israel Trip. All bed, boarding and transportation costs are taken care of from the departure hub city (LA, NYC, Chicago) until your return two weeks later. We are tentatively scheduled to leave on June 7-14. Dates will be confirmed as soon as they are available. Register for the trip on line at: www.israeCZOOO.org/application.htm Registration closes March 6' h !l Additional information on the itinerary and FAQ is at: wvvvv.israel2000.org The tentative timetable for recruitment and registration is as follows: Completion of jnterviews: Friday, March 16 Notification of participants: Monday, March 19 Last day for roster: Monday, March 26 All Forms/deposits at the DC Hillel Tuesday, March 27 All dates are subject to change. Requirements: 1) Identify with the Jewish people 2) Never traveled to Israel in another Jewish affiliated college program 3) Get your own round-trip ticket to an assigned departure hub city 4) Age 18-26 years old For more information contact TAMU Hillel Foundation at: Hillel@startel.net For more infonnation, please contact: Department of Student Financial Aid Scholarship Office PO Box 30016 Room 220, The Pavilion College Station TX 77842 19791845-3982 Accountants... looking for the right kind of company? INTERVIEWS WILL BE CONDUCTED Then you should consider. FOR FULL TIME ACCOUNTING POSITIONS LOCATED IN SUGAR LAND, TEXAS ON: Date: Tuesday, March 6, 2001 Location: Kyle Field Bring a completed application and unofficial transcript to the interview • Must be able to work in the U.S. for an indefinite period of time. 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Come Find out on WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 28 (2/28) at 2:28pm in the Governance Room in Koldus, formerly known as Room 144, but now renamed, you guessed it, Room 228!! Student leaders and local celebrities will be chatting about their experiences in dealing with risky business. Contact Regina Rosell for further information at 845-0692 or regina02@tamu.edu ^vRiskManapent ^ ht Texas A&M University Department of Student Activities Division of Student Affairs Hey Current Students NEED M0NEY...CET A JOB!! • •• NKD A KUOUMIIP...CET TO A COMPUTR!!! The Academic Excellence/Academic Incentive Scholarship Applications are now available online!! http://faid.tamu.edu/ AEAIintro.cfm Deadline is March 1,2001 at 5:00 PM!