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Honors Week April 8-13, 2002 Celebrate Honors at Texas A&M University! Schedule of Activities lechner Lecture Series: Craig Dupen: "The electoral College" 7:30 pm - Lechner Hall Seminar Room Open to the Public Rpril 1 2: Open House - 9:00-1 1:00 am -1 01 Acad. Drop by for donuts and coffee Register for o $200 scholarship! Honors Day - uieor on Honors Shirt \ Rudder Fountain from 12:00-1:00 pm Get a brain for Finals and hear some good music! Honors UUeek is sponsored by the University Honors Program Going Home for the Summer? Alvin Community College Summer Registration Dates: SUMMER / April 9—May 17 April 9—May 10, & May 28 Telephone On Campus SUMMER 2 July 8—On Campus Only Telephone Registration 281-756-3824 3—Week Mini Semester May 15-28 Register April 22—May 14 Class Schedule available online www.alvincollege.com or call 281-756-3531 THE BATTALION Summer & Fall 02 Stall Application If you can write, edit, design pages, draw, use a camera... 1 exas A&M's award-winning newspaper is looking for you. •gain valuable experience • earn extra cash • make friends in a professional newsroom environment Name: Phone number: Cellphone or pager: E-mail: Major: OPENINGS INCLUDE: Please check the position(s) for which you are interested. If you are interested in more than one position, number them in order of preference with “1 ” being your top choice. Classification: □ Summer □ Fall □ Both Credit hours you will take in the summer/fall: Expected graduation (semester): Managing Editor How many hours per week would you be available for work at The Battalion? ALL APPLICANTS: Please type your responses on a sepa rate piece of paper, and attach a resume and samples of your work (stories you have written for publications or classes, pages you have designed, photos taken, drawings made or other creative samples—just show us what you can do). Section Editors News* AggieLife* Opinion* Sci [Tech (fall only) _ Sports* Design Director _ Copy Chief Graphics* Photo* Radio Producer Webmaster* 2) Section Editor Applicants I) What are your goals for managing your staff? What do you believe is the role of the section for which you are applying? What changes would you make to improve The Battalion? Pay particular attention to the position for which you’re applying. *Assistant editor positions available (fall only) 3) Staff Applicants l) 2) 3) Why do you want to work at The Battalion, and what do you hope to accomplish? What experience do you have that relates to the position for which you are applying? (include classes, seminars, etc.) What changes do you feel would improve the quality of The Battalion? Give special attention to the section for which you’re applying. Staff __ News Reporter _ Sci (Tech Writer (fall only) Feature/Entertainment Writer Sports Writer Radio Reporter Opinion Columnist Page Designer Copy Editor Web Designer Photographer Graphic Artist Cartoonist DEADLINES: 4:30 p.m. Wednesday, April 17, for editor positions, and 4:30 p.m. Wednesday, April 24, for staff positions.Turn in applications at 014 (basement) Reed McDonald Bldg. Interviews will begin immediately after application deadlines. Extra applications available in the newsroom or online at http://www.thebatt.com 6B Thursday, April 11, 2002 SOI Bizarre stars foum WASHINGTON (AP) — Two bizarre objects found by an orbiting X-ray telescope may represent a new class of star and may contain a new form of matter, defying current theories of particle physics and astronomy. Observations of the objects, called RXJ1856 and 3C58, found they were too small and too cold to fit the pattern of neutron stars, which are col lapsed, very dense stars composed of neutrons, an extremely heavy, elemental particle. At a news conference Wednesday, astronomers announced that RXJ1856 has a temperature of about 1.2 million degrees, too cool for a neutron star, and a diameter of about 12 miles, too small to fit the standard model for neutron stars. This evidence “points to a star composed not of neutrons, but of quarks in a form known as strange quark matter,” said Jeremy Drake of the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics, the lead researcher for the RXJ1856 observations. Quarks are elemental particles that make up a neutron. The quarks in an ordinary neutron are of two types - up and down. Drake said that data from the X-ray telescope suggests that RXJ1856 is composed of up and down quarks, plus another particle called a strange quark. Strange quarks are much denser than up or down quarks. The group of quarks could have evolved from neutrons that were collapsed by the extreme density and mass of the star, Drake said. A team led by David Helfand of Columbia University observed 3C58. the neutron star rem nant of a famous supernova, or exploded star, and found that its temperature was less than 1.8 mil lion degrees, far below the predicted value for a neutron star. This cool temperature, said Helfand. violates the standard theory for neutron stars and raises fundamental questions about the matter in 3C58. “It appears that neutron stars aren’t pure neu trons after all new forms of matter are required,” said Helfand. Strange stars evidence of newi NASA’s Chandra X-ray Observatory has found two unusual neutron stars. One Is too small and the other too cold to tit the standard model for such stars. This raises the possibility that the newly discovered stars are composed not of neutrons, but of particles of the neutrons called quarks. Neutron stars are collapsed stars with an extraordinary density. They can have a diameter of 20 miles with a mass greater than our sun. Neutron star Newly discovered&i] SOURCE NASA Michael Turner, an astrophysicii! University of Chicago, said the two ok suggest the objects “may be new menitc Being acade stellar family tree." He said they appear to be less dt black holes or white dwarfs, two otln objects in the universe, but are dearly than neutron stars. “It is possible that all of the stars we: iron stars may be strange stars" such observed by Drake and Helfand, said Tu; said that the observations will have to finned by others. With the s AM undenii oint Aggies dmitted or' hange just t oman of sti iin the Uni' head to ren It is not co ions and sp 020. Whoe\ nderstandir mbrace the uide the sti as had far-i hat makes raditions wi ecome a tc amaraderie tudents are A&M need :o improve a Students si outlined in V NEWS IN BRIEF the Universi Harvard on down from emphasis on dents of this strong under Equally, the to achieve di There is mi Above all, he past preside inscribed by uncommon c achievement Grand Canyon flood SALT LAKE CITY (AP) - An artificial flood created six years ago failed to distribute sediment along Colorado River beaches in the Grand Canyon as intended, a group of researchers concluded. After opening Glen Canyon Dam floodgates and letting high water flow for two weeks in the spring of 1996, then-interior Secretary Bruce Babbatt declared the $1.5 million exper iment a success. The idea was to churn sand and silt from the bottom of the river channel and distribute it on banks, sandbars and side canyons to help fish in the river. However, scientists sai benefits of the artificial apparently were short-fe not illusory. ‘ ‘We're sort of back to> we were before the 961 Some measures tell us less sand than before, Jack Schmidt, a Utah University geographyprofe Place LUe Hear Vou! Yoq asfretl for it. You Vou asked the Crossing Place team to create apartments for students luith contemporary furnishings and a comfortable clubhouse where you’d hang out... We heard you! Then you said, match the prices of other student apartments... ftnd we said, you bet Zero deposit required! 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