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Hawking
Continued from page 1
“The example that is usually
used is if there are two types of
people in the world, those that
shave themselves and those
that are shaved by a barber,
which group does the barber
fall into,” Pope said.
Hawking is the greatest
physicist since Albert Einstein,
said Dr. Edward Fry, head of
the A&M physics department.
Hawking gained notoriety in
the 1970s and 1980s for his
theories concerning black
holes, and is the holder of the
prestigious Lucasian
Professorship at Cambridge
University.
The Mitchell Institute is
named after Cynthia W. and
George P. Mitchell, Class of
1940, who gave $2.5 million to
fund the institute and the
Stephen Hawking Chair in
Fundamental Physics, present
ly being held by Pope.
Unlike Hawking's speech,
the topic of the institute will
focus mostly on holography,
the theoretical field relating
string-theory, the use of inter
actions of one-dimensional
strings to explain quantum
mechanics, to Einstein’s theory
of gravity. Pope said.
Along with Hawking, nine
other visiting professors from
universities such as Harvard
and the Massachusetts Institute
of Technology will also be a
part of the institute. Pope said
that the presence of the visiting
Dairy
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the newsletter reported.
Dairy Science Club president Cody
Martindale said donations to the Dairy Center
have not been encouraged by the Animal
Science Center.
“There have been people who wanted to
donate but didn’t because funds aren’t going
directly to the Dairy Center,” said Martindale, a
sophomore agricultural development major.
“They go to a general animal science center fund
and are distributed to other programs instead.”
Twenty-five employees, many of whom are
students, will lose their jobs when the Dairy
Center closes at the end of this fiscal year in
August.
Martindale said Dairy Center employees will
meet within the next week to discuss the future
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professors puts the institute on
par with Ivy League Programs.
“This Institute will be the
place in the southern United
States for string-theory and
other research." Pope said.
Fry has said that the insti
tute will not be developing new
technology, hut instead will
bring more research grants to
the University.
Tickets are still available for
Hawking’s speech at the
Rudder Box Office for $3 for
students and children and $5
for the general public.
The speech will be proceed
ed by an exhibition of hands-on
science displays representing
work from various departments
at A&M.The exhibit will run
from 10 a.m. to 3:45 p.m. in
the Memorial Student Center.
of A&M’s Dairy Center with major corporations
in the dairy industry.
Dairy Center employees will have a table at
the Memorial Student Center the remainder of
this week, where students are being asked to
sign a petition to keep the dairy open.
“We encourage people to come out and sup
port the dairy,” Martindale said. “We need
10,000 signatures to submit to the Texas state
legislature.”
Cordell said last week that employees of the
Dairy plan to take a stand to keep the Dairy
open.
“We’re not going down without a fight,”
Cordell said. “We are more than willing to fight
for what we love.”
Martindale said he was optimistic about the
employees’ efforts to save the dairy.
“The ball is starting to roll,” he said, “and it’s
looking pretty good.”
THE BATTALION
NEWS IN BRIEF
After-party arrests
include 4 robbers
Following the Creel
Olympiad step show after-parly
Saturday, four Dallas-area men
were arrested for aggravated
robbery; police say they stole
up to $1,115.
University Police Department
Director Bob Wiatt said the four
men were taken into custodyfor
robbery and marijuana posses
sion charges.
Court documents said the four
men approached two men
the Reed parking lot and asl
them if they had change fori
$100 bill.
The men said they did not have
change, which prompted one ol
the assailants to point a handgun
at them and demand money.
UPD said the two men gave
the suspects between $890
and $1,115.
Wiatt said a tip led police to
the Ramada Inn on Texas
Avenue, where the two men
identified the four men who had
robbed them.
College Station police arrested
four men early Sunday morning
when the after-party, sponsored
by the Kappa Alpha Psi fraterni
ty, grew out of control making
the robbery one of several inci
dents that night.
Seven gunshots were fired in
the air behind Reed Arena and
19 vehicles were burglarized
behind G. Rollie White Coliseum.
In addition, several fights broke
out and there were reports of
drug and alcohol use, Wiatt said,
Weather
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Landscape management
sprinkled dry sand in high traffic
areas on campus Tuesday so stu
dents, faculty and staff would
not slip on any ice that formed in
puddles around campus.
A spokesman for the Texas
Department of Transportation
said students should be careful
when traveling this week,
“All the roads around A&M
are open, but the bridges and
overpasses have been sani/ftf
he said. “Students should be
careful and take a little extra
time driving home.”
Texas State Highways 6,21
and 47, as well as Fami-to-
Market roads 60 and 1687
reported closures due to icy con
ditions late Tuesday night.
The high for Tuesday, 31
degrees, was the lowest this year
since the Jan. 12 high of 39
degrees, Herzog said.
The University of Texas and
Baylor University canceled
classes Tuesday due to severe
weather conditions, according!!)
their Web sites.
According to The Associated
Press, sleet fell in Austin late
Monday and left 11,000 people
without power because of wind
and ice. The outages started at
5:30 p.m. and all service was
restored by midnight Monday.
Dallas-Fort Wortli
International Airport had
numerous cancelations, with
American Airlines canceling
about half of their departures.
More flight cancellations and
delays were expected.
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