Lamar University Press (Beaumont, Tex.), Vol. 57, No. 27, Ed. 1 Wednesday, January 28, 1981 Page: 4 of 6
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UNIVERSITY PRESS January 28,1981.4
Regents approve possible solar energy research by MIT
By MARVIN MONTGOMERY
l of the UP staff_
The College of Engineering is preparing a
proposal for a research program on solar energy
photovoltaic systems.
The move was authorized by the Board of Regents
at its Thursday meeting.
The Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cam-
bridge, and the Jet Propulsion Laboratory,
~ Pasadena, Calif., are searching for a third site for
this type of research.
“They are looking for a warm, sunny, humid
area, “Lamar president Dr. C. Robert Kemble said,
“and we certainly qualify for that.”
MIT has established centers for this research at
New Mexico State University, Las Cruces, and at its
laboratories in Cambridge. The two organizations
have solicited proposals for the development of a
third center in the extreme southeast section of the
United States.
Gulf States Utilities Co. has expressed a strong in-
terest in the project, Kemble said. Fred Young,
dean of the College of Engineering and Dr. William
Wakeland, head of the Department of Electrical
Engineering, have visited the New Mexico state
center.
The Lamar proposal calls for the monitoring of
solar data collected from homes near the school.
The first step in the plan will use simulated residen-
ces to evaluate and test photovoltaic systems.
If the systems prove successful, they will further
be evaluated in occupied residences. The final
phase consists of evaluating the utility systems im-
pact on a large cluster of homes.
The duration of the first two phases is five years,
while the third phase is expected to take another
two to three years.
The selection of the solar energy research site will
be made in May, and is expected to be operational.
by December.
The regents agreed to reserve three to five acrei
of university property for the center and to help con
struct the facility. '
Wakeland said that the center should be con
structed across from Gladys City Museum of
University Drive.
“That site neatly fits across from energy’s past,’
Kemble said. "The history of energy and the futuri
of energy would sit side by side.’’
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Canada-bound
Kelli Barclay,
Beaumont
sophomore, takes
time out from one
of her classes at the
Bonnie Cokinos
School of Dance to
open Christmas
presents from her
pupils.
Barclay spends holiday
realizing dancing dream
By BECKY MOSS
of the UP staff
Kelli Barclay, Beaumont sophomore, was walking out
the front door to take her first final exam of the fall
semester when the phone rang and she was offered a con-
tract with an international Las Vegas-style dance com-
pany.
By Christmas Day, she was on her way to Montreal,
Canada, for three weeks of rehearsal and a six-month dan-
cing engagement at the Chateau Champlaign.
Barclay, whose most recent performance at Lamar was
in the ballet, “Carmina Burana,” has danced with the Jef-
ferson Theatre Jazz Ballet Company and with the Lamar
ballet, jazz and modern dance companies.
The Port Arthur native began her dancing studies with
the Florence Coleman School of Dance in Port Arthur.
“I’ve always wanted a career as a dancer,” she said.
The chance to dance with the international dance com-
pany was a surprise, she said.
“I didn’t even have to audition,’’ Barclay said, “I just
answered the phone.”
Ronnie Lewis, a Broadway choreographer who works
for Miller-Reich Productions, was on the other end of that
phone call.
Miller-Reich is an international production company
that stages Las Vegas-style reviews for six hotels in six
major cities. Some of the hotels are in Puerto Rico,
Miami, Montreal and Tahoe, Nev. Each has its own dance
review.
It was the lead dancer of the Puerto Rican company,
Jimmy Timpa, who showed Lewis pictures of Barclay
dancing with him when Timpa taught recently at Bonnie
Cokinos’ School of Dance.
Barclay has taught jazz ballet at the Cokinos School for
the past four years and was Timpa’s partner in a dance
production for the school.
Lewis contacted the Dallas Summer Musicals to see
some video tapes of Barclay where she had danced in
"Cabaret” at Dallas’ Fair Park in the summer of 1979, she
said.
Barclay’s looks, 5-feet 9 >/2 inches tall, blonde hair and
blue eyes, make her a prime candidate for a Las Vegas-
type review. But her height worked against her when she
auditioned for the Dallas Summer Musicals this past sum-
mer.
"The show was ‘Little Me’ and they only wanted girls
under 5-feet 4,” Barclay said.
It worked out, however. Representatives for Superstar
Drill Team Corp. were at that audition and asked her to
join their organization.
“I traveled all over the United States teaching in drill
team camps,” Barclay said. “It was a great experience.”
For her performance at Chateau Champlaign, Barclay
said she will be dancing in two shows a day and three on
Saturday. There are about 20 to 30 other Americans in the
production.
She plans to be back in Beaumont in time for the second
session of summer school.
House committee cuts American
Lancer
state employee pay hike Society
Rays prove impractical
United Press International
WASHINGTON — Despite frequent talk about the use of
laser and particle beams as weapons in space, a
Massachusetts Institute of Technology physicist says such
space-based death rays are beyond the realm of prac-
ticality for the foreseeable future.
“Even if eventually they could be developed, the cost of
emplacing, supplying and maintaining them would be
prohibitive,” said Kosta Tsipis in a report to the annual
meeting of the American Association for the Ad-
vancement of Science.
In addition, he said energy beams would be fatally
vulnerable during their initial stages in space. And even if
they were made operational, he said they probably could
be neutralized by a variety of countermeasures.
However, Tsipis said airborne lasers as anti-satellite
weapons do appear feasible within the next two decades.
Physicists have known for years that concentrated
columns of light or beams of atomic particles could carry
potentially destructive amounts of energy hundreds or
even thousands of miles away.
But unlike today's weapons which use chemical or
nuclear explosives, lasers or particle beams must
physically hit the target, requiring extremely accurate
aiming systems which themselves would pose formidable
developmental problems.
The problem with particle beams, Tsipis said, is that the
energy would disperse to such an extent that there would
not be enough to damage a distant target in space. It
would not be practical, he said, to produce enough energy
to deal with that problem.
“One can therefore safely conclude that particle beam
weapons are not practical for use from exoatmospheric
(space) platforms, even without considering the difficulty
of beam aiming and countermeasures that burdens a par-
ticle beam weapon,” he said.
Lasers, on the other hand, would not suffer from such
energy dispersion in space, Tsipis said.
But he said a spaceborne laser system capable of
delivering knockout pulses to a swarm of ICBMs would
require a high quality light-concentrating mirror perhaps
10 feet in diameter and several thousands of tons of
hydrogen and oxygen to generate the energy required.
Tsipis said there is little technical proof that such a
mirror could be built "within the visible technical
horizon” which he defined as stretching to the end of this
century.
In addition, he said an antimissile laser system in space
would have to be able to detect a thousand or so targets,
calculate their locations and direct the laser to fire
several pulses at each within a few hundred seconds.
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AUSTIN — The House Appropriations
Committee, in a move to appease Gov. Bill
Clements, has reduced the amount of the
emergency pay raise the Senate had
earlier voted to give the state’s employees.
The Senate, by a 25-2 vote Monday, ap-
proved a bill by Sen. Lloyd Doggett, D-
Austin, that would give the employees an
immediate 6.8 percent salary increase.
Every employee would get at least a
minimum $50 raise.
However, later in the day, the House
committee by a narrow 9-7 vote amended
Doggett’s bill to give the employees a 5.1
percent increase.
But Doggett, who spoke before the com-
mittee, said the figure could still be rever-
ted to 6.8 percent when the full House con-
siders the legislation at 2 p.m. Wednesday.
He said the close vote in the committee to
amend his bill indicated the House might
not readily take the committee’s recom-
mendation.
“I’m not convinced that with a close
(committee) vote like this that we can’t
still get the full vote in the House,” he said.
“I guess I’ll be spending time in the House
Wednesday afternoon.”
Gov. Bill Clements, who first recom-
mended a 3.4 percent emergency pay
raise, said he probably would sign a 5.1
percent pay increase. The governor must
sign the bill into law by Saturday in order
for the state employees to receive the raise
effective Feb. i.
“I suspect there will be further action in
the House,” Clements said. "I’m not going
to start out speculating on what I will or
will not veto. I suspect they’ll be a com-
promise between 3.4 and 6.8 percent.”
The appropriation committee chairman,
Rep. Bill Presnal, D-Bryan, said the
urgency that the employees get an im-
mediate raise was the reason he moved to
compromise Doggett’s figure.
“I think he’ll sign a 5.1 percent increase,
but I don’t know what he’ll do with 6.8 per-
cent,” Presnal said.
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