The Register, 1988-09-09

              students living in basement temporarily officals say according to ruffin she sent in her application and a&t sent freshman biology major tonya ruffin is native of hamp ton va and a resident of the learning center in the morrison hall basement the girl that was moved in first will be moved out first chavis said when the registration process is completed the students will be moved to permanent rooms says kenneth chavis jr director of housing and residence life although some female students are presently living in the kitchen and learning center areas located in the basement of morrison residence hall of ficials say the arrangement is on ly temporary shermonica scott staff writer cont on p 11 it costs me 3517.50 a semester and i am living in a basement with six other girls some inconveniences of the living arrangement according to ruffin are girls studying when others are trying to sleep and having different class schedules i accepted the arrangement because i'm a freshman from hampton and i can't afford to live off the yard my first year besides i've been told you miss a lot of activities living off the yard ruff in said girls her room deposit back and said she needed to look for housing off campus however when she arrived she was told about living in the basement with seven other residents of the learning center located in the basement of morrison hall relax on their beds a&t to help send manned vehicles to mars dr juri filatovs robert sadler dr lonnie sharpe jr and dr raphael tsu the university of cincinnati health monitoring technology center for space propulsion systems the university of arizona center for the utilization of local planetary resources the centers selected national ly for the project are cont on p 11 struction the university of idaho very large scale integrated hard ware acceleration center for space research the university of colorado boulder center for space con other a&t engineering pro fessors to be involved in the pro ject will be dr william craft awa called the project fan tastic one of our thrusts will be how we can send manned or unmanned space vehicles to mars and beyond he said at a&t we will be looking at the types of materials that would be suitable to design the space vehicles on a mission to mars awa will serve as associate director of the combined pro ject ducted primarily in the develop ment analysis and fabrication of elevated temperature com posite materials and in their formation into complex shapes dr edward b fort chancellor said the new project is a tremendous opportunity for the research centers support nasa's goal to broaden the na tion's engineering capability to meet the critical needs of the civilian space program five-year period and a&t could receive up to 2,772,000 of that amount the two universities will share costs of an additional 2.8 million for equipment pur chases and facility renovations work at the center will begin in june nasa has awarded 500,000 for the first four mon ths of the five to 10-year pro gram a&t will receive 166,666 of that amount the mars mission research center proposal calls for 8.4 million in nasa funding over a a&t and n.c state will comprise one of nine university space engineering research centers selected nationally by the nationally aeronautics and space administration a&t has been selected for a cooperative 8.4 million pro gram with north carolina state university to conduct long'term research and to develop technologies to send manned vehicles to mars and beyond if man ever reaches the moon work of a&t scientists will have played a major role in that ac complishment fort said a&t's portion of the project will be coordinated by dr vishnu s awa a professor of mechanical engineering he said a&t's research will be con the university this university's involvement with north carolina state in the mars mission research center represents extraordinary ac complishment for a&t said fort not only will it include the substantial involvement of our scientific faculty in signifi cant research and associated with this federal priority but it will also provide our students with significant opportunities to be involved in world class nasa-related research n ims mmw aiillfil the light of the university volume lx number 2 north carolina agricultural and technical state university greensboro friday september 9 1988