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The Red and BlacK • Tuesday, January 23, 1990 • 3
University computer aids science;
Video screen serves as laboratory
By QAYL BARRETT
Staff Writer
The University's computer re
search lab does more than just
compile reports and figures. With
access to a newly acquired
campus network, scientists can
actually perform various experi
ments on a video screen.
Genetics Director Sidney
Kushner said the system, known
as the Biological Sequence/Struc
ture Computational Facility
(BS/SCF), has more than 250 re
search scientists working with it
in various capacities. It’s been in
full operation for a year.
Genetics Professor Jonathon
Arnold said computers haven’t
taken over the role of test tubes
and forceps but they have proved
vital to modern research.
Kushner said AIDS research,
environmental preservation and
the origin of man are a few of the
issues University scientists are
exploring.
At the onset of the computer
installation, the National Science
Foundation awarded the pro
gram $190,000 for its effort to
At the onset of the
computer Installation,
the National Science
Foundation awarded
the program
$190,000 for its effort
to find a vaccine for
AIDS.
find a vaccine for AIDS, he said.
The University supplemented
these funds with an additional
$140,000 necessary to complete
the computer installment,
Kushner said.
‘This program gives experts a
chance to merge ideas and the
ories,” he said. "Mathematicians,
statisticians, computer scien
tists, chemists and biologists are
all working together on this.”
With the ability to create and
alter various computer models,
these researchers can observe
how complicated structures react
and evolve.
Virus models and simple DNA,
nucleic acids in cells which deter
mine inherited traits, allow sci
entists to observe the activities
and characteristics of the AIDS
virus.
Models of viruses and mito
chondria DNA — energy builders
in cells — are also useful in other
areas of study. Isolated from out
side change, the mitochondria
DNA help researchers to pinpoint
the dangers of environmental
change.
Mitochondria DNA also serve
as “DNA surnames” that give sci
entists a better idea of how orga
nisms evolve. These models,
along with outside data and for
mulations, may one day answer
the universal question: Who are
we and where are we from?
All of these projects may one
day infiltrate into the classroom,
Arnold said.
“And with science growing so
fast, there’s an increasing need to
close the gap between what the
scientists know and what the
people know,” he said.
Knapp hosts College Bowl
By JOEL GROOVER
Staff Writer
It’s the final round and the clock
is ticking.
Three minutes to go.
The host, reading from an index
card, fires off a question:
"Who was the father of Mexican
independence?”
A buzzer sounds.
“Hidalgo!" someone shouts.
"Correct."
The young hostess records the
score. T*he game is close.
Next question...
No, this is not “Jeopardy” and
it’s not "Tic Tac Dough.”
This is the final match of the
College Bowl tournament, which
took place Friday night, featuring
your host, University President
Charles Knapp.
The tournament started
Wednesday with 19 volunteer
teams. By Friday, all but two had
been weeded out.
In College Bowl, students are
quizzed on a broad range of topics,
including history, current events,
literature, sports, science and poli
tics.
Depending on the situation,
each question is worth either 10,
20 or 30 points.
Similar to “Jeopardy,” contes
tants hit buzzers to answer ques
tions. Each team has four
members.
In the final game, which lasted
14 minutes, the two sides were:
• The white team: David Kleber,
a senior criminal justice major;
Tommy Jordan, a junior religion
mqjor; Jim Grenada, a junior nis-
tory major and April Nixon, a se
nior English major.
• The red team: Mark Sheftal
and Jonathan Tully, both senior
journalism majors; John Piedra-
hita, a junior economics major and
Robert Pellock, a sophomore chem
istry major.
After coming from behind in the
second half, the white team won by
a score of 205 to 175.
Each member of the team won a
college bowl t-shirt and the right to
compete in the regional College
Bowl tournament, which takes
place in March.
Kleber said the members of his
team got together a few times a
week to practice. He Baid all team
member8played similar games in
high school.
Jim Crouch, assistant director of
Student Activities, said College
Bowl started in the 1950s as a tele
vision show.
This year’s tournament was the
first at the University since 1983.
Schools all over the
country use the
College Bowl format to
compete against each
other under a regular
system.
Pilots cleared to land
The Associated Press
ATLANTA — The pilot of an
Eastern Airlines jet that crashed
into a smaller plane didn’t see it
ahead on the runway until the last
minute because he had been
watching another jetliner which
landed in front of them, federal in
vestigators said Friday.
A Continental Airlines jet had
been cleared to land on the same
runway ahead of the twin-engine
Beechcraft Air King, which was
struck from behind by the Eastern
Boeing 727-200, said Robert Ma
cintosh, an investigator with the
National Transportation Safety
Board.
The accident at Hartsfield At
lanta International Airport late
Thursday killed the pilot of the
smaller plane and injured the co
pilot.
Just before the Eastern jet
overran the Beechcraft plane at
about 7:10 p.m., the air traffic con
troller told the Continental Dilot to
stop between runways after ne had
cleared the airport’s northernmost
runway, Macintosh said at a news
conference.
All three planes had been
cleared to land on the runway, and
all three pilots were tuned into the
same radio frequency with the con
troller, he said.
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competition.
Schools all over the country use
the College Bowl format — which
has a common bank of questions —
to compete against each other
under a regular system, he said.
Crouch said he decided to have
College Bowl again this year, but
he wasn’t sure whether students
would be interested.
He said he was surprised when
19 teams signed up to compete,
much more than he expected.
Because of the positive response,
he said he plans to have a College
Bowl tournament every year.
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