8 - The MichigarrDaily - Friday, February 23, 1996 LOCAL/STATE Engineering students. . sample military technology By Allan izikson For the Daily A few lucky Engineering students got a chance to navigate through a dark Dow Auditorium last night, using the same night vision technology as the U.S. military. The Michigan Student Society for Pro- fessional Engineers and the Society for Women Engineers hosted "Engineering in the Military Environment," apresenta- tion designed to broaden the opportuni- ties for engineering students. "I think there are good opportunities for engineers in the military," said Harold Snead, the presentation's featured speaker. "It requires aperson who has an interest in defending the country." Snead, an engineer at the Naval Sur- face Warfare Center in Crane, Ind., dis- cussed the development of advanced Electro-Optic devices, as well as other ongoing projects at the center. The U.S. military uses the devices for night vision to aid naval and ground combat, but the Navy has also employed the devices to spot mines during the Gulf War. Snead followed with a demonstration of several such devices, like the night vision goggles that require only starlight to allow a soldier to see clearly in the night, and the thermal imager, which uses body heat to generate human and animal shapes in complete darkness. Students were able to test the equipment Snead brought in, look- It'S ing aroundthe dark au- ditorium with the for stua goggles and imager. "It's great to see for have a yourself how this in- teresting equipment eqUipfl worksandto learn what the military has to of- this. fer," said Andrea Ryan, an Engineering junior.E Tom Komjathy, president of MSSPE, said interacting with professionals is a great way to decide where one's interests lie, given the broad array of opportunities available to engineering students. "It's important for students to have access to equipment like this. It's some- thing that we never see in the classroom," said Engineering junior Heidi Best. "We don't get much exposure to real Y, 14 Et life applications of engineering," said Engineering sophomore Kim Woody. Woody, Best and Engineering junior Christy Cipponeri stressed the need f* women to get exposure to traditionally male-domi- nated' disci- rnportant plines like en- gineering. a ts to Best said it is difficult for Doss to women to get accepted in the lnt like industry., and ac hiev~i equal recog - Heidi Best tion will be a challenge. ngineering junior Cipponeri said she be- lieves the situation for women in the engineering profession is improving, but slowly. Snead said that in his area of mechani- cal engineering women are well accepted, though their numbers are small. "You ladies have a golden opportuniW (in engineering). I would like to see more of you in my area," he said. Sweet dreams Midterms have driven many students into libraries, coffee shops and computing centers. LSA first-year student Nitin Bhatia takes a nap in the Shapiro Undergraduate Library as he prepares for two exams next week. Pay phone rates eXpected to nse folowing Ameritech dcreases DETROIT (AP) - Now that Ameritech is raising the price of pay telephone calls, independent pay phone operators are expected to raise their prices by a dime. Ameritech, which operates 60,000 public telephones in Michigan - or 65 percent of them - announced last week that it will raise the cost of a local pay phone call to 35 cents from 25 cents. Most phones will be programmed for the new rate within a month. "The 25-cent rate basically wasn't cov- ering costs" for labor, equipment mainte- nance and vandalism repairs, said Ameritech spokesperson Jonathan James. Recently approved state and federal regulations prohibit phone companies from offering competitive services at be- low-cost rates. The change is good news for more than 100 small companies in Michigan that operate pay telephones. "As an (Ameritech) residential or business customer, your money was going to subsidize pay phones - and now it's not," said Bart Lewin, execu- tive director of the Michigan Pay Tele- phone Association in Lansing. "Independent operators don't have any other service to subsidize from, yet they couldn't charge more than Ameritech or no one would use them. This gives them flexibility to adjust prices ifthey want to," he told The Detroit News for an article published yesterday. For example, small pay-phone com- panies can now charge 35 cents without driving away customers, and reduce the sometimes exorbitant long-distance charges they have used to cover "loss leader" local calls. The legislation also requires long- distance providers like AT&T and Sprint to pay a fee when consumers use independent pay phones to dial their toll-free numbers. 'UJ' residence hail chef leads winning~ Hot Food Team By Maggie Weyhing Daily Staff Reporter When he is on thejob, University Assistant Chef of Dining Services Thomas Recinella must be prepared for anything. Handling emergency situations is a skill he and his Junior Hot Food Team have been practicing since October. Recinella's team includes five students from his advanced culinary techniques class at Washtenaw Community College. Under his instruction, the team recently won a second place silver medal at the State of Michigan Junior Hot Food Champi- onship, sponsored by the American Culinary Federation. Recinella and his team will now travel to Indianapolis in March to compete in the American Culinary Federation Central Region Conference Hot Food Competition. They will compete with teams from 10 to 12 other states, he said. "Our goal is to advance to the nationals," Recinella said. However, the challenge of the- competition is one that carries over to many situations that Recinella and other chefs face in University cafeterias. During the competition, the teams are given a "mystery box" of food, and using the contents of the box, each team has 30 minutes to plan a menu, three hours and 15 minutes to produce the menu, and 15 minutes to prepare 12 plated portions to serve. Recinella said that learning how to work under a time restraint as well as with unexpected ingredients is a neces- sary skill while working in dining halls. "The competition translates into real life situations in the cafeterias," Recinella said. "The University suddenly has food that they have excess of and we don't want to waste it or let it perish. In those instances, we have to incorporate that food into the menu somehow," Recinella said. At the end of the allotted time, the results are judged on technical skills, sanitation, taste, texture, nutritional balan* compatibility of ingredients and plate presentation. Recinella said the expectations of the competitionjudges are. much the same as the customers he serves every day. "Thejudges represent the customers in real life. Forexample, the students who we serve every day in the cafeterias are going to evaluate what they're being served with much the same criteria as the judges of the competition," Recinella said. Steve Meyers, executive chef of residence halls dining services, said the competition teaches essential skills. "Nothingin cafeteria situations istotally predictable,"Meyers said. "Sometimes more people come to a certaindining hall th we expect. It not only becomes a matter of putting somethW together more quickly, but in the best way possible." 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Sng Commencemet Student Speaker Call for Entries The Office of University Relations is making a Call for Entries for a Student Speaker at Spring Commencement Satiurday, May 4, 1996 10:00 a.m. Michigan Stadium The student speaker must be receiving a bachel6r's degree during Winter Term 1996 or Summer Term 1996 Submit - Curriculum Vitae (or resume) highlighting U-M scholarship and campus leadership - Typed draft of speech (no more than 5 minutes in length) - Audio cassette tape of yourself reading the speech Quesdons - fr-f- C., car Aarc r OOC -7AC) (NI&!5YEl _. i I ' men mverrisn