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nrrrTT^jrTFTRTT^ai NEW Motorola <£ Jft. QC BRAVO PLUS MBl “O $29 95 * HHgl airtime * Activation and Airtime Purchase Required ★ EUROPASS *★ At tiv.ite Your Motorola Students! Now you can travel in style! 50% Discount For 2nd Person in Party of Two Traveling in 1st Class We Also Sell *Britrail ♦Student Tickets to Europe *Travelers Checks ^International Rail Passes It happens when you advertise in The Battalion Call 845-2696 EXECUTIVE TRAVEL 696-1748 1Z3 Walton at Texas Ave. S., Eastgate C LASS OF 1997 E-WALK SHIRTS Junior E-Walk Sweatshirts and T-shirts will be sold: Tuesday - Thursday, April 2-4 10:00 a.m. - 2:00 p.m. in the MSC Hallway. First Come, First Serve, While Supplies Last! A+ TUTORING 725-B University Drive 260-2660 SCIENCE AND ENGINEERING TUTOR - MR. BILL MON Apr 1 TUES Apr 2 WED Apr 3 CHEM 102 3 - 5 PM CH 20 CH 21A CH 21 B CHEM 101 5 - 7 PM CH 9, 10 CH 11 CH 12 RHYS 201 7 - 9 PM CH 15, 16 CH 17, 18 CH 19 RHYS 218 9 - 12 PM CH 9, 10 CH 11, 12 CH 13, PRAC TEST BUSINESS TUTOR - RON MON Apr 1 TUBS Apr 2 WED Apr 3 ACCT 229 6 - 9 PM PART 1 PART 2 PART 3 FINC 341 9 - 12 PM PART 1 PART 2 PART 3 FINC 341 - WILL ALSO BE HELD APR 7 - 9 FROM 9 - 12 PM ACCT 230 - WILL BE HELD APR 8-11 FROM 7 - 9 PM TICKETS GO ON SALE SUNDAY, MAR 30 FROM 4 - 6 PM Page 2 • The Battalion Monday • April 1,1 news BRIEFS Local sorority supports breast cancer awareness Withdrawal and Q- drop deadline today Today is the deadline for Texas A&M students to Q-drop courses or withdraw from the University for academic reasons. Depending on students' majors, they can go to the dean of their college or to their academic advis ers to fill out Q-drop forms or re quest permission to withdraw. As undergraduates, students are allowed three Q-drops, which appear as a grade of Q on official transcripts. In a policy change being imple mented this semester, course grades at the time of withdrawal will no longer be figured into a student's grade-point ratio. /.eta Tau Alpha will be distributing information today Mt By Marissa Alanis The Battalion Pavilion food service hours extended The Texas A&M Pavilion snack bar and grill, as of today, has ex tended its hours of operation. The snack bar will be open Monday through Thursday until midnight, with grill service until 11 p.m. It be open Fridays until 9 p.m.. with grill service until 2:30 p.m. Uniformed security officers from the University Police Depart ment will patrol the area during late-night shifts. Extension of Pavilion food ser vice hours was a collaborative ef fort of the Pavilion staff, the De partment of Food Services, the University Police Department and the Office of the Vice President for Administration. America supports U.N. search of Bosnia TUZLA, Bosnia-Herzegovina (AP) — For the first time, U.S. troops this week will provide secu rity and other limited support for U.N. war crimes investigators, the commander of the NATO-led peace force in Bosnia said Sunday. Adm. Leighton Smith told re porters he did not expect any major confrontations when investigators from the U.N. War Crimes Tribunal search for mass graves and other evidence of atrocities near Sre brenica, in eastern Bosnia. The U.N. search, which is ex pected to start Tuesday, will be in Serb territory at sites of alleged massacres of thousands of Bosnian Muslims last summer. In 1996, an estimated 184,300 women in the United States will be diagnosed with breast cancer, and more than 44,000 women nationwide will lose their lives to the disease. Today, at the start of Breast Cancer Awareness Month, the Texas A&M chapter of Zeta Tau Alpha is stationed at the MSC distributing pink ribbons and breast self-examination shower cards with the message “Don’t be a Fool, Do Breast Self-Examinations.” In support of its national phil anthropy, the Susan G. Komen Breast Cancer Foundation, every ZTA chapter in the United States and in Canada will be dis tributing the waterproof cards in places such as grocery stores and fitness centers. Laura Waldman, ZTA presi dent and junior management major, said early detection of breast cancer is the best way to prevent serious medical prob lems or even death. Margaret Holleman, ZTA ser vice chair and sophomore busi ness major, said people should conduct breast self-examina tions, which can be done in as little time as two seconds, every two to three months. The procedure consists of ap plying various degrees of pres sure around the breasts and nip ples while lying down or standing before a mirror or in the shower. Stephanie Burns, ZTA stan dards committee chair and senior speech communication major, said she thinks many women per form the procedure once or twice because they are curious, but that most women are not yet commit ted to routine self-examination. Breast cancer affects mostly women, but an estimated 260 men will die of the disease each year. Waldman said men are less concerned with getting breast cancer because statistics show it is predominantly a female pri lem and because programs art not targeted toward men. “Most guys don’t think it will happen to them, and the can are targeted for girls,” Hollema? said. “But I definitely think mea should be aware.” Burns said that from her perience working for breast ci cer awareness, she has seen pie react in two different ways the disease. “Girls think that it eithi won’t happen to them or they’re too young to think it,” she said. “The people th has affected don’t really open to talk about it very muci because it’s painful.” Holleman said the commuim has been enthusiastic towari ZTA’s effort, and men whosi wives have died from breast cer have approached sororiti members to express their support Jo. r>j i. Universal university uses uniquenesi Soldiers across the globe are able to earn college credit while serving WASHINGTON (AP) — Sgt. Metheus Miller has taken English in South Korea, government in Germany and now corporate theory in Croatia — a student-soldier who keeps the peace by day and studies by night. He’s in the Army now, but soldiers like Miller, serving around the globe and in the war-ravaged former Yugoslavia, are earning college credits in makeshift University of Maryland University College classrooms. “When we first started here we didn’t really have chairs or tables or even a chalkboard,” Miller said in a telephone interview from Zagreb, Croati a’s capital. “But we managed to scrounge them up. ... We make do.” The fatigue-clad students are taught by a rare breed of professor, known as gypsy schol ars, that has been holding forth amid rubble and ruin since the post-World War II reconstruction of Germany. “I suppose you have to have a sense of adven ture to teach for us,” says Joseph Arden, director of the university’s European operations. No tenure track for these professors, who have set up chalkboards in muddy tents to hold “live classes” in the world’s hot spots — and some 50 countries, from Italy to Iceland. The sun never sets on this universal universiti that specializes in “distance education,” with near ly two-thirds of its 35,000 students scattered fai from its College Park, Md., campus. The tradition began with David Sparks, ones seven professors who started the overseas progras in 1949, teaching American Civilization to soldien bronco riding ma in Germany who saw few Americans and very lit "I suppose you have to have a sense adventure to teach for us." —Joseph Ark director of European operatin tie civilization left. “I got 24 hours notice. I packed textbooksarf reading lists in my footlocker and went,” sag such a group of fu Sparks, who retired in 1991 as a vice chancellor^? taking part in the n 44 years with UMUC, part of the University of if I nissiott' Bad Ag to as examph A lynching wi today to slay a t\ when held hostagi Council, refusec ‘whoop" or take Memorial Student' Council mem fiat a blatant trip a was the first clue tc "We were wat we saw him trip oi down — on purpc he said. "Not only his bleeding leg ir for an ambulance, his hat. Now that's 'We will not t< iorfrom A&M st council member aren't used anymo A&M dammit, anc rules around here." "We gon' have ioned lynchin'!" C hawwwww!" War Hymn remixed by In a startling me layCrowen annour ‘Aggie War Hymr by an all-star linei pers: Ice Cube, Sr Dr. Ore and 2Pac. “We're very ex land system. “I suppose it seemed like a mission' This term, an expected 400-plus students«t ing bachelor’s and associate degrees can ci from nine subjects, from business to sociology. Student Counselim Volunteers Heeded *2“ to train & begin service in either the Summer or Fa Applications available Room 104 Henderson Hall. information call Ms. Susan Vavra at 845-4427 ext. 133 Attention Jewish Students, It’s matza time again!!! Breast cancer is the leading cause of death among women; this year alone some 46,000 will die. Zeta Tau Alpha along with New Balance Shoes, Inc. are proud to be donors to the Susan G. Komen Breast Cancer Foundation, sponsors of the annual Race for the Cure. Today in the MSC, Texas A&M’s Zeta Tau Alpha chapter will be passing out shower cards and pink ribbons; in observance of the fight against breast cancer. Please come by and help support the fight against breast cancer. Passover Seder Wednesday, April 3 at 7:00 p.m. Hillel Jewish Student Center $5 students, $6 non-students For more information, contact the Hillel Office at 696-731' In an annual cl College of Veterin frinarians discove ogical informatioi A&M mascot: Rev fom Katz, a veteri hed Reveille, said nned she was a c layed unusual be feck-up." Doctoi rring and rubbir But the clincher,' was when she co After extensi confirmed that Re' oarare species o iscoli, which are emote regions of l\'s breeder has re ountry, and veter xamining the cat or dangerous dise CONTACT LENSES from Bausch & Lomb Daily or Extended Wear, Tinted & Toric (for astigmatism) available $118°° TOTAL COST. .INCLUDES $ EYE EXAM, FREE CARE KIT, AND TWO PAIR OF STANDARD DW/EW WEAR SOFT CONTACT LENSES. 149 00 TOTAL COST.. .INCLUDES EYE EXAM, FREE CARE KIT, AND FOUR PAIR OF STANDARD DW/EW SOFT CONTACT LENSES. SAME DAY DELIVERY ON MOST LENSES. Call 846-0377 for Appointment CHARLES C. SCHROEPPEL, O.D., PC. 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