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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
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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.
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reading lists in my footlocker and went,” sag such a group of fu
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This term, an expected 400-plus students«t
ing bachelor’s and associate degrees can ci
from nine subjects, from business to sociology.
Student
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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'
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