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MSC Black Awareness Committee Presents Haki Madhubuti Editor of Third World Press and author of BLACK MEN; Obselete, Single, Dangerous November 11, 1993 601 Rudder 7:00 p.m. • Persons with disablilities, please call 845-1515 to inform us of your special needs. We request notification three (3) working days prior to the event to enable us to assist you to the best of our ability. is Wednesday Karaoke Karaoke .wr Hockey •V° 0 Starts at 9:30 • No Cover $1.50 Kamakazie's all night $1.25 Draft • $3.75 Pitchers Come See Live- Friday *oV eS Uptown Country 9 - 1 • No Cover Saturday Watch the Aggies Beat the Hell Outta Louisville! 0urta »9e screens n the resta^a* and rilhe Sports Bar! * We'll be open till 2:00 a.m. serving food! •£. ^VrEe"^ °%6 ^ 696-9777 ^ 1601 S- Texas Ave. ^DEUv-'^ In Culpepper Plaza CarePlusN>*tt Presents Roc ? The Good Doc "Fell asleep at a tailgate party, did you?" Make tracks to CarePlus Medical Center for all your minor emergencies. Our on-site x-ray facility allows us to treat your accidents and injuries quickly. And no appointment is necessary, so you can come in immediately after an accident. A&M students even receive a 10% discount at CarePlus Medical Center. At CarePlus, you get quality care plus value and convenience. CarePkiSN>*tf 2411 Texas Ave. and Southwest Pkwy. • College Station, TX 77840 696-0683 Aggte Rim* Orders CLAYTON W. WILLIAMS, JR. ALUMNI CENTER DEADLINE: NOVEMBER 10, 1993 Undergraduate Student Requirements: 1. You must be a degree seeking student and have 95 credit hours completed at the end of the Fall '93 semester (co-enrolled hours cannot he counted). When calculating your hours, please remember that repeating a course cannot count as additional credit hours. (Transfer flours completed in the Summer of '93 or be fore that are needed to meet the 95 hour requirement, must he posted to your A&M transcript by the deadline.) 2. 2Q of the 95 credit hours must be coinnlcted in resilience at A&M (Summer '93 or before, if you were a transfer student). 3. You must have a 2.00 cumulative GPR currenlJv reflected on your A&M transcript (after your last final grades). 4. You must be in good standing with the University, including no registration or transcript blocks for past due fees, loans, parking tickets, returned checks, etc. Graduate Student Requirements: 1. You must receive your graduate degree from Texas A&M University to qualify for a ring. If you will graduate In December 1993. your order will be accepted (until November 12) contingent upon your December '93 degree being conferred and posted on SIMS no later than January 21. 1994. 2. You must be hi good standing with the University, including no registration or transcript blocks for past due fees, loans, parking tickets, returned checks, etc. Procedure For Undergraduate and Graduate students to order a ring: 1. If you meet the above requirements, you must come to the Ring Office no later than Wednesday, November 10, 1993 to complete the application for eligibility verification, which is a one-two day process. 2. If your application is approved and you wish to receive your ring in March 1994, you must come back and pay in full (cash/check only) Qfi later than November 12. 1993. MEN S RINGS WOMEN'S RINGS 10KY - #298.00 10KY - #170.00 14KY - #405.00 14KY - #197.00 *Add $8.00 for Class of'92 or before. While gold Is available for an extra charge of 810.83. The approximate date of the ring delivery is March 9, 1994 Campus Page 2 The Battalion Thursday, November 11,1993 Cop Cards feature Bryan officers Local police find way to comunicate with children By Cheryl Heller The Battalion The Bryan Police Department has found a way to relate to children using CopCards, trading cards that feature pictures of the officers. Sgt. Choya Walling said the cards provide a way for opening communication between children and police officers on patrol by using something that children can relate to. Police officers hand out the cards to children they meet. "The fact that the officers have something that kids want initiates that first contact between them/' Walling said. "We know from experience that in or der to be effective in the community we have to have an open communication link with the citizens of that community, and we build that by beginning with the youth." The department started handing out CopCards two years ago after Lt. Gary Wentrcek became aware of a similar program in Los Angeles. The first cards handed out by the Bryan police featured the departments three bicycle officer teams and street crime apprehension teams. Based on the success of die first sets of cards, the department recently began handing out cards featur ing only one officer. Walling said some officers were reluctant at first to have their pictures on the cards, but now most think the cards are a good idea. "Early on, there was some reluctance among a lot of officers to participate," he said. "They were hesi tant to have tneir picture on a card and to hand out pictures of themselves, but we're seeing more offi cers participating and having cards made now." Officer Alice Anderson, who is featured on a card with Officer Robert Smith, said she thinks the major ity of the officers are pleased with the CopCards. T think at first a lot of officers were timid because they didn't know how the kids would react to the cards," she said. "But the kids are collecting them, and now the officers seem really proud to have their pictures on the cards." The cards are very popular with children at the Bryan schools that she visits, she said. "I visit the schools regularly, and I always like to give something to the kids I talk to, especially the younger ones," she said. "The kids seem very excit ed to get the cards, and every time I go to one of the schools, they ask me for more." The cards open communication between children and the officers because a lot of children know that the officers carry cards with them, Anderson said. "The children want the cards from the officers, and so they're more likely to ask the officers for them," she said. "They're a great way for kids to feel like they can approach police officers." The Bryan Police Department's CopCards are funded by private sponsors. A $120 donation pays for 1,000 cards. A&M researchers criticize genetic cloning By Lisa Elliott The Battalion With recent advances in genetic research, human cloning has once again filled the hopes of scientific dreamers, yet some researchers at Texas A&M questioned the ethics of such research at a forum Wednesday night. Dr. Malcolm Skolnick, professor of Health Services at the University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston, said many scientists are making advances that they don't know how to handle. Skolnick said technology is a double-edged sword. It has the potential for producing an enor mous amount of new knowledge, which leads to choices the re searcher has to make about the ethics of the uses of that knowl edge. v 'More knowledge is being gen erated than people know what to do with," he said. Dr. Ryland Young, a professor in the biochemistry and biophysics department, said he is strongly against the Human Genome Map ping Project, an international pro ject to create a map of all of the hu man chromosomes. He said the project is an exam ple of "bad science," science which gets bureaucratic support for its commercialization effect, and it takes away from "basic science," which is needed as building blocks for future important projects. The human genome project doesn't have ethical beginnings and no real idea as a basis for it, he said. Young said that because of all the propaganda surrounding this project, "it gets harder and harder to tell students that you need an idea before you have an experi ment." Dr. James Lupski, associate pro fessor of microbiology and molecu lar genetics at the University of Texas Health Science Center, said forums are important for the field of science and the public because they allow the public to become better informed to make decisions about their health. "Contrary to what people think, everyone carries eight to 20 recessive diseased genes that they don't know they have until they marry someone that also carries it," he said. Skolnick said he wished people were more informed about the pos itive effects of genetic projects. "I know a number of groups that think it is evil to eat a tomato that is genetically altered," he said. All the scientists agreed that funding is a continuous problem in their field. They worried that researchers are becoming too commercialized and concerned with making a product that will sell rather than finding useful in formation. RHA proposes cash machine in Commons lobby By Jan Higginbotham The Battalion The RHA Facilities and Opera tions Committee is working with Texas A&M administration to in stall an automatic bank teller ma chine in the Commons lobby area. Shana Sewalt, director of the Residence Hall Association facili ties and operations committee, said the possibility is being looked into because the MPACT machine located in-the Memorial Student Center is not beneficial for regular use by southside resi dents. "We're doing this to increase the convenience for these resi dents," Sewalt said. Members of the commitee be lieve that the high amounts of traffic through the Commons area and the 5,200 students living on the southside could provide enough patronage to make such an installation beneficial to the university. Sewalt submitted a letter with the proposal to Dan Mizer, Texas A&M student development spe cialist, and has received positive feedback from Mizer and other members of the administration. The proposal also received wide support from RHA mem bers present at last night's meet ing. Further legislation on the pro- posal was tabled by the RHA un til more information concerning installation and costs becomes available for consideration. "The legislation reiterates that the RHA as a whole supports the proposal," Sewalt said. "It would increase the strength of the proposal." Jeff Nichols, president of As ton Hall on southside, told the RHA general assembly he has re ceived many complaints from his residents because the nearest au tomatic teller machine at the MSC is not convenient. Sewalt emphasized that the RHA is not trying to ignore the needs and interests of northside residents. "Positive response from the southside proposal could bring about the possibility of putting one in on northside," Sewalt said. Sewalt does not know when the proposal for a southside auto matic teller machine might go through with administration. "At this point, all we can do is wait for their response," Sewalt said. ■ clip-n-save - tape it to your forehead | OFF CAMPUS AGGIES ■ Mandatory MARDI GRAS Meeting THIS SUNDAY, Nov. 14, 8:30 p.m. J. Koldus Bldg. Governance Room (former Student Services Bldg.) If you have signed up for Mardi Gras or would like to be involved, ■ BE THERE!!! I For more info call Brent @ 845-0688 or 822-6510. 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