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CarePIus Family Medical Center 2411 Texas Ave. and Southwest Parkway 693-0683 10% A&M student discount MSC Barber Shop Serving All Aggies! Cuts and Styles Reg. haircuts starting at $6. Eight operators to serve you Theresa - Marti - Jennifer - Mary Yolanda - Wendy - Hector 845-0629 Open Mon. - Fri. 8-5 Located, in the basement of the Memorial Student Center 2. AGGIE RING ORDERS THE ASSOCIATION OF FORMER STUDENTS CLAYTON W. WILLIAMS, JR. ALUMNI CENTER DEADLINE: JUNE 15, 1994 Undergraduate Student Requirements: You must be a degree seeking student and have a total of 95 credit hours reflected on the Texas A&M University Student Information Management System. (A passed course, which is repeated, cannot count twice as credit hours.) 30 credit hours must have been completed in residence at Texas A&M University. If you did not successfully complete one semester at Texas A&M University prior toJanuary 1,1994,you will need to complete a minimum of 60 credit hours in residence. (This requirement will be waived if your degree is conferred and posted with less than 60 A&M hours.) 3. You must have aJLQ cumulative GPR at Texas A&M University. 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: If you are a August 1994 degree candidate and have never purchased an Aggie ring from a prior degree year, you may place an order for a '94 ring after you meet the following requirements: 1. Your degree is conferred and posted on the Texas A&M University Student Information Management System; and 2. You are in good standing with the University, including no registration or transcript blocks for past due fees, loans, parking tickets, returned checks, etc. If you have completed all of your degree requirements prior to June 10,1994, you may request a “Letter of Completion” from the Office of Graduate Studies and present it to the Ring Office in lieu of your degree being posted. Procedure To Order A Ring 1. If you meet the above requirements, you must visit the Ring Office no later than Wednesday, June 15,1994, to complete the application for eligibility verification (requires several days to process). 2. If your application is approved and you wish to receive your ring by September 7,1994, you must return and pay in full by cash, check, money order, Visa or Mastercard n<? later than June 17,1994. Men’s 10KY-$306.00 14KY - $415.00 Women’s 10KY -$172.00 14KY-$200.00 Add $8.00 for Class of '93 or before. White Gold is available at an extra charge of $10.83. The approximate date of the ring delivery is September 7, 1994. The Battalion wants your input Texas A&M students, faculty, and staff are invited to apply for The Battalion Reader’s Panel. If you have ideas about the paper and would like to help its focus, stop by 013 Reed McDonald and apply for the Reader’s Panel. Deadline is Today! Page STATE & LOCAL Thursday • June 9, Stew Milne/ I'hf. Battalion Mmm ... Ice Cream Dannika Julson couldn’t decide yesterday on what flavor of ice cream she wanted while at the A&M Creamery, locat ed in the Rosenthal Building on West Campus. Cities adopt curfews to curb youth violence DALLAS (AP) — Gangs and drugs are fueling a steady in crease in violent crime among Texas juveniles, an alarming trend that has a number of cities adopting or considering teen curfews. Homicides, robberies and other violent youth offenses rose 165 percent in i , fii7i[ , i|i|fmfi|||riir-" the four years before 1993. And there are no signs of a slowdown this year. The Texas "Curfews make a dif ference. Around the state, residents are starting to reclaim their Juvenile Pro neighborhoods" bation Com mission said that in the first three months of this year delin- federal court challenge of a sim ilar ordinance. An appeals court overturned that ruling, an ac tion that was upheld last month by the U.S. Supreme Court. The Fort Worth City Council expects to revive its curfew as early as next week in the wake of a 321 percent increase in the number of Tar rant County ju veniles accused of violent crimes over the past four years. “The majori ty of the kids that are violent are gang mem- quent conduct cases totaled 24,847, compared with 43,968 for the first six months of last" year. “Gang activity is a big fac tor,” said Susan Dow, a spokes woman for the agency in Austin. “In 1987 and 1988 is when we started seeing a jump in juve nile violent crime. That was also about the time that crack cocaine hit the streets. So drugs are also a factor.” Delinquent conduct includes homicide, sexual and aggravat ed assault, robbery, burglary, theft, motor vehicle theft, weapons violations and drug and other offenses. Violent crimes — homicide, sexual assault, robbery and ag gravated assault — totaled 8,533 last year, an increase from 7,217 in 1992. State records show 6,146 juveniles were involved in violent crimes in 1991, with 5,002 the previous year. By contrast, only 2,762 were reported in 1985. Those rising numbers helped spur officials from Panhandle cities like Dimmitt, Floydada and Plainview to Austin, San Antonio, Houston and Dallas to enact ordinances that prohibit teen-agers from being on the streets unescorted after 11 p.m. Fort Worth had a curfew, but repealed it when Dallas lost a r-» r-N die gdllg nielli- Susan Dow, bers,” said As- Texas Juvenile sistant District . . . . Attorney Ken- Probatwn Commission neth Mullin, ^-head of the ju venile section. “We get drive- b'y shootings, walk-by rob beries for shoes, and robberies for jackets. And we keep seeing more and more of them.” In 1989, juvenile authorities referred 287 youths under the age of 17 to the Tarrant County District Attorney’s Office in in vestigations of violent offenses. By 1993, that number had grown to 1,210. “Curfews make a difference. Around the state, residents are starting to reclaim their neigh borhoods,” Dow said. In Odessa, where police records show 1,999 juvenile ar rests last year, the Mayor’s Drug and Crime Task Force is beginning statistical research that could clear the way for a curfew. The matter is also under con sideration in the West Texas cities of Friona, Stinnett and Dumas. In South Texas, Laredo city officials are drafting an ordi nance they want to have ready for the beginning of the next school year. “Everyone realizes this is not the answer, but it is anoth er way that your local law en forcement has a little more control on your youth activi ties,” said Floydada city man ager Gary Brown. Agriculture college focuses on diversity By Warren E. Mayberry The Battalion The College of Agriculture and Life Sciences is trying to re cruit minority students by dis pelling false cultural myths about agriculture. The college initially attempt ed to increase diversity by creat ing a student programs office to focus on minority students. Amy Aguilar, Class of ’91, who helped start the program, said the goal of the program was to aid minorities in the transi tion from high school to college. “We also wanted to promote cultural understanding through out the college,” Aguilar said. Dr. Joe Townsend, the col lege’s associate dean for student development, worked with Aguilar to get the program started. “In order for the diversity program to be helpful, we must educate people and break the myth that agriculture is sows, cows and plows and is more the feed, weeds and seeds,” he said. Townsend said the reason there are so few minorities in agriculture may be related to years of cultural bias associat ing agriculture with hard labor, slave labor, migratory workers and low pay. The program, now called the Office of Student Diversity, was expanded by adding a director and several support staffers in the fall of 1993. Dr. Wash Jones was named director of the student diversity program in the spring. Jones, Class of ’85, said that although he grew up on a farm, he didn’t always appreciate his rural background. But he said as he grewoldti he realized how comprehensiw agriculture is. He said he wants more peopls to know the importance of agri culture, which was a factoriii his accepting the position. “The stigma that agriculture is only production-related wt be eliminated in order toget more minorities involvedia agriculture,” he said. Jones said being directorii one of the greatest challenges hi has faced, despite his bai ground in the departments Student Affairs. “The biggest part of this posi tion is education,” Jones said “Not only must you educatefe students, but their parents am society as a whole. In spring 1994, about 375 mi norities were seeking under graduate or graduate degree among more than 5,300 stir dents in the College of Agricti ture and Life Sciences. Jones said this statist: points out why there is a nee for the diversity office andne education programs. He pin to present programs designed! educate minorities at an earls age. “Attempting to reach sit dents in their junior and sen:: years is too late,” Jones sail “We must reach students! middle school, before thestigi related to agriculture isa; tached.” Townsend said by reachir this first ‘rung’ on the ladder diversity, the diversity oflii may someday work its wayo of a job. Viral disease infects patients, threatens kidney center's licenst HOUSTON (AP) — One- third of the patients at a new ly opened kidney dialysis cen ter have been infected with he patitis B. The outbreak could threat en the Texas Dialysis Kidney Center’s Medicare certifica tion. The center opened its doors five months ag inspec tors from the federal Centers for Disease Control found that 14 of the center’s 43 patients had become infected with he patitis B, a viral disease that attacks the liver. It is most of ten spread through contact with infected blood. The U.S. Healthcare Fi nancing Administration, which pays for continuous kid ney dialysis for most patients who need it, informed Texas Dialysis it will terminate the facility’s Medicare contract unless it complies with regula tions by Saturday. Medicare certification is the only requirement for such cen ters, which are not licensed by city or state agencies, accord ing to the Houston Health De partment. ‘We have done all that we can do,” said Scott Sullivan, the center’s director. “We are very upset that it happened.” Federal officials say the Houston facility has cooperat ed with inspectors. “We have received notifica tion (from the center) that they have complied with oil' recommendations,” said Juli: Kennedy, associate region! administrator for the federa agency. “There is a goo chance they have corrected tt : deficiencies.” State health inspectors, w;i perform a surprise inspectk at the center before the wees end and will report back tot* Medicare officials. Apparently, one patient who was referred to the cento: was already infected withtto disease, city health spoke: woman Kathy Barton said. All dialysis center worker; have been vaccinated again;: hepatitis B; no one is believes to be the source of the infe; tion. The CDC spent at least two weeks at the clinic, going through records and evaluat ing the center’s practices, Sul livan said. “They gave us rec ommendations on how not to spread it further,” he said. The center's infected pa tients will receive dialysis in an isolated setting. UninfecteO patients and members of the families of those who have be come infected have been vacci nated against the disease. Personnel at the center will wear protective clothing dur ing all procedures and will change gloves and wash their hands between patients, Sulli van said. MSC Summer Dinner Theatre Season Tickets in association with Aggie Players "Rumors” comedy by Neil Simon June 23-25 & 30-July 2 Reception Following "The Pinchpenny Phantom of the Opera" murder mystery musical by Jack Sharkey & Dave Reiser The Battalion MARK EVANS, Editor in chief WILLIAM HARRISON, Managing editor ANAS BEN-MUSA, Night News editor SUSAN OWEN, Night News editor. MICHELE BRINKMANN, City editor )AY ROBBINS, Opinion editor STEWART MILNE, Photo editor MARK SMITH, Sports editor WILLIAM HARRISON, Aggie life editor Staff Members City desk— James Bernsen, Amanda Fowle, |an Higginbotham, Sara Israwi, Shellie (enkins, Christine Johnson, Monique Lunsford, Geneen Pipher and Nancy Treacy News desk— Andreana Coleman, Sterling Hayman, Kari Rose and Stacy S.anton Photographers— Darrin Hill, J.D. 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