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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.
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The approximate date of the ring delivery is September 7, 1994.
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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
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Opinion desk— Chris Cobb, Josef Elchanan, George Nasr, Jim Pawlik owski, Frank Stanford and Julia
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