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Pag< C Coni lem the < If few, a pr “] curf not, lem also lege did thej ing Page 6 MSC Dinner Theatre & Aggie Players present: 6i enny Phantom of the Opera A Murder Mystery Musical Policy U.S. plans to help Rwanda Continued from Page 1 by Jack Sharkey & Dave Reiser July 28 — 30 and August 4 — 6 Rudder Forum at 8:00 P.M. Dinner in Rudder Exhibit Hall at 6:30 P.M. Dinner Tickets must be bought 48 In Advance Tickets Available at Rudder Box Office, 845-1234 Dinner & Plav $15 TAMU Students $5 TAMU Students $18 Non-TAMU Students $8 Non-TAMU Students Persons with disabilities please call us at 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. CONTACT LENSES ONLY QUALITY NAME BRANDS (Bausch & Lomb, Ciba, Barnes-Hind-Hydrocurve) Disposable Contact Lenses Available $118 o ° TOTAL COST. includes EYE EXAM, FREE CARE KIT, AND TWO PAIR OF STANDARD FLEXIBLE WEAR SOFT CONTACT LENSES. SAME DAY DELIVERY ON MOST LENSES. Call 846-0377 for Appointment CHARLES C. SCHROEPPEL, O.D., PC. DOCTOR OF OPTOMETRY 505 University Dr. East, Suite 101 College Station, TX 77840 4 Blocks East of Texas Ave. & University Dr. Intersection indicate whether the pur chase included alcoholic bev erages. Fiscal Officers and others who approve vouchers for payment must do so only if the purchases have been properly documented.” Mobley said the primary issue concerning alcohol has been the completeness and accuracy of vouchers issued for alcohol purchases. “It is important to note that no instances have been found at Texas A&M Univer sity or the A&M System to indicate that tax dollars were spent to purchase alco hol,” Mobley said. Dr. Mark Weichold, speaker of the Faculty Sen ate, said he was pleased with the Board’s actions con cerning an alcohol policy. “The fact that we’ve got a clearly stated policy now makes me happy,” Weichold said. “I am also pleased to see the policy was worded in such a way that the presi dents of each institution were given some flexibility.” Dr. Ray Bowen, A&M president, said the policy will help A&M to obey all laws concerning alcohol. “It will certainly help avoid any further problems,” Bowen said. The policy takes the place of a total ban on alcohol pur chases issued by Mobley in March, following the indict ment of two Board of Regent secretaries. The two women were in dicted on felony charges of falsifying government docu ments by disguising alcohol purchases as purchases of food and beverages. Four A&M employees were indicted in June on misdemeanor charges of tampering with government documents. Four others, who opted not to go through the grand jury process, were also charged with tampering. Refugees fight to live until food, medical aid arrives local Hfexas I the Cog' United State aid for Rwanda’s GOMA, Zaire (AP) — A wave of U.S. food and medical help for anguished Rwanda refugees was on the way Saturday, but aid workers say filth and famine will give death the upper hand in the refugee camps for at least another week. Cholera is spreading quickly and ferociously through the camps, killing at least 3,000 refugees since Wednesday, ac cording to the U.N. High Com missioner for Refugees. Others are dying of other diseases and malnutrition. President Clinton on Friday authorized more than $100 mil lion for airlifts of medicine, food and water, bringing the total of U.S. aid for the Rwandan crisis to $250 million since April. “One hopes is the U.S. puts in all its muscle, things will start to change fairly dramatically by the erid of next week,” said Ru pert Colville, a spokesman for the UNHCR in Geneva. “It is probably only a massive intervention, that only a super power like the Americans can provide, that will save this situ ation,” said Ray Wilkinson, a UNHCR spokesman in Coma. Although the U.S. effort, bol stered by German support, was a big step toward relief, much more is needed, said Colville. “We are very disappointed with the response on other parts of our appeal, particularly on the sanitation,” he said. Cholera spreads through con tact with contaminated feces and the refugee camps need at least 60,000 latrines for ade quate sanitation, Colville said. But no government has offered to provide or maintain latrines. “It’s no good purifying the wa ter if there’s feces lying all over the place,” he said. The refugees, members of the Hutu ethnic group, have crammed into sprawling, pesti lential camps in Zaire to escape feared reprisals from the Tutsi- led Rwandan Patriotic Front, which last week defeated the government army after three months of battle. The rebels launched their of fensive in April after extremist Hutu militias started slaughter ing Tutsis and others believed to oppose the Hutu regime. The militias killed more than 500,000 Rwandans — some esti mates say as many as 1 million — with axes, guns and machetes before they were driven into hid ing by the RPF. As many as 1.7 million refugees fled in the past 10 days, scared into flight by radio broad casts from the former govern ment saying the RPF planned to kill them. U.N. special envoy Shaharyar Khan said there have been no reports of civilian abuse at the hands of the RPF. The camps — where the air reeks of excrement, decompos ing corpses and the smoke from cooking fires — are so miser able that thousands of refugees have gathered at the border, hoping to return. Radio Rwanda, once the pro paganda weapon of the Hutu government and now the voice of the RPF, has been airing hourly broadcasts promising the refugees security and urging them to return home. But those who tried met a baffling roadblock. Hundreds were stopped Fri day by Zairian authorities who closed the border for an un known reason, UNHCR spokesman Ray Wilkinson told reporters in Coma. French troops manning the hu manitarian protection zone were believed to have ordered the bor der to be closed while they cleaned the area of hundreds of hand grenades and small ; m A round-the-clock military airlift • Aid approaching $200 Trillion ® 20 million rehydration fackages • Full contingent of U.N. peacekeepers to provide security fa refugees returning to Rwanda •1,480 tons of food and sioplies I Statis' or refugee ar*as |jousto HOUSTOr Houston is a ,as three ye liffer about w ii crime. Mayor Bo Police Chief S the decl addition of m' tie departme increase to hii Since ear look office ar city’s p person’s chi crime victim ir •e than 24 Where the refugees are; Lion Kii o be se Zaire ' ^ Goma: 1,200,000 Tanzania Bukavu: 250,000 N 9 ar a : 46O '5!0 Uvira: 350,000 Si! Burundi Uganda Ngozi, Bubanza Kabale: 10,500 140,500 *Estimates as of July 2 \ Sexist. F lent. A Sn< An Andrew Dir Would yo ig," Disney age saga that’ becoming tl animated film i Some pare pundits read see not fam AP/Wm. J. Casiek (iolence and subservient li< lyena, a sw weapons scattered along the road, Two hand grenades exploded|her r s’murdei in the midst of the trapped The movie refugees early Saturday, killing Harvard ps two men and a woman. Refugees tewberger cc said Zairian soldiers threw thebiece for The E grenades, but border guards blamed the explosion on children The good- irban black: playing with munitions scat J estures are tered along the border. peaks in supp Tubularman By Boomer Cardinals axon ag $20 millit Fur shU Auc I Buon Viaggio.,* Our There ByJD ANCHORA ixxon agreed lillion to setth ,500 Alaska sses from th i spill. The agreem s Anchorage eek of deliber million ommercial f arvest and deg Claims by th spill destroyr mrces as sea sen schedule' ime jury after ibermen’s clain \\ \\\4 • C'% ■M OKAY, SAM, MAYB£ W GKaPe jvice A little olp... ouse to i)IA hirini Spend Spring 1995 at Santa Ghiara! For info, come to one of the following meetings: Tuesday, July 26 at 2:00 p.m. Wednesday, July 27 at 10:00 a.m. Meetings will be held in Rm. 251 Bizzell Hall West Study Abroad Programs 161 Bizzed Hall West 845-0544 AGGIE RING ORDERS THE ASSOCIATION OF FORMER STUDENTS 'CLAYTON W. WILLIAMS, JR. ALUMNI CENTER DEADLINE: AUGUST 3, 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 and passed, cannot count as additional 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 to January 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.) You must have a2Jl cumulative GPR at Texas A&M University. 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 you do not have an Aggie ring from a prior degree year, you may place an order for a '94 ring after you meet the following 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 complete all of your degree requirements prior to July 29, 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: If you meet the above requirements, you must visit the Ring Office no later than Wednesday, August 3,1994, to complete the application for eligibility verification (requires several days to process). If your applicatioh is approved and you wish to receive your ring on approximately October 5,1994, you must return and pay in full by cash, check, money order, Visa or Mastercard no later than August 5,1994. Men’s 10KY-$309.00 14KY-$421.00 Women's 10KY -$174.00 14KY-$203.00 Add $8.00 for Class of ‘93 or before. White Gold is available at an extra charge of $10.83. 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