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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 aedit 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 aJLQ 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 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 transaipt blocks for past due fees, bans, 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 “OS or before. White Gold is available at an extra charge of $10.83. The approximate date of the ring delivery is October 5, 1994. KIGALI, Rwanda (AP) — In a shell-pocked garden cafe, a wait ress serves sizzling kebabs and warm Dutch beer to patrons shaded by large blue umbrellas. Few in Kigali are fooled by such images of normalcy. Just blocks away, scores of returning refugees, surrounded by the pitiful bundles of their last possessions, huddle over smoky campfires, cooking their meager rations. Even they are among the lucky in Rwanda. They are sur vivors, fortunate to have escaped the butchery of up to 500,000 men, women and children. They are better off than the millions who fled only to find new horrors of hunger, disease and death in neighboring countries. American and other foreign troops coming here to rush food and medicine to the sick and starving will find a country loot ed, bankrupt, shattered by civil war and tom apart by genocide. It has no money, little to eat, a scat tered, frightened populace and no chance of rebuilding alone. Rwanda is a nation on the dole. It believes it will remain one for years. “The economic situation in Rwanda is a catastrophe,” said Prime Minister Faustin Twagi- ramungu. “There is no money in the cen tral bank or in private banks be cause the so-called self-pro claimed government has taken all the money,” he said, referring to the government recently dri ven into exile by the Rwandan Patriotic Front. “To find a solu tion, we have to appeal to the outside world.” That means going, hat in hand, to the International Mone tary Fund, the World Bank, the European Union and individual countries, such as the United States, for help. “We need money, and for that we need credit,” Twagira- mungu said. Rwanda has little to offer as collateral other than plans and promises. Infrastructure is in pieces. War destroyed factories, schools, hospitals and bridges. Foreign help is needed to restore electricity, running water and telephone service. Despite the huge interna tional relief effort, Twagira- mungu said people are dying of hunger all over Rwanda. Food crops are withering and dying in abandoned fields. Without continued massive aid, relief workers fear famine. No one knows how long it will take for this tiny country to feed itself. No one knows how long millions of refugees and dis placed people will stay away from their homes and farms, liv ing on handouts. Most of Rwanda’s foreign ex change came from exporting 30,000 tons of coffee a year. But this year, because of the war and the people’s panicked flight, there will be no exports. “The country is poor. We have no natural resources, only ex ports of tea and coffee,” Twagira- mungu said. “The harvest was supposed to be in April and May, but the peasants could not pick the (coffee) beans because of the war. It is finished.” With the crops dead and fac tories destroyed, Rwanda needs people to rebuild. To lure them home and attract more aid, the new government has to instill confidence in its commitment to reconciliation and rebuilding. “We have to assure not only the American people but the whole world that we are not go ing to get into the trap of re venge, retribution and reprisals. We are here to build our nation,” Twagiramungu said Sunday. U.N. High Commissioner for Refugees Sadako Ogata said Sun- Seeds t>f conflict Seeds of the ethh|{J Violence that has caused 500,000 deaths in Rwanda April were planteWtfinlLiries ago. The tiny nation was born as a kingdom in the 13th century, ruldfi hythe Tutsis, a political minority descended from herdsit® Although the Tutsis maintained a tight rein on the kingship, they existed fairly peacefully with the majority Hutus. After a 29-year perM af Indirect German rule, a League of Nations mandate united Rwanda with neighboring Burundi under Belgian rule. With the introductioi of democratic government and the publication of the Bahutu Manifesto, the Tutsis lost control. In 1962, the country regained independence, and ethnic strife has simmered ever since, exploding in periodic coup attempts and massacres, his death in a mysterious plane crash in April, Hutu President Juvenal Habyarimana had established a fragile truce with the Tutsis. R Opinioi ulia Stavenhag world is more t Haitian ol they will 1 RWANDA: ■ Size: 10,169 squares ■ Population: 7.5 mil 90 percent Hutu; 9 percti Tutsi; 1 percent pygmy ■Economy: About 93 percent is based on agriculture, primarilycc'* sweet potatoes, and beans. BURUNDI: Li ■ Size: 10,759 square miles ■ Population: 5.5 million; 84 percent Huly 15 percent Tutsi ■ Economy: About 93 percent is based on agriculture, primarily coffee, beans, cassava, corn, peanuts; also nickel. PORT-AU-PF Supporters of h declared their i ht back — eve the face of a paves the way fc To those w invade, the Ha that they will fic and in the coun them in the shac they will fight tl said presidential “The blood \ Robert Monde, house of Parlic going to die.” A resolution the U.N. Secu legal groundv invasion to oi restore depos Bertrand Aristidi AP/Wm. J. Gastello, EileenGla day the international Relief effort is “still far frorfl o4 e R Ua ^ e -” But she said she is cpnVmced the new leaders are seriotW ftpout reconcil iation and natiop-hHlIding. Twagiramungu acknowledged that respect for h)P rule of law and for democT^Py are key if Rwanda hopes to keep from coming another African < surviving year to year on temational community’s la “We must have a clear pit that is our duty as a govemme he said. “But once we have plan, they must help us.” Guarding the people, not the clinics Marshals guard al> WASHINGl marshals wer outside dozer around the nati abortion doctoi off further viol protesters. “We’re tryii steps, using including the c to appropriate! deep concern 1 General Janet Violence occurred twice reporters F enforcement problem throuc Volunteers accept risks of violence to escort abortion patients King of ock ’ n’ PENSACOLA, Fla. (AP) - They call themselves escorts, volunteers who act as human buffers to protect abortion patients from the shouts and screams of protesters opposed to abortion. And now, following Friday’s shotgun slayings of a doctor and his escort outside an abortion clinic, they know and accept abortion protesters who gather outside that their duties put them at risk of In trying to stop abortions, proteste: ly violence. use tactics like displaying pickled fetusesLOS ANGE “When you open your eyes in the morn- bloody baby dolls, mimicking an infantl Jackson and ing, you almost have to be willing to say It cry, shouting that women have died dariil confirmed Me might be the day you die,” said Debbie My? abortions or telling patients that they aa framed 11 wei ers, coordinator of 20 escorts volunteerJlig murderers and are condemning themselv|of rumors abo their services in the Pensacola area. to hell, according to abortion rights groups; he reclusive p “We‘ve all had to look inside ourselves ftf But escorts say they are there for sutlL ' ur j' 0 ^ ter what happened. Everyone knew what the port, not as bodyguards. was announce realities were. Wove always talked about it. We dont guard clinics. We are there. by Jackson's ^ Escorting is not for everyone,” she said, see that the women get safely inside,” M; The staten An escort’s primary mission is to accompm ers said. “It used to be we were humf ny abortion patients, many of whom are be- shields. We act as a human buffer. We wildered and frightened, through throng $ to minimize the emotional pain.” Program Continued from Page 1 Camp. They miss out on some things.” Freshman Dave Turner, from Portland, Maine, said Saturday’s orientation gave him something to look forward to when the fall semester starts. “This helps you remember why you’re here,” he said. Provisional freshmen may not be taking the traditional path, but most say they think it gives them a head start. “We’ve got some hard classes over with, some weed-out classes,” said Brandi Schroeder, a freshman from Houston wbo plans to major in business. Students enroll while still in high school, then get their class schedules when they come to A&M the Sunday before summer school starts. “I started a week before my graduation," said Kelley Kinnard of Austin. “I had to be exempt from all my finals to start.” Kriss Boyd, director of General Academic Programs, said the program offers freshmen a chance to become familiar with the Univer sity and campus before the rest of the stu dents show up. Elizabeth McCulloch of Wichita Falls said, “We’re not going to be as lost in the fall. It’s easier to adjust.” ead, "I am v ichael, I dedi ife. I underst: oth look forv nd living hap We hope fr For other students it s a chance to find: understand an if college is really for them. Boyd said, “If students can’t ma ^ el Texas Ol grades in the summer, then we know tl can’t in the fall.” With En< Summer school may be less crowded tt the regular semesters, but it can P ose P 1 | a it erna ij ve 0 ( lems of its own. litigation, mei Schroeder said, “Because it moves soft that oversee: there’s so much to remember.” the super c Boyd said 80 percent of last sumnw Monday a provisional freshmen made their requil° ments and were accepted for the fall. Texas 6 Naturi Castro said the orientation progri Commission, might be repeated in the fall or next year, "good deal” fr “It might be something that might beco: the federal go a tradition,” he said. “Who knows?” "As a rest |to terminate almost inevi Tubularman By Boomer Cardinal! Monday Student Counseling Service: Center for Career Planning is doing a Strong Interest Inventory Interpretation (requires completion of testing two working days in advance) from 1:30-3 p.m. in Henderson Hall. Call the Center for Career Planning at 845-4427 for more information. TAMU Women’s Rugby: Practice every Mon. and Wed. in the Rugby Field next to the Polo Field at 6:30 p.m. Call Faye at 822-0651 or Janina at 696-0877 for more information. Out There TAMU Roadrunners: Meet in front of G. Rollie White at 8 p.m. Mon. through Thur. to run. New members welcome. Call Shea at 694-8000 for more information. Weil savi ram opr. WE HAVE ATEAaI Looking For. Him, Rvt mV t/me here IS OVER. THIS IS OLLif. What’s Up is a Battalion service that lists non-profit student and faculty events and activities. Items should be submitted no later than three days in advance of the desired run date. Application deadlines and notices are not events and will not be run in What’s Up. If you have any questions, please call the newsroom at 845-3313.