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Amy Brown/TnE Battalion
It won V hurt a bit
Scott Kearney, a senior elementary education major from College
Station gives blood at the Red Cross Blood Drive. The drive contin
ues through this Friday at the MSC, the Commons and Sbisa.
AGGIE RING ORDERS
THE ASsbciATION OF FORMER STUDENTS
CLAYTON W. WILLIAMS, JR. ALUMNI CENTER
DEADLINE: SEPTEMBER 21, 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.)
3Q 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 - !, 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 a 2J) 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 December 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 requirements:
^ 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 Septenber 16,1994, 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, September 21,1994, 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 on approximately
November 16, 1994, you must return and pay in full by cash, check, money order, Visa or
Mastercard no later than September 23,1994.
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.
The approximate date of the ring delivery is November 16, 1994.
Three U.S. research
teams isolate gene that
causes breast cancer
WASHINGTON (AP) —
Three teams of U.S. re
searchers have won the world
wide race to isolate the gene
that causes the inherited form
of breast cancer, the journal
Science reported today.
The gene, called BRCA1, is
believed to cause 5 percent of
breast cancer cases. Isolation
of the gene by researchers —
from the National Institutes of
Health, Myriad Genetics Corp.
and a University of Utah pro
fessor — was first reported
Tuesday by NBC News.
Isolation of the gene will en
able scientists to develop a test
to identify women who carry
BRCA1, giving them an oppor
tunity to identify breast cancer
or to make the more difficult
decision of having a mastecto
my to forestall the disease.
Some researchers believe
such a test could be developed
within two years.
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Dodd said she hopes stu
dents will not be hesitant to
use the modern equipment.
“We want to be as helpful
as we can,” she said. “We’ll
have plenty of staff available
at all times.
“We also want to teach peo
ple how to access the material
themselves,” Dodd said. “We’ll
have demonstrations and pre
sentations on how to use the
equipment. Noon-time semi
nars and instructional programs
will be conducted. We don’t
want students to be hesitant.”
Dr. Benton Cocanougher,
dean of the College of Business
Administration, said he be-
Scientists have known for
years that the BRCA1 gene ex
ists, and more than a dozen re
search facilities around the
world have been working to
pinpoint it.
Science announced today
that the work by Myriad Ge
netics’ Douglas F. Easton, the
University of Utah’s Andrew
Skolnick and Roger Wiseman
of the National Institute of En
vironmental Health Sciences
had passed peer review and
would be printed in its Oct. 7
issue.
About 182,000 women are di
agnosed with breast cancer in
the United States each year,
and 46,000 die, according to the
American Cancer Society.
Experts have said women
with the altered gene have
about a 60 percent chance of
developing breast cancer be
fore age 50 and an 85 percent
chance by age 65.
lieves the library will be an as
set to all of the programs on
West Campus.
“It’s a wonderful resource for
us,” Cocanougher said. “It’s im
portant to have the library
there. We would not be nearly
as excited about moving to West
Campus if it weren’t for the li
brary. The two go together.”
Dodd said the three-story
West Campus Library is much
smaller than Evans Library.
“Its a more intimate envi
ronment,” she said. “We have
seating space for 1,000 stu
dents. The upper two floors
are just for study and our
bound volumes.”
The West Campus Library,
which is a branch of Evans
Library, will provide docu
ment delivery between the
two libraries.
CO ifeeli ouse
If you got tolent...
and you wanna show it...
clap your hands...
& call Big Early D at 845-1515
Talent is...
singin*
pickin' da
geetar
readin' da
stories n'
da poems
breathin'
da fire or
somethin'
Out of Control?
The Population Debate
MSC
Political
Forum
I
!
Thursday, Sept. 15,1994
11 a.m.-noon
228 MSC
A brown-bag discussion led by
Robbie Brewington
Graduate Teaching Assistant
Department of Anthropology
Persons with disabilities please call 845-1515 to inform us of your special needs. We request notifleation three (3) working days prior
to the event to enable us to assist you to the best of our ability.
The views expressed in this program do not necessarily reflect those of the Memorial Student Center, or Political Forum.
A genius
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SPORTS CARD & COMIC SHOW
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Texas A&M
vs. Louisville
Nov. 11-13
Roundtrip air to Louisville
2 nights Radisson Hotel
$235/person* from College Station
$225/person* from Houston
*bascd on double occupancy/limited number of seats available
(409) 696-9229 (800) 828-4890
St. Paul’s United Methodist Church
2506 Cavitt, Bryan 779-7608
_ _ _ (Between S. College and Texas)
Worship services
8:30 & 11:00 a.m.
Sunday School
9:45 a.m.
"Small enough to know you,
large enough to serve you."
Back To School Bash!
featuring:
JACKOPIERCE
The Texas Hall of Fame
822-2222
TONIGHT
Tickets: $8 Advance / $10 Day of show
On sale at Marooned Records & Texas Hall of Fame
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|Here, last month, 922 good people
got a pin prick, and earned
themselves $46,000 cash
....and helped people they never knew!
They sat back on big leather lounge chairs and
relaxed or studied for exams. They exchanged
recipes, talked about love, children, life,
happenings, boys, girls, politics, tomorrow, french
class, car repair, baseball, fishing,
and delivering kittens. In 60 minutes they were up
and away, cash in hand, feeling good.
You have never opened a door on a
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extra money is very nice.
Everybody needs you.
It s that easy
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4223 Wellborn Rd.
846-8855