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Council Travel 2000 Guadalupe St. • Austin, TX 78705 512-472-4931 Eurailpasses issued on-the-spot! v: If You Have Something To Sell Remember: Classifieds Can Do It Call 845-0569 The Battalion CAREER CENTER Peer Volunteer Program OVMPUS Tuesday • September 2^ -. Tuesday • Se] Results of study to aid struggling goat pro dm Producers look for alternative market By Tracy Smith The Battalion Michelle Lyons/T'HE Battauon PIONEERS FOR A NEW FRONTIER OPPORTUNITIES FOR COMMUNITY SERVICE, PRESENTATIONS, HOSTING EMPLOYERS, AND A WHOLE LOT MORE! CONTACT THE CAREER CENTER AT 845-5139 IF YOU ARE INTERESTED. HEALTHY MALES 18-35 WANTED as semen donors excellent compensation confidential! Call 776-4453 Graduate and Professional Students "EXPOSE YOUR RESEARCH" in the first ever Graduate Student Council University-Wide Research Poster Competition "Search for Significance: Graduate Research Defined" Cash prize for top entry in Each College or Related Research Area. Minimum Cash Prize of *200 Per College Awards to be presented by the Director of the National Science Foundation...that's right. National recognition for your outstanding research. The Entry Deadline Has Been Extended Until SEPTEMBER 26 GET YOUR ENTRY IN SOON for more information or entry forms contact the GSC Hotline: 862-1974 AGGIE RING ORDERS THE ASSOCIATION OF FORMER STUDENTS CLAYTON W. WILLIAMS, JR. ALUMNI CENTER DEADLINE: SEPTEMBER 21, 1994 Undergraduate Student Requirements: 1. 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.) 2. 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.) 3. 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: 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 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: 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). 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. Where do I sign up i Freshman Blake McKinney gets brief instructions on some of this weeks’ election activities. Freshman candi date filing began on Monday and will extend through this Friday. Approximately 55 freshmen filed for positions the first day alone. Texas A&M researchers hope a survey determining po tential demand for goat meat in the United States will help goat producers who are strug gling to make up for lost gov ernment incentive payments. Rick Perry, Texas agricul ture commissioner, said the Texas Department of Agricul ture was awarded a $109,000 United States Department of Agriculture grant and $38,300 from the Office of State-Federal Relations for the survey to de termine the potential for a goat meat market. “This survey is essential to help our goat raisers recover from the loss of wool and mo hair incentive payments and to find an alternative market in meat production,” Perry said. A Texas A&M research pro posal team, which defined mar ket channels and strategies for the goat meat market, said President Bill Clinton passed a law that phases out wool and mohair incentive payments by December 1995. Wool will receive 75 and 50 of their calculated pa for the 1994 and 1995 ing years. Dr. Ernie Davis, Texa; agricultural economics sor and Extension spe;, said phasing out these; tives will not save thej ment money. “Without the incenfe will see a decreased nuiu goats and sheep,” Davis “This decreased number mals will lower corn phi cents a bushel because demand reduction for fete : “Every cent we lose per), will end up costing States $45 million < said. “What the govern saves now, the governnw end up paying back later.' Davis said while goat is considered a specialt;; there is a market. “A survey can decider; what kind of market*? and with that we can geting with marketings gies,” he said. The department will a the Texas Agricultural Eft Service and Texas Agrir Experiment Station tor- wholesalers, retailers,:! rants and consumers. Computer system provides student informatii By Amanda Fowle The Battalion Texas A&M students have access to n little known computing system that makes getting information about staff, students, and organi zations easier. The ph system is an electronic direetpry listing an individual or organization’s name, phone number, E-mail address, postal ad dress, and any other information the person puts in it. Mike Bolton, project director, said that A&M has had the system for about four years, but only about 6,000 people use it. Correction In Thursday’s issue of The Battalion, the sponsorship of Unity Rally ‘94 was incorrectly identified. Unity Rally ‘94 was sponsored by the Hispanic Presi dents Council and marks the beginning of Hispanic Heritage Month. “That is not a great representation of the 40,000 students here,” he said. “The system hasn’t really been picked up on yet.” Bill Ambrose, a systems analyst, said many students are die-hard users of the Phonebook through the Access screen on the A&M network computers. “The current phonebook users are very dedicated users and do not have any desire to look at anything else,” he said. “Hopefully, if we get the word out about the ph system, they will find it more favorable to use it.” Bolton said the ph system has more op tions than the phonebook screen. “Ph is a large database that has room for so much more information,” he said. “Faculty can put in their office hours, pro jects they are working on and any other in formation they wish.” Ambrose said that since students up date their own information, the ph system is more accurate than the phonebook. “I think since students can go in and up date their own record,” he said, “the proba bility of them doing so is much higher than of them turning their new information in to some department on campus." Bolton said that ph is linked to' mail system by a postmaster. “Phonebook has nothing to do wits he said. “With the ph system, you a E-mail to the person by name and tit master routes it to the correct address.' Ambrose said that this way of sent mail is much easier. “It is difficult to remember peopl; mail addressees,” he said, “so itisi easier to address the mail to a simp form of their address. Ambrose said that the ph systemiijl all over the world and at many other* versities. “Once you become familiar with. | the system locally,” he said, “you car.f| up people at other universities.” The ph system is accessible from t mainframe system on campus, /lAlj VAX, VM and UNIX machines. Personal computers cbnnected network can use the software for tlj system at no charge, Ambrose said. BUSINESS IS GLOBAL!! Interested in International Business? General Meeting: International Business Association Wednesday, September 21 7:00 pm Blocker 125 •Carol Evans will speak about busjness etiquette in the Global Marketplace •Speaker Meetings •Officer Positions Available •Fall Mexico Trip •Social and Service Activities For more information, call Dawn Way at 696-0336 or 361-3166 next levt Take it to the Graduate School Graduate School Information Nights: September 20 & October 27 From 6 to 8 p.m. 110-111 Koldus Bldg. Topics covered will include: • How to apply to graduate school • GRE/GMAT • Fellowships and assistantships ’ And more! For more information, contact the Office of Graduate Studies at 845-3631 | 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 friendlier place and the regular extra money is very nice. Everybody needs you. 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