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Tuesday • September 2^ -.
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Results of study to aid
struggling goat pro dm
Producers look for
alternative market
By Tracy Smith
The Battalion
Michelle Lyons/T'HE Battauon
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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
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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:
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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
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Women’s 10KY-$174.00
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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.
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Wednesday, September 21
7:00 pm Blocker 125
•Carol Evans will speak about busjness etiquette in the
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•Speaker Meetings
•Officer Positions Available
•Fall Mexico Trip
•Social and Service Activities
For more information,
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next levt
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MARK EVANS, Managing editor
HEATHER WINCH, Night News editor
MARK SMITH, Night News editor
KIM MCGUIRE, City editor
JAY ROBBINS, Opinion editor
STEWART MILNE, Photo editor
DAVE WINDER, Sports editor
ROB CLARK, Aggielife editor
Staff Members
City desk—Jan Higginbotham, Katherine Arnold, Michele Brinkmann, Stephanie Dube, Stf fl
Fehlis, Eloise Flint, Amanda Fowle, Melissa Jacobs, Lisa Messer, Angela Neaves''
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Painton, Nick Rodnicki, Amy Brown and Carrie Thompson
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Keddie
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Opinion desk— Jenny Magee, Lynn Booher, Josef Elchanan, Laura Frnka, Aja Henderson,E 1 *
Jeremy Keddie, Michael Landauer, Melissa Megliola, George Nasr, Elizabe^ 1
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