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Bill’s Style Shop The Battalion Gossip • Rumors Fish Stories • Hunting Stories • Weather Watch “More Than Just A Haircut ” Monday • November 14,1® Monday E-mail small part of Information Ag 846-2228 215 University Dr. Next to Campus Theatre While soaking up some sun, I turned on the sprinklers in my parent’s yard, or dered a new jacket and had a conversa tion with a friend from high school. All this done with a laptop computer from the comfort of the beaches of Cozumel. OK, so it all cannot be done yet, but commercials assure Study Abroad in London! As a Reciprocal Exchange Student at King's College: 1995-6 King’s College of London in offering a one year reciprocal exchange program especially made for TAMU students who are science and life science majors. Participants receive TAMU credit for all classes! INFORMATIONAL MEETINGS Tuesday, November 15, 2:45 - 4:00 pm 251 Bizzell West Requirements: 3.0 GPR, US Citizen, Junior Status at time of exchange Study Abroad Programs • 161 Bizzell Hall West • 845-0544 Katie Arnold us that we soon will be able to com municate with any thing electronic with a computer, interactive televi sion or cellular Staff Writer phone. The “information superhighway,” dubbed such by Vice President A1 Gore, is a term used to de scribe the technological methods through which we will be able to communicate. Plans for the highway include the In ternet, which is an adapted form of a De fense Department system. Via the Inter net, users can communicate and ex change information. Over 20 million peo ple already have access to the Internet, and that number is growing rapidly. An important feature of the Internet, electronic mail, is already widely used. Texas A&M President Ray Bowen (when asked through an E-mail message) said he receives about 40 E-mails everyday. E-mail allows people to communicate in an informal and timely way. “[E-mail] does augment greatly our ability to communicate with each other on a timely basis,” Bowen said. Also included on the highway route is expanding the interactive television net work, which will include video on de mand channels. Home shopping is also part of this. The home shopping scene has explod ed in the past few years. Communica tions corporations hope to allow con sumers to shop from the comfort of their homes. The idea of a purely technological soci ety sounds great to some but scares oth ers. Those who cannot figure out the card catalog in the library will have to adjust to the Information Age. Others worry that the superhighway will detract from personal interaction. The capacity to communicate through computers will discourage the typical business meeting or personal phone call. Though technology draws us away from personal interaction, it will not be totally replaced. Computer conversa tions cannot replace meetings or phone calls simply because they are imf to conducting business. Small business owners also wor about their future when the informatin age forecasts buying clothes or homef® nishings through a computer. These small businesses will be save by those who have not learned howi maneuver on the information superhigl way. Shopping is a national pa and the idea that retailers will be put on; of business by home shopping is not adequate prediction. One worry companies should haw however, is the control of the entire ne work. Like anything else, technology!! competitive industry. If corporations t not secure their future with a strong hoi in the market, then the entire commun cations network will be owned by a handful of companies. We have seen a lot of changes in ou lifetime, and the idea that we will! able to renew a driver license at a machine or see our loved ones on a vide: phone is exciting. As long as every® still loves to get letters in the mail “shop ‘till you drop” never dies, the it formation superhighway will bring net and exciting opportunities to ever; household. Y T 'TP Health Iips Tonight at 7 p.m. Men's Basketball vs. Mexican National Team Volleyball Tue. Nov 15 7pm vs. SW Texas FOOTBALL ON SATURDAY FINAL GAME FOR 1994 TCU AT KYLE FIELD KICKOFF I PM COME OUT AND SALUTE THIS SENIOR CLASS ««r e.t 00 * i|S:e:as:o'sivii!tt if et s STDs pose risk for everyone but abstinent By Kindell Peters A.P. Beutel Health Center Approximately 12 million peo ple acquire a sexually transmit ted disease (STD) each year in the United States. Two-thirds of these occur in people under age 25. Given the prevalence of STDs in this age group, having some working knowledge of STDs in general is essential for college students. There are two main types of sexually transmitted disease, bacterial (this includes chlamy dia, gonorrhea and syphilis) and viral (genital warts and HIV/AIDS). Bacterial STDs are easily treated with antibiotics. Once you get the disease, you can get rid of it. Viral STDs, on the other hand, are not curable. Sexually transmitted diseases have the potential to affect any one. Therefore, knowing your level of risk is important. If you do not engage in any sexual ac tivity including oral, vaginal and anal intercourse, you have virtu ally no risk of getting an STD. Having sex with one partner is low risk. However, this is pro vided that you and you partner have no other partners and have never had an STD in the past. You are at risk for getting an STD if you engage in sexual ac tivities with more than one part ner (and they have had more than one partner), if you use al cohol or other drugs and if you do not use a condom. The good news is that there are ways to prevent getting a STD. If you have engaged in unpro tected sex, these indicators will help you detect a possible STD and therefore prevent transmis sion. General signs and symp toms that could indicate a possi ble STD include pain or burning during urination, abdominal pain, and itching in the genital region. There may also be an ab normal discharge. This could be yellow, green, gray, streaked with pus or blood, watery, foamy, or have a foul odor. Look for blisters or warts in the geni tal region. Some sexually trans mitted diseases may also occur in the mouth, these include gon orrhea, genital herpes and warts. The most important thing is to prevent transmission gether. In order to do this, thti are a few key points to remet ber. Prevention occurs with pr tection. The best way to yourself is to abstain from sent al activity. However, if you i choose to be sexually activi wearing a latex condom in add tion to using a spermicide wit nonoxynol-9 is the most effectii way to prevent transmission o! STD. 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