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In loving memory of someone
who truly embraced life.
Paul Michael Bowers, Class of‘90
and a proud leader of Husdin’ 1,
died April 17th, 1995.
Paul’s life has touched many
and the love for him is strong.
He taught us to think about
our world and to fight for
what is right and fair. He
taught us to cut loose, have
fun, and enjoy life. Paul
taught me how to genuinely
love. We are all going to miss
his antics and jokes, but we
will also miss his love for others
and his loyalty. His loyalty to
me, to his family, to his
friends, and to his school.
His heart does bleed maroon.
Troyce Hamm
Class of ‘91
AGGIE RING ORDERS
THE ASSOCIATION OF FORMER STUDENTS
CLAYTON W. WILLIAMS, JR. ALUMNI CENTER
DEADLINE: APRIL 27, 1995
Undergraduate Student Requirements:
1. You must be a degree seeking student and have a total of §5 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
successfully complete one semester at Texas A&M University prior to January 1, 1994.
60 credit hours must have been completed in residence at Texas A&M University if your first
semester at Texas A&M University was January 1994 or thereafter. Should your degree be
conferred with less than 60 resident credits, this requirement will be waived after your degree is
posted on the Student Information Management System.
3. You must have a 2.0 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 May 1995 degree candidate and you do not have an Aggie ring from a prior
degree year, you may place an order for a ‘95 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 completed all of your degree requirements and can obtain a “Letter of Completion”
from the Office of Graduate Studies, the original letter of completion may be presented to the Ring
Office ip lieu of your degree being posted.
Procedure To Order A Ring:
1. If you meet all of the above requirements, you must visit the Ring Office no later than
Thursday, April 27, 1995, to complete the application for eligibility verification.
2. If your application is approved and you wish to receive your ring on June 7, 1995, you
must return and pay in full by cash, check, money order, or your personal Visa or
Mastercard (with your name imprinted) no later than April 28, 1995.
Men’s 10KY-$308.00
14KY - $420.00
Women’s 10KY - $174.00
14KY - $201.00
Add $8.00 for Class of '94 or before.
The ring delivery date is June 7, 1995.
AGGIE RING ORDERS
THE ASSOCIATION OF FORMER STUDENTS
CLAYTON W. WILLIAMS, JR. ALUMNI CENTER
ATTENTION: JUNIORS. SENIORS & GRADUATE STUDENTS
If you are not currently eligible to order the Aggie ring, but will be eligible
after the Spring ‘95 semester, please do the following:
1. Visit the Ring Office to complete an application for eligibility verification
and receive a price list beginning May 4, 1995. (Please wait until this
date, since all the information will not be available until then.)
2. Upon completing the application, you may request a mail order form if
you will not be in the Bryan-College Station area to place your order in
person between May 25 and June 13, 1995.
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Researchers aim to create vaccinfi Ificl
A&M student abducted
at gunpoint Thursday
based on common plant proteS tx
A Texas A&M student was
kidnapped at gunpoint Thursday and
forced to drive his captors for more
than 11 hours before being released in
Navasota, College Station police say.
The 19-year-old man told police
that two black men approached him
while he was in his car on the corner
of Church and Nagle streets in
College Station.
The two suspects got in the car
with the man and forced him to drive
toward Caldwell, police said.
The victim told police that the
suspects made him stop at three
different ATM machines and forced
him to withdraw $200 of his money.
The victim told police that the
suspects told him to stop the car at
about 3:30 a.m., 11 hours and 15
minutes after they had gotten into his
car. The suspects then fled.
□ Scientists work on
producing remedies
extracted from every
day foods.
By Brad Dressier
The Battalion
Cadets raise $50,000
for March of Dimes
Researchers are developing
inexpensive vaccines from ge
netically engineered plants to
prevent diseases that affect
millions worldwide.
Scientists at Texas A&M Uni
versity’s Institute for Biosciences
and Technology in Houston and
the Roswell Park Cancer Insti
tute in Buffalo, New York have
been extracting proteins from ge
netically engineered plants to
produce a simple, inexpensive
vaccine to help prevent diseases
such as Hepatitis B.
Dr. Hugh Mason, research
assistant professor at IBT, said
scientists have known that
some antibodies are produced
from everyday foods.
Currently, the tobacco plant
is used to extract proteins and
test a raw vaccine against the
Hepatitis B virus.
Dr. Philip Lyons, research sci
entist at IBT, said that ideally,
the plant protein-based Hepatitis
B vaccine and similar vaccines
could help prevent the spread of
diseases worldwide, especially in
developing countries.
“We are working to produce an
inexpensive, orally administered
vaccine,” he said. “This would be
ideally suited for developing na
tions, making costs more feasible
and administration easier.”
The source of the vaccines,
common plants, can be produced
abundantly and inexpeu
The proteins extracted ftt;
plants go through a simple
cation process, keeping mi
In addition, refrigei
would not be a necessity
ing storage and transport
easier, he said.
The current commerce
cines for Hepatitis Barepi
from genetically modified
which is expensive, partit
for developing countries.
In addition, the mostc;
vaccines must go throi.
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go through various s
fore being released to the:
mercial market.
They expect the vaccineJ
available in several years.
The Texas A&M Corps of Cadets
raised $50,000 for the Bryan-College
Station March of Dimes during the
annual March to the Brazos.
The cadets marched 15 miles from
the Quad to the Brazos River on
Saturday. The cadets received their
new positions while at the river.
Next year’s Corps leaders will be
Tyson Voelkel, Corps commander;
Brian Beckcom, Wing commander;
Scott Garrett, Brigade commander;
Laurent Therivel, Regiment
commander; and Will Koeck, Aggie
Band commander.
Maverick County in
midst of tort reform
EAGLE PASS(AP) — Isolated,
impoverished Maverick County on
the Texas-Mexico border has found
itself at the epicenter of the state’s
current tort reform temblor.
Two lawsuits in state district
court here involving thousands of
plaintiffs have raised questions
about current Texas laws governing
where court cases can be filed and
who can file them.
The lawsuits underscore last
week’s Texas Senate approval of a
bill aimed at stopping venue.
Engineering students soar high oi
design of functioning model platij
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□ A&M students design
small-scale airplanes
for a class project.
By Brad Dressier
The Battalion
Texas A&M aerospace engi
neering students have been
applying their knowledge to
ward a hands-on project to de
sign small-scale airplanes.
The project is part of a two-
part aerospace engineering
course and involves 24 students,
divided into six teams, to design
different model planes.
The students have been
working since the fall semester
to sketch, build and see their
model planes take flight.
Thomas McElmurry, a visit
ing associate professor in aero
space engineering, oversees the
students throughout the project.
McElmurry said the stu
dents gain precious experience
from the applied project.
“The students have the op
portunity to partake in a one
time experience, from design
on a piece of paper to the test
ing of the design to the actual
flight of the vehicle,” he said.
McElmurry said that be
cause of the hands-on nature
of the course and the scope of
the students* responsibilities,
students can learn valuable in
formation to apply later in life.
“One reason this project is
of great benefit,” he said, “is
that the students truly learn
all aspects of the course mater
ial, because they are so deeply
involved in the various aspects
of the project.”
Scott Hejny, a senior
space engineering stdi
said students not only!
engineering skills, buti
learn teamwork.
“We learned to works
team, building on our comiri
cation skills and gaining ex:|
ence and responsibility," hes
“Overall, we learned a lot:
teamwork, building, fabricaij
skills and more."
The students took tMg
model planes for a testflitSr.
April 20 at the Texas As®
Riverside campus.
Hejny said the stude:®
learn the reality of designs
sus application.
“Things may not always;|
planned: we all learned froir-
test flights,” he said. “\Vh:! | .
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remained stable and airborag.’ North wir
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1994-95 UNIVERSITY UNDERGRADUATE FELLOWS
SYMPOSIUM PRESENTATIONS
The University Undergraduate Fellows Program is the capstone of the Honors curriculum at Texas A&M. Tliis|irB
gram is the most prestigious research opportunity available for undergraduates at the University featuring a do*
master-apprentice relationship between student researcher and faculty advisor.
Shortly after Fellows submit their completed Senior Honors Theses, they are invited to make formal oral presenta™
of their completed research at the annual University Undergraduate Fellows Symposium. This year the Fellowsliail
been divided into ten groups of students pursuing research in related areas. Each group will conduct a sepanlj!
Symposium session on the fifth floor of Rudder Tower according to the following schedule:
Monday, April 24th, 7:00 p.tn.
Iliolofrical & Life Sciences. Rudder 501
Kyla Goodson
Michelle Hardee
Lori Herrmann
Jamie Las swell
Michael McGuire
Linda Yancey
Wednesday, April 20th, 7:00 p.m.
Genetics. Rudder 502
Kelly Hogan
Amy Inman
David McFadden
Jennifer Umphress
I jit era lure. Rudder 501
History & Sociology. Rudder 504
Daniel Fuchser
Stephanie James
Heather McGlure
Christine Reinhard
Claudia Laird
Shannon Fogg
Hilaire Kallendorf
Hilde Kaiser
Marshall Love
Heather Murray
Christiana Sahl
Miranda Zent
J Study
Physical & Ensineering Sciences (A), R udder 510
William Charlton
Jon DeShazo
Matthew Felder
Ch ristopher Forthman
Slatnel Rianto
Michael Scott
Fh vsical & Engineering Sciences (II), Rudder 510
llrynn Armstrong
Steve Chen
Dnvin Fotts
Chad Sosolik
Marshall Veach
Political Science Fconomics, Rudder 502
Christopher King
Sean () Donnell
April Pickrcl
llrinn Fra sty
Kellie Sims
Psychology (11). Rudder 50]
Arwen llerry
Shawn Davis
Knrnran Janjua
Kendra. Reiser
Take a
Recei
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Psy<holot!y (A), Radder 507
Ryan Adams
Monica Gallatnore
A ranada Cumberland
Anne Morris
Social/Fnviionment<d System. Rudder 501
Jonathan Aldis
Heather Robbie
Vanessa Carpenter
Kelley Hays
Kevin KotJi
Carol M( Rryde
A reception honoring the 1994-95 University Undergraduate Fellows will he held in the lobby on the second don 1 '
Rudder "Power tit 6:00 p.m. Monday, April 24th. Faculty, students, and other members of the University romim 111
are invited to attend the reception and tiny of the Symposium sessions to learn more about what some of Texas Ao
University's most successful, confident, and motivated undergraduates have been able to achieve. Should you liavi’ 111
questions, please contact Ur. Susanna Finnell, Associate Director of the University Honors Program, 845-6774
For n