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Tickets available at the MSC Box Office Adults - $10.00 (season $35 00) Senior Citizens (65+)— $7.00 (season $25.00) Students — $5.00 (season $20.00) Parking available in the University Center Parking Garage. ($.60 p/hr) Rudder Theatre is Handicapped Accessible. For Information: 845-3355 or 845-1234. James N Childs, M.D. Class of ‘79 and Maria V. Childs, M.D. Dermatology and Dermatologic Surgery Board Certified announce the relocation of their practice 1605 Rock Prarie Rd., Suite 312 College Station (across from B.V. Medical Center) 696-4444 Italy Spring ‘96 for Future Teachers! Study with TAMU in Castiglion Fiorentino at the TAMU Study Abroad Center in Europe! Your international experience could be your students’ first look at the world! Interested? Please come to an informational meeting in 154 Bizzell Hall West on: Tuesday, June 13 10 - 11 Wednesday, June 14 4-5 For more information, contact: Prof. John Hoyle Prof. Lynn Burlbaw 203 HECC 330 HECC 845-2748 845-6195 Study Abroad Programs • 161 Bizzell Hall West • 845-0544 AGGIE RING ORDERS THE ASSOCIATION OF FORMER STUDENTS CLAYTON W. WILLIAMS, JR. ALUMNI CENTER DEADLINE: JUNE 14, 1995 Undergraduate Student Requirements: 1. You must be a degree seeking student and have a total of £>§ 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. 3fi 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*2 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 August 1995 degree candidate and you do not have an Aggie ring from a prior degree, 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 in 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 Wednesday, June 14,1995, to complete the application for eligibility verification. 2. If your application is approved and you wish to receive your ring on September 6, 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 June 16,1995. Men’s 10K-$311.00 14K - $425.00 Women’s 10K - $175.00 14K - $203.00 Add $8.00 for Class of ‘94 or before. The ring delivery date is September 6, 1995. Page 6 • The Battalion N TI o w Pentagon to check possible intelligence gap! □ The White House has asked the Pentagon to see if a possi ble failure to relay intelligence on Bosnian Serb missiles con tributed to the downing of an F-16 over Bosnia. WASHINGTON (AP) — The White House has asked the Pentagon to see if a possible failure to relay intelligence on a Bosnian Serb missile site contributed to the downing of Capt. Scott O’Grady’s F-16 over Bosnia, White House Chief of Staff Leon Panetta said Sunday. Panetta, speaking on NBC’s “Meet the Press,” said there are always risks involved in flying over hostile territory and “it is im portant that we provide maximum informa tion to those pilots.” He said the Pentagon and Joint Chiefs of Staff Chairman Gen. John Shalikashvili have been asked “to look into this situation to make sure that we do not repeat any pos sible mistakes that may have taken place.” The Washington Post reported Sunday that the National Security Agency, which gathers intelligence for the Defense De partment, had detected tracking radar for an SA-6 missile in the area before O' Grady’s reconnaissance flight June 2. However, this information was not con veyed to the pilot’s commander. The Post said, and the Air Force captain was flying without radar-jamming escort when he was shot down. this instance,” Panetta said when asked about the re port. O’Grady, rescued af ter six days of hiding in the Bosnian countryside, eject ed after his fighter plane was hit by a Serb surface- to-air missile. Panetta noted that only one U.S. warplane has been shot down among some 69,000 sorties over Bosnia as part of monitor ing the “no-fly zone” there. “Obviously, we take a huge number of precau tions in order to pin down those missile sites, try to make sure the pilots are aware of them and try to provide maximum protec tion to them.” House Speaker Newt Gingrich, R-Ga., speaking on ABC’s “This Week With David Brinkley,” said he was “very concerned” by ac knowledgments from top military officials that they had known since November Rescue in Bosnia Air Force pilot Scott F O'Grady te shot clown June 2 by a Serb surface-to-air missHe The plane te skced In half; O'Grady ejects Ik W water food «8 Gun & Compass m Blanket rnada of toll % Matches « Battery- Operated strobe beacon & flare 881 Radio which transmits voice at close range and signal at a distance 8 Mirror for signaling 2 At 2:08 a.m. Thursday, O’Grady makes radio contact with e NATO airplane flying overhead At 5:45 a.m., a backup group of rescue aircraft and helicopters is and helicopters Is launched. They will remain offshore to monitor the rescue and assist If needed At. 5 50 am, the primary rescue aircraft-Myvo CH-53 Sea StaBiort assault helicopters, two AH-1. Cobra attack helicopters and two AV-8 harrier jump lets—are launched from USS Kearsarge In the Adriatic Sea. At 6:12 a m . the rescue aircraft make radio contact with O’Grady in a forested area south of Bihac, V* , rescuers spot ^5 yellow smoke flare that O’Grady released. The pilot runs ootofthe woods, wearing his helmet and flight jacket and carrying his pistol A CH-53 helicopter picks him up. -^TTv / ' k Prc A shoulder-fired mss* land small-arms fifef!| [aimed at Ihe hefco?»|^||l C as it leaves Bosnia han USS Koars»iy» !y Katl ’HE B/ “I don’t know what exactly happened in that the Serbs were building up their radar systems, “and we did nothing to take them down, and that was a political decision, that was not a military decision.” “The department is conducting a thor ough investigation into the events sur rounding the shootdown of the F-16,” Air Force Maj. Tom Schultz, a Defense Depart ment spokesman, said Sunday. He refused to comment further. Associated Press I he ite ap Defense Secretary William Perry sr ^ on da Saturday that the United States might se ^tend more radar-jamming aircraft, suchasE^w 3 Ills, to the Bosnian region to bolster pror^ 16 pr tion for American planes. ^ a > B Adm. Leighton Smith, commander i en L ^ NATO forces in Southern Europe, hast; A s cided that in the future, all F-16 fligj arice over Bosnia will be accompanied by rad r< jamming aircraft. - ^ lave L Camp Congress moving to banish $ 1 bill to save mone /alidal . Dr. Oolleg Continued from Page 1 relationships with each other and with cadets. “They really get to be close friends in one week,” Duke said. “They develop a lot of team spir it and bonding. Another high light for them is getting to know the cadets. We know campers that have developed long-term relationships with our cadets.” Melcher said the Texas Aggie Youth Camp was the idea of Maj. Gen. Thomas Darling, Corps commandant. Melcher said the camp is de signed to be more than a recruit ing tool. He said a survey taken last year at the end of camp showed that at least half of the campers did not intend to join the Corps. □ The idea has been around for years, but it may finally come to a vote as part of Republi can leadership plans. The camp is to get the kids thinking about college." — David Melcher camp chairman WASHINGTON (AP) — Ali Khan peels greenbacks from a thick wad to make change as he hawks shirts, shades and sun vi sors outside the Treasury. He’d rather deal in dollar bills and thinks a plan to replace them with coins is a big clinker. “If I had all these coins in my pocket I wouldn’t be able to move,” he says. “Coins are just trouble.” Plans to replace the $1 bill with a coin have floated around Congress for years, but the idea appears headed toward a vote this time as part of Republican leadership plans to banish the buck to save dollars and cut the deficit. But inside the Treasury De partment, government officials argue against retiring old George Washington, on the cur rency since 1869. “This is another attempt to force the American people to ac cept something they’ve rejected twice in the past 25 years,” says Mint Director Philip N. Diehl, who’s afraid more $1 coins will end up in storage than stores. Remember the 1970s-era Eisenhow er dollar, a near coaster-size coin? How about the Su san B. Anthony? Minted in 1979, 300 million of them are being stored by the govern ment. The Eisenhower was too bulky to be popular and the “Susie B” too closely resembled As a result. Rep. Jim Kol ^ geve R-Ariz., specified in his bill tE the greenback must be elimk a f ac L ed with introduction of a coin ^ a formula that has proven K m ^ ne cessful in other industrialize nations. Americans who woi rather fight than switch willjn have to grumble instead. “People will get used to ill r "This is another attempt to force the American people to accept x something they've rejected twict ne | in the past 25 years." the quarter, causing confusion. More importantly, Americans resisted change and kept using paper dollars. — Philip N. ft Mint Dm:\ CW 1 —TiH** said Kolbe, who comes from Mr**-‘ ’ of the biggest copper-producirJ states. “It’s long overdue.” X ar ‘ Australia, Canada, Frant HE Japan, Britain and Spain af among countries that haver Sixt placed small denomination b:® crE ^ with coins in recent years. Lo. bgt. ruitin “The camp is to get the kids thinking about college,” Melcher said. “Then we get the kids thinking about A&M.” During the first year of the Texas Aggie Youth Camp, 80 campers attended one week-long session. Last year, the camp grew to 200 campers at three week-long sessions. Melcher said that this year they are ex pecting 250 campers. Melcher said the Texas Aggie Youth Camp brochures and ap plications were sent to all schools within a three-hour dis tance of College Station. Most of the campers are from Texas. “We’ve had kids in camp all the way from Oregon and Alas ka,” Melcher said. The first week of Texas Aggie Youth Camp started Sunday, and the second week ends June 24. CLASSES: Network allows two-way learning Continued from Page 1 Collaborative Network and other Texas universi ties, There are also connections with community colleges, libraries and the Satellite uplink/downlink facilities at the Educational Broadcast Services in College Station. Each campus has a unit that includes two tele visions, a video camera, a videocassette recorder, a slide projector and an overhead projector. Dr. Rodney Zent, director of Educational Broadcast Services, said slides can be stored on computer discs so professors can send graphics or illustrations to viewers at other campuses. Zent said signals from a necklace worn by pro fessors allow them to be seen on camera from anywhere in the room. The video signal is compressed into digital im ages with fewer frames per second than broad cast-quality television, he said. “It’s not broadcast-quality television - it’s not intended to be,” Zent said. “This isn’t a produc tion tool; it’s a communications device.” -orps econd lan a )in th Norman Hockenberry, A&M training speciafe for educational television, said the network is; e crui convenient way for students and faculty to interadhe Co “The key is that students are going to be abl: The to have the experience of talking to people iniadets videoconference environment,” Hockenberry saihe sai “They can virtually speak face to face with peop: ;e nts in Dallas, Austin, Houston or almost any meti' erest politan area in Texas.” All Hockenberry said corporations can use thi he Qi technology to make group decisions faster 81% Ne\ with less expense than in a traditional meetinhttenc He said this experience could give students ic The the College of Business Administration ive p competitive edge. ied as “It can give us the ability to interact in a rea iefore time format with students, business people anc government officials,” Wichern said. “Obviously it will enable people in other places to take cours es we might offer.” Texas A&M currently offers telecourses ins# jects including education, oceanography, engv" neering and computer science. 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CfrCLS, ' <T) Ot\<2,'s U/UA_ / lue Cruise ship v&iS ! r essn runs aground ece BOSTON (AP) — Tugboat: y We worked Sunday to free a 600'’hi. g foot luxury liner that raf aground in the middle of thf Grj night on a shoal near Nantuck l&m et Island, and chartered ferriet per carried its passengers ashore. k&M The Royal Majesty gGroff stuck 10 miles east of Naniisle: tucket late Saturday, whib Of returning from Bermuda t etes Boston with 959 passengertchols and a crew of more than 500. terce No one was hurt or ifyust 1 danger, and the ship appar. Ovi ently was undamaged, sat : |7:pei the Coast Guard and tb f Gr< ship’s owner, Majestlete g Cruise Line. ignif But the Royal Majesty ires s viewed from the air, was visi rj bly listing. It needs 27 feet :ent,” water to float, but its bow watn ap stuck in just 11 feet of water :1ass The Coast Guard was F injd tl vestigating how the ship’ Wi ran aground. aanic Despite the tugboats’ help pmd\ the ship probably could notbihe f< refloated before highest tid:? all at 11 p.m. EDT, she said. ithle 3l en