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Bummer degree seekers face deadline
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□ Seniors who were eli
gible to graduate this
summer have until next
Friday to complete their
degree requirements.
By Tara Wilkinson
Mhe Battalion
More than 2,000 students
graduated from Texas A&M dur
ing the Aug. 11-12 commence-
irent ceremonies.
I Don Gardner, associate regis-
p-ar, said an exact count of grad-
tiat.es from each college is not yet
available because students have
until Sept. 1 to complete all
course work and confirm all
transfer hours for their degree
fcquirements.
Students who participated in
commencement but have not met
their requirements received an
empty diploma tube when they
walked across the stage. The
diplomas will be given when de
gree requirements are met.
“I don’t know how many [A&M
graduates who have not met their
degree requirements] there are
hanging out there,” Gardner said.
Of the approximately 2,000
potential A&M graduates,
about 1,700 attended the com
mencement ceremonies.
State Rep. Rob Junell of San
Angelo spoke at the Aug. 11 cer
emony for the Colleges of Agri
culture and Life Science, Busi
ness Administration and Gradu
ate School of Business, Educa
tion, Geosciences and Maritime
Studies and Science.
Junell, chairman of the House
Appropriations Committee, said
the A&M graduates should take
control of their lives and realize
their power to make changes.
“You have the ability to
change things,” he said. “When
you leave here tonight, make
something happen.”
He said education prepares
leaders to solve society’s prob
lems with time and hard work.
“One of the things you have
learned at this university is how
to compete, to not be afraid to
work hard for a goal,” he said. “We
have problems, but it takes people
like you, who know what hard
work is, to solve these problems.”
Dr. Amy Freeman Lee of San
Antonio spoke at the Aug. 12
ceremony for the Colleges of Ar
chitecture, Engineering, Liber
al Arts, Medicine and Veteri
nary Medicine.
Lee, chairman of the board of
trustees of the Wilhelm School
in Houston and a noted artist,
art critic and humanist, said
A&M graduates need to consider
two areas when making choices
in the pursuit of happiness.
Everybody, she said, needs
to develop a definition of what
life means.
“In order to get what you want
out of life, you first must define
what life means to you,” Lee said.
“And depending what your indi
vidual definition is, that is how
you will live your life.”
Lee urged the graduates to
use their educations wisely.
“Life is a continuous educa
tion,” she said. “We are constantly
learning new things, but as we
learn new things we must also try
and gain experience from the
things we already have learned.”
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linistration's plan say the way
lo attack the trade deficit is to
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e Clinton administration’s effort to prop
|p the sagging dollar as either a masterful
arket play or a boneheaded policy that will
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lating the U.S. trade deficit.
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ly in global currency markets, selling
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what by some estimates was as much as $4
billion in the U.S. currency.
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against the mark, compared to levels at the
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tion, the dollar has regained almost all of
that lost ground, ending last week down only
2.5 percent from where it started the year
against the Japanese yen.
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direction of the wrong end zone.”
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the administration has no business trying to
support the dollar at a time when America’s
trade deficit is heading to the stratosphere.
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other foreign products more expensive for
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