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Pretty boys
Pro/Con: Should Deion Sanders
be able to sell his talents to the
NFL's highest bidder?
Percival: Concealed
handguns will make for
safer streets.
Sports, Page 7
Opinion, Page 11
Appearances do not
matter: To Wong Fu is
duller than it seems.
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tions, he is encouraging cadet involve-
Corps are working to increase ment in activities outside the Corps.
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cadet representation in MSC
activities. In recent years,
participation has been
lacking.
By Kasie Byers
The Battalion
Stew Milne, The Battalion
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Texas A&M’s Corps of Cadets
and MSC Council are making good
on a promise from last spring to im
prove cadet involvement in MSC ac
tivities and organizations.
Tyson Voelkel, Corps commander,
said that as a first step in heightening
attend this semester’s MSC Open
House,” Voelkel said. “We’re getting
more numbers involved in the MSC
and making [cadets] more aware of
other activities they can get involved
with besides the Corps.”
Jonathan Neerman, MSC Council
executive vice president of relations,
said the Corps has strong roots in the
MSC because it was built when all
students had to be cadets.
However, in recent years the
Corps has not shown an interest in
the Council, Neerman said.
“In the three years I have been here,
there hasn’t been much Corps involve
ment in the MSC,” he said. “Cadets are
so busy with the Corps, they have no
time for outside activities.
“No concerted effort by either group
was made to find common ground. But
this year, the communication gap has
been bridged with hopes of making
progress in many areas.”
Voelkel said he views Corps involve
ment in the MSC as a means of improv
ing leadership among the cadets.
“A&M is one large leadership lab,”
he said. “And as Corps commander I
believe the [Corps] to be the strongest
component of this lab as far as student
leaders go.
“However, I want the Corps to
gain outside leadership and let others
see we’re students too. We’re not
some kind of monsters or skinhead
Nazis running around the campus.”
Patrick Conway, MSC Council pres
ident, said he sees a better relation
ship between the two groups this year.
“The Corps and MSC will have a
strong bond this year due to the indi
viduals involved: Tyson Voelkel, Carl
Baggett and Marc Mulkey from the
Corps, and Jonathan Neerman from
the MSC,” Conway said.
A total turnaround in relations is
already evident, Neerman said.
“The MSC Council has always had
a place for the Corps commander at its
meeting table,” he said. “In the past,
that place was always empty, but since
Tyson [Voelkel] has become Corps
commander, there has been Corps rep
resentation at every meeting.”
Neerman said this representation
makes MSC decisions more complete
because the Corps makes up a signifi
cant population at the University.
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The National Science Foundation has
warded the Texas Engineering Experi-
aent Station $250,000 to establish an
Industry-University Cooperative Re
search Center for Electronic Materials,
Jevices and Systems.
The CEMDAS is a joint effort with the
Iniversity of Texas at Arlington where
complementary experiments will take
place. The center will also work with
Prairie View A&M University’s NASA
Center for Applied Radiation Research.
TEES received $50,000 a year for five
years for the program.
Dr. Raghvendra K. Pandey, an A&M
engineering professor who will direct
the A&M facility, said the center will
help bridge the gap between industry
and educational research facilities.
“One of the goals of the center is to
work in collaboration with industry,
government laboratories and private
foundations to facilitate information ex
change, technology transfer and com
mercialization,” Pandey said.
Industry advisers will work closely with
the universities to help direct specific pro
jects with practice industrial applications.
See TEES, Page 9
Stew Milne, The Battalion
Jason Vrooman, freshman biomedical science major, works out at the Student Rec
Sports Center.
Club owners remain
optimistic despite Rec
Sports Center success
□ Local health club owners
and managers said long
lines at the Rec Center and
loyal clientele will keep
their businesses in shape.
By Elizabeth Todd
The Battalion
Health club management in the
Bryan-College Station area have no
ticed a decline in business since the
Aug. 28 opening of the Student
Recreation Center.
However, some clients went to the
center on the first day of classes, ea
ger to try out the new equipment,
health club management reported,
but they returned the next day to
their regular gyms.
Don Pietro, general manager of
Lifestyles gyms, is remaining objective
about the center’s opening.
“Anytime you get a new guy in
town, it’s going to affect established
businesses,” Pietro said. “They built a
state-of-the-art facility over there, but
we’ve been here for 10 years.”
Pietro said he believes students will
not settle for waiting in line for a Rec
Center workout. While the center does
See Success, Page 9
Tim Moog, The Battalion
Brotherly love
Brett Mendenhall, sophomore business administration major, and Brett Scheleand, sophomore mechanical engineering major,
are lifted up by their new fraternity brothers after accepting their bids Friday afternoon in front of the Systems Building.
Planning ahead simplifies graduate,
professional school application process
□ The complicated
application process can be
alleviated through the help
of the Office of Professional
School Advising.
By Melissa Keerins
The Battalion
Students who are interested in ap
plying for graduate or professional
school should start finding out the ad
mission requirements now.
Dr. Anne Blum, head of Texas
A&M’s Office of Professional School Ad
vising, said as soon as a student has a
notion that they want to go to a profes
sional school, they should come to the
office and get started.
“We have full-time pre-law and full
time pre-health advisers on staff,”
Blum said. “We also have free medical
and law newsletters that students can
sign up for.”
The office has information about pro
fessional schools in Texas and their pre
requisites and has an extensive library
with information on out-of-state schools.
The office provides student work
shops that explain the entire applica
tion process step-by-step.
Greg Ritchie, a student worker at
the professional school advising office
and a senior biomedical science major,
said the longer students wait to the ap
ply, the harder it is to be accepted to a
graduate school.
“People need to get their applications
started now,” Ritchie said. “If you wait
too long then you will not have as great
a chance to get accepted.”
Students should start the long appli
cation process as soon as they meet all
the prerequisites, Ritchie said.
“The sooner they get an application
sent in, the sooner they can get an in
terview from the school and then get
accepted,” he said.
He advised students to register for the
basic workshop and pick up a general in
formation sheet as soon as possible.
During the application process, stu
dents must write an essay, which the
office will help edit.
Jennifer Pettit, a senior biology ma
jor, is applying to dental school and
said the process has been easy because
of the professional advising office.
“They have a time line in the office
that tells you where you should be in the
application process,” Pettit said. “It tells
you when you should take your applica
tion test and other important dates.”
If a student is interested in graduate
studies, many departments offer gradu
ate degrees. Students should talk to the
departments to which they Eire applying
and find out if there are any deadlines.
See SCHOOL, Page 9
Graduate students face
pressure from committee
□ To finish their degree
plans, graduate students
must have their thesis or
dissertation approved by a
committee, which some
students say is a hindrance.
By Courtney Walker
The Battalion
Graduate students say they face
pressure from graduate advisers and
committee members who have the
power to make or break their chances
of getting a degree.
Graduate students begin by filing a
degree plan and choosing a committee
to approve the plan, classes, hours and
all details related to their degree plan.
Dr. James C. Hoiste, associate direc
tor for the office of graduate studies,
said every degree plan is different be
cause graduate students present their
own list of courses and curriculum.
“The whole premises is designed to
be flexible and meet the students’
See Graduate, Page 9
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