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I Battalion f ‘age 7 y began te °ver thei !rs in footl n 8' grotesqiiJ e y for playeJ lr ed or not live | i'he best play, i at makes hin | iitt Smith i s more flas Monday • September 11,1995 Page 9 • The Battalion Warships launch cruise missiles at Serbs □ Ship-based missiles were used for the first time Sunday against Bosnia. SPLIT, Croatia (AP) — A U.S. warship in the Adriatic Sea fired 13 Tomahawk cruise missiles at Serb targets in northwestern Bosnia on Sun day, NATO said. The effect of the missiles fired by the American cruiser USS Normandy wasn’t immedi ately known, said NATO spokesman Maj. Panagiotis Theodorakidis. He said the mis- an isolated 'layers have 3v eral teams fo of money. Mark Step- and Scott involved in before. I0 ws owners | School *y With the ; of their ca- °r the one P turn the 5 the team Continued from Page 1 'ams more age socks, ball. With 1, premier emselves md round, with real o the up- would be imagine srvices of remen in mid find ?r in the have no IS ers, are that be two ague, is that yfill- with dio play- §rue. is s for id s 1 him le of t red ent i as a i Students should fill out their applications and send two tran scripts from other schools at tended and a current GRE or GMAT score. Tammi Caskey, coordinator for admissions and records for the College of Veterinary Medi cine, said students interested in veterinary medicine should find siles were launched at 8:41 p.m. (2:41 p.m. EOT). It was the first use of the ship-based missiles in NATO’s campaign to force the Bosnian Serb rebels to pull their ar tillery and other heavy weapons out of range of Saraje vo, and to ease their pressure on other U.N. “safe areas” such as Tuzla. Also Sunday, Bosnian Serbs shelled the U.N.-controlled Tu zla airport and NATO retaliat ed swiftly with airstrikes, de stroying rebel positions near the northeastern city. In an attempt to end the 12- day standoff with the Serbs, out which field of veterinary medicine interests them, and de termine what experience and grades are needed. Applicants are accepted for the overall picture they present to the school, not just on the ba sis of their grades or experience, Caskey said. “We look at academic perfor mance, how the applicants grades compete with others, their GRE score, interview and their written communication skills,” she said. Graduate: Students choose their own committee members Continued from Page 1 needs," Hoiste said. Students choose their own committee members, who are required to be Texas A&M professors and can be chosen from departments outside the students’ majors. The number of committee members range from three to five for graduate students pur suing master's degrees. Doctor al graduate students generally have five members on their ad visory committees. Once students, their advis ers and committee members have agreed on a curriculum and final thesis or dissertation, they sign the degree plan. Committee members are expected to supervise and counsel graduate students. The students are expected to fulfill all the degree require ments in time. Stephani Stephenson Moore, Graduate Student Council president and a grad uate meteorology student, said choosing a committee is not always easy and can bring a wide range of ideas and opinions. Moore said sometimes this part can be tricky because the classes you take and every- : thing in your degree plan is under the discretion of the committee. “Sometimes you have to take classes you don’t want to,” Moore said. “But you’ve signed a contract, so you have respon sibilities to uphold. “Everyone has a different opinion and different slant, so you just have to be flexible and deal with all of them.” The majority of work done in graduate studies is re search, and students work closely with their professors and advisers. Graduate students working toward master’s degrees must complete thesis papers about problems no one has ever tried to solve. “Students have presented ideas in the past, but advisers usually have ideas since they have more experience,” Hoiste said about selecting thesis topics. Doctoral candidates are re quired to complete disserta tions, which are in-depth ex tensions of thesis papers. When their papers are com plete, graduate students pre sent the papers before their committees and are questioned about their work. If the committees do not unanimously agree with the fi nal papers, students are given one more chance to pass. Stu dent who’s papers are not ap proved the second time must reapply to another department. “Most horror stories you hear from graduate students are fol lowed by a good reason,” MofJf-e said. “Usually the students are not holding up to their responsi bilities and just goofing off, then decide they want to graduate in four years.” The average degree plan for master candidates is 1-2 1/2 years and doctoral candidate is 3-7 years, if everything hap pens on time. Dr. Dan H. Robertson, di rector of graduate studies, said advisers and committee mem bers are empowered to carry out University policies. “1 do not view graduate stu dents and advisers as a power relationship.” Robertson said. “Advisers are there to help.” Christy Rollins, an educa tion curriculum and instruc tion graduate student, said she has heard of graduate students having difficulties with their committees. “I had a friend who fin ished his thesis and was de fending it, when a certain professor kept coming up with reasons against it, so he had stay nine extra months to fin ish,” Rollins said. if there is a disagreement between the committee mem bers and students, the latter has a chain of command to fol low, beginning with the de partment head. If students are not happy with the department head’s de cision, they may go to the dean of the college, followed by the graduate student office and fi nally an appeals board com posed of faculty and students. “If the students still feel no one has treated them fairly, they can always go to court and take legal action,” Hoiste said. ADVANCED ATS TUTORING SERVICES GROUP Tues 9/12 Wed 9/13 Thur 9/14 Sun 9/17 Mon 9/18 7 TO 10 PHYS 208 CH 23-24 PHYS 202 CH 24-25 PHYS 202 CH 26 PHYS 202 CH 27-28 PHYS 202 CH 29 & Test Review 10 TO 1 PHYS 219 CH 23-24 MATH 308 CH 1-2 PHYS 218 PHYS 208 CH 25-26 m For more information call our TICKET OFFICE ^ I g in BURGER BOY at 846 -2146 AJS TUTORING We also have private tutors for many classes! 846 - 2146 President Jacques Chirac of France, speaking before the missile attack, said late Sunday he had demanded the NATO raids stop for several hours to allow for a possible agreement on the withdrawal of Serb guns. He did not say when the sus pension would take effect. Despite morning cloud cover, NATO warplanes also carried out airstrikes Sunday in other parts of Bosnia, said alliance spokesman Franco Veltri in Naples, Italy. Another NATO spokesman, Capt. Jim Mitchell, said cruise missiles were used Sunday be cause of their accuracy and be- BILCTARDS BAR Open Dart Tournament Every Tuesday starting at 8:00pm $5 entry fee • Double elimination • 1st, 2nd, & 3rd place prizes • Bud Light Chuggers $2.00 Happy Hour 4-7 pm M-F $1.50 Draft $1.50 Longnecks $2.25 Pitchers $2.25 Well Monday Night Football 2 Big Screens $3.50 Miller Lite Pitchers 7:30 - 11:00 Free Buffalo Wings During Game (AH you can eat) cause they can be used in all types of weather. He said their use also reduced the risk to NATO pilots flying over Bosnia. Mitchell said the decision to use the missiles did not repre sent a change in the mission being carried out by NATO and the United Nations, nor in the targets being attacked. « . e He said the U.S. ships were at- | Winn Dixie Shopping Center - Texas Ave. 764-8664 | tacking Bosnian Serb “air defense assets” in northwest Bosnia. Since Aug. 30, NATO has car ried out heavy attacks against a broad array of Serb targets across Bosnia, including ammunition de pots and command and communi cation centers. TEES Continued from Page 1 Research will involve thin film, crystal growth of electron ic materials, fiber optics, elec tro-optics, integrated optics, semiconductor lasers, mi crowave circuits, solid state electronics and systems integration. Working in cooperation with Texas Instruments, Honeywell and other corporations, the cen ter will research technology that will be used in items such as compact disc players and telecommunications systems. Dr. Kambiz Alavi, director of the University of Texas at Ar lington facility, explained that the center is not primarily for in dustry’s benefit. “The most important thing we work with is students,” Alavi said. “They shape the future of the University and industry.” Graduate students working for the center will have a chance to see the results of their re search, since it is geared toward industry needs. The NSF centers began in the mid-1980s with a govern ment push to increase the Unit ed States’ competitiveness in technology development. Similar centers around the country research a wide variety of topics, including remedies for work-related injuries, like back injuries and carpal tunnel syndrome. Dr. C. Roland Haden, A&M System vice chancellor and dean of engineering, explained that the facility is one of 53 in the country. “The award of this center to the Texas Engineering Experi ment Station is a true measure of recognition for the agency and the System,” Haden said. 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Bernard Johnson, a part- time worker at the center, said the Rec Center has a definite advantage over the other health clubs. “The other gyms are small er,” Johnson said, “and they don’t have all the things you have here.” Johnson said the Rec Center has been packed the last two weeks since it has been open for business, but will probably begin to slow down once stu dents become involved in their classes and begin taking tests. “It’s kind of like buying a new car,” he said. “You have a lot of people in here for the first couple of weeks.” Alex Long, a sophomore aerospace engineering major, had already purchased a mem bership at a local club before the center opened. Having already paid to work out at two different places, Long said she is keeping an open mind. “It’s not costing me any more to do either one,” she said. “But the equipment at the Rec Cen ter is a hundred times better, and they’ll keep it up.” If students remain flexible about when they work out, Long said, everyone should be able to benefit from the Center. “There are enough machines to go around if you go at cer tain times,” she said, “just like at any other gym.” Steve Lumpy, owner of Gold’s Gym, said that if the $50 Rec Center fee was option al, more students would get a membership with an off-cam- pus facility. “I think they would be will ing to come over here and even pay a little more to use our fa cilities,” Lumpy said. 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