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MSC Public Relations Committee
“Take A Look: How to Design
Flyers and Posters”
5:30 p.m. 40J Rudder
MSC Council Development
“Business Etiquette”
6:00 p.m. 601 Rudder
RESEARCH
INFECTED WOUND
STUDY
MSC CAMAC
“La Noehe Mexieana
7:00 p.m. MSC 201
VIP Research is seeking individuals
with infected cuts, scrapes, or
sutured wounds for a 3-week
research study of an investigational
antibiotical cream. Qualified
participants will receive free study
medication, study supplies and
medical exams. $100 will be paid to
qualified volunteers to enroll and
complete this study.
MSC MBA/Law Committee
“Distinguished Visitor
Executive Series”
10:00 a.m. - 2:00 p.m. MSC 231
MSC Film Society
Batman Forever
7:00 & 9:30 p.m.
Rudder Auditorium
Colonel James E. Ray, Class of '63,
a former prisoner of war, will rededi
cate Texas A&M's Westgate Memorial
today at 4:30 p.m.
The memorial, located near Albrit
ton Tower, is rededicated every year as
part of POW/MIA remembrance week.
Buglers will play Echo Taps and the
Ross Volunteers will give a 21-gun
salute as part of the ceremony.
Other events scheduled for the
week are a POW/MIA Symposium on
Thursday, Sept. 14 at 5:30 in Rudder
Theater and a standing vigil in front of
the Lawrence Sullivan Ross statue on
Friday, Sept. 15 from 8 a.m. to 3 p.m.
T-shirts and bracelets are on sale this
week. The MIA bracelets are $5 and t-
shirts, which have the names of former
A&M students who have been POWs or
are missing in action, are $10. Both are
being sold under the arches of the
Quadrangle and in the MSC.
HERPES VACCINE STUDY
VIP Research is seeking couples to
participate in a 19 month research
study of an investigational herpes
vaccine. To be considered for study
participation, one partner must have
genital herpes while the other partner |
must not carry the virus which cause
genital or oral herpes (cold
sores/fever blisters). $500 will be
paid to each qualified couple that
enroll and complete this study.
MSC Film Society
Mv Familv/Mi Familia
7:00 & 9:30 p.m.
Rudder Theater
Forbes sending signals
of presidential bid
MSC OPAS
“The Power of Five”
8:00 p.m.
Rudder Auditorium
VIP Research, Inc.
For more information call
(409) 776-1417
MSC Jordan Institute for
International Awareness and the
Department of Modern and
Classical Languages
“Russian Voices: Popular Music
and Contemporary Culture”
7:00 p.m., MSC 228-230
MSC Visual Arts Committee
“Poster Sale”
9:00 a.m. - 5:00 p.m.
MSC Hallway
WASHINGTON (AP) — With all
signs pointing toward a GOP presidential
bid, publisher Malcolm S. Forbes Jr. has
set up a campaign headquarters, hired a
staff of political professionals and ap
pears ready to spend as much as $25
million of his own money, advisers say.
Forbes, who goes by Steve, is little
known nationally, has never held pub
lic office, and is considered a long shot
by many in Republican circles.
Forbes sees his distance from politics
as a selling point, and has talked of
themes harkening back to the supply-
side economic theories of President Rea
gan and an internationalist world view.
Forbes, 48, has said he would
spend whatever it takes, through a
combination of his own money and
fund-raising.
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News Releases”
5:30 p.m. 401 Rudder
are being taken NOW!
T uesdays-Fridays
9 a.m.-5 p.m.
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Sept. 5 - Dec. 1
Freshmen
Sept. 5-29
at A R Photography
707 Texas Ave.
(next to Taco Cabana)
Call 693-8183 for info
MSC Black Awareness
and MSC Film Society
Panther and talk hy Bobby Seal
7 & 9:30 p.m.
Rudder Auditorium
20 | MSQFilm Society
Die Hard: With a Vengeance
7 & 9:30 p.m.
Rudder Theater
MSC MBA/Law Committee
“Distingnislied Visitor Executive
Series”
10-2 p.m. Room MSC 231
WASHINGTON (AP) — The United
States suffered its worst trade perfor
mance in history as the depressed
Mexican economy cut into U.S. ex
ports and Americans' appetite for for
eign oil, cars and electronic products
continued unabated.
The Commerce Department said
Tuesday that the deficit in America's
current account jumped to $43.62 bil
lion in the April-June quarter from the
first-quarter deficit of $39.03 billion.
The current account is the broadest
measure of U.S. trade covering mer
chandise, services and investment flows.
Analysts said American producers
were hurt by economic weakness in
many of America's prime export mar
kets. Mexico, which had been the
. third biggest market for U.S. exports,
was struggling with the fallout from
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said, do not require medical attention.
Carman and Freeman both said they be
lieve students should be excused from classes
and tests based on an honor system.
“I think the faculty needs to treat [stu
dents] as young adults,” Carman said. “You
should be able to stand up and say, ‘Well, I
was sick,’ and have that accepted.”
Freeman said when he was in college, pro
fessors provided make-up exams to all stu
dents who missed the original exam, with the
understanding that the make-up exam would
be more difficult.
A similar system, in which excuse forms do
not come into play, should be considered for
A&M, he said.
Some students said they would prefer an
honor system, even though they have known
people to get away with seeking shelter at the
health center when they are unprepared for a
test or not finished with a project.
Gerald Sarpy, a freshman biology major,
said the excuse policy is inconsistent with the
Aggie Code of Honor that states, “Aggies do
not lie, cheat or steal, nor do they tolerate
those who do.”
Sarpy said most A&M students live by this
motto and should not be penalized because a
minority of students do not.
“I feel that at A&M, since we have the Ag
gie Code of Honor, the faculty should ap
proach the students in that same way,” he
said. “If you start with the Aggie Code of Hon
or, you should stick with it and allow others to
stick with it.”
Other students said it is necessary for the
University to have an excuse policy, and that
it should be as strict as possible to deter stu
dents from abusing it.
Shelly Howard, a senior elementary educa
tion major, said students should learn to face
the effects of irresponsible actions while they
are in college.
“In the real world, you couldn’t just skip
work and go to a doctor and say, ‘Give me an
excuse,’” Howard said. “Wake up. In the real
world, you don’t always get second chances.”
Some changes in the class excuse policy
were made this summer when Dr. Ray Bowen,
Texas A&M president, approved recommenda
tions made by the Faculty Senate.
Dr. Brent Patterson, senior associate direc
tor of student affairs, said the changes made
this summer do not solve the problem of how
to ensure that only ill students receive class
excuses, but do address related issues.
The changes reword the portion of the Uni
versity regulations to clarify the rules.
The revised regulation states that the
health center can vouch for a student who has
been been ill and has been treated at the
health center if the health center “on request
of the student, confirms this fact.”
The regulation used to read, “on request,
confirm this fact.”
Patterson said the change was made be
cause many professors were calling the health
center in an attempt to find out more informa-'
tion about a student who handed in a health
center excuse. But the health center, to pre
serve patient confidentiality, does not provide
such information.
“We made these changes in order to clari
fy that it is the responsibility of the students
to provide some sort of documentation for
their illness,” Patterson said, “and to clarify
that faculty members can’t just call up the
health center and expect medical informa
tion about students.”
Jenny Brown, a freshman computer science
major, said she thinks adding structure and
clarity to the excuse policy will make health
center excuses more credible.
Brown said one of her professors started
this semester with an explanation of his per
sonal attendance policy and a comment that
he “doesn’t want to see those stupid little slips
from the health center.”
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