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■■■■■■■ Must see Improv, Everyone on ER dies anyway. Thursday, Sept. 28, 1995 Dixie Theater 10 p.m. Doors and bar open at 8, so get there early. Tickets $5 Dixie Theater is on Main St. in downtown Bryan MSC FILM SOCIETY PRESENTS... WITH A VENGEANCE FRl. & SAT. @ 7 6t 9:30pm Admission $2.75 w/I.D. $3 w/out I.D. Persons with disabilities please call 847-S478 to inform us of pour special needs. We request notification 3 working daps prior to the event in order that we map assist pou to the best of our abilitp. Aggie Cinema Hotline: 847-8478 Rudder Box Office: 845-1234 All films are presented in the Rudder Theater Complex e-mail: films.septtemsc.tamu.edu. PARTV |TIM€ ■ % -C^ - —* Bryan-1901 S. Texas Ave. ^ 779-0094 • College Station-2301 Texas Ave. S. cs- 696-5555 We Rent Fun! ^ , Free Computing Short Courses for Fall, 1995 7 Computing and Information Services (CIS) offers many short courses free of charge to everyone at Texas A&M. No pre-registration is necessary. All coursesare offered on a first-come first-served basis. For more information call 845-8300 or 862-3139. CIS Microcomputing Short Courses •Word for Windows 10:00 am Mon. Sept. 25 & Wed. Oct. 11 121 WCCC •Word for Macintosh 10:00 am Tue. Sept. 26 and Thu. Oct. 12 121 WCCC •Microsoft Access (database) 10:00 am Wed. Sept. 27 & Tue. Oct. 10 121 WCCC •Introduction to the Internet 10:00 am Thu. Sept. 28 &Wed. Oct. 4 121 WCCC •Excel for Windows 10:00 am Mon. Oct. 2 & Wed. Oct. 18 WCCC •Excel for Macintosh 10:00 am Tue. Oct. 3 & Thu. Oct. 19 121 WCCC UNIX Short Courses For more information on UNIX short courses, please call 847-UNIX •Programming Tools on UNIX 6:30-8:00 pm Mon. Sept. 25 116 Bright •UNIX Networking: An Introduction 6:30-8:00 pm Wed. Sept. 27 116 Bright •PC to UNIX Communications 6:30-8:00 pm Mon. Oct. 2 116 Bright •UNIX Electronic Mail 6:30-8:00 pm Wed. Oct. 4 116 Bright Supercomputing Short Courses For more information on Supercomputing short courses, please call 845-0219 SGI Power Challenge Tue. Sept. 26 (I) Thu. Sept. 28 (II) 3-5:00 pm 39 WERC Thread creation, parallel constructs, dependencies, and compiler directives •Cray J90 Code Optimization: Vectorization Concepts and Techniques Tue. Oct. 3 (I) Thu. Oct. 5 (11) 3-5:00 pm 39 WERC Page 6 • THE BATTALION Thursday • September 28 Primary Care Day highlights A&M program, informs public ursday • Se □ Texas A&M's College of Medicine is doing more than its fair share to reduce the national shortage of primary care physicians. By Lisa Johnson The Battalion The Texas A&M College of Medicine’s National Primary Care Day will bring guest speak ers to educate medical students and the Texas A&M student body about the need for primary care physicians, Janice Mau reen, College of Medicine direc tor of public affairs, said. “National Primary Care Day is held to raise the awareness about primary care among the medical students and the general public,” Maureen said. “There is now a primary care shortage of about 30,000 doctors nationally.” It is for this reason, Maureen said, the A&M medical school focuses on developing primary care physicians. In order to get hands-on experience in the field of primary care, second-year medical students work one af ternoon a week with doctors in the community. Donna Canney, second-year medical student, said primary care physicians have the benefit of establishing an enduring rela tionship with patients. “Primary care doctors are the ones that see the patients first, before the specialists or the doctors in the hospital,” Canney said. “That’s one of the advantages of being in primary care — you get to know the pa tients and their families on a long-term basis.” The number of doctors going into primary care fields, like family practice or general inter nal medicine, is rising because they are becoming the doctors of choice among insurance compa nies and health maintenance or ganizations, Canney said. “Primary care doctors can of ten figure out the needed treat ment and necessary medicines to treat their patient’s illness es,” she said. “So seeing their primary care physicians first can often save a person time and money on unnecessary!:: its to a specialist.” In conjunction with Natioc:B Primary Care Day, JohnBurii administrative director ar; physician recruiter for Joseph’s Hospital in Bryan, speak at a noon luncheonf: medical students. Dr. Grant Fowler, resident rector of Hermann Hospita|/L Itesidency affiliated with thel ; versity of Texas at Houston It; ical School and author of Pros dures for Primary Care Phv cians, will speak at a reception; the College of Medicine. Elvin E. Smith, Ph.D., ii im vice president for health;: | i 0 k e d up at he two- span bridg illion, m pi the stat I'ojects. ■ BAYTOWr ibre than se' iru; ended We Ends of frust ™o finished nrtman Brid e public. “As I sat he fairs and dean of the College Medicine, said the cc proud of its number of care physicians. "Primary care is a majorfc of our school, and we area tremely proud of the number I students going into primer! care,” Smith said. “For thethit year in a row, we have recehq the award from the Texas Ae emy of Family Physicians::| meeting national and state p| for the number of students tering primary care.” ians and (it what I know i out Texas, sh said bef n on the bri The two-i idge - one c nited Stat* ate’s costlie (OUT Senate Republicans pass bill to cut spending on EPA, veterans, homeless IA new \i b appoin inmates ir tate cour □ Although legislation to reduce the national debt was approved, a veto looms over the bill's fate because of its severity. WASHINGTON (AP) — Over Democratic ob jections, the Senate passed a $62 billion spend ing bill Wednesday that would slash money for environmental protection, housing programs and veterans’ benefits. Democrats, who said in advance that they lacked the votes to make substantial changes in the bill, urged President Clinton to veto it. The House previ ously approved equal or deeper spending cuts, so those differences must still be resolved. The Senate approved the legislation 55-45 af ter Republicans rebuffed Democratic attempts to restore funds for environmental cleanup of toxic dumps, help for the homeless, health programs for veterans and a cherished Clinton national service program. The legislation is the first of three broad domes tic spending bills being considered by the Senate this week. Senate Minority Leader Thomas Daschle, D-S.D., called the bills “extremism on pa rade” and said the only recourse was to urge a presidential veto. “There’s no point in trying to fine-tune this mess,” declared Daschle. The Senate bill would cut the Environmental Protection Agency’s budget by one-fourth to $5.6 billion, including a $430 million slash in its Super fund program for toxic waste cleanup. Clinton had sought an increase to $7.3 billion. It also would cut housing programs by $5 bil lion, one-fifth of current spending, eliminate Clin ton’s Americorps national service initiative and re duce veterans’ programs by $395 million. The reduction in the EPA budget — though less severe than that approved by the House — still “places the American public at serious risk,” said EPA Administrator Carol Browner. She said air and water pollution control efforts would be cur tailed and work at hundreds of Superfund toxic waste sites would stop. Republicans defended the spending reductions as part of a broader campaign to reduce the fed eral deficit. “It sets priorities in very tough times,” said Sen. Christopher Bond, R-Mo., the bill’s floor leader. “We’ve done as good a job as possible withint!! dollars available.” But Democrats said the priorities were me and that many of the cuts would finance taxrek tions for the wealthy. Federal low-income housing programs were pi’ ticularly hard hit. Overall spending on housing would be cut byf billion to $20.4 billion. That would be 20 perte: below current spending, and 16 percent less tk Clinton had requested. F*ublic housing constra tion funds would be reduced by $1.6 billionai: senators approved new restrictions on housir. programs that critics said may lead to rentii creases for poor tenants. An attempt to restore $360 million to help! homeless was rejected 52-48, despite pleas the 32 percent cut in the homeless assistancepR’ gram would hurt “those that are most in neel The House has made even deeper cuts of$440L lion in the fund for the homeless. “The homeless are at the very bottom ofto scale. They’re out there in the streets,” ssidSen. Paul Sarbanes, D-Md., pleading unsuccessfullytc restore funds to at least current levels. The legislation also would scuttle Clinton’! year-old Americorps national service initiative, one of his favorites, by providing no money forit An attempt to restore $425 million — half ofwbai Clinton had sought — was rejected 52-47. Sen. John Ashcroft, R-Mo., called Americorps “boondoggle for kids trying to find themselvei Other Republicans said it was too costly and aim ury at a time when programs across the govert ment were being slashed. The bill would cut veterans’ programs by $3J’ million from current spending levels, for a new total of $37.3 billion, nearly half of which is fixed spend ing that Congress cannot change. The administra tion had proposed an $875 million increase. Veterans health benefits would be increasei slightly but kept at $700 million less than the ad ministration had sought. “As a veteran, I find this to be an obscenity,” said Sen. John Kerry, Mass., a decorated Vietnam War veteran. “This is about priorities, about what we st for,” Sen. 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