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    Page 10 • The BATTALION Wednesday • November 8, 1995
I N D
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YOUR
T E R N E I
PLACE
SPACE
A & M SYSTEM
INTERNET AWARENESS
WEEK • NOV. 6-10, 1995
3 01-3 02 J. EARL RUDDER TOWER
Internet Awareness Week
Schedule of Events for Monday and
Tuesday, November 6-7
Internet Awareness Week is a collection of short seminars designed to teach you how to use the vast resources of the Internet for work, study, and fun.
All courses are free and open to the public, so come on down to Rudder Tower and let us show you the wonders of the Net! Copies of the schedules for
Internet Awareness Week may be found at any CIS Help Desk, at 301 Rudder Tower, or on the Internet Awareness Week homepage at
http://www.tamu.edu/cis/internet_awareness/
Getting Started with the Internet:
Introduction to Computing Resources at Texas A&M University - Basic introduction to Computing and Information Services (CIS) and campus comput
ers, labs and help areas, the Internet, and electronic mail. Basic discussion of available resources and CIS services provided for people who know little about computing, Texas A&M
University generally-accessible labs or what computing resources are available to them. Mike Edwards, Computing and Information Services.
Thursday, November 9 8:00 am - 9:00 am Room 302 Rudder
The Internet Show - This video is a great guide to the wonderful world of the Internet for beginners. It explains in basic terms what the Internet is and what you can do with it -
such as electronic mail, the WWW, Gopher, Internet Relay Chat, and games! About 1.5 hours long. Chris Barnes, Computing and Information Services.
Wednesday, November 8 2:00 pm - 4:00 pm Room 301 Rudder Thursday, November 9 2:00 pm - 4:00 pm Room 301 Rudder
Using the Internet at Texas A&M University - Need a basic introduction to Internet access at Texas A&M University? This presentation will educate you about the
network facilities available at Texas A&M University and the types of communication possible on networks available at Texas A&M. Dr. Sarnia Massoud, Computing and Information Services.
Wednesday, November 8 8:00 am - 9:00 am Room 302 Rudder Thursday, November 9 11:00 am - 12:00 pm Room 302 Rudder
Using the Internet:
Getting Connected to the Internet - Interested in learning to “get connected” to the Internet? This presentation will discuss getting Texas A&M University accounts, as
well, as the hardware, software, and modems you’ll need to get your personal computer connected to the Internet. Sean Geoghegan, Computing and Information Services.
Wednesday, November 8 4:00 pm - 5:00 pm Room 302 Rudder Thursday, November 9 2:00 pm - 3:00 pm Room 302 Rudder
How to Use Electronic Mail - Interested in getting “online” so that you can instantly and effectively communicate with more that 80 million people around the world? Use
electronic mail! This presentation will cover how to get an electronic mail account, learning how to use electronic mail, how to use Listserv lists and Usenet Newsgroups, as well as a variety of
interesting uses for electronic mail. Dr. Sarnia Alassoud, Computing and Information Services.
Wednesday, November 8 3:00 pm - 4:00 pm Room 302 Rudder Thursday, November 9 3:00 pm - 4:00 pm Room 302 Rudder
Introduction to Listserv - i .istserv is a network application that enables you to join electronic discussion groups on just about everything under the sun. Whether you’re interest
ed in Labrador Retrievers, Shakespeare, in-line skating, or post-modernism, there’s something for you. Learn how to use Listserv lists, to subscribe to them, and even how to manage your
own Listserv list on a particular topic! Chris Barnes, Computing and Information Services.
Thursday, November 9 1:00 pm - 2:00 pm Room 302 Rudder
Introduction to Usenet News - Usenet News can be thought of as the “bulletin board” of the Internet. Like other bulletin boards, you can write a mcssage/article and elec
tronically “post” it to a topic area for other people to read. This presentation will explain the basics of Usenet News as well as how to use it to enhance information gathering and discussion in
an online format. Chris Barnes, Computing and Information Services.
Thursday, November 9 11:00 am - 12:00 pm Room 301 Rudder
Academic Assistance on the Internet - T he Texas A&M University Academic Assistance Clearinghouse provides a directory on the Internet of academic assistance pro
grams and services which are available at no cost to students. Students are able to access the Clearinghouse at any time to obtain current information regarding academic assistance from cam
pus departments. Schedules of help desks, departmental tutoring, review sessions and Supplemental Instruction sessions are available, in addition to lecture notes, study guides and practice
exam questions made available by Texas A&M professors. Come to this presentation to see a demonstration of this enriching resource!
Wednesday, November 8 1:00 pm - 2:00 pm Room 301 Rudder
World Wide Web Basics:
Le Tour de Web - With Infoman - This tour will take participants through a cyberspace journey with the KAMU-FM program Gig-A-Bytes'Infoman, Orlando Castillo.
This trip will include stops at search engines, educational sites, entertainment areas, art, sports, trivia, how-to and many other fascinating sites.
Wednesday, November 8 12:00 pm - 1:00 pm Room 301 Rudder Thursday, November 9 12:00 pm - 1:00 pm Room 301 Rudder
Redefining and Rethinking Teaching as We Know It: Pedagogy and the Internet - This panel discussion will discuss how www technology is
revolutionizing the field of pedagogy as it enhances the traditional learning process. Come see how traditional courses have been designed to effectively adapt to all electronic medium, learn
about developing courseware for the WWW, putting information that is supplemental to courses on WWW homepages, as well as the benefits and challenges of distance education. Elizabeth
Tebeaux and Anthony Aristar, Department of English, Harvey Tucker, Department of Political Science, Paul Sittler, Department of Agriculture, Karen Murphy Department of Education.
Wednesday, November 8 9:00 am - 10:00 am Room 302 Rudder
Using the World Wide Web to Find Out: Money! Schools! Careers! - A demonstration of “Adventures in Education,” a WWW site sponsored by Texas
Guaranteed Student Loan Corporation in cooperation with schools and lenders. Learn to mine the riches of the WWW to find information about career planning, college selection and fund
ing your education. Students, financial aid officers and counselors, administrative staff, and others interested in seeing a really cool Web site are encouraged to attend - and get a free flying
disk.
Wednesday, November 8 2:00 pm - 3:00 pm Room 302 Rudder
Technical Aspects of the Web:
Good Graphic Design on the WWW pages - Graphics are becoming more and more prevalent on WWW homepages. As the number of electronic documents avail
able from the WWW increases, competition for attracting WWW surfers through visual appeal is now a requirement. This session will discuss problems associated with graphic design,
including images and image maps in WWW documents, as well as the capability of different browsers to present graphics and how to optimize the use of graphics. Some tools available for
creating graphics will be presented in a live demonstration. Bill Ambrose, Cotnputing and Information Services.
Wednesday, November 8 8:00 am - 9:00 am Room 301 Rudder Thursday, November 9 8:00 am - 9:00 am Room 301 Rudder
How to Create a WWW Page - Would you like to create your own personal WWW' homepage? Using tam2000 as our WWW server, we’ll create a homepage and register it
at Texas A&M University so that the world can see it! You will also learn how to link files and images to your homepage. Sherri Marx and Jane Carpenter, Computing and Information Services.
Wednesday, November 8 4:00 pm - 5:00 pm Room 301 Rudder Thursday, November 9 9:00 am - 10:00 am Room 301 Rudder
How to Establish a MacHTTP Server on a Macintosh Desktop - ‘ ‘The establishment of WWW' server software on my Macintosh desktop has enabled me
to write and try out material quickly for our departmental homepage. The finished hypertext material is then easily transferred to the department server and added to the official Texas A&M
Landscape and Pavements Maintenance homepage. This presentation will show you how I did it!” Edward W Hill, Landscape Maintenance Foreman, Texas A&M University Physical Plant.
Thursday, November 9 4:00 pm - 5:00 pm Room 302 Rudder
WWW Server Installation on UNIX - With the explosion of the use of the Internet and WWW' services on the Internet, more system administrators are finding it valu
able to install a WWW server on their UNIX systems. This seminar will discuss how to obtain the latest WWW' server software free from the Internet and how to install it on a UNIX system.
Prerequisites: knowledge of compiling programs on UNIX, UNIX startup procedures (/ets/rc2), and inetd configuration. Victor Hazlewood, Computing and Information Services.
Thursday, November 9 10:00 am - 11:00 am Room 302 Rudder
Configuration/Management Solutions for a PC-based WWW Server in a Multi-Authoring Environment - r his presentation will dis
cuss a few ways to manage and install a PC-based WWW' server and integrate it into an existing LAN environment. Through these methods, multi-authoring environments can be easily man
aged and maintained. LAN administrators for PC-based LAN environments at Texas ASM University are encouraged to attend. Alan Kirk, Engineering Technology.
Thursday, November 9 1:00 pm - 2:00 pm Room 301 Rudder
Using Adobe Acrobat on the WWW - Demonstrates the Texas A&M University Department of Agricultural Communications’ system for putting Adobe Acrobat docu
ments (both in English and Spanish) up on the WWW'. Bill Watson, Department of Agriculture Communications.
Wednesday, November 8 11:00 am - 12:00 pm Room 302 Rudder
General Internet Topics:
Knowledge Gateways - Highlights the Internet-based international technology, market, knowledge, and information-transfer system that helps the agribusiness industry become
highly competitive by forming mutually beneficial alliances with member countries of NAF1A. People wanting to learn how we use the Internet to develop international projects and as
dynamic data acquisition tool are encouraged to attend. Jose Marcos Quintana, Texas A&M University Research Park.
Wednesday, November 8 10:00 am - 11:00 am Room 301 Rudder
Media Relations and the Internet - Come see how the Texas A&M University Department of Agricultural Communications is distributing news releases and cultivating
media relationships through the use of L.isrservs, WWW, and media training courses. Kathleen Davis, Department of Agricultural Communications.
Wednesday, November 8 10:00 am - 11:00 am Room 302 Rudder
Benefits of Electronic Publishing - Some organizations are reluctant to get into electronic publishing cither because they believe in WWW is just the latest fad or because
they cannot afford the additional costs. This session will discuss the cost of not using electronic mediums and some of benefits realized by those using the WWW' to advertise and communi
cate with their customers or students. It will also examine what is needed to publish on the Internet. BUI Ambrose, Computing and Information Services.
Wednesday , November 8 11:00 am - 12:00 pm Room 301 Rudder
Tae Kwon Do team
silent but deadly
Stew Milne, The Battai.ion
Black belt Camilla Sulivan kicks black belt Stephen Moon during a Tae
Kwon Do practice. Moon finished second in the Ft. Worth Invitational.
□ The team is current
ly ranked third in the
nation.
By Lisa Nance
The Battalion
Though the Texas A&M Tae
Kwon Do team may not have the
recognition that it wants, it cer
tainly has the ranking.
The team is currently ranked
No.3 in the nation after placing
third at the Collegiate National
Championships in New York. The
team took 12 competitors to the
meet in New York and brought
back one gold medal, four silver
medals and five bronze medals.
Anne Harper, a first-degree
black belt on the team who has
been practicing the sport for four
years, said competition is the fo
cus for the A&M team.
“Our team focuses on compe
tition, which is the Olympic-
style Tae Kwon Do,” Harper
said. “The competition is 95 per
cent kicks and about 5 percent
punches. We train solely to go to
competitions throughout the
state and the nation.”
The Tae Kwon Do team is
made up of about 40 members at
all levels of skill.
“We teach beginners, and we
also take people who have had
Tae Kwon Do experience in the
past,” Harper said.
The team is open to new mem
hers interested in learning more
about the sport. Interested indi
viduals can contact the team’s
president, Camilla Sullivan, for
more infonnation.
The team is through with tour
nament action for this season but
looks forward to the big tourna
ment season in the spring.
“In the Spring we have three
major tournaments, two in Col
orado and one in Dallas,” Harper
said. “In the tournaments, there
are two events. There are forms
competition and fighting. The
forms is like a choreographed set
of movements, without music,
that show power and grace.
“In the fighting, you are
against an opponent. You go info
the ring and the rules are nothing
below the belt and no punches to
the face. You can kick to the
head, you can kick to the body
and you can punch to the body.”
The Tae Kwon Do team prac
tices four times a week and en
courages interested people to
come watch practice. On Mondays
and Thursdays, they practice in
room 255 at G. Rollie from 8-Id
p.m. On Tuesdays they are at
Room 267 of the Reed building
from 5-7 p.m. On Wednesdays,
they practice with Head Coach-
Master Michael Pejo — at his
karate school in the Martial Arts
Center in Bryan.
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