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r COPY : :CORNER 1710 George Bush 693-0640 "YourOne Step Copy Skop " FAX 6934367 HOURS: MON-THURS 7 A.M. - 2 A.M. SATURDAY 10 A.M. - 6 P.M. FRIDAY 7 A.M. - 6 A.M. SUNDAY 12 P.M. - 12 A.M. TECH WRITING SPECIAL Add color to your report Choose from over 30 ^ different types of paper $1 00 Off Any Binding expires 12-13'9 5 1 binding per coupon Spend Summer Session I in Mexico City, studying PUBLIC BELA TIONS AND INTERNATIONAL COMMUNICATION v Ac*-- 4 < ' - 4 ' while experiencing the exciting culture of Mexico (Classes will be taught In English) A* T 'ATT . ■■ 9 I* /ZIVINTERNSHIPS ARE AVAILABLE] a^^ka. /or more Information please attend an r Informational Meeting: at West Bizxell HaJI~Room#358 Monday Nov. 20, 2 p.m. StudY Abroad rroirtms ,6, ftzzW/f/,// CarePlus^frt Presents Roc, The Good Doc “Feel asleep at a tailgate party, did you?” Make tracks to CarePlus Medical Center for all your minor emergencies. Our on-site x-ray facitlity allows us to treat your accidents and injuries quickly. And no appointment is necessary, so you can come in imediately after an accident. A&M students even receive a 10% discount at CarePlus Medical Center. At CarePlus, you get quality care plus value and convenience. CarePlus %>.rt 2411 Texas Ave. and Southwest Pkwy • College Station, TX 77840 696-0683 MSC Political Forum Presents: The -ir w Third Party Forums The Libertarian Party .. Speakers: v : Steve Dasbach, National Chair -■mSm, m2® m Jay Manifold, Texas Chair ' ■ / • ' .'/r/'r-y A Program Featuring Two Leaders of the libertarian Party to Discuss Platforms and Activities of the Libertarians and the Prospects for a Third Major Political Party in American J Monday, November 20, 1995 444 '7:30 p.m., 206 MSC ie Memorial Student Center, Texas A&M University Persons with disabilities please call 845-1515 to inform us of your special needs. We request notification three (3) working days prior to the event to enable us to assist you to the best of our abilities. wmxm The views expressed in this program do not necessarily represent those of MSC PahhcalForu m, the MSC, or Texas A&M University Page 2 • The Battalion Monday • November 20, A&M’s Political Forum hosts KAMU-TV will broadcast forum with Bowen National Libertarian Party cha| Ray Bowen and Friends, a televised question-and-answer show featuring Dr. Ray Bowen, Texas A&M president, will be broadcast on KAMU-TV cable channel 4 at 6 p.m. The third show of the fall, the broadcast will be aimed primarily to ward students. It will be broadcast from Taco Cabana on Texas Avenue across from the Bonfire site. Bowen will be joined by Toby Boenig, Texas A&M student body pres ident, interim vice presidents Dr. Sallie Sheppard and Dr. lerry Gaston and Dr. )an Winniford, associate vice president for student affairs. □ Jay Manifold, the Texas party chair, said the party is socially tolerant and financially conservative. By Lily Aguilar The Battalion Liberal arts dean named to Arts, Sciences board Woodrow Jones Jr., dean of the Texas A&M College of Liberal Arts, has been elected to the board of di rectors of the Council of Colleges of Arts and Sciences. The council provides a forum for discussing common problems of higher education relating to arts and sciences. The board of directors consists of nine administrative heads or deans of colleges of arts and sciences. Recycling Continued from Page 1 DeLarios, also environmental chairperson for the Residence Hall Association, encouraged residents to do what they can to recycle on an individual basis. Dr. Roy C. Hartman, head of the Center for Waste Manage ment Studies, said that although individual recycling efforts are beneficial, a unified commitment from the University administra tion is vital to the success of the recycling program, which in past years has been lagging compared to other universities. “We need to conduct a Uni versity-wide waste audit to find the compilation of our waste and accurately identify recy- cleable items and set up com prehensive processes to success fully collect and market them,” Hartman said. The Democratic and Republican parties are not alone in the American political system, and Texas A&M students will have a chance tonight to become ac quainted with one of these growing alternative parties. The Libertarian Party and its chances for becoming a prominent political force will be discussed tonight with Steve Dasbach, Na tional Libertarian Party chair, and Jay Manifold, the Texas Lib ertarian party chair, at 7:30 p.m. in 206 MSC. Refik Sahin, MSC Political Fo rum director of programming and a freshman civil engineering ma jor, said most students are not aware of the Libertarian views on modern issues. Political Forum is aiming to bring in speakers from several alternative parties in the spring as well, Sahin said. “Most people think about legalizing marijuana when they think about the Libertarian Party,” he said. “Not many people know where the party stands on con temporary issues. “Political Forum wants students to know about some-of the different parties that exist, es pecially now that Ross Perot is trying to start a major third party.” The 1994 National Platform for the Libertar ian Party, which the speakers will discuss, states the party’s goal as “a world set fre| our lifetime, and it is to this end that we these stands.” The platform also focuses on social and nomic issues in domestic and foreign policy. A main principle of the platform is keep the government out of voluntary and contract relations among individual citizens. The form encompasses issues of freedom, respons ity, religion and communication. The national platform considers right to bear arms as “essential to a society.” The party also considers migration as necessary and calls “the elimination of all restrictions immigration, the abolition of Immigration and Naturalize J Service and the Border Patrol * S a declaration of full amnesty all people who have entered.: country illegally .... ” Jay Manifold will give overview of the Libertarian I ty’s struggle for freedom andi vidual rights. Manifold said wants to give students an i duction to the Libertarian 1 and its history. “We are socially tolerant andf cally conservative,” he said. “ lieve in a free market and civillil ties. We support the rights of ps to conduct their private lives wit interference from the government.’ Manifold said there may be asn as 1,000 candidates running for the Life tarian Party around the country. He saidfej were 55 Libertarian candidates in the Texas election. “We are primarily local, with some statff resentation,” he said. “libertarian Partya bers are seen mostly at the municipal and; ty levels.” Utilities: CS rates to decrease Jan. 1 Continued from Page 1 “Right now, so many of the students won’t tell us they are going on vacation,” Turner said. “We have already read the meter in many places so stu dents can pay and go.” Some students are surprised to return from Christmas break to find that utilities have been used in their apartments while they have been absent. “Students should read their meters before they leave if they are going to shut off their breakers,” Turner said. “They should then read their meters when they return because apartment managers have the authority to go in and turn on the heating.” College Station electricity rates will decrease Jan. 1, as the result of a new contn: with Texas Utilities Elect: Corporation. Residents who use an ave age of 1,000 kilowatts wills an estimated $76 each year. Students can receive a( tional information about waf. to save money on electric bill | by calling the College Stalk Energy Conservation Divisk at 764-3724. \ By Ti Health Tips 1 tio Beutel offers suggestions for AIDS prevention By Emily Pruitt A.P. Beu tel Health Cen ter Every year the Texas Depart ment of Health does a compila tion of the HIV/AIDS statistics for the state. They poll every testing facility that receives par tial funding from the state. The results are sobering, numbing and infuriating. What we find, year after year, is that the problem is not going away. The following statistics were re ported by the Texas Department of Health and are current as of June 1995: • 33,587 AIDS cases have been reported in Texas. • 19,679 deaths have occurred because of AIDS related illnesses. • In 1995 alone, 2,626 new cas es of AIDS have been reported. • An estimated 73,000 Texans are infected with HIV, the virus that causes AIDS. • In Brazos County, there have been 57 deaths due to AIDS related illnesses. • So far this year, seven new cases of AIDS have been report ed in Brazos County. • 270 pediatric cases of AIDS have been reported in Texas. • 30,780 of the total reported AIDS cases are male. • 2,536 of the total reported AIDS cases are female. As hopeless as all this seems, there is something that can be done. AIDS is not a curse upon people, it is a disease that can be prevented — if not stopped en tirely — by education, informa tion and a few behavior changes. HIV/AIDS is spread in only three ways. The first way is through sexual intercourse (anal, oral or vaginal) with an infected person. The second route of infection is through transmission of blood between an infected person and an uninfected person. This can be through shared needles, con tact between open wounds or transfusion of infected blood. The third way HIV/AIDS is spread is from mother to un born child. In order to protect yourself, as well as decrease the spread of HIV/AIDS, here are a few sug gestions: • Get tested! The A.P. Beutel Health Center offers confiden tial, as well as anonymous HIV testing. There are other testing sites around the Bryan-College Station area, some, for little on cost. • If you have sex, always a condom with a spermicidecc taining Nonoxynol-9. • Never share needles of a’ kind with anyone. • Get educated. Learn eve? thing about HIV and AIDS,at take that information to he# AIDS is a disease that hast preference. When peoples: AIDS does not discriminaf they mean it. Threats are not neccssar] Neither are scare tactics. It tab knowledge and changes in beta' ior to stop the spread of HIV at AIDS. One by one, we canhst prevent this terrible disease. For more information on HI 1 ; and AIDS, students can cornel 016 A.P. lieutel Health Center- 12 wb tra ous rec an wi1 APARTMENT LOCATOR FOR GRADUATING AND CO-OPING AGS SPECIALIZING IN: METROPLEX (Dallas, Ft. Worth, and Denton) HOUSTON SAN ANTONIO Receive a Benjamin Knox Print free with successful placement with lease of six months or longer. BENIAMIN KINOX GALLERY For more info, please contact: Alan Miller ‘91 (409)-260-9860 or for outside the B/CS area 1-800-AGGIE-91 (1-800-244-4391) Located at 505 University, Suite 803E directly behind the Fox and the Hound. Appointments preferred, but not required. 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