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Page 2 • The Battalion news BRIEFS Virtual gender topic of conference today Texas A&M's Women's Studies Program and the Interdisciplinary Group for Historical Literary Study will host a conference, "Virtual Gen der: Past Projections, Future Histo ries," April 11-14 at the College Sta tion Hilton. Keynote speakers are Seyla Ben- habib, Harvard University professor of government; Carroll Smith-Rosen- berg, University of Pennsylvania professor of history; and David Sad- ker, American University professor of education. Registration is $15 for students and $75 for nonstudents. For infor mation, contact Margaret Ezell at 845-8351 or Pamela Matthews at 845-7994. Many fall prey to new Speed STEP program The College Station Police Depart ment issued 248 speeding tickets dur ing March as part of the Speed STEP effort to reduce traffic accidents and to reduce speeding by 3 percent. Four areas of College Station are being targeted. Thirteen citations were given on EM 2154 from EM 2347 to Louise Street, 75 on the 100- 600 blocks of University Drive, 87 on EM 2818 from Dowling Road to the northern city limits, and 73 on EM 60 West from EM 2818 to the western city limits. The College Station Speed STEP program began in January and will continue through September. Skirmish on drill field injures one student A skirmish occurred between a group of about 150 Corps of Cadets members and 80 Aggie Band mem bers early Tuesday morning. Cadets attempted to rush the Simpson Drill Field where the Aggie Band practices. Band members tried to keep them off the field, and one student was injured by an unidenti fied object. The student was later tak en to a local hospital for treatment. The University Police Depart ment was called by cadets to con trol the situation. Perot speaks to group at University of Texas AUSTIN (AP) — Ross Perot in tertwined dire predictions for America with quotes from Cicero and lines from show tunes as he told students Wednesday night about the country's problems. He hasn't declared himself a presidential candidate for 1996, in stead saying he will let the Reform Party decide at its Labor Day con vention. Thursday • April 11,1 Q-drops decrease in number this yeai By Kendra S. Rasmussen The Battalion Almost 7,000 Texas A&M stu dents poured into their deans’ of fices this semester to Q-drop diffi cult courses or relieve themselves of unbearable course loads. Don Gardner, associate regis trar, said the junior class had the highest number of Q-drops this semester.. “I really figured it would be sophomores (who Q-dropped most often),” he said. “The only thing I can figure is that juniors have been around long enough to know the system and what a bad grade can do to their grade- point ratios.” Sophomores dropped courses the second most frequently, and the freshman class was third. Seniors Q-dropped the fewest classes. There were 6,996 Q-drops this semester, down from 7,739 in Fall 1995 and 7,418 in Spring 1995. Gardner said fewer students Q-drop in the spring semesters because enrollment is lower. Poor performance, he said, is the most common reason for Q- dropping a class, but students have not always had that luxury. “Years ago, (if a student was performing poorly) they either stayed in the class,” he said, “or withdrew from the University.” Gardner said that when Q- drops were first allowed at A&M, no policy limited the number al lowed to students. Q-drops be came an easy way out, he said, so administrators decided to enforce a limit. “The Academic Operations Committee decided it was time to start putting a handle on them,” Gardner said. Today, students are limited to three Q-drops, but deans can make exceptions. “Every college has theirm philosophy (on extra Q-drops),] said. “The deans do a good looking at each case onaninj vidual basis.” Deans’ offices were floodedl last two days before theQ4«| deadline, April 1, whenmoi than 2,500 students realized!] time to drop was running out, Gardner said many stud# wait until the last minutel* cause they want to see if they a salvage their grade before dnj ping a course. “1 think there are a lotofsti dents who feel like a Q isalsj ure,” he said. Karin Johnson, College) Liberal Arts secretary, saidtl number of students whocaa in for Q-drops increased steal ly the week before the deadlia Students were more awarei the approaching deadline IS year, she said, because itti well-advertised. She said the 15 minutest! fore deadline were themostka tic, but she completed tlie(| drops with five minutes to spai having processed 350 dropii one day. “All I did all day longn process Q-drops,” she said. Vanessa English, a College) Business Administration sem tary, said her office processed!* tween 500 and 600 Q-drops» the last day and never fellMri “F’ortunately, they don) have to see an adviser to dropi class,” she said. “They justhsu to fill out a form. It only take;e long as it takes them to bui in a form.” English said business student drop Accounting 229 and 2! Economics 202 and 203,a® Math 141 and 142 more freque:! ly than any other courses. THURSl April 11,19' Environment Continued from Page 1 “because they didn’t want to have to worry about having to recycle it.” Recent legislation at the state and federal level has be gun to use incentives and penalties to promote clean up of the environment. The first bill passed by the Texas Legislature, Senate Bill 1340, set forth environmental guidelines but imposed no penalties on violators. Howev er, Gibson said the subsequent Senate Bill 1051 has improved the collection of everyth!)! from tires to oil by providiig incentives to consumers ail businesses. One struggle for environma talists has been to convincett government of both theimpt tance and benefits of recydinp 1 Gibson said it took 10 landfill estimated at $1 hi® to catch the city of CollegeSti tion’s attention. Porrazzo cited a statist!! that estimates that 89.2pei cent of all trash can beret! cled. She said efforts mustk made to recycle, because percent of the nation’s landfills are projected to be full by 2® The Battalion Sterling EIayman, Editor in Chief Stacy Stanton, Managing Editor Stew Milne, Photo Editor Michael Landauer, Opinion Editor Tara Wilkinson, City Editor Tiffany Moore, Night News Editor Gretchen Perrenot, Night News Editor Amy Collier, Aggielife Editor Nick Georgandis, Sports Editor Dave Winder, Radio Editor Toon Boonyavanich, Graphics Editor Brad Graeber, Graphics Editor Staff Members City Desk - Assistant Editor: Lily Aguilar; Reporters: Marissa Alanis, Pamela Benson, Eleanor Colvin, Johanna Henry, Lisa Johnson, Michelle Lyons, Heather Pace, Danielle Pontiff, Kendra S. 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