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You must be a degree seeking student and have a total of 9§ credit hours reflected on the Texas A&M University Student Information Management System. (A passed course, which is repeated and passed, cannot count as additional credit hours.) 2. 39 credit hours must have been completed in residence at Texas A&M University, providing that prior to January 1, 1994, you were registered at Texas A&M University and successfully completed a fall/spring semester or summer term (I and II or 10 weeks) as a full-time student in good standing (as defined in the University catalog). 60 credit hours must have been completed in residence at Texas A&M University if your first semester at Texas A&M University was January 1994 or thereafter, or if you do not qualify under the successful semester requirement. Should your degree be conferred with less than 60 resident credits, this requirement will be waived after your degree is posted on the Student Information Management System. 3. You must have a gJi cumulative GPR at Texas A&M University. 4. You must be in good standing with the University, including no registration or transcript blocks for past due fees, loans, parking tickets, returned checks, etc. Graduate Student Requirements If you are a August 1996 degree candidate and you do not have an Aggie ring from a prior degree, you may place an order after you meet the following requirements: 1. 2. Vour degree is conferred and posted on the Texas A&M University Student Information Management System; and You are in good standing with the University, including no registration or transcript blocks for past due fees, loans, parking tickets, returned checks, etc. If you have completed all of your degree requirements and can obtain a “Letter of Completion" from the Office of Graduate Studies, the original letter of completion, with the seal, may be presented to the Ring Office in lieu of your degree being posted. Procedure To Order A Ring: If you meet all of the above requirements, you must visit the Ring Office no later than 1. Tuesday, July 30. 1996, to complete the application for eligibility verification. If your application is approved and you wish to receive your ring on October 3, 1996, you must return and pay in full by cash, check, money order, or your personal Visa or Mastercard (with your name imprinted) no later than August 2,1996. Add $8.00 for Class of '95 or before. The ring delivery date is October 3, 1996. news BRIEFS Plasma donors help others, selvt By Ann Marie Hauser The Battalion Kinesiology prof wins research award Michael Delp, a Texas A&M ki nesiology professor has received the New Investigator Award for basic science. The award, which recognizes new researchers who have added significant contributions to knowl edge in basic and clinical exercise science or sports medicine, was awarded to Delp at the annual meeting of the American College of Sports Medicine in Cincinnati. Delp came to Texas A&M in 1995 from the Medical College of Pennsylvania. He is the principal investigator on research projects with NASA and the Environmental Protection Agency. A&M profs named ASAE department heads Two Texas A&M professors have become heads of their respective departments for the American Soci ety of Agricultural Engineers (ASAE). Stephen W. Searcy, a professor in the agricultural engineering de partment, became the director of in formation and electrical technolo gies during the ASAE's annual meet ing July 14-18. James R. Gilley, a professor and agricultural engineering depart ment head, became the director of the soil and water division at the same meeting. Gilley has served as a technical adviser to a NATO Science of Sta bility project in Portugal and also serves on the ASAE Foundation Board of Trustees. ASAE is a professional society specializing in agricultural issues. CSPD to host open house this week The College Station Police De partment will be holding an open nouse July 23 to 25 between 4:00 and 7:30 p.m. The exhibit will focus on the de partment's new communication sys tem. The communication improve ment expands the previous system, allowing for more radio traffic. It also provides clearer and faster communication between patrol cars and police headquarters and is more easily upgraded. Tours of the police department building will also be given, and po lice officers will perform a SWAT team demonstration. Early voting for City Council begins today College Station residents un able to vote in the August 10 spe cial City Council election have several available options. Early voting begins today and lasts through August 6. Registered voters can cast their ballots at the College Station City Hall Training Room Monday through Friday from 8 a.m. to 5 p.m. Mail-in ballots can be ordered by calling Connie Hooks, early voting clerk, at 764-3541, and must be re ceived by August 2 at 5 p.m. The special election will fill the seat vacated by recently elected Mayor Lynn Mcllhaney. Some Texas A&M students are helping to save lives while they earn money donating their plasma. Josh Marcus, a junior bio medical science major, donates plasma on a regular basis and said the donation is relatively painless. Pat lames, The Bati ai ion Amy Montgomery, a junior jour nalism major, donates plasma at the Westgate Plasma Center. “It’s an easy way to earn $35 a week and save lives at the same time,” Marcus said. First-time customers earn $20 per donation for the first two weeks. If customers donate regu larly twice a week, they can only earn a maximum of $35. Heath Faulkner, the assistant manager of the Westgate Plas ma Center, said donating plas ma is simple. “It’s really fun and easy to do,” Faulkner said. “If more people would actually come and see what it’s like, they would realize this.” Potential donors are put through a screening process in volving a physical exam and questions about the donor’s medical history. Faulkner said donors may be rejected for not meeting the weight requirement, receiving treatment for hepatitis, syphilis or gonorrhea within the last year or being HIV positive. John Hernandez, a junior civ il engineering major, has been donating plasma since his fresh man year, mainly to benefit those in need. “As a doctor, my mother rec ommended that I donate either plasma or blood,” Hernandez said. “I donate plasma for the benefit of medicine.” Faulkner said the procedure extracts blood from the body and separates the AT through a centrifugal pro: Mor Once the plasma has beer Ijuly 22, lected, the blood is retur the body. Faulkner said many fear the possibility of dirty dies. He said the concerni founded. The process is and sterile. Hernandez said he ah feels very comfortable donati: “Everything is very clear.: it is a friendly atmosphere, nandez said. “The clinic ted cians are your age and have cellent bedside manners.’’ Plasma has many us! Burn victims, hemophilii and pregnant women alls require plasma. Also, some people carry; ease-fighting antibodies their plasma that canbeis to make medicine to prevenii rious diseases. Faulkner said the plasu: transferred to the headquar; in New York, where it ia stts in a “giant freezer.” Plasma donation centers^; scattered throughout the Uni States, but Westgate Pits! Center is the only one in Ten Another center is tentafrf scheduled to open Septemki on University Drive. “Business is good," Fault; said. “We figured we coulcl more with the new opening.’ f Engineering profs win Presidential awarl The professors are converting biomass to animal feed, chemicals and k By Amy Protas The Battalion A team of Texas A&M chemi cal engineering professors and graduate students were selected from 80 applicants to receive the Presidential Green Chemistry Challenge Award. Dr. Mark Holtzapple, an asso ciate professor of chemical engi neering, said the award will change some people’s thinking on environmental issues. “The purpose of the award is to showcase technologies that are good for the environment and the economy,” Holtzapple said. “Vice President A1 Gore is a big initia tor of this thinking. A lot of people think you can have either a healthy environment or a healthy economy, but not hbth.” Holtzapple and the team working on the project want to dispel the either/or thinking. Their project takes waste bio mass and converts it into animal feed, chemicals and fuels. Holtzapple started the project five years ago. “It was my idea and Richard Davison’s (a chemical engineer ing professor) idea,” Holtzapple said. “We have had many grad students working with us over the years. We have demonstrat ed all of the steps in the labora tory, so now we’re ready to scale it up to industrial size.” William Kaar, a chemical en gineering graduate student who worked on the project, said one of the reasons he decided to at tend A&M was Dr. Holtzapple. “I came to A&M to work with Holtzapple’s group,” Kaar said. “I’ve been doing this type of research for a while, and I knew about him from his arti cles in journals.” On July 11, the team traveled to Washington, D.C., to receive the award, which is also spon sored by the Environmental Pro tection Agency, at the National Academy of Sciences. Kyle Ross, a chemical engi neering graduate student who worked on the project, said it was exciting to go to Washington and receive the award. “It’s quite an honor,” Ross said. “I guess taking biomass and fer menting it isn’t the most glam orous thing. It’s a recognition that it’s something beneficial and we need to keep doing it.” Holtzapple said his goal is to bring his technology into the industry. “We have some industrial partners,” Holtzapple said. “It will take many millions of dol lars to scale it up, and coming up with that won’t be easy. We’re in the phase of figuring out ho» raise the money.” Ross said he would notmii continuing with the project:! ter graduation. “People are trying toco: mercialize it, and I am going: talk to them about having full-time job,” Ross said. ‘Il lieve in the process, andweti help the environment.” Holtzapple said the techno gy will also benefit the econom; “It’s really a simple and wo: derful technology,” Ho/tzapf said. “Were trying to make re; ly inexpensive chemical They’re all about 10 to 20 cent pound, and that’s really chea: You have to be pretty clever make chemicals that cheap. have quite a few tricks we pla to achieve cost targets.” The group did not gettt chance to meet Gore because! was in Russia with Preside: Boris Yeltsin. Holtzapple said) hopes to eventually meet him. “I was told I should be able meet with Gore in the nearf ture,” Ross said. “He go: around the country for the Ni tional Performance Review pr: gram and checks on govemme: tal initiatives. The project fa! under the program. When gets to Texas, I will be able meet him.” By Quatro Allen juvenile delinquents Th< Olym] Puert< U.S Millei compu sw Ton first gt freest^ Meyne WthrM WE Chi shetig ptmtil Josl won s shooti; United For athlete of Jordi to wron Unil with 1 many \ with ei ’Tv< ment fi Rich an in softt “It \ trying 1 one of Tom Di medal i \r ab FROM ACROSS THE KOOM SPRING ’97 Informational Meetings The Battalion Stacy Stanton, Editor in Chiep Stew Milne, Photo Editor David Taylor, City Editor Jason Brown, Opinion Editor Kristina Buffin, Aggielife Editor Jody Holley, Night News Editor Tom Day, Sports Editor David Winder, Radio Editor Will Hickman, Radio Editor Toon Boonyavanich, Graphics Editc* Tuesday, July 23 3:45 - 4:30 pm Friday, July 26 3:15-4:00 pm Room 358 Bizzell Hall W. 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