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PRESENTS THE WOMEN S CLINIC PROVIDING
WOMEN S HEALTH CARE SERVICES
FOR AGGIE STUDENTS
Services Include:
annual exams
contraceptive methods
(includingpills, Depo Provera shots, foam,
diaphragm and condoms)
pregnancy testing and counseling
emergency contraception and counseling
<+■ diagnosis and treatment of urinary
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fa Breast exams
For special problems the Womens Clinic provides a
GYNECOLOGY SPECIALITY CLINIC every two weeks,
utilizing the services of a Gyn. specialist from the community.
DELTA TAU DELTA
THE RUSH CONTINUES....
Fall Rush Informational Seminar
Wednesday, September 18, 1996
Rudder 410
7:00 p.m.
Thursday, September 19, 1996
BBQ
Delt House
starting at 6 p.m.
Any questions contact
Dan at Delta Tau Delta
775-3358
CHAT & CHEW
Diseqee questions and concerns with your
Vice President for Student Affairs
DR. MALON SOUTHERLAND
Light refreshments available.
SEPTEMBER 1 ^
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1 1=00 - 1=00 PM
AGGIE RING ORDERS
THE ASSOCIATION OF FORMER STUDENTS
CLAYTON W. WILLIAMS, JR. ALUMNI CENTER
DEADLINE: September 18, 1996
Undergraduate Student Requirements:
1. You must be a degree seeking student and have a total of 95 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. 30 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 se
mester 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 In
formation Management System.
3. You must have a 2J0 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 December 1996 degree candidate and you do not have an Aggie ring from a pri
or degree, you may place an order after you meet the following requirements:
1. Your degree is conferred and posted on the Texas A&M University Student Information
Management System; and
2. 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 aM 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:
1. If you meet all of the above requirements, you must visit the Ring Office no later than
Wednesday, September 18,1996, to complete the application for eligibility verification.
2. If your application is approved and you wish to receive your ring on June 5, 1996, you
must return and pay in full by cash, check, money order, or your personal Visa or Mas
tercard (with your name imprinted) no later than September 20,1996.
—
’s 10K-$311.00 14K-$425.00
Women’s 10K - $175.00 14K - $203.00
Add $8.00 for Class of ‘95 or before.
The ring delivery date is November 13, 1996.
Space leaves astronauts craving flat
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP) — Houston,
send up a roll of Certs for the men aboard the
Russian space station Mir.
The two Russian cosmonauts put in an
orbital takeout order weeks ago for garlic
and onions, and it’s finally on the way,
aboard the space shuttle Atlantis.
For reasons that aren’t entirely clear, space
travelers often complain that food tastes bland
in weightlessness.
Sometimes that leads to desperate mea
sures: Cosmonauts Valentin Lebedev and Ana
toly Berezovoi gobbled up onions meant for re
search during their 211-day Salyut station
mission in 1982. Some astronauts bring
up hot sauce to splash on their meals.
Atlantis and its pungent payload
closed in on Mir on Tuesday and were
expected to arrive at the station
Wednesday night, along with other food
and provisions such as water and air for
the sealed space station.
“Maybe that’s why we’re delivering all
that fresh air, I don’t know,” shuttle pilot
Terrence Wilcutt said.
The shuttle crew’s first order of busi
ness will be picking up NASA astronaut
Shannon Lucid, who has spent a
record-breaking six months aboard Mir,
and dropping off John Blaha for a four-
month stay in orbit.
Throughout her flight, Lucid hasted
potato chips, M&M’s and other junkfol
Russian crewmates, Valery Korzun and!
der Kaleri, have been up only a moil
they, too, already crave some zesty food.
Besides fresh garlic, onions, cuci
and oranges for the cosmonauts, theij
lantis astronauts are taking up all then
for a Cajun cookout: barbecue, redll
rice, even music.
NASA decided Tuesday to complei
shuttle mission as planned. The spaced
had considered cutting the 10-day fligi’j
because of a hydraulic power unit thatn
ously failed minutes after liftoff Monday,
But NASA mission operationsi
Lee Briscoe said the agency decidedti
ceed because the two backup units|
pristine condition. The hydraulic uni
used during landing.
If Atlantis lands as planned Sept.2i|
cid will have spent 188 days in space,!]
than any other American and aim)
woman anywhere.
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FREEPORT, Texas (AP) — It’s
the end of the line for the end of
a train.
Dow Chemical Co.’s fleet of
4,000 rail cars includes just one
caboose and the firm is willing to
give it away — free — to a govern
ment agency or nonprofit group
in Southeast Texas.
The caboose has pretty well
outlived its usefulness because
technological advances have
eliminated the need for flagmen,
brakemen and conductors.
The company’s Freeport office
will deliver the caboose to who
ever comes up with the best idea
for how to use it.
Government agencies and
nonprofit groups in Brazoria,
Harris, Fort Bend, Galveston,
Wharton and Matagorda counties
are being asked to submit their
ideas for using the caboose.
The best idea, expressed in 250
words or less, gets the caboose.
Dow’s lone caboose came to
the company in 1990 via the
Missouri Pacific Railroad, which
was happy to unload it on the
chemical giant.
Dow had used the caboose to
provide transportation demonstra
tions for Fifth-graders, who were
given rides on it during field trips.
The rides were so noisy,
though, that hearing protection
was required for the youngsters.
Moreover, even a short trip on
the Dow caboose was a jolting
journey, which raised safety
concerns.
Company officials also decid
ed a lecture about cabooses and
trains wasn’t very relevant in
these high-tech days. They’d
rather lecture students about sci
ence and chemistry.
"Most trains don't eveol
cabooses anymore," says|
Huff, Dow’s land transport
manager. “The technologyisj
that they’re really not needer
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and some of the seatsStl
connected.
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landmark, historical musi
centerpiece, children's real
room or artists' showplace.
Elderly defend against community rapis
FORT COLLINS, Colo. (AP) — The elderly
in Fort Collins these days are traveling in
pairs, carrying alarms and in some cases buy
ing guns for the first time in their long lives.
The reason: At least six women, many of
them elderly, have been raped or otherwise as
saulted in their homes since February by a
young man who watches and waits until they
are alone.
After the most recent attadk, in which a 62-
year-old woman was sexually assaulted and
robbed Sept. 4, elderly people filled a school
auditorium for a seminar on safety. Police
gave away personal alarms donated by the
electric company.
“Their reaction was, this can’t happen to
me, but when the sixth woman was attacked,
they turned out in droves for the personal
alarms,” said Ankie Stroes, recreation coordi
nator for the elderly at the Fort Collins Senior
Center. “We’ve given away a hundred.”
Lt. Brad Hurst said a third of the 20 detectives
on the 139-member force are working full-time
on the case, looking for a man in his late 20s or
30s who knocks on the doors of elderly women
when they are alone and talks his way in.
The rapist asked for one woman’s husband
by name before he attacked her. A few times,
he brazenly drove an old car or jeep right into
his victims’ driveways.
Hurst warned that serial rapists tend to
grow more violent.
“One thing I do different nowispai
garage. Also, I put the chains onthed)
which I never used to worry about
ways keep my alarm with me,” said Marp
Watts, a 74-year-old volunteer at theseti
center. “I’m concerned and alert, audits
what’s going on.” '
Many of the elderly live in older!^
that are not equipped with peephole
they are adding them now, Stroes said 1
Hurst said it will take help fromt/ieelde
to catch the rapist.
“This guy is out there. He’s continuinj
hurt people. We don’t know who he is, sow
telling people, it’s time to beveryassei
about your security,” Hurst said.
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