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E.L. Miller Lecture Series Presents:
“Cutting through the Red Tape:
FDA Approval Process”
A discussion of the Federal Drug Administra^
tion’s approval process and its impact on the
pharmaceutical industry.
Wednesday,
November 13, 1996
7:00 p*m. MSC 201
Free Admission
iWPjWr The views of this program do not necessarily reflect those of
PoiidoUForum the Memorial Student Center, MSC Political Forum, or Texas
A&M University.
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ResNet answers need for spee;
Ethernet connections in dorms allow direct access to campus netwt.
By Courtney Walker
The Battalion
On-campus residents with per
sonal computers are no longer
forced to endure long nights in
computer labs thanks to the con
venience of direct access to the
campus computer network.
On-campus students use Ether
net connections to hook up to
ResNet, allowing them direct con
nection to the A&M network via
personal computer, without the
use of a phone or modem.
Raymond McCauley, a sys
tems analyst with the Depart
ment of Residence Life and
Housing, said currently the sys
tem is installed in 13 residence
halls and they hope to have Eth
ernet connections in all the resi
dence halls within four years.
“The total cost to wire all the
dorms is $1 million, so a lot of the
progress will depend on funding,
but we hope to install the last few
systems in Fall 2000,” McCauley
said. “If we run out of money, we
won’t finish in four years.”
Students hook their computer
into what looks like a phone jack.
The copper cables from the resi
dence halls connect with the cam
pus fiber-optic system.
Once the Ethernet connection
is established, students use a net
work card and jumper cable to ac
cess ResNet.
Aaron Bawcom, Appelt Hall
president and a senior computer
science major, said at least more
than half the students in his hall
use the system.
“Appelt Hall has had the system
for a year,” Bawcom said. “There is
a constant increase in usage."
With ResNet, students may ac
cess the Internet, campus e-mail
accounts, the library card catalog
and research databases.
Along with the convenience
of not spending all night at the
computer labs, students find
the speed and efficiency of
ResNet impressive.
Heath Dieckert, Wells Hall resi
dent and a junior industrial distri
bution major, said Ethernet elimi
nates the long wait students have
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when using a modem or pi
“When you have tod
there’s usually at least a 30.
hook-up wait, and with
connections, one butti
you're on-line,” he said.
One percent of the rent
on-campus residents fun:
program, not the Computet
Fee payed by all A&M studei
McCauley said the send
expensive compared too
cial services.
“Say a student is paying
a semester,” he said. “That
they’re only paying $10 for
vice, whereas commercial si
charge at least $20 or $30 a
and nobody offers this!
speed commercially.”
Reno hits ball into Clinton’s
Recent changes in Cabinet cause questions about Attorney Gene
WASHINGTON (AP) — When a reporter
asked Janet Reno if she would remain attor
ney general, she replied: Yes, “if the president
wanted me to stay.”
A stock answer, but it still irked White
House aides who felt she was boxing Presi
dent Clinton into a corner.
Shaking up the Cabinet, an almost painless
task so far, is growing more ticklish as Clinton
decides whether to reappoint Reno in the
midst of Whitewater and other investigations.
Air Force One was still en route from
Arkansas to Washington, within hours of the
election, when word got out that three Cabi
net members were leaving. Three more soon
followed, and the news quickly spread about
who was in and who was out.
But Reno remained a huge question mark.
Asked about her status Friday, Clinton
passed up a chance to endorse her. “I should
have no comment on any personnel decisions,”
the president said, who is making the judgment
against a backdrop of legal difficulties.
If he reappoints her, Clinton will have to
deal with an attorney general whom some
aides view as a bit too independent. But if she
goes, critics will accuse him of ousting her to
help escape legal woes.
“It would be viewed by some in a very dark
light,” said Joseph diGenova, a Republican
may have
“I should have
no comment on
any personnel
decisions.”
President Clinton
who has served as a special prosecutor. “But 1
don’t think he cares.”
The uneasy consensus among Wliite House
aides is that Reno will survive. But it is re
markable that there is any doubt at all.
She is a star of the Clinton Cabinet,
mobbed by friendly crowds outside Washing
ton and respected by many lawmakers inside
the Beltway. Only the president gets more in
vitations for speaking engagements.
But one of Reno's greatest assets — a fierce
sense of independence
some of her trouble.
She shouldered the blame for the 1993
ter at Waco, Texas, in the hours after thef
Davidian complex fire. The president voUj
Reno go public alone, looked meek by cor "
She was not “muscular” enouj:
crime, some aides argued, because
personal objections to requiring min
sentences for certain crimes andi
death penalty. But she rarely talkedpu
about those objections.
She sought court-appointed indepe
prosecutors to investigate Whitewater,!
Agriculture Secretary Mike Espy, former
merce Secretary Ron Brown and Housic:
Urban Development Secretary Henry Cist
A team player would not have beens
ing to send allegations to independent
sels, whispered Clinton advisers.
Just last week, the Justice Departme:
nounced the formation of a task force:
amine allegations of improper fund raisi:
Democrats and Republicans. The actior
passed a more direct route toward thenar
of an independent counsel, but the inte:
inquiry could still embarrass Clinton.
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Graham, Zamora will not face death penalt
Family of murder victim wants life-in-prison sentence to be giver
FORT WORTH, Texas (AP) —
Two former military cadets in
dicted Monday in the jealousy
slaying of a high school girl will
not face the death penalty. The
victim’s family wants them to
sit in prison instead, a prosecu
tor said.
David Graham, 19, and Di
ane Zamora, 18, could get life
behind bars if convicted in the
shooting death of 16-year-old
Adrianne Jones. The girl was
killed because of a sexual en
counter she had with Graham
that angered his girlfriend,
Zamora, investigators said.
Prosecutors will not seek the
death penalty because the vic
tim’s family prefers a long
prison sentence, prosecutor
Mike Parrish said.
Jones was found shot to
death in a field outside Dallas
last December. Graham and
Zamora were high school se
niors then; he went on to the
U.S. Air Force Academy, she to
the U.S. Naval Academy.
The prosecutor said the cou
ple carefully planned |
killing.
“They are bright —
bright,” he said. “They '
how to plan, think and killj
The slaying went unsf
until September, when auijj
ties said Zamora told cl
mates at the Naval Acad!
and they alerted police.
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