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Pag January 30,];; Page 5 Thursday • January 30, 1997 ) thechorusinf: and ofirritafe e hands wisk ret,” hasbeenif Slimy Experiment Brian Green, a plant physiology doctorate candi date, injects a slug into an energy measurement de vice. The slug is photosynthetic, and the energy conversion is gauges as the slug is exposed to vary ing amounts of light. ill" isfeature(l:j- been goinrfJCS Iryan will tm mgonthekdjl jnued from Page 1 g down! CounseLine also has a referral service which n find help for a student if SCS is not able to ielp them. This service can find help in the Bryan-College Station area and across Texas. Iv odhoo.1 said SCS ensures confidentiality to • S°... the students who use their services. The ve a nit- i for a ' desiresoirf three exceptions to confidentiality are when a person is intending to do harm to themselves or others, abusing a child or abusing an elderly person. Dobrovolsky said students have paid for SCS in their student services fee. “I think that it’s one of the best deals on campus,” he said. Student Counseling Services is in Hen derson Hall (behind All Faiths Chapel). The phone number is 845-4427. Stalker Continued from Page 1 The drawing depicts distinct characteristics of the man, such as a pointed right ear, a silver loop earring in the left ear and a pro truding forehead. The suspect is identified as a 19- or 20-year-old, stocky white male. He is said to stand approximately 5 feet 8 inches tall and weigh about 170 pounds. He has been identified as having short, straight blond hair and blue eyes. Other drawings of Taylor’s have led to the conviction of several crim inals, 11 of whom are on death row. Hoelscher said the likenesses are remarkably similar to the suspects’ actual appearances. “When you arrest the person, they really look like the picture,” she said. “There is quite a resemblance.” UPD requests information stu dents may have about the case. Stu dents with information can contact Detective William Wade with UPD at 845-8055, TAMU Dispatch at 845- 2345 or Crime Stoppers at 775-TIPS. Leaders Continued from Page 1 “So when you look at A&M, you just don’t see one group, you see several different groups coming together to enhance the spirit of Aggieland.” Chris Torn, a senior agri cultural development major and current head yell leader, said he felt much like Mc Donald felt the night he was elected. Torn said he had di verse supporters, ranging from nonregs to Greeks, pat ting him on the back. McDonald said it is impor tant to be yourself and not get caught up in what students want you to be because you cannot please everyone. “One thing as a student leader is that people are going to ask you to be a lot of different things,” McDonald said. Torn said people want yell leaders to say particular things and act in a certain way. Torn said the criticism comes from all different angles, but you have to do what is right. “As long as you’re looking out for what’s best for A&M, you can’t go wrong,” Torn said. McDonald said one of the keys to campaigning is to not target certain groups who candidates feel have enough important peo ple in them to get votes. He said talking to and forming relation ships with individuals to whom people seldom talk is important. “My advice to yell leaders is to get to know the people you’re representing and realize you’re not representing part of the Uni versity, but the whole Universi ty,” McDonald said. Town Hall Continued from Page 1 “With ‘Say Anything, Play Anything,’ students can get on stage and have fun with an open microphone,” Conejo said. Christine Ogilvie, vice chair of special events and a sopho more industrial engineering major, said she is in charge of any event that is not a big con cert or comedy. “I run things like the lunch box concerts,” Ogilvie said. “Like on Friday we are having Fysher come and play outside of the MSC. We are calling it ‘Hot Bands, Hot Chocolate’ and we plan on serving hot chocolate because it will be cold.” Town Hall also programs an event called “Coffee House,” which is held at Rumors in the MSC once a month. “‘Coffee House’ is like a for malized ‘Say Anything, Play Any thing,’ Conejo said. “It is sched uled and structured. People come in and read poetry, short stories and things like that.” Because Town Hall involves live entertainment, Schmidt said she wanted to get involved the minute she found out about the organization. “I knew right away Town Hall is where I wanted my niche to be at A&M,” she said. AOL agrees to offer refunds (AP) —Threatened with lawsuits across the coun try, America Online agreed Wednesday to give re funds to customers who have not been able to log on because of the overwhelming demand created by AOL’s flat $19.95-a-month rate. Customers will be offered either cash or a month of free service. AOL had no immediate estimate of how much the settlement will cost. However, if every member was able to get a full refund for the two months, an highly unlikely scenario, the agreement would cost America Online about $320 million. The settlement was reached with 36 state attorney generals but applies to all 8 million of AOL’s customers nationwide. Several of the states had threatened to sue America Online unless it promised refunds. The nation’s largest online service also agreed to make it easier for dissatisfied customers to cancel and said it will suspend its advertising for a month. America Online, based in Dulles, Va., previously said it was selectively giving refunds. But it had refused to give blanket reimbursements. The states had complained that AOL signed up hundreds of thousands of new customers without the means to accommodate the heavy usage. Some computer users trying to get online have gotten busy signals for hours on end. “Under the consumer fraud laws of this state and many other states, you can’t offer something to a sub scriber and then not be able to deliver,” Illinois Attor ney General James Ryan said. AOL chief executive Steve Case acknowledged that the company underestimated its ability to handle the increased usage. The company previously said it plans to spend $350 million by June on new equipment and staff to handle the demand. Analysts viewed the setdement as a necessary move by America Online to get past a barrage of negative publicity at a time when its online service is threatened by people’s easy access to the Internet. “A long, drawn-out litigation would inevitably dis tract management at a time when AOL needs to criti cally focus on the right mix of gaining new customers and retaining existing customers in the threat of the wild frontier of the Internet,” said Peter Kastner, an an alyst at Boston-based Aberdeen Group. America Online stock shot up 5.7 percent, or $2 a share, to $37.25 on the New York Stock Exchange. In addition to the busy signals, AOL users have also seen a recent rash of technical glitches such as e-mail “brownouts” that occurred while America Online was try ing to upgrade its network to accommodate the new users. Refunds will be based on how much a customer was able to access AOL during December and January. Customers will get a full refund for each month in which they connected for less than two hours. Customers who used less than eight hours during the two months will get back 50 percent. e Benson T ALIGN 'e theater, n Bryan, isholi V production 1 ? Five and Din' 1 n y Dean, wri® [he productioi I West Texas o od still, erns a reunio!' ACI Management Consultants Aerotek, Inc. Allstate Insurance Anderson Consulting Aramark Uniform Services Army & Air Force Exchange Services (AAFES) Arthur Anderson Ashland Chemical Company Becker CPA Review Browning-Ferris Industries Career Center CarMax, a Circuit City Co. Central Intelligence Agency CIGNA Insurance Group Cintras - The Uniform People Circuit City Stores, Inc. 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SENTS door Spring Business Career Fair ‘97 Texas A&M University College of Business February 3-6, 1997 February 3 - 7:00pm Reception at the Hilton February 4 - 9:00am - 4:00pm Recruiters in Wehner 7:00pm Banquet at the Hilton February 5 - 9:00am - 4:00pm Recruiters in Wehner 7:00pm Banquet at the Hilton February 6 - 9:00am - 4:00pm Recruiters in Wehner * Tickets for Reception and Banquet go on sale January 27th outside of room 159 Wehner For more information, call 845-1 320 Texas A&M Business Student Council IBM/Intergrated Systems Kaplan Educational Center Solutions Corp. Koch Industries JC Penny Inc. Kroger, Co. JC Penny Insurance Group Lever Brothers Co. Joseph T. Ryerson & Son, Inc. Lowe's Flome Improvement JPI Luby's Cafeterias, Inc. Mervyn's Mervyn's California - Corporate & Stores Motorola Northwestern Mutual Life Norwest Financial Oakwood FHomes Corporation OLDE Discount Stockbrokers Owen FHealthcare, Inc. 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