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You will take a total of two courses (6 hours), consisting of the following course: ARTS 350: Arts and Civilization Prof. Joe Hutchinson or Prof. Paolo Barucchieri AND PSYC 489: Special Topics in History of Psychology: Psychology and the Renaissance Prof. Dave Woehr OR POLS 322: West European Politics and Government Prof. John Robertson For More Information, Contact: Prof. Joe Hutchinson 337 ELAC 845-0584 E-mail: jmhutch@archone.tamu.edu Office hours: MWF 3:00-4:40 Thursday 11:00-12:00 or by appointment Prof. Dave Woehr 209 PSYC 845-2097 E-mail: DWJ@psyc.TAMU.edu Office hours: Thursday 8:30-9:30/ 11:00-12:30 or by appointment Prof. John Robertson 2096 Bush/Academic West Bldg 845-2511 E-mail: jrobertson@tamu.edu Office hours: Tues/Thurs 9:30-10:30 Thurs 2:00-3:00 or by appointment Study Abroad Programs -161 Bizzell Hall West - 845-0544 Hurry! Spaces are Limited! BACK IN A FUJIFILM STUDENTS! RECEIVE $1 OFF PROCESSING WITH STUDENT I.D. 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Main MADISONVILLE (409) 348-5409 Wid-Mart/Albertsons Center 2205 Longmire, Suite F COLLEGE STATION (409) 695-1328 The Battalion TATE Tuesday • November 25, Hog wild 5WV7 1*1 T I . DEREK DEMERE/The Battalion B.J. Dunn, a senior from A&M Consolidated High School, looks over the boars outside the Texas A&M Veterinary Medical Diagnostic Lab Monday. The animals are used in melanoma research. Til Gore bac Brown ini Houston HOUSTON (AP) — Vice dent A1 Gore stumped Mom I louston mayoral candidat? Brown, calling the formerClij ad m i nistra t ion drug czar soi who can bring the city togethi continue its progress. Gore’s appearances were pi ily to fatten the campaign trei Brown, who faces Houston nessman Hob Mosbacherina election Dec. 6. Each man ho, succeed three-term Mayor Lanier, who cannot run again cause of term limits. “What you have here bei you in Lee Brown is an exp enced leader who has made ference as a cop on the beat, leader in cities in this nation as a cabinet member respons: and part of the team for on the greatest success stories economic development and duction in crime in the whole tory of the United States of.V ica,” Gore told more than people who paid S1,000 apie(m shm i hear his brief remarks. Then he left to have luncl an inner-city cafe, where hew through the food linewithad pie of Democratic congressn and state legislators from Hoi ton, Texas Democratic Partydi Bill White and a few others! took no questions from repo^ll>ys , vvi during his three-hour visit,at icel9| staffers persisted in keeping porters away, except for pin tographing him. During his brief remarks,! g t0 touted Brown for his integrit ayers honesty and commitment to cellence in public service. N also cited Brown as someoi who solved problems durinj stints as police chief in Houstoi g stallj New York City and Atlanta,am keasig as the Clinton administration! drug czar. ol iRVir loneJ jm hiT Jones] Dali | Dill Nil ere n nil the g| deers. "Our I PUC: Beware of phone-bill fraud Commission warns Texas residents to watch forfraudulent, mistaken bills artof tli thel mes sal , "If \| me tli pvise.| AUSTIN (AP) — Reading a phone bill might be as exciting as reading the local yellow pages, but officials at tlie Texas Public Utility Commission say Texans could protect themselves from fraud simply by reviewing their monthly statements. The PUC on Monday opened an investigation into the growing problem of fraudulent and mis taken billing by various phone companies. The practice, known as cramming, is quickly becom ing a top complaint at the utility commission. Officials want to know how it happens and how to stop it. Commission Chair Pat Wood said Texans need to scrutinize their bills and question anything that doesn’t look right. “If you’ve got something weird, call us,” he urged Texans. “Some of this is just plain fraud.” Under federal law, local phone companies, such as Southwestern Bell, that do their own billing must provide billing services to other telephone companies, like AT&T and many lesser known companies. Those companies can offer a wide range of services, from paging to voice mail. Wayne Detjen of SWB said Bell cannot verify the accuracy of charges provided by other companies on SWB bills. “We have to take the ser vice provider’s word,” he said. Detjen added that even if the billing company knows people in volved with a new company have de frauded customers in the past, feder al law does not allow them to deny billing services to the new company. Detjen said he recalled only once when SWB stopped billing for a company that was ripping off cus tomers. He said that landed SWB in court and took a long time and a lot of money to resolve. Michael Nighan, a regulatory af fairs representative for Frontier Communications, a small long dis tance company, said it’s up to the PUC to identify the bad guys. “We can’t play judge and jury,” he said. “You tell us who you don’t want us to serve, and we’ll not serve them.” Janee Briesemeister, a policy analyst for Consumers Union, said Texans won’t always be pro tected even if they carefully read their bills. By law, phone customers who don’t pay all toll charges on their monthly bills can have their long distance and local telephone ser vices disconnected. That means if a customer finds a bogus toll charge, they face losing local ser vice if they fight it, she said, adding that the PUC could change that rule. Briesemeister also suggested the PUC require companies that send Tu the bills to fully itemize them am scrutinize the services for whir- other companies are billing. Most often, the billingcompan ^ refers complaints to the compan that claims to have provided tl> questioned service. That comp® at times is not responsive or refe calls back to the billing compan! t Briesemeister said. “Someone has to be held « countable,” she said. "They jin keep pointing their fingers backaij < forth about who is responsible.’ The PUC plans to hold heariif t and discussions on the issue In several weeks before deciding wltf prices! if any, action it can take. Wood said the commission conli have to turn to the Legislature h more power or to the attorney gear al to prosecute bad companies. “The main thing I would liken use is the bully pulpit to get then people out ofTexas,” he added. 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