v 2 CHAT & CHEW with Dr. Malon Southerland Vice President for Student Affairs MARCH 12 11:00 - 1:00 PM WEHNER Business Building Discuss questions Voice concerns Light Refreshments Thursday • Mai ^ Gear up for Spring Break We have it all - backpacks, sleeping bags, backpacking stoves and food, hiking boots, ka/aks, canoes & accessories, rain gear, travel wear & travel gear! Ieex cdf^f^ictmcd O V/ EE fXJ TT LJ F=» E= W E FR Simply The Best For W Over Thirty Years (SidSoum SMAPUD BY WATtR. BUILT BY HAND Kl= LTY Helly Hansen We know weather 1406 Texas Ave., South-College Station • 695-2807 (Next to Copy Corner) AGGIE RING ORDERS THE ASSOCIATION OF FORMER STUDENTS CLAYTON W. WILLIAMS, JR. ALUMNI CENTER DEADLINE: March 12, 1998 Undergraduate Student Requirements: You must be a degree seeking student and have a total of 9§ undergraduate 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.) 60 undergraduate 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 described in the following paragraph. Should your degree be conferred with less than 60 undergraduate resident credits, this requirement will be waived after you graduate and your degree is posted on the Student Information Management System. 30 undergraduate 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). You must have a 2X) cumulative GPR at Texas A&M University. 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 May 1998 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: Your 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. However, If you completed all of your course work prior to this semester and have been cleared by the thesis clerk, you may request 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 and you wish to receive your ring on May 7, 1998 , you must visit the Ring Office ne later than Thursday. March 12. 1998 between the hours of 8:30 a.m.-3:30 p.m. to complete the application for eligibility verification. If your application is approved, you must return and pay in full by cash, check, money order, or your personal Discover, Visa or MasterCard (with your name imprinted) no later than Friday, March 13, 1998 between the hours of 8:30 a.m.-3:30 p.m. Men’s 10K-3 Women’s 10K - 9 LOO LOO 14K-$432.00 14K-$225.00 Add $8.00 for Class of ‘97 or before. The ring delivery date is May 7, 1998. Tiffany Inbody, Editor in Chief Helen Clancy, Copy Chief Brad Graeber, Visual Arts Editor Robert Smith, City Editor Jeremy Furtick, Sports Editor Jeff Webb, Sports Editor James Francis, Aggielife Editor Mandy Cater, Opinion Editor Ryan Rogers, Photo Editor Chris Huffines, Radio Producer Sarah Goldston, Radio Producer Dusty Moer, Web Editor Aaron Meier, Night News Editor Staff Members City- Amanda Smith, Stacey Becks, Susan Atchison, Kelly Hackworth, Suzanne Riggs, Lyndsay Nantz, Jennifer Wilson & Katy Lineberger Science - Jill Reed. Sports - Assistant Editor: Jeff Schmidt; Michael Ferguson, Chris Ferrell, Travis Harsch, Robert Hollier, Al Lazarus, Colby Martin, Aaron Meier, Katie Mish, Philip Peter & Michael Taglienti. Aggielife - Marium Mohiuddin, Rhonda Reinhart, Night News - Joyce Bauer, Jaclynn Barker, All Belin & Shane Elkins. Photo - Assistant Editor: Brandon Bollom; Robert McKay, Greg McReynolds, Cory Willis, Mike Puentes, James Francis & Jake Schrickling. 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Postmaster: Send address changes to The Battalion, 015 Reed McDonald Building, Texas A&M Univeisity, College Station, TX 77843-1111. Ships ahoy! What's U_ Thursday GREG MCREYNOLDS/The Battalion Drew Dunlap, an electrical technician for the ocean technologies department, removes an umbilicle cord from a model of a ship in the Ocean Drilling Research Tank Wednesday. Graduate Fellowship of IntervarsItyCN (IVCF): Bible study for graduate andr | dents, followed by fellowship will behekffl our website for location at http://stat.tamu.edu~inlow/ivcf.html.C: nifer at 764-1552. ATM Womens Rugby: Come join! Now? Practices are from 5 p.m. to 7 p.m.attte: 1 ner of Texas Ave. and University Dr. CallN for information. Association on Baptist Students. A re at 7:30 p.m. at 410 College Main. Callffc for details. Alpha Phi Omega Meet to go to the Bo )6| Catholic Students Association: There * n at 12:05 p.m. in the All Faith’s Chapel. it Aggie Speleological Society A meet:'; a 8:30 p.m. in Koldus 146. Can Travis at uij Resurrection Week There will be 3gereu { p.m. in Rudder 502. Human scents affect others NEW YORK (AP) — Here’s news to wrinkle your nose: In a study using armpit secretions, scientists have found what they call the first proof that people can influence each other through airborne chemical sig nals they do not even notice. When researchers wiped the secretions from one group of women under the noses of oth er women, the second group showed changes in their men strual cycles. The cycles got ei ther longer or shorter, depending on where the donors were in their own menstrual cycles. The affected women said they didn’t smell anything but al cohol put on the pads. The al cohol alone had no effect on the women’s menstrual cycles. Nobody has identified the un derarm substances that pro duced the effect, but once that happens, they might lead to new contraceptives and infertility treatments, said Martha K. Mc- Clintock of the University of Chicago, who reported the find ings with a colleague in Thurs day’s issue of the journal Nature. The work adds to indications that people, like animals from in sects to elephants, influence each other by giving off chemical signals called pheromones (pro nounced FAIR-o-mones). In ani mals, pheromones do such things as block pregnancies and influence mating preferences, timing of puberty and dominance. The range of effects in peo ple is still an open question. It’s known that newborns and their mothers can recognize each other’s body odor, for example, but scientists disagree on whether that counts as a pheromone signal. In any case, McClintock’s pa per “will stand up as a classic in the field," said George Preti, a re searcher at the Monell Chemical Senses Center in Philadelphia who has done similar research. Student Action Committee: Comebea and take part In the action. Michael Jtxi on his jumpshot. Call Jean Francois tails. ATM Roadrunners: There will be a meeta Rollie White at 5:30 p.m. today. We willrv everyone is welcome. Call Steve at 847’;, Texas A&M Jazz Society: Jazz practice; -1 ed! We will meet at 7 p.m. at First BaptiSf: Call Derrick at 847-1538 for more inte Aggie Girl Scouts; There will be a genera- Emergency Care Team: in Koldus HD at 7 p.i more information. lel Friday Binge Continued from Page i More than 200 undergraduates were sur veyed and an additional 300 interviewed. Marshall said students drink the most during Spring Break and at the end of the semester, es pecially the spring semester. She attributes this to stress and the last fling before graduating stu dents enter the real world. “Spring Break is especially dangerous be cause there is the assumption that there are no rules, repercussions or consequences of that week,” she said. “Spring Break is one of the most dangerous times in the academic year.” Those who think they may have a problem with binge drinking can contact Dr. Dennis Reardon, director of the Department ofStudent Life alcohol and drug education programs at 845-0280. Alpha Phi Omega Home at 6:30 p.m. lit Crest. • What’s Up is a Battalion service that lists dent and faculty events and activities. Hr f U submitted no later than three days Inadvr ln | sired run date. Application deadlines andr events and will not he run In What’s Up, II questions, please call the newsroom at 84: . dc TOOLS FOR CHANGE Share your ideas and I concerns about TAMU! NO APPLICATIONS/ NO INTERVIEWS/ Informational Meetings Wednesday, March 11 <£? 7pm Rudder 401 Thursday, March 12 @ 7pm Rudder 401 Questions? Call Sally Berrisford, Student Action Committee Vice-chair, @ 847-0750 ore-mail sally99@tamu.edu ( r