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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
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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.
Graphics - James Palmer, Chad Mallam, Jared
Faulkner & J.P. Beato.
Cartoonists - Ed Goodwin, John Lemons, Dave
Hoffman, Gabriel Ruenes, Victor Vanscoit, Michael
Nordfelt and Quatro Oakley.
Copy Editors - Leslie Stebbins, Jennifer Jones,
David Johnston, Martha Gidney, Patrick Pavlik &
Veronica Serrano.
Radio - Andrew Baley, Jody Rae Sartin, Laura
Stuart & Karina Trevino.
Web - Anita Tong & Jeremy Brown
News: The Battalion news department is managed by students at Texas A&M Univeisity in the Division of Student Publications, a unit of the
Department of Journalism. News offices are in 013 Reed McDonald Building. Newsroom phone: 845-3313: Fax: 845-2647; E-mail:
batt@unix.tamu.edu; Website: http://battalion.tamu.edu
Advertising Publication of advertising does not imply sponsorship or endorsement by The Battalion. For campus, local, and national display adver-
Chris Martin, Leah Templeton, Travis Hopper, April
Towery, Travis Irby & Stephen Wells.
Opinion - Len Calloway, Adam Collett, John
Lemons, Donny Ferguson, Caleb McDaniel, Beverly
Mireles, Manisha Parekh, Stewart Patton, Mickey
Saloma, Joe Schumacher, Michelle Voss, Frank
Stanford & Jennifer Jones.
Using, call 845-2696. For classified advertising, call 845-0569. Advertising offices are in 015 Reed McDonald, and office hours are 8 a.m. to 5 p.m.
Monday through Friday. Fax: 845-2678.
Subscriptions: A part of the Student Services Fee entitles each Texas A&M student to pick up a single copy of The Battalion. Mail subscriptions are
$60 per school year, $30 for the fall or spring semester and $17.50 for the summer. To charge by credit card, call 845-2611.
The Batwuon (ISSN #1055-4726) is published daily, Monday through Friday during the fall spring semesters and Monday through Thursday during
the summer session (except University holidays and exam periods) at Texas A&M Univeisity. Second class postage paid at College Station,TX 77840.
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
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Catholic Students Association: There * n
at 12:05 p.m. in the All Faith’s Chapel.
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Aggie Speleological Society A meet:'; a
8:30 p.m. in Koldus 146. Can Travis at
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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.
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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.
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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:
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Thursday, March 12 @ 7pm Rudder 401
Questions? Call Sally Berrisford, Student
Action Committee Vice-chair, @ 847-0750
ore-mail sally99@tamu.edu
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Traditions Week table at Rudder Fountain for a Pi
Schedule of Events
M: Fish, T-, & Howdy Camp W: Corps of Cadets & Vr
T: Parent's Weekend Th: Muster & Silver Tap
Traditions Council Thanks El Chico and On The Bonier
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Past Economic Success Stories:
Germany-1950’s
Japan-
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China-1990’s
Eastern Europe-1990’s
Future Economic Success Story:
Africa-2000?
27 March 1998, 8:00 p.m., Rudder Auditorium
Featuring a panel of experts on African economic, social,
and political issues including F.W. de Klerk, former
f president of South Africa. 4^ WILEY
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LECTURE
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Tickets Available at the MSC Box Office 845-1234
improvisational comedy
Quit your beaclii
Thursday, March 12
9 p.m. Rudder Fomm
Tickets are $4 in advance (MS
BoxOffice)
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