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Page 2 • Thursday, November 19, 1998 Camp us fhe Battalion Fish OkAi T/SPALE, W£ have To BREAK You XMTO GE/OETics CAB SO WE C/W Returai The clove of bv R - deluna iviSC to host bone marrow drivi BY BETH MILLER The Battalion Simel & Lewis By Mell Your time. McHike is AM INttetsiBi-Y POvJEmiL Toot. I'A SuafR'itot) W'\Jl Utveft C0HS.Ic6R&t) usmc it Poft peesortht. Uw.. Yoo Go —. . LUmc'H W (THOUT fA£. T HRxie ro GO WATCH 'YfeLlft.. Company CT of the Corps of Cadets and Beta Alpha Psi will co-sponsor a National Marrow Donor Program dri ve today in the MSC Fla- groom from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. Greg Mabry, a coordinator of the drive and a junior con struction science major, said this will be the third year Company C-l has sponsored the drive, and the past drives have been successful. “Usually a successful drive is around 50 people,” he said. “If we can get anybody there, that’s successful because it could help someone. ” Jessica Miller, Scott and White Marrow Donor Program recruiter, said the donation pro cedure consists of three steps. Donors at the drive will only complete the first stage. She said donors will give a small amount of blood. The blood will later be analyzed, and the donors’ names will be entered into the National Marrow Donor Program registry for fu ture reference. If the blood suggests a possible match for a patient, the donor is consulted about donating another sample of blood and having it analyzed further. If the test confirms the suspicion, marrow is ex tracted from the donor’s hip bone. Miller said the proce dure involves a general anes thesia and is painless. Miller said donors are not required to sign any type of contract, but once they com plete the first two stages of the procedure, they are encour aged to continue through the rest of the process. “People can back out any time until they reach the oper ating table,” she said. “Once a recipient finds a donor, they go through radical chemotherapy that kills all of their marrow cells. If a donor backs out on the operating table, the patient will surely die.” Jason Franks, president of Beta Alpha Psi and a se nior accounting major,;] donating can make a: ence in whether or r tient’s life can be prolong or even saved. Mabry said the procedure should not did age people from donate| "It is complicated, when you think abou;j person you’re giving I marrow to, they have a 5 to 10 percent chan.]: living,” he said. “AM pet your bone marrow, i 50 or 60 percent chanctf not that big a deal wher look .11 I! [k!..iighihei:;| 7 1 ■om oorri V all have to doourparttosj| each other.” Texa P r °gr Bill Ahmu Science SyGcnZc 8, Co. Continued from Page 1 1o fyiNlAlfJ A^h.'S SlKIU'S k A URLD-CLAS, oWeRSrrr, vieVe Tjtj^pjgp ttfe cruiGZ or uumi THIS will FiUAHce ASftaAL MISSION To WSvRe Tp/iT M i*), Qg’EM THUMB MoMungsrr K6AM/NS TUB 8/&&ST 4 W- ■QeSrt MA<e us Bws? [siijaAtbRE k tor NAil or?! 4/ , T 0L|P SlCCi'poRjA HhU.CFF!'/ Z}« / OJP Rader said letters will be sent to students’ home addresses af ter they reach 150 hours. Weichold said administrators are working to inform students. “We’re trying to set up a fo rum in December that will have some explanation of the bill and have a question-and-answer ses sion with a panel of myself, Don Carter [registrar] and Laurie Nickel,” he said. “We’re also in the process of putting together a Web page and working with SIMS so those closest [to being over the limit] are aware.” Weichold said there are six ex ceptions to the rule, including provisions for students who are double majoring, in a degree plan requiring 130 hours or more or preparing for a health profession. Weichold said the rule does have one benefit for students. “The non-resident rate goes into effect the semester after the semester they go over [the 170- hour limit],” he said. For example, if a student has 169 hours in the summer of 1999, the non-resident rate would not go into effect in the fall. It would go into effect only after 170 hours is completed. Troops urged to avoid highway AUSTIN (AP) — A Fort Hood general is asking his troops to stay off Texas 195, a 31-mile stretch of road linking the Army base in Killeen to Interstate 35 north of Georgetown. Nine soldiers and 15 civil ians have died this year on the road, the shortest route from Killeen to Austin, a pop ular weekend destination for soldiers. All the fatal crashes involv ing soldiers occurred on week ends. Graham apiprOlTU dismissed r • AUSTIN (AP)-fte or sin; expect to request aneep * date for death row ii Graham after the Texs of Criminal Appealsti missed an appeal er | Graham—whose d| ers have included aebi BY I Utilities Smoking Continued from Page 1 “If you don’t prepare, whatever date is set for com petition to begin, you’ll have a big loss of revenue,” he said. “Whether or not you can withstand the loss of revenue is the question.” Wilkerson said the competition will be similar to the competition between long-distance telephone companies, but it will be different because consumers buy services from phone companies, not products. “It’s going to be real different because in electric ity, you’re buying a commodity," he said. Continued from Page 1 The American Cancer Society will pro vide kits at the Healthy Community Place in Post Oak Mall. Smokers may exchange a pack of cigarettes for a kit, which includes tip sheets on how to stop smoking. Boone said friends of smokers who want to quit can pick up kits and pledge to help the person quit smoking for a day. Some 32 million of the current 47 mil lion current smokers have said they want to quit smoking, according to the American Cancer Society. The society estimated that 24 percent of smokers in the United States participate in the Great American Smokeout in 1997 and 19 percent of participants reported they had cut back on smoking or quit smoking one to five days later. Boone said increasing attention is being given to young adults in the Great Ameri can Smokeout campaign to stop them from smoking before they start. More than 80 percent of adults who smoke started smoking before age 18, ac cording to a report from the American Can cer Society. Boone said the American Cancer Society has invested in the Great American Smoke out campaign because the costs of smoking are high. Tobacco use takes more than $100 billion in health-care costs from the U.S. economy, and the U.S. government pays 43 percent of the costs, according to a 1993 report from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. For more information, contact the Amer ican Cancer Society at 1-800-ACS-2345 or A.P. Beutel Health Center at (409) 845-1341. the basemei fishes, the ban lents, a symp Glover and singer from the vocal-m Rogers — was senten»)avid Kipp, vi death in the 1981rot!i jective of the prog murder of BobbyGratfcs A&M. bert, of Tucson, Ariz.. in* “A&M may nc ton grocery store part this is an advant, Years later, sever# composed of pie came forward to music majors. Th testimony of the 4- Kipp said the who identified Oral and A&M. the killer. Prosecutef “We are not ji missed the account here to promote y other witnesses asi; is now part of the contradictory. because he heart "He has gone was in sixth gradi just about everycotBrnebecause he he can. We will goal Four groups c and proceed with tte: the Singing Cadet ... I anticipate thest:Chorus and theR be requesting an exeoi The Singing C date,” said Assistant land is the oldest trict Attorney Roe Wife group sang at the Harris County. touring in the 196i Gig’em, Class of‘98!! Display your Aggie diploma with pride! Aggies have been framing diplomas for Aggies for over ten years! Great prices! High Quality! See our display in the lower level of the MSC now! Orders placed by December 7 can be custom framed and picked up Saturday, December 19! Call 845-1631 for details "The funniest man to come out of Arkansas...since Hillary Clinton" APPEARING FRIDAY, November 20 BUTCH BELLAH with special guest CLEN VANCE Pciday and Saturday November 20 <& 21 7 Seen on A&E Evening at the Improve in Dallas & the Laff Spot and Comedy Showcase in Houston at Caffe Capri's COMEDY CORNER RESERVATIONS RECOMMENDED 822-2675 9:30 RM. SHOW ONLY • TICKETS $6 Top Floor Seating Upstairs Dinner Available from 7:00 ICey^ser’s JVIvisic GUITARS Over 100 Guitars in Stock from $69." Videos, PA’s, Drums, Amps., Supplies We Buy Used Guitars Culpepper Plaza Down From Bullwinkles 693-8095 The Theater Arts Program Presents New Faces A Showcase of Rising Talent featured in an evening of monologues and one-act plays November 17-21 8 p.m. Fallout Theater (144 Blocker) Tickets $5 Available at the door For information call the Theater Arts office at 845-2621. CLASS OF 2000 E - WA L K Looking for a few dead elephants. Come out s for a ci Sunday, 5:00-9:00 p.m. Restaurant Night at Outback Steakhouse Each Class of 2000 table gets FREE Blooming Onion Monday Beginning at 10:30 at Bonfire Site Party Pics with ELEPHANTS Free Games (bungee run, moonwalk, obstacle course) Free Cotton Candy Free Entertainment POO Minutes after noon Walk to Kyle Field to hear speaker Fred McClure -Mr. McClure currently serves as an A&M Regent and was an advisor to President Bush 4:00-6:00 Catered BBQ at Spence Park, $5 9:30 Cory Morrow Band at Hurricane Harry’s, $5 BBQ Tickets MUST be purchased now at (able in MSCHailil We will sell E-Walk T-shirts and Sweatshirts in the MSC until Fit, I Tbrntufiei / JJ\ a 5 Acct 229 Math 151 Financial Statement Analysis Math 152 Math 151* Math 152* Part l&II Sun Nov 22 9pm-12am Part l&II Sun Nov 22 6pm«9pni Part V Sun Nov 29 I tpm-lam l5]3j FSA Sun Nov 22 9pm Part II&III Mon Nov 23 9pni’42am FSA Mon Nov 23 9pm Part IV Sun Nov 29 This session wilt also be repeated again later in the semester Part IV Mon Nov 30 Part II&III Mon Nov 23 6pm-9pm Part V Mon Nov 30 7pm-9pm Part V Sun Nov 29 r Part V , Mon Nov 30 Spm-Tpm 9pwi-lipm NextWk Acct 229 FSA Econ 322 Gene 301 Math 151/152 7pm-9pm Itpm-lam Part IV Sun Nov 29 „ 9pm-Iipm < Part IV Mon Nov 30 Spm-7ptn * Part V is a continuation of this week’s and last week’s sessions Tickets go on sale Sunday at 4:00 p.m. 4.0 & Go is located on the comer of SW Pkwy and Tx Ave, behind KFC next to Lack's. 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