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Page 2 • Thursday, April 1, 1999 Sorority promotes cancer awaren Fish By i ui^A BY RACHEL HOLLAND The Battalion V1HY Dlt> you KMOCK \ DOUBLK 5TC OUT TtScAUtll TO DAY So Members of Zeta Tau Alpha sorority will offer shower cards il lustrating how to conduct breast self-examinations today from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. at Target and at the College Station Wal-Mart. The Texas A&M Theta Gamma chapter will join 145,000 Zeta Tau Alpha members nationwide in the “Don’t Be a Fool, Do Breast Self-Ex aminations” campaign on April Fool’s Day. The event aims to raise breast cancer awareness through the Su san G. Komen Breast Cancer Foun dation and give women a guide to complete monthly breast self-ex aminations. According to the foundation, a woman dies of breast cancer every 12 minutes, but the 5-year survival rate is more than 95 percent when breast cancer is confined to the breast. The Susan G. Komen Breast Cancer Foundation emphasizes early detection through mammog raphy and breast self-examina tions. Kristen Lippe, vice president of Zeta Tau Alpha and a junior fi nance major, said the she serve as instructions and for the self-examinations while college-aged woraei be at as high a risk as wo: er than 40, they lection procedures and|; habit of conducting them Lippe said the efforts' increase awareness are but they should continus ing women. “There is so much rest ing done that methodsfo it and the ways to preve changing, so it is import® people informed,” shesai; 4pi Fees Continued from Page 1 TUBULARMAN BY BOOMER (^ftRGCH? WVWT tS THWT^ ^ITS R FoAftYfl-HIS YeftfCS HOTTEST Tbv!)]f vices,” he said. T.J. Edwards said he wants to work toward de creasing the existing Stu dent Services Fee. Ed wards said one part of fees he wants to reduce is the transportation fee by privatizing the bus sys tem. “I think if apartments can provide their own shuttle system to campus for students, then this would allow for cheaper cost to students,” he said. “This would also require less stops and get stu dents to campus quick er.” Edwards suggested improving the Borrow-A- Bike program. “I think if bikes are sold at a discounted rate and we encourage off- campus residents to bike to campus, then this would help alleviate the problems of parking,” he said. Jason Royster said he disagrees with the $4 University Authorized Tli- ition increase to fund fac ulty salary raises. “I know that the facul ty need to be paid a sub stantial wage, but 1 don’t think raising the stu dents’ tuition is the prop er way to go about it,” he said. Royster said tuition at A&M is better than at oth er schools. "It would cost me $20,000 for a private uni versity in California and $12,000-13,000 fora pub lic university, and at A&M, it costs me $1,500 if I am a resident of Texas,” he said. Royster proposed stu dent fund raisers to help counteract the tuition in creases.“We need to have the full participation and support of the student body to alleviate the burden of student fees,” he said. hort toile from ay rolls m. April F| g of the In 156. Neil Lewis sj vors increasing!^ student body be I increases arewl Lewis said heWis students to vcii ions, needs and5| ganling to "I’d like lo ..Calendar : dents opinionsH ^ ome 1 via a Web sue change ir system bv ph:: ^ ec ^, on /A , Battalion," he se: Today is thebi vote; polling hj will be openfrc:j to 5 p.m. The results t nounced tonigb. the Lawrences Ross Statue inti:! mic Plaza. President Continued from Page 1 Spade Phillips, PI By Matt Kowalski time that it is the premier council for the AMA. “When opportunity knocks, take it,” she said. “That was an ex tremely exciting time. We were dis cussing biomedical ethics and the genome project.” Dickey became the first female member on the board of trustees. She said interest in women’s health care, reproductive issues and do mestic violence increased, there was still no obligation to advance the health concerns of women at that time. Dickey said the HIV-activist movement politicized health care and was a model for women to fight for better health care in the 1980s. “We have made no measurable impact on the morbidity and mor tality of breast cancer,” she said. “AIDS is increasingly a threat, es pecially to young women of color.” Dickey said there are still issues to be dealt with. She said only five of 126 medical schools have female deans. These l^pril foo down thb I Nadim said April there are : I “Every so elabor 1 cause you. to forgive I April fc can range Bowen to swte CORRECTIONS: The Web site listed in yesterday’s Voter’s Guide under Patrick Brensinger’s platform should have read yell.resnet.tamu.edu. The telephone number given for the Student Counseling Help Line was incorrect.. The correct number is 845-442; on nights and weekends call 845-2700. Nabi St id many “One p with A&M sturff JH me c< had come Texas A&M Preside^: had a ring Bowen will switch places:;;! him. Melissa Medlin, afreshtB “She h gy major, to benefit the OBEHie into tl 1 Medlin is the winnerol'H April F for a Buck,” a drawing - • dents purchased | chance to trade places^ for a day. Medlin vpill attend/wpi. U n iversity officials,^© Kaplan, faculty speadte ate, and Walter Wendtee# assistant to the presita'J will attend biology, bionwft ence and chemistry classes They will eat lunchtoget'l Sbisa Dining Hall. r e sh & Beer! t a u r a n t m 1 EVERY THURSDAY NIGHT! BOILED CRAWFISH $3.99/lb. Student ID required 50# Drafts & 99# Margaritas only w/purchase of an entree Student ID required 268-5333 31 7 College Ave. • Old Albertson's Shopping Center Texas Aggie Softball Friday @ 6pm “It's More Than A Same' VS. ,Vf Youth Clinic After the Game Tickets off campus Kroger in College Station On Sale at the Gate at 4:30pm A Proud Corporate Sponsor! It’s Coming.,, Liberal Arts Career Weet b April 5-9 1 i? pm - B - forming at 7:30 pn' rize winni 7 pm - band, is pe Restauran •8 pm-SI Will be per Workshops: April 5' April 6 - April 7' All in Rudder 404 at 7p.m. Eg pm . j0 Resume Writing ^ w of' Interviewing Skills/Salary Negotil % Networking Alumni Forum; April 8 in Rudder Theatre at 7:1 Student/Alumni/Company Social: April 8 outside Rudder Theatre;: Career Fair: April 9 in Rudder Exhibit Hall from 10:00 a.m. 41 9 pm -1 Theater. For more information call 845-5143 or e-mail us at lasc_tamu@hotmail.com To see the list of companies coming, see our wehsite at clla.tamu.edu/companies ground the World in '99 Days Ring Dance 1999 When: Saturday, April 24 ' Time: 9 p.m. to 1 a.m. Where: MSC-Rudder Complex Tickets on sale April 5-24 at the MSC Box Office Couple: $60 Single: $35 Be sure to purchase your Ring Dance t-shirt and Ring Dance picture package too!!!!! 105 YEARS AT TEXAS A&M UNIVERSI11 Aaron Meier, Editor in Cheif Kasie Byers, Managing Editor Beth Miller, City Editor Riley LaGrone, Aggielife Editor Robert Hynecek, Graphics Editor Manisha Parekh, Opinion Editor Lisa Kreick, Night News Editor . 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