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Pre-Law Society St. Mary’s Meeting Tties., October 5 at 7 p.m, 108 Harrington Questions? 847-8938 ^ 1 iiiil ■: : ■ i- WORK, . —J&T® OBljfc or TRAVEL All over the WORLD with CIEE OVERSEAS DAYI ^ October 5, 10:00 - 2:00 MSC Main Hallway Detailed Info Meeting 3:30-4:30 in Rudder # 407 Study Abroad Programs Office ■^r'tei Bizzelf Hall West 1 845-0544 ’ w U D A e rsi FOUNDATION 2nd GENERAL MEETING Come hear players from the 12 lh Man Team Date: Wednesday, October 6 Time: 6:30 p.m. Location: Meet at the Reveille Gravesites We will be having an awesome meeting in the Press Box! We'll Pay Y»u To Have Exciting Weekends. The Army Reserve will give you weekend excitement like you’ve never had before, and you can earn more than $18,000 while you’re enjoying yourself during a standard enlistment. Think about it. On a part-time basis, usually one weekend a month plus two weeks’ Annual Training, you could earn good pay, have a good time, make good friends and even be entitled to good benefits and opportunities to get money for education. You’ll also be getting hands-on training in a skill that will last you a lifetime. Army Reserve knows how to make weekends interesting. Are you interested? Think about it Then think about us. Then call: 1-800-USA-ARMY www.goarmy.com BE ALL YOU CAN BE! ARMY RESERVE Page 2 • Monday, October 4. 1999 N EWS News In Brief McCleskey Texas A&M, Taiwan Friday to sign agreement Representatives from Texas A&M will sign a research and student-ex change agreement with Taiwanese of ficials today at 11:30 a.m. A&M students will have the op portunity to study the movement of tectonic plates and the formation of the earth in Taiwan. Among the representatives from the National Taiwan Ocean Universi ty will be Dr. Chengsung Wang, a lead ing Taiwanesse geophysicist. Ac companying him will be Chao-Shing Lee, Ph.D., a professor of geophysics and Class of ’83. The two institutions will work together to conduct oceano graphic and geophysical research. The announcement comes less than two weeks after Taiwan was hit by a massive earthquake. The earth quake, which struck Sept. 21, killed more than 2,000 people and caused damage estimated at more than $500 million. Continued from Page l “It’s a way to ensure to everyone ixi- volved that nothing is really being covered up,” Duke said. “To not do so is to go against University policy.” McCleskey said his secretary and his student worker quit shortly after he left. “Their quitting had everything to do with this incident,” he said. “They also felt it was no longer an environment in which they could morally and ethically work.” Duke said the allegations of miscon duct against company K-2 included mak ing freshmen run during allotted sleeping time and harassment of freshmen during school hours. Continued from Page 1 Jenkins said his mother struggled with breast cancer, in the early years of his study in medicine. “In 1974, my mother was di agnosed with breast cancer and given no options, and since the disease was still not spoke of in public, she had no one to turn to and the cancer consumed her,” Jenkins said. "Prevention stud ies did not exist, and nothing was offered to her except a de bilitating radical mastectomy.” He said women today have more modern in ie Batta able to them.arcj of survival are; they were just25 “We are tumiiu breast cancer,” 1950, it diagnost cancer most wc in five years. NowjJ is found early,i cent of womens “Prevention Co-op Education to host career fair The Office of Cooperative Educa tion will host the Co-op Career Fair to day and tomorrow in the Zachry Build ing lobby from 8:30 a.m. to 4 p.m. Cooperative Education offers stu dents the chance to work in full-time, paid positions to gain professional experience while attending Texas A&M full-time. Companies available for students to meet with will include Hewlett- Packard, Texas Instruments, Delta Air lines, Dow Chemical, IBM and DuPont. NAACP reelects president, Bledsoe College Station (AP) — The Texas NAACP has re-elected Gary Bledsoe as its president. Bledsoe defeated opponent Kyev Tatum, 118-45, Saturday during the organization’s 63rd conference. *1 am very humbled by the level of support from the membership,’ Bled soe said. *1 will do all I can to show them that I am deserving of their support.’ The state conference concluded Saturday evening with a Texas Heroes Banquet that featured keynote speak er Robert G. Stanton, director of the National Park Service and the first African-American to head the agency. The banquet honored the late Bob Bullock, former Texas lieutenant gov ernor, who was among the first elect ed officials in the state to spearhead affirmative-action hiring and the pro motion of minorities. Also honored were Dorothy and the late Frank James Robinson, rec ognized for their efforts in the 1970s to ensure blacks the right to vote. The conference also revealed the results from the NAACP’s first statewide study on hate crimes. FACING AN UNPLANNED PREGNANCY? YOU DON’T HAVE TO FACE IT ALONE. Pregnancy Counseling Service Complete Confidentiality Full Information on Options Pre and Post Abortion Counseling Free Pregnancy Test 846-1097 Will your GRE score be high enough? ...programs across the country...have abandoned the idea of bigger is better and have settled on a different model of graduate education: Enroll fewer students, but give all of them full financial support. -Chronicle of Higher Education, 2/22/99 Class starts October 11 in Aggieland! 3620 E. 29TH ST • BRYAN www.rtis.com/hope 1 -800-KAP-TEST kaptest.com AOL keyword: kaplan *GRE is a registered trademark of the Educational Testing Service. Kaplan gets you in. 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