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Because what you don’t know CAN hurt you. sr o 3 n & ** n 9 Dr. Ted Stachowiak - Associate Director of Student Counseling Services ^ Kim Novak - Director of Student Judicial Services Sue Foster - Associate Director of Residence Life Sgt. Allan Baron - University Police Dept. 9“ Cli 9* 9 13 13 fD 9 t/3 £ o a> Wednesday, October 13,1999 | 7 p.m. FLAGR00M 1 CD 9 o> Cu a. .9 CL Presented by MSC Issues and Ideas 9 crp re -c £ o o xi u f Persons with disabilities needing assistance may call 845-1107 Ui Page 2 • Tuesday, October 12, 1999 N EWS Campus Calender Tuesday TSEA: Will host a guest lecture by Dr Slattery at 8:30 p.m. in 212 MSC . For more information, please contact Janice at 694-7270. IEEE: There will be a guest lecture in 104B Zachry at 7 p.m. Circle K International: There will be a general meeting in 404 Rudder. Future Aggie Physician Assis tants: Baylor’s PA program director and two Baylor PA students will speak at 7 p.m. in 401 Rudder. For more information, contact Lori at 696-8593. International Study Society: Will be holding a meeting at 7 p.m. in MSC 228 with guest speakers from the Peace Corp and the Study Abroad Office. For more in formation please contact Adam at 595-1200. Corps Continued from Page 1 Memorial Correction Due to a technical error, a picture that appeared in yesterday’s Battalion on page 1, labeled “Bruton,” was run incorrectly . CD in Suimuijd luSnno ia§ i ii ino nun siuajed Aui S Wednesday No entries submitted. Improving the Internet Thursday Engineers try to design safer way to transmit injon WASHINGTON (AP) — Engineers e-mails and all otherinfonu; designing a new way to send infor- The Society for Marine Mammalo- gy-Texas Student Chapter: Dagmar Fertl with the Minerals Management Service branch of the U.S. Depart ment of the Interior will speak about marine mammal research at Texas A&M-Galveston, CLB 100 at 6 p.m. Friday Symphonic Band: There will be a con cert in the MSC Ragroom at 10:30 p.m., Concert Band also will perform. International Student Association: ISA Mini-Olympics will be at various campus sports facilities. Check out the Mini-Olympics Website for times and locations of events: acs.tamu.edu/~t0y0469. Or con tact Takuya at 847-5188. mation across the Internet want to in clude a unique serial number from each personal computer within every parcel of data. Critics warn that, if adopted, the move could potentially strip away anonymity and security enjoyed by tens of millions of home-computer users who dial into America Online Inc. and other Internet providers (IPs)over traditional telephone lines. The debate illustrates the unintend ed potential consequences of design decisions aimed at ensuring the Inter net's stability into the 21st century. The proposal by the Internet Engi neering Task Force (IETFJ, an inter national standards body, would in clude the unique serial number for each computer’s network connection hardware as part of its expanded new Internet protocol address. These IP addresses, planted within he Batta mg across the Internet, unique as telephone numfe, tinguish each computer onfci network and to guide theL bits and bytes flowing amongi The lETF’s top engineen edge some implications fori vacy, but “I think theprivao are overrated,” Fred Baket, force’s chair, said. But some privacy expens were appalled IETF engini consider the idea. Thene scheme, called IPv6, would come widely used for yeats mately would affect every Critics warned commerci net sites, which already! record IP addresses, could correlate these etnbeddet numbers against a name, address and other r details, from clothing sizeii cal affiliation. A 1986 Texas law made not re porting hazing a crime, but the court ruled the law violates stu dents’ constitutional right against self-incrimination. Jeremiah Leibowitz, first regi ment commander in the Corps and a senior agricultural development major who formerly was a fresh man commander in the Fish Drill Team, said while he is eager to see the team return, the team’s dis bandment was necessary to re solve problems within it. “What happened was for the best,” he said. “Now we can re group and do things the right way.” Cynthia Lawson, director of the Office of University Relations, said the legal matter preventing the re instatement of the program con cerns charges similar to Alton’s. The charges, which were filed in a South-Texas state court by a former team member who was identified only by his last name, Howard. ■IIP IIEP HIP IIEIP BEEP BEEP BEEP BEEP BEEP IbEIP BEEP BEEP BEEP BEEP BEEP BlfP BEEP BEEP BEEP BEEP BEEP BEEP BEEP BEEP BEEP BEEP BEEP BEEP BEEP BEEP BEEP BEEP BEEP BV R. DELI up m Tunn ^fooR f\im ‘ NON MIA CULPA B - HU Flow we have: the lasl THe^e, all. 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Participating hotels include Motel 8 in College Station, Navasota, Temple, New Braunfels and Amarillo and Hampton Inn in College Station, Corpus Christi, Austin, Longview and Laredo. “We’ve got to help make stu dents aware that by driving drowsy they are in danger,” Fer guson said. “They should natu rally know that they should pull over when they are drowsy, but this is quickly rising to the sec ond-biggest driving problem, next to drunk driving.” 6r»~T" L k)TOl+D L-OG-y AM I W/ko] W £l Dft£At ii irrs?— £NTom THE PHOENIX BOX BY E* ANDRAOS "s jus^/ I OH, WELL THAT'S 'WONDFRFULi/ SO MUCH FOR THF DISCRETE 2* Stew Dr. !w * N THE- HEEU-S OF THIS SEAftOH'i '^uecessrUL. TVr SPIV~0FFS SUCH AS THE. [/VB'S ToP EXE6S BeJKUELY UN5HELVH A NJevE«.-e>£T<OR.E'A/R.£.t? PILOT \ EPisope from 1^8^... s e hJ-Ti. Sk si ‘-0VEP Him, A he /V/^1 P.NV THe THg. guj orK.. more reason to sign up For our GMAT course There are Few guarantees inirfe^rr^ We've got one of them. 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