HOWDY WEEK 1999 October 25 - 28 SAVE THE WORD! Help us keep Texas A&M the friendliest campus in the nation! Say “Howdy” to the right person and you could win FREE stuff from our sponsors! This week all of your Howdy Paraphernalia will be on sale! - Come see us at the MSC - We have NEW t-shirts, antenna balls, buttons & stickers Every team has a coach. Only here they call them mentors. At Cintas, you're not in the game alone. As the nation's leading uniform team, our exclusive management programs pair todayls most ambitious and energetic people with experienced professionals - delivering the maximum in hands-on training in all areas of our operation. There are two points of entry into our programs: Management Trainees. This two-year, intensive program consists of classroom training and field experience. Areas covered include service, production, administration and sales. Upon completion, graduates will be placed in one of these key areas as a Cintas Manager. Sales Associates. This 6 12 month program builds on your strong sales oriented background and includes working closely with experienced reps, attending seminars and learning the Cintas sales process. Upon completion, graduates will be promoted into their own sales territory. Plan on attending our company presentation on November 2nd to | learn more about opportunities with Cintas. We will be hosting o'h- campus interviews November 3rd & 4th. If you are unable to participate in the campus event, please send your resume to: P.O. Box 15126, Houston, Texas 77220, Attn: Human Resources. Or fax to 713/671-9718. EOE. www.cintas-corp.com V »' :iation~ OF FORMER STUDENTS AGGIE RING ORDERS CLAYTON W. WILLIAMS, JR. ALUMNI CENTER DEADLINE: OCTOBER 27, 1999 Undergraduate Student Requirements: You must be a degree seeking student and have completed all of the following require ments to order an Aggie ring: 1. 25. cumulative undergraduate credit hours reflected on the Texas A&M University Student Information Management System degree audit. (A course passed with a grade letter of D or better, which is repeated and passed, cannot count as additional credit hours unless the catalog states the course may be repeated for credit. The lowest grade is the repeated course.) 2. 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 attended prior to 1994 and do not qualify under the suc cessful semester requirement defined in the following paragraph/ The 60 credit hour requirement will be waived if your degree is conferred with less than 60 A&M credit hours. The waiver will not be granted until after your degree is post ed to screens #123 & #136 of 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 enrolled at Texas A&M University and successfully completed either a fall/spring semester or summer term (I and II or 10 weeks) as a full-time student in good standing (A full-time student is defined in the university catalog as one that completes 12 credit hours with a 2.0 GPR in a spring or fall semester; or 4 credit hours with a 2.0 GPR in a 10 week session.) Please remember that you will lose resident credits if you pass a course at A&M with a D or better and retake it at another institution and make a higher grade The lowest grade is always deducted by the university as a repeated class. 3. 2.0 cumulative GPR at Texas A&M University. 4. 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 December 1999 degree candidate and do not have an Aggie ring from a prior degree, you may place an order after you meet the following requirements: 1. Your degree is conferred and posted on the Texas A&M University Student Information Management System; and 2. You are in good standing with the University, including no registration or tran script blocks for past due fees, loans, parking tickets, returned checks, etc. However, if you have 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 (providing it is not past their deadline). 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: 1. If you meet all of the above requirements and you wish to receive your ring on December 9, 1999, you must visit the Ring Office no later than Wednesday, October 27, 1999 between the hours of 8:30 a.m. - 3:30 p.m. to complete the application for eligibility verification. It is recommended that you do not wait until October 27 to apply for your ring audit. Should there be a problem with your academic record, or if you are blocked, you may not have sufficient time to resolve these matters before the order closes out on October 29. Return no later than October 29, 1999 between the hours of 8:30 a.m. - 3:30 p.m. to check on the status of your audit and if qualified, pay in full by cash, check, money order, or your personal Discover, Visa or MasterCard (with your name imprinted). Men s 10K - $316.00 14K - $416.00 Women’s 10K - $198.00 14K - $219.00 Add $8.00 for Class of‘98 or before and $15.00 if ring needs to be shipped out-of-town. The ring delivery date is December 9. 1999. Page 2 • Wednesday, October 27, 1999 N EWS MSC Hospitality hosts auction to raise funds for subcommittees he Battalion BY JEANETTE SIMPSON The Battalion The atmosphere was lively yesterday after noon in the MSC Flagroom as Andrew Patrick, a member of the MSC Hospitality Committee, a licensed auctioneer and a sophomore nu clear science major, auctioned off students’ unclaimed items from the lost and found at the MSC and the Student Recreation Center. Other items in the auction were donated by businesses, including gift certificates to area restaurants. Items including jackets, backpacks and ten nis rackets that accumulate during each se mester are held for six months in the lost and found, and if they are not claimed, they go into the auction. Sanaz Khanbolooki, financial development ex ecutive for the MSC Hospitality Committee, and a senior biochemistry major, said MSC Hospital ity organizes the Lost and Found Auction each se mester to help support the groups activities. “MSC Hospitality is a non-profit organiza tion, so in order to get funds to support the many subcommittees of MSC Hospitality, we hold fundraisers like this auction,” Khan bolooki said. Andrew Patrick a MSC Hospitality member and a sophomore nutritional science major, served as auctioneer this semester. “One of our own members, Andrew Patrick, Architecture Continued from Page l News In Brief “This project offers a major ex pansion to the Children’s Medical Center. ” Mann said five faculty members, approximately 55 students, and two grade schools from the Bryan-Col- lege Station are offering their per spectives to this project. “The two grade schools, one in Navasota and one in Bryan, are giv ing the architecture students ideas of what they would like to see for the [Children’s] Medical Center,” he said. “This center is a place of heal ing for children, and A&M students are preparing designs with every thing from gardens and greenery to detailed construction.” Regan said students will advance their levels of contribution to the pro ject and will increase their confi dence in forming concrete proposals for their future careers. Fish Pot fight leads to minor injuries Sunday night, three Moses Hall residents were injured while partic ipating in a Moses Hall tradition of underclassmen fighting for the Fish Pot. The pot was damaged in the process, and the jagged edges cut some of the participants. Police and Emergency Medical Services (EMS) officials arrived, and treated and released David Veksler, a freshman aerospace engineering major, who received a cut across his hand and forearm by the pot. "We were just fooling around when I fell on the pot,” Veksler said. "EMS said I would be fine. I’m all right.” Jay Sartain, EMS supervisor, said EMS and police had come in response to an emergency call. Eric Etheridge, a freshman computer science major, and Travis Strow, a sophomore civil en gineering major, were also injured. Both said they only received small cuts, and neither were treated. 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