HOWDY WEEK 1999
October 25 - 28
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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).
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$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
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MSC Hospitality hosts auction
to raise funds for subcommittees
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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
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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.
Brian Scott, Moses Hall crew
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usually end up eating and roost
ing together.
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other,” Phalen said. “When one
breaks away and goes to the ground,
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