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November 11,1999 7:00 pm 201 Memorial Student Center STOP BY AND DISCOVER A WORLD OF OPPORTUNITIES AT DISNEY. www.wdwcollegeprogram.coin HnnHO unman E O E • Drawing C r e a r i v i r y from Diversity Fatalities Continued from Page 1 Jeff Schiefelbein, the founder of CARPOOL and a senior mar keting major, said the Student Government Association re searched multiple programs from other universities to create the pro gram started at Texas A&M. “It is amazing to me how many students would be driving drunk if we weren’t there,” Schiefelbein said. “It is proof we are saving peo ple’s lives. I have had an opportu nity three or four times to be a dri ver. Our students are not getting into wrecks which is helping to prevent other wrecks in the community.” Currently, the Student Senate is promoting reduced hotel/motel rates for students to encourage stu dents to stay overnight rather than risk falling asleep at the wheel. Grant Continued from Page 1 The mathematics department expects the grant to help the de partment increase the number of well-trained undergraduate stu dents who seek further study in the mathematical sciences. It will allow for graduate stu dents to complete their doctoral degrees in mathematics in less time and increase the number of under graduate students in mathematics- related fields, he said. “The prestige factor of building this program will be an important factor in recruiting,” Rundell said, “not just for the Department of Mathematics but also for the other disciplines which will benefit from the increase in undergraduate in volvement in research, such as the computer science department and other engineering fields.” Skydiving Continued from Page 1 “Ags Over Texas was marketed more to just students,” she said. “Waller caters to beginners and teams with high-powered programs for competition, and Wharton has an easy-going, family-oriented style. The other drop zones are wel coming us.” All the drop zones will give the club access to bigger planes than Ags Over Texas offered. “The small plane that Ags Over Texas owned could only carry four jumpers,” she said. “Waller has Twin Otters, which can carry as many as 20 people, which makes it good for competition.” All three new zones are affiliat ed with the United States Parachute Association, she said. The site in Wharton, Sky Dive USA, will host the Scrambled Ags competition Nov. 20. Allison Ashworth, club treasur er and a freshman business major, said she enjoys the new zones. “The people there are really nice and treated us well,” Ash worth said. Ashworth said neither her nor her parent’s attitudes have changed since the crash of Ags Over Texas. “I see it as something new to try,” she said. Ashworth said she knew she al ways wanted to sky dive when she saw jumpers at a balloon lift-off. Senate News In Brief Tic Continued from Page 1 In other business, the Senate: • passed the Constituency Re lations Bill,making senators more accountable to their constituents. • created a voting site at the George Bush School of Govern ment and Public Service. • passed the Alpha Phi Omega, Xi Delta Chapter Recognition Resolu tion, recognizing Alpha Phi Omega, a national co-ed service fraternity, for the service projects it does. • discussed the Freshmen and Transfer Student Mid-term Aca demic Advising Bill, which would require freshmen and transfer students with a grade point ratio of 2.0 or less to re ceive formal academic advising. • discussed was the Election Dates Revisions Bill, which would set non-Student Govern ment Association organizations’ election dates after Spring Break. These two items were sent back to their respective committees for further consideration. Yell practice moves from Grove to park Midnight Yell Practice for away games is usually held Thursday evening at the Grove, but this week’s yell practice will be at Cain Park, next to Cain Hall on Joe Routt Boulevard. Jeff Bailey, head yell leader and a senior agricultural systems management major, said the move to the park will allow the A&M football team to be more in volved with yell practice. Bailey said the team goes straight from football practice to dinner and is usually unable to at tend the yell practice at the Grove. He said moving to Cain Park will allow the football team to see the support they have from students and visitors. "[We want] everybody, anybody to come out and support the team,” he said. "Come see these guys who play on Saturday.” The Corps of Cadets and the Ag gie Band will step off at the Qua: gle at 6:45 p.m. to march tothe Next week’s yell practice*, Women’s roletof of round-table ta Gender Issues Educate' host a Women and Interna; Development round tablete; 11:30 a.m. in MSC 205. Shawn Treavers, Genderls; Education coordinator, sac round table is a chance tos opinions about women’s ro; international development " It is a wonderful opportur women and men to come tog; to talk about women's roles ternational development in past and future,” he said, can share what experiences had and what culture theycai with them when they go abro: Julie Cooper, a senior infi tion operations management 1 will speak at the roundtable. Cooper will discuss here ences of last summer as an in Tubingen. Germany. 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