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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
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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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