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OF FORMER STUDENTS
ATTENTION: UNDERGRADUATE
& GRADUATE STUDENTS
Students who will either complete all of die following requirements after the Rill ‘99 semester final grades
ate posted, or after commencement, may order dieir rings beginning approximately Jiinuary 18, 2000 for
April 2000 delivery. Please visit die Aggie Ring Office in die Clayton Williams Alumni Center beginning
December 13 to complete an audit request and to receive order informarion. In the event you will not be
in the College Station area between January 18 and February 11 to place your order in person, please pick
up a mail older form and be sized for your ring between December 13 & 21.
Any student or fonner student who completed all the requirements as of summer ‘99, must visit the Aggie
Ring Office to complete a ring audit no later than December 8 to order dieir ring by die December 10
deadline for March 2, 2000 delivery.
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OF FORMER STUDENTS
AGGIE RING ORDERS
CLAYTON W. WILLIAMS, JR. ALUMNI CENTER
DEADLINE: DECEMBER 8, 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. 95 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.
2,0 cumulative GPR at Texas A&M University.
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
March 2, 2000, you must visit the Ring Office no later than Wednesday,
December 8, 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 December 8 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 December 10.
2. Return no later than December 10, 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-$332.00
14K - $438.00
Women’s 10K - $204.00
14K - $227.00
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 March 2, 2000,
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Gathering
Continued from Page 1
“When 1 think of Aggie Bonfire, I know what
makes it so special,” he said. “It is every single Ag
gie that stands around it, and there’s a lot of Aggies
standing here tonight.” i^^*****"
Bailey said to remember life is
far more important than a football
game.
“We have a challenge in each
one of our lives to look for hope
and strength and to move on and
look at our future after a rough
time and tragic week here at Texas
A&M and we will never forget it,”
he said. “This yell practice is not
to try to forget anything. It will al
ways be in our minds as long as
the spirit lasts here at Texas A&M.”
As the yell practice came to a
Will Hurd, A&M student body president and a
senior computer science major, offered the invoca
tion before Friday’s football game against LIT. As
he drew his prayer to a close, he asked the crowd
of 86,128 people to reflect in a moment of silence
and at that instant, four F-16 jet fighters flew over
head in the “Missing man” formation.
■*•*■"»■**■ Thousands of maroon
balloons were released at the
same time for a “Balloon
Out.”
Wall said the Traditions
Council been planned to re
lease balloons even before
the Bonfire collapse and-de
cided to continue with it in
hopes of it having a positive
emotional impact.
“We wanted to do it to lift
everyone’s spirit,” she said.
During halftime, the UT
Longhorn Band dedicated its
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"We have a challenge
... to look for hope
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move on....”
— Jeff Bailey
head yell leader
conclusion and the lights were darkened, thou
sands of candles were once again lit, and the Par
son’s Mounted Calvary’s cannon was fired 12 times
in memory of the fallen Aggies.
performance to the 12 Aggies who lost their lives.
The crowd remained standing throughout the per
formance of the visiting band. The Aggie Band also
dedicated its performance to the deceased Aggies.
Juan Gomez, a senior mattfe
major, said although he has no™
tutorial Websites in action, hell
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tween learning a process andk
how to apply that information.
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then being able to use it. Youc;
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Freeman said the coincidence of
the 12 Aggies who lost their lives in
the Bonfire collapse and the nu
meral 12 on the back of this year’s
Maroon Out T-shirt has heightened
significance of the them.
“[The number 12] took on a
completely different meaning,”
she said. “It was a symbol of
[those killed].”
Valentine said Maroon Out,
which began in the 1998 football
season for the game against Ne
braska, has become an important
and consistent part of Aggieland.
“Last year we sold 31,000 T-
shirts and this year, we sold 54,000
T-shirts and sweatshirts,” he said.
“We’ve been working all year long
and when you see something like
Friday, you can see and feel the Ag
gie spirit, and it was well worth
[the effort].”
Freeman said student and fans
have made Maroon Out the success
that it has become.
“People took it on themselves,
which is what we wanted to hap
pen,” she said. “I don’t know if any
of us ever dreamed, I mean we
wanted it to be, this big.”
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Hutchinson said despite the in
juries he suffered when stack col
lapsed, he would still participate in
future Bonfire building activities.
“I’ll be the first one in line,”
he said. “Me and a thousand
others to watch it burn.”
Hutchinson said the tradition
of Bonfire is much bigger than just
a construction project.
“It’s not about Bonfire,” he
said. “It’s about the unity. We’ve
got the unity. We’ve proved it.”
Davis and Comstock are the
last of 27 injured students who re
ceived medical treatment and re
main in the hospital as a result of
the Bonfire collapse.
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