AGGIE RING ORDERS
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OF FORMER STUDENTS
ATTENTION: UNDERGRADUATE
& GRADUATE STUDENTS
Students who will eidier complete all of the following requirements after the Fall ‘99 semester final grades
are posted, or after commencement, may order their rings beginning approximately January 18, 2000 for
April 2000 delivery. Please visit the Aggie Ring Office in the Clayton Williams Alumni Center beginning
December 13 to complete an audit request and to receive older information. 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 order form and be sized for your ring between December 13 & 21.
Any student or former 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 their ring by the 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: DECEMBERS, 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:
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.
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
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 i( 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 Discove r , 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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ORLD
—
Officials recruit, arms forces
while on tour of Chechen city
Chechen rebels regroup to defend Grozr,
Russian forces attack Chechen rebel strongholdsrf
the capital as Chechen fighters flock to its defense
Russian airstrike or artillery shelling
Rebels retaliate by staging ambushes, firing at Russian jets
ACHKOI-MARTAN, Russia (AP) — The con
victed embezzler tried to help the Moscow-backe
d government in Chechnya collect and arm re
cruits for a paramilitary force during a tour yes
terday of a Russian-held Chechen city.
Meanwhile, Moscow shrugged off mount
ing international pressure yesterday for a diplo
matic solution to the fighting, showering bombs
on the last rebel-held route to Grozny in the on
going battle for the Chechen capital.
The rebels retaliated by staging ambushes in s
mall groups and firing at Russian jets with large-c
aliber machine guns and shoulder-held rock
ets. The militants have been resisting tenacious
ly on several fronts in recent days.
In a new move yesterday, Russian comman
ders gave Kalashnikov rifles and uniforms to a pr
o-Moscow militia composed of Chechens who sai
d they will fight alongside federal troops.
The group is led by Bislan Gantamirov, a for
mer mayor of Grozny who was serVing a prison t
erm for embezzlement before Russian Presi
dent Boris Yeltsin pardoned him earlier this mont
h and chose him to lead a Moscow-backed Chech
en government.
Gantamirov said he would encourage rebel
fighters to defect to his group, but did not say
exactly what military role the force would play
. Gantamirov led a previous, Moscow-backed
militia in 1994 that was defeated by sepa
ratist fighters.
His group of about 200 men looked di
sheveled. Some were unshaven. Some wore leath
er jackets and others military fatigues. They stood
in a line in a muddy, snowy field for inspec
tion by Russian regional commander Col. Gen. Vi
ktor Kazantsev.
Meanwhile, the Russians are attempting to sur
round Grozny and cut off militants from their bas
es in the mountains. Yesterday’s fighting was con
centrated around Urus-Martan, a city about 12 mi
les southwest of the capital.
With sunny weather increasing visibility, the
Russians sent barrages of rockets and artillery she
11s slamming into Urus-Martan.
During lulls in the bombing, the rattle of au
tomatic weapons fire could also be heard as Ru
ssian troops tried to advance on the city from t
he west.
The Russian military command said 50 rebels
were killed in yesterday’s fighting around Urus-M
artan, Grozny and other Chechen towns. Cheche
n officials claimed significant Russian losses, but
neither claim could be independently confirmed.
The Russians have showed no sign of eas
ing up despite international pressure for a nego
tiated solution to the conflict.
Alvaro Gil-Robles, the Council of Europe’s hu
man rights commissioner, traveled to Russian-co
htrolled parts of Chechnya on TUesday to in
spect living conditions, Russian news reports said
French Foreign Minister Hubert Vedrine and G
erman Foreign Minister Joschka Fischer criti
cized Russia for not setting a date for a visit to Ch
echnya by Organization for Security and Coop
eration in Europe chairman Knut Vollebaek.
Vedrine and Fischer called on Russia to al
low humanitarian aid into the region and said the
y were “shocked by the consequences of the re
pression on the civilian population.”
Some 233,000 refugees — almost a third of Ch
echnya’s population — have fled the fighting.
U.S. State Department spokesman James Ru
bin said that Secretary of State Madeleine Al-
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t the war is “causing humanitarii
lems, damaging Russia’s internatioi
tion and complicating the achievemei
litical solution.”
Russia said the military campaign:
ternal matter, and that it does notinta
gotiate with the Chechens until the mi
roundly defeated. Russia also blames
tants for apartment bombings that kills
bright had spoken by phone with Rnw 0 thers Ag,
eign Minister Igor Ivanov on Monda ttDD) is hos
Albright stressed that the United! (Jllelight vigil
not believe “a purely military solution lo have lost th
flict is possible,” Rubin said. She told jured in alcof
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ive lost
alcoho
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Support within Russia remains pcidenti
campaign, which has caused massive
tion in Chechnya, a territory already®
ed by a 1994-96 war in which Chechny
facto independence.
Remarks from wife of Palestinian leader cause upro
Chrisi
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RAMALLAH, West Bank (AP)
— It has been a turbulent month
for Soha Arafat.
First, the wife of Palestinian
leader Yasser Arafat publicly re
nounced her mother for meddling in
her life. Then she caused an inter
national uproar by accusing Israel of
intentionally poisoning Palestinians
with gas, deeply embarrassing first
lady Hillary Rodham Clinton.
All the while, she insists her mar
riage to Arafat, a man twice her age,
is sound — even while acknowl
edging she almost never sees him.
Mrs. Arafat’s remarks have un
expectedly trained the spotlight on
the Palestinians’ first family, espe
cially on the 36-year-old Mrs.
Arafat. They have also embar
rassed the Palestinian Authority
which has been under U.S. pres
sure to distance itself from her.
Mrs. Arafat’s mother, Raymonda
Tawil, said her daughter is simply
trying to assert her independence.
Arafat “understands [Soha’s]
quest for freedom,” Tawil, 59, long
an influential force herself in the
Palestinian community, especially
in the ’70s and ’80s, when she
owned a Palestinian news agency
and her home was frequently a
gathering point for resistance
against Israeli occupation, said.
During her 10 years of marriage
to Arafat, Mrs. Arafat has spoken
out on a num-
ber of issues, in
cluding corrup
tion in the
Palestinian Au
thority and the
peace talks with
Israel.
Her public
role has been rel
atively modest.
She has tended
to a few chari
ties, including
Arafat’s sudden declaration that
she was severing ties.
Claiming that Israeli agents were
trying to destabilize the Palestinians,
Mrs. Arafat last week told the French
weekly Paris Match that “my moth-
er, herself, had let
“Soha [Arafat] is like
a bird. When it wants
to leave the nest, it
kicks the mother”
— Raymonda Tawil
Soha Arafat’s mother
herself get caught
up in [the Is
raelis’] machina
tions.”
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knowledged that
being pushed
away by her
daughter was
painful. "This
was very tough
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but has rarely accompanied her hus
band on his many trips abroad.
There have been long stretches
of seclusion in a Paris apartment,
where she stayed with her 4-year-
old daughter, Zahwa, while Arafat
remained in Gaza City.
For a long time, Mrs. Arafat and
her mother were considered close.
Then, in October, came Mrs.
interview in her home in the West
Bank town of Ramallah. “Soha is
like a bird. When it wants to leave
the nest, it kicks the mother.”
Mrs. Arafat, bojrn into a
wealthy Christian family, grew up
in the West Bank.
Taught by nuns, she completed
her education at the Sorbonne. She
worked in the Palestinian Liberation
Oreanization headouarters in TUnis
in the late ’80s when si
Arafat’s attention.
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