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OF FORMER STUDENTS
ATTENTION: UNDERGRADUATE
dr GRADUATE STUDENTS
Students who will either 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 order 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: 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. 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. 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 witn 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 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,
Page 8 • Thursday, December 2, 1999
N
ATION
Me Battalion
WTO Delegates
push ahead with
talks despite riots
SEATTLE (AP) — Stunned by
violent street protests resulting in
scores of arrests, delegates to a
135-nation trade gathering insist
ed they would push ahead yes
terday with efforts to launch a
new round of talks aimed at
breaking down barriers to global
commerce — and city officials
vowed to back them up.
Washington Gov. Gary Locke
ordered as many as 200 members
of the National Guard and 300
state troopers to the city, where
they will serve as backup to po
lice who battled rampaging pro
testers with tear gas and pepper
spray Tuesday.
Yesterday, city officials de
clared a no-protest zone for
nearly all of the city’s down
town area, about 50 city blocks,
acknowledging they were
caught unaware by the magni
tude of the disturbance.
“Clearly, in hindsight, the ap
proach we used yesterday did not
work, and we’re going to have to
take a different approach today,”
assistant police chief Ed Joiner
said at a news conference.
Police, who arrested 68 people
TUesday, moved swiftly yesterday
morning to break up pockets of
demonstrators and arrested about
250 of them, bringing in transit
buses to take them away.
Most of the protesters were
nonviolent, going limp as police
tried to pick them up.
“This conference will be a suc
cess,” Mike Moore, director gen
eral of the World Thade Organiza
tion (WTO), said. “The issues are
far too important to be ignored.”
Police chief Norm Stamper
said at a news conference: “The
downtown area needs to be
and will in fact be made safe to
day for everyone.”
Mayor Paul Schell, interviewed
on NBC’s “Today,” said, “I think
we’ve secured the town.”
He said Guard troops will be
used primarily for backup.
“They are not armed. I don’t
want armed personnel in the
streets. I think that might even
be more provocative.”
WTO delegates long had ex
pected protests, but nothing like
the storm that hit Seattle when at
least 40,000 activists took to the
streets on the day the conference
was to open.
Some 5,000 protesters con
fronted police, with a handful
launching an assault on the
downtown business area.
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