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Society of Women Engineers General Meeting When: Wed., February 23rd Time:6:45 p.m. - Free Papa John’s 7:00 p.m. - General Meeting Where: ENPH 202 Speaker: Emily Norman (i2 Technologies) NEWS Wednesday, February 23, 2000 THE BATTALION Corps plans Military Weekend Housing Continued frotnfi BY MAUREEN KANE The Battalion Get extra help when you need it - FREE! Classes for the May GRE start soon. Call today! yTi cn The Princeton Review (409) 696-9099 • www.review.com The Princeton Review is not offilioted with Princeton University or EIS. Texas A&M will kick off the 17th an nual Military Weekend today. K.at Jones, chairperson of the Military Weekend Committee and a senior histo ry major, said cadets from institutions na tionwide come to learn about the A&M Corps of Cadets program. “The basic goal of Mili tary Weekend is for cadets from other universities and military academies to dis cuss things pertinent to oth er ROTC programs and to the future of the military be cause we are all about to en ter the military,” said Greg Martin, Military Weekend Vice Chairperson and a ju nior information and opera tions management major. According to the Mili tary Weekend Committee, Military Weekend consists of “roundtable discussions. will be interested in attending. “Everyone is welcome to come and participate in the roundtables. This year we’re trying to increase civilian turnout,” Martin said. Major Lucy Fernandez, the A&M’s Cadet Training Officer, said Military Weekend originated as a weekend during JR BEATO/Thk BATTALION The Corps of Cadets will host other cadets from military schools around the country for Military Weekend. centering on current issues relative to the military and its institutions, view ing daily cadet life, comparing differ ent leadership practices and structures, as well as observing special unit and social activities.” The roundtables are open to the gen eral student body, but organizers said there is usually not a big civilian turnout, even though professors attempt to notify people in their classes who they think which the entire Corps underwent feder al inspection and concluded w ith a formal military ball. In the ’70s, federal inspec tion was no longer required and A&M in vited other institutions to participate. According to Fernandez, more insti tutions are invited to attend Military Weekend every' year. This year. 40 cadets and 12 officers from 15 schools are expected to attend. Some schools sending delegates in clude: The Citadel, United States Mili tary Academy, Virginia Women’s Insti tute of Leadership, Prairie View A&M University and Texas A&M-Galveston. Cadets from Virginia Tech University will also be attending Military Weekend. “Virginia Tech is the only other civil ian school with a seven day a week Corps of Cadets program. Their program is almost identical to ours.” “The schools are great about participating [in Military Weekend]. They send next year’s selected leaders so it’s beneficial to the entire corps,” said Jones. She added that everyone involved leams how military programs are run at institutions around the country', and this new knowledge can be applied at the conference atten dees’ institutions. Jones said Military Weekend affects the entire Corps of Cadets because Vednesday. F L. all outfits are asked to host the visiting cadets and all cadets are invited to the roundtable discussions. Jones also said that by involving all cadets at A&M, visitors are provided an opportunity to see every aspect of Corps life at Texas A&M. " ♦ “In the past, Military' Weekend has been really successful, and we’ve got ten a lot of good insights from cadets,” Martin said. ® ® # ®S® <»«»** TfbwnvMSC Town Hall ® Presents... # Former secretary of Air Force to speak about academics presidential center BY DANA JAMUS The Battalion Friday, February 25 Rumours Cafe 7-10 Ff<3<g Foocf, Free Kusic FFLEE ^E^TS The only woman to hold the position of Secretary of U.S. Air Force will speak Wednesday at 7:30 p.m. in the Presiden tial Conference Center. Sheila Widnall, who has experience in academia and in gov ernment, will discuss the skills and attitudes that academics can contribute to heading a large military organization. She w ill also address the differences between academic and military' institutions. Widnall headed the Air Force from 1993 to 1997 and was responsible for the recruitment, organization, training, admin istration, maintenance and all other Air Force affairs. Widnall was also responsible for the Air Force’s program and policy formulation, and coordination and with other military depart ments and agencies of the Department of Defense. She resigned in 1997 to return to the position of Massa chusetts Institute of Technology ‘s (MIT) aeronautics and as tronautics professor and associate provost. In November 1998, she was named Institute professor, the highest honor awarded by faculty and administration at MIT. Widnall, originally from Tacoma, Washington, received her bachelor’s, master’s and doctoral degrees in aeronautics and astronautics from MIT. She has also received recognition for her work on fluid me chanics and is the Vice-President of the National Academy of Engineering and President-Elect ofthe American Institute for Aeronautics and Astronautics. Widnall was also the first fe male president ofthe American Association for the Advance ment of Science. Other distinguished lecturers on the agenda at the confer ence center this semester are Nobel Chemist Sherwood Roland, scheduled for April 6 and A&M history professor, Albert Broussard, on April 26. Tickets to this event, the first of the three Distinguished Lec ture Series this semester, are at the MSC Box Office on the ground floor of Rudder Tower between 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. and are free of charge. assistant director for resii education in the Departiuij Residence Life. “Thereis dence to show that people's; imity to things affects their; to be involved. You have 111 portunity to become a pan community, so you aredcir ing your friendships.” Sarah Goldston, a junior cal science and journal ism nt still living on-campus becaa convenience. Goldston said since shehasi es in the Bush School, her res) hall’s easy access to the Fislil bus stop is enough incentive fa ^ to live on-campus. Yet, Goldston said she pi move off-campus next year in pc of personal space and an emir that would allow her to live her lifestyle independently. "I don’t mind dorm life,” ston said. “But, classes are and I need my own personals| as 1 try to balance timewithsd and activities.” Overcrowding and overass merits often discourage studenls living on campus. Chareny Rydl, associate dir; in the Department of Residence; said because a number of stmi; w ho are registered to live on can: do not show up, it is hardtoest® how many students will move residence halls. Ry dl said they make project! each year, but iftheyareoffbylj cent either way, overcrowding or derassignments will result. Foster said living on-campusa ten prepares students for the nes; of living off-campus. Goldston said she lived offcamp during the summer once before.a found bill-paying to be frustrating “I didn't really knowmyrooi mates that well and. althoughtti w ere nice girls, it wasawkwardtoli about money and split up bills,' ston said. McReary said paying billsisadi ficult issue many students face whet moving off-campus. Students who move from a resi dence hall are used topsmon/ioni bill each semester, butuhenastafai moves off campus, thefyw'sW numerous bills and deposit,sot rent, telephone and utilities. StmteJ also have to consider furnishing apartments. She warned students to carei ly read lease contracts before si; ing them. “Most ofthe property owneB pretty good, but there are a few«i are worried about the bottom line! getting their money,” McReary a Settlement talks not impeding Microsoft trial News in Brief # €) # # C> “TijtfjyJy, CuJiyfe, ej/ji A 'AarYtuga of Lova JJ .Memorial Student Centj lack Awareness Com Presents: VARAMBEE Rudder Thd Thursday, February 7:30 PM WASHINGTON (AP) — Settlement talks in the Microsoft Corp. antitrust law suit are going so poorly that the trial judge is moving ahead with plans for final court room arguments before his verdict. U.S. District Judge Thomas Penfield Jackson did not see any need to delay the last round of arguments, set for Tuesday, to accommodate ongoing secret negotiations in Chicago between government lawyers and Microsoft officials. Jackson previously told lawyers that if U.S. Circuit Judge Richard Posner, who agreed to serve as mediator, “seems to think that more time is needed, that cer tainly is something I would be willing to consider too.” But no such request for more time ever came, and there are not ongoing face-to- face talks. Posner, who recently demanded renewed secrecy about the talks because of news leaks, has met separately with the sides in every meeting to date except once, during an introductory session. Though sources indicate little progress, negotiations are aimed at averting an ago nizingly slow appeals battle that could wind through the federal courts for years. Jackson, who limited witnesses and oth erwise engineered the trial to progress rela tively quickly, has strongly urged the sides to settle. Microsoft, whose software runs most of (lie world’s personal computers, is accused of using its influence in the technology in dustry to illegally undermine rivals. These final courtroom arguments come on the heels of a dispute last week on whether Microsoft’s billionaire chainnan, Bill Gates, was inclined to offer a key con cession to government lawyers to settle. Bloomberg News reported that it asked Gates moments after a televised interview had ended whether he would be willing to disclose the secret blueprints for the com pany’s flagship Windows software, which has earned Microsoft billions of dollars. Bloomberg said Gates answered, “yes, if that’s all it took.” But Mi crosoft later forcefully insisted Gates never made the remark. It was not the first time there has been confusion about Microsoft’s willingness to disclose its so-called source code for Win dows. Steve Ballmer, now the company’s chief executive officer, hinted to a group of software professionals last May that Mi crosoft was studying the benefits of open ing its blueprints, necessary for outside ex perts to make changes or improvements to Windows. 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