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Tuesday, January 23,2011
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Sixty pints of blood werecoi
looted Monday in a scholarstt
blood drive held for Laura
Kitzmiller, former A&M assis
tant professor of health andkr
nesiology.
Theresa Evangelista, territor,
manager for the American Rec
Cross of College Station, sa 1 :
the Red Cross was contacted
early December and askedt(
hold a drive in Kitzmiller’sname
Red Cross officials saidfe
the blood drive will benefi
Kitzmiller and that she suffers
from an illness, the name of
which has not been released,
“Everyone kept asking whs
they could do to help outTsaic
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tant professor of health andH
nesiology. “We felt that thiswa
a way that the staff and sft
dents could help [Kitzmilie
while at the same time helpir
with the blood shortage."
Kitzmiller served on thefac,
ty for more than 25 years and a
tired recently due to illness,
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medical training (EMT) progra
here at A&M and taught thefir;
aid course for a number o|
years,” Miller said.
Because of the large fume,
the blood drive has beenei
tended throughout today frorri
a.m. to 2 p.m. in the Res
Building.
Rules
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Qg Adrian
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sociation vice president for per
and a senior political science nil
Another change requires™
undergraduate students who mm
enroll in graduate courses to Ini
cumulative grade point ratio (Gil
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of 3.0 or the approval of hisacatij
ic dean. Before, the GPR reiji
ment was not cumulative.
Additions to the rules concern^
student conduct proceedingste
the way records of the proceed|
are kept, ensuring they are ml
strusive and sensitive tofhevicl
and the accuser, said JacquieVarl
assistant to the dean of student 1
All new student rules can beta I
at http://student-rules.tamu.e(li |
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