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ORDE MEGA G^eocoA &&?)\C “Qr&eh National Honan Society” Minimum 3-0 & 60 hour Requirement Applications Available at the Cube in Koldus! If you have any questions, contact: www.orderofomegatamu@yahoo.com Becky Niederstadi V.P. Membership 680-8705 Elizabeth Degen President 774-5007 Tammie Preston-Cunningham Advisor 862-5636 Due by September 21st STUDENT TRAVEL Get me the $%#!&<§> out of here! (We understand completely.) STA TRAVEL 721 Texas Aue. S. 979.696.5077 www.statravel .com PHI GAMMA DELTA Returns to Texas A&M University BE A FOUNDING FATHER. LEAVE YOUR LEGACY. BECOME AN AGGIE FIJI. Phi Gamma Delta has developed successful men for over 152 years at only the best colleges and universities in North America. We are looking for gentlemen who excel in the areas of scholarship, leadership, athletics, and community service to restart its “Tradition of Excellence" at Texas A&M. For more information, please attend one of the following information meetings that will be hosted by FIJI alumni members: Wednesday, September 19 • 7:00 — 8:15 pm • MSC 231 Thursday, September 20 • 7:00 - 8:15 pm • Rudder 410 Contact Joe Fal k, Director of Expansion, at (979) 694-9373 or ifalk@-phiiJam.org and visit our website at ww^w.phigam.org. WEDNESDAY CHRIS KNIGHT LIVE w/ special guest Owen Temple Chris Knight's songs have been covered by John Anderson, Randy Travis and Montgomery Gentry. He has also written with Pat Green. $ l.00 bar drinks and longnecks 8 -10 KITCHEN NOW OPEN 696-5570 Designate Party Safe Nation Page 4B THE BATTALION Wednesday, September Colorado researchers find lupus risk gene (AP) — Colorado researchers working with bioengineered mice say they have identified the first gene that increases the risk of developing lupus, a crippling and sometimes fatal inflamma tory disease. The researchers said that while problems with gene Ifi202 are specifically associated with lupus, many other subtle gene abnormalities are believed to be involved in the complex disorder. The research, published in the September issue of the journal Immunity, is confined to mice bred to be susceptible to the disease. The finding still needs to be duplicated by other labs and new stud ies must be conducted to see if the gene is found in humans with lupus. “We believe this is one piece of the puzzle,” said the study’s senior investigator, Brian Kotzin of the University of Colorado Health Sciences Center in Denver. Other researchers said the gene’s discovery, if confirmed, would be “very, very exciting.” “If it turns out to be true, it would be an enor mous advance,” said Dr. John Klippel, medical director for the Arthritis Foundation and formerly a lupus expert at the National Institutes of Health. “It should not take them very much time at all to move into human genetic research.” Lupus is an autoimmmune disease, meaning the body’s own defenses attack its healthy tis- develop sues. Many people with lupus al arthritis. In serious cases, it can attack the DNA and proteins in the healthy cells of kidneys and other vital organs. It mostly strikes women of childbearing age. Genetic factors are believed to predispose some people to lupus, although environmental factors such as infection, drug reactions, hormones and stress may trigger it. Steroids and chemotherapy are used to treat its symptoms, but there is no cure. Researchers have been searching for a lupus gene for several years. In 1997, a UCLA group retracted a study claiming to identify a lupus gene when other labs could not duplicate the work. A research team at the University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center in Dallas is inves tigating a cluster of different genes that, depend ing on their interaction, may tr suppress it. Last year, German researchers r Man -I Ddnesda\, pleads guilty ii rape ca CAMBRIDGE. Oh: — An Amish man c: with raping two girlsf guilty to sexual batte - plea bargain that require him to recei years of treatment at a tor sex offenders. Norman Byler, Birmingham initial!' charged with 11 con: rape and gross sexual:: tion involving two girl contributes to lupus ;r lupus or ext ended family. The\ < rted that the ig cells also am 1 5 at the time. He hail been scheda on trial this wcti ins) ead pleaded i arities with Mo nday to lesser ck ier autoim- five counts of sexual be mune diseases, and Kotzin’s research may have broader impacts. “All autoimmune diseases are in some way related,” Klippel said. “This advance could have a ripple effect.” Punch-card system banned in California SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) — State officials said Tuesday they will abandon use of punch-card voting systems similar to those that caused problems in Florida during last year’s presidential election. The Votomatic and Pollstar punch-card systems will be decertified in 2006, and could be replaced sooner. Secretary of State Bill Jones said. Jones said the systems, cur rently in place in nine California counties, are out dated and can cause problems that include incompletely or incorrectly punched ballots. Similar systems in place in Florida led to troubles during last year’s protracted presiden tial contest. Jones said he will hold hear ings with county election offi cials and voting machine man ufacturers to see if the systems can be replaced before the 2004 presidential election. The counties currently using the two systems are Alameda, Los Angeles, Mendocino, Sacramento, San Bernardino, San Diego, Santa Clara, Shasta and Solano. They have a total of 8.6 million registered voters. Other counties, which use other voting methods, are not affected by the ruling. Jones said he does not know how much replacement sys tems will cost. The Legislature last week voted to put a $200 million bond issue on the March ballot to help counties update their voting systems. example of Amish ~ being prosecuted in c courts, county prc^ Keith Plummer said. “Part of the difik. the case was that the community felt lih should be able to dfc that within their d: Plummer said. Defense at tomes ! Menashe said her would be able to c practicing his religion treatment center, wh will not be required to “If he were to goto and have to shave his wear prison garb Ihi! pretty much kill she said. A judge who helpoi the deal still needs wi ly approve it. I he assaults lit between June and 1999, according to records. Sheriff’s del had been alerted b) Amish neighbors w they saw one of the bleeding. Judge orders group that ran ads criticizii California governor to identify backers SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) — A Washington, D.C.-based taxpayer group that criticized Gov. Gray Davis’ handling of the statewide energy crisis is now find ing itself on the defensive. A judge ruled on Monday that the American Taxpayers Alliance, which ran television ads criticizing the governor, must register as a political committee and identify its financial backers. “Basically American Taxpayers Alliance has to play by the same rules that everybody else has to play by,” said James Harrison, a San Francisco-based attorney representing Davis’ re-election committee. James Bopp, an Indiana-based attorney for the taxpayer group, said Monday it will appeal the ruling. He said the group is not a political committee. The group ran the ads for three weeks starting June 18. The ads ended with the phrase “Grayouts from Gray Davis,” referring to the state’s rolling blackouts. The alliance is headed by Scott Reed, a Republican strategist, and the commer cials were produced by consultants who helped produce ads for President Bush's presidential campaign. Davis and other Democrats alliance’s contributors include power generators that have beem of overcharging the state. 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