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To order your Aggie Ring for this delivery, please do the following: Undergraduate students may submit their Ring audit online at www.AggieNetworfc.com/AggieRing and graduate students should submit their Ring audit in person at The Association Ring Office, Clayton W. Williams, Jr. Alumni Center. Monday — Friday. 8:30 a m. - 4:30 p.m., between December 5-12, 2001. If you choose, you may then select your Ring and leave a completed order form along with the full payment. Your order will then be processed after your degree is posted on SIMS and your Ring audit is completed. Please remember to take care of any outstanding financial obligations to the University, since you must be in good standing to qualify for your Ring. Orders will be taken from 10:00 a.m. — 3:30 p.m. on Friday. December 14, 2001 for undergraduate students who are graduating with 60 A&M credit hours, a 2.0 cumulative GPR, and are in good standing with the University. Otherwise, orders will be taken on December 15. 2001. between 9:00 a.m. - 3:00 p.m., if you complete an audit by December 12. 2001, are in good standing, and bring in your diploma. ATTEWTIOIXI Uf\lDERGRADUATE STUDENTS COMPLETING ALL OF THE RING REQUIREMENTS IN DECEMBER 2001: If you will have 95 cumulative credit hours, with 60 of these in residence at Texas A&M University with a 2.0 cumulative GPR, and are in good standing, please complete your Ring audit online at www.AggieNetwork.com/AggieRing between December 8-21, 2001. You will receive an e-mail response in January to place your Aggie Ring order, if qualified. The Ring prices for 2002 will be posted on the Web site on December 15, 2001. The December order deadline, which is posted on the above Web site at this time, is only for students who qualified for their Ring prior to the Fall 2002 semester. The Association" Rings loans are available to qualified and currently enrolled full-time students at the Short Term Loan Office, Room 230, Pavilion. Please submit your Ring audit before applying for a Ring Loan. ’UDi 505 GEORGE BUSH DR . COLLEGE STATION, TEXAS 77840- (979)845-7514 www.AggieNetwork.com ‘it is easier to go to Mars than it is to regulate the bonier” said Nestor Rodriguez, associate professor of sociology and co director of the Center for Immigration Research at the University of Houston. Rodriguez was one of three scholars on a panel concerning immigration policies in the United States. The event was held at Texas A&M Thursday night as part of the Wiley Lecture Series. The event was mediated by Rep. Joe Nixon, R-Texas and former A&M student. Maria Gordon, president of a law firm that represents individuals and businesses in immigration mat ters. The experts gave their opin ions and look questions from the audience on topics that per tained to immigration. ‘‘In the history of human kind, immigration has played a major role in the creative force in human development," Rodriguez said. “Human kind has not stopped walking and the creativity created by immigra tion defines our species. But it is all changed now. National secu rity will take on an increased priority and regulate who comes into the United States due to undocumented immigration. America is headed towards a federation with Canada and middle-American countries sim ilar to the European community. Eventually we will truly become the United States of America — not America the country but America the continent.” The Immigration and Naturalization Service (INS) IIEVIV 1 hND SAVj gpRlN Keep your great services from Cox at the same low price if you renew now for next semester! Call Cox today and renew your current semester package at the same affordable price. 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INS is the fastest-growing bureaucracy in Besday, Deceit^ n the aftermath of the ist attacks, border guardsi been performing more etien searches at all of the major ders. As a result, they % more drugs coining into United States. Rodriguez^ “In relation to the Fo Amendment, which hasioi with search-and-seizure questions came upevenbt! Sept. 11," Gordon “Unless you violate an law, the immigration se will not stop you or scan Also, public schools are allowed to check theiim h Sen tor I WASH INC. bflicials clear- Bice buildir with anthrax rr< be finishec [rly next year Employees |pnday at the mate Office lile cleanup mate Major it aschle’s off [art Senate th chlorine weekend. the government, and there is lion status of their studer: | The Hart if you are a law-abiding potentially let son, then its hard todeifia escaped It is easier to go to Mars than it is to regulate the border. — Nestor Rodriguez co-director of the Center for Immigration Research at UH not a perfect system.” Rodriguez suggested a total examination of the entire immi gration system in order to accomplish the goals that are being set by INS, and that Americans must recognize the tremendous task ahead. Rodriguez also warned about criticizing the INS for its inefficiencies. “INS has two contradicto ry functions: to keep people out and to assimilate foreign ers into American society,” Rodriguez said. expired visas. However, process of documenting dent visas has been chr and it is mandatory that all versifies develop betters tracking students while infringing on their privacy Students attending the ference were able to offer opinion on immigration s the terrorist attacks. "The terrorist attacks just make it easier to enl already existing laws," Rose Lucas, a sophomoreh ry major. “I believe it will a immigration for the nextcc years, but that everything nisi I back to normal before toolo: Iter opened laschle, wi liile the otection / |\(ork on 1 1 lites and are Jovides worl tk 100-mem t I “We're bac |utine of cleu lites in the H [chard Roper fordinator. “I Christmas.’ - EPA Ad mi Whitman expi that weeks c Tic protocol s “The attacks will make p* in Jy ries or cies more rigorous attheboiiB e t, orine ers,” said PeterWinegeart,axfl There w; ior agricultural life scienw^' 0 hcult \ major. “Immigration proce(talf tlon ’ s * ie might take longer and look hil trac er, but I think that we will™ ca P et l outsic through this in a timely fask:B r the I We w ill change policies,! 4p osi1 re lev* once w'e find ways to makt®' sln ct of Col Sec Immigration on pad New to Brya nlCollege Station and just in time for Christmas.. ifyou're looking for that special something, 11 we've got just what you’re looking for... am i- sSpen I whsil m Cot The only refillahle porduct which removes odors, including tobacco smokt, while it foangrances the air. 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