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Environmental Forum What: Campus Environmental Organizations coming together When: Thursday, April 18, 6pm Where: Koldus Room 144 “The Governance Room” (FREE PIZZA!!!) Want to get involved in ENVIRONMENTAL issues on campus? —This is YOUR CHANCE!!! Sponsored by: EiC, NAEP, CARE, and Replant ^Attention All Members of NSCS National Society ol Collegiate Scholars Last meeting of the semester!! When: April 18, 2002 Where: Rudder 308 Time: 5:30 p.m. For more information, contact us at: nscs_tamu@yahoo.com 2A Thursday, April 18, 2002 WHY WOULD ANYONE PAY MORE? CALL FOR LOCAL DIAL-UP NUMBERS. No Contracts! Not Pre-Raid! Billed Monthly! FREE Unlimited E-Mail Accounts FREE 300 Megabytes of Web Space No Busy Signals - Unlimited Access & Usage FREE 24hr Tech Support & Software 56k or ISDN - Same Low Price /^Everyones Internet h WWW.evI.net for complete details Additional fees apply. See our website for complete details. CONGRATULATIONS! Join the Celebration at the Clayton W. Williams, Jr. Alumni Center APRIL 18TH RING DELIVERY Tickets distributed throughout the day, beginning at 7:15 a.m. You must have a numbered ticket to get your Ring. Festtvities begin at 2 p.m. Ring distribution starts at 3 p.m. and ends at 6 p.m. Limited parking is available in the parking lot behind the Alumni Center. We encourage you to take the Bonfire or Replant bus routes that stop in front of the building. Texas Aggie Artist, Benjamin Knox '90, personalizing the “Historic Aggie Ring” You must bring your pink receipt and driver’s license to pick up your Ring. If you do not have your pink receipt, please bring your student ID and driver’s license. SPONSQBED BY ytj^TheMlpd^ Fish (TalVia) Sure Does Pee oaj a Lot op "Y5ruFF yEAH , IA>£D To SE IF You blt>A)T t-KE SToFF You i>R£iU A CtZCLZ WITH A LIMB Through it... 'ThBSE bziYS you Jvsf 6Ef CAlVid To Pee o/h it 254 PEElAJG o«j A LOfiJbHoR*)' CAl^IaJ Pe EIAJ& OA) A l°go ! 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April 25 The Program on Conflict and Dispute Resolution and the George Bush School of Government is hosting a lecture: “Afghanistan - A Study in Neglect" by Hank Brown, former U.S. Senator and Chair of Middle East Subcommittee on Foreign Relations. It will be held in the Presidential Conference Center at 7 p.m. Call Rebecca Royer at 862-1079 for more information. Mon. April 29 Project Sunshine will be having an executive meeting at 8:30 p.m. in Koldus. Wed. May 1 Project Sunshine will have a closing meeting at 8:30!p.m. in MSC 226. Drilling Continued from page 1A Earth,” Fox said. “These insights will help us be better stewards to our planet.” A&M subcontracts the drilling ship from the owners. Overseas Drilling Limited, Fox said. The ship, named Joint Oceanographic In Deep Earth Sampling (JOIDES) Resolution, is 471 feet long and 70 feet wide. Fox said. “The ship is outfitted to design key physical, chemical and paleontologic properties by drilling,” Fox said. Twenty-five people on board from A&M make up the tech nological staff. The crew also consists of 25 scientists, drawn from a pool of applicants, and 61 maritime and rig floor crew. JOIDES spends 55 days at sea in water depths of 19,680 feet, penetrating depths of up to 6,294 feet. " JOIDES has traveled globally, covering 22,936 miles since the project began in 1984. The ship’s crew has dug 658,000 feet of sediment in 18 years. Along with being responsi ble for supplying the ship, A&M shares science and engineering support with the project and then publishes the cruise results. The ship is currently off the coast of Chile drilling sediment to provide insight to climate starting back in the Crotaceous Era, 65 million years ago. Many things have been found in the sediment, such as methane bub bles, which could be the driving force behind the oceanic climate change. Fox said. Shocked quartz was found, along with high levels of iridi um, which are not found on Earth, providing information that something extraterrestrial crashed into Earth. Scientists have also found pollen from plants and silicate materials shed from the conti nents in the sediment. They predicted the climates that these materials were generated in, therefore determining the climate at all levels of the sedi ment, Fox said. Fox said ocean drilling needs more than JOIDES can provide. A successor program will begin in Fall 2003, the Integrated Ocean Drilling Program, which plans to decipher the ocean records with the help of special ized platforms and a ship that will dig deeper. Fox said. Fox said he looks forward to the competition A&M will be involved in to earn the 2003 Ocean Drilling Project. “Our intent at Texas A&M is not only to compete to be involved but to be successful,” he said. THE BATll Director Continued from; ; since 1981. He gradui | Texas A&M and wasa-l of the band and the (| Cadets. He began worb the band as a graduate^ and has spent his entiri with them. Brewer reci master’s in music Vandercook School i in Chicago. Rhea has been an director since 1993. K. with the University nf J band as an undergraduate-, and with the Texas Tectil a graduate student. ] been a high school and has a doctorate in mi “We have three vers p or 21 y candidates,” Kibler saicm a j or Amy 1 has spent his entire careeK ' 1997. N Another has hand work Sclerosis, an sive settings. The thirdcaic has a very extensive bani in the Army. Any one three could step intoik Now, we have to decide«t the best fit of all.” Applicants were asb: submit CDs, videosorpra from events they had condl They also were required!:! a master’s degree in must; I In addition to overseed Aggie Band, the new fcl will be the head oiL no belt University Symphonic s University Jazz Ensemble ^ Aggieland Orchestra. University Concert Band ait: University Campus Band.kiM^ a ^ 0 Qi mi said. The director will alsos« iervous S y S as the head of the newly-creM^ S pi n al c< music program. I sends and n jnerves insul [called myeli [With N ken down, c In 2001 Multiple Sc began the oi “1 knew ; and decided mote aware while volun munity who “I had jus ladre Island imb,” Neel After a wi r ay, Neely tad a pinche less had not “[I went t to schedule lome,” Neel I But wher mable to us he hospital “By the f Many Ag £)r MS, but r “Today, 1 FBI agent retires after criticism DALLAS (AP) - Da* Defenbaugh, the specialagetfr charge of the Dallas FBI a who was heavily criticized" 1 ' report last month for withhold information in the Timothj McVeigh trial, announced bisj retirement Wednesday. The 32-year FBI said he would step the end of April. “It's been a long time," lie sail, declining to comment further Defenbaugh, 51 “ named head of the office in 1998, after the Oklahoma City I investigation. 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