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of the students.
Dorms
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to gather and cook. Due to the
positive response this study
lounge received and the
demand tor gathering areas,
kitchen areas have been placed
in Schuhmacher and Legett
halls and one will be placed in
Keathley Hall this summer,
Sasse said.
Clements and Lechner halls
will also be renovated to
include a lounge area to con
nect the two halls.
To accommodate the student
interest in private bedrooms
and private baths, Hughes Hall
will hold a trial suite facility
with one floor for women and
one floor for men, Sasse said.
The residence hall will hold
one person in each bedroom
with a shared bathroom. This
suite type of residence will
limit the shared bathroom to
two people.
Davis-Gary, Moses, Crocker
and Moore halls will have in
hall laundry facilities. Fire and
safety improvements will con-
Debt
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4.3 percent in March 2001, and the unem
ployment rates for Texas are nearly identical.
In Texas, rates are slightly more optimistic,
with Houston’s unemployment rate for March
holding steady at 5.1 percent.
“Obviously, unemployment has gone up,” said
A&M economics professor Dennis Jansen. “It’s
going to be harder for graduates to find employ
ment this year.”
Other factors involving problems with
Enron Corp. and accounting firm Arthur
Andersen will have short-term effects on the
local job market, Jansen said.
Senior aerospace engineering major Brian
Mente is graduating this spring with a loan to pay
off and no job lined up to help pay for it.
“1 know that just out of graduating seniors in
aerospace, most are going to graduate school
because jobs are scarce,” Mente said. “These are
tough times to be graduating.”
He plans to continue sending resumes and
interview with small engineering companies in
search for a job, but said that there are other
options for unemployed graduates with loans to
tinue in those halls. Fire alarms
have been updated in each resi
dence hall, and sprinkler sys
tems will be put in.
A new Residence Life and
Student Services Building is
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Residence Life
has and will con
tinue to
renovate each
residence hall to
meet the demands
if
— Ron Sasse
ResLife director
scheduled to open in the sum
mer of 2004 at a Northside
location.The first two floors of
the new building will be given
to Residence Life for offices
and the third floor to Student
Counseling Services.
The extended wing of this
pay, such as the community service program,
Americorps.
Created in 1993, the Americorps program
places volunteers in locations throughout the
country working in education, public safety,
health and environment for a 10- to 12-month
period. Full-time volunteers receive $4,725 to go
toward college, graduate school or repayment of
student loans in addition to training, loan defer
ment and an annual living allowance of $9,300.
Taking out a loan for school has been a worth
while investment for graduating biomedical sci
ence major Shane Lechler.
“People Uike out a loan for a house or a car in
a heartbeat but aren’t as apt to take one out for
higher education,” Lechler said.
A certified pharmaceutical technician work
ing at a Wal-Mart pharmacy, Lechler plans to
attend a four-year program in the pharmacy
school at the University of Houston and become
a clinical pharmacist.
Jansen said the issue facing graduates is not
necessarily finding employment, but rather find
ing the job they really want and that provides the
pay they would like.
He said the job market should not get any
worse than it currently is and slowly will begin to
improve over the coming year as the economy
comes out of recession and into recovery.
Veterinarians
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“We have deployed to all
parts of the world,” he said. “In
the last two years, we did
humanitarian missions in
Alaska, several South American
countries, Africa and more.”
Despite his extensive train
ing, there are still parts of the
job that Carter finds difficult.
“The hardest part,” he said,
u is working with poor commu
nications in adverse conditions.
There is also a constant threat
of hostile fire and kidnapping.”
Carter said although some of
the people he interacts with
speak English, there is a lan
guage barrier that hinders com
munication.
“The primary language spo
ken in the theatre is Arabic,
and this can be a problem as
none of us are fluent in this
language,” he said. “But there
are interpreters available in
some locations.”
Because of the specialized
nature of his mission. Carter is
relocated frequently.
“There are many more bases
with dogs than we have veteri
narians to cover them,” he said.
“In addition, my veterinarians
must inspect any vendor sup
plying food for the troops, so
we move around a lot.”
Carter said he is honored to
serve his country and enjoys the
unique experience of traveling
with the military.
“There is a sense of adven
ture in being immersed in a
new, complex and interesting
set of cultures,” he said. “Many
of us have been in more than
five countries since arriving in
early February.”
Carter said his unit likely
will return to the United States
in a few months, if replace
ments are found.
“We are all looking forward
to reacquainting ourselves with
our families and friends,” he
said. “We want to return to our
jobs and once again be produc
tive in the civilian sector.”
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building will contain the stu
dent area. This section will
house the Residence Hall
Association councils and
organizations, a kitchen, 24-
hour help desk, computer
room, conference room and
possibly an amphitheater.
“The idea is that the building
resemble the YMCA Building
and resemble the facilities of
the Commons on the
Southside,” Sasse said.
In the future, the
Department of Residence Life
hopes to convert the corridor-
style residence halls into two-
room apartments, holding a
bedroom shared by two people
and a living room. The depart
ment also hopes to build a cov
ered pavilion on Northside to
hold outdoor residence hall
programs.
More than $2.5 million will
go to renovations each summer.
There will be upgrades in furni
ture, painting, lighting and fire
alarms. Sasse said he hopes to
increase the amount of money
toward these renovations each
summer.
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store manager Chris Ce Ray/aqe
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sale in College Station.- Cjl sh(
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office has alerted them a/z
possibility of protests.' den [ s ' e
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make the shelves.
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