The Texas A&M University Student Media Board is accepting applications for tm The Battalion — Including radio and online editions — Spring 2003 (The spring editor will serve from Jan. 6 through May 9, 2003) Qualifications for editor in chief of The Battalion are: Be a Texas A&M student in good standing with the University and enrolled in at jaei least six credit hours (4 if a graduate student) during the term of office (unless fewer credits are required to graduate); Have at least a 2.00 cumulative grade point ratio (3.00 if a graduate student) and at least a 2.00 grade point ratio (3.00 if a graduate student) in the semester immediately prior to the appointment, the semester of appointment and semester during the term of office. In order for this provision to be met, at least six hours (4 if a graduate student) must have been taken for that semester; Have completed JOUR 301 (Mass Communication, Law and Society), or equivalent; experie Battalion or comparable daily college newspaper, -OR- Have at least one year editorial experience on a commercial newspaper, -OR- Have completed at least 12 hours journalism, including JOUR 203 and 303 (Media Writing I and II), and JOUR 304 (Editing for the Mass Media), or equivalent. 8 Wednesday, November 27, 2002 Jl\\\ THE BATTAHil Some food for Thanksgiving though Scientists study body’s hunger signal Application forms should be picked up and returned to Dell Bomnskie, Student Media business coordinator, in room 011A Reed McDonald Building. Deadline for submitting application: noon Tuesday, Dec. 3, 2002. Applicants will be interviewed during the Student Media Board Meeting beginning at 10 a.m. Friday, Dec. 6, in room 221 F Reed McDonald. An Affirmative Action/Equal Opportunity Employer Committed to Div NEW YORK (AP) — Sometime Thursday, your brain will probably be besieged by contradictory demands. Your better judgment will tell you NO NO NO. Your surroundings will tell you YES YES YES. A nerve reaching in from your gut wall insist NO NO NO. Signals from your mouth will make some brain circuits cry YES YES YES. And in the end, your brain will make an executive decision and probably order your mouth to say: “Pie? Sure, Ed love some.” Putting on a Thanksgiving feast is compli cated enough, but it's nothing compared to how your body decides how much of it to eat. Scientists have learned a lot in the past few years about what controls appetite. In a nation where many people eat too much, such discoveries often hit the front pages because they might lead to better weight- loss drugs. This year alone brought widely reported evidence that one natural hormone boosts appetite and another dampens it, for example. Such research also sheds light on that Thanksgiving Day war brain. Your eagerness to of impulses in your i it c — is an >ur psyche environm* m profess that day — or exquisite interac- nt, or y and our biol- says Barbara at Penn State any other day tion between i ogy and our Rolls, nutritu University. It all starts long before anyone buys the turkey. Everybody need: eat too much and y body has a regulat over the long hau much fat you carry As many Ameri Washington in Seattle note in a mg review of the biology of obeTI K 1 ,'^^ bou " he '’ A H Of course some people pu , weight and others less. ButtheRii; er example illustrates a Volui S1 B to )U j >ry 11 U :at, of course, but ■t too fat. So your ystem that works controlling how OWi remarkably pi;.-* regulation of body weight, consideriiw variable people’s diets and activitieso t rom day to day, Schwartz says. Hi".', does the body achieve that? Scfl y \ scientists have identifipH ruo h 1 B' 111 ''" 11 * an attest, it doe n’t always work . But in fit tet * Si :ie ttists say. in g eneral it wc vrks very Wt HI at mate hing the numbe r of c alortes yo u eat to the r lum- her you bu rn of r over the UP *e i >f a v veek or n tore. In Wes tern cultu re s. on avei age. peo z>le put on a half-poun d to a r K)unc per yeai much of their a dt lit liv es. w hich trun slates i o an excess int ak e < J |USt 1 0 to 20 zralorie sad ay, Drs. I )a vid c umm and Micha el Sc twartz of th e L Ini versit y of /e identified two insulin and especially leptin, tnattW brain how much fat you’re car™ (Leptin, made by fat cells and discoi only in 1994. raised hopes of being apJ ertul weight-loss drug until studies! pie proved disappointing.) Leptin and insulin appear to inf bow sensitive the brain is to the body ety signals, Schwartz said. If you’ve pad tat. their levels go up. making iteasrjr the brain to hear your body’s signalstoit'i eating, so you eat less, he said. Ifvto underweight, low levels have theopp effect. The broad last, de iept. 1 [ears w &M c Stud ducati' [mporta irogran * Study 'wireless We never stop working for your Arrests linked to c sk bomber’ plot latest in anti-terrorism sweep No roaming, no matter where you go in Texas. No other gift says so much. Pay no roaming or domestic long distance for calls placed within your home airtime rate area. Unlimited Night & Weekend Minutes Now with 500 anytime minutes all when calling from your home airtime rate area. plus 1000 anytime mobile to mobile minutes on our mobile to mobile network. now just This reflects home airtime rate area and does not depict wireless coverage. Network not available in all areas. Mobile to mobile network not available throughout Texas. NEW! Texas Local _ DigitalChoice* Plan $