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Office of New Student Programs| 1257 TAMU DENT PHONE (979) 845-5826, FAX [979] 862-1309 «; WWW http://studentlife.tamu edu ^ .../f Department in the Divislth of Student Affairs Aggie Orientation Lender Program YOant to become a Leader on campus? 3Q Cl T^ecome a ^^ouncllH^ ^atket ofi Si$ma ^btatetnitif and create Legacy here at ^Cexas (Zontact us today! ^bhom: 281 804 2469 £maiti je^tey_cassLdy@kotn\aLt.con\ <Http: / / ‘peopte.tanxu.edu / ~ eao2535 www.sL^mapL.otfi CSmmUNITY N- V E R S A T I 0 N S COURT IS ADJOURNED! Discussion/Debate about The United States Supreme Court Decisions regarding The University of Michigan Cases and their implications on Higher Education. Moderator: Dr. Larry Oliver is an Associate Dean in the College of Liberal Arts and a Professor of English. He received his PhD in English, minoring in American Studies, from Pennsylvania State University in 1981. Rejoined the Texas A&M English Department in 1984. Debaters: Mr. Matthew Maddox is a senior Management major from Tomball, Texas. Maddox is the Chairman of the Young Conservatives of Texas (YCT), a student organization that among other issues is dedicated to ending government racial discrimination. Mr. Nicholas Anthis, class of 2005, is a biochemistry major from Fort Worth, Texas. Anthis is the current President of the Texas Aggie Democrats, an organization dedicated to promoting equality and civil rights. He is also the Executive Vice President of Honors Student Council. When: Where: Time: Wednesday, September 17, 2003 MSC Room 201 6pm-8pm 2A Tuesday, September 16, 2003 NEWS THE BATTALIOI FISH R.PEUINA Dep™" T NEVER HAD a Kev, all right STOCK MV gAG 1 A1A96E. So/HEo/ve. Uj/IS TRyiNG To Teach Woo a Eesso/J That Voo SHoolu Pay For a locker Luce E veryoaje ELSEJ^. 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Amy Guidry, a senior English major, said she has had numerous problems with the open-access labs this semester. “Even getting into my accounts has been difficult,” she said. “Before the computer can load settings, I often try to hit escape and leave before it’s done because I don’t have time to wait. And once it loads, it uses a Windows 2000 version and not XP.” Guidry said she understands that CIS is working hard to fix slow network problems. “It’s frustrating, but I under stand that they’re doing the best they can,” she said. “There are so many profiles that the central system has to load at any one point in time. It’s their responsi bility to let us know about the problem, but our responsibility to deal with it and prevent future problems once we know about it. You can’t fix a problem you don’t know exists.” Putnam said to fix previous virus problems such as Code Red and the Blaster virus, his office shut down some residence halls during move-in week to get the problem under control. The network in these problemat ic dorms may be plugged because of a virus, or CIS tech nicians may have pulled the plug to find the specific comput er that is the problem, he said. “We’re getting a lot better at tracking the problem’s general location,” Marti said. “It takes a lot of manpower to track individ- WTO Continued from page 1A For consumers, the prices on many products would have fallen, unhin dered by import tariffs, while other basic food sup plies may have become more expensive without the help of subsidies. Still, during five days of talks in Cancun, ministers spent little time on what was expected to be the main issue: agriculture. Instead, they argued over whether to launch formal nego tiations on several new topics, including rules on foreign investment and competition. The failure of the talks makes it nearly impossible for the WTO to reach its main goal: a new global trade treaty by the end of the next year. In Rio de Janeiro, Brazil President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva expressed disap pointment Monday over the failure of the talks but said it represented a victory for the developing world, which demanded a level playing field. “We didn’t ask for any benefits, privileges or favors, what we are asking is that we are treated equally by the developing countries that want foreign trade,” Silva said. “We want the opportunity to compete freely.” Session Continued from page 1A Republican Lt. Gov. David Dewhurst pre sides over the Senate and said he was glad all the lawmakers were back. “We’re here and finally we’ve got a quo rum. The Democrats have shown up. We can do the business that we’re all elected to do,” Dewhurst said. The new session is the latest round in a bitter fight over the composition of Texas’ delegation to the U.S. Capitol. Currently, Democrats have a 17-15 majority in Texas’ congressional delegation. On Monday, the Senate Republicans unveiled a new congressional redistricting map. The Senate sponsor, Sen. Todd Staples, R-Palestine, said the map reflects the com position of the Texas Senate and estimated it could give Republicans 19 or 20 seats. past four weeks have you calm and peaceful? “Patients were administerei the questionnaires using a stai dardized procedure,” Meagh# said. “To evaluate them weals looked at a number of psyckl metric indices to evaluate reliability and validity of t data in another study. Patti Collins, a counselorfo the Student Counseling Senice said plans are being considere; to have testing easily accessibk to students through Its Comprehensive Colleg Initiative, a program put outh the Screening for Mental Heal" Organization. The organizatio: has put out screenings concert, ing alcohol awareness, eatitj disorders and depression, Ai online test is available to collet students through this organic tion, Collins said. The test can separate those patients with a psychiatric con dition from those without a psy chiatric condition and fens those with a medical condition Meagher said. Meagher said there is “magic” question that can acce rately predict major depressk and panic disorder: How modi of the time during the past fori weeks have you felt downhean- ed and blue? A response of good bit of the time” or mor? would indicate a high likelM of depression. Dr. Ted Stachowiak, assoc ate director for the Sluder: Counseling Service, said there are two major kinds of deprfr sion. Major depression subsist tially interferes with one’s abil ity to function and creates: lack of interest to go to wort a anywhere else. In this case,pro fessional intervention aloes with a prescription medicar is recommended. The second type is a miife case that sometimes affects cob lege students, Stachowiak saii This depression is characterize; by an inability to concentrate & Fake 1 Chris Mitche of work, lecture can already see It is bombard ing out the girls the beginning o anticipation buil The night is ing by, and M makes it on the the door. And his friends glee away to the d; straight for th asked to leave, been carded. False identi been a way of college and hig dents for as. lo have been hear speech intro Aggie Band. With technol daily, fake IDs serious problt Bryan-College J Despite th Mitchell, a junic agement major faced this problt gations that coir Mitchell obta had no difficult towns including “They would ual computers down, though.” Marti said the speed of the network at any time depends upon how many infected machines are connected. Putnam said he has received several letters asking why CIS does not use Linux or Macs as opposed to Microsoft’s operating system. “The reality of the world is that people vote with their checkbooks and their feet,” he said. “If Microsoft doesn’t find ways to fix the problems, it may face losing customers.” Microsoft has gotten atten tion because its operating sys tems are popular, but other sys tems have their own virus prob lems, Putnam said. “I suspect that Microsoft is a larger target, but I honestly can’t say there is a system out there that is completely secure,” he said. “Companies like to make programs that are easy to use, but that also means these pro grams are less secure.” one night. He i the offense “It raises a Lindsey, manag in,” Mitchell sa Reading and retaining materi: foish school.” becomes a struggle, and time > f rorn class is not spent paying attej became blen tion to the professor. “Ten to 15 percent of the|tt^ illation will experienced: sion at one point or another,1 Stachowiak said. Although some of these! symptoms are experienced t)| most students from time to time,I it is not considered depressioil unless symptoms persis{ Stachowiak said. If left alone, professional! say that depression could pr> gressively get worse. “Tire earlier (you are) treated,if better it is for you,” says Stachowif Guerrillas Continued from page 1A Taliban, traded fire with the US troops for about an hour bef® fleeing toward the Pakistan bordfi There were no reported casualties,; In another attack Saturday two rockets landed near a US base in neighboring ] province, said a statement issui; in Bagram, the headquarters fc American forces in Afghanistan In Islamabad, Pakistan Ft Ministry spokesman Masod Khan said “the backbone oftls terrorists has been broken,” butt small number of Taliban and Qaida have regrouped. “We should arrest, neutrafo all terrorism ... in the borderiJ! area of Pakistan-Afghanistan, he said, calling for better coops ation among U.S., Afghan d Pakistani forces in the area, Officials have said they susped militants have increased their act!'’; ities to mark the second annivet’ sary of the Sept. 11 attacks, ’ prompted the U.S.-led operatid that swept the Taliban from | at the end of 2001. 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