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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
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McAffee both have sites that
detail every virus that might hit
your computer and offer solu
tions. Symantec lists the latest
threats on its Web site and
updates every two or three days.
“The Randex virus is just the
tip of the iceberg,” Putnam said.
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
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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
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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?
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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
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by an inability to concentrate
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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.”
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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
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terrorists has been broken,” butt
small number of Taliban and
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Pakistani forces in the area,
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