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ararinm Q. I Otli IIII mil Mooting Plnnnoos Slmowonso AT REED ARENA ON THE TEXAS A&M UNIVERSITY CAMPUS Monday, September 29, 2003 NEll THE BATTALlI Fi9H M R.PEUINA Thursday, October 2, 2003 • 10:00 - 4:00 (Come and Go at your leisure) Find out how YOU can create the Perfect Special Event, Meeting/Conference, Wedding, Reunion or Sports Event or How WE can help bring your Association's Meeting to Bryan-College Station! Representatives from local conference & meeting planning services will be on hand to answer all of your questions! Meeting Venues Hotels/Motels Restaurants Entertainers Caterers Transportation Companies B&B's and many more! He-f, bo You Remember. The Cafeteria fresbma/± Year ’ ***Bring Business Cards*** Door Prizes will be given away throughout the day! GRAND PRIZE DRAWING: Weekend Getaway to South Padre Island Hosted by: The Bryan/College Station Convention & Visitors Bureau, and Reed Arena For more information please contact Shannon at 979-260-9898 DonT You RCmEMSEI?’ UJHE/J You MET ME LAST YEAR, I Mad •Just transferred ftcw ur You've S£f/v/ ME 9AT LilTB mt loubHow credit Card J\ MIUIqm Times! Blackout Continued from page noise t poutinon 89 JOSH DURUM LA “ST NIGHT WKCfi ANp I HAP PINNER WITH HTR EX BO'fFRiEND. HE PlAiS Foorenu AND Wi.lV £5 A Corvette'. DON'T UOKKI Bup. CoNie 0nJ, i’ll BOV vou SoME |ce CREAM. UIOUUD TOO like ansthim& else? France caused the outage. In Switzerland, a falling i branch disabled a power tn mission line which caused am er line to overload, disabli French transmission to Italy “After that, all connection! Italy dropped out,” said Schmid, spokesman for Swiss power company Atel, Italian energy company & agreed with the Swiss assti merit. But France’s electnc grid operator RTF said it wasi early to speculate about cau» Whatever the cause, the bla; out was an ordeal across Italy It brought to a halt some trains with 30,000 passengen board, and delayed numeroj flights in addition to the few had to be cancelled. In Rome, the city was an all-night festival with mus urns, bars and shops still open; the time of the blackout. Hi When Rae Lyn her career in publi was, “Is he/she a t To Mitchell, an l| work in teams is o think it is im be accomplished b others,” she said. During their cc projects. While sc result was many people, who Is others feel that gi By ^1. ^1ou$e been encouraged to use transport, found themseh stranded at subway stations, The fact that the black: happened in the slow-movim morning hours of a Sunday least lessened the effect. The«• ages might not be over, howeve Energy officials warned of tk potential for cuts on Monday The Swiss power compair accused Italy of a lack of coor dination that aggravated the sit uation. “Because of the high voli of exported power to Italy, vital that the network operators can be quickly coordinated ami react correctly,” Atel said in a statement. Italian officials acknowl edged that the domestic energy system was gravely insufficient. Italy was hit with partial power cuts in June, when people — suffering in the scorching summer — overloaded the sys tem with air conditioners and other electricity-guzzling appli ances. That was the first timein more than 20 years that lie national operator of the electii- cal grid ordered power cuts. Studet Part I of 4 Part 2 of 4 Part 3 of 4 Part 4 of 4 Math 151 Sun Sept 28 Mon Sept 29 Tuc Sept 30 Wed Oct 1 9pin-l2ain 9pm-12am 9pm~I2am 9pm-12ant Part 1 of4 Part 2 of 4 Part 3 of 4 Part 4 of 4 Math 152 Sun Sept 28 Mon Sept 29 Tuc Sept 30 Wed Oct 1 6pm-9pm 6pm-9pm 6pni-9pm 6pm-9pm Part 2 of 2 Mgmt 211 Sun Sept 28 4pm-7pni Phys 218 Test Review Rostovscv Fri Sept 26 4pm-6pm Hong Lu Fri Sept 26 6pm-8pm Gag/Kmn/Tob Sat Sept 27 2pm-4pm Sokolov Mon Sept 29 4pm-7pm Tickets go on sale Sunday at 11:30 a.m. 4.0 & Go is located on the comer of SW Pkwy and Tx Ave, behind KFC next to Lack's. Check our web page at http://www.4.0andGo.com or call 696-8886(TUTOR) GOT A TICKET? INSURANCE RATES TOO HIGH? DON'T WANT TO SPEND ALL DAY IN A DEFENSIVE DRIVING CLASS? TRY: TAKE SM HOME DEFENSIVE DRIVING AVAILABLE AT PARTICIPATING 'gpi STORES ON VHS OR DVD. OR TRY OUR NEW ONLINE COURSE AT WWW.TAKEHOME.COM JUST THINK: state approved defensive driving, TAKEN IN THE COMFORT OF YOUR OWN HOME. STOP BY YOUR LOCAL BLOCK BUSTER VIDEO STORE OR VISIT US TODAY ON THE WEB: www.takehome.com TAKE HOME DEFENSIVE DRIVING who are very aware of Hispanic issues.” Lopez, a junior management major and vice-chair of the Committee on Awareness of Mexican Americans, said many Hispanic students face a culture shock when they come to College Station because they become part of a small minority. Among the different Hispanic organizations at the University, PHN is “a network of leaders supporting A&M and the Bryan-College Station com munity to proactively address key issues affecting the educa tion and quality of life of all Hispanics,” according to the PHN Web site. Dr. Fidel G. Fernandez, past- president of PHN and academic adviser in the Department of Biomedical Engineering, said one pending problem for Hispanic students is the issue of equal retention success. “After examining the retention of Hispanic students who attended Texas public high schools and attended TAMU as freshmen for the years 1994 to 1997, I discov ered that Hispanic students were 32 percent less likely than their white peers to be retained at A&M using the set of variables in my statistical model,” Fernandez said. San Andres said the student population of Hispanics could grow through more financial aid but not special privileges. “Of 100 Anglos accepted into the University, 90 will come, and of 100 Hispanics accepted, only 40 will actually come,” San Andres said. “We need to improve the environment, making it reflect components of society.” By the year 2015, it is pre dicted that Hispanics will be the majority in Texas and are the fastest growing minority group in the nation. While there were 3,714 Hispanic students enrolled at the University, Fernandez said there were only 171 Hispanic admin istration and professional staff and only 109 faculty members at A&M. He said this is a problem because the mentoring of stu dents helps with retention. “The ratio of available Hispanic mentors to Hispanic students is an unfavorable one, and it would mean that the Hispanic faculty and staff would each have to mentor 13 stu dents,” Fernandez said. Not only is the number of Hispanic faculty low, there not many Hispanics in the vppeil level of the University’s adm- istration either, he said. “At the University level, the: are no high-ranking Hispan: administrators,” Fernandez si “At the dean level, there are* Hispanic deans, and at lie department head level, there is one lone Hispanic.” The month kicked off on Sept. 15 with a reception in which University President Robert M. Gates spoke. Oneof the big events of the monthisa Latin MSC Aggie Nights on Oct. 10. San Andres said he has higi hopes that with the coming of the newly natned Vice Presideni of Diversity James Anderson, the dream of diversity for the University will become a realitj. after graduation. Abby Woller, a fessional setting o how to successful! “That way, yoi hence working in Mitchell said s she got into the pr think it woul more group work i Woller said the because everyone groups can become divided. “If one person c whole group will s to trust that the otl may not know we ethic that you do a possible.” Katie Klauke, ; glad that professor: having peer evalu: know who was doi “If everyone kr do their work,” she because in the end Mitchell said sh her of any problem die a situation whe One of the othe students must find ’’It’s hard to fine Their Mission: Save Lives (^specially Yours 1 CALL FOR PAPERS Texas A&M University Undergraduate Journal of Science All undergrads doing research are eligible to submit their work for possible publication. 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