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I haven't studied at all for this test! Til be cramming for the next 48 hours! Has that ever happened to you, Jake? You know what words sound Do you ever pay attention? . I'm broke, if ford it. I Sanch picture p le sent t [pread b' This I iven if yt ng an in ggffleas mm BY: MILL LL6YP mmmmm mmmm mm mm casualties than any other Kf Thompson said. “We America, the European T and everybody. Nobody going to be spared unlesswei come together in the fid against this disease." Former South Afc re so 111 President Nelson Mandela® 3 § ra P* iet the world to fight the siis l0W ' as P associated with HIV, savir; u as stopping people I tested and treated. “That is a tragic mia because when you do that ; make the people that are si ing feel like they are not hi beings.” Mandela saidinCal Town, South Africa. “Ma will die because of feelinu 1 than human.” UNA IDS estimates 3 mil people have died this year.H says more than 5 patients need anti-retrovd drugs, hut fewer th; have access to them. Anti-retroviral drugs all; HIV patients to live a i normal life by preventing3 development of ful The drugs improve It health, but they remain infeed and can transmit the disease. Rother’s Continued from page 1 said. major, store’s same amount of excitement about the plan as Rother’s is, such as Angela Nelson, a sopho more marketing major. “I think it is cool that they want to support the University in that way, but it seems like they are spending a lot of money changing it when they already had built a good name for themselves,” she Kirk Garza, a junior economics said he does not see the point in the remodeling. “I really think all this money could be used for something besides decorations,” he said. “Students already like Rother’s and are going to buy books from them despite what the store looks like.” This is a project Rother’s has been work ing on for more than two years. “People need to come in and seed nothing has really changed,” Brooks “There wdll be more confusion than any at first.” Steps are being taken to spark stf interest in their new stores, she said.!- will lie given away to promote the newrn and giveaways have been planned. “All this work and change is when you consider all of the overall benefit Brooks said. “Like tely,” sa nfomiati or abuse flanket jt That I Forld, tl Cheese! V serv at’s en otential Imagi lity insp Store cle their ass; t The n ty much jy a half I “It’s j lion to ti |very da But d se them ial mon Proud nonth-o and frier football is to pii “A dt it’s Never Too late to Join the Cor Conors Center put the Corns of Cadets or to loin the Cerps, call the ingi office at 979-845-9232 or visit us at the Sanders Corps el THE BATTALION Sommer Hamilton, Editor in Chief Elizabeth Webb, Managing Editor Sarah Szuminski, Metro Editor C.E. 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