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AUDIT SUBMISSICMU: December 15, 2003 DELIVERY DATE: April 22. 2004
ORDER SESSIONS: 1) Jan. 20-23 2) Jan. 26-29 3) Feb. 2-5 4) Feb. 9-12 5) Feb. 16-19
UNDERGRADUATE STUDENT REQUKEMENTS:
1. 9S cumulative completed undergraduate credit hours.
2. 45 undergraduate resident credit hours completed at TAMU.
3. 2.0 cumulative GPR at Texas A&M University.
4. Must not be on academic probation, suspension, dismissal, expulsion, or on honor violation probation from
the university.
GRADUATE STUDENT REQUIREMENTS:
1. Defended Thesis
• Due to ordering deadlines, you may order
at the beginning of the semester you will
graduate. Your Aggie Ring will be delivered
on Aggie Ring Day if you have defended your
thesis prior to the deadline set by the Office
of Graduate Studies. If you do not defend
your thesis prior to this date, your Aggie Ring
will be held until the qualification is met.
2. Must not be on academic probation, suspension,
dismissal, expulsion, or on honor violation
Master's Non-Thesis Potion
1. 75% of coursework completed for degree
program at TAMU.
2. Must not be on academic probation,
suspension, dismissal, expulsion, or on honor
violation probation from the university .
Ph.P. Students
1. Accepted as a Ph.D. candidate at TAMU
2. Must not be on academic probation,
suspension, dismissal, expulsion, or on honor
violation probation from the university.
probation from the university.
HOW TO GET YOUR AGGIE RING ON APRIL 22, 2004:
If you meet the requirements after Fall ’03:
1. Submit an Aggie Ring audit online at www.AggieNetwork.com/Ring or visit the Aggie Ring office to
complete an audit beginning December 15, 2003.
2. The Aggie Ring program will send you an email with the status of your audit and, if qualified, assign you an
ordering session.
■ Beginning January 1, 2004. Please allow 1 week to receive your email response.
• Contact the Aggie Ring program if you do not receive your email by February 18, 2004.
3. Order your Aggie Ring during your assigned ordering session.
• Payment is due at time of order. We accept cash, check or personal credit cards.
• Ring loans are available to qualified, currently enrolled students at the Short Term Loan Office, Room
230, Pavilion. Please submit your Aggie Ring audit before applying for a Ring loan. Visit httpy/faid.tamu.
edu or call 845-3955 for further details.
December 2003 graduates may visit us at www.AggieNetwork.com/Ring for further ordering details or call the
Aggie Ring Program at 845-1050.
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Seniors face choices in Medicare bl
By Mark Sherman
THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
WASHINGTON — The new
prescription drug benefit signed
into law Monday by President
Bush as part of major Medicare
changes will confront seniors
with numerous and sometimes-
difficult choices on their health
care coverage.
Bush said the new drug
insurance “will save our seniors
from a lot of worry.” But the
bill’s critics said the worries
have just begun for Medicare’s
40 million older and disabled
Americans.
The government will spend
nearly $400 billion over the next
10 years to subsidize prescrip
tion drug coverage, which
begins in January 2006. At the
same time, the government will
encourage insurance companies
to offer private plans to millions
of older Americans who now
receive health care benefits
under terms fixed by the federal
government.
“Medicine has changed but
Medicare has not — until
today,” Bush said, explaining
that prescription drugs and out
patient care have replaced hos
pital stays over the past two
decades. “Our seniors are fully
capable of making health care
choices, and this bill allows
them to do that.”
Republicans generally hailed
the signing as a political triumph
they could use in next year’s
election to neutralize
Democrats’ historical advantage
on issues regarding the elderly.
“Democratic leaders have
lashed out at us, at the president
and AARP” House Majority
Bush signs Medicare bill
Presidert Bush on Monday signed irto law efianges to the Medicare system ^®
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Major provisions
Interim drug card
In 2004 and 2005.
seniors eligiWe to
purchase a dis
count card estimat
ed to yield drug-
cost savings of 15
percent or higher
Lownnoome senior
would get an annu
al subsidy of $600.
Main drug benefit
In 2006. beneficiaries
could sign up for a stand
alone drug plan or join a
private health ptan. They
would be charged a pre
mium ot $35 per month,
or $420 per year After
meeting a $275 deduct-
tale, insurance would pay
75 percent ot drug costs
up to $2,250.
Coverage gap—No coverage for iugiffi
between $2,250 and $5,100.
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pocket spending reaches $3,600, insw
covers 95 percent of drug costs cneiT
a modest co-payment
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(or people earning up to $12,123ay&'
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Leader Tom DeLay of Texas
said. “But Democrats have no
one to blame but themselves for
their abject failure on health
care. We wanted a bill, they just
wanted an issue, and now' the
American people know who
took their concerns seriously.”
Democrats pledged to fight
in the Republican-controlled
Congress for changes in the law,
principally for measures to
bring down the price of pre
scription drugs. “You sold us
out, so we’re going to go all out
to repeal what you've done,”
Sen. Edward M. Kennedy, D-
Mass., said.
The first tangible result of the
Medicare law will be prescrip
tion drug discount cards that the
president said would take effect
in June. He said seniors will
receive a mailing in the spring to
explain the card, which will cost
no more than $30 a year. It will
offer discounts that Bush said
will range from 10 to 25 percent
off retail prices. Critics say the
promise of savings is wildly
inflated.
The president sought
sure seniors Monday
choices will be
them in detail and thattheyJ
keep the health care they I*
“If you don’t want
your current coverage, youte
have to change,”
Bui that option may not^
for some seniors.
Congressional Budget
estimates that 2.7
retirees will lose the drag co'f
age they now receive
mer employers,
projections are much smafe
And those seniors whom 1
rely on supplemental insitf
to defray the cost of prescrijS
drugs will be forced to mak
change, as these so-erf
Medigap policies will be W
from offering a drug hew
beginning in 2006.
Some Medicaid benefit
ies, among the poorest of
iors, also could see restrict
placed on their drug cot#
several health analysts said.
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