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Peace Corps needs Americans with skills in Environment Educa tion Bu smess Agriculture Peace Corps needs 5,500 graduates with skills in agriculture, business, education, environment, health and information technology. All majors are welcome. Benefits include medical, dental and housing, as well as a monthly stipend and 24 vacation days a year. Graduates can defer student loans while serving. Tuesday, February 24, 2004 NE THE BATTALI wizmm Faculty Visit the TAMU Career Center 209 Koldus Building to pick up a Peace Corps Catalog. www.peacecorps.gov • 800.424.8580 5ToP SHakimG.') XT'S GOAJrJA Have n| -To Roll boyjA) And SHOW IT 5 Cowardly Face ^ EVEaJTuallY.' T'n/E CHANGED MV AfiNb/ UT You Said You Hate vnhen Rain DR®P5] pLoP ON ToP oF Youf^ HEAD'/ ‘ [Veah, BuT X Mate ConcuWon^I ‘ .More/ Continued from page Greene Aggie land’s Contact Lens Headquarters Drs. 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Must be present to win! 979.845.1515 aggienlghts.tamu.edu Jl* For special needs, please contact us vZa three days prior to the even tat 845-1515. noise f muiTion Hew 7oev/ t>\o you -that TMe Ler> ■2-eppeuro *somc-j ’ or THe Hoc/' isn't evgiM on twe album "Houses of THe HoLY'Tfv Hotard Continued from page 1 year, said Shaun Shaikh, Hotard hall council president. “What we’ve been told is (that the University) needs room for all the faculty they are hir ing,” Main said. “They just passed out letters and didn’t tell us anything except that we had to find other housing.” This news comes just a week after the University announced that Cain Hall would be turned into offices 14 days before on- campus residents have to make their next housing decision for next year. Main said. March 1 is “Decision 2004,” the day on-campus residents decide whether they will be staying on campus or moving off campus and where they would like to reside, said sopho more journalism major Emily Allen, director of public rela tions for the Residence Hall Association. “I’m an electrical engineer ing major and my dorm (Hotard) is right by Blocker and Zachry,” Shaikh said. “1 don’t really want to move.” Hotard residents are put in a bad place by not having much time to decide where to live. Main said. “We are not very happy,” said Main, who has lived in Hotard for two years. “There were a lot of us planning on living here next year.” If the Hotard residents would like to stay on campus, they are being given priority in picking their residence halls, Sasse said. “We are giving them a dis count for corridor halls,” Sasse said. "They will pay the Hotard rate, which will save them about $300. We are trying to help them out a little bit.” Marshall said he sees the cam pus as becoming more sterile with the closing of Hotard, a dorm deeply rooted in tradition. “I do truly believe it’s impor tant to preserve long standing traditions on campus,” Marshall said. “1 am afraid that with newer donns this doesn’t exist. This sense of pride is gone.” Not many answers have been given to the residents and no one asked them what they thought. Main said. The RHA passed a resolution Gun* TlOS SUB Tuesday Buy Regular or Large Sandwich Get 22oz. drink and chips FREE Dine-ln and take out only. Check out our new menu Sandwiches starting at $ 1.99! 110 College Main • 846-7000 Mon.-Sat. 10:30am-10:00pm Sun. 11:00am-10pm This store not affiliated with Texas Avenue location. The Sheraton is full-service fun. Directly on the beach, it's the center of all the action. During Spring Break our South Beach is the only place to be! 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He said he believes A&M sh] create research bridges other campuses to help fai and student recruitment, and]] grams that promote student ership in the students’ study and future work. “We have got to have fan involvement to achieve diven and have an institutionalized; accountable process for impu ing diversity,” Pina said. —- their ey Badielc by Will Uoy<A We have got to have faculty involvement to achieve diversity. “Ah and my Lawrem — Manual Pira A&M associate professod Agricultural Educate stating that it does not approve of the administration’s decision to close Hotard Hall and with such short notice to residents, Allen said. “We are going to post the res olution on the Web site and let everyone know our opinion on this,” Allen said. There is a possibility that Legett Hall faces the same demise as Cain and Hotard, Allen said. Though this has not official ly been pursued, she said there is some concern about it. Hotard Hall is known for pro grams such as Hotard from Hell, an annual haunted house used to collect canned goods for local food pantries, Marshall said. “Hotard Hall is active in giv ing back,” Marshall said. “If that kind of thing leaves campus, what will be the reason to live on campus?” Gates is holding Wednesday at 2:30 p.m. in Rudder Theater to address those concerned with the clo sure of Hotard Hall on Wednesday at 2:30 p.m. in Rudder Theater where students can learn more information and ask questions. wnt ah Aftei itrvie' w leekem “We Dean of Undergradnj Programs and Associate Pro\r mittod for Academic Services at Mark H. Weichold said sdioli ships were being set up orb been set up to help andencourtj minority students and stndei with hardships to attend A&M He also said the use of regicn recruiting centers assists in recruiting process by provi prospective students withinfonu tion about A&M, financial ass ^ ur tance and keeps them informed deadlines for various applicant A&M and UT have takenm separate paths in dealing wil diversity during admission! processes, Weichold said, liopes of promoting diversiit, A&M has based its admis® policy on a merit based systi whereas UT will be raced-based admissions pob in future admissions consift lions, Weichold said. “Though we have taken tv different paths on diverafycon cerning admissions, we hot want to achieve the same goal: diverse campus,” Weicholdsaic ivere pi theairp 1 Lawi Whei inierestf ii Texas w< th of the si tsts, if; Nont ns Me Gainey. "The base: a forum p.m. Judge Continued from page Corps unit. 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