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Kanaya said, provide many opportunities for stu dents to mingle and leam from one another. “One reason I came to A&M was to leam and to be exposed to other cultures,” he said. “I feel International Week is the best we can do in terms of mingling with other people.” Sharath Suryanarayan, director of the cultural display and a mechanical engineering graduate student from India, said students should expect to see paintings, hear music and experience many other aspects of the different countries represented at the cultural display. “Each country is coming up with their own theme particular to their own culture,” he said. “We want to give people exposure to other cultures.” Droleskey said interaction w ill be the key to a successful cultural display. “Throughout our lives we have been told not to stare and not to ask questions,” she said. “These peo ple want you to look and want you to ask questions.” Jana said the talent show and dress parade will feature traditional dancing, singing and clothing from the many international clubs that will be participating. “We want the international students to come out of their comfort zones and see things in a more worldly view,” he said. "Overall, we want people to think critically about the world they live in.” Leadership in the ISA has allowed him the opportunity to be more in touch with the opera tions of the University. Jana said. “Being president of the ISA has provided me with a better understanding of how our school is run,” he said. “It makes me even prouder to be an Aggie.” Monologues Continued from page 1 Nelson said he was shocked by the performance. “It made me feel uncomfort able,” Nelson said. “It had a good message; some of the skits were eye opening to dif ferent things.” Nelson said he attended the show because he knew other people coming, and someone in the show and said it was not that bad. “Overall it was an enlighten ing experience,” Nelson said. This year the first annual Vagina Warrior Awards were given to those who have helped promote women at A&M, Robards-Forbes said. This year's recipients were Corps of Cadets Commandant Lt. Gen. John A. Van Alstyne; Brenda Bethman, director of the Women’s Center; Nikki Van Heightower, who runs the pro gram for the reduction of family violence; and Brian Tenclinger, who works with the “Be a Friend” campaign. around, we want to acim touch things,” Lemmon s “That is what we came here to study things up close personal.” • Lemmon said the rover it be able to assess its surromt ings and think for itself so ttiai can successfully manem around on the surface of Mars, “As (the rover) is driv along, it can identify obsiat or hazards, and it will si itself around them so thai doesn’t run into anythino Lemmon said. The Spirit and Opportui are exploring regions on op; site sides of Mars. Spirit laid in the Gusev Crater, which giant crater that may haveoi been a Martian lake. “If there was ever a standi lake on Mars, this is a go candidate for being om Lemmon said. So far, scientists have i found any further evidence lit supports the idea that thisciai used to be a lake, but Spirit! continue to explore the areal drilling into Martian rocks determine their compositional will gradually make its m toward some hills off inthedi tance, Lemmon said. Opportunity landed inasnu crater in Meridiani P which is an area of vast Scientists saw that it was vs close to an outcrop, which is area where rocks can be seen the place where they actualli formed. This will allow the enlists to assess whether or the rocks formed in the presen of w ater. The completed results of i( chemical composition of tin rocks that Opportunity is exam ining should be available this week for scientists torevk* Lemmon said the rovers«il continue to drive around asi collect data into the sui® months and hopefully beyoii “I thought the presents was very informative nri intriguing.” said seruormedmi cal engineering major Phillip Alaniz, “The best part of presentation was the animati of the rovers landing and travel ing on the ground.” Michael Donovan, a soph more physics major, was als amazed by the computer sintti; tion of the rovers landing. “My favorite part would ha' to be the demonstration onL the rover landed,” Donou said. 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