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Graduation Announcements Thank You Notes Graduation Remembrance Displays Personalized Graduate Notepads 1902 Texas Ave. South • College Station (Texas Avenue and Park Place, in front of the new FIEB) 693-8621 M-F 8:30-5:30 2 Wednesday, June 23, 2004 THE BATTAi 0YZ by Will UoyzA Senate Continued from page 1 they are responsible for stu dents’ academic experience, Fike said. “Sometimes the faculty looks like hired help,” Fike said. “Students don’t always stop and think about the stakes that the faculty has in the insti tution. A&M means a great deal to the faculty. We’re all in this thing together.” In addition to working at at NASA, Fike has been employed at Southern Methodist University, Texas Instruments, Ford, Aero Space, IBM and RCA. He currently teaches telecommunications and networking. “Fike is one of those guys where you don’t leave his class any dumber,” said Chase Stanzel, a senior industrial dis tribution major. "He’s tough but fair. You leave there know ing a lot more than when you came in.” Fike has been teaching at A&M since 1992 and was pre viously a senator for the Faculty Senate. He has also served as chairman of the Personnel and Welfare Committee. “(Fike) is an extremely valuable member of the execu tive committee, handling bene fits for faculty and staff and any other issues that affect work life,” Loudder said. “He’s very organized and gets things done.” This year Fike will assist the current speaker, Martyn Gunn, by attending functions such as the Student Senate meetings. He will help set the agenda for meetings and preside over the Faculty Senate in the Speaker’s absence. “It’s overwhelming. It’s one of those things that to the out side world may not be a big deal,” Fike said. “But it’s a tremendous honor around here, and I’m astonished about it.” Board Continued from page 1 conducting phone surveys of alumni and using results of surveys of students, faculty and staff that were conducted for other purposes. Darrell Dixon, a junior psychology major, was one of the 100 people to attend the forum. On a pad titled “University Government Relations,” he made a suggestion: “Attempt to increase the student body’s involvement in the local government. The fact being that we, the college students, amass the majority of the Bryan-College Station area, yet do not take an active role in the formations of law and alloca tion of city funds that inevitably affect us." Members of the A&M community were invit ed to the forum in a university-wide e-mail from Gates on June 14. The final report will be issued by the LBB Oct. 1, McKeown-Moak said. Sheila DeLeon, an LBB analyst who repre sented the board at the open forum, refused to say why the legislature decided to conduct the review. McKeown-Moak said anyone who was not able to attend the forum can e-mail their com ments to tamuforum@mgtamer.com until July 7. Suicide Continued from page 1 without trial combined with the frequent interrogation that may have included problematic meth ods — may have contributed to an atmosphere that pushed people to attempt suicide,” said Alistair Hodgett of the human rights group Amnesty International. “All detainees are treated humanely,” Guantanamo military spokesman Maj. David S. Kolarik said in written response to ques tions from The Associated Press. He said all prisoners are treated “in accordance with the principles” of the Geneva Conventions “to the extent appropriate and consistent with military necessity.” No Iraqi prisoners have killed themselves since the U.S. inva sion, said Lt. Col. Barry Johnson, a spokesman for Miller in Baghdad. Nor do military records contain accounts of prisoner sui cide attempts in Iraq, he said. Health Continued from page the school has worked." Dickey said the growtli school has presented a dial for all involved. “The faculty members growing school have I; pull their own weighi more. Many of them administrative hats as They’re pulling doublet Dickey said. “Rapid p means more work fore one, and that speaks ta quality of the studenis commitment and excellea the faculty and the dedic of the staff,” Dickey said Dr. Ciro Sumaya, dean; school, said he is pleased the progress the school hasi “We are very pleas receive this accreditation, young school to make rapid progress as we have is a great accomplish!! Sumaya said. Sumaya said the schd still experiencing growth. “We have gone from a: tial class of 23 to havine 200 graduates, includiit doctoral students, as of A 2004,” Sumaya said, research dollars have incn from essentially zerotoo: million annually.” The Council on Educan Public health is "an indepe: agency recognized by the Department of Educate accredit schools of p health," according to its We at http://www.ceph.org. Accreditation must ben ed by the school. Accont the CEPH, accredn granted to schools basedi competence of their gi For accredited institutions, expected that “excelleix: education will relate top ciency in practice.” Sumaya said moreck and progress are in stotefe school. "We are about to begin struct ion on a building tot the school, which begins next evolution of ourgn)' Sumaya said. 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