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INJECTION INNOVATION

A&M researchers develop material to target body parts

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The Battalion ithin the Biosensing Systems and Materials lab, Mike McShane, associate professor of biomedical engineering, and biomedical engineering graduate students Jason Roberts and Dustin Ritter have developed a new injectable material that could deliver drugs to targeted parts of the body.

The injectable material is composed of tiny microspheres encased in thin layers of nanofilm that are suspended in a hydrogel polymer.

The hydrogel, which is based on a polymer derived from algae, is injected into the body as a liquid. Upon injection, the microspheres change the liquid polymer into a soft, gelatinous

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Mike McShane (left) and Jason Roberts work to create localized vaccines.

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exas A&M will finalize its 2014 recruiting class, ranked No. 2 nationally by ESPN, Wednesday on National Signing Day. Signing day represents the first day a high school athlete can sign a binding National Letter of Intent.

A&M had 22 commitments from recruits at time of press. Of the 22, 10 are ranked four stars or better, according to ESPN. Seven athletes signed as midterm enrollees, including Devante “Speedy” Noil and Kyle Allen, the No. 1 athlete and quarterback, respectively, according to ESPN. Several Aggie targets have yet to choose a school and could make decisions Wednesday.

A&M will be one of 12 schools at which ESPN will have an embedded reporter on campus. Coverage of National Signing Day begins at 7 a.m.

Head coach Kevin Sumlin and the rest of his staff will hold a press conference at 3 p.m. to discuss the signees. The press conference can be seen on AggieAthletics.com Tyler Stafford, sports desk assistant

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solid. This allows the material to stay in one specific part of the body and constantly distribute the drug from that spot.

The microspheres also contain the drugs that can be distributed to specific parts of the body under conditions specific to the molecular makeup of the drug. The nanofilm acts as a membrane, regulating how much of the drug is released as the microsphere dissolves.

McShane said part of what makes the injectable material alluring for biomedical use is the biocompatibility of the hydrogel derived from algae and the microspheres made of calcium carbonate, a salt found in many antacids.

“One of the reasons this is so attractive to us is that it’s made

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Interim associate dean’s research focus is folk medicine text

Steven Oberhelman, interim associate dean of undergraduate programs in the College of Liberal Arts as of January and classics professor, sat down with city editor Jennifer Reiley to discuss his research focuses and more.

THE BATTALION: What is your favorite Greek myth?

OBERHELMAN: Medea. I find Medea fascinating as a very strong independent woman who is tossed aside and used and abused by an entire Greek cultural system as well as by those people for whom she has thrown away her entire

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Steven Oberhelman became interim associate dean of

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Junior guard Jamal Jones lets a shot fly during a 75-67 win over South Carolina on Jan. 15, a game in which Jones scored 22 points and shot 9-12 from the free throw line.

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fter playing four of its last five games on the road, the Texas A&M men’s basketball team will return at 8 p.m.

Wednesday to Reed Arena to host Mississippi State (13-8, 3-5 SEC).

Only three other SEC schools — Kentucky, Florida and Alabama — have a similar stretch of road games on their respective schedules. The Aggies have lost their last five games, dropping them to 10th overall in the SEC. Head coach Billy Kennedy said the losing streak has had an effect on his team.

“Losing takes a toll on you and that’s something you have to keep fighting through,” Kennedy said. “We have some guys that are going through some things that they have never been through before. This is when metal hits metal and you find out what you’re made of.”

In their previous matchup this season, the Aggies (12-9, 3-5 SEC) lost 81-72 to MSU in Starkville in overtime, starting their current five-game skid. The Bulldogs were able to overcome career-best performances from two A&M players.

Junior guard Jamal Jones led both teams with 24 points and freshman forward Davonte Fitzgerald added 20 points off the bench.

Since the game in Starkville, Jones and Fitzgerald have struggled to replicate their offensive success. In the last four games, Jones and Fitzgerald have averaged 7.8 and 5.8 points per game, respectively.

Despite its recent struggles, A&M has played well at home this season, going 11-2 overall and 2-1 in SEC play.

MSU visits College Station for the first time, led by sophomore guard Craig Sword, whose 13.4 points per game is best on the team.

for SGA spots opens Friday Positions include student body president, yell leader

Annabelle Hutchinson

The Battalion iling for spring student body elections, which includes the races for student body president, Student Senate, yell leader, class president, Resident Hall Association president and class agent, begins Friday and closes at noon Sunday.

Filing will be online only and all candidates must be able to attend a mandatory candidate’s meeting from 8:30-10:30 p.m. Sunday.

Michael Dror, senior political science major, is a member of Student Senate and said he will not seek reelection due to graduation.

Dror said his motivation for running was to make a difference in the Student Senate after being unsatisfied with its work. He said he encouraged students who felt similarly to do the same.

“I felt that I didn’t really have a voice as just a regular person on campus and I thought that I’d have a stronger voice and more means to react to senate if I was in the senate,” Dror said.

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Graduate Student Council approves officer reelection bylaws

(Left) Brittany Bounds, graduate student council president, addresses the council Tuesday.

Lindsey Gawlik

The Battalion uring the Graduate Student Council’s (GSC) biweekly meeting Tuesday, bylaws were updated to match the changes made to the GSC Constitution last meeting, which now allows GSC officers to be reelected.

The bylaws passed with a vote of 38-8 with 1 abstention.

Chris Lyons, co-chair of the GSC legislative affairs committee and plant pathology graduate student, proposed the changes made last meeting to the constitution as well as the updated bylaws that will take those changes one step further, eliminating term limits for officers.

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and history graduate student, said the changes to term limits will allow officers to take their ideas further by giving them more time to implement them. Bounds also said these changes will allow officers to gain valuable experience to further develop their leadership skills both inside and outside of the GSC. Other topics touched on at the meeting were the upcoming writing of the GSC Bill of Rights, the proposal for changes to May graduations and a dissertation copyright proposal.

The next meeting will be held Feb. 18 in Koldus 144.

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woodson black awareness committee

‘Fruitvale Station’ screening to spotlight police brutality

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o spark discussion on police brutality, the MSC Woodson Black Awareness Committee and the College of Liberal Arts will show the 2013 film “Fruitvale Station” on Thursday.

The presentation will reflect on the story of Oscar Grant, a 22-year-old man who was shot and killed by a police officer in 2009 in Oakland, Calif., and conduct a follow-up discussion on police brutality, crime and community. The story draws attention to justice because the officer who shot Grant, Johannes Mehserle, was sentenced to two years in jail.

“The experience will be a gutwrenching one due to the very emotional nature of the film, but students will definitely walk away with a brief introduction to the occurrence of police brutality, the representation of minorities and the law and the awareness that every citizen does not have the same equal encounter with law enforcement,” said Terrell Feathers, WBAC educational programs director. “Although some attendants will

not completely understand the depths of this issue and topic, this event will serve as the glasses to help them better understand the world around them as far as privilege, race, class and gender goes.”

Following the film presentation, the floor will open for questions led by a panel of Jeff Capps, College Station Police Department chief of police; Jarvis Parsons, Brazos County district attorney; and John M. Eason, A&M sociology assistant professor.

Feathers said the film is not meant to parallel the conduct of College Station police officers.

“The story behind ‘Fruitvale Station’ in my personal opinion is not related to College Station,” Feathers said. “College Station’s law enforcement agency does a great job respecting the many different individuals who make up this very peaceful environment. With that, I think that only speaks volumes to [Capps’] — who will be featured as one of our panelists — leadership and character as his influence trickles down to the officers that serve with him.”

Capps said avoiding police brutality in general has a high level of importance at the CSPD. “Any time you have a case involving excessive force or police brutality, it leaves a negative impact and deteriorates the public trust in the law enforcement

profession, whether or not the incident occurred in your jurisdiction or another,” Capps said. “We must ensure our staff are well trained and we must hold our officers to the highest standards.”

Feathers said it is important to show the film to encourage awareness of the challenges certain minority groups may face.

“The importance of showing ‘Fruitvale Station’ from an organizational standpoint is to provide the Texas A&M campus an opportunity to be enlightened about the different realities, whether positive or negative, its black counterparts face when encountering law enforcement agencies,” Feathers said.

The event will be from 7-10 p.m.

Thursday in the Interdisciplinary Life Sciences Building.

“Our mission in WBAC is to educate to the student body, faculty and the whole community about the culture, concerns, heritage and history of people of African origin,” said WBAC director Candace Morris. “I think showing this film will definitely highlight the concern that there are black men out there every day scared for their lives because of fear that they will be prejudged by the color of their skin, which is an everyday fear that other people often overlook.”

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from materials that are already considered pretty biocompatible, so the natural abundance of them makes it something that also is reasonably cost effective and sustainable long term,” McShane said. “We’re not concerned at this point about this particular material being something that relies on some rare product that may or may not be available forever.”

Ritter said with traditional drug delivery the drug gets distributed throughout the entire body. Not only is the drug being delivered to places where it isn’t needed, but also more of the drug has to be delivered because only a small fraction gets to the desired site.

“The advantage of targeted delivery is you’re not exposing every other organ system or tissue in your body to that drug, whatever that drug might be, and you’re also able to use much lower dosages because you’re delivering it directly to the intended site,” Ritter said.

Ritter said the lab has combined pre-existing methods in an innovative way that allows for a greater amount of control over the injectable material and its components.

“We haven’t developed a method to put proteins or nanoparticles into microparticles, we haven’t developed a method to put the coatings on those microparticles and we haven’t developed a method of turning that liquid alginate into a solid hydrogel,” Ritter said. “All of that has been done before. What we’ve come up with is a system that combines all of those different elements together in a synergistic way that affords a high degree of tunability.”

The hydrogel system could also be used to modify vaccinations and how they distribute antigens, which is the part of the vaccine that stimulates the immune system to protect against a particular illness. Using this system with a vaccine, microspheres could be used to hold antigens and release them over an extended period.

“Generally if you can get the body exposed to these antigens over a longer period of time, your body can deliver a better response to it,” Roberts said. “This system allows us to potentially encapsulate pieces of antigens and release them over a much longer period of time so when you get a vaccine it’s not just a liquid that gets cleared very fast, it’s a solution that can be released over a much longer period of time.”

Roberts said he has his ideas as to what the injectable material could be used for, but he is content so long as his work is being used.

“A lot of people work on things and they put them in their dissertation or they publish them and nothing happens — nobody picks up the idea and uses it for something else,” Roberts said. “I would be just as excited to see somebody else pick it up and use it for something that I hadn’t thought about before. That would be great.”

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In regards to the time commitment for members of Student Senate, Dror said it can be as little as a couple of hours per week.

“You get out of it what you put in,” Dror said. “But just being in senate by itself isn’t a huge time commitment.”

Maci Hurley, speaker pro-tempore of Student Senate, said students who want to make a difference on campus should consider filing.

During her campaign, Hurley ran unopposed. She said students do not realize how many races actually have only one or two candidates who file and that increased competition would benefit the organization and the decisions they make.

“Right now, there is not too much of an interest in senate,” Hurley said. “If you are thinking about running, just do it. Even if you don’t win, you can always write a bill as a student.”

Rachel Norman, senior class president, said students interested in filing for class president sometimes have misconceptions about what the position entails.

“A lot of people probably just assume that the class president is a part of SGA, but in reality we don’t do a lot with them,” Norman said. “Being class president means you are more focused on fundraising money for the class gift, which is your ultimate goal as class president.”

Norman said class presidents lead biweekly meetings for their respective class councils, which are responsible for upholding traditions such as Maroon Out, Ring Dance and Junior and Senior Elephant Walk. “[Class president] is a lot more about representing your class in a tradition aspect,” Norman said. “This is not like your high school class president.”

Information on any of the positions up for election can be found at election.tamu.edu. Filing for student body president or yell leader requires a $20 fee. The fee for all other positions is $10.

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CANINE COMPANIONS Student organization trains guide and service dogs form a student-led group to support the people who were raising puppies, and then started raising puppies as part of AGS.” or 17 years, Aggie Guide-Dogs and SerStough said AGS works to prepare dogs vice-Dogs has trained puppies for a mis- for working with people with mobility imsion. pairments and occasionally the AGS dogs go These eight “rock-star puppies” can be to children with such issues as balance probseen around campus in blue vests — practic- lems or cognitive impairments. ing opening doors, flipping on light switches The dogs are taught how to do tasks on or just sitting quietly next to their trainers in command such as opening the fridge, handthe library. ing a credit card from their partner to a caThese dogs, which are allowed into any shier and even to urinate on command when building under the Americans with Dis- outside. Stough said it’s been incredible to abilities Act, are trained to assist people with watch the program grow and change into disabilities and disorders such as visual im- what it is now. pairment, autism or post-traumatic stress dis“It’s a student organization, so students order. themselves change so Laura Stough, much,” Stough said.

AGS secondary It is exciting — the fact “AGS is also getting staff advisor, said an increased rate of that [the dogs] get to she has been a part puppies passing onto go help someone else of AGS since its phase II training. and do what they are supposed founding in 1997 The other change I when she met a to do. It’s bittersweet because I have seen is that AGS student named just gets stronger know that I’ll miss him, but he’s Jesse Czelusta who and stronger. What going to go do some great things had a vision for the students do gets and it’s better than what he starting a studentstronger as they mix run organization could ever do with me.” old techniques with for raising puppies new ones for training, — Katie Thompson, AGS director of programs and to become service or for holding funsophomore biomedical sciences major dogs. draisers or with net“At that time working for vet and the only dog on campus was, of course, Rev- food support.” eille, and Jesse was living in a residence hall Stough said puppies are donated from and so he had to get permission to bring up a breeders who do temperament testing at as service dog on campus,” Stough said. early as eight weeks old to see if the dogs Stough said she crossed paths with Cze- would be good matches. lusta, coincidentally, at the same time that Alice Blue, AGS head staff advisor and she was also raising a service puppy. Upon veterinary medicine clinical assistant professeeing their respective puppies-in-training, sor, has been a part of AGS for more than they began to talk.

10 years. Blue said she usually gives the pupStough said when people saw Czelusta on pies a checkup and then educates the trainers campus with his puppy he would be asked on the commitment that are about to make many questions. Soon other students wanted after the puppies are donated and temperato know how they could be a part of service- ment tested. dog training as well.

Stough said large dogs are generally used “After that, students in the pre-vet pro- because they are better at helping people gram became very interested in raising pup- who are mobility impaired and, ideally the pies,” Stough said. “The organization went dogs are hypoallergenic and easy-to-groom. on to really formalize the training and to Stough said AGS is just the first part of

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he’s going to go do some great things and it’s better than what he could ever do with me.”

Samantha Darling, AGS member and senior psychology major, is also training a puppy — a 10-month-old Goldendoodle who is training for mobility assistance and diabetic alert.

Darling said the most rewarding part is knowing her dog is going to be doing something great in the world and the hardest part is dealing with the public.

“Part of our mission is educating the public in how to appropriately react to a service dog,” Darling said. “There are always new people around on campus so we always try our best to do that, but it’s always fun to see people’s reactions when you’re studying and a dog pops up from under a table. It’s difficult because you’re trying to train the dog to behave but people’s little noises can get them excited.”

Darling said the members of AGS are thankful to those at A&M who give donations, since the organization is mainly funded on donations.

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training, taking care of the basic 25 commands service dogs need to know. The puppies learn basic obedience and socialization skills as well as advanced commands.

The puppies are still treated like puppies and get to have play-time every Monday on campus and celebrate their birthdays with parties thrown by their trainers.

After they graduate from puppy training, the dogs learn more specialized skills and are prepped for life with their future partners.

As a dog trainer, Katie Thompson, AGS director of programs and sophomore biomedical sciences major, said the program is very rewarding.

“As a pre-vet student, I fell in love with the idea of how dogs can help people to become independent,” Thompson said.

Thompson has been raising a Labradoodle puppy, Maverick, for eight months, who will go on to be a mobility assistance service dog.

Thompson said the dogs usually take 1018 months before they graduate to the second phase and said Maverick will move on in April.

“It is exciting — the fact that they get to go help someone else and do what they are supposed to do,” Thompson said. “It’s bittersweet because I know that I’ll miss him, but

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life. She has killed, she has betrayed her country, she has turned her back on everything that she stood for and yet she comes to Greece and she’s considered a barbarian. She’s considered an outsider and yet, she herself is intellectually, emotionally stronger than anyone that she meets. Those very strong qualities are what destroy her.

thebattalion of Greece you are [in] because certain types of plants are not available in particular areas or the types of diseases which were treated will vary according to the local population.

THE BATTALION: Have there been any home remedies that you’ve come across that date back to classic times?

OBERHELMAN: Well what’s interesting is that the majority of plants that are used in the recipes are actually garden vegetables, and they THE BATTALION: What are the kind that every does your current Greek peasant still today research focus on? will grow in the garden.

OBERHELMAN: My field When I was in a small, of research deals with folk remote mountain village medicine text and looking on Thassos last spring, as to how pharmacology, this elderly woman in the which is used by village village knows that I had healers or by monks, have some cracked skin on my roots, no pun intended, fingers and she pulled out going back to the classical this ointment that she had antiquity and how the made from the mastic knowledge of medicine, plant as well as parsley particularly plant medicine, and olive oil, and sure has continued on down enough that’s a centuriesover 2,000 years from old recipe for dry skin. antiquity down to the THE BATTALION: What present day. I examine got you interested in texts and then translate them, show the continuity studying the classics? of certain pharmacological OBERHELMAN: I began recipes, but also showing my undergrad career the recipes will change at the University of according to which area Minnesota as a pre-med

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Steven Oberhelman, interim associate dean of undergraduate programs in the College of Liberal Arts, has been editor of the Helios journal since 1984.

— did not do very well.

The late 1960s were a very volatile and very exciting time period and somehow organic chemistry and calculus were just something that did not attract me, but I had taken four years of high school Latin, was already taking senior level university Latin when I was a fish in college and I just continued on doing that.

THE BATTALION: Do you have an idea of where you want to go next?

OBERHELMAN: Well I’m trying to finish this

book in between my responsibilities here.

After this, there are some medical texts that have been newly discovered in the Athens National Public Library. My intention is to go transcribe those and then study them. Those all date between the 16th and the 18th centuries.

THE BATTALION: What is your role at the Helios journal?

OBERHELMAN: I have been editor of Helios since 1984. It is devoted to the investigation of studies of ancient Greek and Roman literature

society and culture. What separates Helios from many classics journals is that we emphasize the use of new literary theory. This means I have a much younger audience sometimes publishing in our journal because classicists have a tendency to catch up to theory 20 years after it’s happened, but most of the articles that appear in [Helios] deal with gender, with the status of women in ancient society. Usually about 40 percent of our publications deal with one particular topic.

THE BATTALION: What is your favorite Greek food?

OBERHELMAN: My favorite Greek food is the horiatiki salata, the true Greek salad, not the American version. The horiatiki is just wonderfully homegrown tomatoes, particularly if you can get them from a Greek island like Santorini, which has the best tomatoes in all of Greece, with sliced cucumbers and onions and lots of feta cheese, some calimata olives and so much olive oil you can bathe in it.

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Bike to TAMU. Close to retail and restaurants off University Drive. 1 bedroom apartments at $425. 2 and 3 bedroom houses, $625 to $695. Call On-Line Real Estate, Broker, 268-8620.

Now preleasing 2,3,4,5 bedroom houses and duplexes, pet friendly, Aggielandrentals.com 979-776-8984.

Cottage. Holik C.S. 2bd/1ba, 1000sqft., W/D, Balcony, wooded.

Private drive. 1 mile to TAMU shuttle, Clean. Quiet. No pets.

Must See. $650/mo. 979-777-2472.

Don’t Miss! 4/2/2 House, great location, on shuttle, fenced yard.

Rent $1400/month, 979-255-8637.

Pre-lease 4 and 5 bedroom houses, available August, great floor plans, close to campus, updated, W/D, all appliances, no pets. www.brazosvalleyrentals.com 979-731-8257.

Preleasing for May, efficiency apartment, 1bd, 2bd, 3bd, 979-693-1906, great prices and amenities.

Large 3/2/1 on bus-route. W/D, $1200/mo. 1431 Magnolia Drive.

214-914-4305.

HELP WANTED Athletic men for calendars, books, etc. $100-$200/hr, up to $1000/day. No experience. aggieresponse@gmail.com Camp For All is looking for creative and energetic program staff who are interested in working with children and adults with challenging illnesses and special needs. These paid positions will be trained to lead activities for our campers on weekends. Please contact Jessicah Holloway at jholloway@campforall.org or visit our website at www.campforall.org

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Duplex 3bd/2ba. All appliances, full-size W/D, fenced yard.

Located at Rock Hollow Loop. $850/m. 469-233-4653.

Just available! Close to campus, College Main and Eastgate areas.

2bd/1ba., some w/dishwasher, 1-fenced, some bills paid. $325-$450/mo. 979-219-3217.

Weekend rental barndominium, great for graduations, gamedays, or special events, ultimate party pad with RV parking, two miles from campus, call today for availability, JC/broker 254-721-6179 www.gamedaybcs.com

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HELP WANTED CiCi’s Pizza/CiCi’s Express in C.S. Drive-thru and kitchen personnel needed. Starting up to $10/per hour w/experience. Flexible hours/shifts. All applications must be submitted in person at C.S. CiCi’s location.

Cleaning commercial buildings at night, M-F. Call 979-823-5031 for interview.

Cotton Patch, College Station 979-695-9707, now hiring servers, hosts, cashiers. Apply between 2-4 pm at Rock Prairie Rd and Hwy 6.

Fish Daddy’s and Cheddar’s now interviewing all positions. 1611 University Drive.

Floor Attendants wanted at Brazos Bingo, shifts available Mondays Saturday 5:45P.M.-10:00P.M., Sundays: 5:15P.M.-10:00P.M., and 1:00P.M.-4:00P.M. on Wed. and Fri. Call (979)774-7266 for an interview.

Have the summer of your life at a prestigious coed sleepaway camp in the beautiful Pocono Mountains of Pennsylvania, 2.5 hours from NYC. We’re seeking counselors who can teach any Team & Individual Sports, Tennis, Gymnastics, Horseback Riding, Mt. Biking, Skate Park, Theatre, Tech Theatre, Circus, Magic, Arts & Crafts, Pioneering, Climbing Tower, Water Sports, Music, Dance or Science.

Great salaries and perks. Plenty of free time. Internships available for many majors. On-campus interviews on Feb. 18 &19. Apply online at www.islandlake.com Call 800-869-6083 between 9-5 eastern time on weekdays for more information.

J. Cody’s hiring at all positions, apply within, 3610 S. College. No experience necessary just common sense!

Looking for experienced WordPress developer to provide support for amazing new product. Flexible hours. Great pay.

Send email to: scott@theme.co.

Looking for good carpenter, reasonably priced. (832)646-2329.

Part-time leasing, Saturdays a must, apply Doux Chene Apartments, 2101 Harvey Mitchell South. 979-693-1906 Part-time or full-time person need for social media management and sales, 979-574-7474.

Part-time warehouse help needed. Flexible hours. Business hours are M-F 8-5. Apply at Valley Supply 3320 S. College Ave. Bryan, TX. 979-779-7042.

If You Have Something To Sell, Remember Classifieds Can Do It! Call 845-0569

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HELP WANTED Penncro Associates, Inc. in Bryan Texas now has Multiple Projects with open positions. Customer Service Representatives for one of the country’s leading servicers of home loans are open that we will train qualified candidates for!

The position requires strong communication skills and computer skills to navigate multiple systems. A HS Diploma/GED is required. Full-time positions are eligible for medical, dental and life insurance benefits. Contests and incentive programs create an exciting environment, state of the art facility and countless career opportunities. View Job Listings and Apply online today: https://www.penncro.com/careers. php EOE PT help needed. Local hunting club needs PT guides. Students only. Average 1-2 weekends/month in offseason; 2-3 in Fall and Winter. Limited hunting privileges. Applications at www.yardbirdhunting.com STUDENTPAYOUTS.COM Paid survey takers needed in College Station. 100% free to join. Click on surveys.

Weekend merchandisers.

Budweiser has immediate openings for part-time positions.

Great pay! Pre-employment drug screen. Apply at Jack Hilliard Dist., 1000 Independence, Bryan, TX.

MUSIC LEARN MUSIC NOW private instruction in Piano and/or Voice for Adults only. First lesson is FREE! Email learnmusicnow@suddenlink.net or call Scott at 979-204-0447 for more information.

REAL ESTATE 8 CS 3/2 Duplexes, shuttle, $229,900, Town & Country Realty 979-777-6211, 979-739-2035 B/CS. Sell/Buy/Invest! Michael McGrann TAMU ‘93 Civil Engineering 979-739-2035, mike@aggierealtor.com Nadia McGrann 979-777-6211, Town & Country Realty.

ROOMMATES Looking for roommate for immediate move-in to 3bd/2ba, 5min from A&M. Huge backyard, on cul-de-sac. Clean, spacious, hardwoods, fireplace. 512-529-4050.

TUTORS Need a Tutor? Friendly, helpful one-on-one private tutors for all subjects at TAMU/Blinn and Sam Houston State. Check us out at www.99tutors.com, 979-268-8867.

Professional ESL tutor & editor, $15/hr, cmizc@aol.com.

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