FORUM FORESCAST I CRAZY STL \VEATHER GOT YOU DO\\' .V? L’S TOO. FORL'NI. PAGE 5 STUDENT LIFE THE] .VDEPEVDEVT .VE“SPAPER OF “ASHIVGTOV L VI\ ERS IVST. IOLIS SIVCE ST. VOLUME 128. NO. 71 WEDNESDAY, APRIL 11. 2007 \\”\t‘\\'.STIIDLIFE.COM Ills conference to examine environmental issues “lye realizeathat students on Community College and the to deforestation. 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It would engage the tLou is community milt l o.nd “it the \1mnnmental arid Global parnelistsmareS"\tashingtongUni- Junior Jake Levitas will he be an awesome project to put in fun educational etents. that lustrri time that internationalArea tits" topics ytIll include climate togethernand a great use for our atoid Ithat can be an intimiiad t~ Studies has done something like I'hange. deyel nations. sus~ uate students there are E{also sibility of building a cocoa plant educ ing structure of a more formal thibut ieth\l‘ltlpt to continue tainable campuses and the poli» representatites from University In Ecuador as a more envtron- Whilennot directly related the corierf it iti thI liitiire If this yea I“ 0 0 0 Chicago. Meramec St. Louis mentally sustainable altemative student conference will be fol- The9format of the panel dis 5U\\t\\ PREPARATIONS UNDERWAY FOR THURTENE CARNIVAL GRE changes cancelled BY ELIZABETH LEWIS itas not ableto guarantee enough shottri. there is nocertainty to et- sesat fro revisedtesrtto en test change. [TSis'kloo ing for roughly hatllf-a- million annual test ttays to incorporate test changes The Educational Testing Ser- taker nc-th ft Iiu mmeend that vices (HTS) suddenly cancelled "The number of. administra stinidents take threEtest in its cur- plannedte The score uate Record Examination (GRE) to a hen 35 times a year and [HTS] lite yetrmirs.St1Ilc it ith the timeline lastMonday. 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