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SCHROEPPEL, O.D., DOCTOR OF OPTOMETRY PC. 505 University Dr. East, Suite 101 College Station, TX 77840 4 Blocks East of Texas Avfe. & University Dr. Intersection Page 2 • The Battalion ^TORLD LOCAL Thursday • April 20, NEWS Information highway growin Hydrochloric acid spilled on F.M. 2818 A chemical spill Wednesday forced drivers on Farm Road 2818 to find alternate routes and forced many people out of their homes and businesses. A Freight Liner truck carrying 4,500 gallons of hydrochloric acid solution overturned while making a left hand turn off of Farm Road 2818 onto Independence St. around 9:30 a m. Fumes from the solution caused nausea and itchy, burning eyes in some people. About 19 victims went to the hospital for treatment. Officials say the solution will cause no long-term effects to the road or surrounding area. The road will be hosed off and the surrounding polluted dirt will be shipped away. Unclaimed scholar ship availiable The Battalion MARK SMITH, Editor in chief JAY ROBBINS, Senior managing editor HEATHER WINCH, Managing editor JODY HOLLEY, Night News editor TIFFANY MOORE, Night News editor AMANDA FOWLE, City editor STERLING HAYMAN, Opinion editor ROB CLARK, Aggietife editor NICK GEORGANDIS, Sports editor DAVE WINDER, Sports editor STEWART MILNE, Photo editor Staff Members City desk— Stephanie Dube, Kasie Byers, Eleanor Colvin, Lynn Cook, Brad Dressier, Lisa Messer, Gretchen Perrenot, Tracy Smith, Wes Swift, and Brian Underwood News desk— Kristi Baldwin, Michele Chancellor, Kristin De Luca, Kristen De Rocha, Libe Goad, Randy Goins, Robin Greathouse, Derek Smith and James Vineyard Photographers— Tim Moog, Amy Browning, Robyn Calloway, Nick Rodnicki, Eddy Wylie, Bart Mitchell, Roger Hsieh and Rogge Heflin Aggietife— Michael Landauer, Amber Clark, Amy Collier, Keryl Cryer, Nikki Hopkins and Jay Knioum Sports writers— James Anderson, Kristina Buffin, Tom Day, Shelly Hall and Robert Rodriguez Opinion — Erin Hill, Drew Diener, Laura Frnka, Zack Hall, David Hill, Kyle Littlefield, Jenny Magee, Jim Pawlikowski, Elizabeth Preston, Gerardo Quezada, David Taylor and Amy Uptmor Cartoonists^— Greg Argo, Brad Graeber, Alvaro Gutierrez and Quatro Oakley Office Assistants— Wendy Crockett, Heather Fitch, Adam Hill and Julie Thomas Graphic Artist — Ines Hilde Writing Coach— Mark Evans The Battalion (USPS 045-360) is published daily, Monday through Friday during the fall and spring semesters and Monday through Thursday during the summer sessions (except University holidays and exam periods), at Texas A&M University. 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Mail subscriptions are $20 per semester, $40 per school year and $50 per full year. To charge by VISA, MasterCard, Discover or American Express, call 845-2611. Although a $250 scholarship is available from the Brazos Valley Chapter of the International Association of Business Communicators, no one has applied for it, IABC member Gretchen Krueger said. Jhe deadline for application is Monday, April 24. The scholarship will be given to a Texas A&M University junior majoring in journalism, agricultural journalism, English or speech communication. Applicants must be in good standing with the University with at least 30 hours remaining in their degree program and have at least a 2.5 grade point ratio. Application forms are available from the journalism, speech communication, English and marketing departments. 15 military bases targeted for closure DALLAS (AP) — Officials from Texas, Oklahoma and Arkansas pleaded their cases Wednesday before an independent commission reviewing military bases targeted for closure or realignment by the Pentagon. Texas has the most to lose if the Pentagon’s recommendations prevail before the Defense Base Closure and Realignment Commission. Three of the 15 major bases being recommended for closure are in Texas — Brooks Air Force Base in San Antonio, Red River Army Depot in Texarkana and Reese AFB in Lubbock. PITS UPDATES PITS UPDATES PITS UPDATES PTTS UPDATES-* P.8.M LW/j, . V' CO Q Q_ CO 1= Q_ 'I s CO “O =1 CO ~o CH Fall Parking Permit News: CO ~o =1 CH Q_ Student parking permits and bus passes purchased for the fall of 1995 are valid through May 31, 1996. Students who preregister for parking permits and bus passes before July 1, 1995, will receive them in the mail on or around August 10. Please verify your address with the Fiscal Department. CO CO The price of parking permits has changed from what is listed in the registration booklets due to the approval of price changes made by the Board of Regents. The new prices listed below will be effective Fall ‘95.ed: ~U CH Q_ 'T CO Option Code 10 30 09 12 <C CH CL_ an i= CL_ CO 15 Types of Permits and Prices Commuter Student $75 Resident Student $75 Night Permit $35 Motorcycle/Moped $35 Summer Permit (Effective Summer ‘96) $55 Faculty/Staff (Reserved Lot) $100 Faculty/Staff (Reserved Number Space) $200 Garage Roof 5180 Garage (Inside) $240 Garage (Priority) $270 Zachry Basement $270 Bus Pass $110* CO 4, ~o =1 CO ~o CH *Students may obtain a free night permit if a bus pass is purchased. 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Visitor Garage Parking: Visitor Parking per Hour $ .60 Visitor Parking per Day $4.80 *This will be effective in the 1995 Fall Term. ~o CH H> <C CH Q_ CO 1= Parking News: April 20 - The University Center Garage will be reserved after 3:30 p.m. for OPAS. April 21 - The University Center Garage will be reserved for Muster. April 21 - PA 69 will be closed due to the SWC Tennis Tournament. April 28 - 30 - The University Center Garage will be reserved for Parent’s Weekend ‘95. Bus Operation News: Due to PA 69 being closed for the SWC Tennis Tournament and the on-campus events for Muster, PTTS will be sponsoring “Ride the Bus Days”. All students can ride the off-campus buses for free on Thursday, April 20, and Friday, April 21. CO 4' ~o =1 CO ~o CH CO 4* GOOD LUCK WITH REGISTRATION!!!!! <-S3ivadn slid 4- sdivadn slid sdivadn slid ssivadn slid □ Speaker says America must learn about the information superhigh way to remain a world power. By Eleanor Colvin The Battalion A speaker from the National Center for Commu nications Studies, told A&M students and faculty Wednesday that now is the time to research issues related to the rapidly approaching information su perhighway. Lisa St. Clair Harvey, the speaker, predicted that the superhighway’s development will change many American traditions and thought processes within the next two years. “Now is the time to act,” she said. “If we play catch up with issues instead of researching them beforehand, then we have lost the game before we’ve begun.” Harvey said the information superhighway is a promising endeavor needing specific policies to gov ern how it will provide information. “The information superhighway is an intense ly political issue,” she said. “Although the most important ramifications do not always make it into the news, we need to know what the super highway is and can be, as well as what it cannot be because of policy.” Harvey, who studies the social and cultural im pacts of media technology, said the superhighway will create many changes in American culture. “We are looking at changes in all kinds of infor mation, ranging from politics and weather, to send ing pictures to grandparents,” she said. “Democracy is wrapped around this issue because of the possibil ity of redefining American and world culture.” Harvey said policy makers must learn from past media efforts when implementing this new technology. “Information age policy makers and recipients must be alert to the dangerous ways of thinking about old media when considering this radical new technology,” she said. Harvey encouraged listeners to be contf about the reasons motivating governmental]) decisions about the information superhighway,; said the first priority should be given to the f “If the federal government is not firm! making, we won’t have an information sup way, but something more like a rail said. “It will be similar to the government! handmaids to big business when the first built. The term ‘superhighway’ is mislei big government is only helping big business." Harvey said America’s involvement in develu this technology is critical to maintaining itss as a world power. “World players are no longer going to bed mined by if they are industrialized, butbyilH are ‘informationized,’” she said. “We mustbeaa of this information structure or we will enfranchised.” Amy Browning/THEBi Lisa St. Clair Harvey tells Americans tothuir: ride on the information superhighway. Mystery gas released on Yokohama train static □ The latest in a string of incidents in Japan injures 300 people. YOKOHAMA, Japan (AP) — The old woman stood in front of the entrance to Yokohama Station, shopping bags in hand, and watched a chemical warfare unit suit up and head inside. “Oh my god,” she said. “Not again.” A month after terrorists re leased nerve gas in Tokyo’s sub ways, a possible copycat attack er let loose a mystery gas Wednesday at the main train station in Yokohama, just south of the capital. This time, 300 people got sick, and the nation’s ragged nerves were set on edge again. The attack in Yokohama came after one of Japan’s most trying months since World War II, in which cherished beliefs about the nation’s security have been undermined. Twelve people were killed and 5,500 sickened in the March 20 nerve gas attack in Tokyo days later, an assailant shot: seriously wounded the nation: police official. Last Saturday, stores els and 10,000 police mobilize: Tokyo amid fears that: doomsday cult suspected it nerve gas case would ( terrorist strike in the Nothing happened. 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