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Rock or Roll PAY NO ENROLLMENT FEE!! • Free Aerobic Classes • Indoor Swimming Pool • Racquetbal! • Tanning Bed • Tennis • Snack Bar • Lounge Now through Saturday, March 7 you can join the finest athletic club in B/CS and pay no enrollment fee. With your student ID and mem bership card from any other club in town, you can be an Aerofit member for only: • Indoor Jogging Track • Weight Machines • Free Weights • Volleyball • Basketball $19.°° per month Two masters of music in concert once! at Misha Dichter, pianist Kazimierz Kord, music director and conductor Misha Dichter, a champion of the Keyboard wiU perform with the Warsaw Philharmonic Orchestra under Kazimierz Kord, world renowned music direc tor and conductor, March 7 in Rudder Auditorium at 8 p.m. Misha Dichter has been described by Hews week as "the best of the new breed of pianists". His impeccable recitals, orchestral performances and his highly acclaimed recordings have made him a favorite of audiences around the world. Kazimierz Kord has been music director of the Warsaw Philharmonic Orchestra since 1977. He has appeared with orchestras and opera companies throughout the world including Paris, Toronto, London, Moscow, Berlin, Tokyo, Mexico and the U.S.A. Kord and Dichter are presented as part of the continuing music of MSC OPAS Fourteen. The MSC Opera and Performing Arts Society brings master musi cians from all over the world. Find out how two musicians and one of the finest orchestras in the world make music in Rudder Auditorium. Don't miss this rare opportunity to see and hear the best. Order your tickets for the March 7 performance from the MSC Box Office. VISA and MasterCard call 845-1234. MSC Opera and Performing Arts Society : Memorial Student Center • Texas A&M University • Box J1 • College Station TX 77844-9081 Page 4/The BattalionAVednesday, March 4,1987 House OKs ban on court disclosures AUSTIN (AP) — The House ten tatively approved Tuesday, without debate, a bill making it a felony to knowingly disclose prematurely the contents of an appellate court deci sion or opinion. A final vote is needed in the House. The measure, by Rep. John Smi- thee, R-Amarillo, was amended by Smithee to provide that a violation must be “knowingly and deliberate.” There was no discussion or debate of the bill before the voice vote. The bill was introduced after pub lished reports several months ago that some Texas Supreme Court de cisions were leaked to attorneys prior to their official release in the courtroom. Smithee’s bill would add the offense to a present provision that makes it a third-degree felony for public servants to use unreleased official information for their own good or for others. Punishment could be two to 10 years imprisonment and a fine up to $5,000. Police Beat Warp The following were reported to the University Police Depart ment from Feb. 23 through Sun day: MISDEMEANOR THEFT: • Five backpacks were re ported stolen from Sbisa and the Commons dining halls. • Two bicycles were reported stolen, and one bicycle was recov ered by University Police. • Three thefts occurred in the Langford Architecture Center, including a purse and parachute bag which had been left unat tended, and a pencil-sketch draw ing for a class project. • An officer arrested six peo ple for possession of four Univer sity Police traffic barricades. FELONY THEFT: • A maroon 1980 Honda Accord parked near Rudder Tower was reported stolen. ASSAULT: • While an of ficer was talking to two juveniles in a campus park ing lot, one of them struck the of ficer in the chest with her fist. Both juveniles were taken to the University Police Department and released into their parents’ custody. CRIMINAL MISCHIEF: • Walton Hall E-ramp resi dents were found drunk byanof l Ik ci responding to a i( j |><mof[ loud noise. The incident ocl cut red last Wednesday, the samt| day the residents were to havev cated the dorm by an order fronJ University officials. • A man said he saw an A&li| shuttle bus crash through a gate] arm near (lie A.P. Beutel HealtlJ Center mall. • A student reported thaij someone broke out the real win ! dow of her 1982 Oldsmobiltl while it was parked in a campuil parking lot. PLACES WEAPONS PROHIBj I TED: • A student reported that I saw a man carrying a .45-calibci automatic in a first-floor Lallwat of Krueger Hall. Responding of ficers could not find the manor the gun. HARASSMENT: • A student in Hughes reported that she has been receit ing obscene phone calls. • A Mosher resident reported she has been receiving annoying phone calls at all hours of thedav CRIMINAL TRESPASS: • A student reported that! men entered her dorm room while she was taking a shower. A FOOT Mi. JITH OUR U 1FAN5 YOU TREE EDU / Blood drive hits A&M early to beat spring break ‘drain 1 By By Jessica Brown Reporter “Donate before you vacate,” this semester’s blood drive theme, is an attempt to get students to give blood before they leave for spring break, Tonja Scheer, blood drive co-chair man for Omega Phi Alpha, said. The catchy phrase is based on the theory that students return from their spring break more physically drained than they were before the break. And for many students, the eight remaining weeks of school are too hectic for benevolence of donat- “Wadley Center Blood Bank,” Boswell said, “provides special help for A&M students, former students, faculty and family when in need of blood.” “In years past,” Boswell people under 110 pounds,weredjL | eligible to donate because of possit*^^ faintness or nausea." I , •unggirl: Scott Bentley, blood drive charf| The ser man for APO, said a “trossbleei lb black v campaign also has been started the spring comoat the problem of female spomen arc dents shying away from blood dot program, tion because of fear of the needle p Carol M “We are getting male dorms || A&M Ju join female dorms when donatini fthr progra Bentley said. “ That way, the gifer about t can give some support to the girls she had bt Througl If taken to a Wadley-based hospi tal, she said, the A&M-related pa tient will be reimbursed $10 — the replacement fee — for each pint of blood used. Insurance usually covers the remaining $48 for each pint needed. mg. The blood drive started Monday and will last through Thursday. Students can donate at four loca tions around campus — the Com mons, the Memorial Student Center, the Fish Pond and the Zachry Engi neering Center. Margie Boswell, blood drive,chair man for Student Government, wants to educate those whd do n^t believe their donation can benefit them. Boswell added that for those A&M-related patients with no medi cal insurance, Wadley will pay the full amount. Wadley also will pay the full cost of the blood if the patient is not taken to a Wadley-based hospi tal. This year’s blood drive, sponsored by Student Government, Alpha Phi Omega and Omega Phi Alpha, is in troducing a “lightweight” program ' to allow students who weigh between 100 and 109 pounds to donate —but they’ll donate less than a pint. predc jmmunic ack studt Murphy slant pre Scheer said a pizza party given for the tern donating maleaa female dorms, for the top donal organization of fewer than members, and lor the top organulcurriculun tion with more than 100 members ment, to Bentley said Aggies have b« Workshops quite generous with their blood<t them how nations in recent years, donatiifdents. more than 4,500 pints last yearr, Murphy earn the school the title of “Colletaome posi of the Year" by Wadley. iyounggirb "There Unmarried graduate students may rent apartments in Married Student Housing By Jade Boyd Reporter Unmarried graduate students re cently have become eligible to live in University-owned apartments — more commonly known as Married Student Housing. John M. Sodolak, manager of Married Student Housing, says the idea was first discussed in Fall 1985, and in Spring 1986 the first single graduate students began moving into the apartments. Of the 709 apartments owned by the University, 121 are now occupied by one or more single graduate students. Prices for the apartments range from $165 per month for a one-bed room apartment to $260 per month for a two-bedroom apartment. Each apartment is leased from the University by an individual student, and the University deals only with that student, Sodolak says. The Uni versity limits the number of people living in a single apartment to two, but any person in a graduate degree- producing program is eligible to live in the apartments. “We’re currently placing appli cants who applied last October,” he says, “so there is approximately a four-and-a-half-month waiting list.” Response to the new program has been good, and there have been no complaints from either married or havioral p ^oup of he says. “ heir edu londerful foies but i single tenants regarding the he says. lays. felt th Rsier prog Tenant Jamil Hamdallah sat 0 :PP or tum “It’s nice and neat and it's veryP venient.” B 25 when ] Hamdallah, who is studying IfP soror ' t y his master’s degree in mechaniajp 11 ^ help engineering, has lived in the cool 1 here a plex across from Skaggs Alpha an d since January 1986. He is not mail ^ 1X 1 ried and shares rent and bills with ® use they Rlurphy s; roommate. “It is so much more inexpeiw than private apartments, " Hamdalf lah says. Water, sewer and gas an Were chosi assimilate. “I begai urnished by the University, an ^ ie ) thouj Hamdallah says his most expensit electricity bill was less than $40. Barett Shoes for women only! Everything a mall shoe store has, except high prices Thre Storewide Shoe Sale All of our newest spring styles on sale! Nothing held TEXAS was criticall vere hurt c 2ity Refine said. Miguel ( ifeFlight t jalveston, edition, * EX'S? 30% off Shoes not purchased in multiples of 2 or 3 | will be charged at regular single pair price. Culpepper Plaza 1723 South Texas Avenue College Station 693-4423 MasterCard, Visa or Choice. Open evenings and open Sunday 12:30 to 6 p.m. We reserve the right to 5(