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IN CONCERT APRIMO, 1988 HEART O’ TEXAS COLISEUM 7PM Tickets Now On Sale $16.50 Plus $1.00 Service Charge /Vhite Elephant - Gatesvilie Wilson’s Western Wear - Mexia • Coliseum Box Office - Waco • George’s Casual - Hillsboro • Oak Ridge Corral- Belton Mail Order - Add $1.00 Per Order Heart O’ Texas Coliseum RO. Box7581 • Waco, Texas 76714 M/C—Visa (817)776-1660 Notes -N- Quotes 846-2255 112 Nagle St. FREE PARKING Lasing Printing - Typing Services Word Processing* Resumes •Thesis Disertations*Research Papers*Flyers Printing From Any IBM or Compatible PC-DOS»MS-DOS»5V4 or 3Vz Disks on HP Laser Jet Printing Styles Available Courier Times ROMAN BOLD Courier BOLD Times ROMAN Italic Times ROMAN Proportional Helvetica BOLD Zain’s Indian Restaurant announces Family Buffet Saturday and Sunday 11:30 am-2:30 pm All You Can Eat includes 4 different entrees, dessert, salad. Naan and Rice. $5. /I 95 Children under 12 $2. 95 Friday and Saturday join us for exceptionally special entrees! 3 blocks North of Campus 313-A College Main ^ 268-1414 Page 8AThe Battalion/Thursday, March 24, 1988 Just for kicks Photo by M/ieCjJnji- A group of A&M students and faculty members enjoys a soccer game Wednesday afternoon at Olsen Field. These soccer fans meet each week on Wednesday to play the game when there is cloudy weather. without getting disc jurai>e 19th Aggiecon brings fans of fantasy to A&M By Ronnie Calhoun Reporter The 19th annual AggieCon will be held Thursday through Sunday at the MSC and Rudder Tower. AggieCon, sponsored by the stu dent organization MSC Cepheid Va riable, is a four-day science fiction and fantasy convention concentrat ing on guests and movies. “AggieCon is the largest annual science fiction and fantasy conven tion in the Southwest,” said Jennifer Rich, chairman of AggieCon. Opening ceremonies will be at 4 p.m. Thursday on the second floor of the MSC. The convention will have a deal er’s room, art show, movies and a special guest. Mark Camp, a senior history ma jor, will be the dealers-room man ager. He said the dealers room will have 55 dealers with 120 tables of merchandise. “We will have everything from art to comic books and medieval costu me,” Camp said. “This will be like a bazaar.” visitors can speak with the many guests who will be present. Guests who will attend the convention in clude the following: • Guest of Honor: Joe Halde- man. • Special Guest: Katherine Kurtz. • Artist Guest of Honor: Rob Eggleton. Graphic by Susan C. Akin The dealer’s room will be open Thursday from 2 p.m. to 8 p.m., Fri day from 10 a.m. to 8 p.m., Saturday from 10 a.m. to 8 p.m. and Sunday from 9 a.m. to 1 p.m. in 224 MSC. Rich said there will be an art show on the second floor of the MSC that is free to the public. “There will be science Fiction art at a reasonable price,” Rich ec- plained. “It will be good art that is inexpensive.” Along with the art show, movies also will be shown. The convention will offer nine movies, Rich said. A special sneak preview of “Bad Dreams” will be shown Thursday at 7:30 p.m. Rich said “Bad Dreams” is a hor ror and suspense film that is sched uled to be released next weekend. “There will be only 600 tickets available for the sneak preview,” Rich said. “The people who pur chase AggieCon passes will get tick ets to the preview.” All other tickets available will go on sale at 5 p.m. at the ticket office in Rudder Tower, Rich said. The other movies scheduled for Thursday are “RoboCop” at 9:45 p.m. and “A Clockwork Orange” at midnight. Friday movies will be “Heavy Metal” at 7:30 p.m., “Fire and Ice” at 9:45 p.m. and “Wizards” at mid night. Saturday movies are “Running Man” at 7:30 p.m., “Predator” at 9:45 p.m. and “Terminator” at mid night. While waiting for a movie to start, Rich, a junior chemistry major, said comic book artists, writers and artists from Texas and Oklahoma also will attend. The comic artists include Scott McCullar, the creator of “Warped” which can been seen daily in The Battalion; Tom Tenney, the Robo- tech illustrator, and Ben Dunn, artist and creator of the comic book “Ninja School.” .Student tickets for the whole con vention are $ 10 and a one-day pass is $5. Non-student prices are $14 for the whole convention and $6 for a one-day pass. There will be special events that include a banquet and Quest. “Quest is a role playing game that will include magic spells and mystical monsters,” Camp said. Tickets for Quest are $4 and tick ets for the banquet are $10. Both can be purchased through Ticketron in the lobby of Rudder Tower. Rich said there will be dances Fri day and Saturday night. The Friday night dance is a ’50s and ’60s sock- hop at 8 p.m. in 201 MSC. A masquerade ball will take place Saturday at 9 p.m. in 201 MSC, she said. "Media firm tries to avoit hostile buyo DALLAS (AP) — Direciii the A.H. Belo Corn, medil have created multiple cbl stock with differential I rights in au attempt to irJ hostile takeover attempt! difficult. Officials from Belo, J company of the Dallas Ml News and WFAA-TV, said! day they knew of no ofil purchase the conipaiiywl hostile takeover attempts! works. Rather, they said, thciil were made as a defensive!! ver. Details were mailed!#! holders Tuesday, and the! slated for vote at the coibI May 4 annual meeting. The plan calls for twonl ries of common stock tobel — a Series B common stodj no more than 10 votesperj and a Series C conunotil which will carry not lessth ! tenth vote per share. 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