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► OFF CAMPUS CENTER
► OFF CAMPUS AGGIES
► LOUPOT'S CONNECTION
a □ o □ a a ——
TODAY-TODAY - TODAY
Housing Fair ’88
helps you
void the Mad
Dash
with information on housing and
services for life off campus
10 a.m. to 4 p.m.,
Rudder Exhibit Hall
April 8-10 Parents’ Weekend
•April 8 RHA Casino, 7:30 p.m., MSC
Century Singers Spring Concert, 8:00 p.m.. Rudder
Auditorium
MSC Variety Show, 7:30 p.m., Rudder Auditorium
•April 9 OCA Parents’ Picnic, 3:00 p.m. off Campus Center
Singing Cadets Spring Concert, 8:00 p.m.. Rudder
Auditorium
Air Show, 1:00 - 3:00 p.m., Easterwood Airport
•April 10 Parents’ Award Ceremony, 9:00 a.m.. Rudder
Tower
All Faith Chapel Service, 11:00 a.m.
Ross Volunteers, 1:00 p.m., Kyle Field
Fish Drill Team, 3:15 p.m., Kyle Field
Cavalry Performance, 4:30 p.m., Simpson Drill Field
So... Do You Want Your Security
Deposit Back?
Then follow these steps:
1. Write a letter of intent of vacancy at least 30 days prior
to the end of the lease.
2. Make sure that all your roommates on the lease sign
this letter as well.
3. Give the letter to your manager and keep a copy signed
by the manager. If you prefer to send the letter by
mail, use certified mail with return receipt requested.
4. Pay all rent owed until the end of the lease.
5. Give your forwarding address in writing to your man
ager.
6. Vacate the apartment according to your lease
agreement.
7. Clean the apartment according to your lease
agreement.
8. Inspect the apartment with your manager.
9. Wait 30 days to receive your security deposit back.
10. If you don’t receive your security deposit back after
30 days, call or visit the manager to remind him/her of
the return of your security deposit.
11. Write a letter to the manager, reminding him/her of
your security deposit. Have your manager sign your
copy. If you prefer to send the letter by mail, use certi
fied mail with return receipt requested.
12. Wait 30 days more.
13. If you fail to receive your security deposit back, stop
by the Off Campus Center, at Puryear Hall (across the
street from the YMCA building) or call for an appoint
ment (845-1741).
Hey Off Campus Ags!
If your lease ends in May, be sure to give your apartment
manager a 30 day written notice of your intent to vacate
the apartment, even if you are renewing your lease for
the fall. Come by the Off Campus Center located in Pur
year Hall or call 845-1741 if you have any questions.
Acknowledgement
Loupot’s Bookstore at Northgate (across from the Post Office) and in Redmond Terrace (beside Academy) sponsored the Off Campus
Connection.
From Mr. Loupot: “We buy back your used books at the best prices in town. Thank you for your patronage of my two stores.”
Stories and artwork are provided by the Off Campus Center. Editor: Erika Gonzalez-Lima
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Jury deliberates about sedition case
FORT SMITH, Ark. (AP) —
An all-white jury continued delib
erations for the second day in a
case in which nine men are ac
cused of trying to overthrow the
government and set up an all-
white nation in the northwest.
Lawyers — 10 of whom are
court-appointed at $60 an hour
each for several defendants —
killed time in the courtroom by
dictating memos into tape-re
corders, dozing, reading and
briefly sitting in the jury box and
imitating some of the 192 wit
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Defendant Robert E. %
who is f ree on $50,000bond,
he would have come to the in]
any event.
Richard G. Butler, alsoji
fendant, said the trial isatnon
the government to snuff
views that do not meet with
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butler, Miles and foij
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Police find skulls in man’s home,yart
KANSAS CITY, Mo. (AP) — A
man whose business cards said he
had “poison” in his head and who
organized a community crime
watch had torture devices in his
house and a human head buried
in his yard, police say.
Police worked Tuesday to dig
up Robert Berdella’s back yard,
where the head was found.
A human skull also was found
in Berdella’s house, police said,
along with another human skull
that appeared to be very old and
was discarded as evidence.
“We’re investigating the possi
bility he may be linked to . . . un
solved cases of missing persons,”
Rick Pilgrim, a police homicide
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Berdella’s secret life caittj
light Saturday after a mainT
police say was held caplinJ
sexually abused by Beicl
leaped out of a second-stoni
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man, who had lash marksoni
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Berdella has been charged
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22-year-old victim had been
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Mayor won’t cite reasons for resign!
LAMBERTVILLE, N.J. (AP)
Three months ago, Mayor
Mary Sheridan stopped attending
council meetings, changed her
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duties.
For the last half-century, Sheri
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Panel says fat consumption too high
WASHINGTON (AP) —
Americans are eating too much
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lations make it difficult for the
food industry to market leaner
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said Tuesday.
Although consumption of ani
mal fat has gone down, many
Americans still are eating their
way to poor health with too much
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and not enough foods that pro
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a report by a committee of the
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Among the diet-related
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Comptroller attacks bank legislation
HOUSTON (AP) — The Com
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“The logic behind this scheme
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Houston.
Under a measure passed last
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High Court denounces airports bans
WASHINGTON (AP) — The
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The justices let rulings stand
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WASHINGTON (AP) —
America’s population is older
than ever, with maturing Baby
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ber of elderly pulling the median
age past 32 years for the first
time, new Census Bureau figures
showed Tuesday.
“The ‘Graying of America’ is . .
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