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FREE Passes to Aggiecon XX
The oldest and one of the Largest Science Fiction/Fantasy
Conventions in the Southwest United States.
By working at Aggiecon 20, you can earn up to two full convention passes.
The best part is that you can work whatever hours and events that you wish.
Panels :
Thursday
Friday :
Saturday
Sunday
Character vs. Plot I, Why?, How To Get Into Comics, How Sci-Fi Conventions Have Changed.
How To Sell Artwork, Alien Anthropology, Star Trek - You Be The Star, Writing Under An Alias, Differences in
Style, Deadtime Stories, Brad Foster - slide show, Starlog’s Birthday Movie, Battlestate I & II (movies).
Comic GOH - Chris Claremont, Special GOH - Octavia Butler, Character vs. Plot II, How to Get Published,
Minorities/Women in Sci-Fi, Violence in Sci-Fi, Writing - Comics vs. Books. Comics as a Viable Artform,
What Would You Do Different With Star Trek : TNG?, Battlestate I & II, Starlog’s Birthday Movie.
How to be Published, Influences and Inspirations, Coming up at Marvel, NASA, Working with your spouse.
There are also readings by the various authors throughout the convention.
Movies :
Thursday :
Friday :
Saturday afternoon
Saturday evening :
Sunday:
The Yellow Submarine, Excalibur
Star Trek II, HI, IV
The Wizard of Oz
Raiders of the Lost Ark, Blade Runner,
Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom
Excalibur
Other Areas :
Art Show, Dealers' Room, Party Room, Video Room,
Lazer Tag, Gaming, Quest, Masquerade Ball,
Drench the Wench, Japanimation,
Warren Norwood Charity Auction,
Box Office, Headquarters.
15 hours worked =
20 hours worked =
1 full convention pass
2 full convention passes
For more information please come to our worker's meeting :
8:30 p.m. Tuesday, March 28, 1989
Room 701 Rudder Tower
sponsored by MSC Cepheid Variable
The Association of
Former
Students
Spring Senior
Induction Banquet
Tuesday & Wednesday, April 4 & 5, 1989
6:30 p.m.
MSC
All May and Aug. graduates are invited to attend. Free tickets will be available
as long as they last, Tues. March 28, Wed. March 29 and Thurs. March 30 in
the MSC, near the Flag Room.
This is your invitation to attend the formal induction of Class of ’89 graduates.
Dec. grads will be inducted in Nov.
TICKETS GIVEN ON FIRST COME—FIRST SERVED BASIS
Page 10 The Battalion Tuesday, March 28
What’s Up
Tuesday
MSC WILEY LECTURE SERIES: Clement Henry will discuss U.S. policy in, ho
Middle East at 7 p.m. in 701 Rudder.
THE PLACEMENT CENTER: Leopold, Price and Rolle will present currentm
porate fashions at 5 p.m. in 225 MSC.
RUSSIAN CLUB: will meet at 6:30 p.m. at the Flying Tomato.
HONORS STUDENT COUNCIL: will have pre-registration from 6 a.m. - 6 p.m in
the Honors office.
HART HALL: will have a bike auction from noon to 3 p.m. at Rudder Fountain
PI SIGMA EPSILON: will have registration for the 1989 Scavenger Huntfromc
a.m. - 4 p.m. in the MSC.
MARANATHA CAMPUS MINISTRIES: will present a Rock-n-Roll Expose at
7-30 p m. at the College Station Community Center.
ON CAMPUS CATHOLICS: will discuss what it means to be of a different faith
at 9 p.m. at All Faiths Chapel.
LE CERCLE LE FRANCAIS: will meet at 8:30 p.m. in 125 Academic.
STUDENT ORGANIZATION FUNDING WORKSHOP: will be at 4 p m. in5to
Rudder for eligible student organizations.
COCAINE ANONYMOUS: will meet at 8:30 p.m. Call the C.D.P.E. at 8450280
for more information.
ALCOHOLICS ANONYMOUS: will meet at noon. Call the C.D.P.E at 84 5 0280
for more information.
Wednesday
STUDENT ORGANIZATION FUNDING: Eligible student organizations are in
vited to apply for funding assistance by completing a request form in the Student
Finance Center, 217 MSC by 4 p.m. Friday.
TAMU ASSOCIATION OF FORMER STUDENTS: Free tickets for the senior in
duction dinners are available in the MSC flag room.
AGGIE PEER ORIENTATION PROGRAM: will have an information sessionlo
discuss orientation positions in 401 Rudder. Applications are due Friday.
MSC WILEY LECTURE SERIES: William Crawford, former ambassador to Ye
men Arab Republic and Cyprus, will speak about “Islam: Culture and Religion”at
7 p.m. in 206 MSC.
MUSTER AWARENESS WEEK: Stop by and find out more about Muster from
10 a.m. - 5 p.m. in the MSC.
AGGIE DEMOCRATS: will meet at 8:30 p.m. in 410 Rudder.
MSC POLITICAL FORUM: will have a general committee meeting at 7 p.m.in
601 Rudder.
AGGIES ABROAD CLUB: Dr. Carolyn Adair will discuss travel opportunities in
Italy at 7 p.m. in 407 Rudder.
MARCH OF DIMES: will be accepting donations in the MSC and Duncan Dinino
Hall. I :,!■
STUDENTS AGAINST APARTHEID: will meet at 7 p.m. in 507 Rudder.
CATHOLICS ON THE QUAD: will discuss “Problems of the occult: witchcraft
and supernatural events at 9 p.m. in Lounge B on the quad.
NEWMAN: will have a special liturgy and midweek study break at 7:30 p.m.a!
St. Mary’s Student Center.
S.O.T.A.: will meet to accept nominations for officers for the fall at 7 p.m. at Bra
zos Landing.
SOCIETY OF PROFESSIONAL JOURNALISTS: will meet at 7 p.m. in 014
Reed McDonald.
RHA PRESIDENT’S ROUND TABLE: will meet at 8:30 p.m. in 704 Rudder
OBJECTIVIST CLUB: will show a movie at 8:30 p.m. in 407 Rudder.
EPISCOPAL STUDENT CENTER: will have Holy Eucharist at 6:15 p.m. and a
supper following at the Episcopal Student Center.
NARCOTICS ANONYMOUS will meet at 8:30 p.m. Call the C.P.D.E. for more
information.
RECREATIONAL SPORTS: will have registration from 8 a.m. - 5:30 p.m. in 159
Read for the following: Penberthy softball tournament, rock-climbing trip, pickle-
ball doubles and a kayak workshop.
Items for What's Up should be submitted to The Battalion, 216 Reed McDonald,
no later than three business days before the desired run date. We only publish
the name and phone number of the contact if you ask us to do so. Whafs Up is
a Battalion service that lists non-profit events and activities. Submissions are run
on a first-come, first-served basis. There is no guarantee an entry will run. If you
have questions, call the newsroom at 845-3315.
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United States Military Academy is
legendary for producing such all-
American war heroes as Ulysses S.
<9 rant, Douglas MacArthur and
Dwight 1). Eisenhower. But the
“country” in West Point’s motto
“Duty, Honor, Country” does not
necessarily mean the United States.
For the past century, West Point
also has been a training ground for
luture generals of foreign armies —
dictatorships as well as democracies.
Soldiers like Filipino General Fi
del Ramos, the late Nicaraguan dic-
tatoi Anastasio Somoza and pre-rev
olutionary Chinese Army Gen. Ying
Hsing Wen marched out of West
Point’s storied Long Gray Line to
play key historical roles.
This year’s foreign plebes come
trom Bohvia, Guatemala, Lebanon,
Liberia, Malaysia, the Philippines,
Malawi, Singapore, Jordan, Turkey
and Zimbabwe. Currently, 30 for
eign cadets are training at West
Point from Bangladesh; Haiti, Sene
gal, Cameroon, Liberia and Bot
swana, among other places.
better allies,” says Lt. Col. John S*i
ney, associate director of admissioi
at die U.S. Air Force Academy.
Natee Wongissares, a senior froi
Bangkok, Thailand, agrees that'
countries have benefited IromTh
land’s cadets at West Point.
“In the future these people(W
Point graduates) have a tendencytfl
ward t he United States,” theThaitt
det says. “They can affect tl
relationship between the two coun
tries for a better relationship, thef
will work together.”
Unstable political climates in soil*
Third World countries, "l' ert
change is more apt to take the for®
of a coup than a democratic vote,
have created unusual situations to
West Point graduates.
Capt. Moises Cortizo, Class ol
We try to keep
standards for foreign
cadets exactly the same as
U.S. citizens.”
Once approved by the secretary of
defense, a nation’s politics or rela
tions with the United States are not
considered in judging an applicant’s
merits, says Capt. Robin Carrington
admissions officer for foreign ca
dets. 0
“We do not deal with philosophy ”
Carrington says. “We try to keep
standards lor foreign cadets exactly
the same as U.S. citizens.”
r- i T a e u e . are c ^ dets from countries
ruled by hard-line dictators who do
not to erate dissent or hold elections
as well as from countries with demo-
UnS;e/s, V atS. mentS ' hat ° f the
I he purpose of educating foreign
cadets at West Point, according to®a
Congressional report, ^ ■
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foreign admissions
office
1980,
Panamanian
„ j? T is to build
rnmrn a "i d eXpose future foreign
military leaders to American ideals
especially m developing nations
where the United States^ seeks to
promote stability. ,
Annapolis and the Air Force Aca-
ead^miht 6 Slmila r P ro g ra ms. By law,
each military academy is allowed 40
foreign cadets at a time. At the mo
amUhc N AU P °T e Academ y ha s 37
and the Navy academy, 32.
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strongman Manuel Antonm
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since his indictment by an Am
grand jury on drug mif 1C 1
charges last year. r i ss 0 f
Ricardo Ernesto Castro, 0
1973, sought political asylum
United States after testifying
Congress about his activiU es
leader of a Salvadoran death SC 1 r
Anastasio Debayle Soino za ’ s
the original Nicaraguan 1
Anastasio Somoza, was g iven . J
mand of the Nicaraguan
guard when he g raduaie , „ n to
West Point in 1946. He wen ^
succeed his father as presi e
fore the Sandinista Revolu
ended that regime. ^ comp e|
Foreign cadets uw “.’, sail
against American candidate
academy spokesman ^ naiea ne cif-
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cadets. They have to meet y*
basic criteria as a cadet hei e " t |, e
At West Point all cadt,tS .»(jrest
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