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he Battalion TATE & LOCAL 3 uesday, March 6,1990 MA&M drill team claims top honors brushes r houses, latine hand its that e itionim tttscreai Jgiesto* ped fro; fi'omthi 'tide th; have (I help! may see; hemseh ‘in gaine ivaln lent ask tos; 1 me, afti d u pi- last cam- I you ournalii V y DAPHNE MILLER )fThe Battalion Staff The Texas A&M Freshman Drill Team took irst place overall Saturday in a Tulane Univer ity drill team competition in New Orleans. Justin Hood, senior adviser of the drill team, tid the group won first place in the inspection nd platoon basic phase, the platoon exhibition base and the individual exhibition phase. They won second place in squad basic phase, ic said. Twenty ROTC drill teams attended the lompetition. Tne inspection and platoon basic phase in- olves three squadrons and their commanding officers and is judged on basic marching com mands and weapon drill. The squad basic phase is the same but involves only one squadron. The third phase, platoon exhibition, consists of blocks of four squadrons, with six cadets in each and their commanding officers. Squadrons march in front of judges for seven to nine min utes. They are graded on complexity, originality and difficulty. One cadet performs drills during the individ ual exhibition phase. John White, a freshman en vironmental design major from Denton who is in Squadron 1, won first place. The drill team travels to competitions throughout the school year. This competition in cluded drill teams from Auburn University, North Georgia University and the University of Florida at Jacksonville. “We are proud of them,” Hood said. “They usually do well at competitions.” Upperclassmen were members of other drill teams at the Tulane competition, but the A&M drill team is made up of freshmen. Hood said that, for this reason, the drill team should receive special recognition. The drill team practices every weekday af ternoon and on Saturdays. The team will sponsor a competition March 24 in the Zachry parking lot. Ten teams will attend. Rodeo sellout strengthens city economy HOUSTON (AP) — Houston Livestock Show and Rodeo offi cials are pointing to seven sellouts in an enlarged Astrodome and record high prices for the grand champion and reserve champion steers as proof the city’s economy is again strong. "If the rest of the nation had it in their mind that we were down, they better have it in their mind thai Houston is back,” Dan Gattis, general manager of the livestock show, said Sunday after winding up a two-week run. Gattis said livestock show offi cials already are preparing for their next bash, a special rodeo in July for world leaders arriving in Houston for the International Economic Summit hosted by President Bush. The just-completed rodeo, in an Astrodome enlarged in the last year by 6,736 seats, attracted /84,483 people, up 9.2 percent from a year ago. Overall livestock [show attendance grew to 1.32 pillion, a jump of 6.6 percent. Seven rodeo performances opped the 50,000-spectator itark, including the 55,983 i>eo- ile Saturday night who jammed he stadium to set an indoor ro- eo attendance record. Class of 1990 casts votes for senior gift preference Students may choose from six options this week By ANDYKEHOE Of The Battalion Staff Voting for the senior class gift began Monday and will continue through Friday from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. in the MSC Flagroom and the foyer of the Blocker Build ing. Only seniors in the Glass of’90 may cast a vote. Seniors may vote for up to two of the following gifts. The six choices this year include: • A new ceremonial mace (a staff with a metal head) to be used in the graduation ceremony. • An endowed gift to the Texas A&M Muster. Mus ter is considered to be an expensive traditon, and money would be given to cover some of the cost. • An endowed gift to the Sterling C. Evans Library. • An endowed opportunity award (scholarships, eli gibility requirements to be decided later). • Money to improve the campus lighting, with money to maintain tne new lighting. • An environmental memorial donation (a tree plan ting with a plaque). Gift suggestions were taken from the senior class and school administrators. Preliminary research was done on all suggestions by the Glass of ’90 Gift Committee. The suggestions were eventually narrowed down to the remaining six. “A lot of the gift suggestions were too expensive,” Kristin Hay, Class of’90 Gift Chair, said. “Also, a lot of them dealt with the MSC, which is not very accessible due to construction.” The senior class gift is paid for by the senior class, with most of the money coming from Senior Weekend, the Ring Dance, the Howdy Dance, Senior Bash, pri vate donations and T-shirt sales. “All of the money that you make through the year, you put back into the University in the form of a gift,” Hay said. Last year’s senior class gifts were the class ring statue on display in the MSC Flagroom and an endowment to “ A A^ll of the money that you make through the year, you put back into the University in the form of a gift.” Bryan police search for burglary suspects Two men “jimmied” the lock of a Bryan Police Department patrol car door and stole a moving radar unit valued at $1,800, according to a Crime Stoppers report. The report says the crime oc curred at 3:20 a.m. Feb. 2 in the 2400 block of Memorial Drive in Bryan. A witness saw a vehicle drive slowly through a parking lot and stop adjacent to a Bryan pa trol car that was parked for the night. The witness observed two men get out of the vehicle and ap proach the patrol car. The men quickly “jimmied” the door locks and removed the K-band moving radar unit inside. They drove off toward Broadmoor Street. The witness described the sus pects’ vehicle as a light-colored two-door car, possibly a Ford Es cort. Police officials report the ra dar was a MPHS80 model with the serial number 82567. This week the Bryan Police De- STOPPER warnm—mm—mm 775-tips partment and Crime Stoppers need your help in identifying the person(s) responsible for this bur glary. If you have information that could be helpful, call Crime Stoppers at 775-TIPS. When you call, Crime Stoppers will assign you a special coded number to protect your identity. If your call leads to an arrest and grand jury indictment. Crime Stoppers will pay you up to $1,000 in cash. Crime Stoppers also pays cash for information on any felony crime or the location of any wanted fugitive. Union seeks alternate bargain with Greyhound — Kristin Hay, Class of ’90 gift chair the Evans Library. Other notable senior class gifts include the Eternal Flame from 1983, the Twelfth Man statue in Kyle Field from 1980 and the “Welcome to Aggieland” lettering in Kyle Field from the Class of’88. Hay said the senior gift usually serves two purposes. “You want to give something that will benefit the overall University,” Hay said. “You also want to give something that will serve as a memento of your class.” DALLAS (AP) — The union rep resenting striking Greyhound bus drivers on Monday asked the com- E any to return to the bargaining ta le to end the four-day-old walkout against the United States’ only na tionwide bus system. In another development, sources speaking on condition of anonymity said Greyhound Lines Inc; was los ing some of the drivers it had hired to replace strikers. The strike has been marred by vi olence and vandalism since 6,300 drivers and more than 3,000 office and maintenance workers walked out early Friday. Shots have been fired at buses, and a striking driver was killed Saturday when he was crushed by a bus backing up to get around a picket line. Union officials on Monday sent a message to Greyhound Chairman Fred C. Currey requesting a meeting with him as soon as possible. The message asked Currey to con tact Ed Strait, president of the Amal gamated Council of Greyhound Lo cal Unions, or Jim La Sala, international president of the Amal gamated Transit Union. Greyhound spokesman George Gravley said the company tried but failed to contact La Sala after receiv ing the request Monday, and is again awaiting word from the union. There have been no formal nego tiations since talks broke off early Friday. Strait met briefly Friday night with P. Anthony Fannie, Grey hound’s executive vice president and chief negotiator. Union spokesman Jeffrey Nelson would not say Monday if the drivers had a revised offer to make to the company. ON CAMPUS "Pizzas, trophies and road trips—our Volkswaqens deliver." nessajji id rail* v mud erwM an re torn ge thi ersit' 1 rds ion i ate ^ linion* fight iolog) oc/atf r visor 1 j! (U '6! Andy and Liza Keene Texas A&M University Andy and Liza Keene, students at Texas A&M, talk about their silver Volkswagen GTI's. "My husband Andy and I bought our first GTI in Texas and drove directly to Boston. A few days later we turned around and headed back to Texas, by way of Arizona. That cross country trip was all it took. We liked the car so muqh we decided to buy a second one." "Volkswagens have a unique feel that no other cars have," explained Andy. And he should know. Andy's been racing his GTI on the Autocross circuit for years and he has a shelf full of trophies to prove it. When Andy isn't racing, he's delivering pizzas to A&M students. "I don't know what's more challenging—racing Autocross or delivering those pizzas before they get cold." Together, the Keenes' Volkswagens have logged over 200,000 miles. They love their GTI's parked side by side. But we don't know how much longer they can keep them together. Right after we took this photo, Andy ran off to look at a new 1990 Jetta GLI 16V. VOLKSWAGEN If you drive a Volkswagen, you might be selected to appear in an ad like the one above. Send your story and a photo to: Volkswagen Testimonials • 187 S. Woodward, Suite 200 • Birmingham, Ml 48009