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Student Services Office and other locations Deadline for return, February 14th Place: THE ASSOCIATION OF FORMER STUDENTS Page 6 The Battalion Wednesday, February 12, it Dual match serves as tune-up for Louisiana road trip Women's tennis takes on UTSj By Chris Whitley The Battalion should be a good tune-up for thoir fKC this weekend in Undefeated and undaunted, the Lady Aggie tennis team will host a dual match with Texas-San Antonio tomorrow at the Omar Smith Tennis Center at 1:30 p.m., weather permitting. The Lady Aggies won their first two dual matches against Southwest Texas State and the University of North Texas. A&M head coach Bobby Kleinecke said that Wednesday's game against UTSA will be the toughest of their young season. "It's kind of a scary team," Kleinecke said. "They're a little scarier than North Texas and Southwest Texas State. We're go ing to have to play well to win.' Kleinecke said the game road trip Louisiana. The Aggies play nationally ranked Louisiana State on Satur UTSA. Staley had back surgery in Jj December, but Kleinecke said; fLJ might be coming back to t soon. "She's been hitting forabot week now," Kleinecke said, x WASHIh ednesds day, and then Southwestern Louisiana on Sunday. With top player Lynn Staley injured, Kleinecke will put either freshman Christine DiNardo or sophomore Janine Burton-Durham at the number one position against can play, but her back is noli rues such a percent, yet. We're hoping! victory over might come back against LSU; {ration in t Saturday." judge threw The Lady Aggies are a yoy;|pining the s bunch, sporting three fresh® U.S. Dist two sophomores, and one senif ruling in a c but Kleinecke thinks the teamh of Houston, held their own in their first Jon defining matches. Idetermines "We're a little more organ® to be consid on our strategy now," hesaj! ited to smal "Our singles has been prettyd|capricious ai pendable, so far, but ourdoutl still needs some work. If oursfl gles come out and do a good we'll play well." I The issue :om, which ependent c A&M-Houston rescheduled for national TV Front Staff and 'Wire Reports Texas A&M has agreed to move it's Oct. 10 game against the University of Houston back to Nov. 12 to accomodate a national television broadcast by ESPN. The game will be a Thursday night telecast and will be one of four A&M games next season seen by a national television audience. A&M Athletic Director John David Crow and head football coach R. C. Slocum said moving the game will bring national atten tion to A&M and to the Southwest Conference. "We are making a continuous effort to increase our national ex posure at Texas A&M, as well as the exposure for the Southwest Conference," Crow said. "We felt this move would be beneficial in that respect." In January, A&M announced two ABC-TV television dates. The Aggies will open the 1992 season against Stanford on Aug. 26 in the Disneyland Pigskin Classic. On Sept. 5, A&M will play LSU in Ba ton Rouge, La., in front of a na tional audience. The Aggies will play the Uni versity of Texas on Nov. 26 on ESPN. Slocum said he was excifoll that A&M will have the op; . J DALLAS nities to play on national tete, geems are j € sion. "It's great to open thes«aso; on national television again! Stanford in the Pigskin Classical, adding the national ESPN casts of Houston and Texas help our national exposure." Last season, A&M appears on national five times. A&Mi feated Baylor 34-12 on ABC. Hf Aggies defeated TCU, Arkansai and Texas in front in garni broadcast on ESPN. A&M lost:. Florida State in the Cotton broadcast by CBS. Sorties upend Rockets, 105-99 SEATTLE (AP) — Eddie Johnson hit the go-ahead basket with 56 seconds left and Ricky Pierce added four clinching free throws, helping the Seattle Su~ perSonics defeat the Houston Rockets 105-99 on Tuesday night. Pierce scored 16 of his 31 points in the fourth quarter and K lfJI dt early in the final period. Shawn Kemp also keyed the comeback by scoring 10 of his 14 points in the final period. Hakeem Olajuwon of the Rockets was 16-for-22 from the field and finished with a season- high 40 points and 19 rebounds. Robinson's 23 propels Spurs over Celtics SMU continues A&M's skid SAN ANTONIO (AP) - David Robinson scored 23points and dominated Robert Parish in the middle as the San Antonio Spurs cruised to a 100-M victory over Boston on Tuesday Celtics' lowest point total ofi?/ American r urging — Bu] As the 75 National Au sedation er expressed st American fe 1 But more fused by it , dered help apanese trac "It's disaj art Rappapi from Albuq simple sole problem and Lawyei study 1 Continued from Page 5 defense on the Aggies for a 25-15 lead at intermission. A&M's previ ous low for a first half this season was 18 points against Missouri. The Aggies shot only 22 per cent in the first 20 minutes and Ed wards missed all nine of his field goal attempts. A&M snot 28 percent from the field for the game to 36 percent for SMU. Edwards, who was averaging 18 points per game, made only 3 of 18 shots from the field. Corey Henderson added eight p>oints for A&M before he fouled out. A&M's defense held SMU without a field goal for the last 9:24 of the game. “We've had some pretty games and lost, so I'll take an ugly win/' said SMU coach John Shu mate. 'They were extremely delib erate and held the ball and held the ball." "It was an ugly game to play in," said SMU guard Gerald Lewis. “They played a good matchup zone and we couldn't hit our shots. They are very well coached." season. San Antonio led by as manp 24 points in the fourth quarter,as Robinson outscored Parish by 11 points and outrebounded him 15- 6. Parish alsc Robinson Aggies can't look past Mustangs, Hickey says had eight turnovers. Parish scored 30 points and grabbed rebounds in the Celtics' victory over San Antonio at the Boston Garden. Reggie Lewis was Boston's leading scorer on with 22 points, Continued from Page 5 11.2 points and seven rebounds a game. The Lady Aggies lead the overall series 19-7. The last time that SMU defeated A&M was in 1988. Hickey knows what her team must do to defeat the Lady Mus tangs again. "SMU is a real fine team," she said. 'They have a good mixture of outside and inside players. Last time, we didn't take very good control of the ball." In the last contest, the Lady ries committed 24 turnovers. Hickey said she worries about A&M's state of mind going into tonight's game. ,y We can't go into this game without showing respect for SMU," she said. "Mentally, we have to go in with a good atti tude." A&M is led by senior forward Dena Russo. Russo leads the team in scoring and rebounding with 14.7 points a game and 7.3 boards. Russo was named Sports Illustrat ed Player of the Week two weeks ago. Guard Sheri Dillard is averag ing 10 points a game. SMU is led by a trio of players. Vicki Walterscheid leads the Mus tangs, scoring 13.5 points a game. Shannel Thomas and Missy Parker are both averaging 13 points a game. Tuesday night while Dee Brown had 13. Anderson added 15 points for till Spurs. San Antonio scored the firsi eight points of the third quarter to take a 58-40 lead. Boston used 12-2 rally late in the quarter, eled by eight points by Joe Kleine, to get within 69-61. But a 7-0 run by the Spurs lowed, leaving Boston behind 76- 61 with 11:40 to play. An 8-0 burst made it 94-71 with 3:21 left. San Antonio led 50-40 at the half, using a 13-4 run late in the second quarter to turn a 37-32 lead into a 50-36 advantage. Sean Elliott led the Spurs with 11 first-half points, all in the first quarter. Ed Pinckney and Lewis paced Boston, which shot just 43 percent from the field in the’ with 10 points apiece. After a 15-game absence due to a tear in his right calf muscle, Kevin McHale returned to action but missed six of his seven shots and was 0-for-2 from the foul line to finish with two points, INDIAN/ the Mike Ty: tim's story th fense's stor} boxer was mouthed w who could n< hands to him: Perhaps tl strategy bac perhaps his simply made vincing a cas who followei said Tuesday, Or perhaj jury said aftc had a better c "The 'ere makes sense i said Dan Cap analyst for K( Andro Continued from Page 5 Look at Mike Tyson. Every ' be that way. Back in the 1920's, there was a talented American tennis player named Bill Tilden. He won Wimbeldon and several other major titles. But what the public didn't know back then was that Tilden was gay. He was arrested and put in jail for trying to buy the services of a young boy. Every medium that covered Tilden knew what was going on. The difference was, they didn't see any purpose in dragging his name through the mud. My, how times have changed. Today, whatever an athlete does is held up to the public's eye. Thanksgiving, the boxer hands out turkeys to needy families. If you don't believe it, all you have to do is turn on the news. Does the media find it that hard to be lieve that Tyson is capable of charitable acts? Now, with his recent rape conviction, it seems that every woman that has been involved in his life has claimed he beat or raped them. Of course, they wait until the cameras are rolling be fore they start talking. Then there is Magic Johnson. After he tested positive for the HIV virus, everyone talked about how he will change the way peo ple view AIDS. Not much has been made of the fact that he got the virus because he had unpro tected sex. Is that the kind of f xerson you want your kid to be ike? Maybe the media is doing the right thing in Johnson's case. By only focusing on the positive, maybe people will notice how dangerous the virus is. Maybe it really doesn't matter how he ac- S iired the virus as long as some- ing is done about it. What about Oakland outfield er Jose Canseco? Who cares if he got a speeding ticket or if he might have spent some quality time with Madonna? Is it any one's business but his? There is a fine line between what is news and what is not news. There is a fine line between being an athlete and a human be ing. 1 Quallfie techniqu required contact F m Si c Fa< Mr Pres Cisr Wedi