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New Alpha Chapter, Pre-”Greek Expo” Step Show FRIDAY, DEC. 3rd: 12:00 pm Baptist Student Union 1:00 pm MSC Hospitality Winter 1:30 pm Fashion Show The Texas A&M Singing Cadets **SNOWFLAKE FESTIVAL CRAFT FAIR** DECEMBER 2nd & 3rd - MSC HALLWAY Persons with disabilities please call 845-1515 to inform us of your special needs. We request notification three (3) working days prior to the event to enable us to assist you to the best of our ability. ability. Page 10 The Battalion Wednesday, December 1, GALL Parking garage patrons charged for extra hour Transfer students must fight new ring policy The operators of the North Side Parking Garage have figured out a way to increase their revenue without raising their rates. It's probably illegal but, hey, they need the money, don't they? NOT! Their scam works like this: The entry ma chine stamps the time on your receipt five minutes behind the time on their machine in the booth. If you happen to park in the garage for just a little less than an hour or two or three, you'll get charged for the next hour also, because anything over the hour on the toll booth clock is considered a full hour charge, even though reality says some thing else. What's my evidence? At first I only had a hunch. Every time I entered the garage my receipt indicated a time that was about five minutes behind that on my watch. On several occasions when I checked out of the parking garage at a time that I thought was just under the hourly time lim it, I was charged for an extra hour. A couple of days ago, I started the timer on my watch when I got my parking receipt. When I checked out, my timer said 1 hour 57 minutes. The girl in the booth said that I had been there 2 hours and 2 minutes and hit me up for another hour charge. Could it just be a problem with my watch? No way! Several weeks ago I got a parking receipt from the machine and not more than a minute later I asked the atten dant what time her machine said. Again five minutes' difference. It may not seem like a lot, but everyone who checks out within five minutes of the hour limit is being stuck for another hour charge. Illegal? Probably so. When I transferred to A&M, the policy to order senior rings was explained to me and I worked towards this goal. I knew I would fall two hours short of the 30 hours required to or der my ring; I would take the remaining 2 in spring of '94. Aggie ring, here I come. With the new ring policy going intoeSf Jan. 1, all transfer students that hadbt; counting the residency hours will havetols counting; 60 hours will be required. Transfer students were not given theopp tunity to plan for policy change regarding nior ring orders. If I had been advised o: policy change, I sure as HELL would have!; en two more hours this semester. I need your help. If you care to expi your views, as I did, please call or write: Porter Gamer III '79 Associate Executive Director for All® Programs P.O. Box 7368 College Station, TX 77844 yol. 93 N Ron Sk Class of 1 Bonfire fizzles — but Aggie spirit still blazes Dean Merrill Graduate student Lost: One Aggie ring • After reading the letters ridiculing Aggie Bonfire in Tuesday's Mail Call section, I felt that I had to write a response. I was crew chief in Law Hall this year, and it hurt me to hear all the criticism Bonfire received . We put in a full two months of hard work to build the nation's largest tradition, and this year Bonfire was the largest it's been in almost a decade. I worked hard on Bonfire last year, and when it fell within thirty minutes of being lit, I overheard ungrateful Ags saying how we didn't do a good enough job building it. This year, in an effort to keep Bonfire standing longer, not as much fuel was put on it as last year. It turned out that it wasn't enough, but Bonfire did get burning and Center Pole did not fall until midnight. Even though supposedly this signi fies that A&M will win the Cotton Bowl, once again we heard complaints this year, not about how quickly it fell, but about how long it took. We put in so much effort into Bonfire. What you see when it burns is the blood, sweat and tears of fellow Ags. All we ask is that some one appreciates what we have done for our school. Aggie Bonfire is one of the traditions that makes our uni versity so unique, but it only happens when Aggies build it. pole stood 'til midnight, the last three yes people complained that the Bonfire: fast. We beat the hell outta t.u., we're Coin Bowl bound for the third straight year,j! what do you want? In defense of the yell leaders, I've bea all the yell practices and I think Markin been a great head yell leader. I'm sure noon feels worse than he about "The Last Con Trip" recital. Finally, my hat is off to this years rec and all the other pots who did one hel job buildin' the hell outta Bonfire'93 don't sit around and complain, getouttk and help build the hell outta Bonfire 1 )! WHOOP! Robert Vaugh Class of i Howdy Ags! This is a hopeful call to all with Aggie spirit out there. Last week dur ing Elephant Walk my class ring fell off while wrestling with a good buddy of mine. I was told by the kind people at the Alumni Center that many people every year lose their rings. Many are returned, but mine has not been. For those who do not know, each ring has its owner's name engraved inside. I be lieve I lost mine near the north corner of the library. If you have found my ring, or anyone else's, I beg you on the grounds of Aggie honesty to please turn it in to the Alumni Center as soon as you can. Thanks Ags! It's not a non-reg, CT, or freshmen Bonfire. It's an Aggie Bonfire, and I challenge any Ag who felt this year's Bonfire wasn't good enough to put in at least one day at cut and one night at stack next year. You'll see the effort that goes into Bonfire, the friendships it starts, and just what it means to those who have given of themselves to build it. • I am writing inti sponse to the criticism the time it took to light gie Bonfire this year, my opinion, this wasti prettiest Bonfire in yeai It burned evenly andsto; past midnight. Perhaps many Aggi could have enjoyed ith they stayed past thefic attempt to light the fire Aggies that spend me of their time building Bo: fire realize that thero more to Bonfire thanjit Kevin Wang Class of '96 Law Hall crew chief '93 Daniel P. Brown Class of '94 • Hey Ags, what's the deal? I'm tired of the whining and crying about this years Bon fire. I, for one, feel Bonfire '93 was one of the best I've ever witnessed, and I don't need a bunch of two-percenters who only show up to watch it burn tell me otherwise. Center- burning it. Building Bonfire is truly the ms important part. Building Bonfire is where friendsi made and bonds are strengthened. I belie as many of my friends, that the reason Bo fire burns is to clear the field to beginco struction on the next one. I am confident that Aggies who bin Bonfire will agree with me. Those whod agree did not travel tens of thousands miles with me building Bonfire. They: not miss my classes or anger my girlfrid I believe in Bonfire. If you were disappointed in this yea: - Bonfire, perhaps you should have stayed little longer or done more than just show: to watch it burn. St After ; iVednesd upportei onduct a dew of th The en of the dej esponse urred the managem Re Bryan Dierln Class of Brown pot 1 CBS and the Kennedy assassination I t is very distressing to see the latest avalanche of major network documen taries on the assassina tion of John F. Kennedy that present ed themselves as ob jective appraisals of the events in Dallas on november 22,1963. The average viewer not familiar with all the available facts sur rounding the assassi nation would not real ize the reports' general total disregard for im portant evidence. I GUEST COLUMN JAMES R. STANLEY think that if you look at CBS's track record pertaining to the Kennedy Assassina tion, you'll see that not once have they pre sented any program that didn't attempt to vindicate the Warren report. Their recent documentary, "Who Killed JFK? The Final Chapter" was another case of presenting only evidence that support the Warren Report's conclusions or evidence that they can attempt to refute. This is the same CBS that in 1964 had al ready had produced a documentary support ing the Warren Report before the report itself had been published. CBS has lead the way in misinformation about the assassination. To illustrate CBS's journalistic ineptitude, let me run down a few facts that, according to CBS, weren't relevant. First and foremost, Lee Harvey Oswald was given a nitrate test immediately after his arrest to try to deter mine whether he had fired a rifle within the last 24 hours. The test results were negative — he had not fired a weapon. This fact was hidden by the federal government for 10 months and now we can entrust CBS to conceal it. Another fact that apparently wasn't im portant to CBS was that the FBI twice had foreknowledge of the assassination. First, they had a tape recorded conversation on Nov. 9 that an FBI informant had with Joseph Milteer, a right-wing extremist, outlining a plot to kill Kennedy will a high powered rifle from an office building. Hmmm. That sounds strikingly similar to what happened in Dallas. So the FBI made a small error and failed to act. I'll forgive them. But on Nov. 17 the New Orleans office of the FBI received a telexed warning of a plot in Dallas to kill Kennedy. It was ignored once again. Sounds to me like J. Edgar didn't want to take any precautions. But as CBS feels, this probably didn't have relevance. The fact that the FBI could have prevented the assassina tion is not important (sarcasm noted). One more example of reportorial incom petence so skillfully exhibited by CBS was their disregard for the botched autopsy at Bethesda. Not only did the pathologists not have any experience in combat gunfire, but they were professors that hadn't been in the business of conducting autopsies of any sort for quite some time. Under oath Dr. Pierre Finck admitted tbi the FBI had controlled the autopsy andi rected them not to dissect the neck wound Also, in documents released under the Fief dom of Information Act, it is revealed M the pathologists removed an additional build from Kennedy's body This wasn't presented to the Warren Co® mission as evidence. This revelation pletely destroys the Warren Commission Theory of one man, three bullets. We will never know the truth beyond reasonable doubt. The CIA will nevertf [whisked lease incriminating documents. They wil just turn up "missing," as Kennedy's’ did, or accidentally destroyed as other do: Mosernar uments have. But at least when you present the knotf facts about the assassination, tell the whol‘ story. Don't pick and choose which evident 'mands in Reveil first ol Mil tak< SAN i Houston rendered his weapi The gi There ; ney' s Off Army day and ''He v you want to present or just present eviden:; that conveniently supports your theory. OWhave son has done this ever since Nov. 22, 1963. TM mands. F have just perpetuated the cover up. As for the professors who believe it w* the "lone nut" Oswald, I'll be more thanhaf py to debater this with you in an openforu® One warning though — the facts are on® 1 ! side. You'll be stuck having to defend M "magic bullet" theory and other useful# elusions drawn by the Warren commission James R. Staley is a junior business manag Off Campus Aggies 4 *-A is having a general meeting Wednesday, December 1 601 Rudder 8:30 pm The BAGGIEST Pants Win a Groovy Prize! For more info., please call the OCA office at 845-0688 Stmdfy In The m Army pc Pistol, av leave bel her small Army Hg and t Im Spend the first summer session of 1 994 in Pueblo, Mexico studying Latin American culture and advanced Spanish. *Interv music Informational Meeting: Thurs., December 2, 12:30pm in 251 Bizzell Hall West •Lad of h ‘Editoi doors Study Abroad Programs, 16 l Bizzell Hall West, 845-0544