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Crown & Seven , Jaeger, Cuervo, KamiKazi Shots, N and Draft, Longnecks Doors open at 10:00 pm s *excluding pitchers At + ‘TU'IO'KJXG AFTER SPRING BREAK SCHEDULE Tickets will be on sale Sunday 3/20 6-8 p.m. Bill’s Mon. 3/21 Tue. 3/22 Wed. 3/23 Thur. 3/24 3 p.m. CHEM. 102 CH 19 CHEM. 102 CH 20 CHEM. 102 CH 28, 29 CHEM. 102 Practice Exams 3 5 p.m. CHEM. 101 CH 7 CHEM. 101 CH 8 CHEM. 101 CH 9 CHEM. 101 Practice Exams 3 7 p.m. CHEM. 102 CH 19 CHEM. 102 CH 20 CHEM. 102 CH 28, 29 CHEM. 102 Practice Exams 3 9 p.m. CHEM. 102 CH 19 CHEM. 102 CH 20 CHEM. 102 CH 28, 29 CHEM. 102 Practice Exams 3 11 p.m. CHEM. 102 CH 19 CHEM. 102 CH 20 CHEM. 102 CH 28, 29 CHEM. 102 Practice Exams 3 Art’s Mon. 3/21 Tue. 3/22 Wed. 3/23 6 p.m. 9 p.m. ACCT. 230 Test Review Dave’s MATH. 142 3/22, 10 p.m. - 12 a.m. 9 p.m. 12 a.m. MATH 151 Review I 7 p.m. 10 p.m. MATH 151 Review II MATH 151 Review HI State & Local Page 2 The Battalion Wednesday, March9, Campus News Briefs A&M students place in construction contest Six Texas A&M students won second place in a national construction manage ment competition held at the National As sociation of Home Builders' annual con vention last month. The winning team consisted of Karin Bretthauer, David Teel, Rhett Bain, Stephen Knight, Peter Stein and Warren Stromberg. Off Campus Housing Fair runs today in MSC More than 50 property management companies and service providers will be at the Off Campus Housing Fair Wednes day from 10 a m. to 3;30 p.m. in the MSC. The event is sponsored by the Off Campus Aggies and the Off Campus Cen ter. Prizes will be given at the event as well. College of Engineering offers new scholarship Joe and Patty Mueller of Corpus Christi have endowed an undergraduate scholarship in support of the College of Engineering's Phase One Program. The Mueller's, who recently presented the first $20,000 of their $100,000 pledge, serve on the College of Engineering Exter nal Advisory and Development Council . Institute holds meeting on decision-making Texas A&M's Military Studies Institute will sponsor a symposium titled "Deci sion Making on War & Peace: The Cogni tive-Rational Debate" Thursday and Fri day in Room 292 of Rudder Tower. Alex Mintz, professor of political sci ence and director of the Program in For eign Policy Decision Making, will coordi nate the symposium. The symposium will be from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. on Thursday and from 9 a.m. to 12 p.m. Friday. APO helps University recycle phone books Brazos Valley Beautiful will sponsor a telephone book recycling drive this week. Students and faculty members wanti ng to donate their old phone books can drop them off at the Alpha Phi Omega office in the Koldus Building. Local elementary schools are partici pating in the contest to see who can do nate the most phone books. Phone books given to APO will be di vided evenly among the schools, and the school that gets the most phone books will receive a cash prize. Organizers expect more than 50 tons of phone books to be donated. Storm Continued from Page 1 in West and North Texas reduced what already was expected to be a low voter turnout. "Historically, voter turnout tends to be low in bad weather and that's certainly a concern today as well," Bell said. Hotz said the storm could spawn thun derstorms and possible tor patios as, it moved southeast through Texas.' j Any moisture was a welcome sight in the Panhandle, where crops in fields were drier than normal. "Most of the wheat farmers are probably jumping for joy," Hotz said. "We needed it pretty bad." A cold front was positioned across the state on Tuesday. High pressure over the southeast maintained a flow of low level moisture into South Texas and up over the front into North Texas. Low clouds covered North Texas, along with patches of fog and drizzle, on Tuesday. Scattered showers dampened North Central Texas. The National Weather Service issued a winter storm watch for the western parts of North Texas for late Tuesday night and ear ly Wednesday. The affected area is general ly northwest of a line through Abilene, East- land, Mineral Wells and Bowie. The weather service said snow flurries ary possible on Wednesday from the Pan handle to the Midland-Odessa area and be yond, with 1 highs in the 30s in the Panhan dle. North Texas had grey skies with inter mittent rain and dropping temperatures on Tuesday. Western portions of North Texas are under a winter storm watch through Wednesday. The weather service said total snow accumulations of 3 to 5 inches are pos sible Wednesday morning in the west and 1 to 3 inches of snow elsewhere. UT athlete seeks damag after alleged initiationij partially paralyzes him The Associated Press AUSTIN — Freshman Dusty Dunfieldwe the University of Texas on a track scholar- hoping to become a star runner. Now he'shi; just to be able to walk. As part of an alleged track team initiation! Dunfield dove into a shallow campus fount He broke his neck in the August incidentandl tors feared he would he paralyzed forever, Dunfield, 19, is back home in Brenham regained use of his hands and feet, but he'llne run again. "It's pretty tragic," said attorney BillWlii hurst of Austin. Whitehurst is trying to obtain a settle® from the state, UT, four track team members; at least two fraternities for unspecified dami; on behalf of Dunfield. No lawsuit has beenfilec Whitehurst blames the four track team mi hers for proposing that Dunfield jump intol fountain. He also accuses them of taking theta ager to a party, where the fraternities servedal hoi, which would make both liable for Dunfi being drunk at the time of the incident. Hazing, which is illegal, has long been a p: lem among fraternities at UT. In 1992, attenr was drawn to initiation among athletic ten when several male swim team members^; found smeared with peanut butter and wean diapers. According to Whitehurst, Dunfield wast; new track team members would have to diver an area lake from a cliff. As Dunfield and the four track team meml were walking back from the party where Dunfi had about a dozen beers, the track team mem! 1 gave him the option of diving into the fountain stead, the attorney said. "Everyone urged him to do it," Whitehi said. "They knew he was intoxicated." The fraternities that allegedly threw the par! were Delta Chi and Delta Sigma Phi. Atli Greek organization also may have been involv but which one has not been determined, Whi hurst said. The presidents of those two fraternities' they had no comment. There was no immedilf comment from the four track members allegeij involved. School president Robert Berdahl did notiH diately return a telephone call from The Associ ed Press Tuesday. "It's up to the plaintiff's attorney toeitherfi lawsuit or request a meeting," said/fan Di/sej spokesman in the attorney general's office. "We'll be happy to meet with thembutL does not mean there is any liability on thesla; part just because we met with them. We're alw willing to get together and meet with them to cuss the issues." Whitehurst said he hopes to reach a settlenif J but he expects it to be difficult because the case 1 volves multiple issues with several parties. "I think we have a solid case," said Wb hurst, who has sued two other fraternities over leged hazing incidents. 3ft FLOPPY Joe’S Soffwo.Ee % t o r~ it We have New & Used Software! 3ft v‘; uft FREE one year membership with this coupon expires: 03-31-94 Gol a CD Rom Drive? We RENT IBM and MAC CD's!! 3A 1705 Texas Ave., Culpepper Plaza $ Need Cash $ For Spring Break? Come get a fast, confidential loan at: College Station Pawn * No Credit Check & State Regulated * * Aggie Owned & Operated * 2316 S. 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