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I Hastings We're Entertainment! ™ # •4 Culpepper Plaza in College Station • Manor East in Bryan mmjk&wmmmAm'vmwmAmwmmmAmwmmBvmA® Campus Page 2 The Battalion Old Ags gather to ‘burn Bevo’ at barbecu Friday, April 15, By Kim McGuire The Battalion When asked about the secret to good barbecue, Frank Abbott, head of the the past Texas A&M Parents of the Year barbecue team, tenses. Is it in the sauce? The meat? The wood? He refuses to say. Abbott, along with eight other teams, will converge upon The Grove Saturday for the sixth annual Burn Bevo Barbecue and they, most likely, won’t be revealing any secrets. Teams from Beaumont, Houston, Midland, Dallas, Brazos County, Bay- town, Canyon Lake, Montgomery County and an assembly or Parents of the Year will be competing for trophies and prizes in best brisket, chili and cook s choice categories Robert Allen, Parents’ Weekend barbecue subchairman, said the Par ents’ Weekend Committee will dis tribute over 1,600 pounds of meat at 6 p.m. Friday. The contestants will cook the meat overnight and begin serving at 11:30 a.m. Saturday. “They really get into it,” Allen said. “Tney’ll bring these big trucks and barbecue pits and park them at “Some of the teams enter barbecue contests across the state and do these kind of things all the time.” - Frank Abbott, head of past Texas A&M Parents of the Year barbecue team The Grove and camp out that night. They really cut loose.” Allen said the barbecue commit tee has eliminated showmanship as an official category and added the cook’s choice category in which contestants can bring whatever they want. “The team from Beaumont usu ally brings crawfish, and we’ve been told one team is going to be bring ing pheasant,” Allen said. “And I think a few of the teams will be bringing sausage for that category.” Despite the elimination of the showmanship category, Allen said the teams get very involved in the presentation of their goods. “A few of the teams have real elaborate set-ups,” Allen said. “The Honesty the best policy? Brownsville man lists job as ‘marijuana carrier’ The Associated Press VICTORIA — A Brownsville man stopped on a traffic violation must have thought honesty was its own reward, listing his occupation as “marijuana carrier.” Fernando Cortez Garcia, 34, was stopped Tuesday on U.S. Highway 59 north of Victoria. A routine check showed outstanding warrants from Tampa, Fla., charging Garcia with marijuana possession, resisting arrest and assault on a peace officer, according to an arrest report. The report, which includes information such as birthdate, marital sta tus, address and Social Security number, lists Garcia’s occupation as a self-employed “marijuana carrier.’’ A Hillsborough County (Fla.) deputy sheriff said Wednesday that Gar cia, also known as Alexandro Alfredo Garcia, was wanted for fighting with a deputy who attempted to arrest him on a marijuana possession charge in 1986. She said he will be extradited back to Florida. The car’s driver was not arrested. Clarification Melanie Mack, owner of Java City in Bryan, said her establish ment does not promote the activ ities of the Alternative Sexuality Group, but it does provide an open forum atmosphere that is non-discriminatory. The Battal ion regrets the confusion. DANCE BEGINNING COUNTRY/ WESTERN & JITTERBUG LESSONS VFW, POST 4692 N. FM 2818, Past The Hall Of Fame 8-11 p.m. 81- HUdV Buy Your Tickets TODAY! 8-5 p.m. MSC Rudder Fountain $12 a couple Couples only, Limited tickets available A fundraiser by: Alpha Phi Omega STAFFORD OPERA HOUSE FRIDAY April 15- SATURDAY ARRIL 1 <f> BLUES GARYPRIMICH -ROCK f>01 DOG V>0 N D E R I NO Monday April 1 8 APRIL28TRIPPING DAISY HOTHOUSE FLOWERS MICHELLE SHOCKED MAY 4 horseGWAR team from Baytown told us they were bringing an 1 8 by 3 0 feet Old Western town front. I’m kind of worried about where we’re going to put it.” Allen said although the Parents’ Weekend Committee furnishes the meat, contestants run into a $ 1 50 entry fee and expenses associated with purchasing items needed for the chili and cook’s choice. “They put out a lot of money ba sically for our benefit,” Allen said. “But I think they have a lot of fun, too.” Tiffany Radcliffe, barbecue com mittee member, said the contestants are usually die-hards. “Anyone who does barbecue, re ally has a firm commitment to A&M,” Radcliffe said, usually die-hard Ags who are»f ing to always to do somethin?h-: for A&M.” Abbott said different people the contest for different motives “Some of the teams enter cue contests across the state; these kind of things all the tim Abbott said. “1 do it for thestiii body. It’s a way to give someit back to the University.” Tickets are $5 and entitle peep to one condiment ticket meat tickets. Tickets are on salt; the MSC and the CommonsLoty Judges for the contest areRoii and Sue Hill, last year’s parent! the year; Laura Wilson andlo Cornett, anchors from KBI Brooke Leslie, student bodypis; dent; Trevor Krause, represent:: student government and Vannaiii: Bobby Bell, deejays from Allen said the entertainme scheduled to perform are the Loji Brothers, a country western act, 1 1:30 a.m.; the Aggie Wranglen 1 p.m. and an act from theMSCi- riety Show at 1:30 p.m. ■Quit - m.'ii Group requests more funds to protect Galveston Bay WtSluF The Associated Press HOUSTON — A state-federal group that conducted a five-year study of Galveston Bay has con cluded it needs more money and more time to combat industrial threats to the deteriorating ecosystem. A plan due for release next week by the Galveston Bay Pro gram in Webster calls for $2 mil lion a year in state and federal money to keep the program go ing until additional funds are raised. The plan predicts that money could be used to bait an other $34 million from federal and private programs. The Galveston Bay Plan states that one of the biggest threats is in dustrial runoff. About 4 million gallons of oil and grease runoff en ters the Galveston Bay estuary sys tem, said Frank Shipley, Galveston Bay Program s director. The Galveston Bay Program was created five years ago after Con gress designated the bay an “estu ary of national significance," ea marking it for cleanup action. Ih office is funded by both the Envi ronmental Protection Agency mil the Texas Natural Resource Conse vation Commission, with anim al budget of about $1.5 million After years of scientific stt the program has devised a pin restore and reclaim at least nil the 30,000 acres of wetland hate’ that has been lost to pollutions® die 1950s. About 90 percent of fish ici shellfish species in the Gulfo! Mexico use coastal wetlandsfe one or more stages in their lifeq- e Associt cle, so the loss decreases the oven, population. Other proposals call forimpre ing birds nesting sites, tax ince lives to encourage conservation < habitat by private landowners and government acquisition of somt habitat areas. The plan proposes reducing contamination problems, espetii bacterial pollutants that enter tilt bay in storm water runoff. Dates for Forcing Flours, Graduating Seniors into Technical Writing Courses Department of English-Writing Programs Office will hold forcing hours for graduation seniors for English 210 and 301 in Blocker 221 during the scheduled days mentioned below. Graduating seniors who plan to graduate during the semester of enrollment must bring a signed letter from their academic advisors on departmental letterhead. No force entries will be done during pre-registration periods ASH11 lands for A death crimes. Workin ed by; e subs alty. 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