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CarePlus Family Medical Center 2411 Texas Ave. and Southwest Parkway 693-0683 10% ASM student discount Three Off-Campus Stores To Serve You Northgate - Culpepper - Village “Your Educationally Priced Software Store” CAD Programs Currently in stock: Microstation PC, MAC, or NT Commercial Price $3695.00 Your Price $150.00 Comine approximately November 1st: AUTOCAD 12 Package Commercial Price $10,000.00+ Your Price $250.00 Autocad 12, Autovision, 3D Studio, & Designer (Come by one of our stores for a complete breakdown on this pack age. We are also offering a $45.00 discount for all con firmed orders placed by 9-15-94.) ®[F • HOWDY! There is a General Class Meeting on Wednesday^ Sept. 7 th in room 302 of Rudder Tower at 8:30 p.m. • Applications are available for Class Council Treasurer at the cubicle in the SPO (Student Programs Office) and in the Koldus Building • Informational meeting for Class Treasurer will be held immediately after the G.C.M. on Wed. Any questions call: Gerry Brown, President at 847-1749 CONTACT LENSES $ ONLY QUALITY NAME BRANDS (Bausch & Lomb, Ciba, Barnes-Hind-Hydrocurve) Disposable Contact Lenses Available 118 00 TOTAL COST.. .INCLUDES $ EYE EXAM, FREE CARE KIT, AND TWO PAIR OF S TANDARD FLEXIBLE WEAR SOFT CONTACT LENSES. 149 00 TOTAL COST.. .INCLUDES EYE EXAM, FREE CARE KIT, AND FOUR PAIR OF STANDARD FLEXIBLE WEAR SOFT CONTACT LENSES. SAME DAY DELIVERY ON MOST LENSES. Call 846-0377 for Appointment CHARLES C. SCHROEPPEL, O.D., PC. DOCTOR OF OPTOMETRY * 505 University Dr. East, Suite 101 College Station, TX 77840 4 Blocks East of Texas Ave. & University Dr. Intersection Page 2 • The Battalion (A\MPUS Thursday • September 1,1994 iiirsday • Sep Presidential Library Center progressing on schedule By Lisa Messer The Battalion President George Bush will visit Texas A&M on Nov. 30 for the groundbreaking of the Presidential Library Center. Dr. Don W. Wilson, executive director of the George Bush Library Center, said the library’s progress is on schedule. “The final design for the center has been ap proved, and the bid documents are being prepared and will be issued in late August or the beginning of September,” Wilson said. Wilson said that Bush is involved in every de tail of the Center’s construction. “He stays in constant contact,” Wilson said. “He is very pleased with the progress. He is de lighted with all of the plans.” Dr. Ray Bowen, Texas A&M president, said the University is also pleased with the progress of the library complex. The complex will consist of a library and muse um building, a shared-use building and an acade mic building. Dr. Bowen said the University is mostly con cerned with the academic portion of the library complex. “Its going to house a significant academic pro gram,” Bowen said. “The program will provide training in public administration. It’s a major academic enterprise. That’s why the University is involved.” The academic building will house the Depart ment of Political Science and Economics, the Bush School of Government and Public Service, and the Centers for Public Leadership Studies, Presiden tial Studies, and Private Enterprise Research. The shared-use building will consist of an audi torium, a conference center, various support of fices and an apartment for President and Mrs. Bush. Texas A&M will pay for construction of the aca demic portion of the complex, but federal law re quires private donations fund the Presidential Li brary and Museum. Wilson said more than half of the S42 million needed in private donations have already been raised. Major gifts have been received from private in dividuals, including Texas A&M former students, and from foundations and endowments. The library and museum will house items from Bush’s terms as President and Vice President, along with items from his careers as a congress man, ambassador to the United Nations, special envoy to China, director of the CIA, chairman of the Republican National Committee and private businessman. Please see Library, Page 5 Lives saved from road chang es §|j!(j By Constance Parten The Battalion Fewer accidents are occur ring on Highway 6 frontage ;! roads as a result of convert | ing the roads to one-way roads along the highway last J September, according to a re port from the Texas Depart ment of Transportation. Accidents on frontage’! roads dropped from 92 acci dents, between September ] 1992 to March 1993, to 62 ac-jj cidents during the same peri od the this year, which is a 32 percent decrease. Pat Williams, a Texas De partment of Transportation area engineer, said the deT crease was a welcomed sur prise. “We know that research shows about a 20-percent de crease in the accident rate af t Please see Accidents, PageS” ipping Daisy ternative bar Construction on Events Center to begin in ‘95 No, it’s no !xt Nirvana it going to c ation. But By Craig Lewis The Battalion Plans are continuing to be made for Texas A&M’s Special Events Center with construction scheduled to begin in the spring of 1995. Construction is predicted to be completed in time to host commencement ceremonies in May 1997. The center, originally pro posed in 1991 and then again in April of 1994, will be an arena placed on the corner of Olsen Drive and Joe Routt Boulevard and will have a maximum seat ing capacity of 12,500. Tim Donathan, assistant vice chancellor of facilities and plan ning, said the center is now in a preliminary design stage. “Some basic blueprints and design dimensions are being planned right now,” Donathan said. The Lockward, Andrews and Neunam corporation based in Houston, Texas, holds architec tural duties for the center’s planning. Donathan said the next stage in the facility’s development will entail a more detailed design of the center and should last sever al months. He said the $33.4 million cen ter should stay within budget. “The projected costs have not risen so far,” Donathan said. Dr. Chester Reed, a former A&M student, has donated $10 million to the University project. Donathan said no other sig nificant contributions have been made to the cause. Whether this will affect ticket prices at the new facility is still unclear, he said. blooming m ge Station, ^ang of Clin alternative Ig-time perf< |ay to the ar rnative roc mes of the ene around. Count y Christ! E HE BaTTALIOI The Special Events Center to be completed in time for com mencement exercises in May 1997. “Nothing is set in stone, but I think that if.the Center is looked at in a long-term income view. It won’t be necessary to skyrocket File Photo Tw Battaiion Most peop juntry perfc nces in Brya McCrea M gineering j iuntry perf< ea. Miller sab admission prices,” Donathan said. Proposed uses for the facility Please see Center, PageS Iryan-Colle Inow there i Student Loans The First National Bank supports students in their pursuit of higher rapid disbursement of funds education! Select First National as your lender of choice after you have been rapid processing approved for a student loan through the Financial Aid Office. We’re here local lender for your student loan, checking and savings needs. 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