Stafford Opera House Page 2 • The Battalion Thursday • October (j DAVID OARZA & THE LOVEBEADS r^AMPUS ^—j A&M receives $1.3 million Defense Department awards federal grant for environmental engineering scholarships environmental fields criti our nation’s defense Gramm said. Julie Hillrichs, a By Tracy Smith The Battalion son from Sen. Gramm'si ^ V ery da^ SUBDUDES WED 0
s respon; VI campu; d or escor ie late at Texas A&M. “This program incorpi; both education and trai; rdroomii and really shows the stret ngenerge that our University sys has,” he said. Under the grant pr Texas A&M will workiti number of universities, nesses and organizations® ing Prairie View University Texas Engineering Ext®! Service, Babich & Associi: the Texas Coalition ofOci tional Health and Safety, ton Works, the Texas Ei mental Health Association, the Association for of Mexican Americans. Runoffs required for freshmen By Melissa Jacobs The Battalion JT/7// Special Guest JASON MANNING $10 * $12 Da Win Concert WOLF PEN CRLTK AMPHITHEATER SATURDAY, OCTOBER 15th AFTER THE GAME • 8:30 p.m. Tuesday’s freshman elections re sulted in runoffs in all races except for Student Senate representatives. Runoff elections will be held for all other positions on Oct. 11. A runoff election will be held be tween presidential candidates Annie Blanco, who received 175 votes, and Blake McKinney, who received 309 votes. Blanco said now that she is in the runoff election, she has an even big ger challenge ahead of her. “I have to re-think my campaign for presidency,” she said. “I have a big challenge ahead of me because Blake got more votes than I did.” Vice presidential candidate David Chumbley received 177 votes and will enter the runoff election against Chad Jones, who received 337 votes. Jones said he felt really good when he found out he had made it to the runoffs. “I worked really hard to get here,” he said. “If I’m elected vice president, I plan to get the Class of ‘98 off to a good start by having a social so that fish can get to know each other. “I also want to have an off-cam pus charitable fund-raiser to get College Station and Bryan behind the Class of ‘98.” A runoff for treasurer will be held for Jeff King, who received 227 votes, and Will Jenkins, who re ceived 243 votes. King said he was relieved when he found out he had made it this far in the election. Historian candidate Jill Allison received 408 votes and Robert Sproat received 333. A runoff election will be held for the position of secretary between Joel Foshea and Dan Cochran. Runoff candidates fpr social sec retary are Laura Beth Vogt, who re ceived 275 votes, and Graham Up ton, who received 156 votes. Chelsey Ferguson, election com missioner, said the election commis sion had no problems with the elec tion and they have not received any complaints from the candidates. “The polling workers were all there and we have new ballot boxes with locks,” she said. Ferguson said the emergency elec tion regulations which were passed three weeks ago really helped. “I think they woke up the elec tion commission and made us work better together as an organiza tion,” she said. Freshman senators are Carlos Gancedo, Annie Blanco, Blake Hen- shaw, Matthews Acock, Robert Payne, Autumn Leveridge, and Chris Johnson. Leveridge said she is excited about being elected a freshman senator. 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