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The Living is Easy & so is the rent Eff., 1, 2 & 3 hr. • Exercise Room Unfurnished • On-Site Management Central A/C • Sauna Close to campus • Pool Shuttle Route • Lighted Tennis & Rec. Room Basketball Courts Doux Chene 1401 FM 2818, College Station 693-1906 OIL WRESTLING Page 4 • The Battalion STATE Wednesday • April 19, : • • SOC WELL WINE, DRfIFT 8 to lO p.m. 1 Capitol building to celebrate new facelil NO COVER CHARGE EVER IBIRlfAlT W-WWS y^estaurant and Tub 222 North Main Street Bryan, Texas (409) 779-2739 Tresents ‘J{aCf Trice’ pint nig fits T\df draft beer $1.25 ^Monday thru. ‘Wednesday, 7:00 tid 10:00pm Ptn Ttggie OTVned and operated enterprise RESEARCH INFECTED WOUND STUDY VIP Research is seeking individuals, 8 yrs. of age or older, with infected wounds for a 3-wk. research study ot an investigational antibiotic cream. 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Rollie White Coliseum/ Rudder Auditorium 7 p.m. SENIOR BANQUET Saturday, April 22, 1995 Hilton $ 15.00/person $30.00/couple 6:00 p.m. - 8:00 p.m. 9:00 p.m.- 1 a.m. RING DANCE Saturday, April 22, 1995 MSC-Rudder Complex $27.50/person $55.00/couple Includes: Five Dance Rooms - Country, Tejano, Orchestra, Piano Bar & DJ Programs &C Champagne Glasses Ring Dance Pictures Pre-packages sold April 17-21, 1995 in the MSC main hallway Two packages available at $15.00 and $10.00 A VOID LONG LINES!!! Take pictures all day Saturday, April 22, 1995 in Rudder Auditorium from 10:00 a.m. - 1 a.m. SENIOR WEEKEND T-SH1 Available in the MSC main hallway April 10-13 and April 17-21. SENIOR PICNIC Sunday, April 23, 1995 Spence Park 1:00 p.m. □ Extensive renovations on the Texas landmark will be concluded with 'rededication' cere monies this week. AUSTIN (AP) — Four days of activities this week will cele brate the “rededication” of the Texas Capitol, 107 years after it first opened and 12 years after fire came close to destroying the historic building. The State Preservation Board, which has overseen the $187 mil lion project, is staging everything from a model-building contest to a parade to mark the occasion. The massive project has been the most comprehensive restora tion of any state capital in the nation, said Dealey Decherd Herndon, executive director of the State Preservation Board. “No other state has done an absolutely top-to-bottom, in- side-and-outside restoration like ,we have,” Ms. Herndon said. “We’ve still got a few little things left. But for all practical purposes, it’s done.” The work included renova tion of the interior and exterior of the Capitol and construction of a 620,000-square-foot under ground annex. The 1856-57 General Land Office Building, oldest surviving state office building in Texas, also was restored. It is located on a corner of the tree-covered Capitol grounds. Workers demolished a maze of add-on walls, mezzanines and lowered ceilings, re moved asbestos and ead paint, and re built original door ways and spaces. The outside of the granite building and its metal dome were restored as well. The building was scaffolded stonework cleaned, mortar re placed and windows repaired. The work has spanned the ad ministrations of four governors — Mark White, Bill Clements, Ann Richards and the current governor, George W. Bush. Its necessity became ch Feb. 6, 1983, when official a faulty television set spar near catastrophic fire.Onejiit son died, 11 firefightersai * lice officers were injured, people were rescued an building was saved. White saw it all from Capitol lawn. The following he said, “I think we shouldtn restore it to the dignity beauty that was there was originally built.” Later that year, lawmah passed legislation to speni million repairing the fire it age and to create the S 1 Preservation Board. The formal rededication emony is scheduled noon Friday. Senate tentatively passes new hate crimes bl □ The controversial proposal would create harsher penalties for any crimes committed based on race, disability, reli gion, or sexual orientation. writing epithets on a synagogue — if the crimes are committed on the basis of race, color, disability, religion, national origin or sexual orientation. Current law targets offenses based on “bias or prejudice,” but law enforcement offi- AUSTIN (AP) — A bill to get tougher on hate crimes was tentatively approved Tues day by the Texas Senate over objections by some that it would chill free speech and make some thoughts a crime. The bill by Sen. Rodney Ellis, D-Houston, was given preliminary approval with a 22-9 vote. After another Senate vote, the bill will go to the House for consideration. “What you’re trying to do (with the bill) is send out a signal that certain crimes ... are so outrageous to us that we choose as public policy to enhance the penalty to make it clearly known that we won’t tolerate certain behavior,” Ellis said. The bill would enhance penalties for as sault and malicious vandalism — such as "We're punishing a combina tion of thought and action." — Sen. Royce West, representativefrom Dallas cials say the statute is too vague and possi bly unconstitutional. Sen. Teel Bivins of Amarillo was among the nine Republicans voting against the bill. He said it amounts to “criminalizing what people think by enhancing the penalties.” “I believe that’s a dangerous thing for pol icy makers to be doing,” Bivins said. Sen. Royce West, D-Dallas, said, “We’re not just punishing thought. We’re punishing a combination of thought and action.” The inclusion of sexual orientation it. measure was questioned by some. Sen. John Ijeedom, R-Dallas, voiced cern that someone would be subject toat hanced penalty after getting into with someone and only later finding outt! person was homosexual. Ellis also was asked during the whether his bill condones homosexuality said he was neither condoning norcondi ing it, but that eliminating it from the “would give the impression that thoseoli in state government were declaringo] season based on people’s sexual orientafej Sen. Bill Ratliff, R-Mount Pleasant, voted for the bill, said his concern is some categories of crime would be coi ered less heinous because punishment others is enhanced. “If I’m walking down the street group of these punks decides they’re g take me out just because I’m there, so that’s a lesser crime ... If it’s methat’sbe: assaulted, I don’t consider it any lest crime,” he said. 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