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We serve steaks, seafood, chicken, and Italian food. Lunches starting at $3.95. Call us when planning your next party. AGGIE RING ORDERS THE ASSOCIATION OF FORMER STUDENTS CLAYTON W. WILLIAMS, JR. ALUMNI CENTER DEADLINE: APRIL 27, 1995 Undergraduate Student Requirements: You must be a degree seeking student and have a total of 95 credit hours reflected on the Texas A&M University Student Information Management System. (A passed course, which is repeated and passed, cannot count as additional credit hours.) 30 credit hours must have been completed in residence at Texas A&M University if you successfully complete one semester at Texas A&M University prior to January 1, 1994. 60 credit hours must have been completed in residence at Texas A&M University if your first semester at Texas A&M University was January 1994 or thereafter. Should your degree be conferred with less than 60 resident credits, this requirement will be waived after your degree is posted on the Student Information Management System. You must have a 2.0 cumulative GPR at Texas A&M University. You must be in good standing with the University, including no registration or transcript blocks for past due fees, loans, parking tickets, returned checks, etc. Graduate Student Requirements If you are a May 1995 degree candidate and you do not have an Aggie ring from a prior degree year, you may place an order for a ‘95 ring after you meet the following requirements: 1. Your degree is conferred and posted on the Texas A&M University Student Information Management System; and 2. You are in good standing with the University, including no registration or transcript blocks for past due fees, loans, parking tickets, returned checks, etc. If you have completed all of your degree requirements and dan obtain a “Letter of Completion” from the Office of Graduate Studies, the original letter of completion may be presented to the Ring Office in lieu of your degree being posted. 2. Procedure To Order A Ring: If you meet all of the above requirements, you must visit the Ring Office no later than Thursday, April 27, 1995, to complete the application for eligibility verification. If your application is approved and you wish to receive your ring on June 7, 1995, you must return and pay in full by cash, check, money order, or your personal Visa or Mastercard (with your name imprinted) no later than April 28, 1995. Men’s 10KY-$308.00 14KY - $420.00 Women’s 10KY - $174.00 14KY - $201.00 Add $8.00 for Class of ‘94 or before. The ring delivery date is June 7, 1995. AGGIE RING ORDERS THE ASSOCIATION OF FORMER STUDENTS CLAYTON W. WILLIAMS, JR. ALUMNI CENTER ATTENTION: JUNIORS. SENIORS & GRADUATE STUDENTS If you are not currently eligible to order the Aggie ring, but will be eligible after the Spring ‘95 semester, please do the following: 1. 2. Visit the Ring Office to complete an application for eligibility verification and receive a price list beginning May 4,1995. (Please wait until this date, since al! the information will not be available until then.) Upon completing the application, you may request a mail order form if you will not be in the Bryan-College Station area to place your order in person between May 25 and June 13,1995. Page 4 - The Battalion A ggie Lif e Thursday • April 2)1 Music to clash tonight in Battle of the Bait ' ARC By Amy Collier The Battalion I t will be a tough fight, but no blood will be shed when the 3rd Floor Canti na hosts a Battle of the Bands tonight. The concert will give five local bands an opportunity to showcase their talent in 30-minute sets. Mitchell Reyes, a senior accounting ma jor, organized the concert to raise money for his business fraternity. Phi Beta Lambda. “Expect to get a bunch of good music from local bands,” Reyes said. “It’s going to be a lot of fun.” Reyes said he hopes the club is packed. “We’re expecting it to have a good turnout,” Reyes said. “We’re hoping to get the maximum capacity. Adding to the night are door prizes and a performance by Ty and the Semi-Auto matics after the battle, Reyes said. Jon Beal, lead vocalist and keyboard player of Drench, said his band will add spice to the night with their progressive- rock style. “I think we have something cool to show and we don’t have to take anything away from the others,” Beal said. “We pretty much play what we want to play and hope that people like it.” Expanding its listening audience is something the band hopes to achieve from the concert, Beal said. “It’s always better if you can start ex panding your listeners,” he said. “If you don’t, you end up just playing for your friends.” Marshall Love, lead singer of Jasmine Blue, said his acoustic band plans to play their first songs without amplification to surprise people with something unusual. “That may get people to listen to the "This is a golden opportunity for the bands." — Willie Bennett Manager of 3rd Floor Ca?itina music more than they would otherwise,” Love said. “It will be pretty different than the other performances.” Winning the competition is not the most important thing to his band, Love said. “We’re just interested in getting some local exposure and we’re excited about do ing something different,” he said. “We would like for people to remember our performance.” Jeff Petereit, drummer of Peeping Tom, a local alternative band, said hen{ fit from listening to his competitors, “I’m looking forward to seeingtiiB petition between the other local bar; ' this area,” Petereit said. “I wanttn! en the music I listen to.” Petereit said he wants to win I to get more exposure for his band. "If we win, it will be the nextsta» what we want for our band tosuccetj Petereit said. The competition will also provide portunity for Battlecow and Fondue Monks to show their musical talem What appears only as a friendlyi Jj|F cal battle could develop into a'- " portunity for the bands. Willie Bennett, manager of 3rd FI: Cantina, said the bands thatimpre. will most likely get an opportunityti regularly at 3rd Floor Cantina. “I’m looking forward to it because will give me an opportunity to 1 bands for future booking,” Bennettsi try to stay on top of the local scenei music.” Bennett discovered Four Hams0| gfa in 1984 at a Battle of the Bands. The only time the band still playi gether is once a year at 3rd FloorCi and it is playing this Saturday. “I’m still working with themafta years,” Bennett said. “This is a gold portunity for the bands.” 1)V1 PEOPLE IN THE NEWS PEOPLE. HA STRANGE ^ IN PAY CAR' IEDT0 GIV£ .R BEFORE CTION/IPC P-IN ANIMA Brown urinates in police car after brawl arrest ORLANDO, Fla. (AP) — Bobby Brown urinated inside a police car and gouged four-letter words into the upholstery af ter being arrested for a nightclub brawl, police said. The singer, his publicist and his body guard were charged with aggravated as sault and disorderly conduct Wednesday. They were released on $5,000 bail each. Witnesses said Brown was talking to a woman at the Mannequin nightclub when a man tried to break into the con versation. After the woman said she did n’t want to speak to the man. Brown and his companions beat him up, police said. Brown, whose hits include “My Pre rogative,” is married to Whitney Hous ton. ters. The vice president and the actor, who shared dorm space at Harvard, were stuck in the Four Seasons Hotel elevator for about a half-hour Wednesday with Gore’s security guards, Gore spokes woman Izorraine Voles said. That put the Gore entourage slightly be hind schedule. He was in Houston for a private breakfast with the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee. The appearance is part of here nity service commitment in conntj with her release from a mental ini tion, said executive producer! Byrne. Bobbitt was found innocentoh cious wounding by reason ofinsanijj severing her husband’s penis in! ter his penis was surgically reattaI John Wayne Bobbitt was acquitlf] spousal abuse. Newton-John and huski to end 11 -year marriage Subtle DU ,<WOW J T Gore and Jones spend quality time in elevator Bobbitt back in public eye with television spot LOS ANGELES (AP) — Olivia!) toh-John and her husband agre| more hopelessly devoted to you. Newton-John and actor Matt Laf) have decided to separate after 11! rrfiLg lo). RAT HOUSTON (AP) — Al Gore and Tom my Lee Jones got a chance to be roomies again, albeit in somewhat closer quar- UPPER MARLBORO, Md. (AP) — Lorena Bobbitt returns to the public eye tonight. Bobbitt, who has started a foundation for victims of domestic violence, was to discuss the issue on the public access ca ble TV show “A House Divided.” EA of marriage. They described the as amicable. P “We have a great deal of respect our relationship,” they said ina:| ment Wednesday. The two met in 1979 while “Xanadu.” They have one child, Cl! who was born in 1985. |ning low lily sunny ar79. Wii to 15 m.p. r with a f Qds£ to 1( 4.0 and Go Finals Tutoring with A Located at 700 E. University Drive, Suite 108 Behind Golden Corral and Blockbuster Video, across from the Hilton Tickets for all classes available starting one hour prior to the first class. 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