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Acggieland pictures are being taken NOW! Tuesdays-Fridays 9 a.m.-5 p.m. Seniors Sept. 5 - Dec. 1 Juniors Nov. 1 - Dec. 1 TEXAS A&M CHAPTER DUCKS UNLIMITED AnnuaLBanquet 6:00 p.m. 0?' 2, 1995 I at the VFW'Hatt * ' : TicKsts Available at: Burdett & Sohs, Sullivans Outfitters, Paleifho Taxidermist, Welborn Road Veterinary Clinic or call 764-3086 Page 2 • The Battalion Campus Sc "World at AR Photography 707 Texas Ave. (next to Taco Cabana) Call 693-8183 for info ;!'},* s' « ' : ' ' BONANNIVERSAIRE ALAIN BOUDU CON, 22 ANSI 22 BISES DE PIBRAC (The tTi-xas AcLiH chapter nf tl|c llajjpa ^igma Jf ratmiity au!> Ktmni' prnuMu present. . . 103 3 'Stun JVcres nf ^SlnntxeiX ©error, in a realistic outdoor setting tljai no pt^ong, inhoor l|aunte6 tjouse can e6en compare to! Tonight there will be Free parking and a Free Shuttle Bus at Xtreme and your Wicked Woods ticket is also good for free admission to Xtreme. Admission will be $5.00 or $4.00 with a flyer or a canned good. Enjoy Live Music from College Station’s Hot new cover band, “The Voo Doos” while you wait in line. Gates open and Shuttle busses start at 7 p.m. Partial proceeds benefitting the Brazos Church Pantry. Professor Smith ton speak seven languages. Now he's fluent in life insuranee. Today, every educator should get an education in life insurance. Call the TIAA Life Insurance Planning Center. Weekdays, SAM to 8PM, E.S.T. 1800223-1200 Dept. 726 This offer is available to faculty, staff, administrators and their spouses. Teachers Insurance and Annuity Association 730 Third Avenue, New York, NY 10017-3206 Ensuring the future for those who shape it.* We don’t skimo. Bring tisani; competitor’s ad antTwe will show p how our trip is better! sponsored by: Asp<sn/Snowmas5 1 airfare, 6 nights ski-in condos, cl 4/5 day lift ticket & free lessons. For the best deal in Texas call Snow Ski Club OTHER SKI CLUB EVENTS This Wednesday, 8:30 PM Come visit us at Mt. Aggie for free ski lessons taught by A&M Snow Ski Instructors and join in our fun and wacky Boot Race to win a free t-shirt! Annual membership: $10 Saturday Nov. 18, before & after the game If you missed us at the Houston game drop by Rudder Fountain where we will be selling used ski boots ($15/pair), trips, shirts and memberships! Rue Center Grand Opening Athletes assist in formal □ Houston Oiler Ray Childress and former Houston Rocket Robert Reid will attend the events. By Michelle Lyons The Battalion Students can shoot hoops with an NBA basketball player and pump iron with an NFL All-Pro player as the profes sional athletes break in the equipment at Texas A&M’s Stu dent Recreation Center. Robert Reid, a former Hous ton Rocket, is at the center to day in a formal celebration of the center’s opening. The event is free and open to all Rec Center members. Mark Ritter, recreational sports assistant director of in tramurals, said students will have several chances to inter act with Reid. “We’re planning on playing hot-shots, having a three-point shooting contest and playing some one-on-one,” Ritter said. Bobby Bisor, interim hu man resources director, is re sponsible for recruiting Reid for the event. He and Reid are long-time friends, Bisor said, and the former NBA player was hap py to come to College Station. “He wants as many students to come out as possible,” he said. “He’s really looking for ward to it.” Bisor said that in addition to his playing time, Reid is also visiting A&M on some personal business and will spend the day prior to the event talking with University officials about his company, Advantage International. The company specializes in protective coatings for roofs and BattaliunfiltPuH The Student Recreation Center celebrates its formal openingtofe cement structures. Other Rec Center celebra tions will include a Nov. 14 visit from Houston Oiler and former A&M football player, Ray Childress, who will sign autographs and lift weights: the center. In addition,!s| Fitness, Tatiana Anderss will give a fitness demons:::^ tion and an Aerobicscli Nov. 16. Bowen's television show to be broadcast today Federalists squeak out slim victor in Quebec secession referendum KAMU-TV will broadcast "Ray Bowen and Friends," a monthly call- in television show featuring the Uni versity president and other administra tors at 6 p.m. today. The show will focus on faculty and staff issues. The two previous broad casts have focused on student concerns. The show can be seen live in Stu dio M of the Moore Communications Building or on cable Channel 4. Tele vision viewers can ask questions by calling 845-5656. □ The separatists vowed to try for independence again after losing by only 1 percent of the vote. feat in a 1980 independence referendum. “We roll up our sleeves and we try agi Bouchard’s partner, Quebec Premier Jac?. Parizeau. “We won’t wait 15 years this time., want our country, and we will get it.” TEES engineer honored for research project A Texas Engineering Experiment Station engineer is a member of a re search team that will be honored to day by Sandia National Laboratories. Rayford G. Anthony, a TEES senior fellow, and seven researchers for San dia and UOP Co. will receive a Spe cial Recognition Award for their pro ject "Crystalline Silicotitanate Devel opment for Radwaste Separations." The team's application was one of six selected for the award. MONTREAL (AP) — By a perilously narrow margin, Quebeckers heeded pleas for national uni ty and voted against secession Monday, sparing Canada a traumatic fracture but leaving the French-speaking province split down the middle. Losing by only 1 percent of the vote, the sepa ratists quickly and defiantly vowed to try again for independence. “To see it escape our grasp is hard to bear,” said the separatists’ charismatic leader, Lucien Bouchard. “Let’s keep the faith, because the next time will be the right time.” In nearly complete returns from 22,400 polling stations, the federalists led by 50.5 percent to 49.5 percent — 2,350,657 votes to 2,301,917 votes. About 82 percent of Quebeckers are French- speaking, and roughly 60 percent of tljem voted for separation. Rougnly 90 percent of English-speaking and immigrant Quebeckers voted No. Separatist campaigners — who came closer than many had dreamed a few months ago — wept on each other’s shoulders. But they came to life, cheer ing proudly, when Bouchard congratulated them for improving so dramatically from a 60-40 percent de- "We roll up our sleeves and we try again. We want our countrf and we will get it." - JaquesPm Quebec hrA Even if another referendum is not imminent,ill will be immediate calls for constitutional reform. A separatist victory would have nomic turmoil for Canada — and perhaps!: greatest political crisis of its history. It wot have lost one-fourth of its people and one-sixtti its land — a fracture without precedent am prosperous Western democracies, » Chretien’s federal government had refusei say how it would respond to a Yes vote. The separatists, had they won, would noUi 1 declared independence immediately. They kit_ fered to negotiate for up to a year on a newt) ■ dATTAlio nomic and political partnership between and an independent Quebec. Wish You Had Someone To Talk With? Mentors Listen. Call 845-6900 For a Mentor. “WHOOP IT UP FOR UNITED WAT 3-on-3 Basketball Tournament November 4,1995 Self-Officiated Double Elimination READ Gym Amy Prota n 1962, t there was low a che A&M. lis stipul emity “co: pter in th motto me 9, a coed s Uasey Con ice gradua lies to full ‘On and o in the na' hly has t h less mi ice as muc Applications can be picked up at the Student Government Office or in the MSC All proceeds benefit the Brazos Valley United Way $30 per team - REGISTRATION DEADLINE: November 3,3:30 pi For more information, please contact Kelly Hammck at 696 081? or Lara Trahan at 696-9988 ^*21 21 st Annual ejexas enaissancc festival SATURDAYS & SUNDAYS - SEPT. 30 THRU NOV. 12 OPEN 9 AM TIL DUSK oJaste the (Experience^ Spectacular Entertainment Jousting • Falconry Jugglers & Musicians Over 250 Unique Shops Craft Demonstrations Games & Rides FREE PARKING AND CAMPING 1-800-458-3435 For information or directions Email: renfest@neosoft.com he Tear °- FINAL 2 WEEKENDS! 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