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Telephone: (409) 845-3313 • Fax: (409) 845-2647 The Battalion Is now accepting applications for the following positions for the Spring semester:: All Positions Are Paid a Assistant editors — Work with section editors with editing, managing staff, designing pages Reporters — Cover assigned news stories around campus, interview and research for stories Opinion Columnists — Write opinionated, persuasive columns about current events, social topics Editorial Writers — Write editorials conveying the editorial board's opinions Sportswriters — Cover assigned sports events, write sports columns, nterview and research Photographers Take pictures of sporting events, features, news events, and process photos Page Designers — Design the pages of the newspaper, coordinating graphics, text and pictures Graphic Artists — Create graphics to go along with stories and columns Copy Editors — Edit all stories, columns and features for grammar, style and clarity Feature Writers — Cover assigned stories dealing with student life at Texas A&M Cartoonists — Design humorous cartoon strips that will be run daily Office Staff — File, answer phones, maintain Battalion archives, type letters and take messages The Battalion is an equal opportunity employer and is committed to diversity. All A&M students are encouraged to apply regardless of age, gender, race or sexual orientation. pplications are available at The Battalion office 013 Reed McDonald Building and on page 3 of today’s Battalion. Staff applications are clue on Dec. 5 by 12:00 p.m. Friday, Thursday classes are today, tomorrow riTTTTTTTl Texas A&M classes held today and Tuesday will differ from the regular schedule. Students will attend Friday classes on Monday and Thursday classes on Tuesday. This switch compensates tor classes that may have been missed during the Thanksgiving holiday. Wednesday and Thursday are read ing days, and no classes will be held. Thursday is also the last day to with draw officially from the University. Fi nals begin Friday. □ Canisters can be bought at the health center. By Lisa johnson The Battalion Gordone memorial service set for tonight A memorial service will he held for Charles Gordone, Texas A&M distin guished lecturer and Pulitzer Prize winning playwright, today at 7 p.m. in All Faiths Chapel. Organizers of the ser vice request that attendees bring only gifts of wildflowers. Other memorial services for Gordone will be held this month in Amarillo, at the Public Theater in New York and at the Gene Autry Museum in Los Angeles. Texas A&M students who use hypodermic needles in residence halls can dispose of them prop erly by placing them in biohaz ardous waste containers. Containers for mass disposal are placed in the bathrooms of corridor-style residence halls, and personal disposal contain ers are available at the A.P. Beutel Health Center. Disposal containers are sold for $3.75 and hold a month’s worth of needles. Health cen ter officials have asked that the containers be no more than three-fourths full when they are returned to the cen ter for disposal. To increase awareness of the need for proper disposal, signs ad vertising the disposal canisters are posted in campus dormitories. But Christi Greene, McFad- den Hall president and a sopho more psychology major, said the advertisements have not had the desired effect. “A lot of times I see girls read the sign, and they don’t seem to take it seriously,” she said. “I guess it’s because nowadays when you see a picture of a hy podermic needle, the people who use them for medical purposes aren’t the first to come to mind.” Suzanne Lyons, Residence Hall Association president and senior geophysics major, said the fliers are not meant to advocate intravenous drug use on campus. “The signs were put up mainly for diabetics, to make them aware of the disposal is sue,” she said. “We put up the Ri in signs because we wantt nate the possibility of < custodians being poked discarded needle.” The need for a set methej disposal came to the Univet ty’s attention about a yeari| Sharon Arnold, director nurses at the Health Cenli said, when a custodianm stuck by a needle that had thrown into a residence waste container. Cassandra DeLarios, R| 7he B Environmental chairwoman® senior geography major,st that although needle usersi make up a small percentagt dormitory residents, every® should be aware of properii posal methods. “It is our responsibility to ucate the residents and to them involved in problems: campus,” DeLarios said. “It’s® just a disposal issue, it in health and safety issue.” TxDOT approves contract to widen Texas Avenue AWARE sponsors tulip campaign to Texas Department of Transportation officials approved a $4.8 million con tract Friday to widen a section of Texas Avenue in College Station. The construction, which will cost al most $5 million, is expected to begin in a month and take two years to complete. Chrysler dares Aggies to redesign minivan signify renewed life for rape victims □ Crisis counselors estimate that one-tenth of all rapes are reported. About 200 rapes are reported each year in B-CS. By Lily Aguilar The Battalion Eighteen Texas A&M engineering students begin designing a car today that runs on liquefied petroleum gas. The Chrysler Corporation will pre sent the Texas A&M Dwight Look Col lege of Engineering with a 1996 mini- van that the students will convert to a n alternative fuel system. A&M is one of 12 schools in the United States and Canada participating in the contest. Like a flower blooms in spring, a victim of al assault can emerge a survivor. This is the theme of the tulip campaign sponsored by Aggies Working for By W< T imagi Africa power power have 1 mansi Wh the ot are tb Traffic signals on Flwy 6 to be turned off Tuesday Traffic signals will be temporarily turned off Tuesday on two State High way 6 frontage road intersections at Briarcrest Drive. Police officers and flaggers will di rect traffic through the intersections. The project is expected to be complete before peak afternoon traffic begins. a Rape-Free Envi ronment. Today and Tuesday from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. students can pur chase tulip bulbs for $1 in front of Rudder Fountain and All Faiths Chapel. All proceeds will bene fit AWARE, an organization started this semester to increase un derstanding of sexual assault issues. Tanya Williams, a higher educa tion graduate student and AWARE co-adviser, said tulips were chosen be cause they bloom in the spring, signifying a for renewed life. “The tulips recognize all of those who havek through it,” she said. Williams said the tulips honor all rapesn vivors, not just those who report their assaults, Rape statistics are often skewed, Williams ss: because of unreported rapes and date are not considered “real” rapes. Kristen R., a volunteer counselor at the RapeC: sis Center whose last name is omitted for priva reasons, said an average of 200 rapes are reported Bryan-College Station each year, but this figir probably represents one-tenth of all rapes that oa:. R. said she was surprised to learn thatm® rape victims are young girls. “I’ve been at the crisis cent since October, and I’ve only cot seled one person, and she was college age ... but many come in who are younger,’ said. R. said survivors net to realize assault is® their fault. People who have been ally assaulted have to realize till they will survive and that theyai not victims,” she said. “Programs lit the tulip campaign help themtoreco] nize that.” presse from ] to pay strugf survi\ But starts cellen fails i: viewe: only n Job Lewis tory w repan you dCw-dyS, uvanUd to tmv&L to tk breezy &arrifrtdnV to ZxpynmjeA first summer session in the ruin forest oft the ‘TlATUTZf ]£LAnZ>" white earning TAEKl/t credit. Jn^DrtHAt'iDruiL Dn ‘fe'iz.z.ett Vfiest 5F»r more information contact ’Z>r. /Ceith Arnotd 202 7la$te S-fSS777 £tnA.yj4ireAA iprefirtmt £7((u l6i felzztU Vflest Z>r. (James V\)ieU* 141 £>■ Hap SIS It's that time of year again- final projects, final exams, final shows. Yes, that's right. The time has come for the last two improv comedy shows of the semester. Take a study break. You deserve it. Friday & Saturday, Dec. 8 & 9 aay, 9 p.m. Rudder Forum Tickets ($3) go on sale at 8. Doors open at 8:30. FRMAN The Battalion Editorial Staff Rob Clark, editor in chief STERLING HAYMAN, Managing Editor Stew Milne, Photo Editor KYLE Littlefield, Opinion Editor Gretchen Perrenot, City Editor jODY HOLLEY, Night News Editor Stacy Stanton, night News editor Michael Landauer, Agqeufeeditor Nick GeorGANDIS, Sports Editor Staff Members City Desk - Assistant Editor: Wes Swiff; Reporters: Courtney Walker, Tara Wilkinson, Melis Keerins, Michelle Lyons, Lily Aguilar, Heather Pace, Lisa Johnson, Kristen Homyk Aggielife Desk - Assistant Editor: Amy Collier; Feature Writers: |an Higginbotham, Ami Protas, Amy Uptmor & Rachel Barry Sports Desk - Assistant Editor: Kristina Buffin; Sportswriters: Tom Day, Philip Leone, Lisa Naiw, David Winder & Robin Greathouse Opinion Desk - Assistant Editor: Elizabeth Preston; Columnists: Pamela Benson, Erin HI Chris Stidvent, David Taylor, H. L. Baxter, Brian A. Beckham, lason Brown, Eli" Fitzgerald, Juan Hernandez, Adam Hill, Alex Miller, jim Pawlikowski & LydiaPf cival; Editorial Writers: )ason Brown & Jason Winkle; Editorial Cartoonists: BiaJ Graeber & Gerardo Quezada Photo Desk - Assistant Editor: Tim Moog; Photographers: Amy Browning, Robyn Callow)) Nick Rodnicki, Evan Zimmerman, Shane Elkins & Gwendolyn Struve I Page Designers - News: Missy Davilla, Michele Chancellor, Kristin DeLuca, Zach Estes & Tiffam I Moore; Sports: Christopher Long; Aggielife: Helen Clancy & Robin Greathouse ^ Copy Editor - lanet Johnson & Jennifer Campbell I Graphic Artists - Toon Boonyavanich & James Vineyard | Strip Cartoonists - Quatro Oakley, Valerie Myers, John Lemons, David Doyle & Ed Goodwin | Office Staff - Office Manager: Julie Thomas; Clerks: KasieByers, Valerie Myers, AbH ( Adaway, Heather Harris & Danielle Murray News: The Battalion news department is managed by students at Texas A&M University inil* Division of Student Publications, a unit of the Department of Journalism. 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