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i! I' NEW Motorola BRAVO PLUS $29.95* $495 AIRTIME 1 Purchase Required Page 6 • The Battalion Campus Nation Tuesday • January 23,19% A( tivalt* Your'Motorola Summer Camp Jobs Pine Cove Chris-tian Camps in Tyler, Texas, are Three separate camps for chil dren, youTh, and families. InTerviews for sTaff will be in The MSC Hallway, January 22nd - January 24-Th IO a.m.- 5 p.m. Contact Laura E3enneTT aT 093-63<2>6S> or Pine Cove aT <2>OO-225-9O09 for deTails. Campus organizations unite for Hispanic Open House Beutel's Health Education Center offers peer education programs for Aggies By Erin Foley A.P. Beutel Health Center DOES OVERPOPULATION MAKE LIFE CHEAP? Every year countless dogs and cats are killed because there are not enough homes for them. Some are euthanized at shelters. Some are dumped along the side of the road. We see their broken bodies as we drive by. Others are abandoned to face starvation or abuse. Think how awful it must be for them All of this needless suffering can be prevented. Please make the compassionate choice. Please spay or neuter your cats & dogs. \ THIS MESSAGE BROUGHT TO YOU BY (spring break) : r p Cancun Do you want to talk about sex? Perhaps you are interested in nutrition. Maybe abstinence is your thing. If any of the above intrigue you, the Health Education Center at A.P. Beutel Health Center has peer education programs for you. Peer education can play a vital role in influencing good health among Aggies. Trained students educate other students about health and wellness, providing them with a fun and re warding experience. The Health Education Center offers two peer education groups, Aggie REACH and Choices in Sexuality. Aggie REACH gives presentations in residence halls, classes and to student organizations. They cover topics ranging from fitness and nutrition to HIV/AIDS and abstinence. Choices in Sexuality is a volunteer program that seeks to ed ucate students at Texas A&M about contraception, sexually transmitted diseases and abstinence. This program was designed to make the Methods of Contra ception class more readily available to students. Now, students do not have to go to A.P. Beutel for the class because Choices in Sexuality brings it to them. If you would like to play a role in educating peers, encourag ing healthy lifestyles and emphasizing wellness, fill out an ap plication at the Health Education Center. □ The event was held Monday as an addition to MSC Open House. By Greg Fahrenheit The Battalion Representatives from various Texas A&M His panic organizations united Monday night in Rud der Theatre for the first Hispanic Open House. The Hispanic Presidents’ Council (HPC), which includes members from 12 predominantly Hispan ic organizations, presented the event as a supple ment to MSC Open House. Noe David Lopez, HPC President and a senior finance major, said this event is important to the A&M Hispanic community. “One of the best reasons for doing this is to in crease participation in Hispanic organizations,” Lopez said. “At Open House, there are so many or ganizations that sometimes you tend to overlook the Hispanic organizations.” The program began with an introduction of the organizations’ presidents, who briefly described each group’s purpose. Dr. Leo Sayavedra, deputy chancellor for the Texas A&M University System, said student in volvement in the Hispanic community is a necessity. As the highest-ranking Hispanic in the A&M System, Sayavedra related his own experiences with discrimination. "Sometimes I find myself in a fish bowl,” he said. “People are constantly watching my behav ior, watching my decision-making ability, watch' ing to see if I really am what I pretend to be.” But he told students not to expect preferential treatment based on the label “minority.” “Do not accept a position if it revolve around ethnicity,” he said. “Accept a jobbe- cause you are good at what you do, not because you are a minority.” "At Open House, there are so many organizations that sometimes you ten to overlook the Hispanic organizations, — David Loft: president of the Hispanic Presidents' Council Denisa Rebeles, a senior wildlife and fisheries major, said the number of attendees was encour aging, considering this was the event’s first year. “We had a pretty good turnout, although F sure there are a lot of people who may not have heard about it,” she said. Rudy Arredondo, a junior community b major, said that the presentation was worth sit ting through. “It’s great to see a community come together and be cohesive,” he said. In the future, the HPC will hold the event ing the fall semester instead of the spring. PUERTO VALLARTA IXTAPA * ACAPULCO From $329 plus tax Holiday Express 1-800-235-TRIP Above and Beyond Travel 4001 E. 29th, Suite 114 409-260-1267 GOP mulls shutdown, may not lift debt ceiling soon □ The week's end may bring another federal shutdown. The Battalion Classified Advertising • Easy • Affordable • Effective Call 845-0569 WASHINGTON (AP) — Republican congressional leaders searched Monday for a way to avoid a new federal shut down at week’s end, but showed little de sire to heed President Clinton’s pleas for a quick extension of the government’s borrowing authority. Eager to avoid election-year blame for a third partial closure of federal agencies since November, top Republicans hoped for congressional passage as early as Wednesday of legislation keeping pro grams functioning for perhaps another month. Without such a bill, dozens of agencies would once again have to put some operations in mothballs after the close of business Friday. The trick for Republican leaders, espe cially in the House, was balancing conserv atives’ demands for budget slashes with a bill Clinton would sign. They were consid ering financing affected agencies at about 75 percent of last year’s levels and elimi nating some minor programs Clinton might accept — House Speaker Newt Gin grich said 12 to 15 small agencies might be killed. GOP aides listed one possibility as the Bureau of Mines. The focus on keeping the government open and on federal borrowing reflected a belief by many Republicans that their ef fort to reach a budget-balancing agree ment with Clinton was probably over. Senate Majority Leader Bob Dole, R- Kan., more optimistic than many, said there was “still some glimmer of hope” that a deal could be completed. Gingrich, R-Ga., was more blunt. “Since the budget negotiations are for all practical purposes not functioning ... we’re trying to work for first of all how to get a down payment to get to a balanced bud get,” Gingrich told reporters. Dole predicted that Congress and the president would approve a bill keeping the government open, but in a way that was true to the GOP struggle for a seven-year balanced budget. “Our responsibility this week is clear: Keep faith with our principles, keep our word to the American people, and also keep faith with federal employees, who shouldn’t be the pawns in this game,” Dole said on the Senate floor. But GOP leaders said there would prob ably be no quick congressional action to ex tend the debt limit, without which admin istration officials have said an unprece dented, jarring federal default might occur. Dole said the Senate would not consider a debt-limit measure this week, and House leaders said they saw no reason to push such legislation soon. In this parallel track of their budget battle with Clinton, Repub lican leaders seemed willing to call the ad ministration’s bluff, citing warnings of im minent default by Treasury Secretary Robert Rubin in recent months that have not borne out. “Putting default in play isn’t what any body wants, but none of us feel right now that that’s a possibility,” said Rep. John Boehner, R-Ohio, a member of the House GOP leadership. Gingrich said that if a debt-limit ei tension is sent to Clinton, the presidem would have to accept limits on future spending — or the impasse over borrow ing would continue. “He has an obligation to put on the title what substantial reforms he is preparedto sign as part of getting a debt ceiling, andir, the absence of that frankly we are tem porarily at an impasse,” Gingrich said. With no authority to borrow more mon ey to pay government bills, Rubin has said he will have to take extraordinary steps to make interest payments in mid-Februan. Since the $4.9 trillion debt limit was reached in November, Rubin has kept the government afloat by using money from federal retiree pension funds and deposit ing federal lOUs in its place. Just as the White House’s most effec tive budget attack on Republicans has been to accuse them of demandu/g ex t treme cuts in Medicare, Medicaid am/’ other social programs, the administration responded in kind to the OOP’s plans on federal borrowing. 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Denise Fisher, Texas Depart ment of Transportation public» formation officer, said Texas Av enue construction did not begit as scheduled because the origin® work bids were too high. Many citizens think Tex® 1 Avenue construction is withir city officials’ jurisdiction, ( ham said, but College Statio 11 highways soon to undergone struction are state roads. “Frequently, residents ai citizens think the city is doM construction,” Calliham said. “The interesting part is tP a major portion of College Sta tion’s streets are actually staW highways, including Wellbo^ Harvey and University.” But in the case of Texas A v enue, city officials are collabo rating with state officials** complete the project. City and state officials a rf planning to improve Texas A^ enue’s lighting and access roads Construction projects ad also underway on other r near campus. George Bush Drive betwca 11 Wellborn Road and FM 2818' s being widened to four lanes* 1 ' accommodate traffic to th® George Bush Presidential 1 brary Complex. A Jan. 11 city ordinancepd 1 hibits cyclist and pedestrif 11 traffic during constructio 11 ' which is estimated to be co® pleted by Fall 1996. Construction on Wellbo r [ Road south of FM 2818, whk 11 has reduced traffic flow to lane, should be completed 8) the end of the year. The 1 Tuesd; january Police Masor NEW Monday lions that Anthony during an Robe stitches leged figl not been Patrol report c Crane Cl cer Nore rived, th< 20 patroi ing outsii Town earlier he al peoph fied Masc Mum had been The game is Cht iltago ChlSo for tv\ CHIC White S power ar for Frank er Dann} the Oakl leaguers. 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