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ThunperCmhjdSijbs Page 2 • The Battalion Tuesday • January 30,1 ihe ALL SUBS ARE HALF PRICE EVERY TUESDAY Now through the end of February Albertson’s Center Randall’s Center 2205 Long mire 693-6494 607 E. University 691-2276 news BRIEFS Evans Library offers more than 20 computer databases Tell your love just how you fed with amessage in our Valentine’s Day Greetings. For just $ 10. you can tdl that someone special just how you fed about them. All Love lines will be published in The Battalion Wednesday, Februaiy 14th. To place your Love Line come by Room 015 in the Reed McDonald Bldg. Career workshop to be held tomorrow Texas A&M's Office of Interna tional Coordination and Center for International Business Studies will host an international career work shop Wednesday at 3:45 p.m. in 128 Wehner Building. Three guest speakers represent ing Nations Bank, Houston Interna tional Business Corp. and ChemShare Corp. will tell students what employers look for in prospec tive employees. ATTENTION SENIORS!!! Apply now for the MSC Spring Leadership Trip!!! Mission San Antonio: Adapting for Success Apply now and get the opportunity to attend. You will be one of only 50 students to indulge in the Culture, Leadership and Business Opportunities that await you. Discover how others have found Success; learn how you can continue your success after graduation. Take the time to Reward yourself. You have done the work that has taken you to this point. Apply and let your efforts reap the benefits of such an event. The MSC Spring Leadership Trip. March 28-31 Investing in Aggies to become the Leaders of Tomorrow!!! Picture your self dining at the Plaza Club and meeting H.B. Zachry for the TQM Presentation, attending the Majestic Theater for “Ain’t Misbehaving” fea turing The Pointer Sisters. Cap the night off by staying at the Hyatt Hill Country Resort...Just to mention a few of the interesting events you will experience on the MSC Spring Leadership Trip. Deadline for Application Feb. 9 Application Available @ MSC 216 Student Programs Office Contact MSC @ 845-1515for more information Presents the first ever JZrtsfair An exciting fine arts awareness day for A&M students and faculty to learn more about arts opportunities on campus and in the community!! MSC Flagroom Wednesday, Jan. 31, 1996 10am-3pm For more info, call the OPAS office at 845-1661 <K Persons with disabilities please call 845-1515 to inform us of your special needs. We request notification three (3) working daw prior best of our abilities. to the event to enable us to assist you to the 1 Musician attacks four nuns, kills two PORTLAND, Maine (AP) — Mark Bechard was once an accom plished musician who played trum pet professionally in a jazz combo. That was before his descent into madness. Bechard is accused of killing two nuns and injuring two others in a bloody rampage Saturday night at the Servants of the Blessed Sacra ment convent in Waterville, about 100 miles northeast of Portland. A police affidavit described a macabre scene of beatings, stab- bings and mayhem in the home of nine elderly nuns, where Bechard occasionally worshipped and had recently been turned down for a job as a handyman. His clothes and hands were covered in blood when he was arrested. Bechard, 37, did not enter a plea on two counts each of murder and at tempted murder. He is to undergo mental competency examinations at the state psychiatric hospital in Au gusta, where he had been treated in the past. Polls conflict on New Hampshire primary WASHINGTON (AP) — Three weeks before New Hampshire's leadoff presidential primary, two new polls suggest that Senate Major ity Leader Bob Dole leads among Republicans but could face a seri ous threat from Steve Forbes if inde pendents flood the GOP primary. The surveys offered conflicting snapshots of New Hampshire's po litical terrain but agreed on one point: Forbes remains the most seri ous threat to Dole as the Feb. 20 primary draws closer. A poll by Manchester's American Research Group, showed Dole with 33 percent support among 455 likely Republican primary voters and Forbes with 16 percent, down six points from an ARC survey a week earlier. □ Library-database training sessions are available to students on Tuesdays and Fridays. By Michelle Lyons The Battalion Texas A&M students can retrieve information from more than 20 computer databases in Sterling C. Evans library, including three databases imple mented last semester. The new databases are Zoological Record, Envi ronmental Periodicals Bibliography and PAIS In ternational. Zoological Record includes world wide zoological literature from 1978 to the present, with an emphasis on sys tematic and taxonomic information. It provides access to more than 6,000 journals of zoology literature. Environmental Periodicals Bibliog raphy (EPD) covers 1973 to the.pre- p.m. on Tuesdays and from 11 a.m. to noononFri days. Students also can pick up material about databases and searching techniques. Vicki Anders, automated information retrieval service librarian, said library personnel conduct demonstrations for classes. “So if a professor wants us to show a class how to pull up information from the Zoological Record, we would show them how to do it here in a class room in the library,” Anders said. Pixey Mosley, coordinator of library instruction, said the databases offer information on a broad range of subjects, from technology to social sciences. “There are a lot of special databases that cover all sorts of different subjects,” she said. “They are available to anyone who comes into the library.” 5d "There are a lot of special databases that cover all sorts of different subjects." — Pixey Mosley coordinator of library instruction sent and comprises more than 500,000 citations from 500 periodicals. Information topics in EPD include human ecolo gy, atmospheric studies, energy, land and water resources, food chain contaminants and more. PAIS International, published by the Public Af fairs Information Service, covers 1973 to the pre sent and includes literature on public and social policy from every country and in every language. Free database-training sessions are provided on the first floor of Evans Library from 1:30 to 2:30 Most of the library databases contain indexes of periodical and journal locations, though some con tain actual articles. Several of the databases, not yet including the new ones, are accessible on computers outside of the library. David Baca, science reference librarian, said the library makes a practice of acquiring new, up dated programs. Programs are added based on need and are updat ed by publishers on a monthly and quarterly basis. Editor reassigned after complaint made about cartoon drawn for gay publication Correction In a Page 1 story on Fri day, Jan. 26 Richard Burgess should have been identified as a member of the Intertribal Council. □ The American Family Association is waging a campaign against The Texas Triangle, an Austin weekly newspaper. DALLAS (AP) — An openly gay editor has been transferred from the weekly children’s sec tion in the Fort Worth Star- Telegram after a complaint about cartoons he drew for a separate gay publication. Todd Camp, 29, had served for six years as graphics editor for the Star-Telegram’s award winning “Class Acts,” a section for school children. After receiving a written complaint from a woman whose name has not been released. Camp was reassigned to a fea ture-writing position concen trating on the arts. The unidentified reader’s com plaint dealt with Camp’s “Life Underground” cartoon strip, which has appeared in The Texas Triangle, an Austin week ly which bills itself as “the state’s gay news source,” and distrib utes 15,000 copies statewide. Although the woman did not identify herself as such, leaders of the American Family Associ ation have said she is a member of the Tarrant County division of the Tupelo, Miss.-based group which has undertaken a campaign against the Triangle. The complaint involves cartoons more than a year old, including a particular cartoon that had a man playing on a com puter chat line and participating in “terminal hanky panky” with some one with the com- and were not aware of the con tent of his cartoons. This was a serious oversight on our part.” She noted that Camp had stopped drawing the cartoon in December and was no longer as sociated with The Texas Trian gle, and that he had been trans ferred at the Star-Telegram. "When you deal with a subject matter that's fairly uncomfortable, you run the risk of having your in tentions misinterpreted." — Todd Camp cartoonist. 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Star-Telegram Executive Ed itor Debbie Price wrote back saying the paper was aware that Camp had been freelancing for The Texas Triangle, but “we were not monitoring his work Price declined further com ment on Monday. Camp told the Austin Amer- ican-Statesman that he did not believe his cartoons were of fensive, but “when you deal with a subject matter that’s fairly uncomfortable, you run the risk of having your inten tions misinterpreted.” Wyatt Roberts, executive di rector of the AFA’s Austin chap ter, said the cartoon was perverse and that the Star-Telegram’s re sponse was proper. K evin C awards proof of It’s as sim ■ig thousand Dome Continued from Page 1 The Women in Science and Engineering will host the 4th Annual all-day Professional and Career Development Career Conference cc Making a Place for Yourself Saturday, February 24, 1996 MSC Room 226 The conference will focus on overcoming difficulties encoun tered during career transitions. Participants will select from topics such as: • Contributing as the only woman in the room • Negotiating your start-up package • Professional Ethics • Self promotion and others Keynote Speaker will be the Department of Commerce’s Undersecretary for Technology Dr. Mary Good, with an entitled speech, “The Changing Nature of Careers in Science and Technology. ” Contact: Nancy Magnussen at (409) 845-8015 or via e-mail at Magnussen@chemvx.tamu.edu for registration information. Free child care will be provided on site if request by February 16. Registration deadline is February 21. Sponsors: Office of the Vice President for Research and Associate Provost for Graduate Studies • College of Engineering • College of Geosciences and Maritime Studies • College of Science • Women's Studies classical languages depart ment head. Not even Oberhelman is al lowed to go on the balcony, which he said is a shame. “If it was kept clean, I would put a little cappuccino machine out there and have my own private study area,” he said. “Just me and my laptop.” David Godbey, associate di rector of engineering and de sign services for the Physical Plant, said the balcony’s doors, which are designed to swing inward, are kept closed so the air conditioning will run smoothly. “They are opened briefly for cleaning, and anything other than that interferes with the air conditioning,” Godbey said. The Academic Building was built in 1912 after Texas A&M’s first building. Old Main, burned down. With less than 30 build ings on campus at the time, the Academic Building was the first one erected with a structural frame of rein forced concrete. Stew Milne, The Battalion The fifth floor is only entered by a stairway and a window. Both entries are kept locked. Twenty-Third Annual Texas Human Nutrition Conference Changing Paradigms in Weight Management: Prevention and Intervention February 1-2, 1996 Rudder Theatre - Rudder Tower For registration contact: Ms. Kathy Martinez Ph: 409/845-1735 Fax: 409/862-2378 Registration available on-site FEES: Attendees TAMU Students $75.00 $15.00 $15.00 The Battalion Sterling Hayman, Editor in Chief Stacy Stanton, Managing Editor Stew Milne, Photo Editor Michael Landauer, Opinion Editor Tara Wilkinson, City Editor Tiffany Moore, Night News Editor Gretchen Perrenot, Nigh i News Editor Amy Collier, Aggieupe Editor Nick Georgandis, Sports Editor Dave Winder, Radio Editor Toon Boonyavanich, Graphics Editor Brad Graeber, Graphics Editor Staff Members City Desk - Assistant Editor: Lily Aguilar; Reporters: Marissa Alanis, Pamela Benson, Linn Bowden, Eleanor Colvin, Gregory Fanrenholt, Johanna Henry, Lisa Johnson, Michelle Lyons, Heathef Pace, Kendra Rasmussen, Wes Swift, Angela Thompson & Courtney Walker Aggieufe Desk - Assistant Editor: Amy Uptmor; Feature Writers: Rachel Barry, Kristina Baffin, Helen Clancy, Amber Clark, Marisa Demaya, Kristin DeLuca, Thomas Dougherl)', Jonathan Faber, James Francis, Elbe Goad, Jeremy Hubble, John LeBas, Amy Protas, Daryl Sinkule & Alex Walters Sports Desk - Assistant Editor: Tom Day; Sportswriters: Philip Leone, Lisa Nance, Stephanie Christo pher, Nicole Smith, Jody Holley, Kristina Buffin & Wes Swift Opinion Desk - Assistant Editor: Jason Brown; Columnists: H. Baxter, Rob Clark, Erin ritzgef- aid, Jason Glen, Shannon Halbrook, Aja Henderson, Elaine Mejia, Chris Miller, jetwo Nolen, Chris Stidvent, Dave Taylor, Jeremy Valdez & Kieran Watson Photo Desk - Assistant Editor: Tim Moog; Photographers: Rony Angkriwan, Amy Browning, Shane Elkins, David House, Gwendolyn Struve, Cory Willis & Evan Zimmerman Page Designers - News: Tiffany Moore. 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