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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
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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
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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.”
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"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. The Texas Triangle
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When the man discovers “Boy
Wonder” is 14, he has a shocked
expression and says “Oh my God!
I’m guilty of computer statutory
rape.” The boy’s response was
“Hey, have you ever heard of
NAMBLA?” or the North Ameri
can Man-Boy Love Association.
Star-Telegram Executive Ed
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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-
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believe his cartoons were of
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with a subject matter that’s
fairly uncomfortable, you run
the risk of having your inten
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The Women in Science and Engineering
will host the
4th Annual all-day
Professional and Career
Development
Career Conference
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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. Gretchen Perrenot, Asad Al-Mubarak, Michele Chanrelor,
Kristin DeLuca, Jody Holley, Jill Mazza & Kyle Simson
Copy Editors - Amy Hamilton & Brian Gieselman
Visualization Artists - Chris Yung, Michael Depot, Dave Doyle, Ed Goodwin, John Lemons,
Quatro Oakley, Jennifer Lynne Maki, James Vineyard & Gerado Quezada
Otfice Staff - Oeeice Manager: Kasie Byers; Clerks: Abbie Adaway, Mandy Cater, AfnW
Clark & Anieanette Sasser
Radio Desk - Eleatner Cheatwood, David Taylor & Will I Jickman J
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