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Pre Law Society General Meeting Wednesday, February 21st 8:30 p.m. MSC 292A An attorney will be present to inform future law students about the job market after law school & different areas of a legal profession. V. The Vice President of Student Affairs Office wants you to be aware of our open door policy. Our office is here to help you in any way possible. So, if there is anything we can do to make life at Texas A&M better, come by 10th floor Rudder Tower or call 845-4728. IFfak €mm[p *§§ FISH CREW Applications Available Now!! Pick up vours today in the MSC or the Fish Camp Office 1 . Class of 98 & ‘99 T-Shirts for Sale ($5 & $7) in the MSC this week! Benjamin Knox Fish Camp Prints available too! Challenge Yourself for the Class of ‘00!! A World of Endless Possibilities. At EpSOVI, we know that it takes more than one compo nent to create results. That’s why our diverse selection of computers, printers and scanners delivers a kalcidOSCOpG of options for self expression. 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DIV1, Job Code: DALA&M, 20770 Madrona Ave., P.0. Box2842, Torrance, CA 90509-2842 or FAX 310-782-4999. Equal Opportunity Employer. Page 2 • The Battalion Wednesday • February 2l,|| 'jyy jjf^ Early voting in Texas begins toda /ednes ibruary ^ □ A record number of the state's citizens have registered to vote. AUSTIN (AP) — Texas voters may begin casting ballots in this year’s Democratic and Republican party primaries today. Under the state’s election law, the early voting period for the March 12 primary elec tions will run through March 8. A record number of Texans, 9.4 million, have registered to vote, Secretary of State Tony Garza’s office reported Tuesday. “We’re pleased the registration numbers are up. The challenge now is getting those voters who are registered out to the polls,” said Gene Acuna, spokesman for Garza. Voters in both major parties will be choos ing nominees for president, U.S. Senate, Congress, half the state Senate, all 150 Texas House members, a seat on the Rail road Commission, four places on the Texas Supreme Court, three places on the Court of Criminal Appeals, and half the members of the State Board of Education. Nominees in hundreds of local races also will be chosen. Runoff elections are scheduled for April 9. “The primaries are the first step in shaping the ballot for the November general election. Regardless of one’s party affiliation, I urge Texans to vote and to voice an opinion on your party’s nominating process,” Garza said. Acuna said the growing popularity of ear ly voting means that as many as one-third of the primary ballots may be cast before March 12. He also said election officials were encour aged by the registration numbers. “A big reason for that is the ease of regis tration in Texas. You can register at court houses, where you always could, but a high schools, when renewing your drivel cense, when you apply for a state sen| he said. “But we don’t really know ifthosev who are signing up in these spots arej to show up on Election Day.” Acuna said some counties conducts voting at the courthouse, while othersis vigorous programs designed to makeite er for voters to find a polling place. “Many election administrators and c clerks tend to go all out for these elections'll said. “You have the Travis and Bexaro ties, which go to shopping malls ands markets. And some move early votingt place to place” to make it easier for voters Acuna said that the secretary of statc^ not yet issued a prediction on voter tin for the primary. Judge moves Oklahoma bombing trial to Denver □ The move sides with the defense. No trial date has been set. OKLAHOMA CITY (AP) — A feder al judge moved the Oklahoma City bombing case to Denver on Tuesday, saying the need to protect the defen dants from a public thirst for vengeance outweighs the desire of the victims’ families to attend the trial. Timothy McVeigh and Terry Nichols “have been demonized,” U.S. District Judge Richard Matsch wrote. “There is so great a prejudice against these two defendants in the state of Oklahoma that they cannot obtain a fair and im partial trial at any place fixed by law for holding court in that state.” He did not set a trial date. Prosecutors had urged Matsch to move the trial to Tulsa, about 90 miles from the bomb site, so that victims’ families could easily attend. But Matsch, chief federal judge in Denver, sided with the defense, which wanted the trial held in Denver. “The interests of the victims in be ing able to attend this trial in Okla homa are outweighed by the court’s obligation to assure that the trial be conducted with fundamental fairness and with due regard for all constitu tional requirements,” the judge said. The April 19 bombing of the Alfred P. Murrah Federal Building killed 169 people and injured more than 500 in the deadliest terrorist attack on U.S. soil. The judge said, “There is a fair infer ence that only a guilty verdict with a death sentence could be considered a just result in the minds of many.” McVeigh and Nichols could face the death penalty. Victims’ families said it will be hard for some to attend the trial 500 miles away. “I plan on going several times during the trial, but not every day,” said Aren Almon, whose year-old daughter Baylee died in the bombing and was pho tographed in the arms of a firefighter. Attorney General Janet Reno said the government will not fight the move to Denver and will do everything possi ble “to provide survivors and loved ones with an opportunity to observe and fol low events in the courtroom.” Under the broad definition used by prosecutors, anywhere from 750 to more than 2,000 people are considered victims of the blast. That includes the families of those killed and survivors of the bombing. Oklahoma Attorney General Drew Edmondson said that he has asked fed eral officials to provide money to help victims attend the trial in Denver. “Every defense witness will be pro vided with a plane ticket and lodging to attend the trial, and I think it’s ap propriate that same right be granted to victims and families of victims,” Ed mondson said. In Denver, Mayor Wellington Webb said a city safety team already has held preliminary meetings in anticipa tion of the move. “People in Denver, given their Western ethic, will work with those families and work with th courts,” Webb said. Defense lawyers were pleased by the move to Denver. “Colorado appears to be a district where we can get a fair trial based on the evidence,” said Rob Nigh, one of McVeigh’s lawyers. U.S. District Judge Wayne Alley had originally set the trial for Lawton, 90 miles from Oklahoma City. Supreme Court to rult on cable-local TV cast WASHINGTON (AP) — The Supreme Court' decide an issue that could mean life or death for small television stations: whether Congress can ft cable systems to carry local broadcast signals. Cable TV companies say the 1992 “must carry" violates their constitutionally protected right to speech. They argue that the law gives broadcasters unfair advantage over other programmers com] for space in cable TV systems. But the Clinton administration says the law needed to keep many broadcasters, mainly small dependent or public stations, from being driven of business. Returning from a four-week recess Tuesday, court also let stand government-imposed limits on ble rates that have saved customers several bill dollars since 1992. The justices refused to hear Til] Warner Entertainment Co.’s argument that the suiting 17 percent rate cut violated cable companii right to free speech. On another subject, the court heard arguments whether two former Los Angeles policemen can avoi serving additional time behind bars for their parti the 1991 videotaped beating of Rodney King. The justices also issued orders in more than 51 cases. They: — Turned away a “right to die” dispute in whicha Michigan woman sought to end life-sustaining mei ical treatment for her husband. — Agreed to use a California case to clarify whei the government can deport some immigrants who en tered the country through fraud. — Let Colorado keep a monument engraved with tl* Ten Commandments in a public park near the Capitol As for cable TV, more than 60 percent of American households subscribe and there is heavy compete'/, for channel space on cable systems. The must-carry provision of the 1992 cable TV law requires cable operators to set aside some of their chan nels for commercial and public broadcast stations. Congress enacted the requirement because smaller, independent broadcasters not affiliated with networks feared cable companies would drop them. They then could lose advertising and face going out of business, The court is expected to issue a decision by mid-1997. 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