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ThlnperCkKidXubs 1/2 Price Tuesdays ALL SUBS ARE HALF PRICE EVERY TUESDAY! Now Through the end of February Albertson’s Center 2205 Longmire 693-6494 Randall’s Center 607 E. University 691-2276 Do You Have What It Takes to Face Texas A&M’s First Annual AGGIE CHALLENGE?!! AGGIE CHALLENGE is the first true test of strength, stamina, endurance, and dedication. Come test your abilities and compare them to others while competing as an individual or as a relay team consisting of 5 members for prizes, including a $500 academic scholarship awarded to the fastest indi vidual time. Applications will be available beginning Monday, February 26 in the Memorial Student Center, Koldus Building, or Corps of Cadets Guardroom. Applications will also be available at the AGGIE CHAL LENGE informational meetings held on Tuesday, February 27 at 8:30 p.m. and Wednesday, February 28 at 7:15 p.m. in the Memorial Student Center room 292 A. AM interested University Students are encouraged to attend. All applications and $6 per individual (or $35 per team) entry fees will be due by 8:00 a.m. on March 9 to the Corps Guardroom. The AGGIE CHALLENGE has been made - do you have the guts and determination to accept it? AGGIE CHALLENGE - March 31 Take A Mock GRE Given & Scored by Kaplan Use this opportunity to improve your score Sat., March 1, 1996 9:00 a.in. 223 ZACHRY Rony Angkriwan, The Battauon THE PUPPET MASTERS Calvin Lin, an urban regional science PhD is showing Cody Crosswhite, a fourth grade student puppets at a booth during International Week in the MSC. Bats Free to MAES members. $5.00 to other University students. Preregistration in MAES office, 116 Heldenfels and 204 Zachry or 8:30 a.m. Saturday Continued from Page 1 woke to find mysterious bites on their bodies, especially on their toes. Asking native South Ameri cans about the bites, the Spaniards were told of a noc turnal, blood-sucking creature that the Spaniards decided to call “vampire” bat. The crea ture was eventually incorporat- RESTAURANT I STARRING 0 0 0 0 o $1.00 OFF One Large or Small Order of Wings Any Style 0 0 0 0 0 #. WITH CURRENT STUDENT ID 0 0 NOW APPEARING AT TWO LOCATIONS Campus 1045 Texas Avenue South College Station 693-6363 Southwood Valley 3230 Texas Avenue South College Station 694-8966 Tuesday night dine-in only. One order per valid student ID per visit. Major Credit Cards Accepted Amy Browning, The Battalion Dr. Rex Lord, an expert on vampire bats lectured last week. ed into Count Dracula legends, Lord said. Only three species of vam pire bats exist in the world, he said, and they all live in the South American subtropics. He said there are no vam pire bats in Texas. In South America, however, the bats are a serious problem, preying mostly upon cows, pigs and, less frequently, humans. Lord said that during the time he was in South America, he was bit numerous times by vampire bats. “It doesn’t really hurt,” he said. “It’s like cutting yourself with a razor blade.” There have been many in stances of humans being at tacked by bats, Lord said, but as far as he knows, only one fa tality. The victim died of ra bies, not of blood loss. Vampire bats’ saliva con tains an anticoagulant that en ables them to lap up an amount of blood equal to their own small body weights of a few ounces. He said vampire bats sleep during the day and come out to feed at night, usually on cows. Contrary to superstition, Lord said they avoid moonlight because it exposes them to the vision of owls and falcons, birds that have a taste for bat meat. In the vampire bat’s nightly search for blood, Liord said, the only known mammal it will not bite is the cat. Author Continued from Page 1 “After 1 typed everything up, my dad showed it to all his friends,” Gao said. “They thought I had to publish it since it was interesting.” Suzanne Droleskey, A&M’s director of International Stu dent Services, said Gao’s book highlights pertinent cultural is sues and handles them so that readers will gain a better under standing of the two cultures. “There’s nothing pretentious about it,” Droleskey said. “It’s a beautiful voyage of discovery.” A possible next step for Gao is a television special about her book that a Beijing television station has expressed interest in producing. In addition to television of fers, Gao’s publishing company, China Books, has asked her to write an extended version of her book, which would include a second trip to China describ ing how her perspectives have changed since her first visit. FOUNDATION SUPPORTING EDUCATION THROUGH ATHLETICS Earn A Generous Paycheck, Work Flexible Hours, and Help Aggie Athletics! The 12th Man Foundation is now hiring personable Texas A&M students to raise money over the telephone. *5.50 an hour *Flexible Work schedules *Looks good on resume Deadline: Thursday, February 29th Call the 12th Man Foundation office at 846-8892 or come by room 109 in the Koldus Building to apply. Continued from Page 1 But Lewis said that despite the recent speed limit increase on Highway 6 from 55 to 70 miles per hour, he has not noticed an in crease in acci dents. “People are still getting used to the 70 mph speed limit, so they’re not pushing it too much yet,” Lewis said. “Young ^§§1^ drivers, espe- cially, are not used to it since most of them have been used to driving at 55. “I think when people get used to it, the number of speed viola tors on Highway 6 will begin to increase again.” Stephen Pahl, a junior agri cultural development major, said though it has taken some people awhile to get used to dri ving 70 mph, others are alre violating the increased speed limit. “I’ve heard people com plaining about get ting tickets for dri ving 75 mph on Highway 6," . : , k Pahl said. “I’ve also no ticed more people dri ving under the speed limit. Some times it’s easy to forget we can drive that fast now.” Lewis said the Speed STEP pro gram will resurvey sites in September to determine which of them should be includ ed in the 1997 program. tentu im coll The to bted Pres vith recc points b Ifirst-plao [for a 25tl ranking: Senates Continued from Page 1 on the other hand, we have so much in common.” Topics covered at the meet ing included the impact of shrinking resources, the im pact of technological expansion on higher education, directing technological developments to meet faculty and student needs, and working better with non-faculty constituents, in cluding students and alumni. Dr. Charlie Coble, A&M Sen ate sergeant-at-arms and pro fessor of agricultural engineer ing, said the meeting is an ex cellent way for the two schools to compare experiences. “It’s just a way of meeting with representatives from A&M and UT faculty to compare notes on things going on on the campuses,” Coble said. When two schools with such a strong athletic rivalry meet, he said, the general perception might be that a great deal of ribbing surely occurs. But Coble said this is an un true perception. “It’s pretty much of a ‘strict ly business’ kind of event," he said. “You might get a gentle nudge in there once in a while, but it would be very gentle. Something like that is not go ing to be productive in that kind of environment.” Dr. Ray Bowen, A&M presi dent, and Dr. William Liv ingston, UT senior vice presi dent and dean of graduate studies, spoke at a luncheon in A&M’s Faculty Club. Bowen said the speeches addressed the role of research universities and ways to increase state sup port of them, and contained only a little bit of teasing. Bowen said one suggestion made at the meeting involved A&M and UT joining forces to overturn state requirements in history and government. If the two big Texas universities join together, he said, they might make more of an impacton state legislators. This is the sixth year the faculty senates have met and Cantrell said the meeting is al ways a success. “We always come away witi some good ideas,” he said. Sanctions Press secretary Mike McCur- Continued from Page 1 to: —Ask Congress to compen sate victims’ families from $100 million in frozen Cuban assets. The United States wants the United Nations to press Cuba for reparations, as well as to impose international sanctions. —Suspend U.S. charter air - travel to Cuba. Clinton loos ened restrictions in 1995, and 120,000 people flew to Cuba from the United States. —Expand Radio Marti, the U.S. propaganda network that broadcasts in Cuba. —Order additional restric tions on travel in the United States by Cuban officials who live in America. He also im posed further limits on U.S. vis its by Cuban officials. —Seek compromise with Re publican lawmakers on a bill that would dramatically expand sanctions. But he did not ad dress the major sticking point: his opposition to a GOP provi sion allowing Cuban-Americans and others to sue in U.S. feder al courts for compensation from companies that buy property expropriated by the Castro gov ernment. “Saturday’s attack was an appalling reminder of the na ture of the Cuban regime — re pressive, violent, scornful of in ternational law,” Clinton said. ry called the sanctions “a price for outrageous behavior.” Though aides have saida military response is not being considered, Clinton said, “I am not ruling out any further steps” against Castro. Republican reaction was swift and negative. “President Clinton’s re sponse today was tragically in sufficient,” said Rep. Lincoln Diaz-Balart, R-Fla. Rep. Robert Menendez, D N.J., a son of Cuban immi grants, welcomed Clinton’s ac tions but said “while those things are all good, the presi dent simply didn’t go far enough.” Clinton’s decision followed a 75-minute meeting with his top foreign policy advisers. His po litical team invited Cuban Americans to the White House for high-level meetings, hoping to avoid political backlash just two weeks before the Florida primary. Republican presidential hopeful Steve Forbes accused Clinton of accepting “the illu sion ... that you could make a deal with Castro.” “I hope that Bill Clinton has finally recovered from it, Forbes said. The White House, knowing Florida could be vital to Clin ton’s re-election chances, bris tled. “The president was swiftly responding to these events be fore any Republican opened his ... mouth,” McCurry said. 1. Ker 2. UM 3. Kar 4. Cor 5. Pui 6. Vill 7. Cin 8. Ge< 9. Tx' 10. Ul 11. A] 12. P 13. W 14. M 15. S; 16. V 17. U 18. G 19. N 20. 1< 21. L 22. V 23. I< 24. C 25. S Othe pi St. 9 Mexico E. Mich 21. 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