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< < I NI 113 College Main (409) 846-6620 Used CD’s $ 4.99 - $ 7.99 All New Releases $ 10.99 Live & Rare Imports We pay up to $ 5.00 for used CD’s 2 for 1 trade on Used 3 for 1 trade on New Large Selection of Posters, T-Shirts, Calendars, Postcards, & Stickers Special Orders Always Welcome AGGIE RING ORDERS THE ASSOCIATION OF FORMER STUDENTS CLAYTON W. WILLIAMS, JR. ALUMNI CENTER DEADLINE: April 24, 1996 Undergraduate Student Requirements: 1. You must be a degree seeking student and have a total of 35 credit hours reflected on the Texas A&M University Student Information Management System. (A passed course, which is repeated and passed, cannot count as additional credit hours.) 2. 32 credit hours must have been completed in residence at Texas A&M University, providing that prior to January 1,1994, you were registered at Texas A&M University and successfully completed a fall/spring semester or summer term (I and II or 10 weeks) as a full-time student in good standing (as defined in the University catalog). 5Q credit hours must have been completed in residence at Texas A&M University if your first semester at Texas A&M University was January 1994 or thereafter, or if you do not qualify under the successful semester requirement. Should your degree be conferred with less than 60 resident credits, this requirement will be waived after your degree is posted on the Student Information Management System. 3. You must have a 2J) cumulative GPR at Texas A&M University. 4. You must be in good standing with the University, including no registration or transcript blocks for past due fees, loans, parking tickets, returned checks, etc. Graduate Student Requirements If you are a May 1996 degree candidate and you do not have an Aggie ring from a prior degree, you may place an order after you meet the following requirements: 1. Your degree is conferred and posted on the Texas A&M University Student Information Management System; and 2. You are in good standing with the University, including no registration or transcript blocks for past due fees, loans, parking tickets, returned checks, etc. If you have completed all of your degree requirements and can obtain a “Letter of Completion” from the Office of Graduate Studies, the original letter of completion, with the seal, may be presented to the Ring Office in lieu of your degree being posted. Procedure To Order A Ring: 1. If you meet all of the above requirements, you must visit the Ring Office no later than Wednesday, April 24,1996, to complete the application for eligibility verification. 2. If your application is approved and you wish to receive your ring on June 5, 1996, you must return and pay in full by cash, check, money order, or your personal Visa or Mastercard (with your name imprinted) no later than April 26,1996. Men’s 10K-$314.00 14K - $428.00 Women’s 10K - $175.00 14K - $204.00 Add $8.00 for Class of ‘95 or before. The ring delivery date is June 5, 1996. ATTENTION: UNDERGRADUATE & GRADUATE STUDENTS Students who will either complete all of the above requirements after the Spring ‘96 semester final grades are posted or after commencement, may order their rings beginning approximately May 23, 1996. Please visit the Aggie Ring Office between May 1 & 15 to complete an audit request and to receive further information. Since ring prices for the May-June order will not be available until May 1, please do not go the Ring Office until then. In the event you will not be in the College Station area between May 23 and June 12 to place your order in person, you need to pick up a mail order form and be sized for your ring before you leave town. A+ TUTORING 260-2660 SCIENCE AND ENGINEERING MON Apr 22 TUES Apr 23 WED Apr 24 THUR Apr 25 CHEM 102 3 - 5 PM CH 28, 29 CH 30, 31 CH 32 REVIEW CH 15- 19 CHEM 101 5-7 PM CH 13 CH 14 REVIEW CH 1-4 REVIEW CH 5-9 CHEM 102 7 - 9 PM CH 28, 29 CH 30, 31 CH 32 REVIEW CH 15- 19 PHYS 218 9-11 PM CH 13 CH 19 CH 20 CH 14 PHYS 201 11 PM - 1 AM CH 20, 21 CH 22, 23 REVIEW CH 1-5 REVIEW CH 6-10 SAT Apr 27 SUN Apr 28 PHYS 201 2-6 PM CH 20, 21, 22, 23 FINAL EXAM REVIEW / CH 1-10 ONLY TIME RHYS 201 WILL BE OFFERED FOR THE FINAL EXAM IS THIS WEEK!! MON Apr 22 TUES Apr 23 WED Apr 24 MATH 151 5 - 7 or 7 - 9 PM PART 1 PART 2 PART 3, PRAC TEST PHYS 208 9-11 PM CH 35 CH 36/37 CH 38 BUSINESS MON Apr 22 TUES Apr 23 WED Apr 24 THUR Apr 25 ACCT 230 5 - 7 PM REVIEW EXAM 1, 2 REVIEW EXAM 3 CH 14 CH 15, 16 ACCT 229 7-9 PM REVIEW EXAM 1, 2 REVIEW EXAM 3 CH 14 CASH FLOW CH 13, 15, 17, 18 FINC 341 9 - 11 PM REVIEW EXAM 1, 2 REVIEW EXAM 3 CH 20 CH 19 TICKETS GO ON SALE SUNDAY, APR 21 FROM 4 - 6 PM Page 4 • The Battalion Aggielife Monday • April 22, 1991 Strong acting cannot save The Substitute (from left) Glen Plummer and Tom Berenger star in The Substitute, a film about a special forces operative posing as a teacher. By Wes Swift The Battalion It’s amazing that when a direc tor puts together two solid actors, a lot of violence and a high school, as in Tom Berenger’s new film The Substitute, the result can still turn out to be a total waste. Berenger stars as Shale, a spe cial forces operative who takes over his friend’s (Diane Vemora) high school class when she is ruthlessly beaten by the gang who rules the campus. Shale brings all his commando and mercenary skills to the class room, where he comes into con flict with Juan Lacas (Marc An thony), the gang kingpin with ties to a major drug-running scam in Movie Review The Substitute Starring Tom Berenger and Ernie Hudson Directed by Robert Mandel Rated R Playing at Hollywood 16 ** (out of the school. What Shale discovers amid the misguided youths is a web of graft, corruption and backstab- bing that only he can fix with his Rambo-esque crew of soldiers. To expose any more of the plot would leave nothing to the imagination. Needless to say, there is a showdown with Lacos, his drug running com rades and even a cor rupt principal (Ernie Hudson). The quirky combi nation of First Blood and Dangerous Minds shows little, if any, imagination. It seems as if direc tor Robert Mandel decided to take a little bit from both movies, mix in a few Arnold Schwarzenegger-like one-liners and produce a film that would try to please all types of audiences. Instead, The Substitute comes across as a two-hour yawn, nothing but a slightly laughable distraction. The segment of the plot focus ing on cleaning up a drug-decays school was done much better in Lean On Me with Morgan Free man and with James Belushiin The Principal. It’s a shame that two actors such as Hudson and Berenger, who was nominated for an Oscar for his role in Platoon, wastetlieir talents in the film. Berenger is good as the road weary Shale, and Hudson fits tie bill as Rolle, the corrupt princic;: Other than those perfor mances, 77ie Substitute provides nothing but a chance to see what happens when a director mixes a too many ingredients into too small a plot. In the end, The Substituted Monday • Mi< Continu was called sent. Fa friends an candle, mi spirit of 1 part of the Along \ portion of Mi Continm new incer raising th( the Office decided in be chosei March to t Officers cadets wl during hoi seniors frc outfit will Tina Cam| symbol of i as one of tl French Twist sheds light on European humoi Movie Review French Twrfst Starring Victoria Abril, Alaine C and Josiane Baiasko Directed by Jostane Baiasko mm By Amber Clark The Battalion It’s European. Moreover, it’s French — with subtitles. Need we say more. Well, maybe. In French Twist, Laurent (Alaine Chabat) is a high-class real estate agent who closes most deals with a sordid encounter. His wife, Loli (Victoria Abril), sits at home with the kids while her husband and his various mistresses frolic on nu merous couches. When a trucker’s (Josiane Baiasko) van breaks down in front of Loli’s house, she in vites the rather masculine woman in for tea. After several hours of conversation, trucker Marijo realizes that Loli is unhappy in her marriage, while Loli discovers that Marijo is a lesbian. Strongly drawn to one another, Loli and Marijo begin an affair in part to retaliate against Laurent’s constant philandering. Laurent is of course disgusted with Marijo and her lifestyle, and despite his own infi delity, cannot accept his wife’s cheating. Soon a three-way battle ensues as Lau rent and Marijo fight jealously for Loli’s affection. Loli twists the contest into an opportunity to finally control her own life, finding personal and sexual liberation a refreshing alternative. Eventually, Loli’s satisfaction devolves into confusion beyond her control. When forced to decide between the com mitment to her husband and the passion for her lover, Loli finds that the choice be tween love and true love remains elusive, even destructive. The humor French Twist relies upon is of course very European — witty, dry and occa sionally dark. Those with a distaste for al ternative lifestyles should undoubtedly steer clear from the film. On the other hand, if one does not mind a rather humorous, if not insightful story, the movie provides a decidedly European view of infidelity and sexual politics. Spaniard Abril is fantastic as Dili. She ex udes the beautiful-while-oppressed domestic look, stunningly attractive yet burdened by an apron and two kids. Abril wonderfully trans forms Loli from a submissive little woman into a dominating mistress as she gains confidence in herself and her sexuality. Perhaps most charming is Loli’s ten dency to curse wildly in Spanish whent gry, providing for at least some multilin gual comic relief. Chabat’s Laurent represents thesterw typical unfaithful husband who can al ways justify his own actions but never those of his wife. Vacillating between the whining, gro' eling husband and an intolerant, dehu manizing bastard, Chabat creates quite> hateable character. The truly interesting and complex figm* is Balasko’s Marijo. As the middle ground between Loli and Laurent, she offers adi chotomy between the sexes, yetprovidesai pects of both. While overtly a masculine characterin her appearance and demeanor, Marijo re tains the sensitivity and sensibility whicli seems to elude most of the men in the film The only downfall of French Twist emerges in the last half-hour as numerous subplots come crashing together. Intending to draw the film into a single plot, thedivef gent storylines, while independently great fail to mesh smoothly. This clumsy and apparently forced cot elusion left at least this audience membe 1 confused and wondering “What the hell just happened?” GDI THE SEMESTER’S-DVER-WHAT- AM-I-GDING-TD-DO-THIS- BillSIIiaillllllK^H WE’VE GDI THE CURE! How About A SummerJob In Britain? Call: 1-800-INTL JOB (468-5562) Council CIEE: Council on International Educational Exchange HOME EVENTS This week 4/22 TO 4/28 Tues. 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