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J CURRENT DONORS I Receive an extra $10 when you bring in a friend and they donate four times in their first 2 weeks. KANM 99.9 FM Cable The Alternative DJ Information Meeting DJ Positions Available Creativity Welcomed No ExperienceNecessary Everyone Invited to Apply Wednesday June 5, 1996 7:00 p.m. Ruddef Rm 601 UPD offers safety tips on the Internet WE[ The UPD homepage allows students to read about real-life crime dramas |ime By Tauma Wiggins The Battalion OLD DONORS: | Receive an extra $5 on I your next dona lion if I you haven’t donated in I 2 or more months. The University Police Depart ment has taken steps to bring UPD information closer to A&M students with the creation of a UPD web homepage. The web page contains help ful information for students. Students can use “Look-Into Our Director, TVlr. FBI,’” to read about the real-life crime dramas experienced by Robert E. Wiatt, director of UPD. Wiatt earned the nickname “Mr. FBI” as a result of his 30 years with the Federal Bureau of Investigation. Students can access “Annual Crime Statistics,” including the number of murders, sex offenses, burglaries and drug charges on campus and “Crime Prevention Information,” listing prevention tips, programs and services pro vided by the University. Det. Will Scott and Maj. Mike Ragan created the web page af ter observing similar sites of oth er university police departments around the country. Ragan said there will be many additions to the UPD web page. “We’re just getting this off the ground,” he said. “We have a lot more planned and will expand it quite a bit.” Some planned additions that students can look for are the “Crime of the Week,” where a se rious crime on campus will be re vealed to the public. Ragan said it will be for the benefit of Aggie parents as well as students. “We’re hoping that this (“Crime of the Week”) will also help parents,” Ragan said. “For example, a parent in Houston could see what’s going on at A&M if they had access to the Internet.” The crime prevention sec tion will eventually display a map of the different sections on campus where “blue light” phones are located, so students can become more familiar with their locations. The UPD web site will also contain links to other related Internet sites such as Crime Stoppers, police departments in major Texas cities and possi bly other university police de partments in the Big 12. Students can access the UPD home page at http ://www. tamu. e du/upd. UPD on the Net : — — iWiiiBi ■ . . . "I V' • '■'■■■ Students can access the UPD homepage on the Internet at iiiiftMiiiii http://www. tomu. Campus crime not increased by handgun law By Melissa Nunnery The Battalion Since the concealed handgun law went into effect Jan. 1, Uni versity Police Department re ports there have been no prob lems with students carrying guns on campus. “Most crimes committed on campus are property crimes,” Bob Wiatt, director of the Uni versity Police Department, said. “We’re not going to be vigilantes. People don’t have to carry guns on campus to protect themselves from crime.” It is a third-degree felony to carry a gun on campus, even with a permit. Wiatt said since the law went into effect, there has not been a significant change in the number of violent crimes at A&M. Wiatt said he has no reserva tions about people’s obtaining permits because of the training required provides people with awareness of proper gun usage. Concealed handgun training has been available in Bryan-Col- lege Station since the law went into effect. Dave Burdett, owner of Bur- dett & Son Outdoor Adventure Shop in Bryan, offers handgun training at his shop. “Not many Aggies have taken the class,” Burdett said. “The re sponse has been from an older crowd, mostly males.” Burdett said people want to carry guns for protection. “When the law went into ef fect, it was the first time hones) people could legally carry a con cealed handgun to protect them selves,” he said. The training class teaches Lht legal aspects of carrying a gun safe gun handling, marksman ship, methods to avoid violen) confrontations and verbal alter natives to shooting. Both Wiatt and Burdett saic there have been no complaints from the community about peo ple carrying guns. Texas Ag finished; Me By Phil The Ba &aW by Chuck Johnson \T SAY5. HERE Youtv LA-ST EMPLOYER WA'i G*ot?, AND You WERE AN ANIMAL PESI £*N ER... New WHAT wa^> Your v For ternm nation ? Sko&sh By Quatro Unemployed angels EOPLE II\ THE NEW MQ Hammer’s soon-to-be song: Cant pay this OAKLAND, Calif. (AP) — Rapper M.C. Hammer says he can't pay his bills, including a $500,000 loan from Dallas Cowboys' star Deion Sanders. Hammer told a bankruptcy court this week he has $9.6 million in assets and $ 1 3.7 million in debts, but has no months ago and listed among his debts $110,000 to an interior decora tor who went out of business when Hammer didn't pay; $100,000 to the IRS; $500,000 to a lawyer; and the Sanders loan. idea how much money he'll get from royalties for past blockbuster recordings. The 34-year- old singer, whose real name is Stan ley Kirk Burrell, said his records “could be selling anywhere out there. (But) as far as being in, like, a reg-. ular job, it doesn't work like that.'' Hammer filed for bankruptcy two Grant — for once wins victory in court case HAMMER LONDON (AP) — Hugh Grant got some good publicity for a change. The boyish British actor arrested last year with a Los Angeles prostitute has won an apology, legal costs and an undisclosed amount of damages from the owners of Today, a defunct news paper that accused him of verbally abusing a film extra. The London daily reported in Janu ary 1995 that Grant harassed an 11- year-old boy while filming “The Englishman Who Went Up a Hill and Came Down a Moun tain." The London daily went out of business in No vember; the movie fared not much better. 4,000 castoffs to Neiman Marcus, where hundreds of shoppers lined up Tuesday to buy the diamond-studded duds and designer clothing. Proceeds from the sale were to ben efit his AIDS charity. High-heeled platform shoes, fur- trimmed glasses and sherbet-colored tuxedos have been a mainstay of Elton John's video and concert wardrobe for 20 years. GRANT Elton John cleans closet, benefits AIDS charity ATLANTA (AP) — When Elton John cleans out his closet, there's enough to fill a department store. 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