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Supported by: Brazos Valley Arts Council, the Texas Commission on the Arts, the University Honors Program, and The Eagle. Tickets available at the MSC Box Office Adults - $10.00 Senior Citizens (65+) - $7.00 Students- $5.00 Parking available in the University Center Parking Garage. ($.60p/hr) Rudder Theatre is Handicapped Accessible. For Information: 845-3355 or 845-1234. SALE • SALE • SALE • SALE • SALE • SALE • 4- CONTACT LENSES UJ 111 LU LU SALE AND QUALITY CARE FOR THE WHOLE FAMILY AT AFFORDABLE PRICES ^ONEPAIR 29 or BUY TWO PAIR AND GET TWO PAIR FREE Clear or Tinted Standard Soft Contact Lenses Plus Free Care Kit WE HAVE ALL TYPES OF CONTACT LENSES AVAILABLE AND SATURDAY HOURS Call 846-0377 for information on FREE LENSES SAME DAY DELIVERY ON MOST LENSES ‘EXAM NOT INCLUDED CHARLES C. SCHROEPPEL, O.D., P.C. DOCTOR OF OPTOMETRY 505 University Dr. East, Suite 101 College Station, TX 77840 On University Drive between Randall’s & Black Eyed Pea m m SALE • SALE • SALE • SALE • SALE • SALE • SALE Page 2 • The Battalion • Monday, June 24, 1996 Report ranks A&M’s engineering departments among nation’s best By Brandon Hausenfluck The Batt alion Three departments in Texas A&M’s College of Engineering have recently been ranked among the top 10 best in the country by the Gourman Report. The Gourman Report named the petroleum, agri cultural and industrial engineering departments among the nation’s best. On the basis of 18 criteria, including faculty qualifications, quality of students, admission re quirements and computer facilities, the Gourman Report rates academic programs. The Department of Petroleum Engineering ranked first among 22 leading institutions with a score of 4.91 on a five-point scale. A&M outperformed the Universi ty of Texas, the University of Tulsa, Louisiana State University and Stanford University. The four are ranked second through fifth, respectively. Dr. James Russell, head of the Department of Petroleum Engineering, said all aspects of a de partment’s program are taken into consideration in the ranking process. “Highly ranked departments have outstanding current and former students, an excellent faculty and first-class facilities and support,” he said. “The petroleum engineering department at Texas A&M University has all of these attributes, and we are proud to be ranked first.” The Department of Agricultural Engineering ranked second out of 38 institutions with a score of 4.90. Cornell University was first, and Iowa State University, Michigan State Univer sity and the University of Wisconsin ranked third through fifth, respectively. Dr. James Gilley, head of the Department of Agricultural Engineering, said the department is proud to be second in the nation because it brings TOP RANKED PETROLEUM ENGINEERING A I;; L f: ■' AGRICULTURA ENGINEERING / ■ ■ ': ' A. • .. of 22 fop schoo of 38 instituHd 10 th wm ENGINEERING notoriety to the University and the Department of Agricultural Engineering. “This recognition, along with the other national rankings recently released by others across the country, reflects very positively on the department and the direction of both our undergraduate and graduate programs,” he said. “We believe this con firms the absolutely outstanding quality of the agricultural engineering faculty and the types of the students being attracted to the departmental academic programs.” With a score of 4.66, the Department of Indus trial Engineering ranked 10th among 34 institu tions. Stanford, the University of Michigan, the University of California-Berkeley, Purdue Univer sity, Northwestern University, the Georgia Insti tute of Technology, Cornell, Ohio State University and Columbia University were ranked first through ninth, respectively. Democrats aim program at middle class voters news BRIEFS Committee to interview Commandant candidates During the next three weeks, three candidates for the position of Corps Commandant will be on campus for interviews. A search advisory committee headed by Malon Southerland, vice president for Student Affairs, has se lected three career military officers for on-campus interviews. The commandant serves as the senior student affairs professional in charge of the 2,200-member Corps of Cadets. The individuals selected for in terview are Maj. Gen. Jay D. Blume Jr., Ma. Gen. M.T. "Ted" Hopgood Jr., and Lt. Gen. J.T. "Terry" Scott. Blume retired in February as the Air Force Chief of Staff's special as sistant for base realignment and transition. Hopgood is the current president of the Marine Corps Uni versity. Scott is currently comman der of the U.S. Army Special Opera tions Command. Train, car collide; one inj’ury results At 5:47 p.m. Saturday College Station police officers were called to respond to an accident between a train and a car at the intersection of FM 21 54 and George Bush Drive. Adam Diaz of Austin, was west bound on George Bush Drive in a 1995 Plymouth Neon when he crossed the tracks in front of an on coming, southbound train. Sgt. Dean of the College Station Police Department, said the train struck the right, front quarter of the car and propelled it about 15 feet. There were four people in the car, but only Diaz, who was dri ving, received minor injuries. Hurricane Alma hits Mexico's east coast SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico (AP) — On palm-dotted islands through out the Caribbean, hundreds of victims of the 1995 hurricane sea son are still sheltered in tents or under tarpaulin roofs. A new storm season is already upon them. Even though forecasts are for a milder season, the ravages of last year mean more people are vulnerable to even low-grade storms. The damage this year could be just as great. The first hurricane of the year, Hurricane Alma, hit Mexico's south ern Pacific coast on Sunday, spinning winds of up to 100 miles per hour that damaged homes and downed power lines. There were no immedi ate reports of injury. Alma was ex pected to dump up to 12 inches of rain on coastal areas, possibly caus ing flash floods. The Atlantic hurricane season covers the Atlantic, the Caribbean and the Gulf of Mexico. The Pacif ic has distinct eastern and western seasons, and Hurricane Alma is one of those storms. The first storm of the Atlantic season, named Arthur, occurred off the coast of Florida last week. FAIRFAX, Va. (AP) — Con gressional Democrats plan to go door-to-door across America to push a “families first” legislative package aimed squarely at win ning middle class voters and re taking Capitol Hill. The Democratic agenda, in the works for months and for mally rolled out on Sunday in a five-city virtual town meeting, is the minority party’s answer to the “Contract With America” that helped the GOP win control of Congress in 1994. In promoting the proposed tax breaks and health, education and crime programs, House De mocratic leader Richard Gephardt implored Americans to give the Democrats “another chance to lead” the nation. “Democrats have an obliga tion to tell the American people not just what we stand against, but what we stand for,” the Mis souri congressman said in open ing the 75-minute program from the Old Town Hall here. “You see, Democrats don’t want to merely win back the gavel. We want to deserve it.” Republicans denounced the proposals as “tiny ideas from tiny minds.” “I know that anytime a dozen Democrats can agree on any thing it makes news,” said Rep. John Boehner, R-Ohio, chairman of the House Republican Confer ence. “The American people are smart enough to see this election year rhetoric for what it is: vi sionless hot-air.” Gephardt conceded that in years past Democrats didn’t do enough to address Americans’ everyday problems, causing vot er dissatisfaction that helped Republicans take over both houses of Congress in 1994. “The bottom line is that De mocrats are asking for another chance to lead,” he said, reach ing audiences in Sacramento, Calif., Houston, Des Moines, Iowa and Dearborn, Mich. The presentation, via satellite linking this Washington suburb and other sites nationwide, played like an “infomercial” with scripted questions from pre-se lected citizens and answers from lawmakers. The product: a set of 21 initiatives, including several already proposed by President Clinton, aimed at helping the eco nomically squeezed middle class. Among the Democrats’ pro posals: tax breaks for parents to pay for child care; requiring pri vate insurance companies to pro vide “kids-only” health plans; stiffer penalties for corporate pension abuses; cracking down on “deadbeat” parents by giving states new tools to enforce child support orders and collect pay ments; creating a national effort to prevent teen pregnancy and holding corporations responsible for keeping drinking water and air clean. The Republicans’ Contract With America — including the key promise of balancing the nation’s budget within seven years — won handily in the House but most items have foundered in the Senate or were vetoed by Clinton. 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