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Evan Zimmerman, The Battalion
Sailing Away
Mark Pillow, a member of the
TAMU Sailing Club and a senior
wildlife and fisheries science major,
demonstrates sailing techniques
outside of the MSC Thursday.
► State
Video commercials
hushed at games
AUSTIN (AP) — After it was
booed by the home crowd,
University of Texas athletics offi
cials say they will turn down the
volume on their JumboTron foot
ball stadium video screen.
Fans were vocal in their oppo
sition to the big screen’s commer
cials, which at times drowned out
the Longhorn band.
The university announced that
three of eight video board sponsors
— Taco Bell, Coca Cola and the
University Federal Credit Union —
have agreed to dump the sound
from their commercials.
The five other advertisers had not
been contacted, the school said.
The $3.5 million video screen,
located above the south end
zone, shows game replays plus
the commercials.
Fans at the Longhorns’ first
two games, against Missouri and
New Mexico State, booed the
commercials as they overwhelmed
the UT band’s music and blared
over the crowds at Darrell K Royal-
Memorial Stadium.
Fans, many of whom flooded
local radio talk shows to com
plain, have said they like the
replays but can do without the
loud commercials.
► This day in history
(AP) — Today is Friday, Sept. 13th, the 257th day of
1996. There are 109 days left in the year. Rosh
Hashanah, the Jewish New Year, begins at sunset.
On this date:
In 1788, the Congress of the Confederation autho
rized the first national election, and declared New York
City the temporary national capital.
In 1948, Republican Margaret Chase Smith of
Maine was elected to the U.S. Senate, becoming the
first woman to serve in both houses of Congress.
In 1993, in a historic scene at the White House,
Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin and PLO chairman
Yasser Arafat shook hands after signing an accord
granting limited Palestinian autonomy.
Ten years ago: Miss Tennessee, Kellye Cash, was
crowned Miss America at the pageant in Atlantic City, NJ.
Five years ago: President Bush, who had suffered
an irregular heartbeat because of a thyroid condition,
was pronounced in “incredible physical condition”
after a check-up by his doctors.
One year ago: The FBI made at least a dozen
arrests, capping a nationwide two-year investigation of
pedophiles and pornographers using the America
Online computer network.
► Today’s Birthdays
Blues singer Charles Brown is 74. Singer Mel Torme
is 71. Actress Eileen Fulton is 63. TV producer Fred
Silverman is 59. Former White House spokesman
Larry Speakes is 57. Actor Richard Kiel is 57. Rock
singer David Clayton-Thomas (Blood, Sweat & Tears) is
55. Actress Jacqueline Bisset is 52. Singer Peter
Cetera (Chicago) is 52. Actress Nell Carter is 48.
Actress Jean Smart is 37. Tennis player Goran
Ivanisevic is 25.
► Nation
CNN sends news
through pagers
ATLANTA (AP) — It’s in your living
room, on the Internet and at the air
port. Now Cable News Network is in
the palm of your hand.
CNN began transmitting news
Thursday to more than 600,000
customers of Dallas-based
PageNet with alphanumeric pagers.
The companies called it the most
widely available service of its kind.
“We want CNN to be available
wherever and whenever people
need access to news,” said Mark
Bernstein, vice president for busi
ness development at CNN
Interactive, a division of the Atlanta-
based cable television network.
CNN will offer news and sports
headlines updated each 30 min
utes between 7 a.m. Eastern and
11 p.m. Eastern. The information
can be called up free of charge by
PageNet customers.
Divers uncover
explorer’s ship
ABOARD THE BELLE, Gulf of
Mexico (AP) — Toni Carrell can’t
wait for each day to begin so she
can get a better look into the past.
She and more than a dozen
other archaeologists are forming
► Weather
a link with the famed French
explorer La Salle and his crew of
pioneers who hoped to build a
colony in the New World more
than 300 years ago.
They wound up by mistake in
steamy, mosquito- and snake-infest
ed southeast Texas, facing hostile
Native Americans, a brutal climate
and a shortage of provisions aggra
vated by the loss of one of their sup
ply ships, The Belle, during a storm
in January 1686.
Sucked into the mud of the Gulf
of Mexico’s Matagorda Bay, The
Belle withstood natural decay and
today is being painstakingly
retrieved, literally piece-by-piece in
a $4 million project of the Texas
Historical Commission.
Historical commission divers
confirmed the find last summer by
recovering a bronze cannon that
was crusty with mud, shellfish and
stones after spending more than
three centuries on the sea floor.
The discovery capped a search
Arnold began in 1978.
Gulf Council votes
for excluder devices
NEW ORLEANS (AP) —
Shrimpers would need trap doors
for fish as well as sea turtles if
rules endorsed Thursday become
part of federal regulations.
The Gulf of Mexico Fishery
Management Council recom
mended “bycatch redi
devices” on all shrimp
other than small test nets
eral waters up to 100 fatt
deep from Cape San Bias,
on west across the Gulf.
About three-quarters oftli!
council members present!
for the proposal, said Rit
Leard, the council’s seniw
eries biologist.
Although 150 species of
molluscs and crustaceans
up in shrimp nets, the l))t
reduction devices are nt
mostly to preserve threali
red snapper stocks by !e
immature fish swim away.
For every pound of shrimp
comes up in a trawl in theG,
Mexcio, at least four pouns
dead fish are tossed overttie
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Septiembre”
Celebrating Independence Day
Friday September 13, 1996
7:00 p.m.
201 Memorial Student Center
Join us for free music and food!
Everyone is welcome!!
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