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Pay • October 7,15 Page 3 Monday • October 7, 1996 People in the News 0 minutes will a topics such as he; business. Duniif , news updates will ong "appointment' ; a nightly interviei chored by Catherine^ mouncing his pteMEW YORK (AP) — The 20- anks coaches incing actors news channel I, , Murdoch said# CNN had become recent years and lallenged. ntist discow s to illness IINGTON (AP) - A itist says he has disa material commontt /eterans that coult s to why so many r serving in the 19! rbiologist Dr. Hoi in a study beingprea a conference of Gifil in Tampa, Fla.,saKlfc rker could point totiei a virus. The virus, in I ake veterans expose 5t in 1964 11 agents or otherti sceptible to illness,lie 1 nethings who play devoted s of the Wonders in Tom Han- directorial debut, That Thing Do, had to be coached in the lie art of ’60s dancing and decorum: Mashed potato in, head-bang ing out. "It's really a matter of ex plaining to them what they can not do,” Hanks told Entertain ment Weekly in its Oct. 11 is- . “It’s hard when you’re talking n audience of 300 people and of the first things you have to is, look, please do not high- each other. High-fiving did not Hanks lise from NBC )nly later, he added, when the ne is done and the bouffant aport came astiiePs scorne 0 ff “do | actually get to nder increased pfa iall their tattoos." I ingress and veteial o examine the eiT ISHClS CcISt ££0tS op exposure to clier* housed in a s arsenal blowmij 391. entagon denied until that evidence existed cans were contaminslal nical or cknowledges ould have been expos! toxic nerve agent saiim rd gas at the i southern Iraq. Highs & Lows 85°F 61°F Tomorrow's Expected High 86°F Tomorrows. Expected I 59°F Student Chapter of tta m Sun-Thu. IEW YORK (AP) — NBC has lesure Friends will be there for - through the 1999 TV sea- at least. After months of robust negotia- is, the six stars of the hit sit- nhave agreed to a new con st that will pay them $75,000 :h episode this season — up it$30-35,000 last year. Next year, their salaries will in- :ase to $85,000 and then »e to $100,000 in 1998. By sixth year of the sitcom in 9, each will make $120,000 episode, TV Guide reports in Today’s ExpectedHftweek’s issue. Series creators Marta Kauffman ilDavid Crane were increasingly Kerned about the drawn-out ne- ialions involving Jennifer Anis- i,Courteney Cox, Lisa Kudrow, 'NLeBlanc, Matthew Perry and idSchwimmer. Kauffman and Crane felt the Kswere hurting the quality of show and pushed both the and Warner Bros., the show’s Auction company, to make a si,the magazine reports. Twain earch on for me Alone star ring :260*co4 new york (AP) It z, O’Brien & Lu WANTED: ichievous yet lovable prankster to fill sneakers of departing lid star. Applicants should have png vocal cords, angelic smile, pish mind. Blond hair a plus. Responsibilities include foiling fguys, throwing temper tantrums, quent promotional appearances, mpensation generous. About a thousand would-be stars — and their parents — turned out for a Home Alone III casting call Saturday, bright-eyed and eager to ham it up for Holly wood. They were vying for the man tle of Macaulay Culkin, the one time child star who, at 16, is no longer quite right for the lead role. “I like to show off" said 8-year- old Alex Zakupowsky, who flew from Washington, D.C., with his mother for the audition. “Tm a re ally big fan of Macaulay Culkin ... and I’d like to be famous.” Saturday’s audition was just the start for 20th Century Fox’s nationwide search for the heir to Culkin’s crown. The studio also plans open calls in Los Angeles, Seattle and Chicago. Twain’s husband dodges spotlight NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) — When Shania Twain showed up for last week’s Country Music Association awards show in Nashville, hus band Mutt Lange wasn’t along to escort the popular Ca nadian hitmak- er. Chances are that her husband-producer-song writing partner won’t be holding hands with Twain at other public functions either. “He never comes with me,” Twain tells Country Weekly maga zine. “I don't think he ever will, and I totally understand where he comes from. “He's a very humble guy and basically doesn’t want to be a star. He just wants to be a person who makes the music.” Grammer hurts NBC with habit NEW YORK (AP) — Kelsey Cram mer’s stay at the Betty Ford Center could cost his network more than just a little bad press. TV Guide reports in the Oct. 19 issue that NBC may have to air re runs of his show Frasier for part of the fall season. The network could lose as much as $500,000 in ad vertising revenue each time it shows a repeat. The loss of new Frasier episodes could also hurt ratings for Caroline in the City, which fol lows Grammer’s Emmy-winning sitcom Tuesday nights. Grammer was arrested for al leged drunken driving Sept. 21 after he flipped his Dodge Viper near his home in suburban Los Angeles. Graeber, Cartoon Ei# k, Christie Humpliiies.Caila 1 ' 1 - r iber Huff, John LeBas.Aaro^ lor ng, Jeremy Furtick, Colby Gaf* 1 David Boldt, Bryan GoodwT ;; rd, Mason Jackson, Sean He ir & Angie Rodgers a Matt Weber ael Redington & Ryan Reg®# epot, Ed Goodwin, Daveltf 1 y in the Division of StudentM^ Building. Newsroom phone: J.tamu.edu. The Battalion. For campus, 3. Advertising offices are inO# - ' 78. pick up a single copyofThe 8 -'.. ar.To charge by Visa, MasteiCi' : « fall and spring semestesir^, periods) atTexasA&MUnited' { Itanges to The Battalion,CIS'-’ Co-op Career Fair Zachry Engineering Center Lobby Monday, October 7 Tuesday, October 8 Different employers each day A&M’s iiiiii|no language captured in Trm iffk llirtiiiiim Former student completes book after five years of research By Shea Wiggins The Battalion W hen Nancy Barnes transferred to Texas A&M her senior year a for eign language invaded her ears. «CT” ) “red ass”, “crunchy”, “pusheye,” “sky buggy”, and “Leather Legs” were part of the lingo Barnes had to translate. She started to decipher and learn the Aggies- peak with a small box of index cards used for definitions. The note cards grew into a book she recently published, The Texas Aggie Dictionary. “No one else has a language of their own like Texas A&M University,” Barnes said. Barnes, Class of ’79, spent years in re search and exploration of A&M’s archives to compile the dictionary. The book includes definitions of terms, historical stories of past generations, the sheet music for school songs and the school yells. “It is a fun-filled book with the origins of the Aggie language,” Barnes said. “It gives you historical origins of words like ‘whoop’, which came from the trains of early College Station.” Barnes transferred to A&M from New Mexico State University for her senior year of undergraduate school. “The main reason I [wrote the book] was because I had gone to another school,” Barnes said. “When I transferred, I was so overwhelmed by school spirit that I felt the need to write it all down.” Barnes said that there are many anec dotes included that most A&M students are unfamiliar with. “We have stories about the other dogs besides Reveille that have lived at A&M,” Barnes said. “The dog Ranger was here in the 1940s and the 1950s. He was so popu lar that The Battalion endorsed him for the U.S. presidency.” Barnes said the terms defined in the book have interesting stories behind them. “A ‘bag monster’ is the invisible monster that keeps you from going to class in the morning. A ‘sky buggy’ was the contraption in 1945 that drove Coach Hormer Norton, who had just undergone stomach surgery, up and down the field to coach the football game. An ‘ice cream suite’ is a term used to describe the yell leaders’ uniforms,’’she said. Phil Barnes, illustrator of the dictionary and Class of ’80, said his wife interviewed many groups before she wrote the book. “We looked to old Ags, current Ags, sorority girls, dorm residents, current CTs, yell leaders, red pots and the archives,” Barnes said. “We interviewed as far back as the Class of ’30.” Barnes said the book is the first one since the 1940s to have sheet music print ed in it. “Even the band and the singing cadets don’t have the original sheet music,” Barnes said. Barnes said he and his wife created the dictionary to preserve Aggie history. “We wanted to docu ment a lot of the history, traditions and words,” Barnes said. “A lot of the fine points of our history are being lost” Barnes said the real attraction of the book is that it contains the past, present and fu ture of A&M. “There is something in it for the Class of 1945 and for the Class of 2005,” Barnes said. “A lot of grandparents are buying the book for their grandchildren who are just thinking about attending A&M.” Nancy Sawtell, direc tor of communications for research and gradu ate students at Texas A&M and Class of ’82, was around the couple while they searched for information. “They collected sto ries from Phil and my husband’s Corps bud dies and asked a lot of questions on campus,” Sawtell said. “They cre ated part of the culture ne Dictionary Nancy 8, Barnes ’79 ^ ,1,^ Illustrations by Phi! Barnes ’80 An ta Bag Monster-the invisible mon ster thiit keeps students from going to class in the morning Skv Buggy- - , in 1945, drove Mi Homer Norton up and down the football field to roaih the team after he had under gone ' ' surgery. ICE CrlamSeite-term to de scribe the yell leaders’ definitions from The Terns Aigie Dictionary of being an Aggie.” Sawtell said they have a copy of the dictionary. “I went to TCU for undergraduate school,” Sawtell said. “The Old Army defi nitions are the most unique terms to me. Every university has its traditions. This helps current students to know what for mer students did and knew about.” Barnes autographed the dictionary for customers at Hasting’s Bookstore the weekend of the Colorado game. “The book is already a success,” Barnes said. “It is locally written and locally pub lished. It is a book for everyone. It is not tar geted at football, the Corps or another group like many books about A&M are. It is the first book not just about one subject.” Barnes said her degrees from A&M in veterinary public health studies have nothing to do with writing books, but she wants to pursue writing when she gradu ates with her Ph.D. in December. “This school has changed my life because now I want to be a writer,” Barnes said. “I have lots of ideas for articles and books, and A&M has given me a good start. I have been working up to writing for a long time.” MONDAY, October 7 ABB Vetco Cray Advanced Micro Devices ARCO Chemical City of Missouri City/Engineering Cryovac Elk Corporation Entergy Operations Halliburton Energy Services H.B. Zachry H.E.B. Hewlett Packard - Convex Division Hoechst Celanese Honeywell Lockheed Martin Space Information Lyondell-Citigo Motorola, AMC NASA - JSC National Instruments Praxair, Inc. 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