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The Battalion )y • October 31 "This is the perfectopi r the citizens of Arizona ate with Kerri and tiergia oment as one of tilt rilling performers in0( story,” Bowl presidei ilich said. Strug catapulted tofai t vault on an injured nched the first-evei • the U.S. women’s gp am during the Summei "If I could be a grand lefinitely want it to be a; ta Bowl because it 1 na," said Strug, a natf n. "Doing something ikes me feel great." eorge Lucas p mltimediai SAN RAFAEL, Calif. :e was with George Lucas isade to expand hisen nt and computer empire, Marin County supervisors inimously Tuesday to apow proposal for construed 7 million digital film andn i multimedia compound, Tm glad we finally mam ch this level," the creator r Wars trilogy said after e. "After all this energy am great to be over this huR Lucas said he hopes to und within two years on t that would adjoin Shi ich, his headquarters it California since 1979. Some neighbors of Lucas ch had complained (lie i would bring heavy trai upt life for the welftodos San Francisco. Thursday Page S October 31, 1996 Highs &Loi Today's Expecid 85°F Tonight's Exped 67°F Tomorrw! Expected 83°F Tomorron'.\i.i Expected lei 58°F nformation courtesyofTW asma Center ersity that ters to New Donors!” .Smallest, easiesl wayin i extra money Lie back,rdfi or just visit: then receivccjA! your time, and plasm,i! icals, Inc. Dr. East 11 $25 em: 268-6058 25 on your first tlonali ALIGN m in Chief Kendra Rasmussen, Cm Tom Day, Sports Em Stew Milne, Visual Arts EC* Chris Yung, Web Editor Tim Moog, Photo Editor Brad Graeber, Cartoon Ed ik, Brandon HausenfluckOinstieRs' a Roy, Meredith Stewart, Courtney® 1 '’' 'ancis, Kimber Huff, John LeBas.Ai# 1 e Chancellor Sara Duesing, Jeremy Fuitick.Coltii^ H. Baxter, David Boldt, Bryan Goo*’ snnifer Howard, Mason Jackson,Stf 1 Chancellor & Angie Rodgers a Panzica & Matt Weber tmes, Rachel Redington&Rya . oonists: Michael Depot, Ed Good*'* A&M University in the DivisioiiofSt#' D13 Reed McDonald Building. Netf''’ : Internet Address: http://bat-wW '' dorsement by The Battalion, ForcanF Using, call 845-0569.Ad«ltisi(lgoff^< ^, through Friday. Fax: 845-2678. student to pick up a single copy of# * 0 per full year.To charge byVisa.Masti^ iday during the fall and spring semtSs sity holidays and exam periods) at®*! D ostmaster: Send addresschari^®'' tation.TX 77843-1111. The Thursday, Oct. 31 MSC Film Society is showing Psycho at Rudder Theater Complex at 9:30 p.m. Hotard Hall, a Northside residence hall, is host ing Hotard From Hell from 6 p.m. to midnight. Trick or Treat for children of A&M faculty and staff is in the Fowler-Hughes-Keathley Complex on Northside from 6:30 p.m. to 9 p.m. Free re freshments are in 131 Fowler. RHA is hosting RHAIIoween for children to go through dorms trick-or-treating. Open to all chil dren of B-CS. Meet at Ruder Fountain anytime from 7 p.m. to 9 p.m., Haas, a Northside residence hall, is having a carni val for the children of the community and the ones participating in the RHAIIoween program. The Fowler-Hughes-Keathley Complex is having a haunted house for University students. Fifty cents admission or a canned good will get you in from 9:30 p.m. to 11:30 p.m. Meet in the A-l lounge. Hart and Appelt are having haunted houses at their Southside dorms for the children of the community and will also be visited by some of the RHAIIoween children. MSC Cepheid Variable is hosting “Otherworldly Sci-Fi Disco” in MSC 226 from 7p.m. to 11 p.m. It is a canned food drive with free refreshments and a costume contest. Class of "00 is hosting a haunted house at the Vet School, 8 p.m. to midnight, adults $3, couples $5, children 5-12 $1. The Northgate District Associationis hosting a Halloween Street Party in the Patricia Street Parking Lot with The Woodies, The Suspects, and The Rockafellas. Shows start at 6 p.m. The Europe Club, Caribbean Student Associa tion and the International Student Association are having a Halloween party at 3rd Floor Canti na 8 p.m. The party is open to the public. Off-Campus Aggies are showing “The Dead Zone” at the Palace Theater; HALF-LIFE is play ing. There will also be a psychic, body piercing and a costume contest, 9 p.m. to 1 a.m., $5. All proceeds go to the Red Cross. Zeta Tau Alpha is hosting Halloween on Sorority Row. Each house is sponsoring a different activ ity for children to participate in, face painting, haunted house, bobbing for apples, games; roads will be blocked off and security guards will be placed at the corners for safety; on sorority row from 6 p.m. to 9 p.m. Sigma Phi Epsilon presents its 3rd Annual Haunted House benefiting Scotty’s House in Bryan at the Fort Shiloh Steak House, 2528 Texas Avenue South, starts at 8 p.m., tickets $5 at the door, $1 off with a canned good, $4 ad vance tickets available at Marooned Records. Omega Delta Phi is having a Fright Knight scholarship hellraiser at El Tejano Ranch with a costume contest with prizes. Prices are $3 with a costume, $4 without. Zeta Psi is having a haunted house. Call 822- 2602 for directions, $4 with a canned good and $5 without, starts at 8 p.m. Kappa Sigma is hosting the Wicked Woods. A shuttle is running from the Barracuda Bar on Wellborn Road to the Kappa Sigma house. Ad mission is $7 or $5 with a canned good, admis sion to the Barracuda Bar will be free for those paying for the Woods. Ty and the Semiautomat ics is playing at the Barracuda Bar. Take HW 60 past 2818 and exit Turkey Creek Road, go past the stop sign, and the house is two blocks down on the right. Company C-2 of the Corps will present The Right of the Great Pumpkin starting at 10:15 p.m. They will start at the arches to the Quad and try to throw a pumpkin on the band dorms, and the band will try to stop them. People with questions can call Skip Schaper at 847-6694. The Dixie Theatre is having a Halloween party with Pushmonkey and Sunflower. Bullwinkle’s is having a Great Pumpkin Bash: with rock bands Linus, Lewis and Jester. Shows! starts 9 p.m. Sneaky Pete, a sing-along and novelty tunes act, | is playing at the Halloween party at the Cow Hop! from 9:30 p.m.-l a.m. Allan Mayes, an edgy classic rock act with a dry! sense of humor, is playing at the Chelsea Street! Pub & Grill. Bobby Hall and the Ice Cold Blues Band is play ! ing at the Palace Theater in Historic Downtown! Bryan from noon until 1 p.m. The Texas A&M theater department is present-{ ing Baltimore Waltz by Paula Vogel, in the Fall-i ; out Theater in Room 144 Blocker at 8 p.m. Friday, Nov. 2 Ruthie Foster, a rhythm & blues singer is play ing at 3rd Floor Cantina at 8 p.m. Ruthie Foster Just J, an acoustic act, is playing at Sweet Eu-j gene’s at 9:30 p.m. Hypnotist Dr. Downs is at Bullwinkle’s at 8:30 p.m. ! The Texas Renaissance Festival is being held in! Plantersville. Call 1-800-458-3435 for information, i Path of Tears, a country-rock band from Waco, is! playing at Fitzwillys. | Saturday Night Moses, a rock band, with open-! ing band Jazztop, is playing at the Cow Hop. Saturday, Nov. 1 MSC Film Society is showing The Rock in the! Rudder Theater Complex at 7 p.m. and 9:30j p.m. The Texas Renaissance Festival is being held inj Plantersville. Call 1-800-458-3435 for information. The Voodudes, a classic rock band, is playing! at Fitzwillys. Superband Wasteband, a rock band, is playing! at Brazos Brewing Company at 9 p.m. Blue Earth, a rock band, with opening band In; Spector 12, is playing at the Cow Hop. Sunday, Nov. 2 Spic Macy is presenting Shobha Subramanian in! an Indian classical dance at Rudder Theater,! Sunflower §lg ISlJliiSg! mm ■T, _ of Agqieland Rumors of haunted buildings on campus circulate during Halloween season By JoAnne Whittemore The Battalion W hen Texas A&M students speak of “spirit,” they are usually referring to Aggie spirit. But some say another kind of “spirit” fre quents the campus. Students tell many ghost stories and legends. One ghost story is about the hauntings in the animal sciences meat lab formerly located in the Animal Industries Building. Roy Simms, a former meat laboratory manager, was slaughtering animals in the basement one night when he cut a femoral artery in his leg and began to bleed profusely. Simms was alone in the building and had to drag himself up the basement steps with blood trailing be hind him. He died from severe blood loss once he reached the top of the stairs. Legend says one can hear the shrieks and cries, late at night, of animals as they are slaughtered. One can still hear the elevator as it comes up from the basement, ris es to the top floor, and returns to the main floor empty. Joe Fenton, curator of the Sam Houston Sanders Corps Center, tells the story of the “Ghost of OT Army.” “The underground of campus is a network of tunnels,” he said. “There lives the ‘Ghost of OT Army.’ He rides a gray stallion called Whoop. At 2 in the morning, you can hear him call his horse, ‘Whoop!’” Fenton said the “Ghost of OF Army” protects ladies and good Aggies. Ryan Rogers, The Battalion When you hear a Q oat heads adorn the Animal Industries Building, whoop, you know Ol w hich has been rumored to be haunted by cries of Army is coming to the s | aU g ht ered animals, rescue, he said. Fentor said the spirits could possibly be awak ened by campus construction. “A lot of stories and moments frozen in time stay there until big excavation equipment comes in and the area is disturbed,” he said. Duncan Dining Hall is presumably haunted. It was built on land that used to be a graveyard but was moved to West Campus. Andria Pierce, a former Duncan Volunteer and A&M graduate, said Duncan sometimes becomes eerie at night. “There were always noises,” she said. “Chairs would move. A friend of mine told me that she and another guy had stacked some chairs against the wall. They heard something on the other side of the room, so they went to check it out. “When they came back, the chairs weren’t stacked anymore. They had been spread out. Some of the noises are from machinery, but other stuff, you don’t want to know about.” Fenton said students may periodically catch a glimpse of the ghost of Lawrence Sullivan Ross on campus. “It’s only natural that you would see someone re sembling Sully checking classrooms and pausing under the oak trees, especially along Military Walk,” he said. In a letter sent to The Battalion, a for mer student identi fied as K.G. wrote of his encounter with the ghost of Sully. “An elderly gentle man in a long over coat approached silently from the mist and sat on the bench without speaking,” he wrote. The gentleman had on clothes “from a dif ferent era” and reas sured K.G. that he would get his degree if he would make an of fering — not pennies — at the Sul Ross stat ue every day until he graduated. K.G. wrote that he did not know who the gentleman was until he went to the Sul Ross statue. “There, frozen in bronze and glistening wet with evening dew, was the elderly gentleman who, only two hours before, had sat and spoken to me,” he wrote. Students have their doubts about the validity of these stories. Steven Foster, Corps of Cadets commander and a senior political science major, jokingly said, “The only ghosts I’ve seen around here are the dead zips who haven’t graduated yet.” Whether any of these stories are true is up to the imagination of the reader. Halloween safety requires sense Authorities attempt to thwart would-be criminals tonight By Brandon Hausenfluck The Battalion C ollege Station, Bryan and University law en forcement officials are not anticipating any thing out of the ordinary this Halloween. Bob Wiatt, University Police Department director, said people need to remain aware of their surround ings, especially since it is Halloween. “[UPD] has not planned any special activities,” Wiatt said. “But throughout the year there are always spooks and hobgoblins out there that need to be looked out for. “People just need to realize that there are some bad guys out there.” Wiatt said in the past few years there has not been any significant increases in criminal activity on campus during Halloween. The College Station Police Department is pre pared to handle a variety of minor crimes that could occur Halloween night. Lt. Scott McCollum, CSPD public information of ficer, said safety comes in numbers. “There’s going to be quite a bit of people out there who will be in a mischievous state of mind,” he said. “People should travel in crowds with some friends.” McCollum said popular offenses that take place on Halloween night include throwing eggs and stealing or smashing pumpkins, which are crimi nal mischief offenses. Lynda Rieger, Bryan Police Depart ment records super visor, said although nine collisions and five assaults were re ported last year on Halloween, these numbers are not far above average. She said Bryan po lice officers will be working security at different functions throughout the city. Wiatt has advice for any potential trou ble-makers. “If these people (criminals) want to get spooky, they can hide under their covers and let the rest of us have a good time,” Wiatt said. “There’s going to be quite a bit of people out there who will be in a mischievous state of mind.” Lt. Scott McCollum CSPD public information officer