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Posers Paul Reininger, a senior outdoor education major, takes the Squadron 1 picture for A.R. Photography Sunday afternoon.
Campus
Emt,
Blood drive seeks
donors this week
BloodCare will be on campus
this week with a goal of collecting
1700 units of blood.
The drive will be today through
Nov. 21 from 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. and
Nov. 22 from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m.
Blood may be donated at Sbisa Din
ing Hall, the Memorial Student Cen
ter, the Commons, the Wehner
Building or on the Quadrangle.
Anyone 17 or older, weighing a
minimum of 110 pounds and in gen
eral good health is eligible to donate.
BloodCare is a regional non-prof
it blood center serving Dallas and
six surrounding counties in north
Texas. More than 600 people daily
must pledge to donate blood to
meet the demands of the more
than 100 hospitals and health care
facilities served by BloodCare.
tion tournament.
The band will compete a;
the Stanford University Ma
Band, which won against the.
sity of Nebraska in the first n
competition. The second I —
match-up will be from noon I.’I'^ ^
to noon Nov. 21. The winnefi-n^cirl(
round will advance to the fir:
be held Nov. 23. P NEW YORk 1
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Aggie Band wins
Internet contest
The Texas Aggie Band received
more votes than the Dartmouth Col
lege Marching Band to win its first
contest in the Battle of the Bands
competition on the Internet.
The Aggie Band received 74.4
percent of the 13,897 votes cast
in the competition, part of ESP-
NET’s virtual reality single-elimina
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tain Black Law Students Ah
tion, a division of the Nationa
Law Students Association,
a conference today at the Unj-
of Houston Law Center to dis:
complaint filed with the Dep;
of Education, Office for CivilR;i| 0 l e was j nt;
The complaint is in resp(r:d ucer Lome
the changes within the Texas-iembe,- Norn
education system as a resu ’iersonated
Hopwood decision. %lampaign. Th
The complaint alleges vicsBuits and ties
of Title VI of the Civil Right; “Bob Dole
1964 by Texas institutionsfr ijieant to yoi
ping affirmative action progrr show and Bot
Discussion will focus omjole said to
taken by the attorney gene: his own habit
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Board, the University of Texas But, he tol
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This day in history
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(AP) — Today is Monday, Nov. 18, the 323rd day of
1996. There are 43 days left in the year.
On this date:
In 1820, U.S. Navy Capt. Nathaniel B. Palmer discov
ered the frozen continent of Antarctica.
In 1928, the first successful sound-synchronized ani
mated cartoon, Walt Disney’s “Steamboat Willie,” star
ring Mickey Mouse, premiered at the Colony Theater in
New York City.
In 1949, Jackie Robinson of the Brooklyn Dodgers
was named the National League’s Most Valuable Player.
In 1966, U.S. Roman Catholic bishops did away with
the rule against eating meat on Fridays.
In 1976, Spain’s parliament approved a bill to estab
lish a democracy after 37 years of dictatorship.
In 1978, California Congressman Leo J. Ryan and
four other people were killed in Jonestown, Guyana, by
members of the Peoples Temple; the killings were fol
lowed by a night of mass murder and suicide by 912
cult members.
Ten years ago: The Internal Revenue Service un
veiled its new, longer and more complicated W-4 income
tax withholding form.
Five years ago: Shiite Muslim kidnappers in Lebanon
freed Anglican Church envoy Terry Waite and Thomas
Sutherland, the American dean of agriculture at the
American University of Beirut.
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Evans is 54. Rock musician Herman Rarebell (The Scor
pions) is 47. Comedian Kevin Nealon is 43. Actress
Elizabeth Perkins is 36. Singer Kim Wilde is 36. Rock
musician Kirk Hammett (Metallica) is 34. Rock singer
Tim DeLaughter (Tripping Daisy) is 31.
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