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Elephant Walk has come and gone, but the memories will last forever! Purchase your E-Walk Party Pics December 9-12 in the MSC Hallway from 10 a.m.-2 p.m. Class of 1998 Class of 1997 STUDENT CENTER COMPLEX FEE PROPOSAL The student center complex fee is $24 per semester per student. It is not per credit hour. It was last increased in 1992. The proposed increase is from $24 to $30, but spread over three years. So, the fee in 1997 would be $26, in 1998 it would be $28, and in 1999 it would be $30. The tuition and fees statement for a student for next fall would increase by a total of $2. The student center complex fee is used for operating, maintaining, improving and equipping the MSC, Rudder Tower, Rudder Theater Complex, and the Koldus Building. It provides for the many services within the University Center and allows student groups to use the meeting rooms free of charge. The fee must be increased in order to maintain the current level of service. It is not the GUF! 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Gifts: Class gifts Continued from Page 3 live to tell about the A&M before Selling Tickets of Pride In the fall of 1927, a ticket booth was set up outside Memor ial Gymnasium on Kyle Field as a memorial to the Class of 1928. The booth was designed in school colors by college architect, Ernest Langford, and most of the materi als used to build the booth were made on campus by A&M stu dents. The booth was valued at about $700, and it was dedicated at the annual t.u. game on Thanksgiving Day, 1927. ing two other students to safety at the guarding of Bonfire. ‘The Graduate’ Professor Heri Bert Bartscht, a German-born sculptor, was asked to design a sculpture as a gift from the Class of 1966. The cop per sheet sculpture stands on the south side of the library and (ac cording to the plaque on its side) symbolizes "the continuity of the Aggie Spirit.” The sculpture, called “The Graduate,” consists of a young man’s head surrounded by a one-sided circular math ematical figure known as a Moe- bius band. Man and another displa; words to theTwelfthM; and currently stands nea Field by the Reveilles’ grav- Bonfire Spiri Many classes choose material gift, but some give less visible gifts. The 1984 gave a $20,000 ei to help cover the cost nual Aggie Bonfire. To ask Moo ofi Sprinkling Hope The Class of 1958 donated $2,300 toward the installation of an underground sprinkler system on O.R. Simpson Drill Field in memory of classmate James E. Sarran. Sarran died in 1955 as a re sult of injuries inflicted when he was crushed by a car while push- Twelfth Man Despite minority criticism, the Class of 1980 spent $14,000 to commission artist Pat Foley to build a life-size bronze statue of E. King Gill, the original Twelfth Man. The statue has two plaques: one telling the story of the Twelfth A Gift of Foresij The Class of 1990 wasa ahead when it decidedt gifts. One gift consistedo fund for the Class of20! fund was started with S5( expected to be worth i lion by the year 2090. A® sterling silver, oak, andj worth $8,500 and designe: chitecture professor Rodi was among other giftsj the Class of 1990. The ml AH * ► People in the News Jagger’s divorce ‘just never was’ LONDON (AP) — Jerry Hall re portedly has gotten satisfaction from her rolling stone of a hus band, Mick dagger. The 53-year- aisons with Pulp Fiction star Uma Thurman and Czech model Jana Rajich. dagger and Hall have lived to gether since the late 1970s and married in 1991. They have three children, Elizabeth, 13, James, 11, and Georgia, 4. Palance’s poet reveals sen: Hall old lead singer of the Rolling Stones had been living in a London hotel while his 40- year-old wife wife consulted lawyers over the future of their marriage. ARLINGTON, Va. (AP-t Palance’s whisper is pt considered more ominol a morel SOft SiCil Spielberg directs new birth in life Now they’ve made up, the Daily Telegraph reported Tuesday. “Mick has moved back into the family home,” the newspaper quoted a friend as saying. “This is the divorce that never was. There were problems but they have now been ironed out.” A London tabloid, The Sun, re ported in October that Hall had asked Jagger for a divorce, furi ous at her husband’s reported li- LOS ANGELES (AP) — The lat est Steven Spielberg production is on the small side, but it’s a crowd-pleaser anyway. Spielberg’s wife, actress Kate Capshaw, gave birth to a daugh ter on Sunday. The baby, named Destry Allyn, weighed 7 pounds, 12 ounces. “The parents are thrilled, hap py, proud and doing great,” said Rebecca Chaires, a spokes woman for Spielberg’s Dream Works SKG studio. 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