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REW&W3 BEGIN BOON* CALL FOR SCHEMfLE!
Rush The Big 12 in 1997
Sorority Spring Rush
Alpha Gamma Delta
Monday, January 20 • 7:00-8:00
Wednesday, January 22-24 • 7:00 -8:00
All events are at the Alpha Gamma Delta
House
Alpha Phi
Tuesday *127 College Station Conference
Center 7:00-8:00
Wednesday • Bowling and Billiards at the
MSC 7:00-8:00^
Thursday • Press Box • 7:00-8:00
SPRING ‘MAKEUPS’
It's not too late to get in the '97 Aggieland
Don't miss out on this
final opportunity to
be in Texas A&M's Ag
gieland yearbook.
Class pictures will be
taken 9 a.m. - 4 p.m.
Monday - Friday until
February 21.
Pictures being taken
ON CAMPUS
in MSC basement
Bookstore
Hullabaloo
Vocal
Music
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Yearbook class portraits by A R Photography
Call 693-8183 for more details
Pi Sigma Epsilon
Professional Business Fraternity
You don’t just stumble into the future.
You create your own future.
Roger Smith
Spring 1997
Recruitment Week
Event Schedule:
Mon. Jan. 20 Info. Mtg. 8:30'10:00 Rudder #301 Bus. Attire
Tues. Jan. 21 Mixer 7:00'9:00 Fox & Hound Casual
Wed. Jan. 22 Social 6:00-8:00 Fitzwilly’s Casual
Thurs. Jan. 23 Dinner 7:00-9:00 Invite Only Bus. Casual
Sat. Jan. 25 Softball 1:00-4:00 Invite Only Casual
For More Information Call:
Courtney Spillars
VP Personnel
696-1252
Nick Mirgeaux
President
775-1802
New sorority joins A&M campu
By Shikonya Cureton
The Battalion
Texas A&M Panhellenic dele
gates voted in Delta Gamma as the
newest sorority on A&M campus
last semester.
There are 26 sororities in the na
tion and 11 make thteir home at
A&M. The Panhellenic Council
wrote to the other 15 chapters ex
pressing their interest in including
another chapter at A&M.
Nine chapters responded and
Panhellenic delegates voted for the
top three applicants, presenting the
delegates with a final vote.
Jennifer Burns,President of the
Panhellenic Council and a junior
nutritional science major, said the
presentations were impressive, but
only one could be selected.
“Three days before finals, we
showed the top three—Kappa Delta,
Gamma Phi Beta, and Delta Gamma
— around campus and had lunch
with them,” Burns said. “They pre
sented their chapters to us, and we
voted for Delta Gamma to join us.”
The Panhellenic Council said
Delta Gamma will be a positive ad
dition to the other 11 chapters, be
cause they are friendly and outgoing.
Kelly Gray, a senior psychology
major, said Delta Gamma will be
welcomed as a part of A&M’s
campus.
“Those presenting Delta Gamma
were wonderful and really im
pressed the panel,” Gray
said. “They will be a
wonderful addition to
the Greeks.”
Panhellenic Council
officers said because
the 11 chapters on
campus are overcrowd
ed, the new chapter
can only have positive
results. The number of
pledges was so large
last year that the Pan
hellenic Council need
ed to find a way to
fairs Support Staff, said the
chapter will
“They will be
a wonderful
addition to
the Greeks.”
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like a mini rush lor officers.Pie ars, evei \ oiu
will rush in the fall semester,
Faculty Senate plans spring agenda
By Kathleen Strickland
The Battalion
The Faculty Senate reaffirmed its commit
ment to establishing an on-campus child-care
center for Texas A&M faculty, staff and students.
The resolution also commended A&M Presi
dent Ray Bowen and his administration for their
support of the facility.
The members of the University Child Care
Center Advisory Committee, under the leader
ship of Associate Vice President Mary Miller, were
recognized for their hard work and dedication
over the past 18 months in developing plans for
the child care center.
The resolution urged the Board of
Regents to approve the proposed center.
Also discussed were proposed
changes to the Texas A&M University
Faculty Senate Constitution and Bylaws.
This resolution would also permit
a senator to serve seven years within
a 10-year period. This would allow a
senator to fill an unexpired term on
the Faculty Senate for one year or less
to run for regular election for two
subsequent terms.
Senators said the University was losing money
by allowing too many students to co-enroliin
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New Yorkers salivate
over tax-free week
No more specific
minors in business
NEW YORK (AP) — In New York
City, it’s Bloomies, Macy’s and Saks
without the tax.
This week and this week only,
both the city and state are drop
ping their sales taxes on clothing
to keep shoppers from fleeing to
New Jersey and other neighboring
tax-free states.
In the Big Apple, that amounts to
a hefty 8.25 percent savings, and
shoppers are crowding the stores to
grab it while they can.
“I usually buy five pairs of new
pants a year — but this week, I’m
buying 10,” Zillur Rahaman said
as he grabbed from a pile at
Bloomingdale’s.
“If I want something, I just buy it.
Life is short!” Arnetha Curry said as
she slipped on a pair of $139 Bruno
Magli pumps at Saks Fifth Avenue.
It was one of four pairs she ended
up buying.
So far, it seems, people are
spending, spending, spending—in
the name of saving.
They were only following Mayor
Rudolph Giuliani’s order to “shop
till they drop the tax” — until state
legislators, that is, vote to get rid of
the tax now sending many New
Yorkers out of state to buy.
The mayor rang in the week of no
taxes on clothing and shoes under
$500 by walloping a giant gong at
the Manhattan Mall. The multi-sto
ry complex serves many buyers
with working-class budgets, for
whom saving $8 on a $100 purchase
is real money.
New York’s sales tax usually is 4
percent plus whatever additional
taxes municipalities choose to add.
In New York City, where the tax adds
up to 8.25 percent, stores feel the
bite even more because shoppers
can easily dash to New Jersey and
Pennsylvania, where anything worn
is not taxed. In Connecticut, too,
clothing under $50 is exempt.
New York state expects to lose
$20 million in revenue in its week-
long moratorium. Giuliani hopes
increased sales this week will offset
the lost sales tax revenue.
But Giuliani said the city “lost
over $700 million in retail sales last
year because New York State taxes
clothing and shoes.”
Cutting the tax “forever,” the may
or added, would mean “an average of
$200 per family every year—and a lot
more jobs for New York City.”
Gov. George Pataki said one very
encouraging sign came Saturday
while he shopped at Macy’s in Man
hattan — he ran into two women
who came over from New Jersey. “I
would be very surprised if we didn’t
expand the program.”
The sales-tax moratorium is
causing some confusion, however.
The experiment makes most every
day shoes tax-free, for example —
but golf or bowling shoes still carry
the 8.25 percent tax.
West of the Hudson River, retailers
did not seem too worried. After all,
New Yorkers were already in the habit
of buying in New Jersey, and they ex
pect them to be back no matter what.
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By Rebecca Torrellas
The Battalion
Students wanting to minor in
marketing, accounting or any other
branch of business may have to
deal with a policy proposed by the
Texas A&M College of Business.
If this new policy is accepted,
students will only be allowed to mi
nor in business, but not in any oth
er branch of the college.
Dr. Bill Fuerst, Associate Dean
of the College Of Business, said the
policy will help students receive a
complete education in business.
"This will benefit students to see
more of the component parts of
business, rather than just one as
pect of it,” Fuerst said.
The policy would affect other
colleges, like the College of Liberal
Arts, because many liberal-arts stu
dents minor in a business field.
Dr. Douglas R Starr, a professor
of journalism, said the policy would
hurt liberal-arts students.
“Journalism students already
take an economics and an account
ing course in their core curricu
lum,” Starr said. “Public-relations
majors need a marketing course
and a management course to get an
idea of what business is, and at least
two more business courses.”
Although the journalism de
partment does not require stu
dents to have a minor, the depart
ment strongly recommends that all
journalism students take a con
centration of courses in other dis-
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tion, Starr said.
Jason Clayton, a senior journal
ism major, said the policy wouldl*
unfair to new students.
“I feel that by shuttingoffastti-
dent from a specific field,jc
shade them from shaping hfifed
ucation in the direction^
want,” Clayton said.
Clayton said his minor in m\
keting helps him further develi
bis public relations and adverti
ing skills, while majoring in jot Editorials appeal
nalism has improved his comm iwewsofthe edito
nication skills.
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choice," Clayton said, “but it isB luest columns, c
fair for new students.”
Kelly Harrod, a sophomorepf
chology major, said an adviser
the College of Liberal Arts won
not allow her to declare a busint
minor last semester.
"They told me they were goiif
discontinue it,” she said. "I wanii
something with more practical ’’(J
perience to fall back on to given
an edge. I kind of felt cheated.”
Fuerst stressed that the newpiight were spol
icy will not affect students whoi rinth annual Si
currently minoring in a busini irship Confere
discipline. If the policy is acceptf
it will only affect students fromtl ense of directii
semester forward.
The College of Busint
brought the policy to theAcadei
ic Operations Committee 1
spring where it is currently bei
deliberated.
“It is not a done deal,” Fuerstsf
Attention:
FALL 1997
Student Teachers
except HLTH & KINE and AGED
WHAT: Pre-Student Teaching Informational Meeting
WHEN: Wednesday, February 5, 1997
TIME: 7:00 p.m.
WHERE: Rudder Tower, Room 601
This meeting is MANDATORY!!
AGGIELAND SOCCER LEAGUl
• The ASL has over 40 teams in 8 cities in 3 different
divisions. • All games are 45-minute halves. • New
teams are forming this Spring of 1997 season. • The
first league meeting will be Thursday, January
16 at the Engineering-Physics Build. Room #216 at
7:30 PM. • If you are looking for a team, have a part of
a team, or have a complete team, please come to the
meeting or call the league. • The last day to register a
“team” is Tuesday, January 21 and the last day to reg
ister a “player” is April 9. • For more information
please call the league at 696-1974.
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