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• Amy Dunlap, The Battalion
— I.r* Brocket! of the University police Department writes Brian Craft,
I I'-IVti LI I Idb Lt.1 j a junior biomedical science major, a ticket for a license plate violation.
► State
Dallas, Houston need
more area code relief
AUSTIN (AP) — Just months after
introducing new area codes in Hous
ton and Dallas, the Texas Public Util
ity Commission says the cities will
need additional codes before the
year 2000.
PUC commissioners on Monday
announced that there will not be
available phone numbers in the four
area codes that now cover Houston
and Dallas by mid-1999. The com
mission is developing a plan now to
deal with the problem.
Houston and Dallas each recent
ly split into two area codes, 281 and
713 in and around Houston, and 972
and 214 in and around Dallas.
“We had hoped to provide long
term relief for Dallas and Houston
with the new 972 and 281 area
codes,” said Pat Woods, chairman of
the commission.
The commission said the growing
number of fax machines, cellular
phones and additional lines for com
puters is one reason available num
bers are being taken so quickly.
UT's stadium plans
get Bullock's support
AUSTIN (AP) — A planned new up
per deck for the University of Texas
football stadium, which has run into
trouble because it would obstruct a
view of the Capitol, has the support
of Lt. Gov. Bob Bullock.
“I would be in favor of proceeding
at this point,” Bullock said Monday,
citing Texas’ entry into “the Big 10,
the Big Eight, whatever it’s called."
Actually, it is the Big 12.
But while no avid football fan,
Bullock says the expansion appears
necessary for the university’s
sports future.
The planned renovation to UT’s
Royal-Memorial Stadium would ob
struct the view from the Capitol to the
Lyndon B. Johnson Library — one of
30 sight corridors currently protect
ed by state law.
The university must either change
its plans or seek an exemption.
Sen. Ken Armbrister, D-Victoria,
has introduced a bill that would ex
empt the university from the Capitol
view law for the stadium expansion.
UT regents last February approved
the expansion plan. The decki; &
stadium’s east side, schedife! I
completion in 1998, wouldaffet!) |
tected views from the LyndonBjj I
son Library.
Future expansion plans,#i[
completion date, would addasa |
deck on the north and souM
and would interfere with anotlieii i
Sharp has no planl
for property taxej
AUSTIN (AP) — State Comp:i
John Sharp says he is notwritl
Democratic alternative to I
George W. Bush’s plan to replaci
ans’ local property taxes.
Lt. Gov. Bob Bullock andl
Paul Sadler, both Democrats,*
Sharp last week to draft twii
sions of Bush’s plan to raisM
state sales tax and createci
business tax.
The new taxes are part of arte
to lower Texans' local school p§
ty taxes.
Sharp, who is expectedbyrJ
challenge Bush for the goverr:|
fice, said Monday that Bush's!
has flaws. But the comptrollefc
he is not pushing an alternate
► This day in history
► Weather
(AP) — Today is Tuesday, Feb. 11, the 42nd day of 1997.
There are 323 days left in the year.
On this date:
In 1812, Massachusetts Gov. Elbridge Gerry signed a re
districting law that favored his party — giving rise to the term
“gerrymandering.”
In 1847, American inventor Thomas Alva Edison was
born in Milan, Ohio.
In 1858, a French girl, Bernadette Soubirous, claimed
for the first time to have seen a vision of the Virgin Mary
near Lourdes, France.
In 1861, President-elect Abraham Lincoln departed
Springfield, III., for Washington.
In 1929, the Lateran Treaty was signed, with Italy recog
nizing the independence and sovereignty of Vatican City.
In 1945, President Roosevelt, British Prime Minister Win
ston Churchill and Soviet leader Josef Stalin signed the Yal
ta Agreement during World War II.
In 1972, McGraw-Hill Publishing Company and Life
magazine canceled plans to publish what had turned
out to be a fake autobiography of reclusive billionaire
Howard Hughes.
In 1979, followers of Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini seized
power in Iran, nine days after the religious leader returned
to his home country following 15 years of exile.
In 1990, South African black activist Nelson Mandela
was freed after 27 years in captivity.
► Today's birthdays
Author Sidney Sheldon is 80. Former Treasury Secretary
Lloyd Bentsen is 76. Actor Leslie Nielsen is 71. Actor Con
rad Janis is 69. Actor Burt Reynolds is 61. Singer Bobby
“Boris” Pickett is 57. Actress Carey Lowell is 36. Actress
Jennifer Aniston is 28. Singer D’Angelo is 23. Singer-actress
Brandy (Moesha) is 18.
Today
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Partly cloudy with light
northerly winds turning
toward the southeast.
Tonight
Patchy fog and drizzle
developing by morning.
Tomorrow
Cloudy with a 70 per
cent chance of rain.
Highs & Low
Today’s Expected (j
59°F
Tonight's Expecteei
50°F
Tomorrow's Bp
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52°F
Tomorrow Nigii
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Engineering (WISE), an organization
of women graduate students, staff
and faculty will host its fifth annual
all-day professional and career
development conference.
The conference "Adapting to a Changing World" which will take
place on Saturday, February 22, 1997, at the MSC on the Texas A&M
campus, will focus on giving participants the skills and insights need
ed to succeed in the scientific and technological workplace of the
year 2000 and beyond.
Participants will select from topics such as:
A Room of Your Own: At the Top,
How to Get Your Research Funded,
Sex Differences and Evolution,
Conflict Resolution, and others.
This year's keynote speaker will be the former Chief Scientist for
NASA and current Vice Chancellor for Research at the University of
California, Santa Barbara, Dr. France Cordova.
Contact Nancy Magnussen at (409) 845-5587 or via e-mail at nan-
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Undergraduate Student Requirements:
I. You must be a degree seeking student and have a total of 95 credit hours reflected on the Texas
A&M University Student Information Management System. (A passed course, which is repeated
and passed, cannot count as additional credit hours.)
1. 30 credit hours must have been completed in residence at Texas A&M University, providing that pri
or to January 1,1994, you were registered at Texas A&M University and successfully completed
a fall/spring semester or summer term (I and II or 10 weeks) as a full-time student in good standing
(as defined in the University catalog).
60 credit hours must have been completed in residence at Texas A&M University if your first semes
ter at Texas A&M University was January 1994 or thereafter, or if you do not qualify under the suc
cessful semester requirement. Should your degree be conferred with less than 60 resident cred
its, this requirement will be waived after your degree is posted on the Student Information
Management System.
3. You must have a 24) cumulative GRR at Texas A&M University.
t. You must be in good standing with the University, including no registration or transcript blocks for
past due fees, loans, parking tickets, returned checks, etc.
Graduate Student Requirements
If you are a May 1997 degree candidate and you do not have an Aggie ring from a prior degree,
you may place an order after you meet the following requirements:
1. Your degree is conferred and posted on the Texas A&M University Student Information
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