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Wednesday • February26,
Hop to it
Pat James, The Battalion
Michael Parks, a senior business major,
bounces around on a pogo stick outside his
apartment Tuesday.
► Campus
► This day in history
Today is Wednesday, Feb. 26th,
the 57th day of 1997. There are
308 days left in the year.
In 1802, French literary giant Vic
tor Hugo was born in Besancon.
In 1815, Napoleon Bonaparte es
caped from the Island of Elba to begin
his second conquest of France.
In 1846, frontiersman-turned-show-
man William F. “Buffalo Bill” Cody was
born in Scout County, Iowa.
In 1870, New York City’s first
pneumatic-powered subway line
was opened to the public.
In 1919, Congress established
Grand Canyon National Park in Arizona.
In 1929, President Coolidge
signed a measure establishing
Grand Teton National Park.
In 1940, the U.S. Air Defense
Command was created.
In 1952, Prime Minister Winston
Churchill announced Britain had de
veloped its own atomic bomb.
In 1986, Pulitzer Prize-winning poet
and author Robert Penn Warren was
named the first poet laureate of the
United States.
After a major fire last December,
FATBURGER
725 University Drive College Station
is now
OPEN
Reopening Special
One Week Only 2/24/97 thru 2/28/97
m
1/4 lb. Burger
w/purchase of Fries & Drink
(Dine-in only). (No coupon necessary).
(College Station Location Only).
Do you love A&M?
Do you love to speak?
Do you love to travel across the nation?
We would love to have you!
St udent G overnmenf Association
3peakers C ommission
Now accepting applications
for new members
Applications due February 23
Student Government Office
For more information
contact Ferg: 845-3051
Senate confirms
three new regents
Three new members of the Texas
A&M University System Board of Re
gents were confirmed by the Texas
Senate.
Anne L. Armstrong of Armstrong,
Erie Allen Nye of Dallas and Dionel E.
“Don" Aviles of Houston will be sworn
into six-year terms at the Board’s
March 26 and 27 meeting in College
Station on the A&M campus.
Armstrong is a former U.S. ambas
sador to Great Britain and a rancher.
Nye is president of Texas Utilities Com
pany in Dallas, and Aviles owns Aviles
Engineering Company in Houston.
The three will replace Chairman
Mary Nan West of Batesville, Alison
Briscoe of Houston and Royce E.
Wisenbaker of Tyler, whose terms ex
pired this month.
The Board will elect a new chair on
the first day of the March meeting.
Students can meet the new regents
at a reception Tuesday March 26 at 6
p.m. in the regents’ meeting room of
the Memorial Student Center.
► State
Terrorist threat is
called off by FBI
DALLAS (AP) — The FBI dropped a
nationwide terrorist-threat advisory af
ter tracking down a suspect U-Haul
truck and finding it wasn’t being used
to carry the makings of a huge bomb.
The advisory was posted after wit
nesses said two men had loaded the
truck with what appeared to be thou
sands of pounds of fertilizer and 30 gal
lons of diesel fuel, enough material to
make a bomb similar to the one that
killed 168 people at the Oklahoma City
federal building in April 1995.
The truck and its two occupants
were located in Atlanta, and the advi
sory was canceled Monday night.
“The FBI and ATF now believe ...
that there is no substance to the fears
that two men driving a U-Haul truck
were accumulating materials to build
a bomb,” the FBI said Tuesday.
The containers did not contain am
monium nitrate fertilizer but “some
thing he used in his business,” FBI
spokeswoman Matjorie Poche said of
one of the men.
She said the FBI would not identify
the men, and she would not specify the
contents of the containers or the
man’s business.
The witness had told police the
men loaded the diesel into containers
in the back of the truck at a Texaco sta
tion in Haltom City on Saturday.
Ms. Poche said agents found the
two men by canvassing U-Haul rental
outlets and places throughout the Dal-
las-Fort Worth area where fertilizer is
sold. She said the two men “were sur
prised and they were cooperative.”
► Nation
Man accused of
secret videotaping
DOVER, N.H. (AP) — A photogra
pher who took bridal portraits and
portfolios for aspiring models is ac
cused of secretly videotaping his sub
jects in a basement dressing room
► Weather
Tonight
Cloudy with a 40percent chance 20 percent chance of showers,
of showers. Southeasterly winds then decreasing clouds. Westerly
at 15-20 mph. winds at 15-20 mph.
AGGIE WRANGLERS
AN AGGIE TRADITION FOR TWELVE YEARS
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8-9:30
WEDNESDAY
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C&W CLASSES RUN 5 WEEKS, JITTERBUGS RUN 4 WEEKS
CLASSES START MARCH 23
SIGN UPS IN THE MSC FLAGROOM 8:00 A.M. MARCH 3
ADVANCED JITTERBUG COSTS $40,
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Feb. 26-28
Mar. 3-5
where a sign warned:
“Attention Models!!! Please! No
undergarments. Why? Because
pantyhose, panties and bras cause
unsightly lines and bulges which are
unacceptable for glamorous or mod
el shows.”
By Tuesday, about 20 women
contacted police with fears they
might have been victims of 71-year-
old Lawrence Ring, who is accused
of making the tapes for two
decades and distributing some of
the pictures over the Internet.
“They realize now they may have
been taped,” said Sgt. Anthony Co-
larusso. "They're very upset be
cause they don’t feel they did any
thing wrong — and they didn’t."
Police accused the photograph
er of going much further than
voyeurism with some of his sub
jects — including having sex on
camera with a 15-year-old girl
whose call to police last week led
to Ring’s arrest.
Police Chief William Fenniman
said Ring paid women $15 an hour
for modeling, $30 an hour for body
painting and $150 an hour for act
ing in pornographic movies.
After searching Ring’s house for
about 12 hours on Saturday, police
charged him with sexual assault and
said more charges are expected.
Some 400 hours of videotape
and thousands of photo negatives
were seized, some going back so
far that officers recognized some of
their own high school classmates.
One woman called from Italy about
pictures taken years ago.
Police sought to allay women’s
fears that nude photos of them
might become public. “We can as-
Tomorrow
Partly cloudy with north winds at
10 mph.
sure victims we haveverd
curity,” Colarusso said.’ij
concern is the victims."
Clinton tacklesi
of snake contrJ
WASHINGTON (AP)-j
Clinton wants Congresstos:
million to help attack
snakes in Guam andkeeptsj
spreading to Hawaii and the3
tal United States.
Alaska Sen. Frank I
another idea — a $1 bountyk|
“If you paid kids $l3j
wouldn't it do some
Murkowski asked Tuesdays!
Senate budget hearing.
“No,” answered Interiors
Bruce Babbitt. He said the i:|
is needed to pay for newr
combat the millions of nonfitl
snakes overrunning Guam at) 11
parts of the Pacific. B. J
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countered.
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and a 12-year-old kid, Ithi {w//
some snakes,” the Repub I
ator continued. ^
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Murkowski told Babbitt.
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of snakes, but you woulii)
the problem.”
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brought the matter upinad
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guided spending prioritiesai
terior Department.
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Information courtesyofI ;
Italy
Spring ‘98
MKTG 321
Introduction to Marke® |
MKTG 401
International Marketir?
SCOM 203
Public Speaking
SCOM 335
Intercultural Communitf
Studying at Texas A&M’s Santa Chiara
Center, you’ll learn about the Italy of yes
terday while living in the Italy of today.
Plus, you’ll receive full TAMU credit for
all of your classes (which are taught by
A&M professors).
Please come to one of these scheduled
meetings for more information:
Tues., Feb. 25
1:00 - 1:45 PM
Thurs., Feb. 27
2:30-3:15 PM
Fri., Feb. 28
10:30 - 11:45 AM
358 BIZZELL HALL WEST
Study Abroad Programs: 161 Hiz'dl Hall West: M45-054-I
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