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The Battalion BRIEFING Friday • February28 Hall JED ► Campus <Srt AOi ators ) This in Qia^iatok A Rente UE FgftTURe two IxnUaTiNve rivals. From. Texas AfM*, eepwea* VS NBAL “THe CeoSftERj" Meal,to traiAS ook First evewr, "Hoops awa<V' fits our. COfiTS&TAAT A^AlAST TWE Tout*WEST CtLAOiaTcR. aul -tuwe... $tero*d!? OF OodriHH, ZO T^tAS ^ HEtVi 1 j> |40(A 0|4 TO OOR rtEXT EveAiT... ArTUe>frtTFe! ; Utt'OU OfiE OF OCR CoMTESTMtS Has &ee»A kncc-Kso ihto twe croud! Ufc No«U TAKE a TEf4 Av,R0T6 ^RjeAK-AL Vie PREfARfc OUR Cowres-rArfrs FoRTHe Next evfeivr!) SoMesoir <jer ta* OAUS&F Lire! Peeps By Michael ^VUeET* HOMC, f^louOff^ THe St^flJ^/TALrr^ or My mow...! 8er my c.cnom is fxactu/ / ^«IA) t LFFT IT. f 1$ THAT you 7 TjoN't VOORRy... Vffvt caaI Sleep THe'“frfW€3S fLyeR." ► JTiis Rfqy i/i history (AP) Today is Friday, Feb. 28, the 59th day of 1997. There are 306 days left in the year. In 1854, the Republican Party had its beginnings as some 50 slavery opponents met in Ripon, Wis., to call for creation of a new political group. In 1827, the first U.S. railroad chartered to carry passengers and freight, the Baltimore and Ohio Rail road Company, was incorporated. In 1849, the ship California arrived at San Francis co, carrying the first of the gold-seekers. In 1951, the Senate crime investigating committee headed by Estes Kefauver, D-Tenn., issued a prelimi nary report saying at least two major crime syndicates were operating in the United States. In 1974, the United States and Egypt re-established diplomatic relations after a seven-year break. In 1986, Swedish Prime Minister Olof Palme was shot to death in central Stockholm. In 1993, a gun battle erupted near Waco, Texas, when Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms agents tried to serve warrants on the Branch Davidians; four agents and six Davidians were killed as a 51-day stand off began. In 1995, Denver International Airport opened after 16 months of delays and $3.2 billion dollars in budget overruns. Five years ago: Twenty-eight people were injured when an Irish Republican Army bomb exploded at Lon don Bridge train station. One year agoAlanis Morissette’s Jagged Little Pill won best rock album and album of the year at the Gram my Awards; Seal’s Kiss from a Rose won for record and song of the year. ► Today's birthdays Today’s Birthdays: Actor Charles Durning is 74. Svet lana Alliluyeva, daughter of Josef Stalin, is 71. Actor Gavin MacLeod is 66. Actor-director-dancer Tommy Tune is 58. Auto racer Mario Andretti is 57. Singer Joe South is 57. Actor Frank Bonner is 55. Ex-football player Bub- ba Smith is 52. Actress Mercedes Ruehl is 49. Actress Bernadette Peters is 49. Basketball player Adrian Dant- ley is 41. Actor John Turturro is 40. Rock singer Cindy Wilson (B52s) is 40. Actress Rae Dawn Chong is 36. Actor Robert Sean Leonard is 28. Student honored at International Week Rajesh Kumar, president of Texas A&M University’s International Stu dents Association and an MBA stu dent, was named Outstanding In ternational Student of the Year yesterday at a luncheon in 201 MSC. The luncheon was part of Interna tional Week, which ends Friday at 10 p.m. with a closing ceremony and par ty at the Ramada Inn Ballroom. Dr. Chih-Kang Wang, Class of ’75, was named International Alum nus of the Year earlier this week and received his award at the luncheon as well. A&M President Ray M. Bowen presented the awards to Kumar and Wang. ► Nation Shops give discounts to deter cheating COLLEGE PARK, Md. (AP) — Uni versity of Maryland students will get discounts at local shops if they promise not to cheat. Honest. “Cheating here is huge,” said Meryle Freiberg, education chair woman for the Student Honor Coun cil, which oversees academic in tegrity among the 33,000 students on the flagship campus of the state university system. Freiberg, encouraging students to sign pledges at a booth in the Student Union, said cheating has gone high-tech, with coded test an swers flashed to beepers and down loaded Internet documents cobbled into term papers. The council hears about 150 cases of academic dishonesty every school year, said Patrick Con nolly, the group’s chairman. About 100 of those end in the student flunking with an XF grade — failure for academic dishonesty. The council is offering 5,000 dis count cards this week to students who sign pledges against cheating. The idea of the cards is to get students thinking about integrity, Freiberg said. Leslie Corrigan, owner of the Bikini Splash store in College Park, said she is proud of the $5 discount she’s offering through the card. “I think it rewards even an effort and it encourages character,” Corri gan said. "For a large university, sometimes that gets lost.” ► Weather Today Evelyn Boney doesn’t care if Uni versity of Maryland students cheat. She just wants them to shop at her computer store. “If the idea is in their mind they’ll do it anyway,” said Boney, who is partic ipating with 10 other local businesses. Senate Continued from Page 1 “If we lose just one great idea, it’s our loss.” Howard said. “And more importantly, it’s Texas A&M students’ loss.” Alice Gonzalez, an off-campus senator and a sophomore agricul tural development major, said the work each individual senator con tributes, not the number of senators, will make the Senate efficient. "Numbers do not necessarily mean effectiveness,” Gonzalez said. “It’s what you (as a senator) put in yourself.” During emergency legislation, the peer education enhancement bill was passed Wednesday night. The bill will establish a peer ed ucation counsel consisting of dif ferent peer education groups. The counsel would not be a governing board of the groups, but an opportunity for the groups to discuss their approaches and pre sentations with each other. The Senate also established the peer education committee to work with the Crime Prevention Unit in the University Police Department. Amy Magee, an engineering senator and a junior computer sci ence major, said the new groups can help members teach students more effectively. “Peer education has such a great impact on students,” she said. “It really helps them to learn from their peers.” Magee said the new counsel and committee will also increase student awareness of the groups and recruit more student participation. In other business: • The computer registration bill was passed. This bill calls for com puter registration to be available over the Bonfire System in the spring of 1998. • The Mount Aggie Resolution was approved, stating the Stu dent Government Association will sponsor a forum where both sides of the issue will be present ed. A concert will also be spon sored by MSC Great Iss: MSC Town Hall. B • The Sterling C. Evan;« Hours Extension Resokp passed. The resolutionvp. the library’s plan to inert:*' brary hours to 1 a.m.afcp break. If successful, thep; would be used in the fall. • The transportationai:] olution was passed.Thist ports the plans ofBusOpd and Vice President of AcL z . tion, Dr. Jerry Gaston ijp,, ! will offer on- and off-camBh m'I \ H i' ini [hr wrekt’lK pjjjj also will try to makeBus*“ tions self-sufficient. ThetfHd ment of a Senate liak ij^ a | supported in the bill. IaI • I he Senate dedaiedBsJ as Texas Higher Educatk|“i| Students will meet inAs voice their opinions tott:Bd.| Legislature. P • The constituent relatthsfl i p.r.n'il I Ills hill,, Mu. I port to be done in thespBinl mester after the newSenB "i| sion and before thelas;Har( spring classes. Also,senaBj be required to be availatl Spj minimum of one hour §)j///| tain day for studentsio| their opinions. we i •The Senate approvdw’ra which supported therecoMsl dations of the Students fofirl Mini atiun Board. by \| I “II Ml; ' fexaj hair I CONFERENCI lexal Tonight Mostly cloudy with winds from the south east at 5-10 mph. Cloudy with a 30 percent chance of rain. South east winds at 10-15 mph. Continued fromPaqiS^H jUM J As in years past, the i-fThal ence will present studeriftregl citizens the opportunity to* Tlf mi nr about the method' idcml live participation in en Son mental or scientific policy. |john| Dr. Medhurstsaidtheci ence will offer opportunfc|Cash| graduate students to tallBv < graduate professors from * m| universities about theirtfe| toigi dissertation projects. by .\j The major papers ofi ference will be preseniitBth I book of essays published^ wantl A&M University Press ailBcall| make the results of the A Sp ence available to those Band! who were unable to attend vativJ : airpl| I “W Nashl like ( Tomorrow Highs &Lo4have| Today’s ExpecMMgnii 65°F pop Tonight’s ExpectfiJ 50°F Tomorrow sExpc 1 High 67°F Tomorrow Nif Expected Lt*' 53°F Cloudy becoming mostly cloudy by late afternoon. 40 percent chance of rain early. 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