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► 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
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“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:]
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ports the plans ofBusOpd
and Vice President of AcL z .
tion, Dr. Jerry Gaston ijp,, !
will offer on- and off-camBh
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