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D The Battalion EBRIEFING Thursday • March 27 Campus Good Friday varies among universities Good Friday is at last a reading day when students at Texas A&M will not at tend classes. Last year, as with years past, the University released classes for half a day on Good Friday, with the deci sion announced after lunch. Unlike A&M, some Texas colleges will hold classes on Good Friday. The University of Texas at Austin will have classes with no chance of an early dismissal, Registrar Ted Ffeiffer said. Texas Tech will not release on Friday, but does have Monday off as part of the Easter break. Baylor University, however, will en joy tomorrow and Monday off for East er break. The University of Houston is current ly on spring break and will return Monday. The name “Good Friday” is generally believed to be a misspelling of “God’s Fri day.” Gerald Cryer, theologist and writer forthe Catholic Encyclopedia online, said the origin of the term “Good” is not clear. "It could have been mistaken for ‘God’s Friday’ or even the German term Guten Ffeitag,” he said. ► Nation Net Nanny nabs naughty browsers WASHINGTON (AP) — Net Nanny can be slow to catch on when Junior takes a raunchy tour of the Internet. But once ► This day in History she does, he’s caught red-handed and red-faced. When the computer censoring pro gram finally realizes the likes of Deviant Dictionary have been summoned, Net Nanny announces a “violation," shuts down the system and primly records the misdeed for Mom and Dad to see. Gotcha! There’s no stuffing the em barrassing evidence under the mattress, as with girlie magazines in simpler days. Net Nanny is one of close to a dozen screening programs being marketed to parents as an alternative or supplement to federal Internet content restrictions overturned by a judicial panel and now under Supreme Court review. Disease becomes monkey business NEW YORK (AP) — Tiny capsules planted in the brain might be able to fend off the disabling symptoms of Hunt ington’s disease, a study in monkeys suggests. The capsules pump out a substance that protects brain cells. In the monkeys, they sharply reduced the damage from a poison that kills the same brain cells that die in Huntington’s. A study in people will begin this year in Europe to test the safety of the ap proach, said researcher Jeffrey H. Kor- dower of the Rush-Presbyterian-St. Luke’s Medical Center in Chicago. The monkey results were presented in Thursday’s issue of the journal Nature by Kordower, scientists from CytoThera- peutics Inc. of Providence, R.I., and re searchers elsewhere. Robert PheBai Grounded wt Ed Riley, assistant curator of the Department of Entomology Insect Collection, files part of an extensive collection Mjg Lepidoptera donated to Texas A&M by Roy Kendall. There have been 9577 specimens donated. Weather Today is Thursday, Feb. 27, the 58th day of 1997. There are 307 days left in the year. Today’s Highlight in History: In 1801, the District of Columbia was placed under the jurisdiction of Congress. In 1807, poet Henry Wadsworth Longfellow was born in Portland, Maine. In 1861, in Warsaw, Russian troops fired on a crowd protesting Russian rule over Poland; five marchers were killed. In 1922, the U.S. Supreme Court unanimously up held the 19th Amendment to the Constitution that guar anteed the right of women to vote. In 1933, Germany’s parliament building, the Reich stag, caught fire. The Nazis, blaming the Communists, used the fire as a pretext for suspending civil liberties. In 1939, the Supreme Court outlawed sit-down strikes. In 1960, the U.S. Olympic hockey team defeated the Soviets, 3-2, at the Winter Games in Squaw Valley, Calif. (The U.S. team went on to win the gold medal.) In 1973, members of the American Indian Move ment occupied the hamlet of Wounded Knee in South Dakota, the site of the 1890 massacre of Sioux men, women and children. (The occupation lasted until May.) One year ago: Bob Dole won the North Dakota and South Dakota primaries, while Steve Forbes captured Arizona’s winner-take-all primary. ► Today's birthdays Actress Elizabeth Taylor is 65. Actress Barbara Babcock is 60. Rock musician Paul Humphreys (Orchestral Ma noeuvres in the Dark) is 37. Former basketball player James Worthy is 36. Actor Adam Baldwin is 35. Actor Grant Show {Melrose Place) is 35. Rhythm and blues singer Chilli (TLC) is 26. Chelsea Clinton is 17. Today Tonight Tomorrow v s ye,J Highs & Lou i< 'dav's Expected* j 75°F on bnight’s ExpectK 60°F Tomorrow's Experj High 79°F Increasing.clquds with a chance of raip^South- east winds io-15mph. Mostly cloudy. South east winds. Scattered clouds. Southwest winds. Tomorrow Mgli Expected Lon j 59°F Information courtesycfM® WT STUDY ABROAD SPRING ‘98 AT SANTA CH1ARA! INFORMATIONAL MEETINGS -154 BIZZELL HALL WEST TUESDAY, MARCH 25 2:00 - 2:45 PM THURSDAY, MARCH 27 2:30 - 3:15 PM STUDY ABROAD PROGRAMS 161 Bizaelt. Hall West 845-0544 FREE LUNCH! Sign Up for a Food Serrices Director Piping Hot Ideas! j9g ^ a ^> life llTHnii POP POPPINS INSTORE PERFORPM *FREE REFRESHMENTS WITH I Meal Plan Participants Ollier Student Customers Aggie Buck Customers VAl.l I. SI K\ It K MEM CHOICES H M HE THEMIS ME \l. ri \NS Lunch scheduled for April?,14 & 21,1997, 1230pm-L30pm Call Debbie Brantley for reserrations. US AIR FORCE CAREER DAY Thursday, 27 March Sam Houston Corps of Cadets Center Dashiell Room 10:00 am - 4:00 pm Sponsored by the Texas A&M Department of Aerospace Studies Call 845-7611 for more information THE AIR FORCE PROVIDES ITS OFFICERS: -Employment upon graduation (regardless of academic major!) 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