The Battalion
Debriefing
Page!
Friday • April 18,151
Fire
Away
Anna
Gutkowski
(left), a fresh
man mechani
cal engineering
major, and
Jamie Kovar,
a freshman in
dustrial engi
neering major,
test their ping
pong catapult
for an engi
neering project
for Foundation
Coalition. Stu
dents will be
showing their
projects in the
Zachry Building
lobby today.
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► This day in history
► Weather
Today is Friday, April 18, the 108th day of 1997.
There are 257 days left in the year.
On this date:
In 1775, Paul Revere began his famous ride from
Charlestown to Lexington, Mass., warning American
colonists that the British were coming.
In 1906, a devastating earthquake struck San Fran
cisco, followed by raging fires. About 700 people died.
In 1921, Junior Achievement, created to encourage
business skills in young people, was incorporated.
In 1942, an air squadron from the USS Hornet led
by Lt. Col. James H. Doolittle raided Tokyo and other
Japanese cities.
In 1945, famed American war correspondent Ernie
Pyle, 44, was killed by Japanese gunfire on the Pacific
island of le Shima, off Okinawa.
In 1946, the League of Nations went out of business.
In 1949, the Irish republic was proclaimed.
In 1955, physicist Albert Einstein died in Princeton, NJ.
In 1956, actress Grace Kelly married Prince Rainier
of Monaco in a civil ceremony. (A church wedding took
place the next day.)
In 1983,62 people, including 17 Americans, were killed
at the U.S. Embassy in Beirut, Lebanon, by a suicide bomber.
► Today's birthdays
Blues singer Clarence “Gatemouth” Brown is 73.
Actor Clive Revill is 67. Actor Robert Hooks is 60. Ac
tress Hayley Mills is 51. Actor James Woods is 50.
Country musician Walt Richmond (The Tractors) is 50.
Actor Rick Moranis is 43. Actress Melody Thomas Scott
(The Young and the Restless) is 41. Actor Eric Roberts
is 41. Actor John James is 41. Rock musician Les Pat-
tinson (Echo and the Bunnymen) is 39. Talk show host
Conan O’Brien is 34. Actress Jane Leeves is 34. Rock
musician Craig Eklund (Everclear) is 27.
Today
► State
Nation
Teacher slain, four
teens held in killing
MIDLAND(AP) — Four Midland
teens remained jailed Thursday
morning and faced capital murder
charges after the stabbing death
of a local schoolteacher, whose
body was discovered in a caliche
pit outside of town.
One of the suspects lives next
door to Helen R. Johnson, 53, who
was stabbed several times at her
home during an apparent robbery,
police said.
The three 17-year-olds and one
16-year-old initially were arrested
early Wednesday morning for pos
session of alcohol in what turned
out to be Johnson's car, police said.
Arrested were Frederick Ernest
Keck, James Garibay and Fernando
Lujan, all 17, and a 16-year-old
male. The three adults were being
held in lieu of $125,000 bond.
Keck was a neighbor of John
son’s, and the Midland Reporter-
Telegram reported that police con
sider him the main suspect. All four
have gang ties, police said.
The suspects told police where
the 53-year-old woman’s fully clothed
body was buried, police said. Their in
formation also led to a knife that po
lice think may have been used to kill
the fourth-grade teacher.
Runaway girl fowj
with internet lovd
ENERGY, III. (AP) - Aut
have found a 14-year-old girl
airman she disappeared wi
she struck up a friendships
in an Internet chat room dew
a vampire game.
Senior Airman Brooker
22, was arrested Wednesday
ergy and is wanted by the Air
charges of desertion, said Maj.
thia Colin, a spokesperson at
Air Force Base near Omaha,
where Maltais was stationed,
The girl from Brighton, N.Y.,
Rochester, was found a shorttimei
at the apartment they sharedW
Marion, said Kevin O’Connell,henni
Four months ago, the airman
the girl disappeared, leavinga
tered trail in Kansas City ant
braska. Police received hui
tips on their whereabouts,
ing panned out until Wedi
when a tip generated by the
cated Maury Povich TVtalksI
police to the pair in southern!
The girl, whose family has
scribed her as an honor student
did not date, was reported
Dec. 19 after her mother droppM 1
off at a shopping mall. Shehadti
mother she was going to meet 1
and finish Christmas shopping,
Tonight
Tomorrow
Cloudy with a slight
chance of showers or
thunderstorms.
Cloudy with a slight
chance of showers.
Mostly cloudy with a
chance of showers or
thunderstorms.
SPRING 1998
in Castiglion Fiorentino
Information Meetings
Room 154, Bizzell Hall West
Tuesday, April 15, 3:00 - 3:45 pm
Wednesday, April 16, 1:30 - 2:15 pm
Friday, April 18, 3:00 - 3:45 pm
Study Abroad Programs, 161 Bizzell Hall West, 845-0544
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or perhaps a special treat for yourself.
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Highs & Lows
Today’s Expecteif
72°F
Tonight’s Expected
59°F
Tomorrow's Expfcs
High
76°F
Tomonowflp
Expected l®
55°F
Bring Your Family to an
OPEN HOUSE.
Dr. Malon Southerland
Vice President for Student Affairs
invites you and your family to visit his home on SaturdJj Jrd
April 19 from 11:00 a.m. to 4:00 p.m. and join the staff:
the Vice President for Student Affairs’ Office
refreshments. The home is located at 100 Throckmorti
St., across from the Sandars Corps of Cadets Cen!ef|
For more information please cal! 845-4728.
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202 South Bryan • Bryan. Texas 77803
f jy- (409) 779-3245
Historic Downtown Bryan
Brazos Magnolia
Gallagher’s Gallery
Gracious Interiors
Harding Designs
Homeworks
Jantiques
Nancy’s Knook & Kranny
Old Bryan Consignments
Old Friends
Panabella’s Grand Cafe
Red Brick Gallery
Rush Enterprises
7F Fudge
The Genie
The Marketplace will be open Special Hours of
10 A.M. to 6 P.M. Friday, Saturday and
Sunday, 11 A.M. to 6 P.M. during Parents’ Weekend
for the Premiere of Bryan-College Station’s newest cultural icon.
Timothy W. Vanya
along with Gallaghers Gallery
Invite You To The
Grand Opening
of the
Red Brick Gallery
Come visit the gallery and browse the Marketplace
where shopping is like a Trip to Bountiful!
AGGIE RING ORDERS
THE ASSOCIATION OF FORMER STUDENTS
CLAYTON W. WILLIAMS, JR. ALUMNI CENTER
DEADLINE: April 24, 1997
Undergraduate Student Requirements:
1. 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.)
2. 30 credit hours must have been completed in residence at Texas A&M University, providing that
prior to January 1,1994, you were registered at Texas A&M University and successfully com
pleted 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
semester at Texas A&M University was January 1994 or thereafter, or if you do not quality under
the successful semester requirement. Should your degree be conferred with less than 60 res
ident credits, this requirement will be waived after your degree is posted on the Student
Information Management System.
3. You must have a 2.0 cumulative GPR at Texas A&M University.
4. 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
Management System; and
2. You are in good standing with the University, including no registration or transcript blocks for
past due fees, loans, parking tickets, returned checks, etc.
If you have completed ail of your degree requirements and can obtain a “Letter of Completion”
from the Office of Graduate Studies, the original letter of completion, with the seal, may be
presented to the Ring Office in lieu of your degree being posted.
Procedure To Order A Ring:
1. If you meet all of the above requirements, you must visit the Ring Office no later than
Thursday, April 24, 1997 to complete the application for eligibility verification.
2. If your application is approved and you wish to receive your ring on June 12, 1997, you
must return and pay in full by cash, check, money order, or your personal Visa or
Mastercard (with your name imprinted) no later than April 25, 1997.
10K-$307.00 14K
sn’s 10K-$176.00 14K
Add $8.00 for Class of ‘96 or before.
The ring delivery date is June 12, 1997.
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