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o & & & £ Class of 1997 Announces Step Off. . . into the Spotlight Senior Week Karaoke KickOff Tuesday, April 22 Bullwinkle's Bar and Grill FMJOI TV ONIIWIS LHDIjVJ T1V a^OVHV^J Parent’s Weekend Kickoff Concert PRESENTED BY DELTA Z ETA STARRING DAVID ALLAN COE WITH OPENING ACT, Friday, April 15,1997 Wolf Pen creek Amphitheater Doors open at 6:00 / Concert at 7:00 Tickets: 12.50 advance &l $ 15.00 at Door Ti( Bets Available At: Duddley’s Draw Plarooned Records Central ParB Box Office Amj Delta Zefa Member The Dixie ChicBen Fitzwilly’s Rother’s BooBstorcs WIT! .!■ re.' '^inning Dorm Receives 100 Free pizzas $40 cash for beverages Which Dorm has the biggest eaters?? We will find out on the battlefield! Free Pizza Party must be scheduled 2 days in advance. Call Store for details. Contribution to War $ on delivery only. Tips are appreciated. rffinit 2 Itit - 27t& The Dorm that orders the highest dollar amount of pizza this week wins the war. tC 764-7272 Aggielife Friday • April' The Plight of a Lefty Right-handed world causes daily headack Pho&LEK —^ ^otunoM... I and millions of other people in the world are oppressed. No laws exist to aid us in our plight for equality. No special admittance poli cy granted me admis sion to Texas A&M. I am a member of a silent group of exploited peo ple — I am left-handed. Those of you fortu nate enough to be born into the privileged world of the right-handed do not understand the hours of pain and suffering we “southpaws” must endure. Go ahead and laugh at the notion. Call it ludicrous, but be cause of my hand dominance, 1 feel like the world is against me. As I sit and type on this com puter, I cannot help but glance longingly at the mouse lying close to my right hand. This device was meant to make our world easier but has segregated the population into two factions. Trying to manipulate the mouse with my right hand, I no tice I am not as nimble as I would be if it were on my left. Insensitive, unfeeling people say, “Move the mouse to the other side, you freak of nature!” Alas, I can move the mouse and “ ^ffun-ypfb " r ) r i Columnist Aaron Meier Junior political science major try to double-click with the left button, and I un dergo vertigo. The moni tor becomes a blur of im ages, the keyboard seems written in the Cyrillic alphabet and I cannot tell the left but ton from the right. Do not ask me to explain — just try it and feel the agony of the left-handed. The woe of being genetically cursed as a left-handed person is not a mod ern phenomenon. The prejudice against the "right-brain domi nant” has existed for centuries. In medieval times, left-handed people were accused of being witches and burned at the stake. While this punishment may seem extreme, it is nothing com pared to the torture of watching handwriting become smudged as the left hand plows over fresh ly-inked words. I am sick of walking into sport ing goods store and not being able to find a left-handed base ball glove. I am sick of having to turn on a water fountain with my right hand. I am nauseated every time I have to grab a can opener upside down to open a can of Spaghetti-O’s. Ironically, though, theta j(j of being left-handed are over looked by the rest of the pop. lion. Left-handed people are more adaptable to problemsp sented to them. Imagine ari^s handed person tryingtousei left-handed pair of scissors.1; I, best result one could hopefe some horribly shreddedpape and an annihilated massofc that once was scissors. Howe, lefties must adjust to this am: [Un every ciay. Call it ludicrous, but because of my hand dominance, I feel if the world is against mi nel Also, IcTties are juslpl;nr: 1( j[ smarter than right-handedptf; But you do not have totakemfl word for it — just ask anyleWl will reply honestly with,“Yes®j| right-handed dolt, I far exceed your meager mental abilities. |an pi Incidentally, in the past wo p n J presidential elections,a didates have been left-h Clinton, George Bush, R and Bob Dole all have the# L| gift of left-handedness. o' See Lefty, Pat tnusl Ring Dance Tuxedo Discount C Alfjp OnJPour rfv%5 lin^t 9 f9fl™ Dance mV Tuxedo /tenfa/s start at $55.95 • No other discounts or promotions apply • Must present coupon at time of reservation* Exp 4/30/97 ^ Brysm/Gollcgc Station I 1IOO Harvey Rcl. | next to Post Oak Mall FORMAL WEAR 409-693-0947 Choose four A66IE Order your copy of Texas A&M’s 1998 Aggieland yearbook when you register for fall classes. Don't miss the chance to own the nation's largest yearbook-an 800-page record of the 1997-98 A&M school yes, Simply select fee option 16. Just $30+tax. for the MM