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Grades need a firmer foundation this semester? The week of Febuary 8-Febuarv 12 Question: vVhat was in Abe Lincoln's pocket when he died? (First 5 to call with ans wer get free review!) Answer appears ihursaay 846-TUTOR (8886) \ SOUL HaJiJkuiaq i iMan (r.tKi Hg* 'B.u.&.h. TAMU Look for our ads in the Batt on Mondays &Thursdays The Battai Now on The Battalion’s web page A 24-hour, multimedia news service for the Internet from The Associated Press A comprehensive, up-to-the-minute news report combining the latest AP stories with photos, graphics, sound and video. ■ Headlines and bulletins delivered as soon as news breaks. http://bat-web. tamu.edu Enrollment Continued from Page 1 “Most of us were upset that we were not informed of the program before it was announced,” she said. “I think it has been misrepresented in the media. The media made it seem like it was a program set out to recruit minorities. No one was told that there was still a long process to be accepted that would generate high-quality students.” During their four years in med ical school, participants can study either primary care or rural medi cine. The third year allows partici- Concert Continued from Page 1 “I don’t know what all of the air is about,” Groff said. “It’s never been a policy that we’ve had to clear something at our facility.” Nellson Burns, MSC president and a senior international studies major, said the Athletic Department should have checked with Student Activities to avoid the conflict. “Their job isn’t concerts,” Burns said. “They didn’t go through the pants to complete selected clerk ships in their home communities, depending on available facilities. Chris Spradley, vice president of the second-year medical class, said if the school is willing to put the resources into the program they have said they would, the program will succeed. “The school is showing leadership by addressing a big problem in the state,” he said. "The program may be frightening to students because it’s different. Half of the students will be monitored by the College of Medi cine. It seems ridiculous to test stu dents who have been under their wing for four years.” process any other group would have to go to.” The University requires student organizations to have scheduled on-campus events approved by Student Activities. Nolan Barkhouse, Class of ’98 president and a senior international studies major, said he is worried the concert will cause overcrowding in the Rudder area and there will not be enough security for the concert. “If the concert promoters get what they expect, there could be 20,000 people at Kyle,” he said. “We’re wor- Monday Elizabeth Ruiz,ptei first-year medical dj thinks the standards should be the same “If one group d take the test, thenmr should,” she said. ^ (>ii Ian. 27, Pra J University became school to offer the; September, the proa nlTeivd also ,u Ft * ternational Universit Texas A&M Universit and Texas A&M Uni pus Christi. The prog: ally will be availables; System universities. h >1 ah( mi securit) 1 0 pie being in the area ' ^ Are the\ going to provikj, A&M President D 7 Bowen said heappr |.p e | cert last fall afterGro" him with the idea. Bowen said the hi lieve the two event: with each other. “I certainlydontt to hamper Ring Dai than one event h, .iKiimd campiisand ) e - worked out.” tj-i. PP| ft &P ires] its< eSj nts eft) be Truck sought in clinic bombi discovered in North Carols BIRMINGHAM, Ala. (AP) — A pickup truck registered to a man sought as a witness in the nation’s first fatal abortion clinic bombing was found Sunday in the woods of western North Carolina. Jim Cavanaugh, agent in charge of the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms in Birmingham, said the 1989 gray Nissan belonging to Eric Robert Rudolph was found outside of Murphy, N.C., reported ly by hunters. “We still haven’t found Mr. Rudolph,” Cavanaugh said. “We’ll get a warrant and take (the truck) and do what we need to do.” Authorities had searched for the truck since Jan. 29, when it was spotted near the New Woman All Women Clinic following the blast, which killed an off-duty police of ficer and wounded a nurse. Based primarily on the truck sighting, a warrant was issued the next day seeking the arrest of Rudolph, 31, as a material witness in the bombing. Cavanaugh said agents would ask a federal magistrate in Asheville, N.C., Monday fora war rant allowing investigators to seize and search the vehicle, which has North Carolina plates. The search for Rudolph has concentrated in the rugged moun tains of the western tip of North Carolina, where authorities had several addresses fortl Investigators spent! last week searching, known residence, a:, canvassed Murphyst merchants if they we:: with Rudolph. The FBI made a pill, Friday, with agents issc ment saying they “urge: ed to talk to Rudolphte t ruck was seen in Birin: the day of the explosion Nurse Emily Lyots mains hospitalized it condition. Office! Sanderson was kill; working off-duty attL a security guard. 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