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The Battalion ■I* ™ i § n S Wednesday • February! Economy Continued from Page 1 Cathryn Looney, the assistant manager at the Barnes & Noble Bookstore on Texas Avenue, said students impact the business and staff at the store. “We have a large student popu lation,’’ Looney said. “They enjoy the cafe and the relaxed environ ment. We noticed a tremendous amount of students in the store during finals week. We noticed when the students were gone (over the holidays) and we noticed when they came back. In addition to stu dent customers, about half of our employees are students.” Elizabeth Garrett, the assistant manager of the Black-Eyed Pea Restaurant on University Drive, said about 80 percent of the employees are students. She said special events at Texas A&M during the fall and spring semesters help bring in busi ness from visitors and local residents. “Events like Parent’s Weekend and sports events generate lots of busi ness,” Garrett said. “We also get lots of business from locals in the Bryan- College Station area. We slow down when the students leave campus.” Taylor said the $31.5 million spent by campus visitors includes money that funnels to the community. “A part of that money is the mon- Kiss Continued from Page 1 Attempts to stop kissing were un successful, however, so Christian lead ers decided to use the kiss to get peo ple into church. They abandoned the betrothal ceremony of Roman times and moved the marriage ceremony into the church. This would bring people into the church and then all would witness the kiss placed at the end of the marriage service. The Great Plague of 1664-65 caused kissing to “come to a halt al most overnight,” Bryant said. Peo ple were afraid they were spreading the plague through direct contact, such as kissing. But, once the plague ended, the kiss slowly came back into vogue, Bryant said. Kissing today is most common in Western cultures. Many areas around the world still do not lass Harassment Continued from Page 1 “Charges were filed, and we went through the disciplinary process,” he said. “We look at the information, bring in witnesses and let people tell their sides of the story to figure out what happened.” Travers said levels of punish ment depend on the category and ey that goes to visitors that may stay in hotels, eat in the restaurants and buy souvenirs,” Taylor said. The opening of the George Bush Presidential Library in November contributed to an increase in visitors’ revenues over the course of the last year. About 507,000 people visited die campus during 1997, an increase of about 22,700 people from 1996. Steve Hodges, the A&M director of special events and facilities, said that the opening of the Reed Arena this spring will bring more visitors into the community. “We will hold a number of con ferences and conventions (that we could not hold before) because there wasn’t an appropriate facility,” Hodges said. “These conventions may last anywhere from two to five days. The visitors will eat in the restaurants and stay at the hotels. (Reed Arena) appeals very much to the community because people will not have to travel to Austin or Hous ton to attend special events.” Ron Fulton, the manager of the MSG Guest Rooms, said Jan. to March is the busiest time of the year for the MSG. “From the week after school starts, conferences continue until after spring break,” Fulton said. “Generally, staff members from other universities and members of private sector stay in the guest rooms. We have a lot of regulars.” openly as Westerners, although they do kiss in private. Aggies don’t seem to be shy about kissing in public. Citing Aggies’ fond ness for kissing at football games, Bryant said Texas A&M is a universi ty that is very “kiss-oriented.” Bryant was the first anthropolo gy professor at Texas A&M in 1971 and went on to become the first head of the department. He received the Texas A&M As sociation of Former Students Dis tinguished Achievement Award in Teaching in 1974, and he recently received the Texas A&M University Distinguished Achievement Award for Administration. Bryant has appeared on local and national television shows, Shch as the “Today” show, and in major U.S. magazines such as People, Reader’s Digest, Science Digest, Seventeen, Forbes and National Geographic. degree of harassment. “A warning is file lowest level,” he said. “But other punishments are let ters of reprimand and suspension.” Putnam said students should re member that it doesn’t matter what method they use, harassment is still against the law. “The point is not the computer, phone, in person issue,” he said. “If they are breaking the law, it doesn’t matter which way.” What a buzz In a Page 1 story in the Feb. 6is Battalion, the name of the registra; nator for the Southwest StudentCr on Latino Affairs should havebee r Zaragosa Espinoza. MIKE FUENTES/The Battalion Barber Cecil Krueger gives Paul David Morgan, a junior in Squad H-l, a haircut in the basement of the Memorial Student Center Monday afternoon. Snowboard ch; stripped ofiut after failing dni| NAGANO, Japan (AP) — -The first Olympic,) youngest, hippost sport in tin-games - snog y 01 . stripped because of marijuana use. . c f Ross Rebagiiati ol ( anada, the first Olyn:; 1 ^ champion, trstrd positive lot the drug afterhis , at the mens giant slalom Monday, the Intern i y^ n !| ( ommitteesaid. be' It was the first positive dmg test of the Nag IOC direcrtor general Francois Carrardy (TUesday night FST) that Rebagiiati had beer his gold medal. I he ( anadian < MympicAs ar0l l would appeal the ease. 'Sofl (iari anl said the hist part ol the two-pait i 5 b e | traces ot metabolized marijuana in If bag Stiu The second part of the test turned upm thei juana use, 17.8 nanograms per milliliter fr- feell meant Rebagiiati, whose triumph was celeb weel Canada, was out uc o| "It isalwuyssad ml tchasituati We- “It was not an easy decision to take.” 'ver' I le refused to go iui<> dri.nl about thedc >.shl(| process, eiimg ( anada s appeal. But hr did v .or, vote was 3-2, with two memtx i s abstaining >et I l he IOC also could have reprimandedRebjilf yol "Opinions were (|uitr split," ( ai raid said, barf Intel tialii mal ski federation rules allow 15 fro\ milliliter; the l()( allows none I he fad thatR .igh cere ti ted at above 15 “did have at ertaininfl iffoi | bale," ( arrard said. We Marijuana long has been on the- lOClistol dov hot it \ d that the drugevenw lro\ in a positive test at the games. T at I Rebagiiati .aid at his pt>st vit tory newscot tusttl first realized hist Generation Xsport hasreachalpurf tus when drug testers stalled to appear at nv ch iJ dyb U.S. breaks medal-less streak with 2 in ski NAGANO, Japan (AP) — An unlikely gold medal couple broke America’s 0-for-Nagano Olympic schneid: Picabo Street, Alpine skiing’s comeback kid, and Jonny Moseley, freestyle ski ing’s gnarliest dude. Street, 26, survived a mistake about midway through her run and charged to an Olympic gold by one-hundredth of a second in the women’s super-G — the games’ first Alpine medal after three days of snow-related post ponements. She has a chance for a second gold in the downhill on Saturday. “I don’t believe what I’m see ing,” Street, of Sun Valley, Idaho, shouted as favorite Katja Seizinger of Germany was unable to beat her time. Austria’s Michaela Dorfmeister finished second, and her teammate Alexandra Meiss- nitzer won the bronze. Street, who won a silver down hill medal at the Lillehammer Games, returned to competition just last month after recovering from knee surgery. Only 12 days ago, she was knocked uncon scious for two minutes after a scary fall in Sweden. “I’ve already cried and stopped, cried and stopped,” Street said af ter her victory Wednesday (Tues day night FST). “It’s been a very emotional time.” There were no tears for Mose ley, the California kid who threw up his arms and screamed in ec stasy at the end of his run. Moseley, 22, ofTiburon, Calif., ended America’s medal-free games with his gravity-defying sig nature “air” move: a 360 Mute Grab Jump in which he did a full “helicopter” rotation and grabbed his inside ski. It was good enough to win the freestyle moguls. “Oh my God,” Moseley said af ter his winning score was posted. “I never thought it would happen to me. You wouldn’t believe the thoughts that are going through my head.” Probablynot. '^ii Moseley outleapta. Wwll to win his gold JanneLA fhe| land won the silver, tvii:* 1 the Sami Mustonen finishii In the women’sctr the U.S. failed to ad; ca’s medal total —bi. ly. 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