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I'riday • February 20,!
Mardi Gras
Continued from Page 1
The annual celebration precedes
the Lent season which begins next
Wednesday.
Public schools in New Orleans get
vacation days during Mardi Gras.
Tim Slaughter, a senior indus
trial distribution major, went to
high school in New Orleans and
had a week off school during the
celebration.
“I have been to Mardi Gras for
eight years,” Slaughter said. “I
have had the pleasure to escort
several large groups down as the
same thing happens. Young ladies
who said ‘I’d never’ and young
men who said T don’t believe you’
Parking
Continued from Page 1
‘‘Hopefully it’ll galvanize change
and convince the powers we are se
rious,” he said. “If some people can’t
accept this in a professional man
ner it could hurt relations, but this
is how the senate does business.”
The senate formed a subcom
mittee on parking issues to get stu
dents’ opinions across to PTTS. The
subcommitte will meet with PTTS
officials next week.
The senate also passed a resolu
tion to prevent future conflicts with
Ring Dance.
The Athletic Department sched
uled a concert at Kyle Field to be
held the same night as Ring Dance.
Chris Chase, a senator and senior
history major, said the resolution is to
are at first startled and then settle
into the rhythm."
Josh Hennessey, a junior ac
counting major, grew up in New Or
leans and has attended Mardi Gras
every year since he was two.
“There is so much culture be
hind Mardi Gras,” Hennessey said.
“Mardi Gras is a time where every
one can have fun and push the
edges of their typical lifestyles.”
Hennessey said many of his
friends will stay at his house this
weekend for the celebration.
“The best thing is to watch people
from A&M come to Mardi Gras be
cause it is such a new experience for
them,” Hennessey said. “I’ve been so
many times, but the best time I have
had at Mardi Gras was seeing how
Aggies react to it.”
ensure conflicts with time-honored
traditions do not happen again.
In other business, the student
senate:
•Passed a resolution that approves
the Student Services Fee Allocation
Board’s proposal for a fee increase, but
discourages additional fee increases.
•Passed a bill to prohibit profes
sors from giving blanket grades for
mid-term grade standings because
it is not an accurate representation
of academic standing.
•Passed a resolution that re
quests that A&M become a member
of the National Student Exchange.
•Overrode the student body
president’s veto of a bill that would
randomize candidates names on
election ballots.
•Passed a bill to recycle The Bat
talion newspapers left in class
rooms and trash bins.
Two charged with p
in U.S. terrorism pi
Grad student found guilty in sexual
assault case, could face more charges
By Amanda Smith
Staff writer
A Texas A&M graduate student was
indicted Wednesday by Limestone
County on one count of sexual assault.
Obed Matus, a mathematics
graduate student, was arrested on
Jan. 26 by the Limestone County
Sheriff’s Department and released
on $25,000 bond the next day for
charges of sexual assault of a 15-
year-old girl in the county.
Capt. Dennis Wilson of the Lime
stone County Sheriff’s Department said
Matus could face additional charges.
Wilson said Matus will appear be
fore the county judge to enter a plea
of guilty or not guilty. A trial date will
then be set for Matus.
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LAS VEGAS, Nev. (AP) — Two
men have been arrested in Nevada
and accused of plotting an attack,
possibly on a U.S. city’s subway sys
tem, the FBI said Thursday.
The suspects include a central
Ohio man who was given probation
after pleading guilty to illegally ob
taining bubonic plague bacteria
through the mail.
The two were taken into custody
late Wednesday in a luxury car out
side a doctor’s office in Henderson,
Nev., a Las Vegas suburb.
The Clark
County Deten
tion Center in
Las Vegas said
46-year-old Lar
ry Wayne Harris
and 47-year-old
William Leavitt
were in custody
on charges of
possessing
“weapons for
mass destruc
tion.”
Last year, Har
ris, of Lancaster,
Ohio, pleaded
guilty to a count
of fraud after he
was accused of il
legally obtaining
bubonic plague bacteria through
the mail from a laboratory in 1995.
He said he never intended to hurt
anyone and was sentenced to 18
months’ probation.
FBI spokesperson Aurelio Flo
res would not confirm the sus
pects names.
“These individuals were in
volved in the construction of a
weapon,” he said. “We have no idea
where they were going to use it.”
Flores said the FBI has secured
the area where the car was found
and had “made everything safe.”
He said the agency was not look
ing for explosives.
In New York, another FBI source
had said earlier that the suspects
“These individuals
were involved in the
construction of a
weapon. We have no
idea where they were
going to use it.”
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Friday, February 20
1:45 p.m. MSC 201
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