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Wednesday • March2,
Just cluckin’
JAKE SCHRICKLING/The Battalion
Pamela Belicek, does her best chicken impression at the Ford Comedy
Quiz on Tuesday outside the MSC. It was part of the CBS College Tour.
I DREAM A WORLD <¥
Portraits of Black Women Who Changed America
Presented by MSC Black Awareness Committee
An Evening with Sonia Sanchez
Professor and activist.
Temple University
Wednesday, March 25, 1998
Rudder Theater at 7 p.m.
$3 pre-sale
$5 day of program
Tickets are available at the
Rudder MSC Box Office.
Cail (409) 845-1234.
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An Afternoon with Gloria R. Scott
President, Bennett College
Thursday, March 26, 1998
Lecture and Booksigning
J. Wayne Stark Galleries at 2 p.m.
Free of charge
I DREAM A WORLD is an exhibit that displays
images and portraits of Blade women who made great
strides and has made a significant impact in die lives of
people in America. The exhibit honors 75 of Americas
most esteemed and profound Black women of distinc
tion. The MSC Black Awareness Committee is proud
to invite two of those women featured in the exhibit,
Sonia Sanchez and Gloria Randle Scott. Sonia
Sanchez is an activist and a Professor of English at
Temple University. She has written several poetic and
literary works such as We a BaddDDD People (1970)
and Fve been a Woman: New and Selected Poems (1981).
Our other guest, Gloria Randle Scott, is die president
at Bennett College and the first black woman to serve
as the national president of the Girl Scouts in 1975.
Gloria R. Scott has hdd several other education and
administrative positions at black colleges and has earned
three degrees. Don’t miss the opportunity to meet these
prolific and distinguished Black women.
iih disabilities please call 845-1515 kv inform us of your special needs. We request three (3) working
to the event to enable us to assist you to the best of our abilities.
Visit us online at http://bac.tamu.edu
For more information call the MSC Black
Awareness Committee at (409) 845-1515.
Budget cuts threaten space prod
SPACE CENTER, Houston (AP)
— Johnson Space Center could fall
victim to the same budgetary knife
that has gutted Texas’ military
bases unless state lawmakers be
gin doing their part to keep it vi
able, state Comptroller John Sharp
said Tuesday.
“Places like NASA and Fort Hood
are taken for granted by too many
Texans and far too many people in
Austin,” Sharp said. “The last thing
we want is to be in a position of,
when budget cuts come, we haven’t
done our homework.”
Sharp made the remarks at a
news conference to release the
March issue of his monthly eco
nomic newsletter, Fiscal Notes. The
latest issue includes a report on the
space program’s importance to the
state’s economy.
The focus on Johnson Space
Center, which serves as the control
base for NASA’s manned spaceflight
operations, could not have been
better timed.
Earlier this year, the space shut-
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“A lot of people agree with this
perspective but are not vocal about
it,” Dettwyler said,. “Instead, people
who agree with “The Bell Curve” idea
are more outspoken.”
tie’s prime contractor, Houston-
based United Space Alliance, was
forced to lay off hundreds of work
ers due in part to a $100 million
shortfall in this year’s NASA budget.
At Florida’s Kennedy Space Cen
ter, about 300 people lost their jobs.
Another 40 people were laid off in
Houston, while others were trans
ferred to different jobs, said United
spokesman Jeff Carr.
NASA’s proposed budget for fiscal
year 1999 includes a $173 million re
duction in overall spending. Those
cuts could lead to further job losses
at Johnson and other NASA facilities.
With such budgetary pressures,
“having the support of the state and
the community is important,” said
JSC Director George W.S. Abbey.
Sharp, noting that JSC has
spent billions of dollars on con
tracts and business in dozens of
Texas cities, said lawmakers
should provide the center with
some of the same economic ben
efits granted other corporations.
“Whenever a large corporation
Cohen said Americans need to
understand other cultures and other
systems of beliefs free themselves
from the restraints of society.
“We believe that we have so much
freedom in America, but in actuality
we really don’t,” he said. “We are not
being denied freedom by a dictator,
but by our cultures. Cultures are the
FRISIAN
improvisationed comedy
I don’t get it.
Fri & Sat, March 27 & 28
10 p.m. Dixie Theatre (doors open @ 8pm)
Tickets are $6
available in advance at Rother’s Bookstores, Marooned Records, and
Doublequick Food Stores
http://http.tamu.edu:8000/~fslip
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Tuesday and Wednesday, March 31st and April 1st, 1998
COLLEGE STATION HILTON BALLROOM
GRAND BALLROOM - 6:15 RM.
All May *98 graduating seniors and graduate students* are invited.
Complimentary tickets may he picked up in the MSC hallway.
March 24th, 25th, and 26th (9 a.m. - 3 p.m.)
TICKETS QIVEN ON A FIRST-COME, FIRST-SERVED BASIS
Student l.D. Required to Pick Up Tickets
Compliments of The Association of Former Students
*Qraduate students who are not already a member may attend either night.
decides to shop around for a new
home, it seems there’s no limit to
the financial incentives people
will offer to persuade that compa-
Places like NASA and
Fort Hood are taken
for granted by too
many Texans and far
too many people in
Austin.”
ny to stay,” he said. “But when
members of Congress talk about
cutting funding for the Interna
tional Space Station or focusing
grammar for people's behavior, logic
and knowledge. It is essential to
everything we do. When someone is
raised by cultural rules it becomes
difficult for them understand other
cultures.”
Cohen said for people to be more
accepting of other cultures they have
to understand that human morality
NASA’s resources
space programs, w;
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THIS SATURDAY. MARCH 28,
Rudder Auditorium
Doors Open 7:00 • Show Starts
Tickets On Sale Now!
Ticket Prices:
$8.00 A&M Students - $10.00 All Q
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