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luesday Center: The Independi minar will take placea uesday • April 7, 1998 The Battalion AG 111 s a Battalion service tudent and faculty terns should besu tree days in advance te. Application dea not events and will ). If you have any i)i he newsroom at 8^ ressing matters Bexas ff&M University Press supplies campus with wealth of knowledge from Page nrages any students^ : Silver Taps cereraomi in honor for metoiel ut their child being a •uies," she said.'Thfj By Travis Hopper Staff writer bu read Flying Tigers for your military his tory class, but can you remember who published it? Maybe it was Random House? Or the high school favorite Harcourt Brace Jovanovich? Those names sound familiar. 0 1 perhaps you took a nautical archaeology class ahd read Seagoing Ships and Seamen in the Bronze Age Levant? Want to take a guess where ii Cadi >ut thecerenKcjBiat book came from? New York? Chicago? I University Press, a publishing company es- ;ts is also involve^*blished in 1974 by Texas A&M University, is re- nniversary.Dm sj onsible for these and many other scholarly and ider and a seniorec e Corps needed lo do my's anniversary.Beg lumbers of the coip; ire long-sleeved gift- is, on Silver Taps da; Silver Taps, .olonel Mike Dukeo!: ni said the corps* articipatein the cere: ige everyone, from 5:, is, to find a way to ^ is Silver Taps," hes general reading books that you may have en- C< untered during your stay here in Aggieland. I Located in the John Lindsay building on the corner of Lewis and Bizzell, University Pi ess has published a very diverse selection Ol material, including many works on anthro pology, nautical archaeology, architecture and Texas history. I Thomas Rotell, the director of University Press, pi id they have published many famous and note worthy books. “We just published an excellent book on George Bush that was a photographic memoir, and we also published a great book called Birds of Texas," Rotell said. “We have published some books that dealt with Texas A&M University, such as Softly Call the Muster and Fighting Texas Aggie Band, and an im portant book entitled Lone Star Dinosaurs.” University Press pub lishes about 60 books each year, and 70 to 80 percent of them are scholarly in nature. “The majority of our publica tions are scholarly and written for professors and such,” said Rotell. “The rest are mainly trade books and general reading pieces.” The majority of University Press authors are not students who submit manuscripts or even local residents who are looking to get published. “We tend to seek out people who we think should be writing books and try to convince them to do some work for us,” said Rotell. “We have some authors who have come back to write many books for / us, but we try to go out and find new people who we believe are ca pable and qualified.” Once the manu script has been written, edited and is ready to go to print, it is sent off to an outside vendor who will do the actual printing since Univer- r J sity Press does not own a printing press. The book is then bound and distributed through the University Press, with the whole process taking about nine months to complete. Rotell said Aggies can expect many more excit ing and important books to be published by Uni versity Press in the upcoming months. "We just published an excellent book on George Bush — Thomas Rotell University Press Director 1 “We have a new book by anthropology pro fessor Gentry Steele called Land of the Desert Sun: Land of the Big Bend Country coming out soon as well as a good new book called World of the Harvester Ants,” said Rotell. “We will also be publishing a new creative book called Stirring Prose: CookingWith Texas Authors, which will be a cookbook with contributions from various no table authors who are Texans. You can also expect Plains Indians, by Paul Carlson, to come out soon, and a really good book called Texas Art and a Wildcatter’s Dream.” Though it may not be the most visible institu tion on campus, University Press is undoubted ly one of the most important and influential to A&M students. It contributes to the material that professors read and issue as class work, and therefore they indirectly contribute to our education while at tending this university. So when you are up late tomorrow night cramming for that anthropolo gy test on the Mukogodo, take a look at the book you’re reading. Chances are it was made in Aggieland by our own University Press. <zA/{ontz[oncjo a New Shipment of Texas A&M Watches uhuiMkcii just arrived Seiko and Citizen t y/Mt 691-2019 4323 Wellborn Rd 696-1451 900 Harvey Road Celebrate Easter ith Gourmet Foods & Vineyard Views r> e tj yip 11 us f° r the only gourmet Easter Luncheon J ii IBs with a vineyard view. Its Sunday April 12 from 11a.m. to 2:30 p.m. You’ll enjoy the European ^I'tx^nsiorcSit^ia 1106 of our restaurant, The Vintage House jtjMessina Hof, while you feast on a multi-course gourmet luncheon. Its only $19.99 for adult...just $9.99 for children under 12. Easy reservations...just call 778-3138. The Vintage House at Messina Hof 4545 Old Reliance Road • Bryan, TX pension m ” come afed individual wli success, consider^ offer: 7-30K benefits Ted. For considecJjjj L-r, *004 Belt UntHij r 2) 233-6116 or a INFORMATIONAL MEETINGS in 154 Bizzell Flail West -Monday, April 6 10:00-10:30 AM -Wednesday, April 8 8:30-9:00 AM Pick up an application at the meeting or drop by the Study Abroad Program Office. 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The Student Body President Run-Off Debate April 7, 1998 8:30 p.m. «§» MSC 292B Presented by Student Government Association Election Commission & http://pf.tamu.edu The views expressed in this program do not necessarily represent those of MSC Political Forum, the MSC, or Texas A&M University. f Persons with disabilities please call 845-1515 to inform us of your special needs. We request notification (X- three (3) working days prior to the event to enable us to assist you to the best of our abilities. /A\ O o o Jon W. Bayless will be speaking on his personal and professional keys to success Engineering Your Life The Memorial Student Center ♦ ELS^ Executive Lecture Series Tuesday, April 8, 1998 7:30 P.M. • MSC Forsyth Gallery Free Admission SlNUMMir CWSINBCM^'C&MH8IL