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Page 6 • Thursday, October 1, 1998 A^ggielife Thursday, Oct. 1 Danny Martinez, a comedian, will peform at Caffe Capri at 9:30 p.m. Ian Moore, a rock musician, will play at The Theatre at 9 p.m. Braveheart will be shown by the MSC Film Society in Rudder Audi torium at 7:30 p.m. Linus, an alternative-rock band, will play at Crooked Path Alehouse at 9:30 p.m. Texas Twisters, a rock band, will play at Fitzwilly’s at 9:30 p.m. Fireants, a rock band, will play at Fitzwilly’s at 9:30 p.m. Cox’s Primate Jubilee, an alter native band, will play at Cow Hop at 10 p.m. Friday, Oct. 2 Saturday, Oct. 3 Matt Keprta, an acoustic musi cian, will play at Coffee Station at 9 p.m. Guy Forsyth, a blues musician, will play at The Theatre at 9 p.m. Tony Adams Band, a hard-rock band, will play at Cow Hop at 9:30 p.m. Animal Continued from Page 5 “I think it is one of the most unique buildings from that age,” he said. “The chief income of that time was agriculture. “To ac knowledge this, many of the largest ranches were asked to brand their names into the wood. “The ranches I am talking about were huge,” Rector said. “They spanned over 350,000 square feet to 550,000 square feet. They were asked to come and brand the building to bring a coun try and ranch flare.” In 1976, the Kleberg Building was built and the animal sci ence department moved to West Campus. In 1978, the rangeland ecology and management department moved into the vacant building. Rector said the rangeland ecology and management department first gained the second and fourth floors but did not acquire the whole build ing. Today, the first floor houses the offices of the department’s graduate students, and the base ment still contains the water labs. There are three major classrooms and one auxiliary classroom. In 1986, the meats lab was transferred to the meat science and technology center on West Cam pus; but before the switch the an imal industries housed all meat slaughtering for the animal science department. Rector said the building has not undergone much reconstruction, but has adjusted with the times. “This building will last many more years,” he said. “We have never experienced major prob lems. We have had a problem with the phone lines, and the only time we have had plumbing or leaking problems was when the water lab was left on. In the ’60s, the University went from all male to allowing females, so we had construction done to add women’s restrooms.” Rector said the buiding stands out in his memory and the mem ory of others. “I remember when Harrison, one of the original designers came to visit the building.” he said. “He came in 1982 with his son. He was really old at the time and his son explained to me that he wanted to see the building be cause he felt it was one of the best buildings built.” Big Screen Football on Sundays 1 . *2.99 Pitchers of beer All Day ENTERTAINMENT yam with Jill as your Karaoke host! No Cover • Tue-Sat • 9-Close 4 Post Oak Mall ^ . rj&eteea Street ♦ (fuA & gun 1 693-6429 WHO’S WHO AMONG STUDENTS IN AMERICAN UNIVERSITIES AND COLLEGES 1998 - 99 TEXAS A&M UNIVERSITY Who’s Who applications are now available for both undergraduate and graduate students in the following locations: Commandant’s Office (Military Sciences Building) Student Programs Office (2nd floor MSC) Student Activities Office (125 John J. Koldus Building) Sterling C. Evans Library Office of Graduate Studies (125 Teague) Office of the Dean of each College Office of Graduate Studies (128 Teague) Office of the Vice President for Student Affairs (IOth floor Rudder) Completed applications must be received by the Student Activities Office no later than 5:00 pm on Friday, October, 2 1998. They may be hand-carried to the Student Activities Office, sent through Campus Mail, or sent through U.S. Mail. (See application for addresses.) Questions may be addressed to Sandy Briers in Student Activities at 845-1133. Library Continued from Page 5 Tubie, a modern rock band, will play at Sweet Eugene’s House of Java at 9 p.m. Mudville Nine, a rock band, will play at Fitzwilly’s at 9:30 p.m. Big Apple Trio, a jazz band, will play at Sweet Eugene’s House of Java at 9 p.m. “There is a lump sum to the University that is funded by the state for education in general,” Goldwater said. “The average is about 65 to 70 cents per square foot for building maintenace. “The funding is used on whichever building is deemed the highest priority, which is deter mined by the health or safety risk,” he said. Most endowments have an amount of principal or capital that is not spent but is used for the operating budget. Recurring operating funds are what fund the databases. “The endowment funded the initial purchase that made up the Barclay Center and also funds some business databases, espe cially those that deal with mar keting,” McGeachin said. “We spend the interest that is derived every year. Now, the only expense that comes out is recur ring interest,” he said. Many more of the databases are funded through the library through the Material Access Funds. “It doesn’t matter where you are, you have access to the same databases. It first started out as a local area network, and Evans had a separate local area network. Now they are linked, and it just makes one bigger local area net work. However, the Barclay Center does not serve as a computer lab for general student needs. “The Barclay Center is meant to be a referencefacilk: do general coraputej McGeachin said. The West Campus ii Center, which hasaboo puters, is not maintained^] Campus Library. It is run by Compu% mation Services. Electronic informafe; library tours andonentr charge, are offered by fe; The library’s serviceiBJ circulation, reserve s H mem delivery. |f nim l Referenceser\’ices;:.j [none < viding information, f the sea and instruction. 3atei | t } ie More information t brary’s services is av, 845-2111. “We deal with a Ion grad business student have a lot of grad siidi graduate level McGeachin said. “But all public are he said. The library opens a 0RBEI and closes at midnig: jit the g. through Thursday. ;e from The computingcent iom sopl ing areas are open until: fllie Leo On Fridays, the libn: vo lanci t from 7:30 a.m. to 5piHr foui Saturday from 9 a.m On Sundays, the lit II at 12 p.m. and closesat:| for the library. However, the compi ter and seating areasrer from noon to 2 a.m. The Barclay Center 10 p.m. Group study roomsu| served up to two days in;: The library has extend; the week of December!: comodate final-exam sc;.: egc neri A Blast from the Past P h ju emember reading about Ramona’s 1# school? Well, now you can see herin-pefs c Based on the award-winning works of Bp Cleary, your favorite literary heroinecomes : in this funny and insightful one-i Sponsored In part by FIRST . BANK' OPAS Jr. is generously ‘ 3 Guild. supported by the OPAS I FOR THE rOli* £ ' 1 October 11 at 2 PM & 4 PM • Rudder Theatre Tickets only $6.50 • Call 845-1234 w
