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Ask your R.A. for details or call 846-3600 Order online at http://www.cy-net/pizza/pjohns/ Sponsored by R.FLA. aggie bucks Page 4 • Tuesday, December 1, 1998 Aggielih Tour de France Albun North A&Mstudents begin international bicycle-tour BY MEREDITH MIGHT The Battalion D avid Mebane, a senior management information systems business analy sis major, is graduating in May, but he won’t be heading to Houston or Dallas to pursue a career in the corporate world. Instead, he is going to Paris, France, where he will be encouraging tourists to “hop, skip and jump through Paris” with Bullfrog Bike Tours, a bicycle touring com pany he has founded. The company will guide customers on a four-hour trip to the tourist spots of the city for $20. The major attractions include the Eiffel Tower, the Louvre, Notre Dame Cathedral and Napoleon’s burial site, Les Invalides. Mebane has spent the past three sum mers in France as a tour guide, a student and an intern. “I’ve been fortunate enough to live and work in France for all four years of college,” he said. “I’ve always wanted to do something fun. This affords me the opportunity to live in France and show others how much fun it can be.” Mebane worked at Price Waterhouse Coopers last summer doing computer soft ware implementation but found it was not the job for him. “I decided that looking at a computer screen was not something I wanted to do for the rest of my life,” he said.“I saw this as a golden opportunity. “Bicycle tours have had a lot of success in other cities, so I don’t see why it could n’t be successful in Paris. I have a passion for France. This is a paid vacation.” Mebane said he is planning on being in business only during the summer months for the next three or four years. Mebane, who speaks some French but is not fluent, made a three-hour presentation to the Paris Chamber of Commerce before- setting up the business. The start-up cost for the business was about $20,000, most of which was financed through a loan. The company is based in the United States to avoid the high taxes abroad. The Paris location is a branch of the company. Mebane will employ three people to help lead the tours of 25 people. His employees include his roommate, David Faulkner, a se nior finance major. Faulkner said he is looking forward to spending the summer in France. “I’m really excited about the experience,” Faulker said. “I didn’t want to go into the workforce af ter graduation. This was a good opportuni ty to do something different and unique that other students don’t get to do.” LONDO onnor ai heir voic Ibum re leased onday n ritain to raise money for vic tims of the Aug. : ern Irelarn The alb Of Hope, f Boyzone, ing by act poem wri Shaun M killed in tf The boy in Norther Ititle of the A car b Republica killed 29 |370 in On Newm rating: NEW > jNewman, Morning wife’s di, sclerosis slipping i ment rum “I don’t do, but said in th Guide. “I What ma Pi Three A&M students (left to right), Lane Allen, a senior marketing major, David Mebanet management information systems business analysis major, and Reif Chrone, a junior accounting major, will work together on their on Bullfrog Bike Tours this summer in Parish Tu Lane Allen, a senior marketing major, and Reif Chron, a junior accounting major, will also help lead the tours. All three will take French 101 in the spring to sharpen their grasp of the language. Mebane, Allen, Faulkner and Chron will share an apartment in Paris near the Eiffel Tower this summer. Mebane said the tours willbegi'’ 10:30 a.m. and 2:30 p.m. everydfl bikes will be provided. He said he hopes Aggies will take* tage of the opportunity. “I hope to see all Aggies in Pa r L summer,” he said. “Come meetusl* Eiffel Tower.” A Bug's /.//e squashes Babe: Pig in the City at Box OP LOS ANGELES (AP) — The expensive sequel Babe: Pig in the City flopped at the Thanks giving weekend box office against tough family-oriented competition in A Bug’s Life and The Rugrats Movie, final figures showed Monday. Produced for more than $90 mil lion, Pig in the City grossed just $8.2 million over the five-day weekend for a disastrous fifth- place debut. Its dismal perfor mance came as Universal’s parent Seagram Co. ousted film division chief Casey Silver. 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