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-J Ml —■■ . ATTENTION FALL 1999 STUDENT TEACHERS except HLKN and AGED WHAT: MANDATORY Pre-Student Teaching Informational Meeting WHEN: Tuesday, February 2, 1999 TIME: 8:00 P.M. KilS WHERE: Rudder Tower / 1 Room 601 V 2 The week of January 31 - February 4 Part I Part 11 Part 1H Acct 230 Mnn Keh 1 Tue Feh 2 Wed Feh 3 7|jm-9pui 7pni~9pin 7pn»~9pm Accl 230 Mon Feh 1 'Tonight the last time it will Flu. StmE 9 pm he oflifred Part I Part If Check our V Veb Page at Biot 113 Tue Feh 2 Wed Feh 3 www.4.OandCo.com, or call j 8pm-lUpm 8pm-10pm us at 69t 5-TUTOR Part I Part II Purl III Part IV Fine 341 Mon Feb 1 Tue Feb 2 Wed Feb 3 Thu Feb 4 7pm-9pm 7 pm **9pm 7 pin-9 pm 7pm-9pm Tickets go on sate Monday at 6:00 PM. 4.0 & Go is located on the corner of SW Pkwy and Tx Ave, behind KFC next to Lack's. Check our web page at http://www.4.0andGo.com Wednesday, Feb. 3 is Disabilities and Services for Students with Disabilities Discussion Panel 10:00am - 11:00am 1VISC 206 Texas A&M’s Faculty and Students discuss and answer questions concering their disabilities. Access Challenge 11:00am - 2:00 pm IMSC Flagroom Come participate in a simulation of eight diflerent disablities including mobility, visual and dexterity. Some activities include wheel chair basketball, a blind fold walk and every day activities such as shaving and putting on lipstick... with a twist. For more inforation call MSC Hospitality at 845-1515 ^iir Vdta feta Thanfea: A'l Ada L. Till American Solenoid Co. Bullwinkle's Cochlear Co. Copy Comer Dell Delta Chi D2 Fajita Rita's & Sq* 2 with the FT1 Houston Reveille's Club Jake Russo NSS Outlaw 8 D2 Sq. 16 T Bone Jones Tau Kappa Epsilon The Greek Boutique most participants for helping us raise over $4,000 for the Houston Ear Research Foundation In our 2nd Annual ^untothe Chicken Page 6 • Monday, February 1, 1999 News Lots condemned to make room for gara he Battalion BY CARRIE BENNETT The Battalion After the College Station City Council voted to begin condemnation of three lots of proper ty to be used for the Northgate Parking Garage project, citizens have expressed mixed feelings concerning the construction. Tom Brymer, assistant city manager for Col lege Station, said the three lots approved for condemnation by the City Council Thursday were needed in addition to three lots previous ly obtained for the project. He said the project requires the acquisition of six more lots before completion. The three lots condemned were originally owned by a family, who, according to the City Council, could not agree on the closure of the land. Ron Silvia, a council member, said the deci sion to condemn the property was difficult be cause the property was divided between family members with differing opinions. “It was a difficult situation with this particu lar piece of land since the family was divided over what to do with it,” Silvia said. “Hopeful ly, with this decision the family will come to the table together and bring some settlement to the issue. ” Although College Station voters have elected to construct the garage, other citizens are now expressing doubt for the need for paid parking. Steve Esmond, a council member, said the condemnation of private property is one of the reasons he is against building the garage. In a pamphlet created by Esmond and others against the garage, he said, “To undermine pub lic trust and community good will through con demnation for this project, smacks of bad faith and poor stewardship.” Esmond said the demand for the garage does not seem high enough to spend the money needed to continue the project. He said the parking consultant, DeShazo, Tang & Associ ates, recommended building a surface lot to test the demand for paid parking. “The Patricia Street lot (the lot directly be hind Northgate) is rarely full and the greatest demand for the lot is at night when people go to the bars,” Esmond said. “The city should not be promoting the liquor industry on Northgate.” Esmond said the number of free spaces re moved will begin with 155 on-street spaces, and the city may remove more if necessary. He said the city is not in the parking business and it ap pears that the garage will end up losing money since the demand for it has not increased. Silvia said the removal of several on-street ■he 13th-rai ?n’s Swimmin nished 2-1 in d ustin Saturday RobertHynecd. -f 01 tifth-rank( parking spaces will be for safety anc Men s swin ity reasons. He said the removal of ash’s squad li the construction o! a hotel on win;.-18-143, but dt lot and other factors will increasei 3n ‘’ 219-129 at the garage. mi.Tb s.b rhi “(How often the lot is used atfeli s t ' le Aggt‘ time] is not indicative ot whatitisgjB meet comi: when the garage is there," he said. camo Benito Flores, a re Colk^F n/ - ona * H ' C ' and a graduate ot Texas A&M, the notion that the spaces arebeingr^- 1 was lv ' 1 safety reasons. swam this "If there was a bn A 88 ies or may not be true, then win v- hd swam sew street parking removed earlier," Floi on times durii enior All-Amei Mayors to kick off month-long celebration of diver BY SALLIE TURNER The Battalion The Bryan and College Station mayors, a representative from Texas A&M University and students dressed in authentic ethnic cos tumes will kickoff International Student Awareness Month with a press conference today at 11 a.m. at the Bryan-College Station Cham ber of Commerce in Bryan. Suzanne Droleskey, executive director of international programs for students, said the press confer ence will promote understanding of cultures in the community. “In light of the recent problems concerning the safety of interna tional students, we felt it was im portant to bring the community to gether to celebrate diversity,” she said. Regina Roselynn, vice president of public relations for the Interna tional Student Association (ISA) and a senior industrial engineering major, said the press conference is designed to get the community in volved in celebrating cultural di versity. “We planned the press confer ence with the help of the Chamber of Commerce to celebrate diversity and to get the community in volved,” she said. Roselynn said ISA and Interna tional Student Services have set up 24 cultural displays in shop win dows around Bryan-College Sta tion. ISA is also working in conjunc tion with the MSC L.T. Jordan In stitute on an International Educa tion Outreach Program. The educational programs, scheduled to begin this month, will replace teachers’ curriculums by teaching students of all ages about cultures. “We are encouraging the com munity to be international,” Rose- lyn said. “If a first-grade teacher is planning to teach about Mexico, we will get students from Mexico /or the 200-y: ideration tinr ■fed second Wstyle with a to go and teach thedfeJ|0-36. U.S. 1 life in Mexico.” nembt'i Jerroi Droh'sk\ wul thi> • 0*y ar ‘l livcsn International PHsideration Awareness Month has:i| brated. H “This year was chosd an awareness monthbeq is the 20th anniversary! tional Student Week,' "Also, February is agre.-| because we can link inn Awareness Month, whidij ing to promote diversity; International Student 11 be the first week in Marti include cultural celetaj diversity Awareness add lk\ at S' trac UDM leader slain 11 supporters also killed in revenge attack RICHMOND, South Africa (AP) — Firing pistols into the air, mourners bid farewell to slain op position politician Sifiso Nkabinde on Sunday while his colleagues im plored supporters to vote rather than to kill. Nkabinde, gunned down Jan. 23 by unknown assassins, was na tional secretary of the United De mocratic Movement (UDM). The UDM has been caught in a deadly fight with supporters of President Nelson Mandela’s ruling African National Congress (ANC) in KwaZulu-Natal province. “We must do what Sifiso would have wanted us to do: Win at the ballot box,’’ Bantu Holomisa, UDM president, told mourners. “Let our voices be the guns and our votes be the bullets on election day.” In the years preceding the first all-race election in 1994, political violence in KwaZulu-Natal nearly disrupted South Africa’s transition to democracy. Nkabinde’s murder and the sub sequent massacre of 11 ANC sup porters, an apparent revenge at tack, has raised fears for national elections later this year. Seven of the ANC victims were buried on Saturday in Richmond amid a 1,000-strong police and military presence that preserved order. Shortly after Nkabinde’s coffin was lowered into the grave in a hill side cemetery, about half a dozen gunmen fired pistols and shotguns into the air for at least two minutes. Wary soldiers armed with machine guns did not intervene. “Long live Nkabinde! Long live Sifiso!” the crowd chanted as the gunfire echoed. Nkabinde was a controversial figure, dubbed a warlord by oppo nents who held him responsible for killing his enemies. A former ANC member, he was kicked out of the party and joined the UDM in 1997 when he was accused of spying for South Africa’s white government during apartheid. Violence soon started between UDM and ANC members. Nk abinde was acquitted of 16 mur ders last year. The funerals took place during South Africa’s second three-day dri ve to register voters for this year’s national elections. Registration was postponed in the Richmond area because of political tension. Elsewhere, officials expressed disappointment in the low turnout of potential voters. Only about 9 million of an estimated 24.7 million voters registered in the first drive last year. The elections will be held sometime between April and July. FREE MONEY! Partial funding for programs promoting international or cultural awareness given to student organizations and academic departments MSC L.T. Jordan Institute for International Awareness Enrichment Fund For application information, stop by the MSC L.T. Jordan Institute office in the MSC room 223-1 or call 845-8770 http://ltjordan.tamu.edu e-mail: jordan@msc.tamu.edu Applications are due in the Jordan office on the f irst Wednesday of each month by 5:00 p.m. Coast Guard’s reactions! distress calls questioned BY! CHARLESTON, S.C. (AP) — In the black, rolling Atlantic lashed by a winter gale, Michael Cornett struggled to bring the Morning Dew, with his two sons and a nephew on board, into the safety of Charleston Harbor. But before dawn on Dec. 29, 1997, the 34-foot sailboat slammed into one of the harbor’s rocky, pro tective jetties, which extend 2 1/2 miles from shore, and tore a gap ing hole in its fiberglass hull. “Mayday. U.S. Coast Guard. Come in,” a desperate voice crackled above the static. But no search was launched. The Coast Guard says it could not tell where the call came from; the family’s lawyer says they could have approximated the location. Cornett’s body and that of his 16-year-old son, Michael Paul, were later found in the water. His 13-year-old son, Daniel, and nephew Bobby Lee Hurd Jr., 14, were found unconscious the next morning on a nearby beach, and died a short time later; the two younger boys may have stayed on the wrecked boat or on the rocks until the rising tide sent them swimming for shore. The National Transportation Safety Board wonders why help ■ The weai can negative a [long seasc over a long impact perfo was not sent and will op/ Coach Ted f ing here Wednesday.ItalsuBth this we amine the Coast Guards eniries out c to a distress call fromtbB I n an e ^ c ming boat Adriatic that! amt allow c 18 off Barnegat Light, gain experi crew of four is presumed ML' 11 s and Libby Cornett of Hilli'S| airis 1iave also wants to know boonoi t search was launched foi:® ' band and the boys, ant! The mee if they could have been',‘i ai ear In the days after the«® sd ° ne accepted as han, It was not until later . . learned of the distressed d 5 some Before, it was easi(ir|J aci baSi that perhaps it was an y f ( that happened so very«^ en ^ rom she says. “Now I know! what happened — thattfep ^he Aggi hours out there on thtN; 0llt | n g seeing all the lights of CL Meshell JYo ... hoping for help to coiW t I ss of 55^ The Cornett family ffe to a secc million negligenceclaim;tl*| eclipsed hei Guard rejected it, saying it 5 ] a year ago. legally required to launch Athletes “It is purely speculate ual honors search, even if launched! nior Detri have located the crew oftL] jump with ing Dew in time to savetZ meters) the frigid water,” wroteUX® Burkhardt Good, chief of the Coash clearing 5’ claims and litigation branch Also pla for Kelli S Weight thr nd, 1ST eshman |/4”) in th CGMb^PUTlt Aggie Owned and Opperafed Since 1984! CUSTOM BUILT SYSTEMS! 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