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OPAS dating tip #1: You'll never forget your fairy tale night at the ballet.
We whole-heartedly admit, there aren't many sure things in the
dating world. But, we are certain that escorting your date to The
Sleeping Beauty is about as close as you can get.
The Sleeping Beauty features
RUSSIAN NATIONAL BALLET
(Company of 50)
Rudder Auditorium
February 19 and 20 at 8 PM
February 20 at 3 PM
Call 845-1234 for tickets.
It’s 2:58 p.m. on
February 20 and
you hear the Fightin’ Texas
Aggie Band playing the War
Hymn. But there you are, standing in line, trying to
get in Reed Arena to watch the men’s basketball
team “beat the hell out of tu.”
The Ags walking past you into Reed Arena prepared for this 3
p.m. game by getting their tickets earlier this week. If you act
now, you can be one of the people who walk up to any Reed
Arena entrance that afternoon with ticket in hand. Just take
your All Sports Pass—and your friends’ passes—to the box
office at Reed Arena, G. Rollie White Coliseum or the MSC.
Do it now.
Reed’s Third Law says: The earlier you get your ticket, the
better seat you get.
In addition to tickets for the tu game, you can also get
tickets for all of the remaining home games this season. You
will have a great seat for the men’s Oklahoma game on Feb.
24 and the women’s games against Nebraska on Feb. 17 and
Colorado on Feb. 27. See you at Reed Arena.
Page 4 • Wednesday, February 17, 1999
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From student leader to regent,
McClure receives accolades
BY AMY DAUGHERTY
The Battalion
I n 1994, Frederick D. McClure was
named one of America’s 50 most
promising leaders, age 40 and un
der, by Time magazine. Although an
unfamiliar name to most Texas A&M
students. Board of Regents member
Fred McClure has been continually
striving towards improving the
A&M system.
McClure received his bachelor of
science degree in agricultural eco
nomics from A&M in 1976. Al
though A&M was not his first choice,
McClure said deciding to go to A&M
was one of the best decisions he ever
made.
“Up until and including my se
nior year in high school, 1 was going
to go to the University of Texas,” Mc
Clure said. “I wanted to be a doctor.
In the spring of my senior year, I
won a scholarship from the Houston
Livestock Show and Rodeo and it re
quired me to go somewhere where l
could major in agriculture.
“I figured, ‘I’ll go to A&M,’ which
has one of the best ag programs, get
into biomedical science later and still
be a doctor, and use this money to
help me out. In the twinkling of an
eye, I lost my T-sipdom and chose
Aggiedom. It is one of, if not the
best, decisions I’ve made in my en
tire life.”
During McClure’s senior year he
served as student body president,
the first and only African-American
president A&M has had. He said it
was one of the most wonderful and
challenging experiences of his life.
"It was a great honor to be elect
ed by the student body,” McClure
said. “It was a tremendous challenge
communicating the hopes and de
sires of the student body. It was a
wonderful leadership experience.”
Andrie L. Leday, a senior mar
keting major and a member of Alpha
Phi Alpha Inc., said he thinks Mc
Clure has not received the recogni
tion he deserves for being A&M’s
first African-American student body
president.
"I definitely feel that’s [being stu
dent body president] an accom
plishment that maybe has not gotten
the recognition it deserves,” Leday
said. “There's always a first, and it’s
something people didn’t ever expect
to see. For him to do that and move
on to the regent level, it shows any
thing is possible.”
While at A&M, McClure received
the Brown-Rudder Outstanding Stu
dent Award and was elected to Phi
Kappa Phi.
In 1981 he received his juris doc
tor degree from the Baylor Universi
ty School of Law and is currently a
member of the State Bar of Texas.
McClure was a special assistant
to President Reagan for legislative af
fairs and served as government af-
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