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Page 2 • Monday, April 19, 1999 News Fish BV R. DELUNA TheYre HA VINO ft SarSeOvE Pop Parents Uieevceajd / Sorry Tisdale, ue already Tried ... Tuiajk You Have t ° Wave A Parent Simel & Lewis By Mel THEftGS OCR TARGET: THE ^ IMCoAAPeT6A)T football head ^VlvWT -Dto 9oj DO ? J ? . GuV. You StCURB Hl/Vy . ARRANGE the 7 He'3 \>*>rtHl6S>s tt> us VaJVUUL 3 You TWO -Dt-SGxJST me! 4 X'fYl LE-AvANC* . irxr GETAWAY. ) pTr-x 31 M TUBULARMAN BY BOOMER Swingers TERRY ROBERSONTht Batta; Jeremy Mitchell and Rebekah Anderson, sopho more and freshman bio medical science majors, perform during a swing dance exposition at the honors luncheon in front of the Academic Building. Senior Week to today with bigt ? BY NONI SRIDHARA The Battalion An evening of bowl ing Monday at Wolf Pen Bowling Center will kick off the annual Se nior Week which ends with Ring Dance. The bowling night will be at Wolf Pen from 9 p.m. to midnight and will cost $1.75 per game. Tuesday night, there will be $1 admission for those wearing an Aggie Ring or a Class of 1999 T- shirt to the A&M- Uni versity of Houston base ball game. Seniors will have a chance to mix with stu dents from the Class of 1949 during the Muster Picnic at the Academic Plaza. Brad Straub, co-chair for Senior Week for the Class of 1999 Council and a senior accounting major, said the picnic should be interesting since it is the Class of 1949’s 50th reunion. "We thought it would be neat for the students to mingle with the Class of ’49 instead: separate ev; The eve Ring Dances Bash at He: ry’s. There* admission, for studen'e Rings. Har lure swingj sons froiri i 1 p.m. Straub should tala ft of the ever:* “This is port unity feB meet togeir--™ class,” he to reunite [from the in Fish Ca::| you met in and in othe campus.* | Carla Mr. of 1999 sec senior speed cation ma are a series: so seniors more chance events “Ourmai: Senior Week: one can goo and bond," Parents Continued from Page l a $500 prize was sophomore Nicole Hurst. The two recipients of $250 prizes were sophomore Schelette Austin and senior Richard Rolison. Briones said the award is based pure ly on community service and is used to inspire more students to volunteer. The Gathright Award is named after the first president of Texas A&M College and recognizes supe rior academic achievements of stu dents. The award went to the sophomore, junior and senior with the highest grade point-ratio from each of the nine undergraduate col leges and two students from the College of Medicine. 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T AG GI ELAN Don't forget to order your 2000 Aggieland yearbook when you register for clas; Use fee option 16 during phone registration. For any questions regarding the 2000 Aggieland, call8^1 J .A /as $ Pp. i - Kg Battalion 105 YEARS AT TEXAS A&M UNIVERSITY Aaron Meier, Editor in Chief Kasie Byers, Managing Editor Beth Miller, City Editof Robert Hynecek, Graphics Editor Riley LaGrone, Aggielife Editor Matt Webber, Sports Editor Mike Fuentes, Photo Editor Elizabeth Pariani, Radio Producer Lisa Kreick, Night New? Dave Johnston, Opinion Jeff Webb, Sports EdW Veronica Serrano. Nights Jeremy Brown, Web Ed’ Staff Members ✓ City - Assistant: Megan Wright; Amanda Smith, Melissa Jordan, Andrea Brockman, Meredith Might, Noni Sridhara, Amanda Stirpe, Amanda Palm, Rachel Holland, Jordan Davis, Sallie Turner, Carrie Bennett, Emily Snooks, Lisa Hill, Ping-Ya Hsu, Sameh Fahmy & April Young. Sports - Assistant: Doug Shilling; Jeff Schmidt, Michael Taglienti, Aaron Cohan, Travis Harsch, Grant Hawkins, Tom Kennedy, Al Lazarus, Santosh Venkataraman, Ben Westbrook, Jason Schneider, Aggielife - Stephen Wells, Beth Focht, Kyle Whitacre, Jeff Schmidt, Amy Daugherty, Hina Patel, Scott Harris, Jeff Kempf, Kiffin Collins, Mariano Castillo, Jacob Huval, Bobbie Eftekhar, Susan Overcash & Michelle McNeely. Opinion - Lisa Foox, Caleb McDaniel, Christina Barrows, Brendan Guy, Zach Hall, Glenn Janik, David Lee, Caleb McDaniel, Brandon MnlF Page, Mark Passwaters, Demond Robbins & Luke Saugier. Photo - Sallie Turner, Guy Rogers. W Cariho Casas. Graphics • Assistant: IP Beato; Mart ^ Michael Wagener. Cartoonists -Ruben DeLuna, Victoria''' Ruenes & Michael Norfeldt. Copy Editors - Amy Daugherty, BoWf Tiffany Grant, Amanda Stirpe, Ca* ' Day, Deirdre Perkins & MerrisaSo# Page Designers - Jessica Wegener N & Kyle Whitacre. Radio - Dalton Caldwell. 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