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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
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admission,
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Parents
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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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is given to 5 freshmen
mores, 15 juniors, 20::{
two graduate students?
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