,: f'ii ■ ■ ■ ... ^ j Page 2 • Tuesday, October 19, 1999 N EWS Historian Continued from Page 1 the “United States vs. Japan” aspect of World War II. He said he was stationed in Japan for two years during his service in the military and then lived there for another four. Dawson said the Institute’s presenta tions are a continuing series. The series began in 1985. Drea taught courses in United States history and Asian military history at the United States Army Commander and Staff College and the United States Army College. Drea said he was interested in speaking at A&M because of the University’s strong military history department. News in Brief A&M bus collides with car A Texas A&M off-campus shuttle bus collid ed with a car that is believed to have run a red light at at the intersection of George Bush Dri ve and Wellborn Road at approximately 7:15 a.m. yesterday. Gary Jackson, Bus Operations manager, said the bus involved was part of the Elephant Walk route. There were no passengers on the bus be cause it was just leaving campus on its first route of the day. The driver of the bus was not injured. Jackson said Bus Operations investigates the circumstances surrounding each bus acci dent to see if the driver could have prevented the accident. However, in the case of yesterday’s collision, Jackson said there will not be any repercussions against the driver, except that she will not be dri ving for a few days, even though the official po lice report has not been released. Center Continued from Page 1 Career Expo may be attractive to A&M students, many atten dants may not be well-in formed about the program and therefore be unprepared for the event. Bower said attending com panies will not see A&M stu dents at their best. “Companies looking for Ag gies are at a disadvantage to seeing the best qualities of the school and the students,” he said. Career Center directors Leigh Turner and Payne said confusion about the fair is af fecting student groups be cause many student-run orga nizations, including student councils for the College of Lib eral Arts, Agriculture, Con struction Science, Engineering and Business rely on business patronage to expand the re sources available at their re spective fairs. Tlimer said these fairs are suf fering because businesses are abandoning booths at student- organization fairs to participate in the Career Expo because of the fair’s perceived affiliation with the Career Center. “That is our major concern, the impact on student organi zations,” Thrner said. “When it is one of our A&M events, we’re confident of the quality. We’re not discouraging students from going, but it has been very confusing and [has] impacted our student organi zations.” Payne said Career Expo sources received information from Career Center libraries and resources without official ly requesting them. Payne said early advertise ments were unclear the fair was unaffiliated with A&M or the Career Center. Flyers allegedly represented unsatisfactorily the fact that, al though is was held at Reed Arena and students and citi zens are welcome to attend, and the event is an indepen dent operation. Laurinda Lin, Student Engi neers’ Council president and a senior biomedical engineering major, said private companies that conduct career expositions at A&M are unfamiliar with the proper protocol and procedure for such an event. Lin said independent fairs lack the guarantees of student- run fairs presented in conjunc tion with the Career Center. “It sort of reflects badly on us, even though we had noth ing to do with it,” Lin said. “It might even reflect badly on us to companies attending.” Officials for the Career Expo could not be reached for comment. SIDE BURN CLUB BY BEAUJ^I &P3WI he Battalion / wy.sittNce! )j\)o itot^otxe /wt’Vw) sometnifi^ \tudei in i Fish E IV R. PELI CoobH/ Vum Oo/or you So/rt coobtiy —vW/rreR ? Ho /W£ A SCltiE k Vl/9 C^ss... JT5 JusT A lough!^ 'moc epSil -Lr-r^kfl yil OH W/ 15 Th/jT STuDEyiir £HOEING? SiR, mv AM ; i Not LONt KaJOuJ Th^ ^ \r ^ A /' '/viVsif ’ y I ( 1 i ujv in/o 0• //\> MSC to celebrate 50th anniversary next spring BY RICHARD BRAY The Battalion The Memorial Student Center, which officially opened on Muster Weekend in 1951, will celebrate 50 years of offering services and pro grams to Texas A&M students next spring. Nathan Cray, executive vice pres ident of MSC programs, said an niversary celebrations will take place throughout the year, but Muster Weekend will be the focus. “On Muster Weekend we plan on bringing as many former student leaders as possible back to the MSC and having a good time and re membering what this building has been around for,” he said. “We will be doing programs throughout next school year. However, the official cel ebration will probably be on Muster Weekend in the year 2001 because that will be the exact 50-year date of the existence of the MSC.” Martha Middleton, 50th-anniver- sary coordinator, said the milestone will provide an opportunity for the MSC to look at both its past and its future. “It’s a celebration of where the MSC has been and a chance to focus on our future and what we want to accomplish in the next several years,” she said. Cray said plans for the celebra tion have just begun, and the com mittees in charge of planning still have a lot of work to do. “We’re still in the preliminary [planning] stages,” Cray said. “We have some timelines set up, and we have been working mainly on set ting up what committees are going to do what.” Jane Bailey, MSC director assis tant, said part of the plan includes an advertising campaign. "We now have a logo, and we’re working on a slogan,” she said. "Committees are planning specific programs.” Bailey said the MSC is concen trating on spreading the word this school year so students who want to become involved will know it is coming up. “We are trying this year to make [students] aware that [the anniver sary] is going to happen so that they will be looking for details of what is going on,” she said. THE PHOENIX BOX BY E. ANDRAOS 2* SteW ast week tw connectio ile across tl posted ar mputer parts. ! Ihe victims w [ice box in Col tns they purch jScams such a: [bble of Collegf ;ir money usua -are they are b< Elizabeth Me major, said s lets’ kindnesi I was eating 'er filled out tl mself $10.” McNeill said |reful with her feel like em with my ci Dr. Bdg )t getting rippei Deaplta whole - hearted efforts. Goldfish simply couldn't overcome their two second long-term memory. WHILE THE INVADING MARTIANS HAD HUH MVS HI OTHER ADVANCED WEAPONRY THU PIP W COUHl ON THE EARTHLINGS HAVING MENTOS. 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