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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
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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.
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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.
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