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Do you plan on going to MEDICAL or DENTAL school in 2001?
I ho Office of Professional School Advising will HOOK YOU UP!
Thursday
Monday
You need to attend a
BASIC'S WORKSHOP
October 28"'
November 1 st
12:00 noon
4:30 p.m.
1 he Basics Workshop will fully prepare you for the application process.
During the workshop you will be given all of the necessary material to
start your file in the OPSA.
You may register over the phone at (409) 847-8938 or come by in person
to room 205 of the Academic Building. You will receive the location at the
time you register. Seating is limited so don't mess around. Come by now!
The Office of Professional School Advising is partially funded by the
Association of Former Students.
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Come get help from the experts!
Did you know that most employers use behavioral
interviewing techniques? Come to this seminar and learn
strategies to ace these questions and more!
♦ When was the last time you were
a leader?
♦ When did you have to motivate a
group to do something?
Door
prizes
will be
given
away!
Presenter: Kathy Smith, Bell Helicopter
Wed, Oct. 27 - 6pm - 301 Rudder
areer Center 209 Koldus 845-5139 http://aggienet.tamu.edu/cctr
Like SportsCenter With Staples.
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A convenient, portable version of the excitement and attitude of ESPN.
Special $13 Discount Student Rate!
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STUDENT SAVINGS Certificate
Please send me ESPN The Magazine at the special student rate
of 26 issues for $13. (Wow, that's only 50 cents an issue!)
i^£?4yWednesday, October 27, 1999
Aggielife
A - instant classic B = a cut above C=a3
D = don't buy it F = burn in effigy
Homeworld
Genre: Strategy
System: PC
Developer: Sierra
Many games proclaim their mastery of the
three-dimensional world simply by virtue of hav
ing a polygon-derived main character; however,
Homeworld sets out to prove just what a 3-D game
can accomplish.
In Homeworld, Sierra has created the standard
real-time “collect-minerals-build-and-blow-up”
game. What sets this game apart from the rest of the
pack is literally its depth. Instead of looking down
on a flat plane, the action in Homeworld takes place
in the vast reaches of space. This means infinite X, Y
and Z space to move units around.
The vessels are also beautifully rendered poly
gons, but their virtues extend far beyond eye candy.
Now, a balanced force (not the usual “lotsa big
guns” strategem) is an essential prerequisite for
combat. Players who build tons of battleships, only
to watch them all turned to scrap by a single
squadron of sleek fighters, need only remember how
difficult it would be to shoot down a plane with an
18-inch cannon. Next time, develop the technology
(a throwback to Sid Meir's tried-and-true approach)
to turn those fighters into scrap, loser.
And gamers cannot skimp on the skull-sweat,
either. Tactics rule in this game, so the old standby
of lining up every ship in a row quickly becomes
obsolete. Players can surround enemy battle
groups, concentrate fire on single ships, drive a
wedge and employ any number of other mayhem-
inducing strategies.
With gorgeous graphics and a well-balanced com
bat engine which stresses mental stress over mass
suicide, Homeworld is a worthwhile addition to any
strategy gamer’s collection. (Grade: B)
— Stephen Wells
Dino Crisis
Genre: Adventure
System: Playstation
Developer: Capcom
This game would make the perfect Bittj
mysterious time warp energy devicedevelc;
the government and mad scientists on a sec/
land somewhere in the Pacific has goneawi
they always do).
Now a strike force has been called upto:
the situation, but the team is nowinoverit
on an island with killer dinosaurs.
This game, which was developed by tlif
team that does the Resident Evil series,is;
Resident Evil meets The Lost World, butv
guns and blood and less Jeff Goldblum.Als
are lots of killer dinosaurs.
The gameplay and control is exactly like
Evil in every respect. The game is very enter.:
and feels like an interactive sci-fi Bmoview
dialogue and weird scientific notions thau
never fly in real life. Plus: killer dinosauis.
The game has a lot of mini-puzzle game
plete, which adds a lot of fun and diversity
play. Plus, there are killer dinosaurs.
The game gets very hard in theendwliea
ers have to find codes and items for whiclmo
is given to their location. Everywhere the dial
ters go, there are insane amounts of secuiiiyaij
sures which take hours to crack. Plus.teaii
ways killer dinosaurs on the other sidewaij
leaving the player wondering how the heck I
got past security. They’re killer dinosaurs,nol
crack codebreakers.
Over all, this game is a lot of fun, withabci
plot than The Lost World. Fora fun escape k
ity to a dark island full of mad scientists and la
action, check this one out. (Grade: B)
Public library gets
Nureyev collection
NEW YORK (AP) — The Rudolf
Nureyev Collection, 370 video films
starring the dancer who defected
from Russia’s Kirov Ballet in 1961,
has been acquired by the New York
Public Library.
The library yesterday announced
that the footage includes Nureyev's
graduation performance from the
Kirov Ballet and his dance with Dame
Margot Fonteyn of the British Royal
Ballet in “Swan Lake” in 1965. It also
includes a dance with Miss Piggy on
TV’s “The Muppet Show” in 1977, in
“Swine Lake.”
The collection will be preserved,
processed and cataloged during the
next two years.
Rolling Stone sues
over Pitt pictures
LOS ANGELES (AP) — Rolling
Stone is suing a news syndication
agency for dis
seminating pho
tos of Brad Pitt in
a dress from the
magazine’s Octo
ber edition.
The magazine
filed suit last
week in U.S. Dis
trict Court accus
ing the agency of
infringing on the copyright of pho
tographer Mark Seliger and the
magazine’s publisher.
PITT
People in the News
The magazine gave the agency
limited permission to “use the im
ages of Brad Pitt accompanying the
feature article ... so long as they are
used within the context of the mag
azine," according to the lawsuit.
“They’ve cropped out all of the ref
erences to Rolling Stone and the
photographer," Kelli L. Sager, Rolling
Stone’s attorney, said Monday.
Mike Parker, co-director of Head
line News LA and a defendant in the
lawsuit, denied that his organization
misrepresented itself and said the
company has told its sub-agents to
stop selling the material.
Pitt, who posed for the humorous
shots in dresses to accompany a
profile entitled “The Unbearable
Bradness of Being,” is not named as
a plaintiff.
Tennis great King
enters Hall of Fame
CHICAGO (AP) — Tennis great Bil
lie Jean King is among the newest
members of the city’s Gay and Les
bian Hall of Fame.
King, who lives in Chicago, was cit
ed for her “lifelong advocacy for
women’s sports equity," and for fund
raising efforts on behalf of AIDS or
ganizations and gay and lesbian
groups.
The induction ceremony was set
for yesterday evening at the Chicago
Cultural Center.
King was among 13 individuals
and one organization named earlier
this month as this year’s honorees.
“The Hall of Fame's p®is f
recognize the achievensfei |
lesbian, bisexual,a/Vfrs/isl |
Chicagoans, their contribiJ
the development of the city:
go, and the help they have
from others,” Mary F. Mortf
tor of a city advisory counci
and lesbians, said.
Spielberg, How
form new coif
LOS ANGELES
Spielberg, Ron Howard art
big-screen associ
ates are forming
an online enter
tainment compa
ny that will pro
duce short videos
for the Web.
The directors
on Monday an
nounced POBcom,
which will broad
cast live-action, animationaft
short features.
The new company is all
ship between DreamWoik:
the studio founded bySpf
Jeffrey Katzenberg and Dai
fen, and Imagine Entertain
production company staf
Howard and producer Brian
Scheduled to debut r#
POPcom’s Website
short video segments,^
some live Internet bros
mostly ranging from one to
utes long.
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TSew Orleans jazz dominates tt\e syllabus of this one nigbt
only offering tbanks to tbe music of the Preservation Hall
jazz Band. Students are encouraged to sit back, relax and let
these jazz sounds transport them to tbe French Quarter. Please
note, jazz 101 administers no tests anjd assigns no homework.
Offered by MSC OP AS, Preservation Hall jazz Band
should be attended for enjoyment purposes only.
To register for Jazz 101, ca\\ tbe MSC Box Office at
SASH234 or visit our website at opas.tamu.edu.
Peter Lieuwen hosts a Patricia S. Peters Lagniappe Lecture in
the MSC Forsyth GaWery at 6-.30 PM. Thanks to the OPAS
Guild, it's FREE.
MSC
OPAS
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Preservation Ha\\ Jazz Band
Rudder Auditorium
Friday, October 29 at 7-.30FM
Muslim Students' Association presents
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Who was MuhammadS
What is the Quran?
7:30pm in MSC 145,
ReiestoeBts serva
Coming Soon...
Islamic World Exhibitior
IVov. I, MSC flag Rm. & MSC 225
c- . „ , Islam Awareness Wk
Food & Displays (Nov. 1-4)
Contacts: email islam lOl @.tamu.edu or call 846-7718
Visit our table in MSC hallway every Wed. between 11:30 & if