i The Ladies of Alpha Phi invite you to be a part of ^ A New Millennium of 'fC. Sisterhood Event Schedule: Monday, January 24 th -lnformational Meeting 7:00 Rudder 308 Tuesday, January 25 th -lnterviews* 9am-5pm MSC138 Informational Meeting 8:30 MSC 292 B Wednesday, January 26 tr, -lnterviews*12pm-9pm & ☆ MSC,3S ☆ $ Thursday, January 27 th -lnvitation Only Party Monday, January 31 St -Bid Day 'ffe Tables with information will be in the MSC Hallway January 18 th through the 21 st and January 24 th and 25 th . A table will also be at the MSC Open House Sunday, January 23 rd . "You must attend an Informational Meeting before you sign up for an £]!§%’’•' Interview. •ijjr Vtour parents think you’re a Genius. Show them they're right! Pay off your student loan while you’re still in school. Earn UniBucksiM on the @theU web site when you buy CDs, books, clothing, software and more, and use them to pay off your loan debt! @the0 www.attheu.com 0 @tlieU is a digital propetty ol UNIPAC U/l^ 313 S. COLLEGE 846-3343 846-1724 ilLEGffP Thursday: AGGIE 96 NIGHT •Aggie 96 is picking up cover if over 21 and 1/2 price if under 21! • S 1 bar drinks & drafts • $ 1 longnecks 5 1.50 crown Friday 1 . s 1.50 bar drinks s 2.50 pitchers Saturday: JJJ • s 1.50 crown • 50(1: bar drinks & drafts • S 1 longnecks Everyone 21 & up FREE till 10pm DESIGNATED DRIVER ALWAYS RECEIVES FREE SOFT DRINKS! DRINK RESPONSIBLY! NEWS Page 2 THE BATTALION Wednesday, in Flames scorch building VAN ALSTYNE(AP) — An ear ly-morning tire destroyed a historie downtown building in this North Texas town Tuesday. More than 25 firefighters tried to extinguish flames at the Cannon Building. Fire shot from the up stairs windows and threatened a restaurant, a drug store and the city hall next door. “It looks like the fire started with a space heater on the second floor ol the building, where a man was liv ing,” Van Alstyne Fire Chief Robert Lewis told the Herald-Democrat of Shennan-Denison. “There was a lot of paper in there, from the floor to the ceiling. It went very quickly.” Lewis estimated the fire caused $650,000 in damage. Betty Norwood, w ho runs the Van Alstyne Historical Museum, said the tire w ill change the down town landscape forever. Built in 1890, the building is one of the old est in town. It has housed drug stores and doctor’s offices but has been va cant lately. “The historical buildings, that’s one of the town’s biggest draws,” she said, shaking her head. Van Alstyne, which is home to about 2,200 people, is 45 miles northeast of Dallas. Meal on Wheels nestk Angela Painter, a freshman business administration major, gazes at an out ol " 1 JLah on the Northside. Outbound dining has been put In place to help out over popu a Ing areas due to the closure of Sblsa. Government fails to meet evidence deadline in Branch Davidian case WACO(AP) — Government attorneys failed to meet a deadline to turn over all evidence sought by relatives suing for wrongful death in the Branch Da vidian inferno. U.S. Attorney Michael Bradford said the govern ment sent 50 boxes of materials to plaintiffs’ attor neys over the holiday weekend, beating Tuesday’s deadline. But he said an additional 2,500 pages of docu ments must be declassified first. He said government attorneys also must repro duce and hand over items from 31 boxes of materi als, including photographs and computer disks, which were surrendered to the Waco federal court last fall at the direction of U.S. District Judge Walter Smith. A private contractor the government hired had overlooked the materials and was making copies for delivery today, Bradford said. The Justice Department had sought a two-week delay, but Smith rejected their request last week. Smith has set a May 15 trial dale. Lead plaintiffs' attorney Michael Caddell has asked Smith to compel government lawyers to an swer more completely the question of whether any government personnel — military or civilian fired shots during the deadly siege’s final hours. The Justice Department and FBI long have denied that federal agents fired shots on April 19, 1993. But the government’s sworn answer to the plain tiffs’ question of whether “any person under the em ployment, agency, control or direction of the U.S. or any other government, agency or organization fired shots is incomplete, Caddell wrote. The deadly standoff began Feb. 28, 1993. when federal agents raided the rural compound of Branch Davidian leader David Koresh and his followers. The siege ended in a fire that killed Koresh and about 80 followers, some of whom were shot. The government said the Davidians died by their own hands. Officials try to ban arrested student from school BLANCO, Texas (AP) —School officials vowed to fight to keep the stu dents arrested in connection with a pipe bomb found at Blanco High School banned from coming back to the school. “1 met with the principal and su perintendent and tried to elicit a guarantee about that, and I think I did,” said school board president Jim Pepper, about the ban. His comments came Monday night, as some 250 people filled Blan co High’s cafeteria to discuss school safety with the hoard, prosecutors and police officials. “Those students under arrest at this time will not be allowed to enter our building. I don’t know if that’s legal, but we will find out if we have to.” Pepper told the San Antonio Express-News. Superintendent Mike Adkins said he would stand behind the ban, even though the district may be on shaky legal ground. As of yet, a conviction had not been handed down against the pupils. “We will still fight it,” Adkins said. “We will pressure as much as we can to keep these children out of our school.” The school’s 300 students have been evacuated three times in the past two weeks because of bomb scares. "Those students under arrest at this time will not be allowed to en ter our building." — Jim Pepper school board president In the second incident, a small pipe bomb was found in a bathroom Jan. 10, and three students were arrested, ac cording to the Express-News. Two of the students, both 16. wen charged Thursday with helping plant the 7-inch pipe bomb and were ordered to be held in juvenile jail for 10 more days. Two others Justin Byars and Nancy Garcia, both 17- were also ar rested and are being charged as adults. The high school was emptied again Friday after a threatening note was found in the same bathroom. No arrests have been made in that incident, and police said Monday it wasn’t related to the earlier cases. However, a fifth student was ar rested Monday, Sheriff Bill Llsbury said. He refused to discuss further de tails in the case. School officials said they will con tinue to modify their security plans in the wake of the bomb threats, including a possible plan to hire more security guards to patrol the school grounds. The district has already enacted a plan to evacuate students to area churches in the event of another threat. Fires burn through stm Texas town RANC>iiR(AP) I iitf houses and a hay bam hurocci mg the night around this rid? Knun town in what aulhorO* may relate to a protest owxa crackdown. Three grass fircsikobumfc | around Ranger, and authentic! suspect all I 2 fires ucrcdeliK' ately set. Police CliielTom Million ^ there’s a “good possibilit) fej fires are related to a protedMfll night at City I kill. rhea*, he “ sc\ erul known criminalsavi < known felons” called for the# resignation. Million said that since belt* came chief about a year ago. kg partment has tried to rid theH a dnig problem. 1 Se\ era I people were quest 1 ' about the fires, but Millionstfj one had been arrested. Fire (’hief I Jarrell Fox said5 of the buildings were total loss Some of them were abandoned dilapidated. Hie town of2,800. about S’: miles west of Fort Worth.has- 100 vacant buildings, includint businesses and houses. Fox sat The barn, packed with mi' than 1,000 large bales ol hay tinued burning today and fire fighters decided they wouldn't! able to extinguish it. 1 he bale hay are each valued at about $ 150, Fox said. “It may bum fora week,'FI said. “The guy had just built it* tilled it with hay.” Fifty-three lirelighters frotf eight fire departments joined^ battle. An approaching cold front"! expected to bring increased winf threatening to spread any remaii| flames. a IB! Texas A&M University Women’s Week Awards Nomination Women's Week 2000 Committee is accepting nominations for Women's Week Awards. The awards are designed to honor Texas A&M University students, staff, faculty, and administrators who encourage and promote the sensitivity to and awareness of issues that relate to women. Award recipients will receive public recognition, an award piece and a $100 U.S. Savings Bond. The awards will be presented at the Women's Week Awards Luncheon on March 21 at the Bush Conference Center. For more information and nomination forms, check the Women's Week website at womensweek.tamu.edu. Send nomination letters and nomination forms to: Nicole Pottberg, Chair, TAMU Women's Week Awards Committee, Engineering Program Office - MS 3126. Nomination deadline is February 7. 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