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Order of Omega O ^National Greek Honors Society If you are an Aggie Greek with 60 hours or currently enrolled in your 60 th hour and have a 3.0 GPA or higher, come pick up an application in our cubicle at the Koldus Bulding. Hurry up, applications are due Friday, February 15' th For further infomation please contact our Vice President Eric Berger 696-4721! ROBERT RODRIGUEZ FAMED DIRECTOR OF EL MARIACHI, DESPERADO, AND THE FACULTY $ 10 $ 10 INTRODUCING HIS FILM EL MARIACHI FEBRUARY 19 8:00PM RUDDER AUDITORIUM TICKETS AVAILABLE @ MSC BOX OFFICE OR BUY A FILM FESTIVAL PASS FOR ACCESS TO ALL FOUR EVENTS FESTIVAL PASS s 30 The views expressed are not necessarily those of Texas A&M University, the Memorial Student Center, or MSC ICONS. Persons with disabilities please call 845-1515 to inform us of your special needs. We request notification three (3) working days prior to the event to enable us to assist you to the best of our abilities. Presented by ICM Artists LTD. Lecture Division And the winner is Stephanie Bell, RA in Legett Hall See the winning bulletin board at 122 Legett and the "Sobering Statistics" about Aggies! Thanks to all the RA's who participated in the contest! BiiiniiMli'liiiifi iiii li’l liiiif NEWS Page 2 THE BATTALION luesday, February 8,2# Bush ready to ‘take it to’ McCain EPA drawi Fruesday, Febn "J want to remind people that in this DOVER, Del. (AP) — George W. Bush struck at the heart of John McCain’s candidacy Monday, accusing his presi dential rival of “saying one thing and doing another” on political re form. Bush said he, not McCain, was the “reformer with results,’” changing the style and substance of his campaign to counter his foe’s momentum. McCain reacted with a sarcastic dig: “I guess Governor Bush is now a reformer. If so, it’s his first day on the job.” And the Arizona senator’s new TV ad accuses Bush of break ing his promise to run a positive campaign and ends with a zinger: “Do we really want another politi race there is one person who can stand up and say, 'I'm a reformer with results.'" with a format that borrows from McCain’s successful New I lampshire run. The Texan’s stump speech was cut in half and his question-and-answer sessions were two or three times longer than normal. And he tried to co-opt the Ari zona senator’s reform agenda. “1 want to remind people that in this race there is one per son who can stand up and say. Tin a reformer with results,”’ Bush said. The Texas governor stood in front of a freshly minted sign that read “Reformer with Results.” He used the word “reform” a half-dozen times in a 10-minute opposition BUSH cian in the White House America can’t trust?” Bush is scrambling to regain his footing after McCain’s rout in New Hampshire shocked the GOP establishment and raised calls for a harder-hitting, more freewheeling national front-runner. Bush took the weekend otf to retool his campaign, emerging speech, after rarely letting the term slip from his lips before New Hampshire. Bush said as governor he fought the status quo to improve schools, pass lawsuit reform and cut taxes. By contrast, he said McCain champions campaign finance reform while using his influence in the Senate to leverage political donations. History Continued from Page 1 Hubert's five-year goal was to have 525 more minority students at A&M each year. There were skeptics, who still be lieved there was more to do for the ad vancement of African-Americans, like comedian Dick Gregory, who visited A&M in 1983. “It used to be Negro History Week, now it’s Black Month. You would know they’d give us that short old month — February,” Gregory said. The 1970s and early 1980s were also a time of sports achievements for African-American students at A&M. Mario Brown, the first African- American A&M basketball player, was averaging 14.6 points a game during his first season in 1971. Brown, from Chicago, Ill., and a transfer from King Junior College, played for A&M and averaged 15.8 points a game in the Southwest Conference (SWC) after playing for two seasons. At the same time, Mike Frazier from Houston, was drafted by the Los Ange les Dodgers, but played baseball for A&M instead. Frazier, a management major, played all four years at A&M. While Frazier ran the bases. Curtis Mills was running laps around his fellow track and field teammates. Mills was the first African-American student on the A&M team and placed first in SWC competitions for the 440-yard re lay six times between 1970 and 1971. Mills was a member of two world- record-setting relays in 1970, and he was inducted into the Texas A&M Athletic Hall of Fame in 1979. In 1975, A&M had the number one football defense in the nation, with 11 African-American starters and an entire backfield consisting of African-Ameri can freshmen, soon tagged the “Aggie Blacktield.” The racially diverse team “stayed a team and overlooked skin color,” Jackie Williams, an A&M safety from Plano, told The Bn an-Callege Station Eagle in 1974. “My first night here we went to Northgate and one person remarked she didn't know there were so many black people at A&M,” Williams said. “1 just said to myself, ‘Boy, what have I gotten into now.’ On the team, though, everyone is a player, whether he is black or white.” Activist Continued from Page 1 In a press release, Bowen said that ranking A&M as the third least gay- friendly campus was undeserved. “The lifestyles led by GLBTs is wrong and not allowed by God, but they should have equal rights,” said John 1 lull, a freshman mathematics major. Hall said does he not have gay friends, but said that if he met someone who was gay, he would try to talk to them about God and why their actions are “wrong.” “I would respect them as a person, but I wouldn't respect their lifesty le.” Wright said there is no exact figure for the number of gays, lesbians and bi sexuals at A&M, but studies show that in any community GLBTs make up about 10 percent of the population. Patton said there are some gay-friend ly places in College Station but not enough. Queer Aggies is hoping to make A&M a friendly place to the GLUT community. ”At A&M there is always a feeling of family, but our organization feels as if they are the forgotten in laws,” Pat ton said. THXARKANA, Texas (AP)-f federal proposal to require timber-ci permits for land near a polluted wai way drew opposition from Texaslai makers at a hearing Monday night. More than 3,000 people attended meeting to discuss an Envirom Protection Agency (EPA) plamhatcuii limit the amount of pollution genere 1 through normal forestry practicessud | site preparation, harvesting, thinning reforestation. Timber is the top agricultural ercc l ast Texas, employing about 91,00 people statewide. “This proposal would signifies impact private forest landowners and; forest products industry in Texas, am prepared to work w ith you inev way to prevent EPA from implement) an ill-conceived and unnecessaiy, said U.S. Rep. Max Sandlin. D-Mar& Sandlin said he has writtentol EPA, President Clinton and Vicefa dent A! Gore in opposition tother posed rule. I PA spokesman Richard Hoppers J the plan is not as stringent as it may id “It appears there is significantimf derstanding,” Hoppers said. To require a permit. Hopperssm EPA would have to demonstrateikf forestry operation pollutes signifies and that the state environmental ae ry has failed to remedy the situatk I “This would be limited to vensl row circumstances and only as a las" sort,” he said. Forestry operations continue tool pollution problems in some isolatei! eas of the country, and the rule w give the FPA authority to remaiyi problem if all else fails. Hopperssa-:| Correction In the Feb. 7 article “Bonfe | Benefit Concert raises thousands!i| victims,” the name ofsinger/socH writer Kyle Hutton was misspelled Let the TAMU Women’s Chorus Sing Your Sweetie A Song Send a Singing Valentine for only $ i 5 that includes: A Trio of Women to sing one of fovir songs: Baby Face V Let Me Cali You Sweetheart V You Are My Sunshine Love Me Tender ^Balloon & Candy Bouquet Personalized Card Telegrams sold Feb. 7-11 in the MSC Hallway Call 845-5974 for more information Delivery February 11-14 • on or off campus (in class delivery with professor permission) eJlofie P*eq*uuuuf GenteM 9 9 * OF BRAZOS VAIIH Free luneh With Dr. J. Malon Southerland Vice President for Student Affairs Luncheons are held in the Memorial Student Center during the noon hour. There will be open-ended informal discussion with the opportunity to ask questions This is a great chance to interact with other students/faculty/stafT and share your experiences at Texas A&M. Name E-mail Address. Local Address _ Phone # Fresh/Upper/Grad/Transfer/Faculty/staff (circle one) Return Forms to : Vice President for Student Affairs Office 10th Floor Rudder Tower E-mail: malons@tamu.edu Phone # : 845-4728 ABORTION. A WOMAN S CHOICE. NEVER AN EASY CHOICE, Pregnancy Counseling Service Complete Confidentiality Full Information on Options Free Pregnancy Test 846-1097 3620 E. 20TH ST • BRV# www.rlis.com/hopt REPLANT Rooted in Tradition March 4, 2000 Registration Form Organization: Contact Person: Telephone: E-mail Address: # of People Attending: ** II you are signing up as an individual, try to find 4 or more Ags to come out with you Please indicate your time and site preferance 8:00 11:00 1:00 Bryan/ College Station . .ake Somerville . Due February 18th to the Fish Aides Desk in Koldus 127. There will be 2 informationalsfc You must send a representative to one of the informational meetings. The informational u# ings are February 23 and 24 at 7:00 pm in Rudder 501. The Memorial Student Center Black Awareness Committee Presents.. 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