AGGIELIFE
' ie Cheese — Rock and blues. The band will be-
r BARREI f n P |a y in g at 9 P- m - ancl the cover charge is $2.
The Tap
loppy Joe — Mix of ’70s, ’80s and ’90s rock,
he cover charge is $5, but women over 18 will
e admitted free. The show begins at 9 p.m.
Third Roor Cantina
last Free Exit — Alternative. Show begins at 10
.m. and the cover charge is $5.
Cow Hop
11 Hundred Springs — Alternative. Cover charge
is $3 and the show begins at 10 p.m.
Crooked Path Alehouse
Floodgate — Alternative. Band will begin playing
at 10 p.m. and there is no cover charge.
Third Floor Cantina
Eugene Eugene — Rhythm and blues. Cover
charge is $5.
Saturday
Crooked Path Alehouse
Throwaway People — Alternative. Show begins
at 10 p.m. and the cover charge is $3.
Fitzwilly’s
John Wick and the Full House Blues Band —
Blues. Cover charge is $2 and the performance
begins at 9 p.m.
Third Floor Cantina
Big Otis and the Big Otis Show Band —
open at 8:30 p.m. and tickets are $10.
Doors
TUDY ABROAD
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Texas A&M otTers many loans and
Jcholarships to AAiM students wishing
f|o expand their horizons. And there are
■till others.
I The Memorial Student Center Over-
leas Loan Fund is an interest-free loan
pvailable only to A&M students plan
ning to study abroad. The Minnie
■Stevens Piper Loan Fund is for juniors,
■eniors, and graduate students who are
Texas residents.
I For those who do not wish to burden
themselves w'ith loans, there are also
Scholarships available.
I The Study Abroad Fellowship is a
need-based scholarship for up to
SI,000, funded by former students and
Barnes and Noble Bookstores. The In
ternational Education Fee Scholarship
is a merit- and need-based scholarship
accumulated from a one-dollar fee that
students pay every semester. Students
may be awarded either S500 or $ 1.000.
Students who hold the President’s
Endowed, Lechner, McFadden, Terry
Foundation, President’s Achievement
Award, Aggie Spirit Award, Academic
Achievement, President’s Achieve
ment, Zoch-Chandler or Challenge
Scholarships may be eligible for a
$1,000 study abroad stipend that may
be used for a Texas A&M Study
Abroad program only.
For her backpacking trip, Gore plans
to add some to the loans that she will al
ready be taking out for medical school
and use money from graduation gifts.
Whether a student is backpacking or
studying abroad, the total cost of the
trip depends on how extravagantly or
how humbly that student wishes to live
w hile out of the country, and where
they decide to travel. Divine said the
cost of a Study Abroad trip depends on
the program.
Trips to Latin America are cheaper
than those to Europe or Australia. Di
vine said that between her two trips last
summer, she incurred about $5,000
worth of debt.
Tate said that in her four weeks
abroad, she spent about $7,000. The
trip alone cost about $5,000, and in
cluded airfare, transportation, room and
board and a pass for the tube in Lon
don. She took another $2,000 for meals
and spending money.
Gore said her backpacking group
plans to travel as lightly and cheaply as
possible.
She said they plan to spend between
$2,500 and $3,000 each during their
three-week trip.
“We’re going to take as few things
as possible. We’re taking backpacks.
“You can check them in at the
[youth] hostels, but that’s [backpack
ing] mostly how we’re going to travel,”
Gore said.
In order to gain an experience as
valuable as traveling outside of the
country, whether they backpack or
study abroad, most college students
must be willing to incur some debt in
order to pay their expenses. The size of
the debt and value of the experiences,
depend on the student.
Writers Guild announces
award nominations
^ LOS ANGELES (AP) — More than half of the
Writers Guild movie award nominations an
nounced Wednesday went to directors who wrote
i or co-wrote their own screenplays.
Nominated for best original script were three
ifilms written by their directors: Magnolia by
■ Paul Thomas Anderson, The Sixth Sense by M.
Wight Shyamalan and Three Kings by David O.
Russell.
j The other nominees were American Beauty by
Alan Ball and Being John Malkovich by Charlie
Kaufman. For screenplay based on previously
published material, director Anthony Minghella
learned a nomination for The Talented Mr. Ripley,
l> 4(H, - ,K)(hlcucrM ’ ! ':|;adapted from the novel by Patricia Highsmith; di-
lor itsweekh n)ovitfe ector M j chae | Mann and co-writer Eric Roth for
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The Insider, based on a magazine article by
’Marie Brenner; and director Alexander Payne and
:o-writer Jim Taylor for Election, based on the nov
el by Tom Perrotta.
The other nominees in the adapted category
ere John Irving for the screenplay based on his
witched show ' n P ril ' lc '®ovel The Cider House Rules and Lewis Colick for
ek,AB( led with I; r ® c t 0 fc)erSky, based on the book Rocket Boys by
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vN rating, 14share)® nominees were chosen from 202
ind 12.5millionvie\u' screen p| a y S f or fj| ms released in 1999. The
n viewers(5.5,9). winners will be announced March 5 at the
2nd annual Writers Guild ceremonies in New
'ork City and Los Angeles.
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’Donnell gets called on
to help out ‘Millionaire’
NEW YORK (AP) — After
'aging a public campaign to
■>e a “phone friend” on ABC’s
[Who Wants to Be a Million
aire,” talk show host Rosie
O'Donnell got her wish.
I She is called upon for help
On Sunday’s edition of the
O’DONNELL
People in the News
quiz show, by a contestant using a “lifeline” to
get advice answering a question.
O’Donnell and ABC were tight-lipped
Wednesday about who O’Donnell helped,
what the question was or even if she got it
right.
But she would be less likely to brag about
it — as she did to talk show guest Matt Lauer
on Wednesday — if she gave a contestant a
bum steer.
She told Lauer that she was called the
night before when the show was taped, then
promptly refused to answer his questions
about it.
“Let me just say I was nervous, and it’s a
lot more tension than people realize,” O’Don
nell said.
As game show viewers know, contestants
get three “lifelines” if they are stumped by a
multiple choice question.
They can poll the audience, have two wrong
answers taken out of contention, or call a
friend.
The friend has 30 seconds to offer advice.
On her own show, the “Millionaire’’-fixated
O’Donnell has frequently asked for the oppor
tunity to help out.
Contestants had arranged for O’Donnell to
be a phone friend four times before she got
on the air during Tuesday’s taping, said her
spokesperson, Jennifer Glasek.
O’Donnell’s campaign hasn’t always gone
smoothly, though.
The New York Post reported this week that
several “Millionaire” contestants had asked
for her help and had not gotten a reply.
The Post called her a “phone-friend phony.”
Glasek said O’Donnell had gotten so many
requests that she had been unable to respond
to them all.
She was also rejected once because she
wanted to be reached by cell phone and the
show’s rules do not allow this, ABC said.
O’Donnell’s new friend gets a bonus for call
ing her: the contestant will be a guest on her
talk show Monday.
Valentine’s Day film fest
focuses on gays, lesbians
NEW YORK (AP) — The Independent Film
Channel coyly titles its Valentine’s Day marathon
the “It Ain’t Just Boy Meets Girl Festival.”
The reality — a four-film collection of gay
and lesbian-theme movies — is still somewhat
bold for television, where same-sex kisses are
considered unusual enough to make news.
IFC, a pay cable network that reaches 30
million, or roughly one-third, of the nation’s
television homes, will kick off its festivals “as
long as it’s a punch line.”
Gay TV characters tend to be the wise
cracking next-door neighbor, with their love
lives left unexplored, he said.
A televised gay film festival isn’t unprece
dented, though. Cable’s Sundance Channel
has, for the last two years, run several homo
sexual-theme movies in prime time in con
nection with Gay Pride Month, he said.
IFC said it was simply trying to come up with
a gimmick. Last year its Valentine’s Day festi
val was “Love Stinks,” and around the holidays
it paid tribute to director David Lynch with “The
Lynch Who Stole Christmas.”
“We’re not making a political point,” said
Frances Berwick, the network’s senior vice
president of programming. “We're just pre
senting great films.”
The network hasn’t heard any complaints
from viewers and doesn’t anticipate any,
Berwick said.
Other films, which run in order starting at 8
p.m. EST, include Go Fish, about a relationship
between two young women; The Incredibly True
Adventures of Two Girls in Love, about a cou
ple with different economic and ethnic back
grounds; and Love and Human Remains, about
sexual and gender politics.
Seomin predicted large numbers of gays
and lesbians would tune in.
“We just really never get to see the love
lives, the heartaches and the romantic joys be
tween two men and two women,” he said.
Hendrix. Van Halen. Fisk.
A born risk taker, Eliot Fisk has revolutionized the classical guitar world
with his youth and innovative play. Don't miss your chance to find out
why Eliot Fisk is recognized around the world as one of the
most brilliant and gifted young musical artists of our time.,
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Jucsiioits? Call the/
‘inema Hotline H47.S41',
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Eliot Fisk f Guitarist
Sunday, February 13 at 2 PM
Rudder Theatre
Immediately following the performance, please join
moderator Penny Zent for a discussion with Eliot Fisk. 7999-
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Tired of the same old movies?
Come view a foreign film!
What: “Central Station” - set in Brazil, it is the touching
story of a little boy looking for the father he never
knew and a woman looking for a second chance.
Where: Gallery B at MSC Forsyth Center Galleries
When: Thursday, February 10, 2000 at 7:00p.m.
Admission is free and a short discussion
about the movie will follow the viewing.
Presented by the International Students Association and the
MSC L.T. Jordan Institute for International Awareness
To inform us of your special needs please, call 845-8770
or stop by MSC 223-1.
Class of ’00
INTERESTED IN BEING A CLASS AGENT?
To Qualify as a Potential Candidate:
You must run in a TEAM of THREE people that are enthusiastic,
motivated leaders wanting to serve the Class of ’00 until 2005.
Requirements for Intent to Run:
• One member from each team MUST CONTACT Shannon
Crockett ’93 at 845-7514 before noon on February 14
• At least two of the three candidates from each team
MUST ATTEND an instructional meeting on February 15
at 5:30 p.m. at the Clayton W. Williams, Jr. Alumni Center
Class Agent Responsibility:
Class Agents will act as liasons between the Class of ’00,
The Association of Former Students and Texas A&M University.
Class Agents will be elected
March 29 & 30 in the 2000 Spring
Student Body Elections
OF FORMER STUDENTS