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Amber Indian Restaurant $ 4. 99 Buffet w/ this coupon Mon. - Sat. 11:00 - 2:30, 5:00 - 10:00 301 Church St. College Station, TX 260-7475 The Battalion Classified Advertising • Easy • Affordable • Effective For informaHon, call 845-0569 mm Texas A<&M vs. Texas Tech Reed Arena 3 p.m. This Saturdayl Tickets: Ticketmaster or at the door I 2000-2001 UNIVERSITY UNDERGRADUATE RESEARCH FELLOWS PROGRAM CALL FOR STUDENT RESEARCH PROPOSALS Outstanding juniors who will have completed nine hours of honors coursework before the fall semester and who have at least a cumulative grade point average of 3.4 are invited to apply for participation in the University Undergraduate Research Fellows Program during their senior year. The Fellows Program offers a two-semester independent research experience that culminates in a senior honors thesis. It is the most prestigious research oppor tunity available to undergraduates at Texas A&M and provides participants w ith opportunities usually extended only to students pursuing graduate degrees. Over the last several years, 40 to 70 students have been selected annually as Fellows based upon faculty review of research proposals submitted to the University Honors Program. The Fellows Program feature a close, master-apprentice relationship between student researcher and faculty advisor and involves both students and advisors in periodic interdisciplinary group meetings to encourage the development of a scholar ly community. Faculty acquainted with capable juniors who meet the criteria for participation in the Undergraduate Fellows Program may wish to encourage them to consider preparing a proposal. An informational meeting concerning the 2000-2001 Fellows Program, open to faculty as well as students, has been scheduled for 4:00 PM on Thursday, 17 February, in 292B MSC. Research proposals will be due on Tuesday, 28 March. Students w ill know whether they have been admitted to the program in early April. For additional information, call or visit with Dr. Donald R. Dickson at the Office of Honors Programs and Academic Scholarships, 101 Academic Building, 845-6774 or donald@aphonors.tamu.edu or visit the Honors website at http://honors.tamu.edu The Memorial Student Center Black Awareness Committee Presents... THE MEETING A powerful drama about the lives, philosophies and times of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. and Malcom X RESCHEDULED Friday February 25, 2000 8:30 p.m. Texas A&M University Rudder Theater Tickets Available MSC Box Office 845-1234 Lurl’s Beauty Salon 778-2073 Hall’s Mini Mall 775-0771 (k $3.00 Student Please phone 3 working days in advance to . 845-1515 for special assistance needs. $5.00 Non-student How would you score? LSATkGMATVGREXMCAfVbAT Take a FREE Test Drive and find out! 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(AP) “Peanuts” creator Charles Schulz died at home following a battle with cancer, just as the last original cartoon ofhis half-cen tury career was being published in news papers worldwide. Tire 77-year-old Schulz was diagnosed with colon cancer in November, and his spirits recently sagged as he battled the dis ease and pondered retirement, said Monte Schulz, his eldest son. * “I think maybe he decided that his true passion was in the strip, and when that was gone, it was over,” Monte Schulz said Sunday. “1 Ic had done what he had want ed to do, and that was it for him....” The son said that while the cause of death Saturday wasn’t known, “it appears he died in his sleep, almost between breaths.” I lis wife, Jeannie, was with him when he died. 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This discount is the , ■ perfect gift for the day of St. Valentine. Don't miss out on the MSC OPAS 2 for 1 ticket offer! For details, see the coupon section in Tuesday's Baft. Please note, the coupon last appears on Tuesday, February 15, 2000. AND out Bo 0/ ROMEO JULIET ' Ballet de I Ooera de Bordeaux ^ w ocr 7999''' Friday and Saturday, February 25 & 26 at 7:30 PM Sunday, February, 27 at 2:00 PM Questions? Call the MSC Box Office at 845-1234. Of visit the OPAS web site at opas.tamu.edu. Offer expires February 15, 2000 31 J