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living room are often t all that one needs to have
a good time. But how about trying someone
else’s living room? The best living room in all of
Bryan-College Station belongs to landseaper and
musician Curtis Jack. Located in The Grove, Jack’s
apartment is the perfect place to hang out, listen to mu
sic or watch DVD's. Offering much more of an experi
ence than watching movies at a regular theater, many of the
movies in the DVD collection have director's commentary
and a w'ide-screen view. The close proxim
ity of restaurants such as Taco Bell and Lit
tle Caesar’s to Jack’s place offer a perfect
snack source. In addition, Jacks’s band, Am
persand, often performs impromptu concerts in
the living room, adding to the bohemian atmos
phere the location offers.
So, given the wealth of activities and sights the B-
CS area has to offer, perhaps a beach resort is not the
best place to spend spring break. Bryan-College Station:
so much to see, so much to experience and all at an af
fordable price.
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4,000 Oscar ballots missing
BEVERLY HILLS, Calif. (AP) -
Ten mailbags with all 4,000 Oscar bal
lots are missing in a real Hollywood
whodunit for Academy Awards execu
tives, a distinguished accounting firm
and the Postal Service.
A week after mailing the ballots,
tucked in business envelopes with 33-
cent, first-class postage, the Academy of
Motion Picture Arts and Sciences was
getting panicky Tuesday because mem
bers had not received them.
The deadline for returning ballots is
March 21. The Oscars are March 26.
“We mailed the ballots, 4,000 of
them, to Academy members last
Wednesday and Price Waterhouse Coop
ers took the 10 mailbags to the Beverly
Hills Post Office and left them there as
would anybody,” Academy spokesper
son John Pavlik said.
“That’s the last they have been
seen,” Pavlik said, adding foul play is
not suspected. The mailing had been
treated with considerable fanfare by the
Oscar people, who invite the news me
dia to witness the annual ritual at the
Academy’s offices.
In Washington, Postal Service
spokesperson Monica Hand said the
agency is investigating.
If the ballots are not found, the num
bers on them will be invalidated and new
ones will be printed and mailed.
Ballots have been lost by the post of
fice before. In 1982, nominating ballots
were mistakenly stuck into a bin marked
for nonpriority bulk mail. They were
found in time.
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medical school,” Fields said.
“I’ve shadowed an anesthesiologist
before, and that was really fun. Every case
that you get is different, so it’s fun to shad
ow. It’s not like you're watching heart
surgeries all the time. Plus the anesthesi
ologist isn’t busy all the time, so you have
time to ask questions.”
Fields said schoolwork has detracted
from her spring break experience more
than once.
“Last spring break, I had to study for
the MCAT all week long, because I’m a
procrastinator. The test was in the middle
of April, and 1 hadn’t really studied yet.”
Lindsay Campbell, a senior education
major, said this year she will spend the
break in Breckenridge, Colo. She said she
and her fiance plan to visit his parents and
ski. She said that although she is leaving
College Station for the week, she cannot
leave her school work behind completely.
“1 have a bunch of lessons to do. I’m
putting together a small unit on the presi
dency that’s due after the break, and I have
a math quiz after the break as well,”
Campbell said.
Despite the amount of school work she
will be taking along, Campbell said she is
looking forward to the vacation.
“It will be special to me, because this
has been a really hard semester. This will
be a really welcome break.”
She said she had her best spring break
experience was skiing two years ago.
“I had never skied before, so the new
ness was cool... and it was a lot more of a
release than I thought it would be. It was
just a great mental break,” Campbell said.
As many Aggies pack their bags and
leave College Station next week, Eric Hill,
a senior geography major, will be among
those students staying in town.
“I don’t have any plans except for
staying home and relaxing. I’m working
for about half the week,” Hill said. “My
home is in Virginia, and I can’t just drive
there. Since most of my friends are just
going home, what am I going to do — tag
along?” he said.
Like Campbell and Fields, Hill said
the best spring break is a complete break
from school, homework free.
“I guess the best has been when I did
n’t have any schoolwork, so it’s more re
laxing,” Hill said.
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