Dance 5 40off Ring Dance Tuxedo Rentals FAfs An Aggie Tuxedo Tradition for over 40 years. www.alsformal.com 1100 Harvey Rd....409-693-0947 across from Circuit City Effective on tuxedos beginning ,H $79 95 through April 8 2000 No other discounts or promotions FORMAL WEAR Our Guarantee p- We will not be UNDERSOLD 2 nd ANNUAL SPRING THING “The Spirit of Aggieland” *FEATURING* DUB MILLER & THE HIGHWAY 6 BAND MARCH 25, 2000 7:30 PM RUDDER AUDITORIUM - Tickets $ 5 at Rudder Box Office - Proceeds benefit the bonfire fund - Tons of door prizes Michael E. Jones, M.D., PA. 680-1533 ATTENTION SENIORS . ARE YOU READY FOR THE REAL WORLD? MARCH 25 9:30am-2pm conference sessions 7:00pm etiquette dinner ADMISSION Conference only *5.00 per person (with lunch) You must register for each conference session you plan to attend Conference & Dinner $12.00 per person Etiquette dinner limited to first 100 registered. LOCATION Clayton W. Williams, Jr. Alumni Center, 979-845-7514 CO-SPONSORED BY THE CLASS OF 2000 AND For more information, visit our website at www.aggienetwork.com CONFERENCE SESSIONS 1. Job Search Techniques (Statewide & National) 2. Negotiating Compensation (Salaries vs. Benefits) 3. Interviewing Skills 4. Social Life & Leadership Opportunities 5. Accessing the Aggie Network 6. Investing on a Shoe String Budget & Buying your First Home 7. Budgeting your Money & Debt Management 8. Resumes that Get Interviews CAMPIJS Page 2 THE BATTALION Monday,Marchjj Tossing aside Census 2000 harms future BY JEANETTE SIMPSON The Battalion Lawsuit Continued from Page 1 lawsuit. He said the Prewitts had not previously com plained of the incident. The Prewitts said they were denied bail and forced to stay overnight. Their parents and a lawyer were de nied access to the youths prior to their entering pleas, according to the lawsuit. The pair was released the next day and a disorderly conduct charge was dis missed. Attorney David Carter said the Prewitts did not make it back to Texas A&M in time and Amanda Pre witt failed at least one class because shedidnoiclj her final exams. Carter said the Prewitts werenosj formed of their rights or told why they werekEi held, other than for making an obscene gesturej said making an obscene gesture is not againsttfeli and is constitutionally protected speech. “It was a natural reaction for a young person!) mg cut off in traffic and does not in any way® being cuffed, taken into custody, strip searched? being held overnight,” he told the Texarkana Cm Carter said the family is seeking in excesscf half-million dollars in damages. As students, faculty and staff come back to cam pus after a week of fun and relaxation, they are go ing to find their mail boxes full of bills, advertise ments and the usual mail that accumulates. However, also in those boxes are the Census 2000 forms that were mailed out to every address in the Bryan-College Station area during the past week. The temptation may be to toss those Census fonns aside, but doing so could cause the B-CS community to lose important government funding. Every 10 years, the Census Bureau takes a com plete count of every person residing in the United States. Everyone living in the U.S. on April 1,2000, must be counted for the census to be completely ac curate and effective. Funding for federal student loans and grants are distributed for states and com munities each year based on Census information. “Everyone needs to be included in the census, people of all ages. Even people who are not residents or citizens of the U.S. need to be counted,” said Kel ly Chapman, public communications and marketing director for the city of College Station. 'Tor every Aggie not counted the communi ty loses $2000... This is a chance for current Aggies to help future Aggies.” — Kelly Chapman public communications and marketing director for College Station College students who live away from home should fill out their own forms, and be counted in their university community, not their hometowns, said Margaret Sutton, partnership specialist for the United States Census Bureau. When students fill out the forms, it helps to in crease the funds given to the University communi ty for roads, parks, hospitals, schools and other fed eral and state assistance programs for the area. “For every Aggie not counted, the community loses $2,000, which means that not only will current Aggies be affected by the number of people who re spond, but people for the next 10 years will be af fected,” Chapman said. “This is a chance for current Aggies to help future Aggies.” The Census 2000 questionnaire consists of only a few questions, and takes only a few minutes to fill out. The postage-paid form should be mailed back to the Census Bureau by April 1, 2000. For those households which do not fill out and send in their form, the Census Bureau will send out census tak ers from late April until July to go door-to-door to find and interview all members of the households that did not mail back their Census questionnaires, Chapman said. “Students, and other people in the Brazos Valley area not taking the importance of the Census seri ously in the past couple of decades, have caused the percentages to fall alarmingly,” Chapman said. Businesses use the numbers to decide if and where to locate restaurants, banks, theaters and shopping centers. News in Brief Women’s Week 2000 begins Monday, while Women’s History Month has already been hon ored in March with a variety of events on campus. This week includes a series of events highlight ing women at A&M. Monday’s events include a Women’s Business Fair from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. in the Memorial Stu dent Center fiagroom. Women-owned business es, franchises and distributorships, as well as non-profit agencies of the Bryan-College Station area are participating in the fair, hosted by the Women’s Week 2000 committee. The Women’s Studies department will present the "History of Women at Texas A&M University" from 4 p.m. to 5:30 p.m in 206 MSC. The presentation will include a slide show and a panel discussion of women at A&M. Candidates Continued from Page 1 stand up in class and say, T’m your senator, here’s my phone number, here’s my e-mail address, tell me what you think,’” Scheifelbein said. Schiefelbein also wants to establish an on-campus television station run by broadcast journalism students to make students more aware of campus issues so they can register their opinions before the issues are resolved. The channel’s line-up might include include a short news pro gram, meeting information for campus organizations, and programs dealing with issues such as multiculturalism. Near the top of junior agricultural development ma jor Corey Rosenbusch’s priority list is keeping the on coming hikes in student fees in check. Rosenbusch said he intends to work closely*! nine students who sit on the student service feeafc ry board, which makes recommendations on how tit: dent service fee money should be spent. Rosenbusch also said he wants to improve theipi ity of academic advising at A&M. “I think we all realize that it’s important tons,! wc graduate, that we took the right curriculum, we in the right classes and we have the appropriateathis: to be successful,” Rosenbusch said. Specifically, Rosenbusch added he wantedacce ability for advising through evaluations andtoreva the trend of staff rather than faculty, advising stuk Waco Continued from Page 1 agents emerged from armored vehi cles to search for survivors. While the government suggests there can be no shots without shoot ers, the plaintiffs argue that gunmen were not detected because the tem perature of their fire-retardant cloth ing and body armor was similar to that of the soil. The test site was overflown by an FBI plane equipped with the since- upgraded FLIR used at Waco and a Lynx helicopter on loan from the British Royal Navy outfitted with an infrared camera of the same genera tion as the one used in 1993. The infrared cameras captured images of shooters and tank drivers carrying out the intricately choreo graphed demonstration. The field was strategically peppered with de bris to simulate the scene at the com pound on April 19, 1993, as tanks rammed into the sect’s ricketyw en structure. The field test was attendedW special counsel re-investigatiw r government’s conduct durinsi \ siege's final day, former SenJ ' Danforth. Also among theSO-sd people in attendance wereU.S.D5 trict Judge Walter Smith, coif sional investigators and the fc Rangers. Smith rejected news organizak request for the event to be public. Beato Continued from Page 1 picture has since dominated the pages of newspapers such asThe Dallas Morning News, The Washington Post, the San Antonio Express News and The Chicago Tribune, and has been featured in magazines such as Newsweek. The picture has since become the image of the col lapse visualized by much of the nation, but the graph ic nature with which it depicts the tragedy has ex posed it and Beato to criticism from within the Aggie community. “I’ve received a lot of derogatory, negative comments and emails about the harshness shown by the picture," Beato said. “But at the same time, I have been congrat ulated by members of the professional media for really showing the world what was going on out there.” Included in the negative emails were comments re ferring to Beato as “callous” and lacking “good taste,” along with allegations that Beato was using the misery of others to his own personal advantage. But he also received positive emails, such as one from Kerlee’s sister who thanked Beato for showing that “Tim had been watched over by God in his darkest and most painful hours of his life,” and requested that Beatos: her three reproductions of the picture. “1 just took the photo — that was it — that was job,” Beato said. “I am thrilled to see my name inf lications across the nation, but it was just out dozens excellent pictures taken by many excel photographers.” Although the photograph originally came i Beato’s duty to report the news, it soon took on a hi, face for the photographer. “I went to the hospital the next day to see howhef doing. I showed up right after they had taken himoffl support .... I stayed in the back of the room while Tie parents and friends told stories about how funny great he was, and, suddenly, the picture wasn’t jus! some object.... it was of a person. That’s when theew mous sense of tragedy that I had been capturing ah ■ time sunk in, and I finally felt what I had been taking! tures of,” Beato said. Beato has since been nominated for a Pulitzer Pi for photojournalism and offered a new career choice. “Before this, I just wanted to go into advertising''! said. “Now I am being offered internships andpossik ities for a career in photojournalism.’’ Monday Women’s Week 2000 Com mittee: Women’s Business Fair at 10 a.m. - 3 p.m. in the MSC Fiagroom. Women’s Week 2000 Commit tee: History of Women at Texas A&M University — slide show and panel discussion at 4 - 5:30 p.m. in MSC 206. Tuesday Prepharmacy Society: There will be a general meeting with a guest speaker from a surround ing Texas city pharmacy in Rud der 407 at 7 p.m. Aggies Up All Night: There will be a general meeting at 8:30 p.m. in Rudder 402. Contact Chelette Austin at 695-0820 for more information. Aggie Toastmasters: Learn public speaking and resume building. Will be in Rudder at 8:30 p.m. check blue screen for location. For more infor- Campus Calendar mation please contact Laura at 695-2833. Aggie Lutherans Treehouse: Join us for a bible study, fun, and fellowship at 7 - 8:30 p.m. at Our Savior’s Lutheran Church located near Northgate. Women’s Week 2000 Commit tee: Women’s Week Awards Lun cheon - Jennifer Harris - Keynote Speaker at 11:30 -1:30 p.m. in Presidential Conference Center. MSC Cepheid Variable: We will be holding a Aggie Con 31, Sci-fi, Fantasy, and Horror Convention from March 23 - 26 in the Memo rial Student Center. For more in formation, call 845-1515. Wednesday Aggies Up All Night: There will be a general meeting at 8:30 p.m. in Rudder 402. Contact Chelette Austin at 695-0820 for more in formation. MSC Cepheid Variable: We will be holding a Aggie Con 31, Sci-fi, Fantasy, and Horror Convention from March 23-26 in the Mem rial Student Center. For moret formation, call 845-1515. Thursday Graduate Christian Fellowship! Inter Varsity Christian Fellot 1 ship (Grad IVCF): Grad stucW meet at 7:30 for Bible stut prayer, fellowship, and snacks. Please see our Website i http://stat.tamu.edu/~inlow/kt f.html for locations and morel formation, or call Jen or Mark!’ 764-1552. MSC Cepheid Variable: We« be holding a Aggie Con 31,Sc^ Fantasy, and Horror Convent from March 23-26 in the Mem rial Student Center. For morel formation call 845-1515. Friday Aggies Up Ail Night: There# a 24 hour philanthropy benefit! the Children’s Miracle Network' the Archery Room of the RecW ter. Contact Chelette Austink 695-0820 for details. A dynamic, humorous and candid video series on LOVE, SEX, MARRIAGE AND ROMANCE. featuring: Tommy Nelson Single^ dating, engaged, or married, Tommy will cover God's design for romantic relationships. Mondays, February 7 - March 20:7:00 -8:15 p.m.; 2/7,2/14,2/21:229 MSC 2/28:707 Rudder 3/6:292A MCA 3/20:402 Rudder sponsored by F.O.C.U.S. - First Baptist, C.S. 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