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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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.
Marium Mohiuddin, Editor in Chief
Beverly Mireles, Managing Editor
Meredith Hight, Community Editor
Stuart Hutson, Campus Editor
Kyle Whitacre, Aggielife Editor
Veronica Serrano, Aggielife Editor
Mariano Castillo, Opinion Editor
Eric Dickens, Opinion Editor
Jeff Kenipf, Night News Editor
Doug Shilling, Sports Editor
Jason Bennyhoff, Radio Producer
Brandon Payton, Web Master
Robert Hynecek, Graphics Editor
Ruben Deluna, Graphics Editor
Guy Rogers, Photo Editor
JP Beato, Photo Editor
Dave Amber, Science and Technology FT'
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