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Check out the new Young Adult Grief Support Group Beginning Monday, March 27, 6:30 to 8:00 A&M United Methodist Church Fellowship Hall (entrance on Lodge) 417 University Drive Refreshments served For more information call Rita 776-0793 days Charite' 696-9434 evenings or E-mail cricker@bio.tamu.edu Sponsored by Hazen House Community Bereavement Center CAMPUS Page 2 THE BATTALION Friday. Mai: Students encouraged to sign up forThe Big Eve BY BROOKE HODGES The Battalion Today is the deadline to register for The Big Event. Aggies who wish to volunteer one afternoon to help the Bryan-College Station community through The Big Event have until noon today to get their registration forms turned in. The Big Event is a one-day service project where students at Texas A&M go out into the community and say “thanks,” said Marcie Sanford, Expansion and De velopment Sub-Chairperson for The Big Event and a junior finance major. “The Big Event is not just for the needy, but for the whole community,” she said. “It’s a way to tell the com munity how much we appreciate their support through out the year.” Participation forms can be picked up from The Big Event cubicle in the John J. Koldus Student Services Building, a table located in the Memorial Student Cen ter or The Big Event Website. Many people help w ith The Big Event through an organization they are involved with, but one does not have to be in an organization to volunteer, said Will Slack, a staff assistant for The Big Event and a senior biomedical science major. “If a group of people |or an individual! wants to help, they need to get a fonn and all sign it,” he said. The program began in 1982 with six students clean ing out a cemetery but has grown over the years to be come the largest student-run one-day service organiza tion in the country, with over 5,000 participants, Sanford said. The Big Event is listed in the Guiness Book of World Records for the number of participants. The Big Event is not only happening at Texas A&M but has expanded to other colleges across the country. “There is a Big Event at Louisiana State University- Shreveport, Tarleton State University and Texas A&M- Galveston and Commerce,” Sanford said. “Oklahoma State University and the University of Oklahoma also have a Big Event.” Oklahoma State University began hosting the project in 1998 and in only two years has grown to incorporate 2,500 participants. and 525 jobs, she said. This year the numb:: increased to 547. "Jobs usually last about four hours, soil and some a little longer,” Sanford said. "Jobss last only a hour and the students stay andtal people [they are helping].” Jobs range from painting and yard cleaning houses. “It’s great to see them growing at such a fast pace and we hope they continue to grow,” Sanford said. In 1999, the Big Event consisted of 5,000 students JP BEATOTmli n ecleei proachii AggieG i\ science fir “We includ books, televisii director of Agt While last y alities, such as Napster programmers modify mp3 software INDIANAPOLIS (AP) — A com pany that writes software for down loading music from the Internet says the program has been changed to please dozens of universities that had banned it because students were clogging up the schools’ computers networks. The problem arose late last year w hen some universities saw the con nections between their own systems and the Internet bogged down by heavy traffic. Officials discovered that the traffic jams were caused by students who were downloading free music by using an application from Napster Inc. So far, only Indiana University, which worked with the San Mateo, Calif.-based Company on the changes, has confirmed it will try out the up dated version, though other schools are waiting. “We’ll be watching,” Alan Cub- bage, a spokesperson for Northwestern University, said Thursday. “It’s nice to not be the guinea pig.” The technology’s capabilities have not endeared Napster to the Recording Industry Association of America, which accuses the company of en couraging people to break the law by pirating commercially recorded music from the Internet. Many students feel otherwise. “I’m a poor college student, and I can get on Napster and download any music I want for free,” said Indiana freshman Ryan Bruner, a daily Nap ster user before the school blocked the application last month. Bruner set up a Website and petition drive for students at 196 universities that he says have banned Napster. Eddie Kessler, Napster’s viee presi dent for engineering, said the changes will mean search requests will first be handled locally — on the special, high speed network shared only by universi ties and other research-based institutions. Only if a request cannot be satisfied will it cross the school’s pipeline to the larger Internet, he said, greatly reduc ing the traffic on those roads. “We fully expect this will do what needs to happen,” said Mark Bruhn, who helps set information-technology policy at Indiana University. News in Brief MSC Hospitality to host conference Memorial Student Center Hospi tality will host “Aggies Embracing di versity,” a one-day conference de signed to increase cultural awareness Saturday, Mar. 25 at 9:30 a.m. in 301 Rudder Tower. Activities will include a cultural video, small group discussions of the importance of diversity, perfor mances by campus cultural groups and a speech from Benjamin Akande, chairperson and associate professor of the division of busi ness at Wayland Baptist University. Free tickets to the conference are available at the MSC Box Office. George Bush Library visitor surprised Bill Batchler got more than he Candidates Continued from Page 1 person’s coming in also and this person wants to share some views too and I’d like to let you hear what they have to say and what they have to offer." Lane said that to prevent actions like the closing of Aggie Alley from happening again, students’ elected rep resentatives must stay abreast of cam pus issues. “The quicker you can identify the problem and anticipate it. you’re able to voice your concerns better if you can get ahead of the ball. Whether that was done w ith Aggie Alley or not, I don’t know, but that’s part of it. Its a 24-hour job, and you’ve got to pay attention to what’s go ing on,” Lane said. Corey Rosenbusch, a junior agri cultural development major, said while student government does a great job with programs such as Big Event and Replant, it has fallen short in the area of student advocacy. Too often, student body presidents spend their term checking off their platform ia a laundrv list, Rosenbuschaiii to address students' ehangirfd; Pratchett and concerns. “Ifyou're walking across you notice the lighting is realWI Zachry over to Commons, are home and pickup wwp call student government?No.W be able to? Yes,” Roseate: “We’ve got to equip that olfc dents will know this iswhereyoi you have a problem, an issue or o and then we need to follow up ar a letter back to them lettinetliea w hat's being done on the issue." The student body presidentmi be able to effectively relay the corns to University decision it. Rosenbusch said. “The real power of studenti mein doesn't come in the ability ... The real power is the people... well respected that^have Migel Bennett year’s AggieC The guests jeral award-win attending Aggi In addition graph sessions Cage Match, \ standard quest “We got tb panel from pro officers are all “The Texas on whatever to Crocker said. ‘ Harlan Ellison while the rest < er other guest with him.” Anyone wl aregular basis Stephanie Smii gieCon and a r frequent gue: oecause he’s si Ellison and Council communicate and the breadthol edge to really influence theadi tors on this campus,” Rosenbus |,igg est names . miences beyonc fortunate enough to have anevent as large as Greek l| "Harlan Elli however Greek < Mympiad and/SBSLC are .on a mi oil of the 20th ated ahead of [ uid [William] f In Britain, F iving fiction a bargained for when he walked into the George Bush Presidential Li brary Thursday. Batchler was the 500,000th vis itor to the Bush Library and re ceived a framed Benjamin Knox print autographed by President George Bush, a gift certificate to the Museum Store and a scrap book to mark the occasion. Batchler, a schoolteacher from Ferris, was visiting the library be cause one of his students was in a competition in College Station. The Bush Library opened on Nov. 10, 1997, as the 10th presi dential library in the nation. Library and Museum hours are Monday through Saturday, 9:30 a.m to 5 p.m and Sundays from 12 to 5 p.m. Admission is $5 for adults, $4 for students and $3.50 for senior citizens over 62 and groups of 20 or more. Children under 16 are ad mitted free. award-winning Good Omens. 1 director Terry loathing in La Continued from sca | 0 than most of the programs that other organizaft ’ratchett was re Page 1 in NPf K' mid the multicultural greeks put on every yi frack] to be tin said. “So the amount of money Greek Olympiad gross in any way representative of what other programs gross.” Johnson said, the rules seem to be indirectly aimed at black greekss ticultural greeks. “African-American greeks and multicultural greeks are the only oneswflsales during tb open parties on campus,” Johnson said. “By implementing these rules, they! popular Discw sentially driven us oft’campus.” I lodge said the policy is not intended to discriminate and that there migW security at some predominately white events, depending on the natureofk 1 and the risk factor involved. “Every event is unique and the amount of security depends on thechara® of the event,” 1 lodge said. “You can’t say that there is a similar event and till thing’s the same except the participants are white, that doesn’t exist.” “If we had a Smashing Pumpkins concert, which is a primarily white ami we’d have more security than I had for [Greek Olympiad],” Hodge said. Hodge said the open party policy was initially a scheduling concent I policy was revised a couple of years ago to set safety and security para® “ Wc had some problems with an event and it caused us to reevaluatei|X I lodge said. “It was SBSLC and a greek dance which happened on the same® January several years ago.” Johnson said it’s impossible for NPHC to hold private parties. “Because of the number of African American students at this school,weJ on students from other campuses to attend our parties and unless youhavette of those people, they cannot come in if alcohol is being served,” he said Johnson said the money the organizations raise from having these partiesf to sponsor programs and community service projects and that the open parti has made it less appealing to put on these programs. “The open party policy makes it very difficult for my organizations to main® 1 nancial stability they need to continue, to provide the campus with quality proa® help the community and the student body,” Johnson said. 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