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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
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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.
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visitor surprised
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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.
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you notice the lighting is realWI
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and then we need to follow up ar
a letter back to them lettinetliea
w hat's being done on the issue."
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be able to effectively relay the
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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.
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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.
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open parties on campus,” Johnson said. “By implementing these rules, they! popular Discw
sentially driven us oft’campus.”
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security at some predominately white events, depending on the natureofk 1
and the risk factor involved.
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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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Beverly Mireles, Managing Editor
Stuart Hutson, Campus Editor
Meredith Hight, Community Editor
Kyle Whitacre, Aggielife Editor
Veronica Serrano, Aggielife Editor
Doug Shilling, Sports Editor
Mariano Castillo, Opinion Editor
Eric Dickens, Opinion Editor
.Guy Rogers, Photo Editor
JP Beato, Photo Editor
Robert Hynecek, Graphics Editor
Ruben DeLuna, Graphics Editor
Jeff Kempf, Night News Editor
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Maureen Kane, & Kenneth Macdonald.
Sports - Assistant: Jason Lincoln; Reece Flood, Bree
Holz, Breanne Hicks, Blaine Dionne, Rich Bray, Diane
Xavier & Al Lazarus.
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Jeff Wolfshohl, Chris Carter, Scott Harris, Kelly Preiser, Juan
Loya, Emily Harrell, .lulia Recindus & Justin Garrett.
Opinion - Melissa Bedsole, Heather Corbell, Jessica
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