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Gift Certificates are good at any of Post Oak Midi’s huge selection of stores. Post Oak Mall Une Gift Qsr t~-i£icate Place Beall’s, Dillard’s Foley’s, JCPenney, Sears, The Food Court & Over 100 Specialty Stores. Texas 6 Bypass at Highway 30, College Station • Customer Seivice 764-0777 Developed, Owned and Managed by CBL & ASSOCIATES PROPERTIES, INC. (NYSEOBL) CAMPUS Page 10 THE BATTALION Variety show draws cro MSC Town Hall hosts array of talent By Anna Bishop The Battalion From sequined Latin dancers to the rhythmic broom-heating Percussion Studio, Memorial Student Center’s (MSC) Town 1 lull’s Variety Show 2000 boasted a wide array of talents. JP BEATOTiif t ^ John Fonner, freshman biomedical engineer major, and Anna Allred, freshman biomedical science ma jor, perform with the Texas Aggie Swingcats in the Variety Show pre sented by the MSC Town Hall. Saturday evening’s Variety Show was held in Rudder Auditorium, packing in a 2,300-member audience. Contestants in the show competed for cash prizes awarded to first, second or third place winners. Winners are as follows: • Apotheosis, a ten-member a capella group, sang its wav to victory. Apotheosis took third place in last year's Variety Show. • Percussion Studio, a Texas A&M student-run percussion organization, took second place for the second con secutive year. • Paul Murcllo, a sophomore recre ational parks and tourism sciences ma jor, placed third with a piece from Broadway’s “Miss Saigon.” Murello was accompanied by Emilie Naiser, a freshman education major. Murello said his third place w in was a complete surprise. “(Winning! was a shock!’’ Murcllo said. “There was just too much talent on one stage to narrow it down to three winners.” Judging was based on talent and performance, as well as audience ap proval. Show judges included: Jim Butler. Class of '64. a movie and drama critic for The Bryan-Col/ege Station Eagte\ Will Hurd, senior computer science major and the student body president; Forrest Lane, senior] major and the student I elect, Cheryl Montalbano, MCM Dance Studio in I anne Rolls, Class of 96,2(1: for KTSR-FM 92.1 Freudian Slip, an improis comed> group, served asil| of ceremonies for the I live year. (Itlier performers incl \&M Dance Repertoire, Hea^ and Stephanie Rigg, AcousiicE I atin I \plosion. BrandonAkj I ance Lunsford, John Merer; Tasha and Dean. I )crek Bergeron and the Ad piers scr\ od as special guestsr:| and closed the show. I lergeron kicked offtheeie a rendition of "The StarSpar.| ncr” on his electric guitar. fhe Aggie Wranglers,mi year's Variety Show.closeiloii jj vei MlN ol'Kci w ith their polka dancing,jirm.j an( j c | laa and two-stepping routine. Metric Manning, a senior. | ics major, directed the M Hall Variety Show.alonewitH ecently, st | versity we lunger str [ration to be jotesters arj Vs logo is 1 Jhops abroa I States. Th [king off of [labor pract [joining organ i Tn(WRC)o nxork against : Purdue ad After 11 i dstock-style ie WRC if c ile Purdue Its like this \ ag the baser | students we its was that t len of the ’9( of the MSC staff and Varii I first, all this Committee. All proceeds from ticket sale j to MSC Town Hall forforthera ment events. Jellie Bellies fthese recent Jtions should jin the protes totesting is th ling a temper l past getting I were willing he ultimate te I khakis, or tin the administrati re makes $6C of which goe . This is enou do serious dama ■pBhc protest w a udem govemmei nice from the \ as sponsored by affins of benefitii be an adver ash athletics brim mount received b jrobably not have igainst the athletic / With at! this rac iW draw the conch :ing manufac Carissa Brown, a senior animal science major, Khristl Smyth, a senior wildlife ecology major and Kristen Bradley, a junior horticulture major, belly dance at the Whoopstock Unity Festival on Saturday. The three are members of The Brazos Valley Jellie Bellies. Whoopstock succeeded in bringing in record numbers this year by holding STUART VILLANUEVATi:! B' the annual event during Parents’ Weekend.W event, held at Simpson Drill Field, alsofeatirf acts by The Aggie Wranglers, Fade to Black, Cache and Sly Letter. International student of nizations set up booths around the field t(# participants the opportunity to taste cuisine from around the globe. { did Lmotfs.— Market 77% OF ACS WHO HAVE SEX DO IT SOBER 1. Make a plan about your drinking behavior (like setting a limit) and how to get home safely. 83% OF AtCIES HAVE NOT USEP MARIJUANA IN THE LAST YEAR M9 ies & 60% OF ACCIES HAVE NEVER DRIVEN A CAR AFTER PRINK INC 90% OF ACS HAVE NEVER BEEN IN TROUBLE WITH AUTHORITIES (POLICE, ADMINISTRATORS, ETC) DUE TO PRINKINC 2 2. Never leave your drink unattended and avoid “trashcan punch” (you don’t know what’s in that stuff). 3. Eat a high protein meal before drinking to slow absorption of alcohol, continue eating while you are drinking. d AlJad 4. Drinking no more than 1 drink per hour while alternating with alcohol free drinks, like water, and setting a limit=3 drinks/men and 2 drinks/women, maintains a lower blood alco hol concentration. alcohol Aiso Drug Edit :ath>.\ programs Visit our website and get the facts!!! http://stulife.tamu.edu/adep PlAY SMART: Zero drinks if you are a minor, intending to drive, pregnant, taking medication, or a/cohoi depen dent. Data from June, 1998 CORE survey on a random sample of 861 students ’1 drink=12oz beer, 4oz wine, loz shot 80 proof liquor (/ H Continued from large margin positions. Mean^ vestment advisers are hoping it market’s rout has taught clients^ ger of buying stocks on credit. “Margin is only for thosi long-tcnn investing horizonuh 1 ford to lose money if the market decidedly against them,” R. Spear, editor of The Spent' • . published in West Hartford,Co® T"lj "I | Financial markets have a I* -L J. AX week, closing for the observe Good Friday. k orporate off In those four days, a large# l os Angele: companies will report their firsH / getting sligl earnings, and signs of strong^ ,y this month, growth could at least help stain® ; j s getting woi market, analysts said. ' ng the first we But it is a quiet week forgot I, thousands ol econom ie reports, and that con# ors belonging difficult for stocks to advanced [ice Employees Last Thursday and Friday ^ mal Union (SE inflation that emerged in the. 5 £d off their jol ment’s Producer Price Index^ 1( 1 3 release fre sumer Price Index sparked heav7 ^ 8,500 custodi With those two reports still h# a stan< # ^ vestors' minds, many won’t"# , actor s w * 10 to ) a chance on jumping back into- ^ c * eai ^^ UCI ket, some analysts believe. Ultimately, the market may emotion. Investors may return 1 day chastened, hut with ^Jv^eTltlll expectations for their stockr SFIU made Griffin said. “Those who in all innocent the market was a one-way percent-plus annual returns lost that innocence in the lurid 3 ' the past several weeks,” hesaii I as for striking e lays since, othe [o, Chicago ant the same type [ive years ago v acts in cities a ened to give th ation dates wit iring future cor
