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Candidates must be self motivated go-getters with excellent relationship building and negotiating skills, as well as pos sess a true, natural sales ability which is what it takes to be successful in this competitive industry. Proficiency in a sec ond language is a plus. Visit our booth at the Business Career Fair on Wed., Sept. 20 1 ' & Thurs., Sept. 21 st We also invite you to attend our Career Info Session on Wed., Sept. 27 th 5:30 p.m. - 6:45 p.m., Room 707 Rudder On campus interviews will be held Thurs., Sept. 28 th & Fri., Sept. 29' 1 ' We offer great benefits including: • Paid time off • Matching 401 (k) Program • Free health club membership • Full medical, dental and • Casual dress code everyday vision benefits • Competitive salary and bonuses • And more! www.smithmart.com An equal opportunity employer M/F/D/V Page 6 NEWS Friday, September 15,20 THE BATTALION CS City Council approves parking meter purchase Friday. Septenih Te By Cyra Gatling The Battalion The purchasing of elec tronic parking meters was approved at the College Station City Council meet ing Thursday. MacKay Parking Meters will be re sponsible for the installa tion, which will cost $71,135. Funding for the meters will come from the Northgate Parking Fund. In other news, the city council approved an ad valorem, in proportion to the value, tax rate. The rate will change to $0.4293 per $100 valuation. The tax rate must be adopted by Sept. 30; the council is scheduled to meet on Sept. 28 to consid er adopting the tax rate. The council increased the city of College Station 1999-2000 budget by $5,944,219. The Business Park II land acquisition of $4,000,000; freeman prop erty acquisition of $1,600,000; the internal service fund of $107,260; the utility funds of $216,959; and the court technology and court secu rity fund of $20,000, were added to the budget. The city council also approved an ordinance that will rezone land located at 200 Greens Prairie Road. The 46.46 acres of land. which were originally gen eral commercial, are now single-family residential. The rezoning created some controversy because a resident in the Pebble Creek neighborhood was concerned that adding an other neighborhood would decrease the value of the Pebble Creek area. The resident said Peb ble Creek residents have invested effort in the area and that he does not think another neighborhood that is not of equal quality should be added. Councilman Dennis Maloney reminded the council that it was not there to discuss the planning of the area, but to decide on the zoning. He also said that if the land was going to be de veloped, he would prefei to see a residential devel opment than a commercia development. The council require that a fence, which wil: surround the area, be added to the rezoningont nance before it approved unanimously. Additionally, the coun cil approved changing die intersection at Rock Prairie Road and Longmire Drive from a two-way stopioa temporary four-way until a traffic signal can be installed. MHMR Continued from Page 1 door to more understanding for men tally impaired actors, adding that many television directors were re luctant to cast mentally impaired ac tors because they feared that the ac tors would forget their lines or that they would not be able to come to work for medical reasons. “Chris never had to slow down production for medical reasons or be cause he had forgotten his lines,'’ John DeMasi said. Students from the Bryan-College Station area and beyond the Brazos County attended the concert. Sever al members of the audience were brought onto the stage by the trio to sing along with the songs. Burke said that it is important that the audience believe in themselves. “Work hard and take care of each other, and have self-determination,” Burke said, adding that peopl; should be “known for their abilitse not their disabilities.” When the group left the stage Janie Velasquez, director of vote teer services and public informal for MHMR. presented the trio wit A&M caps. Gov. George W. Bush (led September 2(H)() Destination Digit:: Month to increase a wan: ness aba the contributions people with disaf ities have made in their communitie Gift Continued from Page 1 time, and the time frame necessary to get electricity and wiring to the clocks. “Texas A&M is a true family,” Hanselka said. “Our class year signi fies a united spirit we all feel. Each person is proud to wear their class ring, and as a former student now, it gives me great pride to say that 1 am a part of this family.” The clocks will be installed by June 2001, Hanselka said. “Giving something larger than yourself is a consistent theme here at Texas A&M,” Hanselka said. “Class gifts are one avenue that each individ ual has the opportunity to contribute, giving back to this University.” Class of ’00 historian Summer Harbert visited a university in Washington, D.C., and noticed clocks around the campus. She brought the idea back to the class council, and class gift chairwoman Stacy Hargrave lead the committee in choosing the gifts that would be placed on the spring ballot. Students are able to say tfc: have left their mark by purchaw. class merchandise and attending^ events each class hosts, sa:: Hanselka. Profit earned from each fund-rt ing project — from sellingT-shim admission to special events—wes into a fund labeled specificallyri the class gift. “Tm looking forward totheof portunity I'll have to bring my ly back and show them proudly^ our class gave to the University Hanselka said. f® c Drunken-driving laws under fire junior wide r< Robe By Blaine Dk The Battalion Robert Fer< something spe Wyoming, he but perform an receiver. The his first game yards and two arries, includ Hoi AUSTIN (AP) — Texas leads the nation in alcohol-related traffic deaths and will lose $96 million in federal highway construction funds over the next two years because state law is not tough enough on drunken drivers, a state official says. Mark Cross, a spokesman for the Texas Department of Transportation, said federal law requires the state to divert the money from construction to traffic-safety efforts because Texas does not ban open containers of al cohol in vehicles or automatically jail repeat drunken drivers. “It’s money that we would have used for construction and traffic con gestion and mobility” projects, Cross told The Dallas Morning News in Thursday’s editions. State Rep. Fred Hill, R-Riehard- son, who has tried five times to pass legislation banning open containers in vehicles, said he would try again when the Legislature convenes in January. But it will not be easy to overcome what he called traditional opposition from the liquor industry and from lawyers who defend people charged in drunken driving. “We have an element in the Leg islature that thinks it is an inalienable right of a Texan to drink a beer on the way home from work and throw the empty can in the back of a pickup truck,” Hill said. “Every time the Texas Legislature fails to pass this, people die.” Fifteen other states also will lose some of their federal highway con struction funds by Oct. 1 under a 6 6 Every time the Texas Legislature fails to pass this, people die” 1998 federal law that holds backti money unless states strongly people who are convicted of drunk driving more than once. Texas will lose the most, er, at $48 million a year and thefc eral penalty soon will escalatetoS 1 million a year. Hill said. Instead of road construction,t money can still be used for rot safety projects such as widenii intersections. ' “It doesn’t mean the money w. go to the state of Texas,” Hill said means that we will be capableoD veloping the best billboard ca against drunk driving in the worldi said. “Their A&M By Rii( i Fro The Battalion After spent ing to the East vard. Florida A&M soccer State for two The No. 8 ty of North Te at the Aggie 5 er, A&M will on Penn State A&M soc knows what t is a good trie: “We knov — Fred Hill state representative we will not be addressing the probk of getting drunk drivers off the Texas leads the nation in alcokfj related traffic deaths. In 1999, Texas had 1,734 alcol related traffic fatalities, about haft all driving deaths in the state year, according to figures fromf U.S. Department of Transpoitatiot friend of mim We played to rr~~r:~ 'A w TgM: - N %■ ' ^ ^ - ■ 1 ; . '• - CORRECTION - .. : ’ • i24 l-rf- O' ■ T Friday - SURER JAM w/ Imaginary Friend. Sustain. Fallout Cover $ 5.00 “The cover charge for Friday (tonight) listed in our Monday ad was incorrect. 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