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BY NOTORIOUS U.B
MSC committee
to host contest
The third annual ‘ What’s:
Word?" oratorical contest,It;,
ed by the Texas A&M Mlenw;
Student Center (MSC) Bi;
Awareness Committee (BAC),i
be at 7 p.m. in MSC 292A.
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Right’s Movement: Is It Miss
in Action, Mission Impossibl
Moving Right Along?” wills 1
students to discuss the state
the civil rights movement.
Joy-Lena Waites, publics ;
tions officer of the BAC, said
contest gives students a r>
um to participate in speecln f
rhetoric-related activites.
The first-place winner wii j
ceive $1,000, the second-pi;;
winner will receive $750,«1
the third-place winner
ceive $500.
Senate consider
regulation bill
Following the confusion ;|
rounding the Spring 2000
leader elections, the Student:
ate considered a bill Wednesd
that would clearly define a nda|
ity vote in the election regulafcl
The bill was written after thejl
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tions be made more clear.
The yell leaders appealedT
outcome of the Spring 2000etf
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commission. The bill was ini
first reading Wednesday and !
be voted on at the Nov.l meetii
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toll road to open
LAREDO (AP) —Traffic will 1
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route for commercial traffic of
tourists heading to Mexico. |
Camino Colombia Toll Re:
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was dedicated Wednesday. Abci
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rate ceremony at the road's
booth and administration built,
located about five miles eas!
the Colombia Solidarity Bridge
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vestors for creating, the m
which was promoted as Vieiivs
link to the outside world,
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