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Tuesday
Aggies for Life will have speaker
Sarah Schwind, R.N., on “Does the
pill cause an early abortion?” at 7
p.m. in Blocker 150. For more in
formation, contact Daniel Spenrath.
Zeta Tau Alpha will host Halloween
on Sorority Row. Join us from 7 p.m.
to 9 p.m. for Halloween activities
and games. Admission is free, and
all Bryan-College Station children
and their families are welcome. For
more information, contact Sarah at
694-6821.
Wednesday
Project Sunshine will hold a gen
eral meeting at 8:30 p.m. in Rud-
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der 601. For more information,
please contact Elizabeth Flewharty
at 260-2683.
The Pre-Dental Society will have
Dr. Joseph Berrung with the UTH-
SC San Antonio Dental Branch
speak at 7 p.m. in MSC 292B. For
more information, contact Grant
Richie at 696-2041.
Thursday
Phi Alpha Theta will have Carter
Hydrick speak on the topic of “Crit
ical Mass: The Real Story of the
Making of the Atomic Bomb, and
the Birth of the Nuclear Age” at
7:30 p.m. in Rudder 701.
Current Issues Awareness and Wi
ley Lecture Series presents a
“Peace in the Middle East?” panel
discussion at 7 p.m. in MSC 201.
The TAMU SCUBA Club will have
underwater hockey from 7:45 to
9:30 p.m. at the Rec Center
Natatorium. Bring your swimsuit,
mask, fins and snorkel if you
have them. For more information,
contact Lee Carson at 694-3109
or leecarson@tamu.edu.
Sunday
TAMU Gymnastics Club will have
an Aggieland Tumble Off. Everyone
is welcbme. It is $5 to enter (be
ginning, intermediate and advanced
levels) and $2 to watch. It wil be
held in Read 307 from 3 to 5 p.m.
For more information, please con
tact Jenn Lim at 847-1846.
The Bryan Police Depart
(BPD) is warning Bryan-C
Station residents and I
nesses about a scam
liciting money for the “Brazoi
ley Fraternal Order of Polic
Sgt. Ernie Montoya, pu
lations officer for BPD,:
a few Bryan businesses ha
ported someone seekingmol
"[The solicitors] have:
asking for money up to:
Montoya said. “Only one:
ness gave them $10,
don't know how manyi
pie have been approached,’
The male solicitor has:
business owners thathei
lecting money for a
called ‘‘Shop with a Cop,’
supposedly provides gil
needy children.
Montoya said that thereisk
a Brazos Valley Fraternal0®
Police, and the Texas Fraternal
der of Police said they it does'
have a person working in &(£
The BPD crime prevent'
unit has determined that', l
address and the phone nunr'"*
given by the caller are fictife'
and the city of Bryan has not!
sued a solicitor’s permitin:|
name of this organization, j
BPD said that people njjgfl
formation about this sett,
should contact their local poY
department.
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esty, likability and other pei
qualities. Hurley said. Esp©
the roughly 10 percent ofthi
(orate that is truly independent
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pendent and undecided voters. '
candidate image is what them
ing attention to,” Hurley said.
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cisive factor in this election,f
added.
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between the candidates on the ■
sues,” Hurley said. “People OS i
don’t know enough about polb
even know what they want.”
Jan Leighley, a politcal scierp
professor, said that while voterso
perceive differences on the is*
between the candidates, theyil
not be responding due to a gene
skepticism toward politics.
“People are tired of politics I
cynical toward all candidates.if
times are good, people care b
Leighley said.
If the Gore landslide that so?
models projected does not hap:';
one of the reasons may be votef
inattentiveness to issues, Leigll
added.
Most public opinion surveyssl)|
voters agree more with Gore’s pel
stances than with Bush’s.
Leighley noted that this
has seen an unprecedented target
of campaign resources in a
of swing states that will detenu
the outcome.
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