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G uest saxophonist, Michael Hardy, joins the Orchestra in a jazz tribute
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one of the most charming symphonies in the American orchestral literature,
the Afro-American Symphony, by William Grant Still.
Sunday, 4 February 2001
4:00 P.M. Rudder Auditorium
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Hey current students...
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The Academic Excellence/Academic Incentive
Scholarship Applications will be available online
beginning February 1st!!
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AEAIintro.cfm
Deadline is March 1, 2001 at 5:00 PM!
For more information, please contact:
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Scholarship Office
PO Box 30016
Room 220, The Pavilion
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(979)845-3982
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THE PROJECTOR!
Unofficial enrollment
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A&M’s student body at 41;
strong.
The total is split behv.
21,725 men and 19,427wo-
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fall enrollment figures, pil 1
recorded 44,038 students..One si.
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tions, said enrollment typ flawles
drops in the spring. moanir.
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transfer in as graduate irihis me
fall,” Stephenson said, inode I
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this semester from the 40.|S ur
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12th class day, but are nc::^ n ( ^
cially released until the on _
class day. Those figures inc shares
a numerical breakdown oi tragica
student body by ethnicity,coi Luch
and other categories.
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