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Chock my I.D. fuming 21 brings freedom and responsibilities N BRIEF outlines for r readiness S (AP) - fa largest city has :i-terror reading aficient in mar' ig to a repoi! by a city council lack Weiss sujj if changes forln rounding muma oposals induiii he disease si to detect biolog arnica I agent' jiation detect signaling neigh er coordinator for evacuations antibiotics and By Kelcey Rieger THE BATTALION Many Aggies await the day of ningofage and hope their special ebration does not conflict with loolby having early classes or ims the next day. Mike Hager, a senior political sci- emajor, took advantage of his tbirthday landing on a weekend celebrating the night before. “The Mbefore my actual birthday, I up at a party,” Hager said. “At ilnight 1 would be 21, so l thought atwould be better than partying tilthe clock struck twelve?” [Unfortunately for Hager, police ke up the party at 11:55 p.m., llwas like a flock of quail leav- and flying over the fence when police showed up,” Hager said. ”1 idedtojust chill, and by the time cops came around 1 was officially The cop looked at my ID and agave me a strange look. 1 felt :ttyawesome because I didn’t have dhing to worry about.” Drinking on a 21st birthday is a rite passage for some, but it can also be comforting for the celebrater. My 21st birthday wasn't as great Ithought it would be,” Hedish nnor, a senior journalism major i‘Tended up getting pretty sick after making the rounds and bar-hop ping on Northgate.” Connor said she has realized the error of her decision. She said she wants other Aggies approaching their 21st birthdays to make the most of it without drinking as much as she did. « People that drink when they are underage and then turn 21 seem to go complete ly crazy and act stupid doing something they had already been doing for a couple of years. — Robert Segovia Class of 2002 “It’s OK to have fun, but make sure you shouldn’t drink so much that hav ing fun becomes impossible,” she said. “The day you’ve been looking forward to for the past couple of years becomes a blur, and what is the fun in that?” Connor said she enjoys being 21 because she can go to Northgate and just hang out with her friends without the hassle of being underage. She said she actually drinks less now. “I realize that it is my last year of school and I have more responsibilities than I have had in the past ” Connor said. “I have trouble enough keeping it all together without partying all of the time.” Robert Segovia, Class of 2002, said he doesn’t under stand why 21-year- olds impulsively decide to drink more when most of them have been drinking alcohol for a while. “People that drink when they are underage and then turn 21 seem to go completely crazy and act stupid doing something they had already been doing for a couple of years,” Segovia said. “To me it’s just not healthy.” Maurice Dennis, director of the Texas A&M Center for Alcohol and Drug Education and a health professor at A&M, said stu dents need to be responsible and take extra precautions when they turn 21. “Although it may be legal for the student, now that they are 21, to pos- PEOPLE IN THE NEWS RUBEN DELUNA • THE BATTALION sess alcohol, they need to use caution and common sense when drinking,” Dennis said. “Especially when driv ing, students must take extra precau tion.” Dennis said studies have shown that more 21-year-old drivers die in DWI crashes than underage drivers. irateful Dead members o tour again ROANOKE, Va. (AP) - The emaining members of the 1 Dead are going back on aur, with the first stop sched- iled for the Roanoke Civic Center on Nov. 14. The band, renamed The Other Ones after leader Jerry Garcia died in 1995, announced the 14- city tour on its Web site. Surviving band members include Mickey Hart, Billy Kreutzmann, Phil Lesh and Bob Weir. They'll play in cities includ ing Washington, New York, Boston, Philadelphia, Pittsburgh, Cleveland and Chicago. The last time the Dead played in Roanoke was July 7-8, 1987, when 21,000 people converged on the civic center and more than 50 people were arrested, mostly for drug-related offenses. Civic center marketing director Robyn Schon expected no trou ble this time. Actor Connery sues entertainment company LOS ANGELES (AP) - Sean Connery has sued Mandalay Entertainment Group and pro ducer Peter Guber, seeking $17 million for an unmade movie with the working title End Came. The 72-year-oid actor, who has starred in seven James Bond films, alleged in his Superior Court lawsuit filed Wednesday that Mandalay and Guber first approached him in 1999 about playing a CIA agent in End Came. The Scotland-born Connery claims the studio promised to pay him $17 million and that Guber encouraged him to spend "considerable time, effort and money" in developing the movie. Guber produced such hits as Rain Man, Batman, and Flashdance. 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