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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-
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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.
Connery is seeking compensa
tory damages of $17 million in
addition to punitive damages
and compensation for "lost
opportunities."
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