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    2003
Ecological
Integration
Symposium
“Natural History and
Modern Conservation”
Texas A&M University
Presidential Conference Center
Saturday, February 22, 2003
Speakers:
Harry Greene, Hans Paerl,
Tom Sherry, Maureen
Stanton, Tom Swetnam
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Free registration!!
visit: wfscnet.tamu.edu
Liberal Arts Career Week
All majors welcome!
Monday, Feb. 24th: Resume Writing
5:30p.m.
Koldus 111
Tuesday, Feb. 25 th : Behavioral Interviewing
5:30p.m.
Koldus 111
Wednesday, Feb. 26 th : Career Fair Networking
5:30p.m.
Koldus 111
Thursday, Feb. 27 th : Alumni Forum
Panel discussion and reception with former students
6:00p.m.
Reed Arena
Friday, Feb. 28 ,h :
Liberal Arts Career Fair
And
Communications Career Fair
10:00a.m.-3:00p.m.
Rudder Exhibit Hall
For a complete list of companies attending the career fair and other info
please check out our website.
www.lasctamu.org
4 AGGIELIFI
Friday, February 21, 2003 THE BATTALION
*
The Rocket Summer
''Calendar Days"
The Militia Group
It seems like the thing to do these days: go
into a studio, make an amateur recording, start
off small and hope someone notices you and you
make it big. Dashboard Confessional did it. Jack
Johnson did it, even Abandoned Pools did it.
For Bryce Avary and his project The Rocket
Summer, the idea couldn't have been any worse.
The result is his album “Calendar Days.” In this
bad move with unforgivable results, “Calendar
Days” presents the listener with 10 tracks which
are essentially the same song rewritten enough to
pass as something different. The lack of musical
range is also amplified by trite lyrics that make a
typical emo garage band look like Bob Dylan
and off-key singing that makes Bob Dylan sound
like Freddie Mercury, not to mention the incredi
bly mediocre instrumental accompaniment. And
just in case you haven’t figured out you were in a
musical black hole yet, the track “What We Hate,
We Make “ features a sixth grade girls choir. In
all fairness, the choir isn't that bad. However,
Avary's vocals, along with the choir, creates a
sonic dissonance that would make even Homer’s
sirens gnash their teeth.
Perhaps the biggest atrocity associated with
this album is that Bryce Avary expects listeners
to pay their hard-earned money, only to be tor
tured by his musical ineptness. After this deba
cle, Avary should consider another career path
and leave his rock and roll fantasies at home.
—Juan Rim
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NEWS IN BRIEF
"The Bachelor"
breaks off his
engagement
NEW YORK (AP) - After get
ting engaged in romantic, dta-
matic fashion before million!
of people on TV's "Tbe
Bachelor,'" Helene Eksterowic
said she was dumped uncete-
moniously at a Starbucks neai
her New Jersey apartment.
Eksterowicz said Aaron
Buerge broke up with her five
weeks after the ABC reality
show's Nov. 20 finale, telling
her he was no longer "emo
tionally invested."
"It felt like a bomb dropped,'
the 28-year-old elementary
school psychologist told
People magazine for its Mardi
3 issue. "I said, 'I feel very
deceived by you. You've told
me every single day that you
love me, and now this is AY
Eksterowicz said she mi/
Buerge, a 28-year-old bate
from Springfield, Mo., '"triedto
talk every day on the phone,
but it was hard." As for the two-
carat diamond engagement
ring, which Buerge paid foi
himself, Eksterowicz is keeping
it in a safe-deposit box.
May
Graduates
The Official Texas A&M
Graduation
Announcements
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