NEWS SPECIALTIES ill* by R.DeLuna PHOTOGRAPHY (Special JKomenis Special S/Vio/ayf-ap/is £jnyciyement to iv)e(fGE ? . / WAS rr Enough to Buy new Guitars? ^ee, bavioit and i KlWDA TRACKCD MUD ON THEIR AT.s - WATT I IKS • slunk ;r.ass its Sl-K M* ONI, I INK ANT.» RiLOBIVK OLTP! W-m iffl-r ^Tm 13 INVADING THE OPAS JR SEASON Saturday, March 1 2 PM and 4 PM Rudder Theatre BRINGTHE WHOLE FAMILY All Tickets Only $7.50 Call 845-1234 www.MSCOPAS.org professors puts the institute on par with Ivy League Programs. “This Institute will be the place in the southern United States for string-theory and other research." Pope said. Fry has said that the insti tute will not be developing new technology, hut instead will bring more research grants to the University. Tickets are still available for Hawking’s speech at the Rudder Box Office for $3 for students and children and $5 for the general public. The speech will be proceed ed by an exhibition of hands-on science displays representing work from various departments at A&M.The exhibit will run from 10 a.m. to 3:45 p.m. in the Memorial Student Center. of A&M’s Dairy Center with major corporations in the dairy industry. Dairy Center employees will have a table at the Memorial Student Center the remainder of this week, where students are being asked to sign a petition to keep the dairy open. “We encourage people to come out and sup port the dairy,” Martindale said. “We need 10,000 signatures to submit to the Texas state legislature.” Cordell said last week that employees of the Dairy plan to take a stand to keep the Dairy open. “We’re not going down without a fight,” Cordell said. “We are more than willing to fight for what we love.” Martindale said he was optimistic about the employees’ efforts to save the dairy. “The ball is starting to roll,” he said, “and it’s looking pretty good.” THE BATTALION NEWS IN BRIEF After-party arrests include 4 robbers Following the Creel Olympiad step show after-parly Saturday, four Dallas-area men were arrested for aggravated robbery; police say they stole up to $1,115. University Police Department Director Bob Wiatt said the four men were taken into custodyfor robbery and marijuana posses sion charges. Court documents said the four men approached two men the Reed parking lot and asl them if they had change fori $100 bill. The men said they did not have change, which prompted one ol the assailants to point a handgun at them and demand money. UPD said the two men gave the suspects between $890 and $1,115. Wiatt said a tip led police to the Ramada Inn on Texas Avenue, where the two men identified the four men who had robbed them. College Station police arrested four men early Sunday morning when the after-party, sponsored by the Kappa Alpha Psi fraterni ty, grew out of control making the robbery one of several inci dents that night. Seven gunshots were fired in the air behind Reed Arena and 19 vehicles were burglarized behind G. Rollie White Coliseum. In addition, several fights broke out and there were reports of drug and alcohol use, Wiatt said, Weather Continued from page 1 Landscape management sprinkled dry sand in high traffic areas on campus Tuesday so stu dents, faculty and staff would not slip on any ice that formed in puddles around campus. A spokesman for the Texas Department of Transportation said students should be careful when traveling this week, “All the roads around A&M are open, but the bridges and overpasses have been sani/ftf he said. “Students should be careful and take a little extra time driving home.” Texas State Highways 6,21 and 47, as well as Fami-to- Market roads 60 and 1687 reported closures due to icy con ditions late Tuesday night. The high for Tuesday, 31 degrees, was the lowest this year since the Jan. 12 high of 39 degrees, Herzog said. The University of Texas and Baylor University canceled classes Tuesday due to severe weather conditions, according!!) their Web sites. According to The Associated Press, sleet fell in Austin late Monday and left 11,000 people without power because of wind and ice. The outages started at 5:30 p.m. and all service was restored by midnight Monday. Dallas-Fort Wortli International Airport had numerous cancelations, with American Airlines canceling about half of their departures. More flight cancellations and delays were expected. THE BATTALION Brandie I.iffick, Editor in Chief Sommer Bunce, Managing Editor Elizabeth Webb, Copy/Design Director Sarah Walch, News Editor Rob Phillips, Asst. News Editor Melissa Sullivan, Asst. News Editor Kendra Kingsley, Aggielife Editor Sarah Darr, Asst. Aggielife Editor Marianne Hudson, Asst. Aggielife Editor Chris Jackson, Sci/Tech Editor George Deutsch, Opinion Editor Bricanne Porter, Asst. Opinion Editor Michael Crow, Sports Editor Kevin Espenlaub, Asst. Sports Editor John l.ivas. Photo Editor Alissa HoUimon, Asst. 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