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SHI Rudder £ 111:20-12;l>n Senior Seminar IW I n 21 ITCt 12:.10-2:00 Student Seminar ■ I W WdlllllCil9 Student Seminar Join us Get a grip on your finances: Smart spending Tor students This seminar will leach you strategics tor managing your money wisely while you are in school. Senior Seminar Now that you are about to graduate: Taking control of your life This seminar will help prepare you for employment, help you live within your means, and reinforce your loan-repayment options, responsibilities, and obligations. .'1. ^ONE c1 WEDNESDAY The Tap Piano Bar Nice Guy...Dirty Songs '1.00 bar drinks *1.00 pints 8:00-11:00 KITCHEN OPEN ALL DAY/ALL NIGHT 696-5570 Designate * Party Safe Wednesday, April 16, 2003 THE BATTALII Fish by R.DeLuna NEWS IN BRIEF Early B-CS voting begins today Cube of Xoe By C.J. Early voting starts today fa contested municipal and scti board races in Bryan and Col Station for the May 3 eledioi Early voting will end This will be the first cities will use the new eSIate voting machines, 4 replace the punch-card syster Officials said the machines have been received so far. iw.4»y *»»oo for once 'Y HUSH, AS1GEL! THAT'S IN YOUR UNSTYLISH 1 NOT IMPORTANT NOW.' LIFE, YOU ACTUALLY IT'S TIME TO BOOT L LOOK GOOV. AKGELJ _ THIS BABy UP.' I HAD TO BORROW^ ' SOME JUICE FROM WHAT I WANT T<7"\ I / know is wow you \\l BUILT THIS THINO 111 OUR NEIGHBORS FOR WITH VOUR 2.3 GVA^y f . THIS TEST RUN SO V HOLD ON TO ^ ^Jv^_yOUR BUTTT^^ 11PM J J: a— HCK WW4T PIP VOU GUYS DO! rue power just V/ENT out everv- where.' huh wui5T MARINE People trust the new sysAq_ (j.s. M; said Connie Hooks, CoS: archforsevei Station City secretary. The polls will be openfrot a.m. to 5 p.m. today thu April 25, and from 7 a.m.t p.m. April 28 - 29 Reset By Th( Lemann to head Columbia journal NEW YORK (AP) - NkfaJ iusc No. 13 a civilians w; oftops when “Hey, we're w;is Chief Wan of seven missir “I said, ‘Lei fore we si ristopher Ca e of the eigh town of Sam N2isS PsIlEtSSn by J2sh Darwin B66N IN FOR^veRf t TouD Him not to EAT , a that NASTV s >, m{MoN y iake THAT cooud ao on our Nerr Album f Lemann, a longtime joum and award-winning aufhoi, agreed to head Coluraj University's journalism sdi the university presifi announced Tuesday. His appointment is sul to the approval of theunivif ty's trustees. Lemann has been Washington corresponded: The New Yorker since 2EL writing the "Letter wmored Reco Washington" column ant)w rt ' n g ^ Mai cles on national and wlrthem redoul POWs. Castro recal dCpl. Curne; former PO Kuwait. “We though wn’ situat anchester, N ok recountin Mogadishu, Castro's unit events. Students Continued from page 1 class-free afternoon to relax outdoors. “They should do this all the time” said Jeff Trahan, a junior turf grass management major. Aaron Kinsey, a junior accounting major and head of public relations for the Corps, said that along with dinner, evening formation was canceled and the most cadets were given the evening off. “People were just hanging out, playing basketball and soft- ball. I saw some 42 (dominoes) games,” Kinsey said. The cadets were not the only people on campus enjoy ing the afternoon off; else where, people were taking the opportunity to enjoy the day and escape the darkness. Cain Hall resident Daniel Habenicht, a freshman mechan ical engineering major, said the hallways in his residence hall were hard to navigate, lit only by emergency lights at each end. “It (power outage) made it hard to go to the bathroom ” he said. Russ Ramsey, a freshman physics major, played frisbee golf to get out of his residence hall and said that he would enjoy the rest of the day off. “My class is at six and I’m not going,” he said. Other students had tests and presentations Tuesday l were happy to not have Steven Burke, a fresh: electrical engineering had a test that will now bn be rescheduled. Executive Vice Presideni Provost David Prior work and classes because of the cancellation si be made up. “There will be anoppom ty to makeup what was missel Prior said. lander Capt. G Irs to an emer I Word had r ■w remains i larding the / thoir prisoners i hood. i The Marines |por. and the ompany was t Miller order e area whil mored vehicl intelligence j One platoon Iraq Continued from page 1 trying to bring order.” Later, Marine Cpl. Courtney Davis, collecting automatic weapons at a checkpoint, said he’d heard from his superiors that there were still pock ets of resistance. With fighting on the wane, U.S. defense officials said Monday they soon would recall two of five aircraft carrier battle- groups stationed in the Persian Gulf. “I would anticipate that the major com bat engagements are over,” Maj. Gen. Stanley McChrystal said at the Pentagon. “I think we will move into a phase where it is smaller, albeit sharp fights.” Meanwhile, President George W. Bush told a Rose Garden rally on Tuesday: “Our victory in Iraq is certain but it is not com plete ... Today the world is safer. The terror ists have lost an ally. The Iraqi people are regaining control of their own destiny.” Secretary of State Colin Powell hinted at economic or diplomatic sanctions against Syria, saying the government is developing a weapons of mass destruction program and harboring remnants of the Iraqi regime. Syrian officials denied the charges. In London, British Prime Minister Tony Blair said Syrian President Bashar Assad had personally assured him that his government “would interdict anybody” crossing the bor der from Iraq. “And I believe they are doing that.” Blair told the House of Comma Also, experts in antiquities will by a U.N. group and the British Musa help restore museums and artifacts sacked after the U.S.-led invasion, stole and smashed treasures from National Museum, and set afire Bagl National Library, with one of the oldest viving copies of the Quran. The U.N. Educational, Scieii I and Cultural Organization said its ti I would travel when conditions Koichiro Matsuura, the group’s ditefl general, called on customs officials,^ art dealers and countries bordering fe do all they could to block the stolen antiquities. Tickets Continued from page 1 cut. and we are already losing summer school courses. Now, students will have to pay that much more to see a football game, when money could be put back into classes — the reason we are here in the first place.” Senior agricultural systems major Ron Flippin said that he has no problem with the increase if it means a more successful foot ball program. “It doesn’t bother me. I mean, we are paying to go to 10 or 12 games,” he said. “We haven’t won the Big 12 since 1998, we didn’t go to a bowl game this last year, and now, we have a new head coach. If this helps pay his salary, it sounds all right to me.” The Aggies have taken strides to close the gap between themselves and the other marquee programs in the Big 12. A&M responded to a disappointing 2002 football season by firing legendary Head Coach R.C. Slocum and handing over the reins to Dennis Franchione. Now, construction on the new south end zone training and aca demic complex is nearing completion, keeping A&M ahead of the curve for col legiate facilities. “Kyle Field is known throughout the country as a unique college football venue,” Byrne said. “Whenever you attend a game at Is Kyle Field, it should be a first-class,i quality game day experience. We ha« most valuable ticket and best college i| ball experience in the land.” The A&M Athletic Department vived on the fourth-largest athletic bud^ the Big 12, despite being one of thelai?! schools in the nation. With the possibili? departmental budget cuts on the Byrne said it is time to secure A money it needs to stay afloat in the waters of the Big 12 and NCAA. “We do not want to scrimp andmf| survive,” Byrne said. “Texas A&M a wholesale club, we are not the b basement.” Worried about a friend who drinks too much? Alcohol costing too much (bar tabs, DWI, MIP)? Missing work or class because of your drinking? 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