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"The Original Meal In A Peel" Dine In Specials Monday - Free Appetizer w/purchase of 2 full price potatoes 5-9 p.m. Wednesday - Student ID Night $ 1 00 off any potato 5-9 p.m. i mr.iotv su ■ Friday - Half Price Night $ 4 95 and less 6-9 p.m. 2418 C South Texas Avenue (In Kroger Shopping Center) Dine-in or carry out For delivery call 979-695-1279 Be sure to ask about the potato of the week! THE BIG TICKCT PAT GREEN 2x Grammy Nominee CROSS ■ CANADIAN RAGWEED HARRIS AND RYDEN (SK2Z’ SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 13 WOLF PEN CREEK AMPHITHEATER Tickets in advance highly suggested Kroger’s, MSC Box Office, Agkickoff.com CID 9 PEPS! BIGSKITRIP.COM Wednesday, September 10, 2003 NEI THE BATTALI FISH iiinimk "" a ' m RV/lM, H/WE I TolC 'Voo Hoi/o PRooo t Am That y©u Decided To ST°pM§ : Srri/0t> Your Mails > UUL, ir DAS ? \JDEA. A Ves, But I kAiOuJ HoUl Hard it must Be To Brbak A HABiT VooVe H/AD Sl/ULE ^WlDHooD AMD WHILE I'm GLAD Twey look better. Awd You Feel more, self- ^CoaJEidEaJT Continued from page ]a noise t poamion 89 JOSH DflRUJlfl 1H LOCAL NLW5 ( AXL RC«e wa-5 arrested For beating UP A fan vn A c>us station MEN'S ROOM. HE WAS SENTENCED TO IOO hours or community seM\ce And GROUP THERAPY \ ^JNEWS tlegrecs in agricultural econoc; from Texas Tech Universr received a doctorate in pf phy from Texas A&M in 19V ; He held various posi including senior vice pre . at the Frost National Bai San Antonio before retumr A&M in 1993 to serve as of the Department of Rang F.cology and Management Whitson has held the; lions of assistant professor. Departments of Range See. and Agricultural Economic^ later served as an associater" j lessor in these department . He also served as sm , head of the Depanmer * Animal Science. “Dr. Whitson is one ctl finest men 1 know. He is h and 1 have a great amoe respect for him, M said Dr. (I ( reger, vice chancellor and: utive associate dean fa Departments of Agricultun; Life Sciences. C~raz.y Session Continued from page'^ BY. MILL LL0VP representation in Washr. They have pushed for nr* gressional boundaries thi. their party tin advantage r:| Texas delegation, cunentij. 17-15 by liemocrats. “Now that our colleague decided to return to Teu>. almost 40 days in Ne^ M: we will finally be able tear the important issues faor. people of Texas,” said Repc Lt. Gov. David Devs hunt. Clarification In Tuesday's page 1A? cle, "Gates reveals Ir strategy,” the Faculty Ser; approved to recommence ering the foreign langr requirement to two yeac high school. The cur; requirement is three yea 1 : MSC Continued from page 1A Reynolds, director of the MSC, Smith said: “Based upon our analysis of the available documentation and information, we deter mined that a discrepancy of 12,026 shirts or $61,212 exists. Furthermore, it appears that the organization paid $6,199.88 for 1,362 shirts which it did not not receive. Please note that we are unable to identify the source of this discrepancy due to a lack of adequate supporting documentation and procedures on the part of the organization.” Student organizations are required to deposit money within 24 hours, according to the University system’s regulations and the Texas Education Code. In addition, each organization receives a monthly account activity report from the finance center. Fuxan said he could not recall turning in the money himself, but said his assistant may have handled it. “He was around the MSC more often, so I let him take care of it,” Fuxan said. No specific person was responsible for turning in the money all the time, and any number of people could have turned it in. Fuxan said. ‘It’s a mystery’ University Police Director Bob Wiatt said Smock went to Brazos County District Attorney Bill Turner with the findings, as she stated in her memo to Gates. However, Turner referred her to UPD. “Our intake lawyer handles all investiga tions, and our office will work with either UPD or the Bryan-College Station Police Departments, once they have conducted an investigation,” Turner said. “It’s very rare for us to conduct an investigation on our own.” Auditor Woods then met with UPD Detective James Lynham, and together they took the auditor’s findings to Turner’s office. “They worked on it together,” Wiatt said. “From my understanding, after several months of records being screwed up, nobody knew what had happened, and there were problems in the record-keeping. We did not do any investigation. There was no way to know if a crime had been committed.” Wiatt said no reports were compiled by UPD, and no investigation took place. “There was no paper trail (for the DA to fol low),” Wiatt said. “He did not take the case.” Fuxan said there are many missing fac tors, and he is as eager as anyone to find out what happened. “There was money missing, ami * thing just didn’t make it in.” he said mystery.” Making changes Smock said if the MSC Maroon Oil committee had sold the entire inventor T-shirts, it would have generated $300,000 in sales for the 2002 football son. Maroon Out sells an average of 40,ft 1 shirts each football season, organizers “This year we’ve got a Web site, and' 1 : already broken one-day selling records,"* 2(X)3-2(X>4 Maroon Out Director JeremyC Fans purchased tickets for Maroon T-shirts and then waited in a 20-minutt to receive shirts on A&M’s first game this season when the Aggies pie Arkansas State at Kyle Field. Crow, MSC Assistant Director R; Thompson and Class Councils ad Jennifer Boyle said the new system fore ing T-shirts implemented this fall ism:' response to the auditors’ report. “Last year the selling atmosphere n chaotic,” Crow said. “In that situation, tte no way to know who took the money." Expe In anticif begun to cle begins to gei into a box. R cards; surely That night s Tomorrow is This is sc realizing ho will have le take. Advising Security nun often contain ber and ins contain a pe number. With this can open a r of credit or : your name. The Fede defines ide someone eh tion, such Social Secu birth illegal! Accordin] theft is the collar crime ranked fifth cases of ider Students to identity away credit without a s Security nui don’t check Social Sei A&M, a stuc student idem Social Se number wa: means of idi The numb identificatioi Riviera Day Spa WELCOME BACK AGS! 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