Spring Into
Action...Serve!
Volunteer
Opportunities Fair
January 27 & 28
10a.m. to 2 p.m.
MSC Flagroom
Sponsored by: Department of Student Activities
Volunteer Services Center http://vsc.tamu.edu
'MSC S-Cwetent leadership
Training *Worl?shop
presented by MSC Human Resources
January 24
9am - 2pm
University Apartments
Community Center
Registration forms are found and can be
turned in the MSC room 216T. Registration
deadline is January 21st by 5:00pm.
Questions, call Lindsey Wilson - 979-845-1515
This training is required for any MSC Leader position before taking office.
2001 ( aitiiHis Willi 4 Uream Week
Tuesday, January 20th
ioam-l2pm. Rudder Fountain
Kickoff Celebration
12pm-1pm, Stark Gallery
Kickoff Speech
2pm-4pm, Evans Library Room 106
Lecture and Discussion: "Diversity,
Colleglality, and the Scholarly
Environment at Texas A&M"
Wednesday, January 21st
12prr>-1pm, Rudder Fountain
MSC Town Hall: Lunch Box Concert
11:30am-1pm, Rudder Fountain
MSC Literary Arts Committee:
The World's Longest Poem
5pm, Rudder 502
MSC E.L. Miller “A Cultural Look at the
History of Technology”
Thursday, January 22nd
11:10am-12:25pm, Harrington 204
A History on Perspectives of "Race"
Lecture by Dr. Sheets Athreya
11:10am-12:25pm, Blocker 160
Cultural Relativism
Lecture by Dr. Cynthia Werner
11:30am-1pm, Rudder Fountain
MSC Literary Arts Committee:
The World's Longest Poem
12pm-1pm, Rudder Fountain
MSC Town Hall: Lunch Box Concert
12:45pm-2pm, O&M Building 210
African American Folklore
Lecture by Dr. Tom Green
Fur More Information
5pm-10pm
The Association of Former Students:
Southwestern Black Student Leadership
Conference (SBSLC} Registration
7pm, MSC 201
MSC CIA: American Voices
Friday, January 23rd
10:20am-11:10am, Blocker 102
“North American Indians before
Columbus”
Lecture by Dr. Alston Thomas
12pm, Duncan Dining Hall
Southwestern Black Student
Leadership Conference (SBSLC) with
Speaker Bryon Baine
SBSLC Variety Show
7:10pm - Comedian; 7:45 - Slam Poet;
8 :20pm - Step Africa
10pm, MSC
MSC Aggie Nights: “Campus with a
Dream” Sponsored by MSC ALOT,
MSC FISH, MSC Hospitality and
MSC LEAD
10pm, MSC Flagroom
MSC Town Hail: Hlo Hod Contest
Sunday. January 25th
2pm-6pm. MSC Flagroom
MSC Open House with Entertainment
Saturday, January 24th
1:30pm, Rudder Auditorium
Southwestern Black Student
Leadership Conference (SBSLC) -
Keynote Speaker Nikki Giovanni
2:45pm-4:00pm
Student Leader Forum:
SBSLC delegates and TAMU student
leaders session (Invitation Only)
Please ( nutnd the Memorial Student
Texas AiV \t University
Monday, January 26th
9an>2pnn, MSC Flagroom
Viewing of “Eyes on the Prize”
4pm-7pm, Rudder Auditorium
MSC Town Hall: Showtime at the
Apollo Auditions
7pm, Bush Presidential Conference Center
Campus with a Dream
Keynote Speakers:
Mr. Fred McClure and Dr. Betty Miller
r (Rcccotlon Fnllowlna)
Tuesday, January 27th
7.30pm, Rudder Auditorium
MSC OPAS: '‘Cafs’
Wednesday, January 28th
7:30pm, Rudder Auditorium
MSC OPAS: “Cats"
Center ill HI.V 1515
Better Ingredients • Better Pizza
ednesday Sped
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Wednesday, January 21, 2004
natiI
THE BATTalJ
Cingular offers to buy AT&T Wireles
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By Harry R. Weber
THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
ATLANTA — Cingular
Wireless has tired first in a poten
tial bidding war to buy AT&T
Wireless, offering more than $27
billion cash for a deal that would
create the nation’s largest cell
phone company.
AT&T Wireless’ board of
directors received a formal offer
from Cingular over the weekend,
several sources with knowledge
of the situation said Tuesday on
condition ot anonymity.
But three other wireless com
panies have also contacted AT&T
Wireless to express strong inter
est in buying the company, one of
the sources said. It was unclear
how formal an overture has been
made by any of those suitors —
Vodafone PLC of Britain, NTT
DoCoMo of Japan, and Nextel
Communications ot Reston, Va.
The Cingular offer includes a
premium over AI&I Wireless
closing market value on Friday of
$9.99 per share, or $27 billion,
another of the sources said.
However, with shares of
AT&T Wireless rising 40 cents to
$10.39 on Tuesday, padding last
week's 20 percent gain driven by
takeover speculation, a prospec
tive buyer may need to exceed the
company’s new market value of
more than $28 billion. In addi
tion. any buyer would also need
to assume AT&T Wireless' debts,
which totaled $6.1 billion at the
end of the third quarter.
Officials from AT&T Wireless
and Cingular declined to com
ment. AT&T Wireless’ board of
directors w as expected to wrap up
a previously scheduled meeting
in Florida later Tuesday.
Analysts did not expect a deal
right away with so many parties
showing interest.
While AT&T Wireless has
struggled with the industry’s
price wars and the huge invest
ments needed to expand and
upgrade its network, rivals are
envious of the company’s large
base of business customers, who
tend to buy higher-priced calling
packages and premium services
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601 University Dr. 100 Harvey Rd., Suite D
979-846-3600 979-764-7272
Rock Prairie
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979-680-0508
Sunday: 1 1 a.m. - midnight
Monday - Wednesday: t 1 a.m. - 1 a.m.
Thursday: 1 1 a.m. - 2 a.m.
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Cingular makes
an offer to
acquire AT&T
Wireless
Six to five?
A successful
merger would
combine the No. 2
and No. 3 wireless
carriers in the
nation and shrink
the top players
from six to five.
8.2%
T-Mobile
8.3%
Nextel
10.4% Sprint
14.7%
AT&T Wireless
Market share of
1 8 V U.S. subscribers 1 ;
Other \ 24.3%
Verizon
15.8%
Cingular
'As ot December 2003
SOURCES The Yankee Group; Aasooated Press
such as wireless Internet access.
“This is going to take a
while,” said Patrick Con tack, a
telecommunications analyst with
Guzman and Company in Miami.
“Vodafone is not going to let this
go without a fight. And it they try
to fight. NIT DoCoMo \s ill try to
block them.”
Cingular, jointly owned by
SBC Communications and
BellSouth, still doesn’t own spec
trum in several key U.S. markets.
A deal with AT&'l Wireless,
which uses the same cellular
technology, could help fill in
many of those gaps, while cutting
costs for the merged operation.
NIT DoCoMo, a rival to
Vodafone in many countries
with an eye on expansion,
already owns 16 percent of
AT&T Wireless and has two rep
resentatives on the U.S. compa
ny’s board.
Vodafone already owns 45
percent of U.S. market leader
Verizon Wireless. But as one of
the world’s biggest cell phono
companies, the British firm is
said to be dissatisfied with set
tling for such a passive role in a
market as crucial as the United
States. Verizon also uses a differ
ent cellular technology than
Vodafone, while AT&T Wireless
uses the same standard, making
its network an easier fit for any
international services Vodafone
might sell its subscribers.
Nextel, meanwhile,
doesn't have a high-speed vsire-
NEWS IN BRIEF
less Internet service to ofifl
sizable base of business!
tomers, a competitive
tage that AT&T Wirele
addressed with a $300
upgrade to its network,
A merger between
and AT&T Wireless uouldi
tlie combined company in
top slot in terms of U.S. i
share, while an agreement!
Nextel would create a i
close in size to No. 1 V
But a deal with eithen
also slim the field of
\s ladess carriers from sit
[sossibls easing the fiercet
tilion sparked by a new
rule that lets customers
carriers without losing
phone numbers.
Atlanta-based Cingular a
rently the nation’s |
ss ire less carrier w ith
voice and data
Verizon, based in
NT. has 36.0 million!
while AT&T Wireless
with 21.9 million. All oft
lies were calculated;
of September.
Cingular, w ith annual r
of about S15 billion,
adding customers steadi.
several quarters, helping
the earnings of its
nies. BellSouth release!
fourth-quarter .uk! yi
mgs on Thursday.
AT&T Wireless, toe I
Redmond. Wash., has annua j
enue of $16.5 billion, j
Fox's 'American Idol' a big
winner in season debut
LOS ANGELES — Fox’s “American Idol" hit
impressively high ratings notes in its third sea
son premiere.
The talent show drew 29 million viewers
Monday, the best start for any series in the
2003-04 season, according to preliminary
Nielsen Media Research figures
Tuesday by Fox.
Fox also enjoyed a solid debut for ’
Obnoxious Fiance.” a reality series that c
after “American Idol." The new
watched by 19.6 million viewers.
Final figures for both series, which help#
win the night among total viewers as
advertiser-coveted younger ones, will L
able Wednesday.
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