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00-gallon saltwater aquarium. Custom
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ogy development company in College Sta-
lion, TX has an immediate opening for a
full-time Assembly Technician. The indi
vidual must be detailed oriented and have
Ihe desire to work in a fast paced environ
ment with a diverse group of people. The
applicant must have mechanical
skills and should be able to work with
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tude, be self-motivated, professional and
possess good communication skills. Send
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Attention Students! Leasing Agents
needed full/ part time positions available.
Great pay, fun atmosphere. Must be neat
appearance. Apply in person at
Meadows Point Apts. 800 Marion Pugh or
fax resume 979-693-0455.
Babysitter needed monday through friday
3-5:30 Call Sandi 693-8808
lext to Target.
Cashier, evening plus some grave yard
shift Tigerland Express. Apply corner of
SO/mo^f Certified, insured personal trainers need
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Cleaning commercial buildings at night,
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Full-time teacher/mom of BUSY family
needs help! Min. 8-10/hr week. Starting
$7/hr. Heavy cleaning- inside and out,
washing and ironing a must, organizing
i needed. Two full-year commitment
necessary, training early May, begin work
117-04. Weekend interviews only. Fax
biographical and work info to 979-690-
8075.
: un, prestigious public speaking position.
$7/hr., evenings &Saturdays. Must have
DL 4+years. No criminal records. We
693-3992.
dealthy women and men 18yrs+ not tak-
ng hormonal preparations are invited to
larticipate in behavioral research paying
$10-20 for 1-2hrs of time, for further infor
mation, contact. Dr. Alexander:
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HELP WANTED
NEEDED
Koppe Bridge Bar and Grill. Part-time
cook & counter help. Wellborn and Harvey
Road locations. 764-2933, 776-2833.
Looking for graphic artist/ cartoonist,
Quantum Cow Tutoring. Call 979-260-
COWS, will pay.
Looking for summer work? Make $8,200.
Get 3-hours of college credit. Great re
sume and work experience. Open to all
majors. Contact Marcel 979-218-0084.
Med Tech/Lab Tech for full-time, two doc
tor office. Excellent benefits. Great expe
rience for student applying to medical or
nursing school. Degree and one year
commitment required. Fax resume to
(979)776-4260 or apply in person at: 2706
Osier Blvd., Bryan, TX
MSC Bookstore is now hiring for spring
buyback. Please join us at one of our in
formational meetings: March 29th from
2pm-3pm in MSC 212; March 30th from
3pm-4pm in Koldus 111; or March 31st
from 3pm-4pm in Rudder 410. Interviews
will be set up at the meeting.
Notes-n-Quotes is accepting applications
for outgoing, well-spoken, and self moti
vated store sales people. A&M soph, and
juniors preferred. Positions available im
mediately as well as for summer and fall.
Please come by NNQ at 701 University
Dr. for more details and to apply.
Now hiring servers, 2-lunch shifts/wk and
night and weekends. Apply in person 2-
5pm. Cotton Patch Cafe HW6 at Rock
Prairie.
Office Assistant, Part-Time, Flexible
Schedule. Kristen Dist. Co., distributors of
Miller, Coors & other fine adult beverages
has 1-position avail. 20-30 hours. Duties
include, answer phone, filing, faxing & oth
er various office tasks. Apply in person at
1501 Independence Ave., (979)775-6322
Part time sales assistant needed for Sat
urdays 9am to 1pm, starting immediately.
Must be able to work through the summer,
also dependable and personable. No
phone calls please. Apply in person only
at our College Station location. Party Time
Rentals 1816 Ponderosa Dr.
Part-time in office work consisting of an
swering the phones, light computer work
and light sales of flooring materials. Flexi
ble hours, friendly work place and close to
campus. Call (979)696-8400 or apply in
person at Accent Tile and Texture, 2908
Cain Rd (just south of Wellborn Rd. Koppe
Bridge Bar and Grill).
Part-time job helping handicapped. Male
student preferred. $290/mo. 10-hours
/week. 846-3376.
Pest Control Sales- Dallas top pay 33%
commission, May to end of August can
make you 20-50K, call Mike, 972-353-
2200.
Shift Supervisor and cashiers, flexible
schedules apply 2-5pm Burger King
1719Tx.Av C.S.
STUDENT WORKER. Lynntech Indus
tries, Ltd. has a part-time position availa
ble for a student worker from the Industrial
Distribution department. This position will
assist with shipping and receiving, and in
ventory control tor a small manufacturing
company. Applicants must possess the
ability to work well with others and have
good communication skills and must suc
cessfully complete a pre-employment drug
test. The position to be filled is for a mini
mum of 12hrs/wk, between 8am-5pm
Mon.-Fri. Send resume and times availa
ble to work to 7607 Eastmark Dr. Ste.102,
CS, TX 77840 or email to
studentworkers@lynntech.com. Lynn
tech, Inc. is an EOE.
The Canyon. Now hiring all positions- DJ,
bar, waitstaff, floor, &door. Call 979-696-
3031 for appointment.
The Corner is now hiring Bartenders, Bar-
backs, floor, and door positions. Please
apply in person at 401 UniversityDr. be
tween 2-5pm.
Wanted: Cowboys & Cowgirls to guide
tourists and horses through the Rocky
Mountains. Come work for the largest
horse operation in North America. Write
Sombrero Ranch, 3300 Airport Road,
Boulder, CO 80301 or visit our website at
www.sombrero.com.
Web/ Mobile Technology Developers
Wanted Brazos Technology Corp. hiring
students for web and mobile technology
development. Min. 3.0GPA. CPSC/ INFO/
ELEN majors preferred. Knowledge of
.NET, C++, web development required.
10-20hrs/wk Email
kschmidt@brazostech.com for details.
MOTORCYCLE
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is looking for 20-people interested in los
ing weight before summer break.
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PETS
Adopt Pets: Dogs, Cats, Puppies, Kit
tens, Many purebreds. Brazos Animal
Shelter, 775-5755, www.shelterpets.org
AKC Collies. Puppies born 12/29/03.
$100. Call 936-348-3965.
Female Pit Puppy. 14wks, very sweet,
$50. ASPCA bound if no home found.
936-396-2075.
Yellow labs, 9 weeks, darling, good dispo
sition, first shots, vet exam. Dam is de
scendant of best of show. $180. 979-764-
1124.
REAL ESTATE
Available in May. Newer 16x60-ft MH
w/copper wiring. Near campus. Aggie
owned. Graduated. 2bd/2ba, LR, kitchen
w/14ft frost-free fridge, DR, util., washer,
dryer. Deck. Fenced. Avg trailer payment,
lot rent, utilities: $600/month total. Ideal for
2 students. For picture, balance owed call
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1-M for 2bd/2.5ba condo, on shuttle,
move-in August. $400/mo +1/2bills 979-
695-1268
1-M sublease in 2bdrm/2ba. $250/mo.
Move in/out anytime! Call 832-640-5738.
Ibdrm in 3bdrm apt. $395/mo. all bills in
cluded. For fall and spring. Welsh Ave,
Fox Meadows town homes 847-3036.
IF-Roommate needed ASAP! 4bd/2ba
University Commons Apartments, get your
own bedroom, completely furnished, cable
and ethernet included in rent. $325/mo
+1/4bills. Call 979-764-9998.
2-roommates needed $275/mo each. 3/2
home 5-min from campus. 979-525-6076.
2-roommates wanted. 3bd/2ba 2-car ga
rage in College Station. Large livingroom
with fireplace, large fenced backyard.
Pets welcome, $320/mo +1/3bills. Call
979-739-8380.
2M/F Summer Sublease: 3bd/2ba
$250/mo. +1/4bills May rent paid
(979)695-8141
Available now, non-smoking roommates
for 4/3 new home, 904 Bougainvillea, w/d,
$375/mo. +1/4utilities. Call Jacob at 979-
690-7781 or 512-557-7576.
Available whenever. Rock Prairie and Wei-
born. $280/mo +1/3elect. furnished, w/d,
cable, internet, and TV included. Ping
Pong skills a plus! 713-502-2544.
F-needed. Beautiful 3/2 house in Bryan.
$475/mo all bills included. Available June,
979-260-3952.
F-sublease, Ibd/lba in 4bd/4ba ASAP,
Aggie Station, ends 08/04. Free March/
August rent, $399/mo, private bath, fur
nished, W/D, HBO 713-724-7149.
Female roommate 3/2/2, shuttle, w/d, ca
ble, internet, $350/mo +1/3bills, 210-383-
8524 or 979-695-8074.
M/F Roommate for 3/2 in Bryan $350/mo.
+1/3bills, own bd/ba, lease begins August
979-775-5997
M/F, 2/2 condo, w/d, $400/mo +1/2util. 1-
block from campus, by Northgate. 979-
694-3848.
M/F, roommate needed 2/1.5 $265/mo
+1/2utilities, 1mi. from A&M, C.S. call 691-
6272.
Roommate wanted $300 month, 1/3 bills
free cable/ internet everything furnished
979-224-4400.
Summer sublease; 2bdrms available.
W/D, close to campus, on bus route, cov
ered parking, rent $300/ea. 979-574-
4062.
‘01 Kawasaki Ninja 500, great condition,
$3000. 680-1613, cell- 832-244-8209.
1992 Honda Shadow. Great shape, cus
tom tires Shandlebars, 600cc, 17,500mi,
$2500. (512)818-1807.
1995 Yamaha YZF 600. New clutch, runs
great, $2900. Call 979-823-9142.
1996 Ducati, 900ss, T0K+, new tires, all
maintenance performed, $4800 903-870-
8783 leave message.
‘96 Kawasaki Ninja ZX6 $3700. Izvery-
thing you need for your first bike! 979-492-
6869.
Honda Shadow, 1986. 12,000/mi runs
Great! Very clean, new battery, tire, liquid-
cooled drive shaft, custom windscreen,
$2300, Travis 979-739-5140.
MUSIC
Party Block Mobile DJ- Peter Block, pro
fessional/ experienced. Specializing in
Weddings, TAMU functions, lights/smoke.
Mobile to anywhere. Book early!! 693-
6294. http://www.partyblockdj.com
NEEDED
Can you walk, chew gum, and have fun all
at the same time? Star Ranch is looking
for a few good balancing acts! Are you
looking for a challenging yet fun and re
warding Summer Camp experience? Join
us at Star Ranch, a Christian Summer
camp for children with learning disabilities.
Counselors, Teachers, and Nurses need
ed. Salary, room, board, and laundry pro
vided. Located near Kerrville, call Cody,
830-367-4868.
UNLIMITED Yoga and Pilates! Students
needed for classes at new studio!
www.aggieyoga.com 979-219-3384.
SERVICES
AAA Texas Defensive Driving. Lots-of-
fun, Laugh-a-loti! Ticket dismissal/insur
ance discount. M-T(6pm-9pm), W-
Th(6pm-9pm), Fri.&Sat.- Fri(6pm-8pm)
&Sat(10am-2:30pm), Sat(8am-2:30pm).
Former student serving you 20yrs. In offi
ces above Aggieland Kiva Inn, Ste.200
(next door to Applebee’s). Walk-ins wel
come. $25/cash. Lowest price by law.
104 Texas Ave. S. 846-6117. Show-up
30/min. early.
Free Pregnancy Test; Hope Pregnancy
Centers, College Station 695-9193, Bryan
846-1097; Post Abortion Peer Counseling
695-9193.
Professional Websites- $299. Set-up de
sign fee waived. 10pg. custom website.
1-800-903-3949 ext.670,
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SELL YOUR FURNITURE FOR CASH.
We will buy your used furniture. Quality
Used Furniture 693-8669
TRAVEL
Deep Sea Fishing- Red Snapper Trips
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www.texasdeepsea.com, 361 -649-3954.
TUTORS
im msum n iumi
Algebra and Spanish private tutoring. Call
afterS pm, 979-575-7414.
WANTED
Student organizations for fund raising proj
ects. Earn money for your cause. Send
organization name and contact phone
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call 252-916-4300.
SPORTS 3B
THE BATTALION Thursday, March 25, 2004
Gillispie’s First Aggie War Hymn
JOHN C. LIVAS • THE BATTALION
(From left to right) Texas A&M freshman guard LaKeith
Blanks, freshman forward Marlon Pompey, new head
coach Billy Gillispie and sophomore guard/forward
Antoine Wright sway to "Saw Varsity's Horns Off" at
Reed Arena during Gillispie's first Aggie War Hymn.
Gillispie was named A&M men's basketball head coach
Wednesday, taking over for six-year head coach Melvin
Watkins, who resigned two weeks ago.
Another lousy report card for
NCAA Tournament field
By Jim Litke
THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
If your kids brought home the same lousy report
cards that two-thirds of the 65 teams in the NCAA
men’s tournament did, they’d be grounded for
months. Instead, they’re all going to get new sneak
ers and fistfuls of cash.
Now you know why some of the people who
watch college sports are always mad in March. It
has nothing to do with basketball and everything
to do — stop us if you’ve heard this before — with
money. Those same people figure that if CBS is
paying $6 billion over 11 years to the NCAA, the
schools sharing that loot should be graduating
most of the kids that play for them.
Talk about a radical idea — if it ever catches
on, many in the current crop of student-athletes
would become as extinct as dodos. But pretend,
for the moment, anyway, that the watchdogs
were keeping score.
First the good news: Stanford would score 100,
Lehigh 90, Dayton 82 and Kansas 73. Five other
schools, including those perennial bookworms at
Duke and Vanderbilt, would register in the 60s.
Now the bad: Four other so-called institutions
of higher learning in the field would have a big, fat
zero alongside their names. That’s even harder to
accomplish than it sounds.
The marking period in the NCAA’s latest grad
uation rate report covered scholarship athletes
who entered school between 1993-96 and allowed
each six years to graduate. With that much time,
you’d think at least one phys ed major in one of
those places would have stumbled through the
degree maze by sheer luck. Then again, maybe
there aren’t as many of Jim Harrick Jr.’s exams in
circulation as we thought.
In any case, those four schools weren’t identi
fied in the latest report, because along with a dozen
others, they took advantage of a loophole created
by new federal privacy rules and avoided publicly
reporting any graduation rates at all. No matter.
There is enough disgrace to go around.
Another 40 schools that made the tournament
field failed to graduate even half their kids, a num
ber that trails the national average by a few percent
age points. Ditto for at least four teams in the Sweet
16 (and maybe more, since only 11 of the 16 schools
still playing published their graduation rates).
And then there’s this: If a 50 percent gradua
tion rate was required for postseason eligibility
— something the do-gooders on the Knight
Commission proposed in 2001 — exactly three
first-round games would have gone off with the
lineups on the floor: Gonzaga vs. Valparaiso,
North Carolina vs. Air Force, and Mississippi
State vs. Monmouth.
But it gets worse.
On the Boston Globe’s Web site last week,
columnist Derrick Z. Jackson broke down the
numbers for African-Americans on scholarship.
He found the 37 schools that hid behind the priva
cy rules to avoid publishing their 2003 graduation
rates for blacks averaged just 19.7 percent in the
2002 report. No surprise there, since 13 of the 37
had black graduation rates of zero in 2002.
“When we bring kids to our campuses and fail to
educate them in the numbers we’re seeing here,” said
Richard Lapchick, who heads the Institute for
Diversity and Ethics in Sport at the University of
Central Florida, “all we’re doing is using them up.”
The search for a scapegoat usually lands on
the doorstep of the NCAA, conveniently forget
ting the organization simply administers the poli
cies set by member schools. University presi
dents have been calling those shots for almost 10
years, and as the latest numbers prove, the pace
of reform is still at a crawl.
At first, with initiatives like Prop 48, they tried
to raise graduation rates by putting the burden
squarely on the kids’ shoulders. Those moves
nudged the rates upward, but not nearly enough.
And with new chief Myles Brand feeling the heat
from a lengthening list of embarrassments —
everything from conference raids to recruiting
scandals and “Coaches Gone Wild” videos have
landed on his desk — a consensus is finally
emerging to hold the schools accountable instead.
This latest mess has already convinced the
NCAA to force members to report their 2003
graduation rates in full. That voluntary compli
ance will allow the organization to sidestep fed
eral restrictions and make the information public
late this summer.
“Without continued full publication of the
graduation rates — especially those at the low end
— we will lose the ability to expose those athlet
ics programs which are failing to educate their stu
dent-athletes,” Brand said.
Even more promising than public pressure,
though, is the so-called “incentive-disincentive”
proposal that will be put to a vote by the NCAA
board in late April. As currently envisioned, the
graduation rate for scholarship athletes would
have to be within a few percentage points of the
general student body or schools would face penal
ties ranging from a warning, to loss of scholar
ships, and possibly even a ban on postseason play.
Assuming the measure is approved, another
four years likely would pass before the penalties
were phased in. It’s a long way away, but it’s a
start. And as any parent would tell you, it’s never
too early to make kid stick his nose in a book.
Byrne
Continued from page 1 B
Watkins never could.
Gillispie is well respected
throughout the state, and he also
has a coaching pedigree learned
under current University of
Kansas head coach Bill Self.
Self transformed the
University of Tulsa from relative
obscurity into a top-10 team and
NCAA Tournament regular. Self
then took over at the University
of Illinois, leading the Fighting
Illini to three-straight NCAA
Tournament appearances before
moving onto Kansas.
Gillispie was with Self for
three of those seasons at Tulsa
and two at Illinois, learning the
game and how to coach it from
one of the best in the business.
At UTEP Gillispie showed
what he had learned from Self,
coaching in much the same
style and turning around a
mediocre program like UTEP.
Now Gillispie finds himself
trying to turn around A&M, a
ship that three coaches have
attempted to right. All have failed.
But Kermit Davis, Tony
Barone and Melvin Watkins all
had something in common - an
athletic department that frankly
didn’t care about anything
except football.
In Gillispie’s case, he has
Byrne and A&M President
Robert M. Gates, who both want
champions in every Aggie sport.
It’s evident that Byrne will
do everything in his power to
allow Gillispie to succeed
where the others have failed.
If Gillispie fails as well, then
Byrne will always have the
legacy of the man who let
Aggie basketball sink into col
lege basketball’s abyss.
Students
Continued from page 1 B
last in every Big 12 team
defensive category except
rebounding last season.
“I’ve watched a couple of
UTEP games and noticed the
strong defensive presence they
have on the court,” Bishop said.
“I think if Gillespie turns
around our defense, we just
might win a few more games.”
Aggie fans will have to
wait until the basketball sea
son starts in early November
to see Gillispie's new program
in action.
“I don’t care if Gillispie's
playbook has our players run
ning in circles around the other
team while singing the Oscar
Meyer song,” said junior busi
ness major Casey Crisp. “If it
gets wins, it gets wins.”