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mm MSG. HOSPITALITY A SERVICE ORGANIZATION We’ve got your stuff. Come buy it back! Lost & Found Auction April 7th 1 lam-2pm MSC Flagroom Come early for the good stuff!! For more information call 845-1515 or visit hospitality.tamu.edu ^ STUDENT GOVERNMENT ASSOCIATION TEXAN A AM UNIVERSITY LECTION OMMISSION ef szf l^f s/f szf isf s?f s?f szf szf VOTE TODAY 5^S2f®f(Sfs^S2fS2f5^2fS^SZf!2fszfs^ ...for Student Body Runoff Elections April 7 ,h and 8 ,h - 9AM to 5PM Vote at the MSC, Commons, Sbisa, West Campus Library, Rec, and vote.tamu.edu Lion king - ^ OPENS TON KiHT! SAVE $4 ON TICKETS - TONIGHT ONLY! (Excludes Front Row and VIP seats. No double discounts.) Sun. APR. 11 ? SPECIAL PRESHOW EASTER BRUNCH! Contact Reed Arena Box Office for more informotion. Reed Arena TEXAS A&M UNIVERSITY Wed. Thu. Fri. Sat. Sun. APR. 7 APR. 8 APR. 9 APR. 10 APR. 11 7:30 PM 7:30 PMt 7:30 PM 11:30 AMt 3:30 PMt 7:30 PM 3:00 PM Buy tickets at www.disneyonice.com ticketmaster Ticket Centers, including Foleys, Arena Box Office or coll (979) 268-0414 TICKET PRICES: $50 Front Row - $25 VIP - $15 - $10 (Service charges and handling fees may apply; no service charge at Arena Dax Office.) Wednesday, April 7, 2004 Class for sale AGGIElt THE BATTAli Student put seats in class up for grabs on eBa By Jennifer Peltz KRT CAMPUS U DAVIE, Fla. — Nova Southeastern University prides itself on teaching entrepreneurship and offering what a magazine survey called the nation’s most technologically wired law school. So when first-year law student Ryan Vescio got himself a spot in prominent professor Bruce Rogow’s coveted constitutional law II class next fall, what did he do? Put it up for auction on eBay. “Rogow’s Constitutional Law 2 Class” appeared this week on the virtual auction block, sandwiched between AA batteries and a com memorative stamp panel. Vescio offered to trade classes with “the lucky winner” of a semester with Rogow, known for representing the Palm Beach County Canvassing Board in the 2000 presidential elec tion dispute and celebrity lawyer F. Lee Bailey in his disbarment, among other high-profile clients. The auction was, Vescio says, intended just to lighten the mood at a school clenched with pre-exam tension. “We study about all these serious, stern top ics, and everybody, I think, needs to just have a joke now and then,” said Vescio, 23, who grew up in Melbourne, Fla., and graduated from the University of Central Florida last year. school administration told Vescio Wednesday to cease anddesi He promptly did. “We were impressed by the entrepreneurial nature of iU; offended ... that this is making a mockery of what is a serioi attempt to create equal opportunities to take classes,” said is ciate dean Pat Jason. Rogow couldn’t be reached Thursday Registration in the roughly $23,OOO-a-jn Joust We were impressed by the entrepreneurial nature of it, but offended ... that this is making a mockery of what is a serious attempt to create equal opportunities to take classes. program generally is first-come, first-sene; with some preferences for a given sequent! courses. Night students get preference in nightxom es. and day students in day ones. A student can’t assign his orherspottoi classmate, though students have beenknon: try to trade through well-timed droppings adding To Jason, the auction strained the boun!- anes of l aw Center rules calling for “prots^ferem sional” conduct, particularly since heusei school’s e-mail system to spread the word his auction. Vescio sent out an e-mail apology — Pat Jason associate dean of Nova Southeastern University rimrsday. Jason said administratorsdont[i holdii disciplinary action against him but students to stop soliciting class swaps lb, school e-mail. eBay generally would stop a sale sucli \ cm io s. questioning whether the sellertoM^t w owned the item and could deliver it inef required 30 days, said spokesman Kevie But to Vescio’s surprise, some fellow students took his joke seriously. The offer drew 19 bids of up to $225 before the law Purseglove. But with about I2 million items for sale in a givt day. the online auction service often doesn’t spot a question^ offer until alerted to it. he said. Th omp in o-: ;wo vi Th itiom 12-E “It each little becau the jo Th er tha ing l: in the “V Houst really are re Th the fn NEWS IN BRIEF Pennsylvanians must pay parking tickets or risk car seizure BLOOMSBURG, Pa. (AP) — Officials in this northeastern Pennsylvania town have a message for scofflaws: Pay your parking tickets, or the next car you buy may be your own. Police Chief Leo Sokoloski asked a court Thursday to give the town title to five vehicles that were seized for repeated, unpaid parking violations. Sokoloski said none of the cars were ever reclaimed by their owners, even during “amnesty" programs that allow forgiveness of parking fines. It costs the town $5 per day to store each vehicle. The owner of one of the vehicles, Michael Hess, signed over his 1988 Isuzu Trooper to the town instead of paying more than S3,000 in parking fines, saying he had been out of work and had only recently gained employ ment again. The other four owners, at least three of whom are alleged to owe more than $2,000 each in fines, did not show up in court. Police capture man videotaping Pasadena production PASADENA, Calif. (AP) — One person apparently thought the Pasadena Playhouse’s stage production of “Dirty Blonde” was worth immortalizing. Police were called to the theater Sunday after a man was caught illegally videotap ing an afternoon performance about the actress Mae West, officials^: Lead actress Claudia Shear noticed: man videotaping, came down from: stage and asked the man for the tape.a he refused to turn it over, said Playtiots spokesman Ken Novice. “The audience then got into the a® and began chanting ’Give backfe tape!”’ he said. After police were called to the tale the man turned over the tape aim escorted away, Novice said. Polices the problem was resolved witfiouth dent. Novice said Playhouse officials will ask police to charge the man, not identified, with illegal videotaping^ man told officials he arrived late audit not hear the announcement or sees written notice in the program wa« against videotaping, Novice said A Ha from i will ( Wedn Texas stiw^ Univi BOTH LOCATIONS POST OAK MALL & SOUTHGATE « sauTtems, sat- Apr" AGGIELAND OUTFITTERS LOOK FOR OUR TENT AT SOUTHGATE IT'S COMING... PARENT'S WEEKEND C.C. CREATIONS APRIL 15th-18th 693-9664 ext. fg.
