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McDonald’s Continued from page 1 exterior,” Hoover said. “(The new McDonald’s) will also be expanded (in overall area).” Mike Doyle of the McDonald's Corporation said that, instead of a Play-Place, they are looking to put in a game room with video games, foos-ball tables and Wi-Fi computer access. It would be one of few similar McDonald’s around the nation, he said. “We would like a game room with many age groups in mind,” Doyle said. “The details are still being sorted out.” Hoover said the crew working on the construction likes the plans and so will the customers. The building will also be safe and well-lit, he said. “The new building will be very nice,” Hoover said. “The streetscape and overall presentation will be a great change for the city.” Rob Rinn, a senior wildlife and fisheries science major, said having to drive to the other McDonald’s on George Bush Drive to get his Big Mac and fries is a hassle, but that he is confident it will be worth the wait. “Being able to chat (online) with my friends and eat McDonald’s in the same place will be awesome,” Rinn said. “I just hope I don’t get the keyboard all greasy.” NEWS IN BRIEF Security worries just another hurdle for Iraqi Olympians BAGHDAD, Iraq — Haidar All Lazem doesn’t fear much on the mat. Iraq's Olympic hopeful in judo has won 13 championships and dreams of win ning a medal at the Athens Games. Off the mat is another story. While other Olympic athletes worry about eating right, getting enough rest and fine-tuning their training regimes, Lazem and the 30 other Iraqis who will compete at the games spend much of their time worrying about getting shot, or worse. “We’re athletes," said Lazem, who was working out alongside a few boxers at an indoor basketball court. “If it was easy, then there would be no challenge." Even getting to Athens could be an ordeal for Lazem. To catch a flight to Japan, where he will complete his training, he left Tuesday on a 620- mile drive to Amman, Jordan, a route filled with roadside bombs, mines, bandits and kidnappers. “I don't like to complain,” Lazem said, "but things could be better." Israel hits militant headquart with two airstrikes, five wound By Mark Lavie THE ASSOCIATED PRESS JERUSALEM — Israeli missiles twice hit a house in a Gaza refugee camp on the beach, wounding a militant Palestinian leader and four other people, a spokesman for a Palestinian group said. The two airstrikes, one on Monday afternoon and the other after midnight on Tuesday, targeted the same house in the Shati refugee camp next to Gaza City on the Mediterranean, according to witnesses and a spokesman for the Popular Resistance Committee. White smoke rose into the sky from the building, and a large crowd quickly gath ered around the house at the Shati refugee camp next to Gaza City after the afternoon strike, which wounded three people, including the commit tee’s leader, Abed Quka. Two more people were wounded in the second airstrike, hospital workers said. The Israeli military refused to comment on either attack. During four years of conflict, Israeli helicopters have targeted dozens of Palestinian buildings and vehicles in Gaza, aiming for militant leaders, headquar ters and weapons workshops. In Gaza City, the Popular Resistance Committee spokes man Abu Abir said the airstrike was aimed at a house used by Abed Quka, the group's leader in northern Gaza. He was wounded in the attack, but his condition was not known. There was no word on the iden tities of the others wounded. The Popular Resistance Committee is an umbrella group of militants who left other Palestinian factions. Its militants do not answer to out side authorities and often carry out attacks against the wishes of others. Some believe the group was responsible for killing three American security guards in a diplomatic convoy in the Gaza Strip last October. No arrests have been made in the bomb ing, and the U.S. govern has expressed dissatisfy with the Palestinian inqui" In Tel Aviv, the Ali Martyrs’ Brigades _ai itant group linked to ffl _ in the West Bank claii responsibility for killing: trict court judge late Mot; Justice Minister Joseph! said it was the first I Israel’s history that a had been killed. Baylor president defends recori By Angela K. Brown THE ASSOCIATED PRESS U WACO, Texas —Amid critics’ repeated calls to oust him, Baylor University’s president said Tuesday that he remains confident in how he is leading the world’s largest Baptist university. “I am president of the univer- sity and I intend to continue to serve in that capacity ... at the will of our board,” Robert Sloan Jr. told The Associated Press on Tuesday. “I have a sense of call ing about the work I do. I wake up every morning excited about seeing Baylor go forward.” He said he did not want to speculate about what university regents might do when they meet Wednesday through Friday on the Waco campus. But the Committee to Restore Integrity to Baylor says more than half of the 36 regents are I am president of the university and I intend to continue to serve in that capacity. — Robert Sloan )r. president, Baylor University ready to fire Sloan, the subject of two no-confidence votes by the faculty senate in less than a year. Critics say Baylor is suffering from a nearly $250 million debt, tuition increases and enrollment decline. “It’s a lack of administrative integrity and leadership ... and financial irresponsibility,” said Bill Carden, president of the committee, profit organization with about 1, including alumni and former regents. The group incorrectly predicted Sloan’sd er last fall, when regents voted 31-4 torc Sloan as president, and in May, when e voted 18-17 to retain him. But Carden said; Sloan sentiment has that three of the board’s res have changed since May. A vote on Sloan’s futurei on this week’s agenda,butB; regents chairman Will D. I said a member could call lot a vote during the board’sbus meeting Friday. Davis said he does not! how many regents oppose but that he supports him. “He has a great visit what he wants the universit become,” Davis, an Austin ney, said Tuesday. 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Blitt is a painter and sculp tor, who said she previously had a workshop at A&M, and decided to lend the University the two large sculptures. Unlike other statues on cam pus, such as the victory eagle at Cain Park, the sculptures the Visual Arts Committee are bringing to campus are more abstract, Jurewicz said. “ I think that it beautifies the campus and makes it unique,” said Katrina Amos, a senior ag journalism major, in reference to the sculptures on campus. Novak said he estimates the visual arts gallery will have more than 20,000 visitors this year. Jurewicz said the Arts Committee, wh approximately 30 bers, is at A&M to sp lulled u art awareness throughoif campus and community, wants Blift’s work to raise this interest. “Any type of art, esp(( art that’s abstract and# that causes people to will be very influential! campus that is iso those kind of influences don’t live in a Mecca( Jurewicz said. has bet in agrit Perhaps campus to bott Franchi Afte night at I felt a student: euphori to the p Aftei few jok includet But my dos sheet hi the nigl Fran football than 30 The fanatics would b cuff in 1 of the s With ques the Advance tickets highly suggested Available at Cavender's Beat City a g® Tradition's Bookstore I LINCOLN SQUARE Free Rent Or Special Rates 1 & 2 Bedroom Apartments, Internet Available Starting at $395 lincolnsquareapts.com 313 Lincoln, College Station 693-2720 Thf Rattat 1(1! i nr, u/ii i AJLiui Joshua Hobson, Editor in Chief The Battalion (ISSN #1055-4726) is published daily, Monday througti Friday during the fall andspiiif ters and Monday through Thursday during the summer session (except University holidays and exam in Texas A&M University. 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