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Drunk bus Luncheon
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your work application looks
awful, he said.
The plan is for the bus to
start running on March 25,
the Thursday after Spring
Break. It will run on Thurs-
day nights, Denton's busiest
bar night, from 10:45 p.m.
to 2:45 a.m. at a cost of $1
per student. Rivas said that
when a stronger demand for
the bus route arises, he will
expand it to Friday and Sat-
urday nights.
Rivas has received nods
from the bars but is currently
working on getting the con-
tracts signed. The major is-
sue that is still in the works
is liability. Liability and other
legalities are some reasons
why LINK, Denton's public
transportation system, and
the NT Transportation Ser-
vices were uninterested in
supporting the program.
"I think it's awesome - it's
convenient and safe," said
Brandy Johnson, Midland
graduate student. "For $1,
it's worth it."
NT does have Night Rider,
an evening transportation
service that runs around the
campus from 5:30 p.m. to
2:30 a.m. Sunday through
Thursday. The bus has one
stop near Fry Street, but it is
not intended for bar trans-
portation.
"We're not here to take
kids to the bars," said Joe
Richmond, assistant director
of NT's Transportation Ser-
vices. "We're here to provide
transportation to the stu-
dents."
Even with a few setbacks,
Rivas will continue on his
quest of getting students
home safely.
"I'm saddened that the
city of Denton didn't support
me," Rivas said. "Hopefully
the students will," Rivas
said.
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Mexico. The Grameen Bank
has instituted micro lending
programs all over the world,
for which very small loans are
given to help lift people out
of extreme poverty. Grameen
means "rural"
or "village" in ^m
the Bangla lan-
guage.
Spencer said
three million
borrowers are
women and 94
percent of them
borrow from
the Grameen
Bank.
"It's impor-
tant to know
that this is
women help-
ing women," she said. "Sta-
tistics have shown that when
women have extra income
they spend it on expenses re-
Avant
lated to the entire family."
Barbara Rodman, of the Eng-
lish faculty, said she is partici-
pating in the luncheon because
of her long-standing interest
in working with the Grameen
Bank. She
has been
involved
in a group
called Re-
sults, which
lobbies for
foreign bills
to provide
for agen-
cies, like
the Gra-
meen Band.
She has
also been
involved
with a Unitarian Universalist
group that has an alliance to
support the Grameen Bank.
"I hope I can talk to some
"Statistics have
shown that when
women have extra
income they spend it
on expenses related
to their entire family."
- Dr. Sandra Spencer
Director
Women's Studies Program
people that don't know much
about the Grameen Bank
and share my knowledge
and excitement about how it
can change the lives of other
people," she said. "I hope that
they learn about a very im-
portant and exciting project
in which an individual, even
with a small amount of mon-
ey, can change the world."
Spencer said she believes in
the proverb "to whom much
is given, much is required,"
because she believes women
who are educated about pov-
erty should do something
about it.
"If you have education, a
good job and the knowledge
that people need help, you
need to make that happen,"
she said. "The Chiapas Project
is a good example of a group
of women that have perceived
a problem and found a way."
Suicide bombers kill at least 143
Iraqis; U.S. says militants seek war
BAGHDAD, Iraq (AP)
- Suicide bombers set off
simultaneous attacks on
Shiite Muslim shrines
crowded with pilgrims in
two Iraqi cities Tuesday,
killing at least 143 people
and turning the holiest day
on the Shiite calendar into
the bloodiest since the fall
of Saddam Hussein.
Unofficial casualty re-
ports, however, put the toll
in Baghdad and Karbala
as high as 223. At least 430
were wounded. Authorities
said there were about a doz-
en bombers in those cities
as well as in Basra, several
of whom were captured be-
fore they were able to deto-
nate their explosives.
U.S. officials and Iraqi
leaders named an al-Qaida-
linked militant, Abu Musab
al-Zarqawi, as a "prime
suspect" for the attacks,
saying he seeks to spark a
Sunni-Shiite civil war to
wreck U.S. plans to hand
over power to the Iraqis on
June 30.
But some Shi i tes lashed
out at U.S. forces. Iraq's
most powerful Shiite cleric,
Grand Ayatollah Ali al-
Hussein al-Sistani, blamed
the Americans for not pro-
viding security.
Shiite, Sunni and Kurd-
ish members of Iraq's
U.S.-appointed Governing
Council pleaded with Iraq-
is to remain united - an at-
tempt to avert reprisals
Grant
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bility that he may not be able
to attend.
"Artists have mishaps and
changes in their schedules all
the time," said Ron King, co-
owner of DallasPeeps.com.
"This isn't the first time an art-
ist had to reschedule."
Chris Thomas, program ad-
viser for the UPC, shares this
sentiment.
"This was like putting a
quarter in a slot machine,"
Thomas said. "Either you
strike it big or you lose a quar-
ter."
Avant was scheduled to
arrive in Dallas by noon on
Tuesday and was to visit NT
after appearing at Paul Quinn
College. But due to flight de-
lays, he would not arrive in
Dallas until 4 a.m. on Wednes-
day morning, Thomas said.
"This is all a surprise to
us," said Damian Hicks, staff
sponsor for Music Influences
Culture. "We're really disap-
pointed."
King said plans are being
made with Universal Records
to accommodate disappointed
students at NT.
"We will be meeting to find
some kind of way to compen-
sate everyone who planned
on attending the event and
changed their schedules to
come," he said.
However, Thomas said
some good could come out of
this situation.
"Everyone I met with was
excited about doing some-
thing like this for the stu-
dents," he said.
Because NT students
showed such an interest in
the meet-and-greet, the uni-
versity is considering doing
more programs like this in the
future.
"Avant has shown how sor-
ry he is for this, and wants to
reschedule, but we are moving
on," said Raphiel Buckley, di-
rector of operations for MIC.
Music Influences Culture
is bringing R&B group ATL to
TWU on Friday. ATL's singles
"Calling all Girls" and "We
Just Wanna Love You" were
both chart-toppers in recent
weeks and have been seen on
MTV7 and BET's 106 and Park.
As in the case with the Avant
meet-and-greet, the event is
free.
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Engineering but open to other
NT departments. Along with
intense magnification power,
the microscope will be able
to be remotely controlled
through the Internet.
"Someone from UT-Arling-
ton could use our facilities as
long as someone put a sample
on for them," he said.
Garcia also intends to use
the microscope for recruiting
purposes.
"We hope to go to high
schools and wow their stu-
dents and get them into our
technology and engineering
department," he said.
According to Garcia, the mi -
croscope should be delivered
anywhere from six months to
a year from now.
"It takes a certain amount
of time because these ma-
chines are built to order," he
said. "They are too expensive
to just build."
Garcia also said, the fund-
ing for the microscope was
procured by Rep. Michael
Burgess.
"It was Congressman Bur-
gess who took it to Congress
saying that we had the capa-
bilities," Garcia said. "The
Department of Defense sup-
ports basic material science
research."
"From the start, it was clear
that the University of North
Texas had foresight in start-
ing the Center for Advanced
Research and Technology,"
Burgess said. "Located in my
congressional district, I know
that these crucial funds will
help accelerate CART's vari-
ous research efforts in the
materials, computer and en-
gineering sciences which will
inevitably produce new, high-
tech products."
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