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Page 10 THE BATTALION WEDNESDAY, JUNE 16, 1976 PLAY BINGO IN UPTO *1,000 $1,000 WINNER MRS. BETTY MARTIN BRYAN, TEXAS $100.00 WINNER MRS. ELAINE O’NEAL COLLEGE STATION ODDS CHART as of JUNE 3. 1976 1-LB. OOC PKG. BLUE BONNET MARGARINE quarters PATIO DINNERS .!pkg. 49* ELSIE STIX CONTADINA POPSICLES FUDGSICLES DREAMSICLES NIFTEE BARS Tomato Sauce PA* 39* OO 3 n £an USDA GRADE A FRESH WHOLE FRYERS YOUR CHOICE U.S.D.A. GRADE A WHOLE OR U.S.D.A. INSP. MIXED PARTS USDA CHOICE HEAVY BEEF BLADE CUT .... s to 10 assorted center CridPS AND END CHOPS BEEF CHUCK STEAK LARGE 21/4” SIZE FRESH PEACHES SOUTHERN PEACHE| o - aVQ . ^ 49 WATERMELONS^ Will go on Rhodes scholarship By LISA JUNOD Battalion Campus Editor Paul Hasse belies the traditional Aggie joke book image of a stoop shouldered, flat-headed cadet. He’s an easy-going, fun-loving guy, a typ ical college student, yet his accom plishments have earned him one of the highest honors accorded Ameri can scholars - a prestigious Rhodes scholarship. Hasse, twenty-one years old, will sail for England after graduating from A&M in August. There he will spend two or three years in graduate study at Oxford Univer sity, all expenses paid, and will re ceive a monthly allowance of $250. Mention Oxford University, and immediately visions of ivy-covered walls, vaulted ceilings and carefully manicured lawns spring to mind. The university, founded in 1168, has long been considered one of the world’s leading educational institu tions. When Cecil J. Rhodes in 1899 provided in his will for the scholarships he intended to encour age in American students “an at tachment to the country from which they have sprung. ” Hasse anticipates no difficulties in becoming attached to the spacious, high-ceilinged room he will occupy at Pembroke College, the division of the university he will attend. Nor is he worried about weathering the chilling English winters, with his own fireplace in his private room and a butler to bring him steaming hot tea each morning. As an Oxford scholar, Paul will not be required to attend any lec tures, but must attend a weekly tutorial session. He will also be re quired to submit a paper each week to his tutor, who will examine it to insure that his studies are moving in the right direction. Other than the weekly papers, students are pretty much on their own, until the end of the two-year study period when a comprehensive 7 to 10 day exam is required before the bestowment of the Oxford B.A. degree. Actually, students spend less than six months attending school at Ox ford. During the rest of the year they are free to travel about as they please. Hasse believes that the $250 monthly allowance he will receive will cover living expenses, but he doesn’t think it will take him very far when it comes to traveling. “I must be one of the first poor Rhodes scholars,” Hasse said. “I di dn’t realize how poor I was until I got a letter from Oxford concerning proper modes of dress. The letter said I should of course bring several dark suits for meals and a tuxedo for occasional functions and more for mal dining. Tuxedo! I had to buy a suit just to go for the interview. Ac cording to my calculations it’s going to cost me at least $2,000 before I ever get over there, and that’s with transportation paid!” Hasse said. Hasse said that he comes from a hard-working family, but hasn’t ever had much money for luxuries. When Oxford sent him a note suggesting that he forward $600 to book passage on the Queen Elizabeth II for the trip to England, he immediately went to the bank and took out a loan. to attend Oxford “It’s rather ironic. Less than 100 years ago my great-great- grandparents arrived in America as deathly poor Irish immigrants after sailing over on a packet boat, and here I am sailing back on the Queen Elizabeth,” Hasse mused. Hasse said he first became con vinced that he was out-classed when he met the other 11 Rhodes finalists from Texas at the interviews in Houston this spring. “I was lucky to be chosen. I didn’t think I stood the chance of the proverbial snowflake, and the more I saw of the other candidates the more convinced I became that I was way out of my league, ” Hasse said. Firmly convinced that he didn’t stand a chance, Hasse said that he attended the interviews in Houston “only out of common courtesy” and stayed to hear the results out of curiosity. Paul Hasse H asse said that the interviews were held on the Rice University campus in a cavernous building with huge wooden doors, polished mar ble floors and a spiral staircase in the center. Two chairs sat at the top of the staircase, and as an applicant’s name was called he would rise, climb the stairs, and take a seat in one of the stiff-backed chairs. There he would sit for more than an hour while two of the other candidates agonized through their interviews. Eventually the huge doors at the end of a long corridor opened, a booming voice called out his name, and he walked nervously toward the conference room, his footsteps echoing down the empty hall. Yet Hasse remained very calm about the interview; in fact, he said he didn’t feel the least bit nervous. “Usually I’m a lump of protop lasm in that kind of situation, hut I didn’t think I stood a chance. After the interviews I spent a few hours looking through an art museum, then I walked back over to the cam pus to find out who was chosen. Some of the guys who had really gotten tense during the interviews had been pacing the floors there for hours, but they froze in their tracks when our names were called out. “The official congratulations I re ceived were very formal, almost cold. A gentleman with a briefcase in his hand walked up to me, shook my hand and said, ’See you in New Orleans next Saturday’,’’ Hasse said. Two students were chosen in Houston to represent Texas in the regional competition, Hasse and Peter Larson, a TCU student. Win ners from a six state region under went more intensive interviewing in New Orleans, where the final Rhodes selections were made. Hasse said that he really felt in ferior in New Orleans, where most of the applicants had “resumes as long as your arm.” “Houston was a nightmare but New Orleans was worse. After meeting the 11 other candidates I had mentally ranked myself as about number 10,” Hasse said. He added that the interviews in New Orleans took so long that the candidates were thrown out of their hotel rooms and had to sit wi th tl leir suitcases piled around them await ing the results. Once again, Hasse was very surprised to find himself a winner, and said that he went into the interview room to find a tele phone so he could call his parents. “The place was a mess. There were cigarette butts, shreds of paper and smoke all over the place - it looked like the party had been going on for three weeks,” Hasse said. Hasse believes that one of the main reasons he was chosen as a Rhodes scholar was the skill and reputation he has developed as a filmmaker. “I’ve been making films since I was waist-high,” Hasse said. “After graduating from Thomas Jefferson High School in Dallas I enrolled in Southern Illinois Uni versity, thinking I’d learn some thing about filmmaking. I wound up - at 17 years old - teaching the course,” he added. Hasse began his filming career with a neighbor’s borrowed home movie camera back in 1967, and since then has won the Kodak Na tional Film Competition three times. “I experimented; I did things that weren’t being done at the time, especially by kids, ” Hasse said. “I went my own way - I was de termined that nobody could tell me how to make a movie. It’s easier for me to watch my older films now that some time has passed. I can watch them and say, ‘Not bad for a 15- year-old kid...’ But stuff I did last year, I can’t even open my eyes when it’s running,” he said. One of Hasse s biggest projects was a film he made for the Clark Foundation on enzyme linkage. After high school graduation Hasse was hired by the University of Texas at Dallas on a research grant to make the film. The animated color film, which was produced with the aid of a computer, took nearly the entire summer to complete. While a freshman at Southern Il linois University, Hasse created the film “La Reve” which is still used by SIU as the exemplary student film and is catalogued in the Library of Congress. Hasse made the film after instructing a filmmaking course at the universtity, and intended itasi parody of student films. eutiallv ke hyd “Everything bad I’d ever seen j ecurbe student films, I put into La Reve,’ Hasse said, chuckling. living a nd Will “1 filmed it on the eighth flooroli ig the hospital, and the final printwai black and white but with ablueii cast to it. The title is French forile eras L( dream” hut the film was more lifeBolesal nightmare. Jiuiemi Hasse said that at the screening jd Loi rvctatii The f the film he and his friends sat ini hack row snickering before even started rolling. But after it laj ie Com ended there was complete silenaii jAusti the theater. “It was deathly still. I thoughtinl minute everyone would either 1®! out laughing or turn aroundl; wring my neck, hut theyjustsal there, spellbound, until one professors rose, spread his armsani declared. Brilliant!’ Hasse The audience agreed, praisinj loustoi Hasse for his inspired treatment^ if Tex; the subject and brilliant symbolisut Hasse has also worked for Olii Engineering making sales films.Hi boss at Otis was astounded by Is jwp Si I AUST relea; "This Estati tred a relopmi The i leetric Whil 1 AMT niles ol ate rail km a Hey ha lerninj itock, iires ai las littl Tex a tonom ion In: He asp ram tl wade i ievelo] “In itandar parts n iroject iammo cationa inform: rossini ivay sy: admini' lions." Initi: ;ind of (d wh iisteni filmmaking skill while he wort® there, he had to lay a Russia [exasA soundtrack over an American life leopei that be d made. Hasse didwlil Russian interpreters termed an i cellent” job, all without speaking! word of Russian. The films werei* first two American sales films toap- pear in Russia. Hasse worked for Otis Engineer ing for nearly a year, after being f orced to drop out of school ani work because he could not obi financial aid. Hasse said he came to A&M several reasons, but mainly becara it was economical and offeredoned the best pre-med programs around Originally Hasse had planned to it- emim tend med school, but recently switched his major to philosoph and intends to continue his work Oxford. “Rhodes applicants are egomaniacs or totally naive, iwasu the latter category,” Hasse “A lot of people don’t knowwk a Rhodes scholar is. It’s sort of the Vice-President - I ve never one, I know they exist... In my household, we sort of grew u] the words echoing in the! Hasse said. How does Hasse fit in withtk image of a Rhodes scholar as anal around athlete? “I ve jumped in the watera(fi times, and we’ve got a volley in the backyard, but I’m certainly no O.J. Simpson ,” he said. “I think Rhodes stressed tbeiii portance of physical fitness bear ■ he didn’t want his scholars droppi! dead right after they got their If lomas,” he said. Although Hasse has overall GPR, he c laims he is oneofll world’s worst studiers and is bon for cramming the night befor exams. “I’m famous for all-nighters, used to worry a lot about gradi while I was pre-med - my stomad was tied in knots for two years, lately I’m not as tense...” Still, Hasse has made onlytwoBs in his college career and vividlyre- calls one of them that he madeini radio broadcast course at SIU “As part of our course require merit we had to record an interviM with someone. All the othertt were interviewing their and friends, so I decided tod* something different,” Hasses Tape recorder in hand, hev into a crowded auditorium in St Louis, Mo., approached entertainer Vincent Price before a public ap pearance at a symphony there and asked him for an interview. Prit< consented, and Hasse proceeded!! fling 3 1/2 pages of questions at tie entertainer. Finally Hasse ranoutol questions, thanked Price forth interview and left. He found a vac ant seat in the auditorium, satdoin and recorded the entire symphony over the tape he had Price’s inter view on. Hasse showed up in the next day without an intervie*, and received a B in the course “But I still have Price’s autog- raph,” he said. ’eliabil “Sim over tl sponsil occur passer plainer “For are gra SHOP THE SHACK® FOR CB RADIOS AND ACCESSORIES! T GREAT GIFTS FOR DAD! 102" STAINLESS STEEL BODY MOUNT TWIN TRUCKERS II STAINLESS STEEL 42” FIBERGLASS NO-HOLE TRUNK MOUNT 21-942 21-926 102" FIBERGLASS BUMPER MOUNT 44” STAINLESS STEEL NO-HOLE TRUNK MOUNT 18” . STAINLESS STEEL GUTTER CLAMP 21 95 21-908 17 95 21-909 SAVE *10 IN STOCK NOW! 23-CHANNEL MOBILE CB 2-WAY RADIO NOW 159 95 Our noise blanker IRC 24C puts you in the CB action! With all cry stals, dynamic mike. 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