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jo jje p&j&iseiu seif <oopnr. Records (KTAM) Singles 1 Escape — Rupert Holmes 2. Enough Is Enough — Streisand, Summer 3’ This Is It— Kenny Loggins 4 Ships — Barry Manilow 5 Heartache Tonight— Eagles 6. Babe - Styx 7 Cool Change — Little River Band 8. We Don’t Talk— Cliff Richard 9 Only Lonely—J D' Souther 10. / Want You—Pablo Cruise 11! Better Love — Dr. Hook 12. Lost Her— John Stewart 13 Take the Long Way Home — Supertramp 14 Do It To Me — Captain & Tenille 1 5 ; send One Your— Stevie Wonder Albums 1. Hydra —Toto 2. In Through the Out Door — Led Zeppelin 3. Cornerstone — Styx 4. Tusk — Fleetwood Mac 5. Night in the Ruts — Aerosmith 6. Freedom At Point Zero — Jefferson Starship 7. Suzi and Other Four Letter Words — Suzi Quatro 8. The Long Run — Eagles 9. Dream Police — Cheap Trick 10. Phoenix — Dan Fogelberg 11. A Curious Feeling — Tony Banks 12. Puttin’ on the Dog — Hounds 13. Deguello — Z.Z. Top 14. Boogie Motel— Foghat 15. Keep The Fire— Kenny Loggins Pure Prairie League is coming to G. Rollie White Coliseum for a “Beat the Hell Outta TU Concert” Friday night. The conceTfwill begin at 9 p.m., after the Aggie Bonfire. This group is known for the hit singles, “Amy,” “Two Lane Highway” and "That’ll Be the Day.” They were named by Billboard Magazine as the best new country-rock band in 1978. The band, named after a temperance union in old Dodge City, has undergone some recent personnel changes adding sax and banjo accompiments. Tickets are on sale at the MSC Box Office for $3.50, $4.25 and $4.75. Review No disappointment with ‘Jukes’ blues ballads Southside Johnny and the Asbury Jukes sound like what Chicago wishes it sounded like. This rhythm and blues band from the New Jersey seashore put together the best combina tion of rock, jazz, funk, blues and you name it, since Sam and Dave and Otis Redding. From Johnny Lyon’s hard edged lead vocals and witty lyrics to Billy Rush’s excellent lead guitar to the five-man horn section, bet ter East Coast rhythm and blues cannot be found. “The Jukes,” Southside Johnny’s fourth album marks several departures for the group that was known Asbury Park’s other band since 1975. Gone are the blues classics from the Jukes first two albums. Also gone is the longtime production assistance of Miami Steve Van Zandt and the songwriting col laboration of Bruce Spring steen. “The Jukes” is the band’s first album for Mercury records after The Jukes and Epic Re cords parted last year. For “The Jukes,” the boys traveled from New Jersey to Muscle Shoals, Alabama where they teamed up with Bany Beckett, who produced this latest outing. The outstanding quality of the band does not suf fer, either with the label or pro ducer change. All of the songs on this album were written by band members Lyon and Rush and bassist Allan Berger. Side one opens with the usual upbeat Jukes cut. This one is called “All I Want is Ev erything” and the difference be tween this cut and previous album openers is in the lyrics. Southside no longer sings just about getting drunk and losing women. The Lyon-Rush col laboration has brought depth and breadth to the Asbury Jukes music. Side one drives through “I’m So Anxious,” “Paris,” “Secur ity,” and “Living in the Real World.” “Paris” is a fantastic slow blues ballad that will send chills up and down the spine of anyone who really get into the blues. The lyrics tell a story of pain and loss that cuts through all the flash and glitter and gets right to the bone. The horn sec tion, as incredible as always, goes from heavy punctuation of the chorus to the restrained backing of the verses. “Security” offers us the vocal talent of lead guitarist Billy Rush in a humorous song about what a woman needs in the event of her man’s departure. “She’ll need a piece of the rock if you decide to roll... A girl can’t live on just sweet nothings...” With Rush playing a dobro solo in the middle of this num ber, the expanded musical hori zons of the Jukes really show themselves. * Side two continues the pace set by side one. "YourRep?/ ?s a little strange in that Southside asks some very deep questions of the world. “Must we look to a future in the chill of space ? or maybe we’ll just revert. Are we a slave to a power that is sublime ? or is it hidden in this clump of dirt ?” Pretty strange stuff for a guy who belted the powerful, but lyrically harmless, blues of the fifties and sixties. “The Time” and “I Remem ber Last Night” are products of the collaboration of Lyon and bassist Berger. “I Remember Last Night” takes you back to Southside Johnny’s home turf — the nightclub. When South- side sings, “... it was cold out side, but the place was on fire,” you can get a hint of how the bar-nightclub circuit has kept this group honed to a razor’s edge over the years. Rounding out the album are two more Billy Rush authored tunes, “Wait in Vain” and “Verti go.” “Vertigo” blows me away and that about sizes up the whole album. The Asbury Jukes have come a long way in the four years they have been record ing, but the more they change, the more they stay the same. They will never lose that feel for the old R and B that has a\\ hut dissapeared in today’s music scene. So it you have nothing to else to do, grab a six-pack and the eetv album and listen to it over and over again. You won't be dis- apointed. — By Geoff Hackett Hackett is a junior marketing major. BOOKSELLER “Selling good books and atmosphere” STUDENT/FACULTY DISCOUNT (excluding short discount books) Sunday New York Times NO TEXTBOOKS OPEN 10-6 MON.-SAT. 1-5 SUNDAYS Jim King - Proprietor Woodstone Commerce Center (Hwy. 30) Loans available The interest i* WHAT?/ for A&M By SUSAN HOPKINS Battalion Reporter There is no use in Aggies staying out of school for financial reasons, said Alvin Bormann, Interim Dire ctor for the Student Financial Aid Office here. Funds that can be used for student needs are sitting idle, he said. There are four loan packages available to students. And the finan cial aid department can give as many loans as there are students who need them, he said, as long as students fullfill their loan obliga tions. The default rate here is less than four percent, Bormann said. The national default rate is from 12- 17 percent. In 1978, 2,768 students applied for loans here, Bormann said. “It is the clientel of students we are working with at A&M that allows this marvelous record,” Bormann said. “A&M’s placement office helps students get good jobs after they graduate so they can pay back the loans.” Federally insured student loans, Bormann said, are used more fre quently than others, because they are processed quickly and have no need-based requirements. If a student is taking at least six undergraduate hours, or five gradu ate hours, and is in good standing with the University (GPR of 2.0 or above), then he is eligible for the loan. students Texas residents must obtain the loan through a commercial lender, which will process the application through the Federal government. Non-residents must obtain an appli cation through their own state, if it has such a loan system available. Through this loan package, an undergraduate student may borrow up to $2,500 per year to a maximum of $7,500. Graduate and profes sional students of medicine and veterinary medicine may borrow $5,000 per year, not exceeding an aggregate total of $15,000. The Hinson-Hazlewood Student loan is for students who have insuf ficient financial resources available to pay required educational ex penses. A student must file a Finan cial Aid Form and be unable to re ceive a federally insured loan from a commercial lender. This applica tion takes longer than the Federally Insured Student Loans because it must also go through the Texas government. The Hinson-Hazlewood and the Federally Insured loans have a maximum intersst rate of seven percent which is subject to be payed by the federal government. Repayments must begin nine months after the student graduates, or ceases to be enrolled for at least one-half a normal course load, with a mimimem payment of $30 per month. Other loan packages include the National Direct Student Loan Prog ram and the Health Professions Student Loan Program. Bormann said since many stu dents can’t qualify for a need-based loan, they may be able to get a Basic Education Opportunity Grant. “The BEOG is an outright gift,” he said. The maximum grant eligibility is $1,800. He said the amount given to a student is determined by sub tracting the family’s income from the cost of eduction. Students should apply for the BEOG first, Bormann said, by obtaining a BEOG application from the Student Financial Aid Office. Most College Station banks are not involved in student loans, although some have programs underway to provide aid to stu dents. University Naitonal Bank has some students making use of Fed erally Insured loans, a spokesman said, but will not give any new stu dent loans now. City Naitonal Bank will give stu dent loans if the student does all his banking with them, a spokesman said, and has been doing so for at least one year. Bank of A&M does not have any loan programs available to stu dents, a spokesman said. Short-term loans keep students financially afloat By RHONDA WATTERS Battalion Staff Almost every Aggie has at one time or another run completely out of money. For some people it hap pens once a year or once a semester; for others, it’s a weekly habit. Whichever category a student falls in, the Student Financial Aid Office has a short-term emergency loan program that may be able to help. The smallest and fastest loan available to students in need of quick cash is called a Little Loan. It is a loan not exceeding $30 and has to be repaid 30 days from the date the note is executed. Unlike other short-term loans, it does not require an acceptable grade point average, proof of finan cial need or second semester en rollment. Because it is the easiest to obtain, Carolyn Brittin, short-term loan secretary, said it is the loan used most often by students. Brittin said her office gives out about $40,000 in Little Loans every semester. She said the money tor the loans, like all others, comes from former students’ contributions. T o obtain a Little Loan, a student mustqo to the loan desk on the third floor of the YWlCA building with a lee slid and ID. card. Brittin said sooner or later a stu dent needs his transcripts, so the loan is usually paid back. “But we do have some loans that are two years old,” she said. The hours to obtain a loan are from 2-4 p.m., Tuesday and Thurs day, and 8 a.m. to noon, Monday, Wednesday and Friday. For students needing a larger loan, there is a short-term educa tional loan available. A maximum of $750 can be obtained by second semester stu dents enrolled full-time in a degree- producing course of study and not on conduct or academic probation. The applicant must show clear evi dence that a need exists to meet educational expenses. Loans of this type are repayable a year from when they are taken out. The normal interest rate is 6 percent, but if it is repaid within 90 days there is a minimum $1 service charge on loans up to $100, and a $2 charge for anything over that amount. To obtain a short-term educa tional loan, a student must till out an application and set up an interview with a toan officer. The Financial Mb Department also has some miscellaneous loans lor special purposes available. An Interview Loan of up to ment semester. A Graduating Student Loan is available to help a student meet State Board and)or Graduate Re cord Exam fees and graduation necessities such as cap, gown and invitations. Another loan for graduating stu dents is the Bertha Pratt Loan Fund. A maximum of $200 is avail able to help with moving expenses from the Bryan-College Station area. It is repayable within one year form execution date, with a $5 ser vice charge per $100 borrowed. Other loans include a Senior Ring Loan, Emergency Medical Loan and Senior Cadet Loan. Some academic departments also have loans available to stu dents in their department, so check with your advisor or department head for information. I STALK I r i THE FURS AT ^CARNAB LXQ. the loan. If it is not paid back within 10 days after the due date, the charge goes up to $1. W<? s<st?<? <?<yY (Pc?s<> <&<? notices, then we sencC a (etter/'Sht- \\n said. "Vile don’thave a whole lot of trouble getting people to pay them back because we block re cords.” who need to pay for trips to see prospective employers, it is repay- ab)e six months from date ot execu- hn?. A Co-op Assignment Loan writ' assist a student \n meeting Interim expenses when reporting to work during a given semester. Repay ment of it is during the work assign- thru Christmas Sat. 10-6 693-4522 XT