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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.
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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.
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