THE BATTALION
TUESDAY, OCTOBER 14, 1980
Page 3
Local
Most freshman in decade
Band size ideal
By MARCY BOYCE
Battalion Staff
An extensive recruiting program
seems to have paid off this year for
the Aggie Band, which in recent
years past has suffered a dwindling
membership.
With 323 cadets, the band is now
at an ideal marching size of 303. It
has 300 players, three drum majors
and 20 alternates, senior Cullen Shif-
frin, commanding officer of the
band, said.
“Since I’ve been here, this will be
new friends! W fi rst time we’ll be able to main
tain that marching size the whole
Thank Ged« s ™ ter ’ > „ hesaid - .,, ,
1K0 K Normally we would have had to
^ inarch with some holes in the band
ov, gotti: by m jd- S emester as people drop out
of the band or the Corps.”
tell you, But this year, with extra freshmen
n countsasito serve as alternates during halftime
:e youttieiiof each game, the band should be
s four-sr a hT' t0 consistently maintain a mar-
n
uS
ching size of 303 cadets throughout
the year, Shiffrin said.
Shiffrin attributed the increase
primarily to the sophomores, juniors
and seniors in the band who re
turned to their hometown high
schools during Christmas and spring
break last year to show films and talk
about the Aggie Band.
There are 143 freshmen in the
band, the largest freshman class the
band has had in about nine or 10
years, Shiffrin said. Last year at this
time the band had only 100 to 105
freshmen. And even before last year,
he said, normally the band only had
110 to 120 freshmen at the max
imum.
Unlike the freshman class, howev
er, the senior class of the band is
unusually small with only 47 cadets.
This creates a problem, Shiffrin
said, because the band must have at
least 63 seniors in order to have boots
all the way around its perimeter. As a
result, some juniors are marching on
the outside of the band with the
seniors this year.
“We’re graduating a small class of
seniors and leaving behind a large
class of freshmen, so we’re leaving
the band in better shape than we (the
seniors) were,” Shiffrin said.
This year’s senior class of the band
is also leaving behind a gift of 12
brand new bugles to replace the
band’s 15-year-old bugles.
The new bugles are being used
only for halftimes, march-ins, para
des and reviews, while the buglers
will continue to use the old ones for
rehearsals.
Shiffrin said the Aggie Band Class
of’81 wanted to leave “some kind of a
mark on the band,” so during the
summer they secured enough loans
from the Aggie Band Association to
buy the bugles, worth $2,300.
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legians.
BCC tables lawyer’s request
By STARR MOORE
Battalion Reporter
e Brazos County Commission-
le compa ers tabled the county attorney’s re
quest for additional help Monday
ii .i and said they needed more time to
,, consider two new appointments.
en ~\B 0 hnM. Barron Jr. asked the court
tever ha; to appoint the city attorneys of Bryan
lents proi ami College Station as assistant
needed li"' county attorneys. As assistants, they
mselves; would help Barron prosecute the
that proc backlog of appeals in the county
court.
. • r Commissioner Bill Cooley agreed
11 ' with Barron. He was the only com
missioner to oppose the motion to
table the matter.
i He said many misdemeanor cases
are appealed to the court, simply be
cause those involved know too much
time will elapse before their case
comes to trial, and the case will be
thrown out.
The Speedy Trial Act allows only
60 days for prosecution to take place.
However, Commissioner Bud
Cargill said he was angered by the
feet that this was the first time he had
heard of the proposal.
He said he was unaware that city
attorneys Lowell Denton and
Charles A. Bluntzer have already
been assisting Barron without the
commissioners’ court approval.
Commissioner Walter Wilcox said
the court just needs time to consider
all the facets of the issue.
He said though the assistants are
volunteers and would receive no
payment, someone may have to be
hired to assist the county judge when
all the extra cases are included in his
present workload.
United Way drive
jumps to 44% of goal
The Brazos County United Way
has raised $107,532.44, or 44 per
cent of its $242,395 goal so far.
It is in the sixth week of its 1980
fund drive.
This was an increase from the re
ported returns of 27 percent from the
week before, and publicity chairman
Ann Bell called it an end of the cam
paign effort.
“Some of the money had been col
lected,” she said, “but it just hadn’t
been reported.”
Bell said Texas A&M University
and the public employee division
were big contributors last week.
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Barron’s request will be consi
dered again by the commissioners
court after the court has been discus
sed with the County Court At Law
judge James Amos.
In other business today, the com
missioners court approved amend
ment to the 1980 budget.
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The Idllings at the home of Sam
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