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Page 6 THE BATTALION FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 21, 1980 ATTENTION AGGIES Due to popular demand the final performance of City Lights HAS BEEN MOVED from 601 Rudder to the MSC MAIN LOUNGE tonight at 7:30. DON'T MISS IT! -FREE - mm Bryan,T«xas for Something Different Mickey $ 2 25 Moosehead $ 3 99 J.R. $ 2 25 Stag $1 99 Carta Blanca $ 2 85 Little King $ 2 75 Black Label $ 2 75 A 12-Pack I SPECIAL Lowenbrau 7 Oz. 8-Pack $-1 99 SPECIAL Lite 12-Pack $098 846-6635 3611 S. College Local Female drillers ready oc By MARCY BOYCE and CATHIE CREW Battalion Staff As a six-time champ, the Texas A&M Women’s Drill Team has a record to live up to this year. Commander Lydia Berry has no doubt her team will. Determination has been the key in the past, she said, bringing the precision drill team the prized Texas State Champion title in the unarmed division every year since its creation in 1975. And the commander of one of the few women’s drill teams in the nation said this year should be no different. Like the Fish Drill Team, who currently holds the Texas State Champion title in the armed division, offi cial competition for the women’s team doesn’t start until the spring. However, Monday marked the eighth week of drill practice for Berry, her 16-member team and two advisors. “We have a record to keep up. We realize that we’re representing Texas A&M University, the Corps and the Women of the Corps,” Berry said. “And people (at the tournaments) expect even more of us just because we re from Texas A&M.” Besides the Air Force Academy, Texas A&M is pre sently the only school that competes with an all women’s drill team, said Anita Bowden, team commander last year and senior advisor this year. Most of the other schools either have only a men’s drill team or a women and men’s mixed team, she said. For that reason the Academy is the Women’s Drill Team’s biggest competitor, Bowden said. Although both the Women’s and the Fish Drill Teams usually attend tournaments together, they compete in different categories so they have never had to face each other in an event, Berry said. She explained that because the women use mock M-30 drill rifles, their team enters the unarmed divi sion, while the men’s team enters the armed division. But even if either the Fish or Women’s Drill Team did better than the other in the overall competition, Berry said, no rivalry exists between the two teams. “We’re both trying to pull state champ, but there is no rivalry because we re both looking out for each other,” the commander said. “We re not there to compete against each other. We re there to compete with other schools because we re both representing A&M.” Besides the weapons used the only other main differ ence between the two teams is their composition, Berry said. The Fish Drill Team is made up of only freshmen, whereas the Women’s team is open to any senior, junior, sophomore or freshman who maintains a 2.0 grade point ratio. The first Women’s Drill Team was created in 1975 as an extracurricular activity for women who were permit ted to join the Texas A&M Corps of Cadets only the year before. And every year since its existence the team has cap tured the state championship in their division by win ning two out of three statewide tournaments — “some thing the guys can’t say,” Berry said. Generating enthusiasm for the team among women in the Corps has never been any problem, the commander said. But about this time of year, midsemester, she said grades frequently pose a problem and members are forced to quit the team. Since September the team has dropped to 16 mar ching members from its original 25, Bowden said. Linda South, the commander of the team at the be ginning of the year, was among the nine who dropped from the team. She was replaced by Berry in part due to her grades and disagreements regarding her responsi bility as commander, said Bowden, who as senior advi sor has the sole authority to replace any member of the team. Military advisor for the team Capt. Rolla Adams of the U. S. Air Force said the title “commander” creates some confusion, but as outlined in the operational procedures guide the senior advisor is in fact the one who imple ments policy and is the actual leader of the drill team. The commander is the senior marching member of the team but has no real authority regarding the formu lation of policy, he said. The Bryan Street Fight Parade, Dec. 6, will mark the team’s first perfomance of the year. Then official com petition will begin in the spring with meets in Austin (no date yet), and San Antonio April 25. Texas A&M will host the competition April 11. And the team will also march in the Battle of Flowers Parade in San Antonio April 24. Marching in their neatly pressed uniforms of dark green and gray with white ascots and gloves, the drill team will be judged on overall appearance, standard drills and fancy drills at the three state competitions. Meets, as well as the supplies needed for them, are funded from the Memorial Student Center student acti- vites fund and the sale of bumper stickers and name tags, Bowden said. By SU1 Battalio full-time stud iurance plan their pare irested in tlx University [though stud jred under t ance, some e dependei As a service :M offers a s] ce plan for all The cost for i.75 annually ring and sumr for student Dave Bergen, nt Activities ; tM has dealt surance Com ven ars. He; lent three-) tone is up f< st. At that time, r xasA&M, Moi ewA&M Unix w by putting Staff photo by Marty Although competition for the Women’s Drill Team does begin until spring, the team drills during both the fall anJ ors. spring semesters. Guidon bearer Tanya Wright leads the tea® suit se< in a practice drill. rald Gallln |e or proseci ATTENTION OFF CAMPUS STUDENTS Proceeds go to handicapped [WASHING ing to cour ggered app< Lawyers foi vernment 1 Chi-O’s to host Songfest’81 OFF CAMPUS STUDENTS MAY PURCHASE BOARD DINING FOR THE SPRING SEMESTER. By SUZANNE HEMBY Battalion Reporter Chi Omega has something sure to please the song and dance person. The sorority will sponsor “Songfest 80” — a fund raiser featuring local sororities and fraternities participat ing in song and dance medleys. Dining space will be available in Sbisa, Commons, and Duncan Dining facilities. Sign up for the board plan during pre-registration. “Songfest 80” will debut Nov. 22 at 8:00 p.m. in the Bryan Civic Au ditorium, Songfest chairman Beth O’Brien said. Price of admission will be $1.50 in advance, and $2.00 at the door. Proceeds will be presented to the Brazos County Rehabilitation Center to help handicapped Chil dren, O’Brien said. The program, which has been held for three consecutive years, will fea ture Richard Boone, the director of the Texas Singing Cadets, as emcee. O’Brien said Chi Omega got the idea for “Songfest” from other col leges. “Songfest ’80” will last about two hours, O’Brien said, and will use Order that wo ijKraft, who Weeks becaust as President C lobe. ; The ethics 1 public no co' louse. It req ininal investig : Kraft’s suitf some filler acts, including a but Columbia nan shop quartet group madeupol! 'A court ord Singing Cadets called I hat Kraft pos: Aggienizers. 19“8, and in 5 The winners will be presG jpawned from trophies. Three honorable n®-|harges agains silver trays will also be given, faeared. 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