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Casino offers blackjack
craps, inflated ‘prices’
By TED TREAT
Battalion Reporter
Talk about inflation — $16 million for dinner
for two at Fort Shiloh?
This was typical of the casino money shelled
out for prizes auctioned off at the Residence Hall
Association’s Casino Friday night.
For a $4 admission, gamblers got $3,000 in
Casino money. Anyone with enough Casino dol
lars at the end of the night could bid on the 90 or
so prizes auctioned off by the RHA.
The only thing more outrageous than the lofty
bids was the cheating that went on throughout
many of the blackjack tables. If a player knew the
right dealer, or if the dealer didn’t catch on, the
player could switch cards with his neighbor and
get “Blackjack” — an ace and a face card — with
out being skillful or lucky.
At several tables the only contest was who
could cheat the most, as gamblers shook, rattled,
shuffled and rolled their way through the casino.
Other Casino games included craps, beat-the-
dealer, chuck-a-luck, roulette and wheel-of-
fortune.
Some players racked up $300,000 or more in
two hours at the blackjack table — but a bid for a
pair of haircuts and blow-drys at That Place
started at $500,000.
When the gambling ended at midnight,
thousands of gambling dollars were dropped from
second floor balcony perches to the lounge below
as people realized how little their casino money
was worth.
Many other would-be gamblers pooled their
money to have a better chance at getting the
prizes, which included a four-foot submarine
sandwich that went for about $63 million. The
most expensive prize, a quarter-carat diamond
marquee, went for $123 million.
The auction lasted from 8:30 p.m. until 1:30
a.m. in the student lounge. For the last two
hours, the crowds covered the floors, tables,
chairs and balcony, cheering and clapping their
hands to the high bids and stomping their feet to
the honky-tonk music supplied by the Skillet
Tickers band during one of the auction breaks.
During another break, can-can girls bounced
across the stage, drawing whoops from the crowd.
David Arber, co-chairman of the Casino com
mittee, estimated Casino drew more than 3,000
people. This was more than enough to fill up the
second floor of the MSC throughout the night, as
each gambling table had a crowd surrounding it.
Getting to the table was trickier than the gamb
ling as people tried desperately for a spot. Smok
ing gamblers were encouraged not to smoke, ex
cept in the main hallway, and drinkers swigged
only soft drinks, except for the resourceful few
who smuggled in their favorite brand.
Most cheating centered around dealers and
gamblers at the blackjack tables, but one of the
Casino banks was also hit.
Arbor said one person posing as a dealer con
ned one of the Casino banks out of $50,000. The
error was soon discovered, however, and the per
son was escorted out of Casino by one of the
University policemen hired to guard the event.
Arbor said the event grossed about $9,300 (in
real money) and most people seemed to be having
a good time, either at cheating the dealer or at
cheating with the dealer.
Drill teams both take seconds
By COLETTE HUTCHINGS
Battalion Reporter
In their final meet of the year, the Fish Drill
Team and the Women’s Drill Team each
placed second Saturday in drill competition at
San Antonio’s Trinity University.
The competition for each team was divided
into three phases consisting of:
— inspection of each team, judging based
on uniforms, knowledge and composure.
— basic regulation drill, according to the
manual published by the U. S. armed services.
— fancy exhibition drill, a freestyle series of
manuevers.
The Fish Drill Team competed against six
schools: the University of Texas, University of
Texas at Arlington, Prairie View A&M Univer
sity, Texas A&I University, Texas Tech Uni
versity and the Air Force Academy.
After an six-hour delay due to thunder
storms, the WDT competed against the U.S.
Air Force Academy women’s team, placing
second in each of the meet’s three phases.
The FDT placed first in the inspection
phase and second in the basic and fancy drill
phases of the meet.
WDT junior adviser Cathy Warfield said:
“It was a little disheartening to take second
place to the Air Force.’’
The women’s team placed second to the Air
Force team in last year’s meet.
“It’s unfortunate that the scores were so
close and we took second again this year,”
Warfield said.
She said unlike Texas A&M, the Air Force
Women’s Drill Team practices for meets dur
ing class time while receiving physical educa
tion course credit.
Warfield said the WDT practices for meets
two days a week and the weekend before a
competition.
FDT senior adviser David Garcia agreed
that not receiving credit for FDT practice was
a disadvantage.
“That is one of the changes we want to make
in the future,” Garcia said.
Garcia said the Aggie freshmen practice an
hour and a half five days a week and on
weekends.
The WDT and FDT are the current Texas
state champions.
Blood drive short but still ‘success’
By DAVID CALVERT
Battalion Reporter
Even though the Aggie Blood
Drive fell short of its 2,000-pint
goal, the drive’s chairman said he
considers it a success.
Doug Snow, Aggie Blood Drive
chairman, said he still considers
last week’s 1,745 donated pints a
worthwhile effort.
“We very rarely make it to our
goal in the spring,” he said. “I
don’t know why this is, unless all
the students are anxious for school
to get out.”
Blood donated at the drive goes
to the Wadley Central Blood Bank
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Battalion StafT
KAMU-TV is taping a contem-
gporary Christian concert tonight
(as the first step ofa project it hopes
will bring national exposure to the
station.
The station will tape Dallas
Holm and Praise and distribute
the program via satellite to all
public television stations that
want it.
“It’s not a live broadcast, ” Rod
ger Lewis, producer of the prog
ram, said.
“Taping the concert is just the
first step of many,” he said. The
station will tape the concert, edit
it to one hour and then offer it to
other public television stations
across the nation. The entire pro
cess will cost between $15,000 and
$17,000.
The station will air the program
in August as a part of their August
festival. The festival features the
station’s best programming, and it
is then that the station offers mem
bership subscriptions.
Lewis said the station expects
the program to give it “a great deal
of exposure nationally, which is
quite important to the station.’
This is the first time the station
has gone through the entire pro
cess of producing and distributing
a one-hour program, Lewis said.
It did, however, produce and dis
tribute a series of six half-hour
programs in December titled
“Plant Kingdom.”
The station decided to tape the
concert because of the gospel
group’s tremendous popularity.
“Since 1978, they have been
the number one or two gospel
group in the United States,”
Lewis said. “They are extremely
popular among those who like that
type of music.”
Lewis said this popularity
should help the station in its distri
bution of the program.
“I would be surprised if every
public television station in the
South didn’t air it,” he said. “Gen
erally, gospel music is a little more
popular in the South.”
Dallas Holm and Praise, based
in Texas, has toured extensively
worldwide. The group has re
ceived many awards in recent
years, including best contempor
ary Christian group in 1978 and
best contemporary album in 1979
from the Gospel Music Associa
tion.
The concert will be at 7:30 in
Rudder Auditorium. Tickets are
$3 and are on sale at Rudder Box
Office and Shadow Wings Book
store in Bryan. The concert is,
sponsored by Aldersgate Concerts
and the Methodist Student Move
ment.
in Dallas.
“The people at Wadley told me
they don’t have as good a turnout
at the other campuses they visit in
the spring, either,” Snow said.
He said the Wadley mobile
blood unit in front of Sbisa Dining
Hall broke down Tuesday morn
ing, which meant several students
had to be turned away. Snow also
said the drive had to be closed
early Tuesday afternoon because
of a conflict with Aggie Muster.
Snow said the blood collected
will be used for research and by
patients.
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days for use by hospital patients,”
he said. “Wadley also does a lot of
work with interferon and cancer,
so they use some of the blood for
research.”
Snow said prizes for the organi
zation that donated the most blood
had not been determined. He said
the winners will be announced in
The Battalion later this week.
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