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About The Battalion. (College Station, Tex.) 1893-current | View Entire Issue (April 16, 1982)
l ocus. The Battalion O Friday, April 16, 1982 J Parents' Day Selection of outstanding parents highlights weekend of events by Dennis Prescott Battalion Reporter Aggie parents will visit their offspring en masse this weekend to check out the cam pus and planned activities for Parent's Weekend. And students will put forth their finest efforts for Mom and Dad. Activities begin tonight and culminate Sunday with a full day of events sponsored by the Corps of Cadets. The event, which is attended by over 15,000 parents annually, has been held for about 60 years. Over 40 separate activities have been planned for this year. Today's highlights include the MSC Variety Show '82 Edi tion and Casino '82 sponsored by the Residence Hall Associa tion. VARIETY SHOW: The MSC Variety Show will be held in Rudder Auditorium at 7:30 p.m. Performers include two Texas A&M football players perform ing original numbers on the piano and guitar, a barber shop quartet, a women's chorus, and various dance acts. The show will also feature a gymnastics routine performed by Sherri Ryman, Miss Texas 1981. CASINO: Those who can't make it to Las Vegas but still want to try their hand at a game of chance can do so at Casino '82. The second floor of the MSC will be transformed into a gamb ling hall from 8 p.m. to 12:30 a.m. Participants can convert their $3 ticket into $3,000 worth of play money. Games will include such casino favorites such as blackjack, roulette, and craps. Those who are lucky enough to have any " money'' left at the end may purchase prizes at an auction. DAMES AT SEA: The Thea ter Arts Program will present two performances of "Dames at Sea" over the weekend in Rud der Theater. The play, a spoof of 1930s musicals, is the story of a girl from Utah trying to break into show business in New York. The play will be presented at 8 p.m. tonight and Saturday. Tickets are on sale at the MSC Box Office. SINGING CADETS: The Singing Cadets will present a concert Saturday at 8 p.m. in Rudder Auditorium. Tickets for that concert also are on sale at the MSC Box Office. OCA BARBECUE: The Off- Campus Aggies will sponsor a Parent's Day Barbecue on Satur day, April 17 in MSC 212, from 4:00 to 6:30. Tickets are available to the MbC box Office or at the door for $4.50. Other activities scheduled for Saturday include a one-quarter and one- half marathon fun run, a Rudder Complex open house, a Southwest Conference base ball game between Texas A&M and Texas Tech, and two Aggie Cinema movies at the Grove. PARENTS OF THE YEAR: Sunday will feature the Parents' Day awards program in Rudder Auditorium at 9 a.m., when the Aggie Parents of the Year will be named. The annual award is given to parents who have successfully fulfilled the roles of parents, morally and economically, and been actively involved with in dividual students, the commun ity and the University. Nominations for the award must come from students at Texas A&M. The winners are chosen by a committee of stu dents. CORPS ACTIVITIES: Sever al Corps activities have also been planned for Sunday. The Ross Volunteers will present a performance at Kyle Field at 1:15 p.m. At 2:15 p.m. the Fish Drill Team will perform at Kyle Field. This will be followed by a Corps Review at 3 p.m. Parson's Mounted Cavalry will perform at 4:30 p.m. at the polo field. Houston begins Frontier celebration Houstonians can once again experience the old West at Fron tier Days. The festival begins April 24 and runs weekends through May 31. Continuous western enter tainment, featuring everything from cow-chip throwing to live music, is featured at Frontier Days. Food, games, crafts and music will all be in keeping with the western theme. A western melodrama, "The Red Eye Saloon Review," fea tures singers and saloon girls, and "Folklore of Texas" in cludes Indian dancers, blueg- rass music, doggers, Mexican folklore and country and west ern dancers. Frontier Days is open from 10 a.m. to 1 a.m. on Saturday and 10 a.m. to 10 p.m. Sundays. Saturday admission is $10 for adults and includes live country and western performers; Sun day admission is $7. The festival is on FM 1960 E, seven miles east of Lake Hous ton. For more information, call 456-0909. Top Ten QT— Quit Tanning Sun worshipping seems to be a popular campus pastime these days. Bikini-clad women and bare-chested men throwing Fris- bees make themselves at home on grassy medians, dorm roof tops and wherever else the sun may shine. Many of these sun-seekers are furiously working to keep the tan acquired from a spring break trip to Bermuda. (Mummy and daddy's gift.) Others are just trying to catch up. But being tan isn't everything in life. For those who have better things to do with their time — or are simply envious — here are some reasons for not wanting a tan. 1 — If you change the color of your skin now you'll have to change all the color tones in your new wardrobe. 2 — If you try to play up to your professors during finals week, they probably won't believe that anyone with bronzed skin seriously worked hard all semester. 3 — Sweat makes your skin break out. Acne on tanned skin doesn't look much better than acne on pale skin, so why bother? 4 — Wrinkles. Leathery faces and necks are not attractive and coating your body with petroleum jelly before bedtime is kinky and won't help anyway. 5 —You can't afford suntan lotion. 6 — You must not sun until you lose at least ten pounds — even though brown fat looks better than white fat. 7 — So far you haven't found a bathing suit that allows you to get an even tan without baring any skin and you've vowed not to tan until you find it. 8 — Whenever you're in the sun for long periods of time something SO TERRIBLE happens to you that you can't even talk about it. 9 — Sunning makes you sleepy and you're too busy to sleep. 10 — Every time you've gotten a tan in the past you've had to compare it with others — now there's no competition. 14 Kt. Im+ui. i dunno+td. Uu 495°° lutAi 475°' <72 iamond Room 3731 E. 29th ■ 846-4708 Bryan 707 Shopping Village 693-7444 College Station