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About The Battalion. (College Station, Tex.) 1893-current | View Entire Issue (May 6, 1983)
3 Don't by Kimberly Hix Battalion Reporter Finals are approaching and the semester is winding down. You can't wait for summer — no classes, the beach, Mom's cooking. Mom. That's right, Ags. Sun day is Mother's Day. There is still time to buy a last minute gift, order a spring bouquet or find a special card. Your mailbox has been bom barded for two weeks with sale ads. The television and radio spots announce the arrival of the ultimate in Mother's Day gifts. Local festivities began this week with self-help seminars, make-up and color analysis de monstrations and free movies for mothers. Concluding the week will be a style show spon- forget At Ease, The Battalion Friday, May 6, 1983 Mother's Day sored by the MSC Hospitality Committee and Post Oak Mall merchants. The style show includes 35 models, all members of the Hos pitality Committee. Clothes, jewelry, shoes and sunglasses will be modeled at 2 p.m. Satur day by the fountain in the mall. Today events such as style shows, sales, special programs and elaborate gifts help make Mother's Day a commercial suc cess. Yet it began 75 years ago as a simple reminder to show appreciation for mothers through cards, letters or flowers. Attempts at establishing Mother's Day began in 1868 but were not successful until Anna Jarvis organized it in 1908. On the second Sunday in May 1908, church services were held in Grafton, West Virginia and Phi ladelphia. Mothers and children were given carnations by Jarvis. This began a custom that was later modified to white carna tions worn in honor of deceased mothers and red carnations honoring living mothers. Jarvis continued her efforts to establish a national Mother's Day until President Woodrow Wilson issued a proclamation in 1914. This set aside the second Sunday in May as a day to honor all mothers. The Andrews Methodist Church in Grafton, where the first Mother's Day was observed, has now become the International Mother's Day Shrine. The building stands as a monument honoring mothers year round. 'Charming ' Ant to perform Sunday by Gary Barker Guest reviewer Adam Ant—swashbuckling, self-proclaimed "Prince Charm ing" of the new wave set — will bring his own style of British Antmusic to G. Rollie White Coliseum Sunday night at 8. The concert, originally set for March 20, was postponed after he injured his knee during a concert; he's quite an acrobat on stage. Ant is currently promoting his first solo album, Friend or Foe, after the break-up of Adam and the Ants. The album, which features the hits "Goody Two Shoes" and "Desperate But Not Serious," is similar to the two American-released Adam and the Ants' albums, Kings of the Wild Frontier and Prince Charming. Ant's characteristic sound is a heavy, rhythmic beat, reminis cent of American Indian or Afri can tribal chants; Ant collects albums of African tribal music and says he likes them for their Guessing tom his concert performance with the Ants on Music Television and from his fast-paced MTV videos. Ant should dazzle the audience with his cos tumes, movement and sound. "fresh" and "non-commercial" sound. "Everything started with trib al music," Ant has said. "It's a base for beat and vocals. Its fresh sound is totally non commercial — it's used for things like fertility rites, rain dances or whatever." But his solo album, Friend or Foe, relies less on the tribal sound and more on brass in strumentation and the indi vidual performances of Ant and Marco Pirroni, Ant's guitar playing partner and the sole- surviving Ant. Guessing from his concert performance with the Ants on Music Television and from his fast-paced MTV videos. Ant should dazzle the audience with his costumes, movement and sound. INXS, a new Australian band, will open up the show for Ant. The group is touring to promote its highly acclaimed American debut album, Shabooh Shoobah. Tickets for the show are $5.50, $6.50 and $7 and are still on sale at the MSC Box Office. Increased traffic expected Library hours expanded by Kimberly Hix Battalion Reporter The Sterling C. Evans Library will remain open 24 hours a day beginning Saturday through Fri day, May 13. Extended library hours and lots of last-minute studying re sult in increased traffic in the lib rary, Director Irene Hoadley said. "Yet even with more traffic, there are probably fewer general problems this week than at other times in the year," Hoad ley said. "Our biggest problem is the building getting dirty with people in it constantly. The cleaning staff has difficulty keeping up with the flow of stu dents throughout the night." Library officials lack accurate figures on library usage for this semester but feel it has in creased, Hoadley said. "It certainly seems like there are more people here," she said. Reference Desk workers agree. "Traffic has been unusually heavy this year," one worker said. "Maybe that is because of more classes which require lib rary work. We've really been busy lately." During finals the library is not fully staffed at night. Workers volunteer to stay all night, and a few are hired specifically to work at night. Hoadley said a further in crease of library use is expected during finals. Each hour a count will be taken through the turn stiles to give an indication of the number of students taking advantage of extended library hours. "A lot of students stay all night," she said, "but it thins out in the early morning hours." Even if the number of stu dents is small, keeping the lib rary open during finals is worth while, Hoadley said. "If only 30 ,40 or even 50 stu dents are here, it is worth it if only for them," she said. Junior cadets to get boots Shiny new boots, almost 400 pairs of them, will be walt zing across the Memorial Stu dent Center Ballroom Satur day night at the annual Boot Dance. Juniors in the Corps of Cadets will wear their boots for the first time — signifying their new senior status — ear lier that day at Final Review. Senior boots are a tradition at Texas A&M that began in . 1925, when senior cadet members first wore the En- glish-stvle riding boots. The boots have grown to become a symbol to designate senior cadets. John Lopez, chairman of the Boot Dance, said that most of the juniors already have their boots, but some will bor row pairs for Final Review and the dance. In 1979, women in the Corps pulled on their senior boots for the first time. Lopez said that women cadets will wear their boots to the dance, too. iamond Room 3731 E. 29th 846-4708 Bryan 707 Shopping Village 693-7444 College Station
