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Page 10/The Battalion/Tuesday, November 30,1983 Parents involved in murder case Girl put in grandparents’ custody United Press International and step-father were convicted of BROWNSVILLE — Custody murdering her natural father was of a 3-year-old girl whose mother awarded Monday to the child's maternal grandparents in an out- to her father, Billy Staton, 26, dur- of-court settlement. ing a court-ordered visitation Melanie Staton, 3, was talking when her step-father, Paul Wolf, R.I. Wotda&mjniurn alkutI/vl opfomjJir, Ci/rusUuaA tcAaAyzdIry yC/uHoi da/rtury i^nOlad ~Zc- awXasrd cz/mevn /n^'TyiMs* Zzr c£ AoArC (LCCUOJtel erf o/y\ curiJx&ad. puaT Svccuaqsi cfjcarit ~ZhvrA of a th/uu/X.! by Paul Dirmeyer DAMN! MW DAMN! /A29/34D 21, attacked Staton from behind with an iron bar. Wolf and the child’s mother, Sherry Staton Wolf, 21, both were sentenced to life in prison during separate trials last summer. The pair was convicted of plotting to kill Staton and hide his body. Staton inadvertently tape- recorded his own slaying on a mic ro-tape recorder he had secreted on his body to gather evidence in the child visitation squabble with the Wolfs. Staton’s fiancee, Leticia Castro, 26, also was beaten and shot in the head with a shotgun in the fight that started at the Wolfs’ house near La Feria in July 1982. The bodies were found in drainage canals three weeks after the kill ings. The out-of-court settlement was announced in the court of District Judge Melchor Chavez. Follow Us To Your New Villa Villa Oaks West 1107 Verde pb. 779-1X36 Magazine studies drive behind hard rock scene OPEN HOUSE Mon-Fri 9:00-5:00 Sat & Sun 1:00-5:00 (Ml □ □ □ o NEXT DAY BIKE REPAIR BICYCLES •ACCESSORIES • CLOTHING • PARTS 846-2453 403 UNIVERSITY DR. (NORTHGATE) COL GE STATION United Press International IRVING — There’s a frenzied energy that goes with rock music like butter goes on bread. It’s an urge to live, do, feel, scream, jump up and down. Hero worship of a guitarist in leather pants and long, sweat-matted hair may not make sense to someone over 25, and there’s a sound biological reason why. “It is hormonal,” says Gerry Rothberg, publisher and editor of New York-based Circus maga zine, chronicler of the heavy metal scene for a mostly male audience that ranges from 15 to about 22 years old. Some young men turn to sports as an outlet for all that energy and vigor, but playing football also means succumbing to the disci pline of a coach. That doesn’t set too well with a teenager who is testing the limits of his independ ence and rebellion. Heavy metal (the term is gener ally believed to have come from “The Soft Machine” by William Burroughs and has come to refer R.P. CLUB, RHO PHI ALPHA & MSC RECREATION to a particularly loud, clanging, but still melodic electric rock) fills the needs of that impatient, hem- med-in feeling teenager. By the time he hits his mid-20s, he either has worked it out of his system or is “condemned” to be a rebel for life. “This is a rite of passage,” Roth berg says. “The music is really geared toward a particular age group. As you get older your state of being doesn’t need that any more. If it offends you (that’s) be cause you’re not entertained by it. “This is not an art. This is rock and roll,” he says. “We’re not dealing in Picassos.” In the 14 years since Rothberg left Esquire magazine to publish Circus, bringing to a monthly cir culation of 500,000 and a position as the fastest-growing magazine in newsstand sales, he’s learned a lot about his audience. About two-thirds of the readers are male, although the number of young women who follow the scene through Circus is in creasing. They pack quite an economic wallop that is not ignored by advertisers. After all, they’re the people who spend an average $60 a month on concerts and records by Van Halen, Def Leppard, Quiet Riot, Judas Priest, Ozzy Osbourne and the like. Some 88 percent of Circus’ readers play a musical instrument themselves, mostly electric guitar. As a result the pages are filled with ads for instruments, amplifiers and microphones. The magazine’s articles and life, the personalities of the per formers, what goes on behind the scenes. The name Circus derives from the long tradition of referring to the rock and roll life as a circus. In a recent interview during a promotional tour, Rothberg noted a lot of basic similarities in the bands that were on top when Cir cus debuted in 1969 — like Led Zepplin, Grand Funk Railroad — and the big names today. There is a trend toward more theatricality, though, as personified by the antics of the group Van Halen and sex symbol lead singer David Lee Roth. “You rarely find that simple trio with an acoustic guitar anymore, ” he says. He sees some welcome unload ing of hard-and-fast categories like rock, new wave and punk, be cause it gets to be very difficult to lock a band like the Police into one grouping. Although Rothberg, who is in his early 40s, is not much of a rock fan himself (he prefers classical), he tries not to let his personal ideology dictate the magazine’s contents. “In a sense it does, but it’s a reflection of my perception of what the audience wants,” he says. “I maintain it as a vehicle of expression for kids. I probably was a frustrated teacher.” Circus does take some stands, such as not accepting cigarette ads and trying to be anti-drug in a low- key way. “We don’t preach it, but it’ll come out in the interview. A star will say ‘come to the show and I Around town JB Vol Safety agency offers driving course The Brazos Valley Safety Agency will offer a defensived course tonight and Wednesday from 6 p.m. to lOp.m. i Ramada Inn. The fee for the two-day course is $20. Pai can register at 5 tonight at the Ramada Inn, or can call6934li|| The class can be used to dismiss certain misdemeanor t offenses and to receive a 10 percent discount on auti insurance. Student Y wrapping Christmas gifts The Student Y Association is offering a Christmas [ ping service today through Friday and Dec. 5-9from9a.r p.m. in 211 Pavilion. The service is free to Y members,! non-members will be charged from 50 cents to $1.25de on the size of the gift. Bows and ribbons will be included is ij wrapping, but boxes must be provided by the owners. University Press to hold book sale More than 150 new and backlist titles published by the la A&M University Press will be sold at a discount of 20percent 80 percent at the Press’ Christmas Warehouse Sale Thuni through Saturday. Damaged copies also will be available greater reductions. The sale will feature the books of Bill Brett, author of T: ^ Here’s a Good’un.” Brett will be there Thursday toautognj his books. Sale hours will be from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. on Thursday Friday and 9 a. m. to 2 p. m. on Saturday. The sale will beheld the Press’ new location on Lewis Street, adjacent to thehoii site. Overseas Day gives travel, study info MSC Travel and the Study Abroad Program invitesevena to attend their Overseas Day Tuesday from 10 a.m. to2p,ni the Memorial Student Center I^ounge. Information ’ presented on opportunities for work and study overseas. W; ‘ Aggieland photos still being taken Juniors, seniors, veterinary and medical school students have individual pictures for the 1984 Aggieland taken tol through Friday at the Yearbook Associates office at 1700 Si) behind Culpepper Plaza; and Dec. 5-9 at the Pavilion on« pus. This will be the last chance for students tohavepicte made. Sc< To submit an item for this column, come by The Battalionol in 216 Reed McDonald. many, many color pictures deal _ don’t get high, don’t get stoned,”’ with the elements of concert tour Rothberg says. United Press International MARSHALL — A group of for mer Alcoa employees will purch ase a northeast Texas plant shut down earlier this year after work ers rejected wage and benefit cuts, an Alcoa spokesman said Monday. Representatives of Alcoa and the workers reached an agree ment in principle for the purchase after talks last week in Houston, said company spokesman Hal Reagan. Terms of the agreement were not disclosed. Although “a number of details need to be resolved” in the 50- page purchase proposal, Reagan said all major hurdles have been Alcoa workers will buy plant ma b u beirl nan viole with lombard held _hof ki cleared and final details s» | worked out in four to six'” EheD “We feel like we’vegoW ristian he said. Alcoa officials decided® capiu this fall to close the 13f | S nea plant after union workec wheliningly rejected apt! Reside $5 an hour cut in wages® nefits. The company rut A; ductions were essential fc adio sai< to remain competitive. The facility, which Hi led the most modern ofits the nation, employed4(K)' ,( before layoffs began. Tbf manufactures insulated d cable. emem shed ive pee unded ffici; rce o! tn mo Syria east ~Vh eTlj inde rgro und SBISA BASEMENT Cup-a-Soup Special Monday, Nov. 28 - Friday, Dec. 2 Lipton Cup-a-Soup 89c OFFER GOOD TO THE LAST BOX “The Best Food. The Lowest Price.” AGGIE RED CROSS CU Meeting-T uesday, Nov. 29, 1983 8:30 in Rm 607 Rudder Guest Speaker to talk on Red Cross Blood Services ^roun lassif -ocal. Nation )pinic ports tate. that’s unity ut 62