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Page 6/The Battalion/Monday, March 5, 1984 March Gras New Orleans gears up for Fat Tuesday 'blowoy BUY YOURS TODAY AT THESE GREAT PRICES! United Press International FOSSIL BEADS 4mm All Colors $ 2 95 ea. German Crystal All Colors $ 3 0() ea. Cr ystai ah Colors $ 6 50 ea. ^ v Pe arls All Colors $ 7 00 ea. ^ Chips (Real Stones) All Colors *11 00 ea. Small Clasps 5 2 00 Large Clasps $ 4 00 Many, Many Other Twisties! % j v Puerto Rican Student Association March 5 thru March 9 v\ I NEW ORLEANS — A river of dazzling floats surrounded by throngs of Mardi Gras rev elers flowed through city and suburban streets Sunday in a warmup for the annual blowout on Fat Tuesday. “I’ve never seen anything like this in my life,” said Sonja Mielke, 27, an accountant from Chicago. “Boy, New Orleans sure knows how to throw a MSC 9-4 party.’ Raucous crowds of children and adults swarmed parade tditk routes, shouting the traditional “Throw me something, mister,” to coax maskers in glittering costumes to toss them inexpen sive treasures of beads, toys and plastic cups. Revelers clapped and swayed in time to bands marching be tween the Carnival floats. Six parades and scores of floats wound through New Or leans and its suburbs, capped by the Krewe of Bacchus float with actor Kirk Douglas as the king of merriment. “Does it really get wilder than this?” asked Don Polken of Bal timore. “I’m a Catholic and I think this is a wonderful pre lude to Lent.” Mardi Gras was expected to L .P. draw more than a million rev elers to the city by Tuesday, a police spokesman said. Authorities estimated 1.1 million people crowded into the French Quarter and downtown area during Carnival 1983, and the spokesman said officials ex pected a comparable crowd for this year’s festivities. The officer said the crowds had been well-mannered and no one had been injured along the parade routes. “They’re being pretty calm,” the spokesman said, “but this is the warm up.Just wait until just they are crowded into Ft eiu h Ou.ii ter (Tuesday). “We think we can keeps oi del 1\. W’e’s e had lotsofs tice with this happening seal. and we ve got ovetij died e\i i a olliters tdm| helping us out.” «-5j I^ist year, the fesiivkietJ mailed bs the deaths of ai| ida woman shot during a bery outside a restaurantal sailor from Philadelphia I was 11 ushed beneath a Itei in 1982, two childrens! ing along crowded t routes died under thewfi Mardi (u as floats. Ponai Piafa Contest for ugly bartenders will raise funds to fight MS By CATHERINE CAMP BELL Reporter 6 Supreme Cheese Pizza $5.99 add. items 990 ^ our ®i, _ Owned & Operated by a'ini of’ Thurs.-Sat. A&M Students 4:30-12 a.m /i.o^ o 4 30 2 am 846-0079 Happy Hour! - Monday thru Wednesday Our Dough is Made Fresh Everyday! 5:00-8:00 ' 6 free 16 oz. Colas w/ any 16” pizza \ $ 1 ^ 50 Value Best P 8:00-10:00 2 for 1 Items ! 10:00-12:00 99 value > per item 20 min. delivery to campus only $^| 50 off $.75of on 12 in. on 16 in. — Coupons expire 3/7/84 at 12 00 a m 1 • „ - Coupons expire 3/7/84 at 12:00 a.m.- — -A — — Coupons expire 3/7/84 at 12:00 a.m. — zza & Lowest Prices in Aqqieland The UGLY bartenders con test is a fund-raising project to help find a cure for an ugly dis ease, multiple sclerosis. The three-week contest kicks off Tuesday and ends March 27. For the bartenders, UGLY stands for Understanding, Gen erous, Lovable You — but for MS — a disabling, neurological disease — ugly defines it. “The UGLY bartenders’ con test is a bizarre but effective way of attracting attention to the disease — and to get money, of course,” said Mark Miller, an MS fund-raising coordinator. Miller, 23, is the Fund-Rais ing Coordinator for the Hous ton Area Chapter of the Na tional Multiple Sclerosis Society. The Houston Chapter services over 30 counties and their sup port groups. “The point of the contest is to increase public awareness of the MS society and its services by raising funds,” Miller said. “The goals of the contest are to fund the fight against MS, to learn more through research and to better serve the special needs of people with MS.” This is the first time the Bryan-College Station bartend ers will be participating in the national contest to join in the fight against MS since the con test was first started in Ohio in 1979. Each year about 100 contests are held nationally and together they’ve raised $2 to $5 million a year, Miller said. The city of Denver raised $246,000 during one year; and one Denver bar tender raised $9,200 all by him self, Miller said. Miller said he estimates the Brazos area bartenders will be able to raise $10,000 to $15,000 during the contest, with the winning bartender earning from $2,000 to $4,000. “Nothing can be done with out the dollars and the purpose of the UGLY bartenders’ con test is to raise dollars for re search and patient care pro grams,” Miller said. “It’s outrageously expensive to do research.” The Brazos Valley bartender who raises the most money will win a trip for two to the Baha mas. The top 20 bartenders will compete for other prizes such as memberships to health, exer cise, and recreation clubs, es cape weekends and more. All trips and prizes have been do nated to the NMSS. Miller said the idea for the fund raiser began as a beauty contest but when the NMSS re versed the idea, they found UGLY made more money. “The contest basically boils down to a popularity contest,” Miller said. “This is the largest special event fund raiser foi MS, except for corporate dona tions.” The places to find UGLY bartenders are bars, nightclubs, racquetball clubs, resturants, private club bars and even bowl ing alley lounges, Miller said. With usually one or two bar tenders competing per bar. people can vote for the ugliest bartender of their choice as many times as they wish or can afford to. It costs 25 cents per vote. To try to attract voting cus tomers to their bars, the bar tenders will host special events such as: > •the UGLY Pie Toss, where for 50 cents customers can tar get their favorite bartender, •UGLY Hour, where happy hour becomes ugly hour and the bar will donate 25 cents per drink to their bartender’s UGLY campaign. •Buy-Someone-UGLY-a-D- rink Night, where customers are encouraged to bw UGLY neighbor a Millerli Miller Beer is a nationals sor of the UGLY contest. •The UGLY-est Couplti test, in which patrons Ad UGLY'-esi couple of the la. • I n s u 11 -an - UGLY-6; tender Night, in which tht tender is hand-cuffed and turners can let an insult flyi quarter. •The Balloon Bum, which, like the name sayv toiners can buy dart gun si to burst ballons with mess inside. 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