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SYMPHONIC BAND
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membership by audition each September
instrumentation set for 75
activities include concerts and a spring trip
■ rehearsals twice a week
■open to all students
Begun in 1973, the Symphonic Band offers students at Texas A&M CJniuersity
the opportunity to play their instruments with others from across Texas and the
nation. Rehearsing twice weekly, Tuesday and Thursday, from 12:30-1:45 p.m.,
the band allows students to play in a group while concentrating on their major
fteld of study.
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Bill J. Dean
Director Symphonic Band
E. V. Adams Band Bldg.
College Station, Texas 77843
Phone: 845-3529
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Easter Bunny's the key
to success on the links
Some people call the chasing of
the little dimpled ball on a weekend
morning the game of golf. I call it
Easter egg hunting with a stick.
Let me give you a little back
ground on my game.
I’m not a great golfer. I’m not
even a mediocre golfer. 1 stink.
I shoot over 100 at the Texas
A&M Golf Course. And I don’t
shoot much better on the back nine
holes either.
If there’s water. I’ll find it. If
there’s a tree, I’ll hit it. And if there’s
a golfer within range, lie may as well
have a target on his back. President
Ford’s got nothing on this guy when
it comes to taking out those pesky
spectators with a skillful gallery shot.
I own hand-me-down woods, a
very vanilla putter and a spread of
irons that I picked up at the Osh-
man’s once-a-year sale. These are
the weapons in my arsenal.
I can say without batting an eye
that I own the wickedest slice in golf.
I don’t know anybody who can hit
around corners with near the prow
ess I possess. I love a good fairway
shot — as long as it’s off the other
guy’s fairway.
Sometimes the divot goes farther
than the ball and if somebody’s
watching me, (usually they’re wait
ing on me), I have to do the same
thing I always do when I trip on that
spot in the street in front of the Me
morial Student Center. Look clown
at the offending spot, scratch my
head, and move on saying, “Gosh,
that’s just the darnedest thing.” And
then neutralize any criticism anyone
might have by saying, “Arnie and
TONY CORNETT
Guest Sports Columnist
Jack said I might fiave days like this.”
I think you get the picture.
Anyway, I woke up Easter Sunday
morning, grabbed my sticks,
strapped them across the back of my
motorcycle and headed to the Aggie
links.
I was going solo today. 1 couldn’t
coerce anybody to go along. Besides
it was Easter. All of my really good
friends were drinking beer at the
lake.
Plus, I figured that the problem
with my game all these years had
really been that there were always
too many people around and I just
couldn’t concentrate.
I paid my green fee, sauntered
out to the first lee and told myself
that not having played in a year
couldn’t have that big an affect on
my game.
That’s when the fun began.
I decided that three tee shots was
enough and headed out to plav the
best one and maybe pick up the
other two on the way — if 1 could
find them.
Then, in a blast of realization, 1
saw that I was on an Easter egg hunt
complete with hidden, colored eggs,
and a large field in which to find
them.
Golf balls have recently under
gone the changes in color that tennis
balls did years ago. They’re
available in several colors and
vors. And, of course, likereal ej
you can still get them in plain
white — how mundane.
I played the rough fot theli
strokes it took me tuget througi
first hole. Panic about the state oh
game was setting in. The only (Mi
tiring was that I had found all4
of my stray orange “eggs”andlii
picked up a white one in theproces
All of a sudden, teeing off
an excuse to look for the colois
eggs I didn 't fiave in my collection
T couldn’t wait to finda 'lluor
cent green" or perhaps a rarer “is
yellow” , while searching for my r
lost “orange dazzler.”
1 was disappointed only om
when I discovered a white eg
red stripe around it that meantoiik
one thing. Some “Good Ag’ b:
stooped to stealing his eggs fromil!
driving range egghouse. It’s ujk
but it happens. I left that one init
Miraculously, this preoccup®
with “the hunt" took away theaiur
ety of playing and tnv tee shots!*
gan to soar down the fairways.
I had discovered the secret«
good golf in a childhood holidai
Digging through through the vedi
for tokens of somebody else’s illfot
tune on the links had shown metk
real meaning of the game of golf
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athletic ability to become All-District,
All-Metro and All-State in 1983 and
1984 and was voted All-America and
Metro Player-of-the-Year his senior
year.
“I had a lot of (athletic schol
arship) offers,” he said. “1 narrowed
it down pretty quick to A&M and
Texas.
“The people were just real laid
back here. I love the campus. It’s all
spread out. At Texas, it seemed like
they packed the whole school on one
lot/’
Still, he received a lot of flack for
not selecting Texas, currently
ranked No. 10 in the nation.
“A lot of people thought I was
crazy to pick A&M over Texas,” Liv
ingstone said, “but I just had a real
good feeling about A&M.”
Would he have picked SMU if it
had a baseball program?
“I am a big football fan of SMU,"
Livingstone said, “but their baseball
program went out when I was
young. Besides, I’m not really into
Izods, but (SMU) would have been
nice since it’s so close to home.”
Another hard decision faced him
before he even entered A&M. Liv
ingstone was a sixth-round draft
choice of the Toronto Blue Jays in
the ’84 summer draft.
“That’s the biggest step I could ta
ke,” he said. “I wanted to go to col
lege, but I can’t deny the money and
the pros weren’t in the back of my
mind. There still there.
"I will be eligible for the draft af
ter my sophomore year. 1 will get in
at least two years of college ball. Who
knows? I might be here three, four
or five years.”
A pressure cooker wasn’t waiting
for Livingstone when he made the
transition to college ball.
“The only pressure that I found,
w r as what I put on myself,” he said. “I
put pressure on myself try ing to play
as well as guys who have neen in this
league for two and three years.
That’s something I need to stop
doing."
Livingstone said he’s his own
worst critic when it comes to hitting.
“I just want to try and do tny best
to help the team win,” he said. “I get
down on myself when I don’t do
well. I feel like I’ve let the team
down.”
And the team is his upmost con
cern.
“We need to take two-of-three in
every series we have left,” he said.
“Everybody is going to beat every
body. Texas stood out last year. This
year their below us. They’ll come up
and we’ll come up.
“If our pitening and defense
holds up, we’ll make the (SWC) tour
nament. That’s not even a question.”
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