Wednesday, September 11,1985/The Battalion/Page 15
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What’s up
Wednesday
SPEECH COMMUNICATION ASSOCIATION: will meet
at 7 p.m. in 120 Blocker.
DEPARTMENT OF MODERN LANGUAGES: presents
‘Trtstana/* a Spanish film by Luis Bunuel in 207 Harring
ton at 7 p.m. Admission is free.
ALPHA KAPPA PSI: will have informal rush at 7 p.m. today
and Sept. 12 in 158 Blocker. Open to all business and eco
nomics majors.
HURST-EULESS-BEDFORD HOMETOWN CLUB: will
meet at 7;30 p.m. in 607 Rudder.
BRAZOS COUNTY ATARI USERS SOCIETY: will meet at
7 p.m. in 102 Teague.
TAMU RAQUETBALL CLUB: will meet at 7 p.m. outside
Court 7, Reed Building (formerly East Kyle).
A&M CYCLING TEAM: will meet at 7 p.m. in 308 Rudder.
STUDENTS AGAINST APARTHEID: will meet at 8:30
p.m. in 404 Rudder. New members welcome.
CORPUS CHR1STI AREA HOMETOWN CLUB; will meet
at 7:15 p.m. in 302 Rudder.
OUTDOOR RECREATION: will meet at 8:30 p.m. in 302
Rudder.
TAMU SPORTS CAR CLUB: will meet at 7 p.m. in 206
MSC.
A&M CHRISTIAN FELLOWSHIP: will meet at 7:30 p.m. in
101 Soil & Crops Sciences-Entomology Center.
GAY STUDENT SERVICES: will meet at 8:30 p.m. Call 775-
1707 for information.
TEXAS A&M SAILING CLUB: will meet at 7 p.m. in 165
Blocker.
UNITED CAMPUS MINISTRY: will meet at 6 p.m. at A&M
Presbyterian Church fellowship hall.
MSC BLACK AWARENESS: will meet at 7 p.m. in 701 Rud
der.
STUDENT GOVERNMENT STUDENT SENATE: will meet
at 7:30 p.m. in 204 Harrington Education Center.
SCONA: will meet at 8:30 p.m. in 206 MSC.
AGGIE SPELEOLOGICAL SOCIETY: will meet at 8:30
p.m. in 502 Rudder.
ALABAMA ROAD TRIP: leaves TAMU at 10 p.m. Sept. 13.
For more info see secretary island at MSC 216.
MSC TRAVEL COMMITTEE: will meet at 7 p.m. in Rudder
404.
Thursday
TAMU AQUATIANS-SYNCHRONIZED SWIM CLUB:
Workshop from 8:30 p.m. to 10 p.m. in the indoor pool.
No experience necessary. Call 260-4280 for more informa
tion.
MINORITY ENGINEERING COUNCIL: will have a recep
tion after career fair 5 p.m. to 7 p.m. in 145 MSC. Come by
and talk with recruiters.
TAMU FENCING CLUB: will meet at 7 p.m. in 267 E. Kyle.
Newcomers w elcome.
DELTA SIGMA PI: will meet at 7 p.m. in 204 Harrington.
Membership dues required at this time.
ASSOCIATION OF CARIBBEAN STUDENTS: will meet at
7 p.m. at 2813 Pierre Place (in C.S.).
TAMU BICYCUNG CLUB: will meet at 7 p.m. in 404 Rud
der. Everyone welcome.
BETA ALPH PSI: will meet at 6:45 p.m. in the Bluebonnet
Ballroom in the Hilton Hotel. Reception will follow.
MSC CEPHEID VARIABLE: will show the movie “Time Af
ter Time’’ at 7:30 p.m. and 10 p.m. in 701 Rudder. Price is
$1.50.
KAPPA SIGMA FRATERNITY: has an “Animal House"
rush party at 8 p.m at 606 W. 28th St. in Bryan. Open
party.
STUDENT Y ASSOCIATION: will have an "Ice Cream Ex
travaganza" at 6 p.m. in 226 MSC.
MSC LOST He FOUND AUCTION COMMITTEE; will meet
at 7 p.m. in 510 Rudder.
MEXICAN-AM ERIC AN PRE-HEALTH AGGIES: will meet
at 8 p.m. in 211 Pavilion.
ALPHA PHI OMEGA: will have national co-ed service fra
ternity rush on Sept. 17 and Sept. 18.
STUDENT GOVERNMENT: Freshman Aide ADplications
are available in 221 Pavilion and are due Sept. 13 at 5 p.m.
WILEY LECTURE SERIES: Applications are available in
216 MSC and are due today at o p.m.
MSC HOSPITALITY: Applications for membership are
available in 216 MS(i and are due Sept. 13.
Items for What's Up should be submitted to The Battalion,
216 Reed McDonald, no less than three days prior to de
sired publication date.
Pageant’s talent
unusual for 1985
Associated Press
ATLANTIC CITY, N.J. — The
usual Miss America talent fare of
singers, dancers and piano players
will be jazzed up this year when Miss
Michigan breaks a 4-inch-thick piece
of concrete with her foot and walks
on broken glass.
Other unusual talent selections in
clude a comic monologue by Miss
Alaska, clog dancing by Miss South
Carolina, down-home fiddle playing
by Miss Texas, and presentation of
an original commentary on the im
pact of advertising by Miss District of
Columbia.
Those who selected talents less fa
miliar to pageant audiences said they
were only doing what they do best.
But some acknowledged that there
might be a strategic purpose behind
their choice.
“It will help me stand out,” Alecia
Rae Masalkoski, 23, of Muskegon,
Mich., said of'the opening of her ka
rate performance, in which shell
stomp across a bed of broken glass to
demonstrate her powers of concen
tration.
“You feel it,” she said. “It’s a little
prickly.”
But she said she thinks the pag
eant is ready for a Miss America with
a black belt.
“In the ’80s, women can be strong
and capable of defending them
selves and be feminine at tne same
time,” said the woman who was the
Midwest karate champion at age 16.
Miss South Carolina, Sherry An
nette Thrift of Westminster, said she
began clog dancing 14 years ago af
ter seeing former world champion
Bill Nichols, who now lives in Wa-
halla, S.C., perform in her home
town.
The 1975-78 female world cham
pion will perform to the tune of
“Are You From Dixie?” She said
clogging, especially popular in the
Appalachians, can be compared to
tap dancing, but with different mu
sic and a faster style.
“Where I’m from . . . everybody
does it,” the Clemson University
graduate said.
Miss Texas Jonna Fitzgerald, 21,
of Greenville will abandon her many
years of classical violin training and
“fiddle” instead. She will play a med
ley of “Csardas” and “Orange Blos
som Special.”
Miss Michigan plans to
break a 4-inch-thick piece
of concrete with her foot
and walk on broken glass
during the up-coming
Miss America pageant.
Miss Alaska, Kristina Christo-
pher-Taylor, 20, of Anchorage, said
she could have performed a ballet or
jazz dance or played the flute. But
she decided to portray an old, com
plaining woman in “Scenes from
American Life” by A.R. Gurneyjr.
Asked if she thought it was risky
to act in a pageant whose winners
have largely been vocalists and in
strumentalists, she said: "It’s what I
do best. My good talent is acting. It
would be ridiculous to change to
something else.”
However, Miss Nevada, Sonja
Nall, 23, of Sparks, said she did con
sider how to mold her talent in clas
sical ballet so she could grab the at
tention of the judges and audience.
Miss District of Columbia, Cherie
A. Ward, 22, wanted to keep the de
tails of her act a secret, but described
her composition as an original
drama concerning how television
controls the mind through advertis
ing.
“I’m a part of it,” she said. “That’s
all I’m willing to reveal.”
Patient exits isolation
hooked on TV soaps
Associated Press
VICTORIA — Leukemia patient
Steven Akin said an experimental
procedure using his own marrow
“seems to have taken hold.”
But Akin said the 42 days he spent
in a germ-free isolation room at the
University of Texas M.D. Anderson
Hospital and Tumor Institute in
Houston left him hooked on tele
vision soap operas.
However, while in isolation at the
hospital. Akin said he contracted a
fungus infection. He received trans
fusions of white blood cells from his
sister, Winna Miller of Clear Lake,
and John Davis, of Schiller Park, Ill.
Davis and another sister, Barbara
Davis of Green Bay, Wis., were
found in March during a nationwide
search for Akin’s long-lost siblings
and a possible bone marrow donor.
Tests eventually showed neither
was comparable for a transplant.
In July, Akin received an injection
of his own bone marrow, which had
been removed last year, frozen and
stored until doctors were ready to
try the transplant.
Refugee surrenders
after 20-hour standoff
Associated Press
DALLAS — Charges were pen
ding Tuesday against a Nicaraguan
refugee who held off police for al
most 20 hours before surrendering,
police said.
Police investigator Hollis Edwards
said police rushed the man’s north
west Dallas apartment Monday af
ternoon after Firing several charges
of tear gas into the apartment.
Edwards said police were fired at
several times, but no officers were
shot. Two officers did suffer minor
injuries while firing tear gas charges.
The standoff began Sunday eve
ning when relatives called police,
saying the 20-year-old man was play
ing with a shotgun he had bought a
week ago. One relative said the man
had said he was afraid the Sandinista
government in Nicaragua was after
him, Edwards said.
During the standoff, the man
came to the front door several times
and pointed his gun at police offi
cers, he said.
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September 24th through the 26th
to interview for audit, tax and
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