CLASS of ’ 89 Make Your “MARK” MARK OLSEN Freshman Class Vote Mon. Oct. 7 Biomedical ssociation G^IIIITOKI' ?o©(q) pnuD date oct. 8, 1985 topic_ Dr. Kerry Hope, Ph.D. Psychologist & Assoc. Director Student Counseling Service Free Treatment & Figure Analysis Without Obligation "After my figure analysis and complimentary treat ment I decided to go with their program. That was 14 months ago. With the help and encouragement of the salon staff I lost 49 | pounds, 47-1/2 inches C and have gone from a size 18 to a size 12 and I am still losing." After the success she achieved in the Bryan Salon, Mau reen Kelly , a 1985 graduate of Texas A&M has moved to Irving, Texas where she is now managing a Pat Walker's Figure Salon. Page 4/The Battalion/Monday, October 7, 1985 Before 209 lbs. Ask about our Special Student Program October tanning special 10 treatments $40°° 3723 E. 29th Street 846-3724 Mon.-Thur. 7-8 Fri.7-7 Student Leader Profile Cadet colonel of Corps holding o 24-hour job By ABBY L. LECOCQ Reporter Curt Van de Walle On-campus housing was his main reason for joining the Corps of Ca dets. But four years later. Curt Van De Walle is the highest ranking cadet at Texas A&M — cadet colonel of the Corps. “I applied for the lottery and didn’t get on-campus housing, so I said ‘What the heck. I’ll try it. It can’t be that bad,’ ” Van De Walle says. “Now it’s really hard to even picture myself not being in the Corps,” he says. The decision to attend Texas A&M was confirmed after attending football games as a high school senior, Van De Walle says. “After those first couple of games, I decided this is where I wanted to go to school because of the spirit that was involved a^nd the tradition,” he says. “It just seemed like the next step in my life,” he adds. When asked about his first impressions of the Corps as a high school student. Van De Walle smiles and con fesses he didn’t understand everything that went on as he watched the march-in. The decision to attend A&M also was influenced bv his opinion of the University being a top-notch .school, VanJDe Walle says. Solid priorites are very important to him, Van De Walle says. And he says them as smoothly as he says his own name. “God, family, country, fellow man and myself ,” Van De Walle says. 1 try to live that every day and see if I can perform in that order.” After graduating from A&M, Van De Walle plans to go into the Air Force as a civil engineer for at least four years. After that he says he is not sure. “If I like the Air Force, I’ll stay in,” he says. “If I don’t, I’ll probably set up a surveying and consulting engineering type of business. I’m not going to plan too far in advance.” But what does the Corps commander do in his spare time? “Sleep,” Van De Walle says with a smile. There isn’t much spare time, he says, because being Corps commander is a 24-hour job. So the time he does have, he says, he likes to spend relaxing with f riends. “Laundry is a social event for me,” Van De Walle says. “When I go do my laundry it’s right over there by the band dorms and I’ve got some real good friends in the band.” Van De Walle says he also likes to dance, swim and waterski. Fishing and hunting also are among his hob bies, even though there isn’t much time for those. Being in the Corps has had a positive effect on him. Van De Walle says. Tradition anct spirit are qualities Van De Walle says he and the rest of the Corps take pride in maintaining. “But I think one of the greatest things about being in the Corps is just the brotherhood," lie says. “I don’t know if I’d have stayed in the university if it wasn’t for the Corps.” One thing Van De Walle hopes to accomplish this year is to change the image of the Corps commander. Many people — especially those in the Corps — see the Corps commander as being above reproach, but he says that isn’t true. Van De Walle says he is a cadet first and Corps com mander second. “I just want to leave the University and leave the Corps of Cadets knowing that I did everything possible to make it a l>etter place,” he says. MSC council to hear repo— on Fall retrecWa By MEG CAM/dw Staff Writer ■'*“ J Some short-term solutioiil Memorial Student Centttil puter shortages will be prs<$| the Memorial Student Gaul c il meeting tonight at 7 pu,I cil President Denis Davisu)i| Vice President of Suite:,' opment Carrie Gladwellwip Council a report on MSCM treat. Band sees lack of interest in live local MSC Fall Retreat was litL and the MSC’s five-year $ discussed. The five-yearptL of long-term goals for tMiC Mi. event, usually htioT campus camp, was held oil this year. "We saved about i <• 11111114 .i • .iiu[> Mtc."Cladult*^^ ( Tidwell also will telll l -1 about the Leadership I® C Center to Ire opened Tuesdi® MSC Browsing Library. I HOI 1 he Budget He Texas | will present mulgch lor iTattenipt ( ■ >11 lei ei .il oners i' Madi ig.il Dinners. terkal i ulive Vice Presider,: bars, ketiug and I’eisorinel RoturM^yin said the rain damage toiwuit an ( fullei \ w ill Ik- < and m Ret ent i ains damagedtte|ftxas J t eiling, i ai pels : last wee He said some remodelintluBernian done, hut the gallery still is dence b par. |*Thn tfewce. i musics I i i%*viv fed(Tal By LEN BRILEY Reporter “Every time we get creative, the cops show up,” laments Traxx drummer-keyboardist Macy Hea- cock, 19. “We must have received 10 or 1 1 written warnings for disturb ing the peace.” Traxx, a band consisting of four Texas A&M students, practices in a two-car garage in College Station. If local police don’t arrest the de velopment of this high-charged rock’n’roll outfit, the lack of interest in live local music puts Traxx, and other local talent, in shackles, band members say. Lead vocalist-keyboardist Jennie Bennett, 22, says, “A lot of local groups want to play and grow here, but College Station isn’t the ideal place to do that.” Few clubs here feature live music, she says. “And even when they do, the local crowd doesn’t seem to patronize it,” Bennett says. “College Station is not culturally deprived. It brings in concerts and oft-Broadway shows. But there seems to be a lack of communication between the local music fan and local bands.” Bennett says many music fans find in Austin, Houston or Dallas, what they could find at home. Every Wednesday night, Traxx brings tough-as-nails rock Tf roll to the cramped environs of LeCabaret, one of the few College Station cl ubs to offer live music. They offer both cover songs from bands such as The Police, Scorpions and Dire Straits, and original songs, which are written collectively. Bennett says. Garfield Scott, owner of LeCaba ret, says other local talent, such as Sneaky Pete and the Neon Madmen, the Locomotives, Starvin’ Marvin and the Dexatrims and 4 Hams on Rye make regular appearances at the club. Scott says he hopes to develop a club where local talent like Traxx can perform. Last October, Bennett, a senior marketing major who manages the band, met guitarist Dean Moses, an engineering technology senior, at a musicians* club meeting. Moses says. Bennett says, “We found that out- musical styles were similar, so we de cided to form Traxx.” While attending high school in Brenham, Bennett played in Cross fire, a band that played both rock'n’roll and country and western music, she says. When she joined Traxx, she says she decided to break from country and western music. “I give all I have on stage,” Ben nett says, whose gutsy vocals and strong stage presence mimic Pat Be- natar, whom she admires. “I can ex press best what I do as a with rock ’n’ roll.” Piopelling the bandLl.i> id .i 11 tend he had . the 1 t \.is A\ M ; || I Traxx’s sound is roundst the l>ooming bass of likj 1 )rew I lesson, the band’s foal player. He was added in Mau ai HO Who leads the band? “Through thick and and I are the leaders," ai “We've been with it front nine.” S 31 "* puter Although thev havehadJpfSt. d sonnel changes, some ttefBUnl: ( Mange for the band. ge prat tit ing in tb.it two-arjaiwured Mill hoping that musk b^8“My them the .ut cut ion that lodlfrom ] tlo. vid, w Thom; gratlui warm, Our undergraduate officer commissioning program gives you the opportunity to get more than a B.A. or B.S. 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