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1 Page 4/The Battalion/Tuesday, November 12, 1985 IJVTERURBAJV Join us Tuesday nights for MEXICAN BEER NIGHT! DOS EQUIS, TECATE & CORONA Only ONE DOUAR from 5:00 pm until close The INTERURBAN 505 University Dr. "an aggie tradition" LOST & FOUND BIKE AUCTION FRIDAY NOV. 15 12:00 NOON RUDDER FOUNTAIN Sponsored By A&M LIVING HISTORIANS Proceeds to Benefit A&M ARCHIVES Cash or Checks Accepted Auctioneer: W. Scott Swenson TxS-076-1558 IT’S A SHOOT OUT!! MSC Camera Committee presents GARY FAYE of Houston directing A Studio Seminar Nov. 14 6-9:30 p.m. Nov. 15 5:30-9:00 p.m. Cost: $25 (including studio card) MSC Basement Camer Darkroom RUNAWAY BESTSELLER! Just released and already a Bestseller everywhere. THE INVADERS PLAN BY L. RON HUBBARD Volume 1 of MISSION EARTH The Biggest SF Dekalogy* ever written Already in third reprint. A stunning blend of high drama and Incisive comedy satire. 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Joe Lloyd, a credit union teller, “We are receiving at least one new account a day.” Memberships are open to faculty, staff, students, former students and just about anyone affiliated with A&M, Lloyd says. “Once someone is a member, someone else may open an account through his membership,” Lloyd says. The credit union charges a $25 membership fee. After becoming a member, the door opens to Aggies for many fi nancial opportunities, Lloyd says. Every member is part owner of the union and is allowed a vote in the board of directors election, Lloyd Ap how to handle their finances, These seminars primarily ni aimed at incoming freshmen ( have never had a checking aw before, Fritts says. “We also want to help student their personal lives,” he says. The union also will offercla teach women tips on personal "not to scaie, but to caution ikel Fritts savs. 600D M 6 fWEt TO D T10N says. The credit union also offers checking accounts with no service charge to its members and offers in terest on accounts maintaining a bal ance over $300, Lloyd says. The union offers money market accounts and IRA’s, which they say stands for Incredibly Rescnirceful Aggie. Other titles of accounts that dis play the union’s “Aggieness” are the names of the certificates of deposits: Howdy, Hullabaloo, Gig ’Em, Re veille, Tradition and Spirit. The union offers auto loans, un secured loans, mortgage loans, home improvement loans and the maroon and white Texas Aggie Credit Union Mastercard. Lloyd says the National Credit Union Administration insures the union’s accounts for up to $100,000. Jack G. Fritts, credit union presi dent, says the union was started to help Aggies with their finances. The student financial services committee did not feel students were getting financial services they de served in the Bryan-College Station area, Fritts says. Shelley Metcalf , director of finan cial services, says the credit union has processed 84 Guaranteed Stu dent Loans. Fritts says that in addition to fi nancial services the credit union will be giving seminars to teach people The credit union’s goal is vide a place for former student] deposit their money, he says, some point in the future, Frill the board of directors will d the undivided earnings to the ciation of Former Students ati Texas A&M Development Foci j exas bon- Hextis A The credit union is tryinttoJpaitmen vide a vehicle to respond itMrticipa needs of the University, Frittsswbe the I “We would like to restrict Sid, wh funds to academic needs," hesmlipants n The credit union is suopocPK s ' 11 the athletic program througnadi tisements, not through directd(| lions, Fritts say^. The union made a consemOscussic estimate of a donation of Jltr ol artific a year in 10 years, Fritts savs. donation more likely will Dc|i million a year, he says. ce. The s rations t ■ligenc Maestro leads orchestra's revival ol art ill' M DAL Associated Press hnvtng ma- HOUSTON — The Houston Symphony Orchestra, broke and near collapse two years ago, may be out of the red this season, thanks in C art to a conductor who once was la- eled a traitor and kicked out of his native Romania. Maestro Sergiu Comissiona, 58, the symphony director since 1982, has helped turn the struggling, debt- ridden orchestra into a thrivin jor artistic force. Now he has set out to reshape the entertainment patterns of the Bayou City. About 250,000 people attended symphony concerts in Houston last year, but, for Comissiona, that’s not enough. “People here tend to put sports, dinner parties and concerts in that order on their list of things to do,” the conductor says. “I want them to change their lifestyle to make music part of their daily lives. When they get out their books, I want them to put concerts first, then sports or din ner parties.” Comissiona made his conducting debut at age 18 in his homeland at the Bucharest State Opera. His ca- IQF reer flourished until 1958 when he and his wife, Robinne, applied lot- exit visas to Israel. Just 12 hours alter they filed the applications, a voice boomed over speakers at the Bucharest concert hall, interrupting Comissiona dur ing a dress rehearsal. The voice screamed that he and his wife were traitors. They were given 20 minutes to leave the hall. The Romanian government canceled a tax exemption, which was granted to Comissiona because of his artistic position, and ordered him to pay back taxes. “When 1 had to sell my white tie and tails, which I always wore when I conducted, I thought I had lost my identity,” Comissiona says. Nine months later, with only the clothes they wore, he and his wife were hustled out of the country on a midnight train. They arrived in Israel in 1959, where he struggled to build the Haifa Symphony and the Israel Chamber Orchestra. In 1965, Comissiona directed the Philadelphia Orchestra, his first U.S. engagement, and so impressed con ductor Eugene Ormandy that the American conductor recommended he take the podium two years later in Baltimore. Alter 17 years in Baltimore, Com issiona decided he had reached his peak of popularity and musical ac complishment. He sought a new challenge in Houston. The challenge turned out to be more formidable than he expected. When he arrived in late 1982, Houston’s economic lifeline — the energy industry — was sagging. And the conductors plans were threat ened by debts and labor problems. Determined to develop the or chestra’s artistic potential despite the money problems, Comissiona ar ranged an East Coast tour, including an appearance at Carnegie Hall in New York, expanded the repertoire and secured a five-year recording contract. was designed to achieve a “T hroughout the whole time, we managed to keep our artistic integ- r',” he says. “But we did very well. a budget, But by 1984 the orckX'd^jj" was almost out of money. Themffi j rav cians approved a wage fra] lj rcu j t ( June 1984, followed by a waiver » en ti 0 n scheduled wage increase. Mm]J3 5( problems continued into thitjfl pj’ s and negotiations for a new ck c ) 1I( S were delayed several monthslof*? more time to develop a firai fnental nty,” he says. “But we did very wel If we had had more money, we might be further ahead, but we cer tainly didn’t go down.” Trie Houston Symphony was founded in 1913 and throughout its history has had a strong group of musical leaders. But the 1970s brought to a peak problems that had been ignored for nearlv a decade. Deficits grew and attendance eroded as the rival Houston Grand Opera and the Houston Ballet fired the imagination of the socially elite and captured their loyalty. Tne or chestras labor relations soured, re sulting in a four-month dispute that forced cancellation of the opening weeks of the 1976-77 season. The symphony had operated at annual deficits averaging $1.5 mil lion, with the difference being cov ered by unrestricted endowment funds. But these funds were nearly depleted by 1982. T he Houston Symphony Society adopted a five-year plan in 1982 that plan and to harvest the tentfofiuplica Comissiona’s artistic improveraeil £i iai The plan worked. Last monill| not hi symphony society directors n non need the red ink had bee^ ^ ar <lu.<d h. |,„ m iIr : cmm. vious deficit of $892,000. TW a ^ P° forecast a surplus for theyeari® 1 ^ so the orchestra keeping to tne ule planned by Comissiona. The orchestra will be malt about 180 performances, signed to provide something for i erybody, says Comissiona. Wi HOI Houston’s Symphony Orchea day we says the director, has arrived: charrec new artistic plateau. 'County that wa “The last season was the first® But I experienced a very positivesid toys sh< music-making with an orchestn husban says. In the first years, I prolfc fagures was too busy organizing otkif toiling pects of the orchestra. Last seffl I The went much more to making i Ijtion, with the orchestra, and | ' a good sign.” ghr owr 52, cha Photo contest taking entries By KRISTY KNUTSON Reporter The Memorial Student Center Camera Committee is busy with pre parations for Fall Foto ’85, an an nual photo contest. Prints will be accepted forjudging Monday through Nov, 22 in the Me morial Student Center at the first- floor tables from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. Michael Radmann, a camera com mittee member, says the contest is open to all amateur photographers in the community as well as Texas A&M students. Judging will begin Nov. 23 in 308 Rudder Tower. portrait/candid, nature/landscape, architecture, experimental/abstract, commercial/advertising and sports- photojournalism. All three judges individually will score the print, Radmann says. In the past, the most popular cat egory has been nature/landscape, Radmann says. Winners will be announced offi cially by Nov. 26. Winning photographs will be dis played in tne MSC lounge Nov. 25 to Nov. 27, Radmann says. says. Black-and-white prints will be judged from 8:30 a.m. to noon and color prints will be judged from 1 p.m. to 5 p.m., Radmann says. The judges for this year’s contest are Bill Crawford, of CN’C Photo- g raphics of Bryan; Bill Meeks, ryan-College Station Eagle photog raphy editor; and James Page, a pro fessional photographer from Bryan. Each of the two divisions — black and white and color — will be sepa rated into seven categories: still life, There is no limit on the number of prints a photographer can enter, he says, and the print must be an original work. and printing by a pro- allowed f for color Processin; fessional Ian is a work only, he says. Entry fee is $3 a print, and checks can be made out to the MSC Camera Committee. The MSC Camera Committee has sponsored the annual photo contest since the early 1970s. About 400 prints usually are en tered in the contest, Radmann says. First, second and third place rib bons will be awarded in all seven cat egories, and the best of show black- and-white and color print selected will receive a $50 casn prize, Rad mann says. All prints must be at least an 8x10 and mounted on a board of at least 11x13 inches, Radmann says. Noth ing larger than a 16x20 will be ac ceptable forjudging and matting is optional, he says. Addresses and phone numbers should be on the back of ail prints along with the MSC fall photo entry form contestants receive when the prints are turned in. MSC head to speak at Sul Symposium Denis Davis, president of Memorial Student Center, speak at Sully’s Symposi Wednesday. §1 Davis will talk about herdoi as president of the MSC andti other students can get involv with the MSC, says LamdaSigf Chairwoman Stacey Allen. The symposium will be bf from 11:50 a.m. to 12:30 p.m the Lawrence Sullivan Ross sit in front of the Academic mg. It is sponsored by W Sigma, the sophomore honor! ciety. Davis will speak for about minutes, Allen said. After her speech, Davis will) swer questions from the am ence. 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