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Thursday, November 14,1985/The Battalion/Page 3
State and Local
Proceeds from legs contest
to be given to United Way
By MARY KAY KIRK
Reporter
Who wears short shorts?
Members from several student
organizations including the Resi
dence Hall Association, the Corps
of Cadets, the football team and
Off-Campus Aggies wore their
short shorts Wednesday in the
Memorial Student Center for a
legs contest to raise funds for
United Way.
The contest, which required a
$25 entry fee, was sponsored by
Student Government and was the
first of its kind. Student Govern
ment United Way Chairman
Katherine Colley said she hopes it
will become an annual event.
“We like the idea because this
kind of thing can’t get rained
out,” she said, “and anyone can
enter,”
This year’s 10 participants
werejudged by the appearance of
their legs and by audience re
sponse. Each also was asked a
question by the announcers, Col
ley and Keith Kornfuehrer, Stu
dent Government’s student rela
tions chairman.
The judges, also Student Gov
ernment members, included Stu
dent Body President Sean Royall,
Maritza Pena, John Rigas and
Kelly Harvey. They presented an
award to a male winner, a female
winner and an overall “sexiest
legs in Aggieland” winner.
The male winner, football
aver Marshall Land, told the
audience why he thinks he has
such great legs.
“I eat plenty of meat,” he said.
A sophomore from Company
A-l said, “1 think he should have
won, and besides, who’s gonna
tell him he didn’t win?”
Stacey Shaeffer, the female
winner, was sponsored by a local
apartment complex. She said she
was very impressed with the con
test.
“It was all done in very good
taste,” she said. “I had a lot of
fun.”
While most responses to the
fund-raiser were positive, some
Photo by MIKE SANCHEZ
Marshall Land displays his legs for judges John Regas (left),
Maritza Pena (center) and Sean Royall.
since she had four legs instead of
two.
The winners will be announced
during halftime at the Texas
A&M vs. Arkansas game.
Although the legs contest was
all in fun, it was part of a much
bigger plan, Colley said. The goal
of the United Way Committee,
she said, is to raise $3,000 during
the year.
Several groups have been
eager to make donations, Colley
said. She added that the United
Way gained more than money
from the legs contest.
“The main benefit is exposure
for the United Way,” she said.
“We’re trying to raise the stu
dents’ awareness.”
people said they felt that a sexy
legs contest was a tactless way to
raise money.
But Colley said the contest
wasn’t meant to offend anyone.
“We tried to eliminate the bias
by opening the contest to men,
women, or anything else,” she
said.
The overall winner was Texas
A&M mascot Reveille V of Com
pany E-2.
Mascot Gpl. Mark Muse said,
“She has the best legs on campus
1’t have to shave
because she doesn
them to be sexy.”
During questioning by the an
nouncers, someone said that Re
veille had an unfair advantage
OPAS program treats students
to spontaneous performances
By CYNTHIA GAY
Staff Writer
l| MSG Opera and Performing Arts
■Society treated students who fre
quent Zachry Engineering Center to
an unexpected dance routine last
Thursday in the main lobby.
As students left their classes, they
/were caught by the sight of two pre
school
tint
d irls, dressed in colorful leo-
ancing sprightly in the lob
by’s center.
Minutes later the ground floor
and both balconies of Zachry filled
ivith about 500 curious students and
professors as the prancing pair from
Cheryl’s School of Dance stepped
[through their recital.
I Twas shocked,” said Layne Bour
que, a senior industrial engineering
major, describing his first impres
sion of the troupe. “I saw all these
girls dancing around in pink and
black tights.”
It’s all a part of SPEX, a series of
spontaneous performances begun
last spring ancl continuing with four
performances so far this semester.
The key to this OPAS event is its
spontaneity, said Wendel Lloyd,
OPAS director of audience devel
opment.
How about a student saxophonist
rippling out jazz in front of the
Cnemistry Building for spontaneity?
Marcus Drayton played his saxo
phone Nov. 1 for about 50 students
whojust stopped by to enjoy the mu
sic.
“I just got my horn out and
started playing,” said Drayton, a ju
nior mechanical engineering major.
Chosen by OPAS because of his
MSC Variety Show performance last
_ spring, this independent musician
said he kept right on playing.
“It was a great chance to stay in
practice,” Drayton added.
OPAS also enlisted the trombone
talents of David Hass in early Sep
tember followed by Becky Garrison’s
violin solo in October.
Garrison said she enjoyed the
challenge of a constantly fluctuating
group instead of the usual recital au
dience.
“Every five minutes I got a differ
ent audience,” she said. “It’s a neat
experience.”
Lloyd said SPEX is an effort to
bring the performing arts to A&M
students free.
The idea for these impromptu
happenings was born two years ago
as the High Noon concert series,
consisting of occasional perfor
mances held in the MSC main
lounge, Lloyd said.
Vet students to
raise money»
with pig chase
By MANDY MIKULENCAK
Reporter
Watch out Razorbacks!
On Friday, Aggies will be attempt
ing to collar greased piglets and call
hogs at the Greased Pig Chase and
Hog Calling Contest, sponsored by
the Veterinary Class of ’87.
The contest, which begins at 7
p.m., will be held at the Louis Pearce
Animal Science Pavilion on Jersey
Street.
Joseph Hajda, a class representa
tive, said the contest is a “mock” pre
paration for Saturday’s football
game against Arkansas and Coach
Jackie Sherrill will be there as an
honorary judge.
Potential pig pursuers and hog
callers must sign up in teams of four,
either all women, all men, or two
women and two men. The entry fee
is $10 a team.
Hajda said applications can be ob
tained this week at tables set up in
the Commons, Sbisa Dining Hall,
the Memorial Student Center or at
the dean’s office in the College of
Veterinary Medicine.
The winners of the contest will re
ceive complimentary movie passes
and dinners at area restaurants.
For those who would rather watch
the squealing sport, admission will
be 50 cents.
Proceeds will benefit the Brazos
County United Way and the veteri
nary class.
Hajda said his class will use the
money to finance its fourth year
banquet and to help pay the fees for
the State and National Board Exams
the students take their final year.
Prof chosen
to head sea
grant program
University News Service
Dr. Thomas J. Bright, professor
of oceanography at Texas A&M, has
been named director of the Univer
sity’s Sea Grant College Prog n, ef
fective Friday, A&M President
/Frank E. Vandiver says.
W’ith Bright’s appointment, Fee-
nan D. Jennings, Sea Grant director
since 1978, becomes full-time exec
utive director of the Office of Uni
versity Research Services. Jennings
had been serving in a dual capacity
at Sea Grant and research services
since 1983.
As director, Bright will administer
$3.5 million in marine-related re
search, education and public service
programs. Funding comes from pri
vate sources, state and local govern
ments and the National Oceanic and
Atmospheric Administration.
Bright joined the A&M faculty in
1968 and has been a professor in the
Department of Oceanography since
1981. He is an authority on marine
research, with particular emphasis
on coral reef, estuarine and near
shore ecology. He has served as
chairman of the Oceanography Se
nior Advisory Committee and as
coordinator of the Biological Ocean
ography Division.
Bright has been involved in the
environmental regulatory process,
through testimony at congressional
and federal agency hearings, consul
ting for federal and state agencies
and industry on environmental is
sues, and presenting lectures and
television appearances.
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directing
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Nov. 14 6-9:30 p.m.
Nov. 15 5:30-9:00 p.m.
Cost: $25 (including studio card)
MSC Basement
Camera Darkroom
First Presbyterian Church
1100 Carter Creek Parkway, Bryan
823-8073
Dr. Robert Leslie, Pastor
Rev. John McGarey, Associate Pastor
SUNDAY:
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Perms $34.95
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Offer for perm expires 11-30-85
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Off University
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