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Daily lunch special from $3. 55 includes soup Successful luncheon buffet every Sunday ********-i XI / the at the Brazos Valley Christian Bookstore November 19 3:30 - 4:30 IN CONCERT November 19 7:30 pm Bryan Civic Auditorium YOU can MEET them at the BRAZOS VALLEY CHRISTIAN BOOKSTORE 3808 Texas Avenue near Randy Sims Bar-B-Q also ENJOY **Free POPCORN & COKES** All Albums and Cassettes Buy 3 Get 1 Free or $E 50 off each Coupons will be kept * IN-STORE APPEARANCE at the Brazos Valley Christian Bookstore November 22 3:30 - 4:30 MIKE AND ROSE WARNKE IN CONCERT November 22 7:30 pm * TAMU Rudder Auditorium * *Open til 7:30 both days * ***************************************** Aggie ignores disability, leads productive life By KIM WALTERS Reporter When you enter Belinda Lane’s home, you see a Labrador retriever sleeping by the sofa and Belinda straightening up the house. She appears to be an average woman cleaning an average house, but Belinda, 23, has been blind since she was 7. Numerous operations to regain her sight failed, but Belinda doesn’t let that get her down. “I don’t really consider myself handicapped,” she says. “I can walk around tne house pretty easily and even straighten it up without much problem.” But she says she is cautious where she steps. “Ziti will surely let me know if I step on her tail,” she says with a smile. Ziti, her retriever, is her See ing Eye dog whose favorite pastime is sleeping by the sofa. But Ziti does more than sleep. When a person unfamiliar to Ziti approaches the front door, the re triever puts her nose up to the screen door and shows her teeth. Anyone — friend or foe — thinks twice before entering the house, Be linda says. As you watch Belinda pick up the newspaper and step over Ziti on her way to the sofa, you find it hard to believe she is blind. But sometimes she gives herself away. “Mike, where did you put the tele phone receiver?” she asks. Her hus band, Mike, sometimes forgets to put the receiver by the telephone. When you ask Belinda about the problems she encountered as a stu dent at Texas A&M, she thinks for a moment, chuckles a bit, then tells you that mopeds and motorcycles were her biggest obstacles. “The only real problems I had were when I would walk with Ziti to school and hear something come barrelling past me at 99 miles an hour,” she says. “They never ran over me but came close. “I also had trouble trying to get around all the bicycles with my cane. It’s like going through a maze.” Belinda doesn’t have to worry about dodging mopeds and motor cycles anymore. Now she dodges stu dents in the halls of A&M Consol idated High School. Belinda started teaching at the high school after she graduated with a bachelor’s degree in secondary ed ucation in December 1984. “I teach Spanish over there and I love it,” she says. “Even though I’m blind, the students respond very well to me and Ziti.” But she says she’s not going to let the students spoil Ziti. “I allow them to pet her only when she does not have her harness on,” she says, explaining that petting a Seeing Eye dog while it’s in its har ness breaks its concentration. “Being blind does have its disad vantages however,” she says with a laugh. “Sometimes, the students see just how much they can get away with in class. They love to throw spit wads at each other thinking I don’t know what’s going on.” Mike laughs as ne joins Belinda on the sofa. “Somtimes our friends wonder if she’s really blind because there isn’t anything they can do or an express ion that they can have that she doesn’t know about,” he says. Belinda explains this, saying, “It’s just a feeling I get when I know they are up to something.” Being blind doesn’t keep Belinda from being active. By KELLI Emergency! The mentio Conjure up vis lushiiig to the and of seeing the injured. I The Texas / Team, headqi Beutel Health hour ambularn pus and schc and for anyon to have the te tynn Brown, MECT. I In order to ambulance, ai mirough sever Brown says, i Those who experience tak Bionary resusc aid and in ei lance, he says. v| After writte the individual Photo by ANTHONYS. C.tSfflj Belinda Lane, a former student at Texas A&M, sits in her home with her Seeing Eye dog, Ziti. She enjoys water skiing, but she says, “I’m not really good at it. I still have trouble staying up on those stu pid things. they forget their drinks." ida Belinda says she always have at least one pet around; house. “I also like to go to the T exas Hall of Fame on Thursdays to dance. Country dancing is easy. All you have to do is holtl on to the guy while he leads you. Sometimes if he’s a bad dancer, he’ll lead you right into the walls.” “The most uncommon pelIti had was a rat named Benatar j says. “Her full name wasRaiis tar.” She likes to have fun, butM also has her goals. Her eyes twinkle mischievously when she tells you her secret: “If 1 don’t want to dance with the guy at all, I just simply say Tin blind.’ Usually that scares them off so fast "As far as my goals are cat ned,” she says, “1 would liketok as many students learn as lean.' She also says she wants im blind children and the visual) paired work with computers. f lency care ati list stage of Texas Depa Brown says. 1 “If someon spends a sem< member,” he s he is encoura covering a full b concerts, C lames, road events.” lif During this (Wvering event I “They are dispatch capta ijllt any situat: nd then they ■tl,” Brown sa; I After the Hie attendant Krver-traininj I “They are fore orientati Madrigals transport guests in time aferver-traminj "It is the first ride on an and [;' “They are t; Idoes what, ho : assist the med not to do. Dinners mimic Renaissance talk Ass DALLAS - By MELANIE WEINMANN Reporter From the authentic period cos tumes down to the multicourse me dieval feast, every detail is calculated to help transport guests to the Re naissance period, which is consid ered to be a time of rebirth for Euro pean civilization. The goal of the MSC Madrigal Dinners is putting the guests in the holiday spirit while teaching them about Renaissance culture, says Pat ricia Fleitas, artistic and music direc tor for the annual yuletide feast. Madrigal Dinners tries to ac complish this goal by doing more than providing a window to the past, she says. The committee strives to bring a touch of medieval times to the community. “Our aim is to involve the audi ence in the fantasy,” Fleitas says. The event, which will be held Dec. 4 through Dec. 7 at the Hilton, starts at 6:30 p.m. with a reception in the hotel’s Long Gallery. Strolling musicians and jugglers will mingle with guests and get them in the spirit of the season, Fleitas says. ********i IN-STORE APPEARANCE J * Fleitas, who has worked on the program since the first dinner in 1981, believes the floor performers, the people actually out among the guests, do the most to get the audi ence involved in the illusion. After most of the guests have ar rived and are in sufficient good cheer, the court jester welcomes them to the hall of Lord and Lady Raleigh of Nottingham and informs everyone of the court rules of eti quette. Next, guests are ushered to their seats, and at the sound of a trumpet, the procession, led by Lord and Lady Raleigh, begins. The nobility enter singing authentic madrigal music. During dinner, the cast continues to entertain with more music, wan dering minstrels and jugglers, the jester’s antics and a magician or two. Fleitas, who has a master’s in mu sic from the University of Texas, is also in charge of the Century Singers and the Women’s Chorus at A&M. She says she sought out MSC Di rector James R. Reyolds when she heard he was forming a committee, and she asked him if she could help with the program. “Mr. Reynolds worked with a Property thef . ... . Dallas the hig madrigal dinner program in the countr hotna and thought it would btajm t ^ e f irs t' s j tradition to start here,” Fleitas sal( | “I wanted to he involved bea® " love the music of the period.” One of Fleitas’jobs is auditioit i singers at the beginning ofeadi semester. Cast members are from the community and the! ‘ dent body and are judged on tht sis of solo and ensemble voice* tions. Places in the string andl ensemble also are filled by audili To the show continuit), o give t only take enough new perfort each year to fill the holescrealtf people who have left the prograi nave graduated,” Fleitas says.“ft you’re in, you’re in until you was get out.” George Strait comes to A&M tonight By SAM BUCHMEYER Reporter Since George Strait released his first single, “Unwound,” in 1981, his career has gone nowhere but up. P £ has managed to harness his talents into a string of hit records. His hits include such memorables as “Fool Hearted Memory,” “Marina Dei Rey” and “You Look So Good In Lo- Strait will perform at 8 p.m. in G. Rollie White Coliseum, promoting his latest album, “Something Speci al,” which features the hit sirs “The Chair.” Strait played the small i years before he was discovered! signed on MCA Records. ^ . .. A Valedictory Address Ladies and Gentlemen of the Student Body, look upon Walden Pond as both an end and a beginning An end to living quarters of lesser distinction The beginningoh superior lifestyle. Enjoy a fireplace, vaulted ceiling and ceiling fan, large walk-in closets, designer interiors, washer/dryer connections, private terrace or balcony and large archedwin dows Explore the secluded wooded setting and relax in an exclusive atmosphere offering a private lake, pool, hot tub spa, exercise room and a showcase clubhouse for enter taining Available in one and two bedroom floor plans. 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