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Robin Sibery, a senior animal science major, gets a kiss from
Reveille V Wednesday afternoon at Sally’s Symposium.
Reveille
‘speaks’
at Sully’s
Her escort
gives answers
to questions
By Bob Grube
Staff Writer
The Corps’ top-ranking cadet was
at Sully’s Symposium Wednesday,
and she was on her best behavior.
Reveille, the 2-year-old first lady
of Aggieland, was accompanied by
her keeper, Mascot Cpl. Rick Hol
comb of Company E-2, during the
question-and-answer session in front
of the Lawrence Sullivan Ross
statue.
Holcomb said Reveille goes every
where with him and does everything
he does during the course of the
day.
“She does what we do,” Holcomb
said. “She goes to formation, chow
and class.”
Holcomb said most professors
don’t mind having Reveille in class.
However, some don’t like her be
ing there because they feel they have
to compete with her for the attention
of the class.
“She’s usually pretty well-be
haved, but sometimes she walks up
to the chalkboard and steals era
sers,” Holcomb said.
The mascot corporal has several
jobs, Holcomb said, and one of them
is protecting Reveille from would-be
mascot snatchers.
Holcomb said Reveille is the only
Southwest Conference mascot that
has not been stolen, and it’s Com
pany E-2’s job to keep it that way.
“Before the t.u. game, we have a
24-hour guard outside the dorm to
make sure nobody kidnaps her,”
Holcomb said. “One year we stole
Bevo and barbecued him. If stu
dents from another school got hold
of Rev, there’s no telling what they
would do to her.”
Holcomb said Reveille eats with
the Corps in Duncan Dining Hall,
but she eats a strict dog-food diet.
Many people ask Holcomb why
Reveille is so skinny, he said, but he
tells them she’s not skinny, she’s just
picky about what she eats.
Holcomb said he enjoys escorting
Reveille around the campus and stu
dents should not be afraid to walk
up to her and pet her.
“It’s a privilege to take Rev every
where,” Holcomb said. “A lot of
times, I think she’s part human.”
2 SuperStars
for the
price of 1!
The 1986-87
4rMSC Town Hall/Broadway season!
Town Hall/Broadway is back at Texas A&M with the Super season at a super student
discount. Buy TWO student season tickets (Zone 3) for the price of ONE! TWO for
ONE for “Jesus Christ SuperStar”, “Romeo and Juliet”, Cole Porter’s “Can-Can”
and William Windom in his one-man show “Thurber”. Season tickets will be the only
way you may see some of these guaranteed sellouts. You’ll never find another Broad
way bargain like TWO for ONE! Order yours today!
“Jesus Christ Superstar’’
November 6, 1986
The greatest rock musical of all time, based on the life of the greatest man of all time.
This is classic musical theatre that rises above the rock genre to universal greatness.
Ingenious staging and high tech lighting make this a dazzling achievement. You owe
it to yourself one time in your life.
“Romeo and Juliet’’
February 14, 1987
The National Shakespeare Company creates the timeless love story in a special Valen
tine’s Day presentation. Relive the beauty of Shakespeare’s most universally known play
with someone you love.
Cole Porter’s “Can-Can’’
March 1, 1987
A sassy, saucy and sexy musical celebration of romantic turn-of- the-century Paris. Porter
created some of his most rousing and delightful tunes for Can-Can including “I Love
Paris” and “C’est Magnifique”. It is full of the jubilant lust for life that inspired the
spectacular can-can. “C’est Magnifique!”
William Windom as “Thurber’’
April 23, 1987
Windom is one of America’s best loved television actors. For 15 years he has been
delighting audiences with this one-man showcase of James Thurber’s unique wit and
comic art. He is at once light, bright and very right in his musing about the world
as seen from a cartoonist’s pad.
ZONE 1 ZONE 2 ZONE 3
REGULAR $59.25 $47.50 $38.00
STUDENT $50.50 $41.00 $35.00 (2 for 1)
A&M student discount
Tickets: MSC Box Office 845-1234 • MasterCard/VISA
Austin group offers support,
compassion to AIDS victims
AUSTIN (AP) — PWA, which
stands for Persons With AIDS, is a
term that AIDS sufferers in an Aus
tin support group prefer to the tag
of “victim .”
Few people with acquired immune
deficiency syndrome live longer
than 22 months after their diagnosis.
In the past 14 months, the support
group has lost almost 20 members —
five in July, alone.
“It’s like being stripped bare,” said
Byron, 39. “It raises all the questions
of life that you seldom think about if
you don’t have to.”
Although medical experts say
AIDS has no sexual preference, ho
mosexual AIDS patients often en
dure blatant discrimination.
As did the other members of the
group, Byron asked that his last
name not be published for reasons
of privacy and practicality.
Stephanie, 33, another group
member, is a Vietnam veteran whose
sex was changed from male to fe
male in an operation at a Galveston
hospital. She lost her technician’s job
at an Austin clinic after being ac
cused of being rude to patients. The
charge came soon after Stephanie’s
employers discovered she had AIDS.
Stephanie now relies on help from
the Austin AIDS Project, a private
group supported by the Austin Tra
vis County Health Department and
by fund-raisers, memorial contribu
tions and donations.
An estimated 3 million people
have been infected by the AIDS vi
rus, according to Dr. Peter Mansell,
medical director of the new Institute
for Immunological Disorders in
Houston.
The institute, a joint venture of
the University of Texas and Ameri
can Medical International Corp., is
the world’s first hospital for the
treatment of AIDS-related illnesses
and research for a cure.
Alone among the support group
members, Paul, 48, is an outpatient
at the institute. Outpatients agree to
take experimental drugs that re
searchers hope will have some effect
on the AIDS virus.
The group was not particularly
encouraged by recent news of new
drugs that have been shown to pro
long the lives of a limited number of
people with AIDS. They have
reached varying degrees of accep
tance of their fate.
Despite the urge to seek refuge in
sexual intimacy, u
they have purposely isolated
selves by radically alteringtlt i,
ual practices. They said rtteji [.
be grieved if they helped spit, t
disease that is killingthera.
“If you have any love for
ity it comes to that,” Norm si
In Advance
Nuclear engineering toh£
25th anniversary celebrafs
Harold Denton, who has just
returned from the Soviet Union
and an official tour of Chernobyl,
will be the guest speaker at the
Texas A&M nuclear engineering
department’s reunion luncheon
Friday.
Denton, director of the U.S.
Nuclear Reactor Regulation, will
give his presentation at 12:45
p.m. Friday in 224 Memorial
Student Center.
The nuclear engineering de
partment will be celebrating its
25th anniversary. Former and
current nuclear engineering stu
dents will participate.
Also scheduled for the reunion
are presentations highlighting
the early days of thedi
at A&M, presentations bi j
American Nuclear Society,i]
dent Chapter and a sutimar j
the research of the Nudeail
ence Center.
Linn Draper, chief exec
officer of Gulf States Utife
immediate past presidento(|
American Nuclear Society,d|
the dinner guest speakerau
p.m. at the Ramadalnn.
On Saturday, tours oftht:
clear engineering departmer;
Zachry and the Nuclear Sos
Center will be given andarti
tion will be held hononn;:!
founding fathers of the MB
Science Center.
Students can change pc:
with resident adviser slots!
If the same old grind is getting
monotonous, students can apply
to be resident advisers.
Requirements for becoming a
resident adviser include at least a
sophomore status, a 2.25 cumula
tive grade-point ratio, residence
hall living experience and lead
ership experience.
Applications may be picked up
in any of the residence am ft
fices.
The South Area office sh
cated in the Commons, CesB
Area in the A-2 lounge®:
North Area in the B-l lounge I
The Housing Program: :T
is located in the A-2 Lounge li
Applications for residenuT
ers are due in the area office!
p.m. Friday.
1985-86 Yearbooks are
available to be picked up at
the English Annex 8:30amto
4:30pm, Mon. through Fri.
Attention all Students:
1986-87 Aggieland pictures
are now being taken for all
students, regardless of
classification, until Friday,
October 17. ’
Freshmen and Sophmores
can be photgraphed until
October 31.