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Open Sam - 8pm (across from Kroger Center) Graduate student in Advance to be on TV participant game show Town Hall brings Pretenders to A&M By Lauren Naylor Reporter Auditioning to be a contestant on the highest ranking game show on television is not as easy as it sounds. But Texas A&M graduate student Dan Harris did make it, and he’ll be competing on the Wheel of Fortune on KCEN-TV, tonight at 6:30. In August, the petroleum engi neering graduate student from Bryan trekked to Los Angeles to au dition for “the Wheel,” as he fondly calls it. Harris says the first audition con sisted of a written test and an oral test. The written test was comprised of 15 fill-in-the-letter puzzles, in cluding five people, five places and five things. Each would-be contes tant had to complete 10 puzzles in five minutes to continue with the au ditions. Of 50 people, only eight passed the written test. “The eight survivors then spun a miniature wheel, solved some puz zles, and tried to look enthusiastic and effervescent in order to check for good stage presence,” Harris says. Next, there was an interview ses sion during which Harris told con testant coordinators that his hobbies are stand-up comedy, gambling and pool. “This part of the audition,” Harris says, “was to make sure the contes tants would not stutter or fidget.” Four of the eight players passed the oral test. At the second audition, two days later, Harris says the contestants practiced playing bonus rounds and shopping for prizes. Then the coor dinators told contestants they would be contacted within 10 days if they had passed the audition. Six days later, Harris received a letter congratulating him on passing both auditions. The taping date was scheduled for Dec. 17. On the day of the show, Harris says that in order to avoid disclosure of the puzzles, the players were warned not to talk with host Pat Sa- jak, hostess Vanna White or the guests. Guests were told that if they talked to, or even waved at a contes tant, the player would be disqual ified. The game was difficult to play, Harris says, but not for academic reasons. “Well, it’s different when you’re on the set,” he says. “Number one, the letters are a lot bigger. You’re used to watching TV where you can see the whole puzzle at once. When you are on the set, you’ve got to read across because the puzzle board is so big. You can’t count the spaces be tween the letters. It looks different.” But that wasn’t the only difficulty Harris had. “Well,” he remarked with a grin, “Guys like me, who are concentrat ing on Vanna rather than the puzzle, mess things up, too. When you solve the puzzle, she looks at you and she smiles and we melt. Wowl So, you try to put that out of your mind while you solve the puzzle. “She is very effervescent. She is very bright and happy.” But Sajak was a different story. “Pat was always cracking jokes,” Harris remembers with a smile. “He’s a really sharp guy. I was im pressed with how he could handle something unexpected that would come up. He did a very nice job.” Harris wasn’t nervous on the set of the popular gameshow because of his past experience in performing and because of Sajak. “I was comfortable,” Harris says. “Pat and I were cracking jokes back and forth. I was relaxed. I was hav ing a good time.” Harris says having been a disc jockey on KTAW and performing at the Comedy Club on amateur nights helped him to feel less nervous. Harris says he spent about $500 out of his own pocket for travel ex penses. Harris signed a contract restrict ing him from disclosing the out come. To find out, tune in tonight — prime time. By Karl Pallmeyer Music Critic Your chance to get close to the Pretenders is coming Thursday night when the band will be per forming at G. Rollie White Col iseum. The concert, sponsored by MSC Town Hall, is scheduled to begin at 8 p.m., with special guest Iggy Pop as the opening act. The Pretenders’ latest album, “Get Close,” is currently in the 17th position on Billboard’s “Hot 100” albums chart. In the past eight years, the Pretenders have had several hit singles, including a remake of the Kinks’ classic “Stop Your Sobbing” and original songs “Brass in Pocket,” “Pre cious,” “Kid,” “Middle of the Road,” “2,000 Miles,” “Back on the Chain Gang” and “Don’t Get Me Wrong.” The band’s albums, “The Pretenders,” “Pretenders II” and “Learning to Crawl” have sold well in the United States and Great Britain. American-born guitarist, singer and songwriter Chrissie Hynde put together the Pretend ers in 1978 while she was living in England. The band, which consis ted of guitarist James Honeyman- Scott, bassist Pete Farndon and drummer Martin Chambers, be gan playing around London and was awarded a recording contract with Real Records in 19/9. The band recorded two albums and an EP before the deaths of Honeyman-Scott and Farndon because of drug-related causes. Guitarist Robbie McIntosh and bassist Malcolm Foster joined the band in 1983 for the “Learning to Crawl” album and tour. Aside from an appearance at 1985’s "Live Aid" concert, the Pretenders haven’t appeared on stage in three years. During that time, Hynde married Simple Minds’ lead singer Jim Kerr and had a hit single with a remalt|| Sonus .iml (.lu-iVI Got YouS, f he” with UB40. For the “Get Close” all®; T.M. Stevens replaced Foster:; bass and Blair Cunningham placed Chambers on drums Kt | ooardist Bernie Worrell, who played for Funkadelic and Talking Heads, contributed several songs on the new altj and will be appearing on s!ii> with Hynde, McIntosh, Stevai and Cunningham. Iggy P°P h as been called “Godfather of Punk” and good reason. It was 20 years when Pop, then calling hiite Iggy Stooge, led a bandcalledt; Stooges. While the band phi the same style of rough annah sive music the Sex Pistols wot make their own in the mid-"! Pop would sing, scream j shout angry lyrics at an audie: too hung up in the flower pov- scene of the ’60s to understa: what the future of rock n® hold. David Bowie was a big far,: the Stooges and produced die critic ally-acclaimed “Raw Pour album in 1973. When the broke up, Bowie produced Pof) solo albums “Tne Idiot “Lust for Life." Pop has wried several songs with Bowie, ini ing Bowie’s hits “China Girl’ “T onight.” Pop’s latest album, "Blah-Bk Blah," was produced bv Be and features several songs written by Bowie and ex-Seth tols’ guitarist Steve Jones. “Bk Blah-Blah" has been Pop's ta selling album to date. Tickets for the Pretenden Iggy Pop are available at thtRx der Box Office for SI3.50.t the Rudder Box Office at M 1234 or MSC Town Hallat8i ; 15 15 for more details. Radar center targets drug traffic HOUSTON (AP) — A multimil- lion-dollar monitoring center, lo cated behind locked doors in a room jammed with radar screens, keeps an eye on all traffic in the Gulf of Mex ico. Dubbed the Blue Fire Operations Center, the U.S. Customs Service fa cility is aimed at countering the in creased flow of illegal drugs, weap ons and currency into the Southwest and particularly along the Texas Gulf. By 1989, Operation Alliance eventually will be tied into a string of radar stations including aerostat bal loons based on land along the 2,000- mile Texas-to-Califorma border. The center also will have contacts with radar platforms in Arizona and California. It will be opened officially today by Customs Commissioner William von Raab. “This gives us a set of eyes from Sabine pass to California,” said an Drug company’s president killed; police report no suspects, motive TEXARKANA (AP) — A bomb exploded and killed a drug company president when he switched on the ignition of his Mercedes-Benz, but police said Tuesday they had no sus- C ects and company officials were affled as to the motive. Walsh-Lumpkin Drug Co. Presi dent Daryl Crouch, 36, died in stantly in the blast Monday night, and his wife and 10-year-old daugh ter were burned as they frantically tried to pull him from the inferno, police spokesman Earl Cox said. Walsh-Lumpkin spokesman Ron Gray said, “We literally, honest-to- God literally, have nothing to hang our hats on. “I was as close to the man as any one could be, but nobody has any idea why something like this hap pened.” Jan Crouch, 35, who was treated for burns and released from Wadley Regional Medical Center, would not talk to reporters. The couple’s daughter, Sandy, still was hospital ized in fair condition Tuesday with burns on her face, hands and back, hospital spokesman Ann Beaty said. Cox said police had no suspects. The Crouches’ late-model Mer cedes exploded shortly before 7 p.m. Monday in the parking lot outside Walsh-Lumpkin’s offices on State Line Avenue, the street that divides Texas from Arkansas. Crouch, whose charred body was sprawled halfway out of the driver’s side door, apparently had just switched on the ignition. Sandy was a passenger in the Mercedes, but Mrs. Crouch already had gotten into her car, which was parked nearby, police said. Lorann Abies, who works at the Taco Tico restaurant on the Arkan sas side of the street, said, “It shook us pretty bad. We thought we were on fire.” Abies said a passerby pulled Mrs. Crouch from the burning car as she tried to rescue her husband. “She was on fire with a little blaze on her,” she said. “She tried to get back into the car to pull the man out, but they wouldn’t let her.” Bob Switzer, acting agent in charge of the bureau’s Dallas office, said evidence recovered from the scene will be sent to the ATE explo sives laboratory in San Francisco. Gray said company officials had no reason to believe the explosion was related to an extortion attempt against the pharmaceuticals supply company last summer. Walsh-Lumpkin received an anonymous letter in August that company officials interpreted as a tampering threat aimed at an un specified product. The threat was in vestigated, but no evidence of tam pering ever was found. unnamed Customs official in ington quoted Fuesday by the! ton Chronicle. “We’ll be able, for exampi look at Corpus Christidayor and see the marine traffic, said.“It’s the same thing wet: Florida, with the South Florid) Force: Bring the radar in trate it in one central locaw put it on larger screens if nets m the same location for bene!) cal operations.” UT committef to study rules of admission AUSTIN (AP) — A Ml of Texas faculty committetj® been asked to study proposed!I mission rules that would i' based entirely on a student's^ school record. Now, Texas high school pi™ nates in the top quarterofilH class are accepted automate® Other residents are admiK "I they score high enough oil dardized aptitude tests. tlon UT President Williama ningham proposed UT reiaiii T tomatic admission and rejf' JJ 101 of applicants, but alsohavea^ en by-case review of about 3fl*“ as cent of the applicants. 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