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In Advance
MSC Council to request fee increase
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By Carolyn Garcia
Staff Writer
A 9.2 percent increase in stu
dent service fees will be requested
by the Memorial Student Center
Council when it submits its bud
get to the Student Senate, Bobby
Bisor, MSC president, said.
The council will review its bud
get request once more in its meet
ing Monday night before passing
it on to the Student Senate.
“It’s historical for the MSC,”
Bisor said. “We usually ask for
about this amount. The request is
| never over 12 percent.”
Bisor said the “massive four-
I volume document” depicts line-
| by-line what the council expects
| to spend in Fiscal year 1987-88.
“We want to set up a few new
| programs and expand some of
[ our existing programs,” he said.
One MSC council program, the
Student Conference on National
l Affairs 1987, will get underway
Feb. 11. The council will discuss
final preparations for the event at
its meeting.
During its 32nd year, SCON A
will address the purpose and poli
tics of the United Nations.
Perry Eichor, executive vice
president for administration, will
address the council on the MSC
Master Plan. This comprehensive
Five-year plan outlines the “long-
range direction” the MSC plans
to take in its policies and em
phasis, Bisor said.
The council will go into closed
session to nominate candidates
for three executive vice president
and nine vice president positions.
As with nominations for the
council president’s position, the
council may elect not to Fill any
position if they are unsatisified
with the candiaates.
Senate to consider contributing to RAC
The Faculty Senate, in its meet
ing Monday in 701 Rudder at
3:15 p.m., will consider asking
faculty to contribute to the
Higher Education Legislative Po
litical Action Committee.
In January, President Frank E.
Vandiver sent a letter to Dr. Sam
Black, the Senate’s speaker,
asking the Faculty Senate to sup
port the higher education PAC.
The Senate agreed at its Jan.
19 meeting to put off consider
ation of the PAC until Monday’s
| meeting, authorizing its executive
committee to draft an appropri
ate letter to send to faculty mem
bers.
However, no letter has been
sent yet, Dr. Richard Shumway,
the Senate’s secretary, said.
The Senate also will consider
the following recommendations
from the University Curriculum
Committee:
• Approval of new courses
and course withdrawals.
• Approval of a new bachelor
of arts degree in psychology.
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Pretenders give crowd of 2,200
a rock ’n’ roll show to remember
Opening act of Iggy Pop
kicks night off on right foot
By Karl Pallmeyer band played “Time the Avenger’
Music Critic and “Adultress.”
Less than 2,200 people turned out
to see the Pretenders and Iggy Pop
when’MSC Town Hall brought them
to G. Rollie White Coliseum Thurs
day night.
It’s unfortunate that more people
didn’t get a .i■
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the best rock ’n’
roll concert to hit the Texas A&M
campus in years. But those who were
there had plenty of room to dance.
Pop, a.k.a. the Godfather of Punk,
kicked off the evening with a few
songs from his days with the
Stooges. Pop and his band cranked
out some prototypical punk songs.
After a few minutes of Pop’s wild
and frantic dancing, the crowd be
gan to take notice and rose to its feet.
Pop took off his black leather jacket
and belted out a couple of songs he’d
written with David Bowie: “Blah-
Blah-Blah,” the title track from
Pop’s latest album and “China Girl,”
Bowie’s 1983 hit.
Pop left the stage after running
through a hot rendition of the
theme from “Repo Man,” only to be
called back for an encore. “Raw Pow
er,” the title song from Pop’s last al
bum with the Stooges, turned on a
crowd which, for the most part, had
never heard of Iggy Pop before.
The Pretenders came on stage in a
cloud of smoke and began with Jimi
Hendrix’s “Room Full of Mirrors,” a
song included on the band’s newest
album, “Get Close.” The crowd was
on its feet from this moment on.
Hynde picked up her blue and sil
ver Fender Telecaster guitar and led
the band through “Message of Lo
ve.”
“I hope you all pass your exams
tomorrow,” Hynde said. “This is my
idea of studying,” she said, and the
Hydne dedicated the next song,
‘‘Light of the Moon,” to the recently-
departed Liberace and throwing
flowers into the audience.
The band played rousing renden-
tions of “My Baby,” “Talk of the
Town,” “Hymn to Her” and the reg
gae-sounding “Private Life.” During
the soulful “Chill Factor,” Hynde
said she realized the place wasn’t full
but that didn’t matter to her. What
did matter, she said, was that she was
getting to do what she wanted to do.
Hynde flirted with the audience
during “Don’t Get Me Wrong,” the
band’s newest hit from their “Get
Close” album. The band then played
“Kid,” one of the band’s first hits
from the 1979 “Pretenders” album,
and “Back on the Chain Gang,” one
of the hits from the 1983 “Learning
to Crawl” album.
After Hynde’s haunting vocals on
“Tradition of Love,” a song from the
newest album, she launched into a
vulgar protest against the way the
government had “ruined” her
hometown of Akron, Ohio. She said
she hoped the people of College Sta
tion wouldn’t let the same thing hap
pen to their city and led the band
through “My City Was Gone.”
The band left the stage after
cranking through “Up the Neck,”
“Wait” and “Middle of the Road.”
After a few minutes of yelling from
the crowd, the band came back out
and performed “Brass in Pocket.”
During the song, Hynde introduced
the band members: guitarist Robbie
McIntosh, drummer Blair Cunning
ham, bassist Malcolm Foster and
keyboardist Ruppert Black. Foster,
who played on the “Learning to
Crawr* album and tour, and Black
have just recently replaced bassist
T.M. Stevens ana keyboardist Ber-
nie Worrell for the “Get Close” tour.
The rest of the encore included
killer versions of “Thumbelina,”
“Precious” and the Kinks’ “Stop
Your Sobbing.”
Photo by Doug La Rue
Chrissie Hynde, lead singer of the Pretenders, performs on guitar.
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