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Movie house to become rock club
Local saloon owner buys theater
By Amy Couvillon
Staff Writer
and
Jennifer Friend
Reporter
Night life at Northgate could have
a new twist this fall with people
dancing in what were formerly the
aisles of the Campus Theater, says a
Northgate saloon owner who plans
to open the old theater as a rock ’n’
roll dub.
“It’s going to be a fun, college
bar,” says Don Ganter, who owns the
Dixie Chicken saloon, the Chicken
Oil Co. restaurant and Sticky Chins
ice-cream parlor. (
“It will just be a good, solid place
for college kids to go and rock ’n’
roll," he says.
Ganter bought the Campus Che
ater last summer from William
Schulman, owner of the Bryan-Col-
lege Station movie-theater chain.
The theater was built in 1947. Al
though it is something of a historical
landmark, it has been unoccupied
for about three years.
Before, it showed mostly X-rated
movies through the late 1970s and
early 1980s until it was closed and
put up for sale in 1984.
William Schulman’s son, Morris,
says he thinks the Campus has been
in every aerial photograph ever
taken of the Texas A&M campus.
The familv bought the theater in
1961.
Ganter says he wants to preserve
the theater’s history.
“I plan to keep calling it the
Campus,” Ganter says. “I don’t want
to change the outside of the build
ing. It’s kind of an old landmark
around here.”
Ganter says he plans to submit his
building plans to the College Station
Project Review Committee in early
summer.
The remodeling could be com
plete by September, he says.
Shirley Volk, College Station
planning technician, says the review
committee will consider such factors
as available parking and the impact
of the business upon the area before
it approves the remodeling plan.
Photo by Jennifer Friend
Don Ganter shows off his latest piece of property.
Each use of the Northgate area is Canter says he has talked to the
considered individually, Volk says, College Station building inspector
because it is a special historical zone about his remodeling plans,
and has to follow less stringent zon- Because the building is more than
ing requirements than other com- 40 years old and has been unused
mercial zones. for so long, he says, the original wir-
“That whole area is handled d>f- ing and plumbing need to be re-
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“Right now we’re just getting the
kinks out,” Ganter says. “We will be
ready to open by the time school
starts in the fall.”
The Campus club will follow the
formula of low prices and an unso
phisticated atmosphere that has
been successful in Canter’s other
businesses.
“It’s not going to look like neon-
city in there,” he says. “There won’t
be a crystal ball hanging over the
dance floor, and there won’t be
flashing lights.”
Anyone over 18 years old will be
admitted, he says, and there will
probably be a $2 or $3 cover charge.
Rock music from the 1950s
through the 1970s will be played,
and a band will play a few times a
month, he says.
“It’s not going to be an expensive
place to go,” he says. “We’re not
going to have any of that garbage
like $6 cover charge for guys while
girls get in free.”
The cover charge may be a little
higher when there is a live band, he
says.
“We’re not going to be trendy,” he
says. “I don’t know what they’re
doing down the street and I don’t
care.
“I hope their clubs are full every
night as long as mine is, too.”
The club will have a big dance
floor, a few bars and some pool ta
bles, he says.
Since the floor of the theater is
steeply sloped, different levels must
be built to level it off, he says. The
lowest level will be the dance floor.
“The dance floor will take up one-
third of the building,” he says. “Con
sidering the size of the building, that
will be a huge dance floor.”
A horseshoe-shaped balcony may
be added, he says, with pool tables
and a bar on the balcony.
“One day when I was driving by
the Campus Theater I saw Mr.
Schulman’s truck out front,” Ganter
says. “I went in, we got to talking and
we struck a deal.”
“We just shook on it — that’s bet
ter than any lawyer.”
Financial records
of student lobbyists
remain in question
By Frank Smith
Senior Staff Writer
Leaders of Texas A&M’s chap
ter of the Young Conservatives of
Texas say they still question the
legality of an A&M lobby group’s
finances despite a meeting in
which the lobby group submitted
its financial records for YCT
scrutiny.
YCT leaders say they may ask
University officials to help correct
what they think may be a viola
tion of state law by the Legislative
Study Group, a Student Govern
ment agency that researches
higher education issues and lob
bies the Legislature.
YCT leaders say they had
wanted to make sure the LSG
wasn’t drawing from public funds
to conduct its lobbying activities.
Leaders of both groups met on
Friday, and LSG officials com
plied with a YCT request to look
at the lobby group’s financial re
cords for 1986-87.
LSG officials have contended
that although they’re not sure
lobbying with public money vio
lates state law, they have re
imbursed Student Government
for all costs incurred during the
year that might be tied to state-
mandated student service fees.
Dick Lonquist, YCT vice chair
man, says the Friday meeting ini
tially convinced him and YCT
Chairman Dennis Rudder of the
legality of LSG operations.
“But then we talked to our le
gal counsel this weekend and we
feel it might still be illegal what
they’re doing,” Lonquist says.
“Once you get private funds and
put them into a public account,
they become public funds. So we
feel like they’re back to square
one with using public funds.
“All their bank accounts are
public because they’re a part of
Student Government.”
Lonquist says LSG officials con
tended in the meeting that other
state schools are in Austin lobby
ing with public money.
“We just sort of feel that’s
wrong,” he says. “Just because ev
eryone’s doing it doesn’t make it
right.”
Alan Moore, LSG director, says
he wasn’t aware the YCT still had
“Once you get private
funds and put them into a
public account, they be
come public funds. So we
feel like they're back to
square one with using
public funds. ”
— Dick Lonquist, YCT
vice chairman
questions about his organization.
But he says that he thinks YCT
officials may have miscon
strued his group’s point about
other education lobbyists.
“The point that was being
brought across was that nearly all
state agencies have some form of
representation before the Legis
lature,” Moore says. “When
higher education issues — budget
cuts, appropriations — are being
discussed, you’ll generally find
that most universities will have a
representative in Austin to ex
press their points of view.
“I was in no way trying to say
that just because someone else
does it makes it right. I’m still not
certain as to whether this whole
argument with us is valid or not.”
Lonquist and Rudder say they
may ask administration officials
to look into the matter.
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College Station, Texas
Theme: Contemporary Issues and Developments: A Case
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Keynote Presentation by Dr. James Wright, co-editor of The
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