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A&M every year at Mardi Gras
By Shannon O’Neal
Reporter
Texas A&M was well-represented
last weekend when the biggest party
in the world reached its peak. Mardi
Gras in New Orleans nas become
part of the yearly routine of two
Texas A&M organizations. The Ross
Volunteer Company and the Fish
Drill Team spend three days each
year in the city on the river.
“It’s a great opportunity,” senior
marketing major David Dommel
“We draw massive crowds when we do our fancy drill,
that is something out of the ordinary at drill camps.
You can hear people in the crowd asking, ‘When does
A&M perform ?’ ”
— George Szymeczek, Fish Drill Team commander
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said. “These guys get to go to a huge
party, it is citywide and six weeks
long and it is a University-excused
absence.”
The RVs’ led the King Rex pa
rade, an event the group has been
part of for 36 years, RV historian
Mike Blakeney, a senior political sci
ence major, said.
“The RVs’ First Mardi Gras was in
1952, and they have been every year
except 1979,” Blakeney said. “That
year there was a police strike and the
president of the University wouldn’t
let them go. The place is a madhouse
anyway, and without police it
wouldn’t be safe.”
The drill team also paraded in
New Orleans, but that was not its
reason for going to Mardi Gras.
They competed in the Mardi Gras
Drill Meet at Tulane University Fri
day against teams from throughout
the nation, and won First place over
all. Saturday they marched in the
Krewe of Iris parade. George Szy
meczek, commander of the drill
team, explained how the drill meet
works.
“The drill team competes in four
areas in the meet: fancy, basic, squad
drill and the inspection phase,” Szy
meczek, a senior mechanical engi
neering major, said. “Varying num
bers of people compete in each area,
from 32 to only eight men. All areas
are weighted equally.”
Though the parade is secondary
for the drill team, they enjoy per
forming in it, he said.
“It’s rewarding when the crowd
goes wild, especially elsewhere, and
the Mardi Gras crowds are as wild as
they come,” Szymeczek said.
Both the Rex and Iris parades are
extremely long and tiring, RV com
mander Bradley Hall said.
“It (the Rex parade) is a grueling
seven-mile parade through down
town business districts and resi
dential areas, winding up at the
(Mississippi) river,” Hall, a senior
exercise technology major, said.
Szymeczek said the Iris parade
was especially hard on the freshmen.
The RVs and the drill team have
different purposes although their
activities are similar. Both organiza
tions march with dummy rifles and
perform complicated and difficult
drills. But while the drill team com
petes in drill meets, the RVs simply
parade.
Hall said competition is not the
RVs’ purpose.
“We’re not a drill unit; we are rep
resentatives First and foremost of the
governor, the state of Texas anti
Texas A&M,” he said. “Our function
is as a ceremonial unit.
“We are ‘goodwill ambassadors’
and representatives of the state by
the state Legislature’s decree. That is
why we always participate in the gov
ernor’s inauguration and many
other state functions.”
Szymeczek said the drill team, on
the other hand, exists to compete.
“The team has a reputation for
excellence that is well earned,” he
said. “We practice about 21 hours a
week in the spring — which a lot of
people can’t handle. We had 238
members at the beginning of the fall
semester and now we have 37 mem
bers. It is a tough organization to
make it through, but we don’t kick
anybody off the team.
“We draw massive crowds when
we do our fancy drill, that is some
thing out of the ordinary at drill
camps. You can hear people in the
crowd asking, ‘When does A&M per
form?’ ”
Hall said the RVs are a well-
known part of Mardi Gras.
“Last year the announcer at the
Experts say Texas has failed
to ‘come to grips’ with AIDS
HOUSTON (AP) —- Texas hasn’t
come to grips with AIDS although
the disease is spreading and society’s
costs for treating patients is expected
to increase, experts testified at a
public hearing.
“Houston and Texas are the best
examples of how not to deal with
AIDS,” said Brown McDonald, exec
utive director of the AIDS Founda
tion of Houston. “In the midst of a
pandemic, we are losing momen
tum.”
McDonald was one of several peo
ple who testified Tuesday before the
state Legislative Task Force on
AIDS.
Other experts echoed similar sen
timents.
“Texas is behind,” said Dr. Palmer
Beasley, dean of the University of
Texas School of Public Health.
“Texas has not yet come to grips
with this disease.”
Treatment programs are needed
for AIDS victims, but it also is im
portant to follow such states as New
York and California in offering edu
cation programs that will help to
stop the spread of the AIDS disease,
he said.
“We can do that in Texas, too,” he
said. “We need a concerted effort to
educate.”
McDonald said treating AIDS pa
tients through the public hospital
system is more expensive than fund
ing educational efforts and support
ing outpatient treatments and low-
cost housing for indigent AIDS pa
tients.
King Hillier, the Harris County
Hospital District’s comptroller of
cost payments and budget, said
AIDS costs in the county’s tax sup
ported facilities are expected to dou
ble each year over the next four
years.
Treating the district’s estimated
300 patients with AIDS will cost
about a total of $3.7 million in 1988,
Hillier said.
Treating the district’s projected
4,800 AIDS patients in 1992 is ex
pected to cost the district S59.2 mil
lion, he said.
Other speakers raised concerns
over confidentiality surrounding
AIDS tests, job discrimination
against those infected, and the po
tential impact of the disease on the
school system.
The public hearing at the Univer
sity of Houston was the third of
eight to be conducted throughout
the state to assess the growing im
pact of the fatal AIDS disease on
Texas.
The next meeting is scheduled for
Friday and will be located in El Paso.
Agents search for pilot of plane
carrying marijuana into Texas
PALO PINTO (AP) —Agents
from several law enforcement agen
cies continued searching Wednesday
for the pilot of private plane that al
legedly carried more than 1,200
pounds of marijuana into Texas
from Mexico.
After authorities tailed the plane
from a drop-off near Possum King
dom Lake to an isolated airstrip in
Borden County, the pilot landed the
plane, and he and another person
fled into heavy brush, said Depart
ment of Public Safety officials.
Agents from the Drug Enforce
ment Administration, Department
of Public Safety and Customs Service
Tuesday converged the area to
search, but scaled down their efforts
Wednesday, officials said.
Earlier, DPS narcotics agents ar
rested two men and confiscated an
estimated 1,229 pounds of mari
juana near the lake, according.to of
ficials.
County Jail on $150,000 bond, and
Gary M. Whittington was in Erath
County Jail on $100,000 bond fol
lowing their arrests Tuesday, offi
cials said.
Gerald Blake Mackey of Cedar
Creek was being held in Palo Pinto
Both men were arraigned on
charges of aggravated possession of
marijuana, Palo Pinto Chief Deputy
Allan Spurlock said.
DPS Sgt. Bob Porter said customs
officials and an Austin DPS agent
followed the plane from Mexico to a
small airstrip at Sportsmans World.
SUBMIT TO
reviewing stand commented thani
Rex Parade wouldn’t be the saiw
without the men in white whob®° 1
led it for so long,” lie said. ames
crowds know us down there, tip 1 '
have a reputation for this st(ii>Br n £
faced discipline and they really,
into trying to make us smile orlo;
around.”
Both groups got out toseetheti
while thev were at Mardi Gras,Hj
said.
"T he highlight of the trip is4
annual cons
Bourbon St
over the piano
igregation at Pat O’soffiB 1
it reel when the RYst f/ 1
>ar,” Hall said. '!■
strange how 70 Aggies can chanaB'
New Orleans landmark bar intorB 1 s
Dixie Chicken. We sang ‘The A;B
War Hymn’ twice,‘Up Against:B M !
Wall You Bedneck Mother’and l f , 1
Never Lven Call Me By Ms Nans • ■
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1 hose piano players love us. K ^
Cheap plastic beads gain ness
nificance
it Mardi Gras, Hallsaid B' 1 ^
"The
reveler
than th<
ne
goal of every Mardi fcf n
ii i ii
is to collect beads thro: i
from the floats,” he said. “Ofco;. j "
the RVs like the Rex beads most ’ K
a ( lose second are the varying!):
of pearl necklaces. fed,,.,
“During March Gras youcania ^ ,
the beads in a sort of barters)St
with the other partiers, andtradd:
other heads, maybe a kiss orv.qh
thing along those lines.” be
I he party atmosphere can Idl
trouble, though. Mark Andress,
nior aerospace engineering ifflyj
said Mardi Gras was anotherwoiil
“The place is wild,” he said/
is my second year down there,a
couldn't believe it was actuals
way I remembered it.”
Agents raid
wrong house
hiis
for narcotics
k oi
the med
ABILENE (AP) — Narcotio
agents mistakenly raided a
ister’s home after couniinj
houses from the wrong end of lie
block, officials said.
“1 thought they were robbers,
said Hector Sanchez, whost
daughter, Noemi, woke him :o
say three men were in the bad
yard with crowbars and guns.
Sanchez, a minister at tht
Spanish Assembly of God
Church, said he found threemeii
in the yard early Sunday who told
him to freeze or be shot.
“When he (one of the officers),
told me he was from thestatep.
lice, I was relieved,” Sanchez said]
“But I was still frightened.”
His wife and twodaughterssai
in the living room whilethemea
went through the house and oul
front, where they ran intotheresi
of the raiding party —
learned of their mistake.
Sgt. Don Bush of the De
ment of Public Safety narcotics
division said human error wasm
blame for the mix-up.
The department had assigntd
men to two groups, Bush said
One group was supposed to enl«
the targeted home from tk
front, and the other — the group
that raided the Sanchez home-
was supposed to guard the rear,
Because the houses don't ha*
numbers on the back, the group
in the rear was instructed»
count houses from the cornet
Bush said. The problem, he said
was that they started countingiij
t he wrong end of the block.
Later Sunday, the agenis,
found the house they initially ii
tended to raid down the bl«
and arrested seven people.
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categories:
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Miscellaneous (no photographs)
entries
will be accepted in the MSC Gallery from
11:00 a.m. until 3:00 p.m., February 22-24.
Entry fee is $3.00 per piece, limit 4 pieces.
judging:
hebruary 25, 1988.
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