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Just for kicks
Photo by M/ieCjJnji-
A group of A&M students and faculty members enjoys a soccer game
Wednesday afternoon at Olsen Field. These soccer fans meet each
week on Wednesday to play the game
when there is cloudy weather.
without getting disc
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19th Aggiecon brings
fans of fantasy to A&M
By Ronnie Calhoun
Reporter
The 19th annual AggieCon will be
held Thursday through Sunday at
the MSC and Rudder Tower.
AggieCon, sponsored by the stu
dent organization MSC Cepheid Va
riable, is a four-day science fiction
and fantasy convention concentrat
ing on guests and movies.
“AggieCon is the largest annual
science fiction and fantasy conven
tion in the Southwest,” said Jennifer
Rich, chairman of AggieCon.
Opening ceremonies will be at 4
p.m. Thursday on the second floor
of the MSC.
The convention will have a deal
er’s room, art show, movies and a
special guest.
Mark Camp, a senior history ma
jor, will be the dealers-room man
ager. He said the dealers room will
have 55 dealers with 120 tables of
merchandise.
“We will have everything from art
to comic books and medieval costu
me,” Camp said. “This will be like a
bazaar.”
visitors can speak with the many
guests who will be present. Guests
who will attend the convention in
clude the following:
• Guest of Honor: Joe Halde-
man.
• Special Guest: Katherine Kurtz.
• Artist Guest of Honor: Rob
Eggleton.
Graphic by Susan C. Akin
The dealer’s room will be open
Thursday from 2 p.m. to 8 p.m., Fri
day from 10 a.m. to 8 p.m., Saturday
from 10 a.m. to 8 p.m. and Sunday
from 9 a.m. to 1 p.m. in 224 MSC.
Rich said there will be an art show
on the second floor of the MSC that
is free to the public.
“There will be science Fiction art
at a reasonable price,” Rich ec-
plained. “It will be good art that is
inexpensive.”
Along with the art show, movies
also will be shown.
The convention will offer nine
movies, Rich said.
A special sneak preview of “Bad
Dreams” will be shown Thursday at
7:30 p.m.
Rich said “Bad Dreams” is a hor
ror and suspense film that is sched
uled to be released next weekend.
“There will be only 600 tickets
available for the sneak preview,”
Rich said. “The people who pur
chase AggieCon passes will get tick
ets to the preview.”
All other tickets available will go
on sale at 5 p.m. at the ticket office in
Rudder Tower, Rich said.
The other movies scheduled for
Thursday are “RoboCop” at 9:45
p.m. and “A Clockwork Orange” at
midnight.
Friday movies will be “Heavy
Metal” at 7:30 p.m., “Fire and Ice” at
9:45 p.m. and “Wizards” at mid
night.
Saturday movies are “Running
Man” at 7:30 p.m., “Predator” at
9:45 p.m. and “Terminator” at mid
night.
While waiting for a movie to start,
Rich, a junior chemistry major,
said comic book artists, writers and
artists from Texas and Oklahoma
also will attend.
The comic artists include Scott
McCullar, the creator of “Warped”
which can been seen daily in The
Battalion; Tom Tenney, the Robo-
tech illustrator, and Ben Dunn, artist
and creator of the comic book “Ninja
School.”
.Student tickets for the whole con
vention are $ 10 and a one-day pass is
$5.
Non-student prices are $14 for
the whole convention and $6 for a
one-day pass.
There will be special events that
include a banquet and Quest.
“Quest is a role playing game that
will include magic spells and mystical
monsters,” Camp said.
Tickets for Quest are $4 and tick
ets for the banquet are $10. Both can
be purchased through Ticketron in
the lobby of Rudder Tower.
Rich said there will be dances Fri
day and Saturday night. The Friday
night dance is a ’50s and ’60s sock-
hop at 8 p.m. in 201 MSC.
A masquerade ball will take place
Saturday at 9 p.m. in 201 MSC, she
said.
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