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Thursday, April 7, 1988/The Battalion/Page 9 Advance Hogan to address Faculty Senate When outgoing Student Body President Mason Hogan ad dresses the Faculty Senate Mon day, he will offer thanks, explana tions and challenges, he says. Hogan says he will address re lations between the faculty and student governing bodies from a past, present and future perspec tive. He says he also will offer fac ulty members a chance to ask him questions if time permits. “I’m open to what they have to say,” Hogan says. The Faculty Senate also will be approving candidates for gradua tion in May. In other business, the Senate will consider: • A revision in A&M’s sexual harassment policy. • A resolution calling for a sys tem that classifies classrooms according to degree of equipment available. • A resolution on prerequisites for core-curriculum science courses. MSC variety show set for Friday night By Marcena Fadal Reporter ‘Tve Gotta Be Me” is this year’s theme for the MSC All-University Variety Show to be held Friday at 7:30 p.m. in Rudder Audito rium. “The Variety Show is an Aggie talent show performed during Parent’s Weekend to get parents there to see their kids,” Sharon Beisert, chairman of the show, said. “Tryouts were held in Feb ruary and 50 acts tried out. Thir teen made the cut and will per form Friday.” Some of the acts include a solo vocalist, a tap dancer, a clog dancer, a guitar duet and a band. The MSC Variety Show began in 1951 as the Aggie Talent Show. The winner went on to the Intercollegiate Talent Show in which schools from a five-state re gion competed in G. Rollie White. This year’s master of ceremo nies is comedian Eddy Strange. “Strange has performed with Robin Williams, Sam Kinison and has been on ‘Dick Clark’s Keep on Cruisin’,’ ‘The David Brenner Show,’ ‘Comedy Tonight’ and ‘Show Time’s Laff-Off,’ ” Beisert said. “He’s really funny.” Special performances will be given by last year’s Variety Show winner, “Out of Tune,” and Miss Texas A&M Stephanie Smith. Tickets for the Variety Show are available at the MSC Box Of fice and at all Ticketron outlets at a cost of $4 for students and $5 for others. Symphonic band holds spring concert 0 lie lat jncfH ilk 1 iidfd riM jnei By Eric Prather Reporter The Texas A&M University Symphonic Band will present its Spring Concert Thursday at 8, p.m. in Rudder Theater. Admission to the concert will be $2. The concert will consist of a wide variety of music with selec tions by J.S. Bach, Gustav Holst, Dmitri Kabalevsky and others. The band, which was formed in 1973, is a non-credit organiza tion composed mostly of A&M students who are good musicians and wish to keep playing their in struments, Symphonic Band Di rector Bill Dean said. This year 24 members of the the 80-member band were part of the all-state band in high school. Also, a member of the A&M fac ulty is playing with the band this year. The band is composed of stu dents from Minnesota, Virginia, Oklahoma, Kansas, Kentucky and Texas. Students must audition to be come a member of the symphonic band. Students receive tryout music at the general meeting held at the first of each fall semester and then have a week to practice before auditions. Each fall, 30 to 40 new students audition, but the band retains many of its members from the previous year, Dean said. The number of members reauditioning has been increasing each year. After tryouts are completed, the band begins practicing twice a week. Rehearsals are Tuesday and Thursday from 12:30 p.m. to 1:45 p.m. This is the only time the band practices together, Dean said. It’s hard to call extra rehearsals be cause of conflicts with the stu dents’ schedules. He believes the band is successful because of the limited time it has to practice. “The students say the band is good therapy for them,” Dean said. “They can get away from their studies for awhile and relax by playing their instruments.” The band plays a wide variety of music. “We play heavier pieces at our concerts, but we also play lighter pieces because the audience en joys it,” Dean said. During the year the band gives many concerts, Dean said. Be sides playing at A&M the band has played in Dallas, Houston and Beaumont. PLAYBOY'S PHOTOGRAPHER IS tmm T I Playboy’s photographer is now interviewing students for a fall pictorial. It will feature coeds from Southwest Conference schools. To qualify, you must be 18 years of age or older and registered full- or part-time at a Southwest Conference university. Call now for more information and to schedule an interview. TEXAS A&M UNIVERSITY Students: Call David Chan Thursday April 7 Friday April 8 College Station Hilton Conference Center 801 University Drive East 409/693-7500 I s °or& y -t ..*■,2 ■A, Inmates have mixed feelings about penalties HUNTSVILLE (AP) — Robert Drew and James Smith both are con victed killers facing death next month for slayings they say they did not commit. However, Drew has said Wednes day he will fight his penalty, while Smith insists he wants to die. “New trial, commutation, pardon — I’ll take any of them,” Drew said. “I’ll never stop my fight as far as ap peals. I’ll go as far as the law allows.” Drew faces death May 4 for the February 1983 stabbing death of Jef frey Mays, a 17-year-old runaway from Alabama. Court records showed Drew stabbed Mays after a fight along a freeway east of Hous ton and allegedly took Mays’ wallet and watch after the slaying. Smith, meanwhile, has a May 11 lethal injection date for the March 1983 shooting death of Larry Rohus during a robbery. “I have no faith in the criminal justice system,” Smith said. “It’s fool hardy. I’ve spent enough time here. It’s time to get out. “Hey, give me a break! I refuse to accept this. I believe to stay here year after year is a waste. Nobody wants you to die. That’s a terrible thing.” Smith said he does not want to end up like old-timers on death row and tells anti-death penalty lawyers who plead to help him to go else where. “I told them, ‘You’re wasting your time. Other people can use your help. Go talk to them,’ ” Smith said. Other inmates and relatives also have asked him to accept legal help. “It’s just so much sentimental and emotional nonsense,” Smith said. Smith, who believes in voodoo, worked in New Orleans as a tarot card reader and was a taxi driver in Houston at the time of his arrest. He said he was confronted by two men as he emerged from his cab, pulled a gun on them and then was subdued , by several other people before being apprehended by police. His gun was linked to the weapon used in the Ro hus slaying. Prosecutors maintained Smith was fleeing the insurance office at the time of his arrest. “It’s not a death wish,” Smith said of his desire to die. “They gave me a sentence. I’m not a volunteer. You weigh the pros and cons.” Drew, who says his claim to fame is that he’s the only Vermont native on a death row anywhere, blames his problems on alcoholism. “My guts were in the bottom of a beer can,” he said of the stabbing that left Mays dead. But Drew insisted the killer was Earnest Purleauski, who is serving a 60-year term for the Mays slaying. The three were among four men in a car heading toward Houston from Louisiana. Drew said he and Mays were hitchhiking. “I watched him stab him,” Drew said of Purleauski. “I wasn’t about to argue. I was drunk. I knew I was in no condition to be playing games.” AWARENESS week:: APRIL 4-8 What are your scruples? Student Government, Academic Affairs Committee I Congratulations Aggies * ^ . ;■ . ■ Hard Work Deserve I I Cl 5 w w • I 8A. •. Best Rewards Bud Ward is your Aggie connection for fine German engineered cars. .f M, ;s | ^ - /ZUPBfex _ Mav and December Gn FrdgraiTOi||ivailable : BUD WARD Volkswagen-Porsche-Audi The Dealer With A Heart.” W 1912 Texas Ave. 693-3311 ^ You can’t beat these prices on loose of Diamonds bought April 1. Shop Hi! ROUND DIAMONDS Our Price Compare jilt 2.04 cts. 4,950“ 10,000“ p .: 2.02 cts. 7,750“ 15,000- i ll 1.18 cts. 2,325- 4,500- f 1.17 cts. 2,395“ 2,600- 1.15 cts. 2,985“ 5,600- 1.12 Cts. 1,875“ 4,000- 9 1.12 cts. 1,350- 2,600- i : ; • 1.09 cts. 2,175“ 4,300- if 1.09 cts. 2,750“ 5,500- U ' 1.04 cts. 2,350“ 4,700” ? 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