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HOT SINGLES 1. “Like a Prayer” Madonna (Sire) 2. ‘T11 Be T here For You” Bon Jovi (Mercury) 3. “Real Love” Jody Watley (MCA) 4. “Funky Cold Medina” Tone Loc (Delicious Vinyl) 5. “Forever Your Girl” Paula Abdul (Virgin) 6. “Second Chance” Thirty Eight Special (A&M) /.“After All” Cher Sc Peter Ce tera (Geffen) 8. “Soldier of Love” Donny Os mond (Capitol) 9. “Room to Move” Animotion (Polydor) 10. “She Drives Me Crazy” Fine Young Cannibals (I.R.S.)—Gold (More than 1 million singles sold.) TOP LP’S 1. “Like a Prayer” Madonna (Sire) 2. “Loc-ed After Dark” Tone Loc (Delicious Vinyl) 3. “G N’ R Lies” Guns N’ Roses (Geffen)—Platinum (More than 1 million units sold.) 4. “The Raw and the Cooked” Fine Young Cannibals (I.R.S.)— Platinum 5. “Don’t Be Cruel” Bobby Brown (MCA)—Platinum 6 “Vivid” Living Colour (Epic)- -Platinum 7. “Hangin’ Tough” New Kids On the Block (Columbia)—Plati num 8. “Electric Youth” Debbie Gib son (Atlantic)—Platinum 9. “‘Beaches’ Soundtrack” (At lantic)—Gold (More than 500,000 units sold.) 10. “Forever Your Girl” Paula Abdul (Virgin)—Platinum COUNTRY SINGLES 1. “Young Love” The Judds (Curb-MCA) 2. “Hey Bobby” K.T. Oslin (RCA) 3. ‘Ts It Still Over” Randy Tra vis (Warner Bros.) 4. “If I Had You” Alabama (MCA) 5. “Don’t Toss Us Away” Patty Loveless (MCA) 6. “After All This Time” Rod ney Crowell (Columbia) /.“Big Dreams in a Small Town” Restless Heart (MCA) 8. “She Deserves You” Baillie and the Boys (RCA) 9. “Where Did I Go Wrong” Steve Wariner (MCA) 10. “Better Man” Clint Black (RCA) ADULT SINGLES CONTEMPORARY ne i ,,!! , I# say 5, to ^ re#’ were' sro* :rnP J ties some, ck# iult" 1 ] ab ;l like 1 < ii# j, the 1 uid e 0 I the Bn' bun' f ai' v State* 1. “After All” Cher Sc Peter Ce tera (Geffen) 2. “Second Chance” Thirty Eight Special (A&M) 3. “Wind Beneath My Wings” Bette Midler (Atlantic) 4. “Like a Prayer” Madonna (Sire) 5. “Heaven Help Me” Deon Es- tus (Mika) 6. “Miss You Like Crazy” Nata lie Cole (EMI) 7. “Orinoco Flow” Enya (Gef fen) 8. “Eternal Flame” Bangles (Co lumbia) 9. “Dreamin’” Vanessa Williams (Wing) 10. “You Got It” Roy Orbison (Virgin) BLACK SINGLES 1. “Real Love” Jody Watley (MCA) 2. “Start of a Romance” Skyy (Atlantic) 3. “I Like” Guy (Uptown) 4. “Love Saw It” Karyn White (Warner Bros.) 5. “Sleep Talk” Alyson Williams (Def Jam) 6. “Don’t Take My Mind on a Trip” Boy George (Virgin) 7. “Funky Cold Medina” Tone Loc (Delicious Vinyl) 8. “Tribute (Right On)” The Pasadenas (Columbia) 9. “If I’m Not Your Lover” Al B. Sure! (Warner Bros.) 10. “Heaven Help Me” Deon Estus (Mika) TOP POP COMPACT DISKS 1. “The Raw and the Cooked” Fine Young Cannibals (IRS) 2. “Like a Prayer” Madonna (Sire) 3. “Loc-ed After Dark” Tone- Loc (Delicious Vinyl) 4. “Nick of Time” Bonnie Raitt (Capitol) 5. “Traveling Wilburys” Travel ing Wilburys (Wilbury) 6. “Sonic Temple” The Cult (Sire) 7. “Spike” Elvis Costello (Warner Bros.) 8. “Vivid” Living Colour (Epic) 9. “Watermark” Enya (Geffen) 10. “Mystery Girl” Roy Orbison (Virgin) Buildings (Continued from page 9) costs ran 94 cents over was Goodwin Hall, now the oldest building on campus. Built in 1908 for $53,000, it was the last of the principal campus buildings to be built with wood fram ing for its floors and roof. Dr. David Chapman, an associate A&M archiv ist, says if a person went up to the third story and jumped around a lot, they likely would feel the floor shake. Next to Goodwin Hall, the oldest buildings on campus are Milner and Legett Halls, built in 1911 for $75,000 apiece. Both used to have cast stone stair ways and balconies to alleviate ar chitectural boredom. They have since eroded. However structurally monoto nous Legett may be, it was lauded at the time for its non-connecting stair wells. This feature, abandoned in the 1930s, was celebrated for its reduc tion of noise and confusion in the hallways, which supposedly in creased study time dramatically. The best-beloved dorms of their time were likely Law and Puryear Halls, built in 1928 for $155,000 apiece. They took the place of the origi nal “Tent Row,” an area which con sisted of 243 tents. Between the time the dorms actu ally were built was the era of the in famous “Hollywood” — rows of wooden shacks about 20 feet square. Needless to say, by the time Law and Puryear were built, they were chron icled by A&M President R.T. Milner Photo by Dean Saito Bolton Hall, built in 1912 for $75,000, is being renovated at a cost of more than $2 million. as “a source of pride to every friend times its original costs? It’s Bolton of the campus.” Hall, which according to the A&M construction office is being reno- And the building whose remodel- vated for $2,048,000. Its original ing is now costing more than 27 cost in 1912? Only $75,000. Tunnels (Continued from page 9) it more challenging,” he said. Another student, who also wanted to remain anonymous, said that al though the tunnels are fun and in teresting to walk around in, they are unbearably hot and are easy for the beginner to get lost in. Thousands of graffiti messages are on the pipes and walls, he said. He added that some of the messages are 20 to 30 years old and have been repainted from time to time. Near the Military Sciences Building is a large, open room painted with dif ferent squad emblems, he said. The tunnels are interesting at first, he said, but there really isn’t much to see down there unless you like pipes and graffiti. Underground explorers should remember that their activities are strictly forbidden by the University. Bob Wiatt, Texas A&M Police di rector, said it is illegal for students to enter the utilities tunnels. When students are caught, they are arrested and charged with crimi nal trespass, Wiatt said. After that, they are turned over to the Depart ment of Student Af fairs. In one case, two people broke through a gate in a tunnel, entered the Memorial Student Center and stole some property, Wiatt said. When that type of crime happens, the people involved are charged with both criminal trespass and bur glary, he added. Brent Paterson, a student devel opment specialist with' Student Af fairs, said sanctions against students caught in the tunnels can range from receiving a verbal warning to being placed on conduct probation. The severity of the sanction depends on what the student was doing in the tunnels, he said. A&M students aren’t the only ones caught in the tunnels, however. Occasionally skunks and raccoons find their way into the tunnels. Kozlowski said he believes people in tentionally place the animals down there on purpose as a practical joke. The skunks are the worst, he said, because there is little or no ventila tion in the tunnels and the smell can last a long time. ‘Little old lady’ adopts pen names to gain acceptance in literary world NACOGDOCHES (AP) — Every morning science fiction author Ar- dath Mayhar, western writer Frank Cannon, mystery writer Sarah Mac- Williams and a horror story writer who won’t tell anybody his name all share a 30-rnile van ride to work. All four authors share the same 5- foot, 2-inch body. Mayhar, a poet since she knew how to talk, probably would still be running her family’s dairy if the con stant dampness hadn’t given her ar thritis. Sixteen years ago she was 43 and felt compelled to try to write a novel. Since then, she’s completed 45 books and has four more in the works. More than 20 have been pub lished. Hundreds of her poems and short stories also have been published. Mayhar doesn’t look like some body who would write about fuzzy humanoids on faraway planets or how an East Texas community han dles thermonuclear war or interga- lactic wizards. She looks more like Aunt Bea from the old Andy Grif fith television show. That’s why she’s adopted her pen names. When “Feud at Sweetwater Creek” was published two years ago, the publisher told her that westerns written by women sell significantly fewer copies than those by men. “Little old ladies can’t write west erns,” she said. So she became Frank Cannon. For years she saw more of milk cows and feed dealers than pub lishers and readers. “All my life I’ve shoveled manure of one kind or an other,” she said. “I was born in the depression on an East Texas dairy farm. You didn’t ask yourself what you wanted to do, you looked around at what there was to do and you did it.” What there was for her to do was help her father run the dairy. “Our milking machines operated in iambs,” she said. “I spent 10 years composing poems in iambic pentam eter to the rhythm of the milking machines — ca-chink, ca-chink, ca- chink.” By her late 20s, the constant dampness of the farm had given her arthritis. Her brother came home from the Army to run the dairy and the two clashed. “He was going to be the Sarge and I was going to be Beetle Bailey,” she said. So she want to nearby Nacog doches and bought a bookstore. Joe Mayhar was working his way through business school as a taxi driver. His cab stand was around the corner from the bookstore and since he was a lover of science fiction, he spent a lot of time in the store. “I couldn’t have set a better trap,” she said. They started trading sci ence fiction books and in 1958 were married. In 1962 they moved to Houston for 18 months. “If they send me to hell I will demand that those 18 months be taken off my time,” she said. They decided that they had to head for someplace where life was less frantic. For a while they thought of the U.S. Virgin Islands, then de cided upon Oregon. “I had done a report on Oregon when I was in the fourth grade and remembered that,” she said. They bought a 48-passenger school bus, ripped out most of the seats and loaded it with their worldly possessions — including her grand mother’s piano and several tons of books. “When we got it loaded it weighed 16,000 pounds,” she said. “We had great fun going to Oregon. We didn't have a spare tire, which was OK because we didn’t have a jack that would have lifted the thing any way. All our flats were on the dual rear wheels and were all close to where we could go to have them changed.” They settled into a rented country home near Silverton, Ore. Joe Mayhar got a job selling wholesale auto parts and Ardath Mayhar got a job as a proof reader for a Salem newspaper. Hours of poring over newspaper copy began to affect her health, so she began practicing Yoga. While doing Yoga exercises she began to think of a metaphysical story that be came the book, “The Seekers of Shar-Nuhn,” followed closely by “How’ the Gods Wove in Kyrannon.” Doubleday published both books in 1979 and May bar’s career as a novelist was born. “I didn’t start writing books until I was 43, so I have to make up for lost time,” she said. In 1975 she and her family — she has two stepsons and two sons — moved back to Texas. They bought a farmhouse near Chireno, 30 miles east of Nacog doches. A few years ago Mayhar and her husband opened the bookstore, which deals in new, used and rare books. When personal computers came along, Mayhar traded her manual portable typewriter for a computer and word processor, and Joe Mayhar learned that he had a knack for using and repairing com puters. They added a computer store to their operation. A publisher hired her to write “BattleTech: The Sword and the Dagger,” one in a series of fantasy game books about animallike giant battle robots. While the book sold well, she said she has not been paid by the publisher yet and would not want to write another in the series. “One was fun, but you couldn’t make me write another one.” “Golden Dream: A Fuzzy Odys sey,” was suggested by Ace books as a third book in a series started by writer H. Beam Piper. It’s the story of a gentle race of apelike space aliens and is told from the aliens’ point of view. That book made her $26,000 — the most she’s made from a single book. “I’m what they call a mid-rack writer,” she said. She gets a lot of books printed, but — like the vast majority of writers — doesn’t make a lot of money at it. “For every Stephen King, you’ve got a lot of writers who make almost nothing,” she said. Her writing and teaching net about $20,000 a year, she said. The average writer makes $7,000 a year from books, she said. The bookstore provides the steady income that writing doesn't, she said. “You can’t go to the utility companies and say, ‘I’m going to get $10,000 in February but it might be August. They don’t understand that,’ ’’she said. Her books in progress are on computer floppy disks now, waiting to be finished and rewritten and sent to her agent and to publishers. A stack of manuscripts sits on top of a file cabinet. “I'll be putting those into the pipeline soon,” she said. Monuments (Continued from page 9) pies of the “lost wax” casting method. Styrofoam models slightly smaller than the finished sculp tures are made before wax is ap plied to them. Details of the statues are then sculpted into the wax. After the sculptures are cut into eight sec tions, they are taken to the foundry for casting into bronze. Finally, the parts are welded together and chased to eliminate seams. “Campus Landmarks,” a sculp ture commissioned in 1974 by the Association of Former Students and the University to commem orate A&M’s first 100 years, is among the most popular visitor attractions. Ipt the east hallway of the MSC, is a carving done by Rodney Hill, a professor of environmental de sign at A&M, and his wife Sue, a physical therapist in Beutel Health Center. The structure is a hand-chis eled wood carving made from black walnut panels, each one 3 feet by 8 feet and weighing 200 pounds. If a pedestrian’s eyes twinkle when walking between Rudder Tower and the Theater Complex, it usually can be attributed to “Crystal Tree,” the 36-foot cre ation designed by Hilliard Stone and crafted by Keberle Studio of Dallas, a stained glass company in Dallas. Its tree limbs are made from steel and the leaves are composed of 2,500 pieces of chipped glass with facets that reflect the light. Birds do not settle on it merely for its appearance. They often E refer to make it a functional abitat by building nests in it. As Texas A&M continues to grow, so will its number of sculp tures, monuments and art exhibi tions. Hermona Dayag, director of University Art Collections and Exhibitions, says she plans to con tinue working toward expanding the diversity of visual attractions on campus. “The richer we make the visual environment, the more all of us gain,” Dayag says. “It’s a basic human pursuit to make outstanding works of art and view them because they add so much to the aesthetics of A&M.” In addition to statues, foun tains help provide a picturesque on-campus environment. I he richer we make the visual environment, the more all of us gain. It’s a basic human pursuit to make outstanding works of art and view them because they add so much to the aesthetics of A&M.” Hermona Dayag, director, University Art Collections On a sunny day, students can be found sitting or chatting on the fountain walls. Whether they view the foun tains as a symbol of beauty or a place for celebrating football vic tories (at the Fish Pond), students agree that the beauty of A&M is enhanced by their presence. Christopher Crockett, a sopho more biomedical sciences major from Fort Worth, says he was im pressed when he saw the foun tains while visiting A&M before he enrolled. “1 personally like the fountains because they add character to the campus,” Crockett says. “But it would be nice to see them working more often.” Ed Kozlowski, associate direc tor for maintenance and modifi cation, says that maintaining the fountains costs about $25,000 each year but is worth the ex pense. “They (fountains) are a posi tive addition to the aesthetics of our campus,” Kozlowski says. “It’s worth the money spent de spite any occasional problems.” Photo by Dean Saito Crystal Tree, which stands outside Rudder Tower, is made of steel and 2,500 chips of glass.