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Top Ten
The following are the top re
cord hits and leading popular
compact disks as they appear in
this week’s issue of Billboard
magazine. Copyright 1989, Bill
board Publications, Inc. Re
printed with permission.
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)
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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.