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Page 2 MSC Student Programs Committees offer opportunities for personal development By TANYA WILLIAMS Staff Writer of THE BATTALION “Our goal is the development of persons as well as intellects ... a place where we may come to know and understand one anoth- The quote on the cover of the Memorial Student Center's Stu dent Programs brochure says it all: development. . . intellect . . . understanding. The MSC stu dent programs is a large division of the MSC and involves a large number of Texas A&M students. The 24 programming committees in the programs office present over 1,300 programs each year. 'The MSC's student commit tees have quite a bit to offer stu dents," said James Weinstock, a member of the MSC Council. As part of the committees, stu dents have the opportunity to learn leadership and interperson al skills through the process of planning and organizing the many programs that the commit tees present. The committees of fer recreational, entertainment, educational and cultural pro grams for the Texas A&M Uni versity students, faculty, staff and surrounding communities. “The students have the oppor tunity to get practical experience in programming as well as get to know people that hold similar in terests," Weinstock said. "Working with the commit tees also provide leadership op portunities as well as a lot of net working opportunities," said Weinstock. To interest new and interest ed students, one of the student programs, MSC Town Hall, is staging a large showcase to show all of the student committees and their opportunities. This program will be held September 3rd at 7:30 p.m. to 9:30 p.m. in the Rudder Theater complex. To further introduce students to student program opportuni ties, Weinstock says that most, if not all the MSC student pro grams will be represented at Open House, which will be held Sept. 6 from 2 p.m. to 6 p.m. Carvings celebrate Aggie history By STEPHANIE PERKINS Reporter of THE BATTALION In the east hall of the Memorial Student Center, across from the Flag Room, hang six wooden base relief panels: intricate carvings commemorating one hundred years of Texas A&M history. These carvings were commissioned by Texas A&M, paid for by the Association of Former Stu dents in 1974, and created by Mr. and Mrs. Rodney Hill of College Station to honor A&M's centennial in 1976. The Hills only moonlight as artists, though. Rodney Hill is an associate dean for Student Ser vices at A&M and a professor of architecture. His wife is a physical therapist at Allied Physical Ther apists, P.C. in College Station. Each wooden panel depicts a major part of A&M's history. Campus Landmarks, the Corps of Cadets, Sports and Traditions, Agriculture, Veteri nary Medicine and Science, and Engineering and the Arts. Each panel was carved out of a slab of walnut. Walnut was chosen for its ability to hold details and for the fact that it is a close-grained wood that doesn't chip easily, Mr. Hill said. Once carved, each panel was oiled and sealed with a rethane finish. It took the Hills two years to finish all six panels, but Hill said during the process there were always three panels being carved simultaneously and three panels hanging in the MSC, so the wall was never oare. Hill said he and his wife were told very little about what the panels were to depict. "They were really nebulous about it all," he said. The Hills were given free rein to decide what was to be on each panel. They researched A&M and its history by going through old shoeboxes of memorabilia given to the Archives by old Ags. They also went through li brary holdings and interviewed professors emeri tus. polyurt It tot Scaled down cartoon sketches were drawn up by the Hills for each panel for consideration by the Texas A&M Centennial Committee. The only major changes came on the panel for the Corps of Cadets. During research for that panel. Hill had talked to cadets to get key phrases often heard within the Corps. len the sketch was sent to the committee for approval, some former members of the Corps were shocked to see some of the more "inappropriate" slang phrases in black and white, ready to be carved into wood. Hill said the cadets had not told him what the phrases meant, and he eliminated the slang from the sketches. The Hills had one other blunder in the making of the panels. On the sixth and final panel, titled "Engineering and the Arts," there is a formula for the theory of the universe — a formula created by an A&M professor. 'There were all these 'p's' in the formula, but we didn't know what they meant, so we just put them into the sketch," Mrs. Hill said. When the sketch was being approved it was dis covered that the 'p's' were not part of the formula, but simply the abbreviation for page number." The Hills have done numerous other carvings for Texas A&M and other institutions. They have done a bronze memorial to Silver Taps and most recently they completed a wooden sculpture com memorating Muster that is on display in the Clay ton Williams Jr. Alumni Center. They also did a number of woodcarvings for the St. Thomas Aquinus Church in College Station, in cluding a large crucifix that took six months to fin ish. DARRIN HILL/The Batialo 1 Cindy Tanner (left) and Kim Soucek, a senior sipping on a few brews, relax on the front portf agricultural engineer from Palestine, while of Duddley’s Draw. Northgate bar attracts many different patrons, owner says Re By BETH ORGAN Special to THE BATTALION The crucifix has a special story behind it because the feet and the hands of the Jesus were modeled after the feet and the hands of their two children. Bunker, an A&M graduate now living in Austin, and Brooke, a junior international business major at A&M. Duddley's Draw, the "Cheers" of College Station, is prominently poised on Universi ty Drive in the shadow of the in stitution that it so proudly serves. "It's a place where everyone knows your name," said Natalie Despasquale, a regular at Dud dley's. "Whatever your mood is, you can come in here and not feel lost. Nobody is out of place." Despasquale, a 1991 graduate Texas A( of been going to Duddley's most five years. 7 fo or al- "A lot of grad students and professors hang out here. It's not a meat market like some of the bars around here," Despasquale said. People go to Duddley's to relax, drink a beer and work out problems Joel Clark, a senior civil engi neering student, said it's a good place to go because you almost always know someone. "Everyone here has a good at titude about others," Clark said. "People at the Chicken are not as open-minded as the people at Duddley's." Richard Bennings, owner of Duddley's Draw, likes the peo ple that come to his place. "Kids under 21 are not al lowed in, so there is a smaller en vironment," Bennings said. "The average age is 27 to25 years old, and most of the people are graduates and PhDs. "Duddley's is the most educa tional club in town." Bennings laughed. As for competition with The Dixie Chicken, a bar next to Duddley's, Bennings said the; compliment each other. "All businesses compete, but the Chicken and Duddley's com pete fairly. It's like a symbiotic relationship," Bennings said. "It is a piece of society here," Bennings said. "We have Greeks, cowboys and Profes sors." 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