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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.
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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.
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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
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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
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been going to Duddley's
most five years.
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"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."
Despasquale echoed the senti
ment: "It will be here for a long
time. It’s not going anywhere."
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