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In the Kroger Shopping Center near Gold's Gym 764-0101 Used Discs $7.99 & $8.99 New Discs $10.99 & $11.99 We Buy Discs For $4.00 or Trade 2 For 1 On Used or 3 for 1 On New 403-B University Dr. (Northgate) 268-0154 EASY MONEY The First National Bank prompt processing is committed to helping rapid funding students obtain the tools local service necessary to fulfill their continuity of repayment dreams. We offer prompt a preferred lender of Texas A&M University student loan application year-round funding processing. 1862 B R YAN/GO 1_I_EG E STATION Lending Services 1-800-829-4599 (409) 846-4599 Other Banking Services (409) 779-1111 Member FDIC/Equal Opportunity Lender Page 4 mmmm mmnmi mmmm The Battalion Thursday, September 9,1993 Nighttime is the right time for The Dose Lady By Melissa Holubec The Battalion Every night at work is something new slid different for Carol White. Tuesday through Saturday nights. White carries baskets of red, yellow and pink, long-stemmed ros es and sells them to interested club- goers. White, a second year graduate student at Texas A&M, is a rose lady. She and A&M freshman Michelle Wheeler work for Linda Autrey, owner of a floral business simply called The Rose Lady. /f Ed Holdren, a friend of mine, owned this business before I did," Autrey said. "He needed help one Valentine's Day because a girl didn't show up to work. "I sacrificed myself and offered to help out for the night. A few months later, I bought the business." That was more than five years ago. Since then, Autrey has expand ed the business and hired White and Wheeler to help out. During the day, she runs Custom Frameworks in Bryan. After hours, Autrey processes roses and prepares baskets for the night's work. "It's fun to play Cupid," White said. "I like seeing people get to gether." White said working as a rose lady exposes her to entertainment she would never have sought. "I get to go to different clubs, lis ten to good bands and make money too," she said. But employees are more than vendors. They also serve as the business's advertisers. Nicole Rohrmmi/THL Battalion Carol White sells roses to a customer at the Texas Hall of Fame. White, a second year graduate student at Texas A&M, works for The Rose Lady Tuesday through Saturday nights. White travels to several clubs each night. "Having an employee in the par ticular club or dance hall with the roses is what makes the business work," she said. However, the rose ladies were not always successful. When Hol dren began the business in 1985, many club owners were skeptical about allowing them into their busi nesses because of incidents in near by cities. "They had heard about troulile with rose ladies in Houston and Dallas harassing customers to buy roses," Autrey explained. "We ap proach nobody; our job is to let everybody see that we're there." Currently, the local rose ladies stop at the Texas Hall of Fame, Crossroads, The Cowboy, I’he Ptarmigan, Third Floor Cantina, Stafford Opera House, Retro, Sun dance, Hurricane Harry's and Club 202. "We can make 10 to 12 stops on a Friday or Saturday night," Autrey said. "The girls sell about eight roses an hour." Going from one place to the next can sometimes press the rose ladies for time. But, Autrey says being able to leave the different business es can also be a welcome relief. "It's nicer than cocktail waitress- ing because you can get away from the drunks," she said. "Because we can make up to 12 stops a night, we can get away from the situation. Waitresses have to put up with the drunks all night." Customers often have the rose ladies deliver the roses to different people with messages instead of making the delivery themselves. "Most people will have us say something like, 'This rose can only enhance your natural beauty,'" Autrey said. While Autrey does not provide customers with message cards, the rose ladies will deliver any mes sages the buyer requests. Colorful and suggestive messages often set the stage for a quick getaway. "We'll say anything," Autrey said. "The trick then is leaving fast." ‘Calendar’ Continued from Page 3 Predictably - Priestley's char acter never fully develops, nor does his acting. It's sort of like watching him in "90210" except this time he's a much meaner version of Brandon. As for Scott and Ned, they basi cally follow Roy like little puppies. And as for their acting abilities, it could easily make a dog yawn. Not only does "Calendar Girl" start out slow, it drags on. The majority of the scenes that contain bland dialogue and bad acting are consistently accompa nied by background music which is even more annoying than the screechy guitar sound featured in numerous episodes of "90210." The production quality is un fortunately the equivalent of that of a slide show. As far as substance goes, noth ing touches the ground and noth ing fills up the screen. Even if the average person were stuck in bed for one week without anything else to watch, he or she would probably want to pass this one up. It's that bad. WELCOME BACK AGS ! Self-confidence * Self-defense Increase Strength * Great exercise College Student Special $89 Per Semester 3 Classes per week. 1863 Briarcrest (across from Bryan High) (409) 776-5664 ‘Dylan’ Continued from Page 3 including their collaboration on Dylan's Grammy Award-win ning "Nashville Skyline." But this time. Cash and his musical partner/wife, June Carter Cash, choose to give a hill billy rendition of Dylan's slow paced "It Ain't Me Babe." Thankfully, Johnny's trademark deep base purr along with the ac companying quick-picking guitar overpower June Carter's nasal vocals and give the song the rousing quality it deserves. The country music keeps rolling with divas Rosanne Cash, Mary-Chapin Carpenter and Shawn Colvin who give a blissful rendition of "You Ain't Going Nowhere" first recorded on Dy lan's "Basement Tapes" and later on the Byrd's "Sweethearts of the Rodeo." Again, the three Dylan fans show that his music infil trates all groups, performers and genres. Congratulations DELTA ZETA Pledges!!! 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CarePlus N>rrr 2411-B Texas Ave. S. & Southwest Parkway Open all week in College Station And still another pair of musi cians that perform to pay their re spects are Pearl Jam members Eddie Vedder and Mike Mc- Cready. On a powerful "Masters of War," Vedder combines his gut wrenching vocals with Mc- Cready's acoustic guitar play to show that the Seattle sound is also hardly void of a Dylan influ ence. And finally, Tom Petty & the Heartbreakers, who toured with Dylan in the eighties, rip through a raucous "Rainy Day Woman #12 & #35" with comic style and fervor. Even the 18,000 member audience thunderously joins in on that classic chorus, "Every body must get stoned." It's per fect. Amazingly enough, the list of artists and talented take contin ues on and Dylan's presence is heard in all of them. Hopefully, the aging but per sistent songwriter will continue to record his work for yet another 30 years influencing still other generations of artists. © 1993 American Express Travel Related Services Company, Inc.