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MSC Town Hall Chairman Patrick Conway responds to questions during
Wednesday night’s forum concerning campus musical performances.
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hen it comes to bringing a musical
group on campus, the road is not always
a smooth one for MSC Town Hall,
nding an available stage and making end-
phone calls to promoters is only part of the
ess. Issues of money and scheduling often
;e it difficult to bring top bands to Texas
SC Town Hall had a forum discussion
nesday night about the process they go
ugh to entice bands to play at A&M and the
lems that are sometimes encountered,
own Hall Chairman Patrick Conway said
main problem with booking bands is the
eotype of Bryan-College Station by the music
stry.
11 they think of is hicks with big cowboy
and all they want to listen to is country
ic,” Conway said.
Ithough this does not pose a problem for
ing country bands to play at A&M, other
s of musical acts are lacking, Conway said,
fpary Peterson, a senior marketing major, at-
ided the meeting and said he was angry that
Irl Jam played at Stephen F. Austin Univer-
I instead of A&M in 1993.
Bands can have many reasons for not choos
ing to come to A&M, said Bryan Quarles, Town
Hall vice chairman.
“If someone’s playing three dates in Texas, it’s
hard to convince them to make one of them A&M,
Quarles said.
Although College Station must compete with
larger cities, Peterson said radio station Z-Rock
101.9 would not have come here if there
was not a market for rock music.
“I don’t think Town Hall has exploit
ed that yet,” Peterson said.
Conway said that because country
acts frequently play at A&M, many peo
ple think Town Hall members don’t
have diverse music tastes.
“Town Hall is not a group of people
who love country music and want to
bring a bunch of country music here,”
Conway said. “The only reason we bring
country music here is because it makes
money for us to try and bring other
shows.”
Money is the other major limitation
Town Hall faces in getting bands to come to A&M.
After money is transferred to pay expenses.
Town Hall is left with a budget of around $6,000,
Conway said. This money must be used for an en
tire year to subsidize Town Hall performances.
Because of this small budget, Conway said
Town Hall can’t afford to bring many artists.
“If they’re a promoter for a rap artist or an al
ternative band, they don’t even want to waste
their preliminary time talking about prices or
anything like that,” Conway said.
Promoters take a risk when they bring alter
native rock, latino and R&B bands to A&M,
Conway said.
Dave Salmon, adviser to Town Hall, said a pro
moter lost a significant amount of money when
R.E.M. played here in 1989 because of low atten
dance.
“If we do get a show, the main thing students
can do is attend those shows really well,”
Salmon said. “Then promoters see that they
made money here with a diverse-type act. Word
gets around and more promoters will be likely to
come here.”
Conway said the facilities at A&M are anoth
er limitation to booking big acts.
Because G. Rollie White Coliseum and Rud
der Auditorium are almost always in use, some
concerts have to take place in DeWare Field
House. Conway said bigger concerts will be
booked when A&M gets a special events center.
But for the students, gaining larger facilities
is not the only concern.
Kedrin Bell, a junior political science major,
said she attended the meeting because she
wants Town Hall to bring different styles of mu
sic to A&M.
“I think we just need a lot more diversity,”
Bell said. “I love country music, but it’s just a
matter of that’s not all there is.”
Conway said Town Hall will continue to ag
gressively pursue a diversity of bands.
“I realize that there’s people at A&M that like
all different types of music,” Conway said. “It’s
just that some people that aren’t at A&M don’t
really realize that. They have a stereotype that
Aggies only like country music.”
"Town Hall is not a group of people who
love country music and want to bring a
bunch of country music here. The only
reason we bring country music here is
because it makes money for us to try and
bring other shows."
— Patrick Conway,
chairman of MSC Town Hall
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More recruits, more dorms for Corps on Quad
By Amy Collier
The Battalion
F or Matt Segrest, there’s just no stop
ping growth in progress.
The Corps commander says the Corps is
recruiting furiously, and the result may be
taking over more dorms on the Quadrangle.
“Unfortunately, people’s dorms get taken
over,” Segrest said, “but that’s the expense of
a growing Corps.”
Segrest said the Corps plans to take the
remainder of Kiest Hall and fill it with
cadets next fall. The residence hall is cur
rently filled with Corps staff on the first floor
and female students on the top three floors.
Segrest said the Corps is filling the
rest of Kiest because they will reach their
goal of having between 800 and 850 re
cruits next year.
Two programs have helped Corps re
cruiting, Segrest said.
First, the Corps has a program each se
mester called “Spend the Night With the
Corps” for high school juniors and seniors
who are potential recruits for the Corps. Stu
dents stay with cadets for a night and learn
about how the Corps operates.
Segrest said more than 100 students at
tended the program last fall and about 80
percent of them joined the Corps.
The Corps has also strengthened the
Corps Leadership Outreach (CLO) program,
Segrest said. CLO is an organization made
up of former students and others who help
with recruiting efforts by finding potential
recruits in Texas high schools.
Sgt. Maj. Tom Epting, assistant re
cruiting coordinator for the Corps, said
teaming with an admissions counselor
has also improved recruiting.
“We have every new, interested, want-to-
be Aggie come over here to see us,” Epting
said. “The Corps gets first shot at them.
We’re going to work every possible scenario
that we can to ensure that we get some good
folks in here for the Corps of Cadets.”
Segrest said the Corps has an agreement
with the University which gives them top
priority to the housing on the Quad.
“The Corps gets first shot at it,” Segrest
said. “If we can’t fill them up, then we let
other students fill them up. It’s unfortunate
to see people lose their spots, but that’s just
a priority of the University.”
Segrest said he believes residents who
now live in Kiest will not react as negatively
as residents of Gainer Hall did last year
when it was taken over by the Corps.
“I think they all pretty much like the
Corps and would like to see the Corps grow,”
Segrest said.
Chloe Grabbe, a sophomore biomedical
science major, was moved into Kiest this
year after the Corps took over Gainer.
Grabbe said she was mad when Gainer
was taken last year because there was no
prior warning.
“I was just really mad when they said
that we would have the dorm and then a
week after they gave us our room num
bers, they said that they were taking over
Gainer and that we had to move to Kiest,”
Grabbe said.
Grabbe said the key is prior warning,
and if she is warned this year that she
will be moved, she will not be angry if Ki
est is used for Corps housing.
Owen Ross, president of the Residence
Hall Association, said Kiest residents have
been notified of the takeover by a letter
sent out at the beginning of the spring se
mester. The letter told the residents that as
of the fall of 1995, Kiest will become a male
hall.
Since these residents are being relocat
ed, Ross said they will be given top priori
ty to move into vacancies anywhere on
campus.
Ross said that although he hates to see
Kiest go as a residence hall, he under
stands that the Corps needs more housing.
“I personally see the expanding of the
Corps positive for A&M,” Ross said. “The
Quad is their place to live.”
Segrest said that in the next two years,
the Corps will take over Briggs Hall. Af
ter that, the Corps has a goal to fill all of
the dorms on the Quad by the year 2000,
which would require an enrollment of
2,600 cadets.
“It would be great to go over that,” Seg
rest said. “We could build a new dorm or
take over the Commons.”
“It’s nothing malicious that we want the
hall back,” Epting said. “It’s just the fact
that we want it back and we want to fill it
full of Corps members.”
Segrest said the increasing number of
cadets in the Corps will be a benefit to
society.
“We’re producing more cadets and more
people with the leadership training from
the Corps, more people that have gone
through character development, outstand
ing citizens and outstanding leaders in the
military,” he said.
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