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The Battalion • Page 3
The: Aggie: Enquirer
Battman spotted
in Aggieland
Gaped crusader and trusty companion seen delivering Battalions
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Joel Taylor (back) and William Bosch pick up The Battalion for delivery.
By Nikki Hopkins
The Battalion
oly rolling newspapers. Aggies, the caped wonder
and his trusty sidekick have been delivering news
papers on the Quad.
Two “Battmen,” freshmen from Corps of Cadet
Company K-l, jump into telephone booths every
weekday morning and change into their secret disguises so
they can deliver The Battalion to every Corps member in their
company.
OK, so they change in their dorm rooms instead of tele
phone booths, but the capes and Battmask are authentic.
The two Batt heroes run through the Quad with capes fly
ing, pushing a shopping -cart filled with the morning’s Battal
ion issue announcing themselves by yelling, “Make way for the
Battmobile!”
.The freshman cadets pick up their company Battalions at
dorm Q on the Quad and ride down to the K-l dormitory.
David Kemp, a junior business administration major, said
every company in the Corps sends two freshmen to collect the
newspaper and bring it to their dorm.
Kemp said his company is the only one that has their fresh
men dress up for the part.
“It’s a great tradition — one of the most motivational tradi
tions we have,” Kemp said. “The Battfish get to run around
and act crazy and have fun. It’s like a carry over from Fish
Camp.”
Kemp, one of this year’s junior yell leaders, said the fresh
men must serve The Battalion to the upperclassmen.
“They have to bring us our Batt,” Kemp said. “Not that
we’re lazy or anything, but it’s a good tradition. Why stop it?”
Kemp said the tradition of dressing up as the comic book
hero started this year.
Peter Downing, a freshman bioengineering major, said his
stepmother made the “Battcape” the freshmen wear when de
livering the papers.
“The seniors said it would be good bull if we could do some
thing fun when we got the Batts,” Downing said.
Kerry Brown, a freshman language major who is also in K-
1, said being a Battfish is a blast.
“The guy who pushes the cart is Battman,” Brown said. “He
has to yell the Batman theme from the top of his lungs.”
Brown said the Battman wears a cape and the Battmask
while the other Battman wears a bonfire pot and rides inside
the grocery cart.
“There’s a guy named Fish Desorrow Golden who dresses up
as the Brown Hornet instead,” said Brown. “He wears a brown
service cover (helmet) and a Lone Ranger mask.”
Brown said the freshmen volunteer for the job and have fun
doing it.
“I crashed once when Mr. Manias, a senior, told us it would
be real funny if we jumped out the door and down the stairs
with the Battmobile,” Brown said. “Well, we flew out the door
and fell down the stairs with the cart. We busted hard in front
of everybody on the Quad. It was so embarrassing.”
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hen 3rd Floor Cantina manager Willie Bennett
looks outside his office window in downtown
- Bryan, he sometimes daydreams about seeing one
huge party on the street between the club he manages and
the back doors of the Stafford Opera House.
. He said he envisions people eating crawfish, someone op-
u ld be a jy erating a tamale stand and a guy playing guitar with a hat
s hable byf hi® feet collecting spare change.
on and afi - think downtown Bryan could become this area’s 6th
street,” he said. “It would become the place to go.”
Bennett now has the opportunity to have a greater role
in his vision with the recent plans for him and his partner,
John Williams, to take over the lease of the Stafford Opera
House. He said the current owner’s lease runs out after
April, and he and Williams were offered the chance to ex
pand.
aose items: Williams said some fine-tunings of the arrangement are
•, Sony Waif still being worked out with building owner Ronnie Monroe,
headphon& but it is “a done deal.”
.28 in cash,I Bennett said they need the extra venue because they are
I running out of nights to book bands that will keep the mu
sic diverse.
The Stafford Opera House will close its doors after Dah-
;eived sever; Veed plays there April 29.
friend. The new ownership will keep the club’s doors closed for a
month while they make improvements before opening the
club and rename it The Dixie Theater,
ite over wto Bennett said they plan to improve the sound system and
t being stnfc add a liquor license and two more fully-operational bars,
e ground. They will also add elevated, tiered seating to the sides and
change the current bleacher style so people will have a
place to rest their drinks.
sported that Each club will still have their own style, Bennett said,
his secur: The atmosphere at Stafford caters to those looking for a
grunge-alternative club, and Bennett said he does not plan
;o change the type of bands the club books except to become
more selective with hard-core bands.
2d individus “it lends itself to college-oriented bands,” Bennett said
i the Braz
about Stafford.
“But some of the
more hard stuff
may go.”
Bennett said he
wants to-offer peo
ple a choice be
tween twbklifferent
styles of music
every night. He
said coordinating
the schedules of the
two clubs will be
good for live music
fans and for busi-
ness
“Now I’ll be able
to keep one club
from hurting the
other,” he said.
He said he wants
other clubs to move
into downtown be
cause having many
clubs in one area,
like 6th Street in
Austin, creates a hot
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spot for nightlife and helps business.
In the meantime, Bennett said he is looking forward to
the challenge of running both clubs and working on ideas to
make 3rd Floor and the Dixie Theater work well together.
He said bands often play sets together when they play
across the street from each other, and with dual ownership,
he would like to see that happen more often.
He also said he plans to block off the street and have
fans pay one cover charge to go to both clubs for special
events.
One such special event would be to book performers like
Robert Earl Keen and Jack Ingram at the two clubs and
sell one ticket for both shows, Bennett said.
“There’s even some possibilities that we haven’t even
thought of yet,” he said.
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