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Desired $ Dancers $ $ Dancers $ $ Dancers $ * Early Shift * Summer Silk Stocking Lounge Highway 6 South 1 mile South of College Station 690-1478 4 pm to 1 am Don’t Miss Messina Hof’s Wine &L Roses Festival on Saturday, April 29th 10AM-6PM FREE ADMISSION Music by: • Eugene Eugene • Austin Wind Ensemble • Edwin Gaas & The Top Five Band • BV Guitar Society Team Grape Stomping 11 th Annual Texas Artist Competition Classic Car Clubs: BMW, Mercedes Alpha Romeo &c MGs Winery Tours &C Tasting Panels Vineyard Hayrides Arabian Show Horses Pony Rides & Petting Zoo Food & Fun For The Whole Family ^Messina 9~(of 4545 Old Reliance Road (409) 778-9463 Place Your Ad In The Battalion Call 845-2696 WEEKEND ‘95 ‘95 Achieving The Dream Tickets on Sale NCfW at the MSC Box Office Package price for ALL four events -- $85/couple. You save $10.00 by purchasing the package. SENIOR BASH Thursday, April 20, 1995 Lakeview $5.00/person $ 10.00/couple 8:00 p.m. - 1 a.m. MUSTER Friday, April 21, 1995 G. Rollie White Coliseum/ Rudder Auditorium 7 p. SENIOR BANQUET Saturday, April 22, 1995 Hilton 6:00 p.m. - 8:00 p.m. $15.00/person $30.00/couple 9:00 p.m.- 1 a.m. RING DANCE Saturday, April 22, 1995 MSC-Rudder Complex $27« 5 0/person $55.00/couple Includes: Five Dance Rooms - Country, Tejano, Orchestra, Piano Bar & DJ Programs & Champagne Glasses Ring Dance Pictures Pre-packages sold April 17-21, 1995 in the MSC main hallway Two packages available at $15.00 and $10.00 A VOID LONG LINES!!! Take pictures all day Saturday, April 22, 1995 in Rudder Auditorium from 10:00 a.m. - 1 a.m. SENIOR WEEKEND T-SHIRTS Available in the MSC main hallway April 10-13 and April 17-21. SENIOR PICNIC Sunday, April 23, 1995 Spence Park 1:00 p.m. Page 4 • The Bai tai ion Aggidife Tuesday • April Committee seeks awareness with Flyiri Wesia By Keryl Cryer The Battalion T he MSC Black Awareness Committee will present the play Flyin West as performed by Houston’s Ensemble Theater in Rudder Theater at 7 p.m. tonight. Admission for the event, which the BAG is co-programming with the Pan-Hellenic Council, will be $5 for students and $7 for non-students. Tina Harrison, the chair of the BAG, said the play depicts the story of three African- American women who try to escape the South by moving west after the Civil War. “They try to discover freedom in their own lives, and get opportunities that America did not have available to them as women and as African-American women,” Harrison said. The action takes place in a small, all black town in Kansas where they struggle against the efforts of speculators as well as to change themselves icsd )1 flwi The BAG started this academic year by assisting in Excellence; ing Culture, Education, and Leadership (ExCEL), a program pr®: directed at minorities in the incoming freshman class. The BAG also brought the celebration of Kwanzaa to thei campus at Christmas. The holiday, which originally celebrated the First Harvest in has recently gained more popularity within the African-AmericacD^' munity itself. “It’s a celebration of Christmas, but it’s one of the only,;* 7 the only, African-American holiday,' flCtai rison said. J, “It involves the gift of giving andii;*' motes unity in the black community* reliance in the black community, anc I, 0 "Every person, no matter what color they are ... should be able to identify with the play" — Tina Harrison ty,” Harrison said. one of its main goals is to promotec,r| p r0 ship and leadership within our con®; 10.8 r-i • mi 1 a s 1 • This semester, the group also spoil I Chair OJ TLaCK Awareness Committee the Harambee Festival, which was 1 Flyin’ West is the last of several programs sponsored by the BAG this year that attempts to promote the goal of an organization. “Our programs, our goals are to promote awareness of African- American culture on the Texas A&M campus,” Harrison said. “We bring issues and programs that we believe to be relevant or in dicative to African-Americans as well as the campus. Our pro gramming is for the whole school.” festival in February, and co-programme; showing of Fresh with the MSC Film Society. Harrison said Flyin’ West will appeal to a wide audience. “I think that every person, no matter what color they a matter what their sex is, should be able to identify withthep Harrison said. “Because it’s about independence, it’s aboutt ering yourself, and it’s about discovering your limitations.Tl I six 1 a play about you being your own person and you acceptingp for what they are and accepting yourself for what you are.” Lennox's labor of love gives old songs new respe By Erin Hill The Battalion Annie Lennox Medusa Arista Records ★ 1/2 (out of five) Lots of artists would love to do a cover al bum, but it’s all in the timing. Shawn Colv in’s less-than-successful 1994 Cover Girl came too early in her career, for example. But Annie Lennox’s timing is just right. With her successful Eurythmics career behind her, and a solid solo album Diva un der her belt, Lennox deserves to sing the songs she wants to. Her cover album Medusa is impressive, musical and mature. Lennox forms a triumvirate of successful women cover artists with Sinead O’Connor and her cover album Am I Not Your Girl? and Nanci Griffith, who released Other Voices, Other Rooms. Nice club to be a member of. Lennox’s album selections are more var ied in style and feel, however, than O’Con nor’s and Griffith’s. Lennox tries her hand at the tender folk of Paul Simon with “Something So Right,” and does it justice. But she can also take music from ’80s punk band The Clash and work wonders, as she does with “Train in Vain,” written by Clash band members Mick Jones and Joe Strummer. The first track of the album, “No More ‘I Love You’s’” has heavy, full vo cals, while other tracks, like “Thin Line between Love and Hate” are more spar ing and reserved. Her cover of Procul Harem’s “A Whiter Shade of Pale” is perhaps the sweetest track on the album, with its charming marriage of Lennox’s strong vocals and equally strong instrumenta tion. Though she abandons the tradi tional organ accompaniment found in the original song, she replaces it with some fancy keyboards that give the song a more ’90s feel. “This album contains a selection of songs I have been drawn to for all kinds of reasons,” Lennox said in a press release. “They were not chosen with any particular theme or concept in mind — the method was more by in stinct than design. The work under.- taken was truly a labor of love for me and I feel privileged to have been giv en this opportunity.” Lennox sounds sure of her interpretations of these classics, and she certainly is singing stuff written by the best of them, namely Neil Young, A1 Green and Bob Marley. With her cover of Marley’s “Waiting in Vain,” Lennox performs no easy magic trick. She takes his reggae song, changes the beat, adds some lush vocals and pulls a groovy pop tune out of her hat. No real hint of Mar- m 9 \ e i S ******** kt #•.« Annie Lennox ley — this song is all hers. In appreciation for the songwritini others, she includes this note inside the! bum jacket: “To the writers of these bea| ful songs I offer my profound respects.' it’s the writers and the listeners who« respect — respect to a talented artist' can make something good into somethi even better. Best Little Discussion on Campus Award-winning author pays first visit to A&M for lecture lily By Michael Landauer The Badlalion his personal experiences to give his writ The author of The Best Little Whore house in Texas will be speaking in the Uni versity Center Galleries tonight at 7:30. Larry L. King is the award-winning au thor of six stage plays, including The Night Hank Williams Died. He has also written 11 books, hundreds of magazine articles, two screenplays and many televi sion documentaries. King started writing poetry when he was eight, and said he always draws on ing a Texas flavor. “I spent a lot of time hanging arouni country music and beer joints and pla) ing football,” he said. “And these thin?> are identified in many people’s mindss Texas.” King said tonight’s talk will focus® how to write plays and see them throuf- to becoming stage productions and on ho* he has used his experiences in his writing “I say it’s running my life back throuf. the memory machine and using it to trate my story,” he said. ! attention students ! attention students ! 11 April 17-19 are Student Appreciation Days! & Student Life Programs Open House Stop by Suitettl 12 J.J.Koldus Bldg. Come meet our friendly staff and learn about our services and programs!! 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