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Any new release with Pearl Jam in volved is sure to rocket to the top of the charts. However, Mirror Ball is not a Pearl Jam album, but rather a ferocious tour-de-force by Neil Young. Pearl Jam’s backing music does provide extra power to Young’s repertoire, but this is Young’s turn to shine. Because of Pearl Jam’s extreme pop ularity, Young probably has never had such an huge audience or such a hotly- anticipated album. But he comes through with flying colors. Using the theme of peace and love (most notably on, well, “Peace and Love”), Young recreates a picture of the ’60s and ’70s that so many young grungers try to emulate. Trouble is, they weren’t there and Young was. The album gets off to an intriguing start with “Song X,” an eerily haunting song reminiscent of “The House of the Rising Sun.” A booming chorus with the lyrics “Hey, ho away we go wmmmmKKm / We’re on the road to nev er” creates an unmistakable mystique that swallows the listener. The vibe of the ’70s comes crashing back in “Downtown,” where Young Album Review Neil Young Mirror Ball Reprise Records ★★★★ 1/2 (out off five) sings “the hippies all go.” No major messages here, just a simple, enjoy able rock performance. Perhaps Mirror Ball’s most intrigu ing song is “The Ocean,” a tale of wan dering woe. Young’s lyrics burst with hope lessness in a way that surely would make Sen. Bob Dole squirm: “Need distraction, need romance and candlelight, need random violence, need the evidence, want the testimony of expert wit nesses on the brutal crimes of love.” Young paints a picture of irony with lyrics like “I’m not present, I’m a drug that makes you dream / I’m an Aerostar, I’m a Cutlass Supreme.” Startling imagery marks “Throw Your Hatred Down,” a song comparing “the conscious world” to “the underworld” where evil is bom and bred. “Meanwhile, in the underworld the weaknesses are seen by peasants and presidents who plan the counter-scheme,” Young sings. “Children in the schoolyard finish choos ing teams, divided by their dreams while a TV screams.” Pearl Jam does provide a vicious * backing for Young throughout the al bum, but conspicuously absent is Eddie Vedder, whose vocal presence is only noticeable on “Peace and Love.” No matter, though. Young’s vocals, while lacking Vedder’s rage, are power ful enough to do justice to the outstand ing lyrics. .^4/ For those Pearl Jam fans still loy al after the canceled tour fiasco. Mirror Ball is not the next Vs. or Vitalogy. But those same fans probably will be turned on to Young, a musical legend whose knowledge and experience has been a guiding light for today’s alternative movement. Helping Orientation leaders give new students glimpse of college life By Libe Goad The Battalion W alking backwards isn’t a fad on campus — it is almost an A&M tradition for the orienta tion leaders who give campus tours. Members of the Aggie Orientation Leader Pro gram guide incoming students and parents around campus during four-day orientation program. Orientation leaders give up part of their sum mer to help ease incoming students into the college scene. The program is the largest college orienta tion in the country. That none of the participants get paid for their work also sets the program apart from other uni versity orientation programs. Paul Springer, a junior psychology major and orientation executive, said he wanted to work with the program to pay the University back for his freshman orientation experience. “I liked the openness of orientation’s format,” he said. “It was laid back.” Springer said he fondly remembers his Aggie Insights group, a group of about 10 incoming stu dents who meet with orientation leaders to discuss their upcoming transition into college life. These groups allow students to ask questions without their parents around. “We talked about what to do if you’re failing a class and what’s fun to do on campus,” he said. Tracy Wright, a junior business major and ori entation leader, said insights groups allow stu dents to get personal. “We’re normal students like them,” Wright said. “We’ve all been there and we tell them things will get better.” Jessica Morris, a junior civil engineering major and orientation leader, said working with the new students reminds her of being a first-year student. “Through them you relive your freshman year and all you went through when you first got here,” she said. After an interview and application process, a 16-person executive committee chooses 200 orien tation leaders, who train to be mentors for incom ing students. Since the leaders were selected from 350 ap plicants, Ursula Wimberly, an orientation leader executive who coordinates parents’ socials, said the executive committee was able to find a variety of people. “It gives all people a chance to get in volved,” Wimberly said. Wimberly stayed at A&M after her May graduation to stay involved in the program. She said the orientation program has chal lenged her and prepared her for the future. “You don’t necessarily have to have lead ership experience in other groups,” she said. “Working as an orientation leader develops leader ship skills.” Springer sharpened his skills while coordinat ing Aggie Energizer, a program that helps stu dents talk to each other and learn A&M tradi tions while playing games. He said parents often act more excited than the students during energizers. “At one energizer, we wanted the parents to do the wave while the students were playing games in the middle,” he said. “Instead, the parents jumped up and started doing the ‘funky chicken.’” After the conferences are over and there are no more energizers left to coordinate, the Orien tation Leader FYogram turns its attention to the Mike Friend, The Battalion Chris Bradburry, senior biomedical science major, and Karen Lotterhos, senior chemical engineering major, give campus tours as orientation leaders. phone lines. At the beginning of the fall semester, orienta tion leaders become the First-time Aggie Contact Team. Team members call new students to ask about their college experiences and to see if they need help adjusting to their new lives. Springer said the leaders also provide an in valuable service to the University. Aside from all the activities, the conferences give new students a chance to register for classes. “Without orientation, the University would have a tough time getting their students into A&M,” he said. Esquire gives Hurley credit for Grant's success JSTEW YORK (AP) — If „not for Elizabeth Hurley, Hugh Grant would be just another “faceless schlub,” Ron Rosenbaum writes in Es quire’s “Women We Love” issue. Rosenbaum credits the Estee Lauder model with turning Grant into a movie idol. The piece was written before the ac tor was arrested last month in Los Angeles on charges of public lewdness with a prostitute. He’s due to appear in court July 18. “Here was a guy with NOTHING going for him, a faceless schlub lacking looks, charm or any other appeal (the brooding intensity of a writer, for instance),” Rosenbaum writes. “But once in the Hurley orbit, seen through the lens Hugh Grant of the Hurley charisma, Hugh Grant metamor phosed into Cary Grant.” "Baywatch" star has miscarriage LOS ANGELES (AP) — “Baywatch” star Pamela Anderson has had a miscarriage. Last month, the actress and her husband. Motley Crue rocker Tommy Lee, announced they were expecting a child in February. Her publicist, Paul Nichols, confirmed Mon day that Anderson had a miscarriage in late June. He declined further comment. Anderson, who plays lifeguard C.J. Parker on “Baywatch,” and Lee were married in Mexico in February after a four-day courtship. Blige's driver tries to avoid post concert traffic and crashes van NOBLESVILLE, Ind. (AP) — A driver carry ing backup singers and dancers for singer Mary J. Blige was trying to avoid a post-concert traffic jam when he drove his van into a ditch, authori ties said. The driver, Vince Burton, and four of the 12 passengers were hurt in the accident, but none seriously, authorities said. Burton had been looking for a shortcut to avoid traffic after Sunday’s Boyz II Men concert. said Sheriff’s Sgt. Eddie Moore. He drove off the road and wound up in a ditch going about 35 mph. Blige was one of the opening acts. rr Bobbitt sings "My Ding-A-Ling LAS VEGAS (AP) — John Wayne Bobbitt’s resume now includes porno star, stripper and recording artist: He’s done a takeoff on Chuck Berry’s “My Ding-A-Ling.” Bobbitt, who lives in Las Vegas and performs in strip clubs around the world, also is making a se quel to his pornographic movie, John Bobbitt... Un cut, his agent, Aaron Gordon, said Monday. Last week, Bobbitt completed a six-day sen tence for battery against his former fiancee, Kristina Elliott. He was convicted last year on two misdemeanor counts of battery against her and previously served 12 days in jail on the other conviction. Bobbitt became something of an international celebrity in 1993 when his former wife, Lorena, cut off his penis while he was sleeping. Surgeons put him back together. Hall says North has shunned her NEW YORK (AP) — Fawn Hall, a recovering crack addict, is bitter about former boss Oliver North. “Ollie used me,” North’s former secretary says in the August issue of Redbook magazine. “I was like a piece of Kleenex to him.” Hall testified during North’s Iran-Contra trial that she and the one time National Securi ty Council aide shredded documents after the Reagan ad ministration’s illegal arms-for-hostage deal came to light. Hall, who later be came addicted to crack and is now married to another recovering addict, Danny Sugerman, says North has ig nored her phone calls and “is different now than when I knew him.” Sugarman says he has a question for North: “Just what did my wife do to you that you can’t even return her phone calls? “Your actions directly destroyed my wife’s ca reer and her life as she knew it,” he said, “and you couldn’t even pick up the phone and say, ‘I’m sorry’ or ‘Thanks.’” An assistant to North replied, “Ollie asks peo ple to pray for Fawn during this difficult time in her life.” Oliver North 11 BRING THIS AD FOR $2.00 OFF] * BEG. JITTERBUG * * ADV. JITTERBUG * DANCE WORKSHOPS * * PARTIES * BEG. C & W: 2-STEP POLKA WALTZ * BEG. 2-STEP * * ADV. 2-STEP * EAST COAST SWING WEST COAST SWING CLASSES BEGIN THE WEEK OF JULY 10TH * 9 ABSOLUTELY THE BEST IH DANCE INSTRUCTION! 3141 BRIARCREST DR. E #51 1 776-8893 DORANGG $ d> ^P ^P ^P ^p ^P ^P ^P