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The Battalion • Page 3
Tuesday • July 11, 1995
Mirror Ball reflects Young's experience
By Rob Clark
The Battalion
As the massive legions of grunge fans
are probably rushing out to grab the lat
est piece of the alternative pie, they
might be a bit disappointed at first.
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.
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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
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