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Madonna
entertainment
GLANCE
Material Girl prepares
for motherhood
NEW YORK (AP) — Imagine life
as Madonna's wee one. Cone-shaped
baby bottles? Baby togs by Jean-Paul
Gaultier? X-rated first words?
We'll see, since the Material Girl
has gone Maternal. Madonna is ex
pecting her first child in November.
"She is
pregnant," her
publicist Liz
Rosenberg said
Tuesday in a
telephone inter
view from Bu
dapest, Hun
gary, where
Madonna, 37,
is filming the
movie version
of the musical
Evita.
The father is
Carlos Leon,
Madonna's 29-year-old personal
trainer-boyfriend.
Though four months pregnant,
Madonna doesn't look it, Rosenberg
said. And she hasn't really suffered
from typical first-trimester symptoms,
like throwing up at the sight or smell
of just about anything.
She does have that well-known
maternal glow.
"Her eyes look very sparkly. She's
very happy, very happy," Rosenberg
said. "It's something she's wanted for
a very long time."
Leon, who helped sculpt the Ma
terial Girl's well-toned body, has
been doing double-duty as Madon
na's lover the past year, according to
the London tabloid The Sun.
"They are both ecstatic about
this," the publicist said. "He's back
in the States."
The baby has not interfered with
the filming of Evita.
"An enormous amount has al-
been shot," the publicist said.
hey're just about finishing up in Bu
dapest and all that's left is close-ups,
so I don't think ft will affect anything."
So will the "Like a Virgin" singer
try natural childbirth? "She hasn't real
ly mentioned that," Rosenberg said.
Does the woman who put out
an X-rated book called "Sex"
want to find out the baby's sex
before it's born? "I assume she'll
find out at some point in time,"
the publicist said.
Limbaugh resolves
lawsuit against liberal
DENVER (AP) — Rush Limbaugh-
's lawsuit against a liberal radio com
mentator was resolved with a simple
change of words.
On Monday, a federal judge
dismissed a
$20 million
lawsuit filed
by the conser
vative talk
show host
against Aaron
Harber, who
had named
his show After
The Rush.
Limbaugh
sued two
years ago,
claiming Har
ber was capi
talizing on his name and that lis
teners might mistakenly believe
that Limbaugh was somehow in
volved in Harber's program.
U.S. District judge Richard
Matsch dismissed the lawsuit be
cause Harber agreed last year to
change the name of his show.
Harber's new show? Against
the Rush.
Carson donates life
to Santa Fe college
SANTA FE, N.M. (AP) — Greer
Carson's film mementoes are staying
close to home.
The late actress donated all her
memorabilia from her years as a per
former to The College of Santa Fe,
near a ranch where the actress lived
for years with her late husband,
Texas oilman E.E. "Buddy" Fogelson.
Carson died April 6 in Dallas
at age 92. She left $800,000 to
friends, relatives and former nurs
es, and the rest of her estate went
to a charitable foundation.
Such things as theatrical prints
and her wardrobe will go to the col
lege's Greer Garson Center for the
Performing Arts. Her books will be
turned over to the E.E. Fogelson Li
brary. Over three decades, Carson's
contributions to the college totaled
more than $5 million.
Garson starred in more than 20
Flollywood films and won an Acad
emy Award for Mrs. Miniver in
1942. She married Fogelson in
1949 and the two were fixtures for
years at their Forked Lightning
Ranch in Pecos, N.M.
Limbaugh
Texas A&M's living room
Rony Angkriwan, The Battalion
The MSC Flagroom, the "living room of Texas A&M," was designed by William Pahlmann in 1971 to offer students a home away from home.
MSC Flagroom gives students a place for rest, relaxation
By James Francis
The Battalion
T he Memorial Student Center represents Texas A&M
m varied historical ways.
On Sept. 20, 1947, President F.C. Bolton spaded the
first mound of dirt, and construction began.
The MSC opened to the public on Sept. 25, 1950; the
students of the Class of ’54 were the first to use the Si.7
million facility.
Over the years, the complex saw an influx of students,
and remodeling was a necessity.
The Texas A&M System Board of Directors hired
William Pahlmann in June 1971 to design a preliminary
plan for the interior of the MSC and Auditorium Complex.
One integral part of the MSC that Pahlmann took part
designing is the Flagroom. For most, the overall picture is a
home away from home.
At one time, the Flagroom contained mounted heads of
several big African game animals, including an ibex, a bon
go and a gerenuk.
Due to the unpopularity of the exhibits, the heads were
removed and placed in an airplane hangar on A&M’s River
side Campus.
Presently, students can walk into the Flagroom and find
two wooden globes of the heavens, the Centennial Aggie
Ring encased in glass and plaques for the founders and con
tributors of the President’s Endowed Scholarship Program.
Another sight, more recreational than a simple fix
ture, is the piano many students take time out to play
while in the center.
Of the more noticeable aspects of the Flagroom are the
flags surrounding the globes.
The variety of flags represent the United States, Texas
and the various outfits in the Corps of Cadets.
Amy York, a senior elementary education major, finds a
mixture of comforting elements in the Flagroom.
“Usually, I’m here out of convenience because it’s easy to
meet people here,” she said. “I also like the piano music if
there is someone good playing.”
Upon entering the Flagroom, students may feel a
change in their surroundings — York said she gets a
feeling of nostalgia.
“I love to see tours coming through here — see people
who might come here some day,” she said.
York also said calling the Flagroom the “living
room of Texas A&M” fits because of the traditions one
sees all around.
The provisional areas for students to study and relax at
the same time is yet another reason students can be found
in the Flagroom.
Dana Milstein, a junior English major, said she sees the
Flagroom as a social environment where students can enjoy
studying and socializing between classes.
“It’s a room for a large, family-type atmosphere,”
she said.
With the feeling of family comes a sense of belonging,
Milstein said.
“I feel secure, content and accepted when I enter the Fla
groom,” she said.
The Blue Heat works to keep students off drugs
By Kristina Buffin
The Battalion
T here is a certain stereotype of police
officers that has saturated chil
dren’s perceptions of the men and
women in blue.
* However, the College Station Police
Department is trying to combat this
stereotype by forming a band called The
Blue Heat.
The Blue Heat is composed of six mem
bers of the CSPD who hope to educate
College Station youth through music.
Maj. Mason Newton, the band’s
bassist, said the group began as a dare
with the San Antonio Police Department.
“A few of us found out that we like to
play certain instruments,” Newton said.
“We had a few jam sessions, and then we
were exposed to the San Antonio band at
a Bryan-College Station date, and we
said, ‘We can do that.’ We took off the next
year, and now we are in our third year.”
The band does not play throughout the
year but instead has a music season. Its
performances run from March through
May, and the group usually averages two
performances a month.
Newton said being in the band is worth
the hard work and personal sacrifice the
officers have to make.
“It is difficult with an agency this
small,” Newton said. “Most of the work is
done before the show, and we average a
practice once a week for about four hours.
When we are closer to the show, we try to
practice twice a week.”
Each year the band selects 13 or 14
new songs to play at every show.
The group covers songs children can
relate to. Bishop said Blue Heat mostly
performs for fifth-graders at DARE grad
uations, where youngsters celebrate that
they have completed the program.
“We do songs along the line of these
types of programs,” Bishop said. “We do
songs like ‘Bad Boys,’ ‘Standing Outside
the Fire’ and songs which have a good
Gwendolyn Struve, The Battaijon
The Blue Heat, a band composed of six members of the College Station Police Department, performs to keep children off drugs.
message. We open with ‘Coming to Amer
ica’ by Neil Diamond and try to make it
relatively fun and entertaining.”
Newton said the songs the band per
forms try to relay an anti-drug and anti
violence theme.
“It is a lot of fun and work,” he said. “It
is a lot of preliminary stuff because we
are not professionals. We have to be care
ful what lyrics we pick so that they relate
to fifth-graders. We change some of the
lyrics to make them appropriate and
make sure they are catchy tunes.”
Some of the songs the band performs
are considered “oldies,” but Bishop said
the children always recognize the songs
they play.
“I’m 41, and I was raised on country,”
he said. “One of the guys is in his mid-
20s, and he knows a lot of the rock songs.
But we all know a lot of the oldies. We
just try to keep up with the new music
and incorporate it into our show.”
Bishop said the band enjoys getting to
gether and jamming.
“For us, it is awesome to just hash it
out and make it sound good,” he said.
The police officers perform in uniform
and have some of the same stage effects
as other big bands. The show includes
lights and smoke.
Bishop said the performances are an
opportunity for kids to see another side of
police officers.
“We get a lot of help from the teach
ers,” Bishop said. “For a lot of kids, it
is hard for them to believe that cops
can do this sort of thing. Last year,
when students and parents came out to
a performance, I had students coming
up to me and saying they could relate
to our songs.”