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u c a t i o n FALL 96 City of College Station Parks & Recreation Department and College Station Independent School District DANCE Watercolor Embroidery Resume Writing Wed. Sept 11-Oct. 9 Thurs. Oct. 3, 10 Wed. Oct. 2 Beg C & W Dance 6-9pm 10am-12 noon 6:30-8 pm Thurs. Sept. 12, 19, 26, $45 class fee $10 class fee $10 class fee Oct. 3, 10 6-7:3Qpm Human Figure Drawing Smocking Job Search Techniques $25 class fee Thurs. Sept. 12-Oct. 17 Tues. Sept. 24 Wed. Oct. 9 6-9pm 6-8pm 6:30-8 pm Beg Jitterbug $75 class fee $10 class fee $10 class fee Thurs. Sept. 12-Oct. 10 7:45-9pm The Art of Printmaking Needlepoint Interviewing $25 class fee Mon. Oct 21,28, Nov. 4,11,18 Wed. Nov. 6, 13, 20 Wed. Oct. 16 6-9pm 6-8pm 6:30-8 pm Ballroom Dance $35 class fee $30 class fee $10 class fee Mon. Sept. 23, 30, Oct. 7, 14, 21 Discover Paper Making Crochet Investing 6:30-8pm Mon. Sept. 30, Oct. 7, 14 Wed. Oct. 16, 23, 30 Wed. Sept. 18,25, Oct 2,9,16 $25 class fee 6-9pm 6-8pm 7-8:30 pm $25 class fee $25 class fee $10 class fee Adult Tap Dance Tues. Sept 24, Oct. 1, 8, Homecoming Mums SPECIAL INTEREST | How To Buy A Diamond 15, 22, 29 Made Easy Wed. Oct. 2, 9, 16 6-8pm Thurs. Sept. 12 Flower Arranging 6:30-7:30 pm $35 class fee 6-9pm Wed. Sept. 18, 25, Oct. 2 $20 class fee $15 class fee 6-9pm EXERCISE $20 class fee LANGUAGES | MUSIC Self Defense Adults 1 - ■■ ■ , .1 Wedding Bouquets Chinese Wed. Sept. 25 - Oct. 30 Voice Training Wed. Oct. 16, 23 T/Th, Sept. 24-Oct. 31 7-8:30pm Tues. Sept. 17-Nov. 19 6-9pm 6:30-8 pm $35 class fee 6-7pm $20 class fee $45 class fee Self Defense Youth Wed. Sept. 25-Oct. 30 6- 7pm $35 class fee Bellydance Wed. Sept. 11-Oct. 9 6:30-8pm $35 class fee Yoga T/Th, Sept. 10-Oct 17 5:30-7pm $55 class fee T/Th Sept 10-Oct 17 7- 8:30pm $55 class fee Chinese Tai Chi Wed. Oct. 2, 9, 23, 30, Nov. 6 7-8:30pm $35 class fee Your Image & Personal Style T/Th, Sept. 10-Oct. 3 6:30-7:30pm $25 class fee Tae Kwon Do For Kids T/Th, Sept. 10-Oct. 17 6- 6:45pm $40 class fee Tae Kwon Do For Youth T/Th, Sept. 10-Oct. 17 6:45-7:30pm $40 class fee Tae Kwon Do For Adults T/Th, Sept. 10-Oct. 17 7:30-8:30pm $45 class fee ARTS | Drawing Thurs. Sept. 12- Oct 10 7- 9pm $40 class fee Drawing For Kids Thurs. Sept. 12-Oct. 10 6-7pm $40 class fee Painting Tues. Sept. 10-Oct. 8 6-8pm $40 class fee $35 class fee Guitar I Section A Mon. Sept. 16-Nov. 4 7-8:30pm $50 class fee Section B Wed. Sept. 11 -Oct 30 6- 7:30pm $50 class fee Guitar II Wed. Sept. 11-Oct. 30 7:30-9pm $50 class fee PHOTOGRAPHY | Learn to Use Your Video Camera Tues. Oct. 15, 22, 29, Nov. 5, 12 7- 9pm $35 class fee Photography I Tues. Sept. 24, Oct. 1,8,15 6:30-8:30pm $35 class fee Photography II Tues. Oct. 22, 29, Nov. 5, 12 6:30-8:30pm $35 class fee PENS & NEEDLES | | Writing for Fun Wed. Sept. 25, Oct. 2, 9, 16, 23, 30 7:30-9pm $35 class fee Creative Writing Wed. Sept. 25, Oct. 2, 9, 16, 23, 30 6- 7:30pm $25 class fee Calligraphy Wed. Sept. 11-Oct. 23 7- 9pm $35 class fee Quilting Wed. Sept. 18-Oct. 9 6-9pm $40 class fee Cake Decorating I Seciton A Wed. Sept 18-Oct 9 6-9pm $25 class fee Section B Wed. Oct. 17-Nov. 14 6-9pm $25 class fee Cake Decorating II Wed. Oct 23,30, Nov. 6,13,20 6- 9pm $35 class fee Image & Personal Style T/Th Sept. 10-Oct. 3 6:30-7:30pm $25 class fee How to Buy a Diamond Wed. Oct. 2, 9, 16 6:30-7:30pm $25 class fee Wines of America Tues. Sept. 17, 24, Oct. 1,8 7- 8:30pm $40 class fee International Wines Tues. Oct. 15, 22, 29, Nov. 5 7-8:30pm $40 class fee BUSINESS ~| Personal Finance M/W, Sept. 16, 18, 23, 25 6:30-8 pm $25 class fee Public Speaking Tues. Sept. 10, 17, 24 7-9 pm $25 class fee Get Organized! Mon. Oct. 7, 14, 21,28, Nov. 4, 11 7-9 pm $25 class fee Accounting Wed. Sept 18,25, Oct 2,9,16 6-8 pm $30 class fee Register for classes NOW! 8am-5pm CS Parks Office in Central Park Call 764-3486 for more info! Bass Fishing Wed. Sept. 11,18,25, Oct. 2 6-8:30 pm $35 class fee Bass Fishing Secrets Wed. Oct. 9,16, 23, 30, Nov 6 6-8 pm $35 class fee Texas Hunter’s Education Section A T/Th, Sept. 17, 19, 24, 26 6-9pm $5 In class certification fee Section B T/Th/Sat, Oct. 8, 10, 12 6-9pm T/Th & 8am- 12noon Sat. $5 In class certification fee Landscaping Tues. oct. 1,8, 15, 22 . 6:30-8:30pm $35 class fee Intro to Falconry Thurs. Oct. 3, 10, 17, 24, 31 6-7pm $25 class fee Billiards Sat. Oct. 5, 12, 19, 26, Nov. 2 2-4pm $35 class fee Dog Obedience Basic Manners Mon. OCt. 14, 21,28, Nov. 4 6:30-7:30pm First class meets 7-9 without dogs $35 class fee K9 Good Citizen Mon. Sept. 9 - Nov. 11 7:45-8:45pm First class meets 7-9 without dogs $50 class fee Hollywood Dogs Tues. Sept. 17, 24, oct. 1, 8, 15, 22 6:15-7:15pm First class without dogs K9 Kindergarten Section A Sat. Sept. 14, 21,28, Oct. 5 9:30-10:30am $30 class fee Section B Sat. Oct. 12, 19, 26, Nov. 2 9:30-10:30am $30 class fee Superdogs Youth Training Club Wed. & Sat. Sept. 11 - Dec. 7 6-7pm Wed. & 10:45-11:45 Sat First class meets without dogs $60 class fee How To Build A House Wed. Sept. 18, 25, Oct. 2, 9, 16 8-10pm $30 class fee French T/Th, Sept. 24-Oct 31 6- 7:30 pm $45 class fee German T/Th, Nov. 5-Dec. 3 7- 8 pm $35 class fee Japanese M/W, Oct. 21-Nov. 25 6:30-8pm $45 class fee Italian T/Th, Sept. 10-Oct. 17 6:30-8 pm $45 class fee Spanish I Section A MA/V, Sept. 9-Oct. 16 6:30-8 pm $45 class fee Section B T/Th, Sept. 24-Oct. 31 6:30-8 pm $45 class fee Russian M/W, Sept. 16-Oct. 23 6:30-8 pm $45 class fee Sign Language T/Th, Sept. 17-Oct. 17 6-8 pm $45 class fee English as a 2nd Language(ESL) M/W, Sept. 9-Oct. 16 6:30-8 pm $45 class fee OUTDOORS Flyfishing Tues. Sept. 17, 24, Oct. 1, 8 6-8 pm $30 class fee Fly Tying Tues. Oct. 15, 22, 29, Nov. 5 6-8 pm $30 class fee Aggielife Pa) Wednesday • September 11, Shock-rock band hits Vertig By April Towery The Battalion U FOFU members have expe rienced a little bit of every thing in their three years of playing together. The band will experience College Station when it plays at Vertigo tonight. The Dallas-based rock band has been praised for its energetic, upbeat and abnormal live shows, and condemned for their views on homosexuality, drug usage and the age of their drummer. While most 14-year-0lds were getting a good night’s sleep for junior high school the next day, drummer Ben Curtis was play ing live shows on school nights with UFOFU. Curtis said it has been worth it to stay with the band. "I’m planning to go back to high school at some point or take some classes by correspon dence,” Curtis said. “I just stopped showing up for a while, but now I know I may need that education later on in life. “But playing with the band is what I want to do as a career, so I am working toward something.” Curtis’ older brother, Brandon, is UFOFU’s 24-year-old bassist and vocalist. “If we didn’t play in the band together, we probably wouldn’t see much of each other,” Ben Curtis said. “Brandon got a job at a factory working graveyard shifts, so he sleeps a lot now.” When the brothers were living in New York with their father, they met guitarist and vocalist Joe Butcher, 28, through an ad in the newspaper. The band has released two albums with Direct Hit Records. UFOFU also recorded a full length album in August titled Medicine. “We started out by giving away our record free to music stores and radio stations just to get our name out,” Butcher said. Ben Curtis said the name UFOFU came about in an interest ing way. “Brandon thought of it one night while he was tripping on LSD,” he said, “and we thought it was really cool because it’s the same thing forward and back ward.” The band got its break into music with help from Dallas bands Tripping Daisy and Hagfish. “They didn’t know us at the time, but they saw us play and really liked our music,” Butcher said. "Now we’re all close friends. After getting exposure with those bands, we were able to come back by ourselves.” Butcher said UFOFU enjoys touring and playing live shows. “We like to think we put on a good live show,” Butcher said. “We’re not too sure how good we are recorded, because the quality has not been good so far. We recorded in Seattle, and it just was- Singers: Amateurs take the mike Continued from Page 3 Munse took the idea to Willie Bennett, a co-owner and man ager of 3rd Floor Cantina, and Open Mike Night was born. "It’s something I’ve always wanted to do," Munse said. Munse said the first night had two performers, but now the group of musicians has “Whether it sucks or whether it’s great, it’s fun. This ain't no tal ent contest.” The Rev. Al Mays Open Mike performer grown into a full evening of entertainment. Messick decided to give the stage a try when he saw a flyer for Open Mike Night at a Ray Wylie Hubbard performance. Ressler said he heard about the singer/songwriter night from the bar’s answering machine. Sergio Herrera, a sophomore recreation, parks and tourism sciences major, said he hap pened to drive by the bar one Wednesday. Now he comes every week with his guitar in hand. “We’re always looking for more people,” Herrera said. Munse said the roster never runs out of room for new artists, especially for women songwriters. "I know there are girls out there,” Munse said in the latest Open Mike newsletter, “and some day we’ll find out how to get more of them to play.” Messick said more women in the audience would inspire him to play better. “Some of us heard that you can pick up women if you play the guitar,” Messick said with a smile, “but I guess they have to show up first.” Mays said he would welcome any new talent, regardless of gen der, music style or level of ability. “I don’t care what kind of music it is,” Mays said. “Anything live beats anything on record, but it’s got to be from the heart.” Messick said Open Mike Night is an opportunity for performers and spectators to enjoy themselves. "This type of thing is what you come to college for,” Messick said. “The beer’s pretty cheap, too.” ROBERT EARL KEEN n’t a very good representatioc as a band.” Butcher has claimed, on: “Brandon though) of [the band’s namf while he was trip ping on LSD. We thought it was real cool because it’s thf same thing forward and backward.” Ben Curtis UFOFU drummer be “a gay heroine addict,” whit: been known to cause contrail their shows. “We had a bad experience we were playing a show inAra Butcher said. “All these ski started throwing stuff and \\ about 1 litliT. We didn’t knota to do, so we just turned amps and tried to piss theme! Butcher’s friendly smile relaxed attitude keep him! getting upset at offended ence members. “Right now, I’m just m about my fleas,’’ Butcher sai really need to stop letting stray in the house.” Entertainmr Fans mob King: Pop in Budapes BUDAPEST, Hungary (A Michael Jackson “History” tour is turn ing into hys teria. A crowd of about 500 exuberant fans rushed a record store after word spread that Jackson had gone shopping. His bol guards linked arms to ki people at bay, and theK Pop himself appeared tov the crowd back. That gave the crowd a of energy Monday, and pe- surged forward, smashing store’s windows. 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