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Pi tember2fl Aggielife Page 3 Friday • September 20, 1 996 Washington, O.C, l will be comm; cond lieutenaoi graduation, rps will kickoff 15 p.m.,andtt* it 2:45 p.m. earn ofe day wk&M's Emerge; [ests the follow se attending the| plenty of wate: after each game, t skip any meali loose cotton clofi sunscreen and la comfortable ? consumption d iring the game, IS students ght gran ht grants hat i two Texas MV ts. Mouchaty, a zooo ;nt, and Nancy Da t graduate stude its for research ao ;y will travel to S nb will travel to E( 93°F Yesterday'slJ! 71°F Today’s 1 High 94°F Ibdav’s Hxpfi^ 72°; dent Chapter oftbe ram IS g°la i 25-28 er [ON ERRENOT, ClP't 'ORTS EOIIOII ce, Opinion E , Web Ediw :> HOTO I A&M University infs . News offices are Ilf 347; E-mail: endorsement by 5-2696. Forclassf' cnald, and officeh' 1 -M student to pickl 40 per school p* i Express, call 8P during the fall anfSf 5 (except on Univefif ge paid atCollej Feed McDonald Friday, Sept. 2 0 Sloppy Joe, an ’80s funk and trash disco band from Waco, is playing at The Tap. Two Paces West, a folk rock band, is playing at Sweet Eugene’s House of Java. Bobby Hall & the Ice Cold Blues Band is playing at Fitzwilly’s. Ruthie Foster, a rhythm & blues artist, is playing at the 3rd Floor Cantina. The Dixie Theatre is presenting the Killer Bees, a reggae band from Austin. Linus, a rock band, is playing at the Cow Hop. Chelsea Street Pub & Grill is hosting rock cover act, Rocky Richardson. Robert Earl Keen The MSC film society is showing Mystery Science 3000: the movie at 7 p.m. and 9:30 p.m. in Rudder Theatre. Area event: the Smokin’ Armadillos, a country band, is playing at the Wash ington County Fair in Brenham. Call (409) 836-4112 for information. Robert Earl Keen is playing at Wolf Pen Creek Amphitheater. The gates open at 7 p.m., and the show will end in time for fans to go to midnight yell practice. • Saturday, Sept. 21 Mexico Viejo, a Tejano band, is playing at Sweet Eugene’s House of Java. Sneaky Pete, a sing-along and novelty act, is playing at Fitzwilly’s. 3rd Floor Cantina is hosting Texas Twisters, a country & western band. Dah-veed, a rock band from Austin, with opening band Rhythm Masters, is playing at the Dixie Theatre. Lewis, a rock band from College Station, is playing at the Cow Hop. Chelsea Street Pub & Grill is hosting rock cover act Rocky Richardson. Bobby Hall & the Ice Cold Blues Band is playing at the Brazos Brewing Company. The MSC Film Society is showing The Last Supper at 9:30 p.m. in the Rud der Theatre. Dr. Henry Dethloff is signing copies of his new book, Texas A&M University: A Pictoral History 1876-1996 at the College Station Hastings at 1 p.m. HI . - The many forms of The Benz School of Floral Art on West Campus com bines form and function in a T , _ ft''”" B ~ gallery of eclectic treasures. The Benz School of Floral Art is in the lobby of the Horticulture ° Forest Science Building on West Campus. By Kimber Huff The Battalion P icture a factory that makes household products like disposable silverware and the cheap trash can you keep under your desk. As unmolded liquid is being formed into what will soon be a new laundry basket, a stringy waste material that has an uncanny resemblance to an uncooked hamburger is discarded. Art takes many forms. This is art. These bits of plastic waste are on display at The Benz School of Floral Art in the lobby of the Horticul ture Forest Science Building on West Campus. The gallery was founded in 1945 by M. “Buddy” Benz, Class of ’32, who graduated with a degree in landscap ing art. Benz gained worldwide fame in the floral de sign field for his theories and books. Benz, an avid collector of floral art, willed his entire estate, including the Benz School of Floral Art and a large floral art collection, to the University when he died in 1980. At this time, the University built the Horticultural Forest Science Building, and designated the lobby as a gallery to house items from Benz’s floral art collection. Benz acquired this collection during his travels throughout the U.S. and the world. Jim Johnson, senior lecturer in tlie Horticultural Sciences Department and director of the Benz Gallery of Floral Art, said the collection contains over 800 items, including a 450-year-old Nagaire floral arrange ment holder, a precious flower holder that Japanese emperor Hiro Hito gave to Benz, and stirrups from Samari suits of armor that soldiers filled with flowers to inspire them during daily meditations. “Every object in this collection could be incorporat ed with flowers in some design,’’Johnson said. Im order to expose people to the entire collection, pieces in the display cases are changed bi-monthly. Other displays include Texan art, post-modern art and pop art. Artifacts from around the world are also exhibited. Some of these artifacts include minia ture cast masks from Mexican pyramids, a Chinese porcelain pil low, silver fruit that was given to Brazilian ranch hands as rewards, a pair of wooden shoes from Holland and a rose wa ter holder used by an African tribe for wash ing hands after eating. Objects from the Victorian era are also on display — a “waste bowl” that held leftover soup and coffee were dumped at the conclu sion of a meal, and sev eral tussle mussies (ob jects made of decorative gold or sil ver which were used by Victorian ladies to car ry bouquets of flowers in while dancing). An other display consists of several free-form Madonnas, while a final display includes gold orchids cast from live orchids in Benz’s greenhouse. Johnson said the gallery has another purpose be side housing art. “It was designed to allow for special teaching needs as well as to be a nice public space,” Johnson said. See Benz, Page 4 Pat James, The Battauqn A painted porcelain mask on display. 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