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anjan Natarajan to leave A&M after seven years of studying and making life-long friends
By John LeBas
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Some people seem to know “everybody.”
Ranjan Natarajan, an agricultural engineering graduate stu
nt, is one of these ppople.
In his seven years at Texas A&M, the international student from In-
has become one of the most recognized faces on campus —
is friends with everyone and is so busy with school and dif-
ent organizations that he usually seems to be in more than one
ice at a time, his friends say.
There’s a story going that I have a twin brother named JanRan,”
said. “A lot of people tell me I have a twin because they see
everywhere.”
Now Natarajan, who recently completed course work for his Ph.D.,
eaving his many friends and Aggieland for a job in San Jose, Calif.
The former International Students Association president said his
lirror philosophy” — treating others with respect — that he picked
here will help him through the unknown challenges in his future.
Natarajan arrived at A&M in 1989. He had received an electrical en-
degree in India and wanted to go abroad to pursue his mas
’s degree and doctoral work, and A&M’s top-ranked engineering
enticed him, he said.
But Natarajan became homesick. Unable to make a quick weekend
phome to cure his ills, Natarajan found the best medicine for feel-
own was to walk around campus.
[would walk around and say howdy to people,” he said. “When
say howdy to someone three or four times, automatically you feel
like you know the person.”
Natarajan made a point of introducing himself to as many people
as possible.
“A good day is when I meet a few new people,” Natarajan said. “I’ve
always believed there’s no such thing as having too many friends.”
Brian Sallee, a senior industrial engineering student and a longtime
friend of Natarajan, said he is amazed at how many names and faces
Natarajan keeps straight.
“He remembers everyone’s name, which is incredible,” said Sallee,
who met Natarajan through Student Government. “There’s only one
Ranjan, but there are tons of everyone else.”
Natarajan said he hangs out with many different people because he
does not let individual differences get in the way of friendship.
“I have a mirror philosophy,” he said. “If someone is good to me, I’m
good to them.”
Jill Hayes, a sophomore mathematics major who also met Natarajan
through Student Government, said Natarajan “loves everyone.”
“He’s just so accepting of people,” Hayes said.
Natarajan said “howdy” to quite a few organizations, as well, and
did more than just meet the members.
He was founder and chair of the United Way campaign committee
at A&M, which raises funds for the United Way. In 1993, he was named
the most outstanding student of the year — for the nation. Natarajan
served one year as a student senator and was named the most out
standing student senator in 1994.
Natarajan was also a Fish Camp counselor and a co-chair in 1994.
“To me, Fish Camp was more like family,” he said. “It was such a hu-
See Natarajan, Page 4
Michael Landauer, The Bai talion
Ranjan Nataranjan, an agricultural engineering graduate student, has
been at A&M for seven years, and is moving to California this month.
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Imagine wandering through a dis
turbed conscience. Reality appears in a
harsh new light, and you are funda
mentally changed by the trip. At the
end, you see the world through more
critical eyes.
You have just emerged from Tool’s
new release, SEnima, and you need to
rest. You are strangely at peace with a
world gone mad beyond repair.
Such is the feeling one gets after
listening to /Enima, released three
and a half years after Undertow, the
brilliant album that elevated Tool as
an underground unit of metal ge
nius. The band picks up where it left
off on Undertow with yEnima, anoth
er brutal yet beautiful glimpse at a
world of rage and insanity.
Tool is a thinking person’s rock
band. The songs on/Enima engage the
listener. This is not simply a “casual lis
tening” album. The lyrics are disturb
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Most of the songs on/Enima challenge
the listener to think hard on subjects
like torture and pain.
“Eulogy” is an angry argument for
someone’s crucifixion:
“You claimed all this time that you
would die for me / Why then are you so
surprised when you hear your own eu
logy / He had a lot to say / He had a lot
of nothing to say /You must be cruci
fied / Don’t you step out of line / Don’t
you f—kin’ lie.”
Tool’s songs sound like something
from the underworld, or at least anoth
er world, and one automatically tries to
guess how the group pulled the tunes
into our reality. Drugs? Witchcraft?
It could be a little of both, as the last
track alluded to LSD use and the drum
mer confesses in a recent press release
that he has been studying ritual magic.
If these things are major influences,
they have opened the band’s eyes to a
angry realm, which they described in
their songs.
The music is equally powerful and
captivating. Maynard James Keenan,
unlike many metal “vocalists,” really
can sing. His voice is among the clean
est and most powerful in the industry,
and he is angry.
The guitarist and bassist, Adam
Jones and Justin Chancellor, continue
to crank out tight riffs of the caliber of
those on Undertow.
Tool has again proven its mastery of
spinning out dark, rhythmically orient
ed songs with a demented side. Listen
if you dare, but prepare to be altered.
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Deluxe music hits Vertigo tonight
By April Towery
The Battalion
A question has been bothering Chris Smith for a while
now: “How close is Vertigo to that burrito place?”
After snacking on a monster burrito at Freebird’s
tonight, Smith and Sixteen Deluxe will be playing with
Lewis at Vertigo.
Smith, 24, guitarist and backup vocalist for Sixteen Deluxe,
said the band is getting ready to release its second album.
“Hopefully, the next record will be really special because
we’ve had time to work on instrumentation,” he said.
Changes have been made since Sixteen Deluxe’s 1995 de
but album, Backfeedmagnetbabe. For one thing, drummer
Bryan Carlos was replaced by Steven Hall. Carlos said he is
now concentrating on songwriting and working on a solo
project. But the biggest change the band made was signing
with the Warner Brothers record label last week.
“It’s a big company, but everyone there is really positive,”
Smith said. “They’re very supportive and reliable. Also, they
have a lot of bizarre groups on the label, so we fit in pretty
well with them.”
Smith said that when the band originated two and a half
years ago, it did not plan to sign a contract.
“We’re real tight and have been through a lot together,”
Smith said. “We decided that we could do something about
our music or just have really predictable day jobs.”
In the Austin Chronicle’s People's Choice polls, Sixteen
Deluxe was named Best New Band in 1994 and Best Alterna
tive Band in 1995. It has toured with bands such as 7 Year
Bitch, Medicine, Bedhead and Mercury Rev.
Smith describes the music of Sixteen Deluxe as loud, but
said it is more than just making noise.
“At first, we wanted to have crazy and insane noise and
blast people out,” he said. “Now it takes a lot more musician-
ship to hold back on the noise and make it very emotional.
“You’d find our album in between Bad Company and
Whitesnake. I don’t know — we just do what we do. We want
to be put in the fun category.”
. Smith said the band members have a variety of influences
on their music.
He said a band should be humble about its music. An “on-
call” employee of Liberty Lunch, a club in Austin, Smith said
he he has worked with gracious band members — and those
who aren’t so gracious.
“If you act like it’s natural, it will be,” he said. “We love our
music and people can take it or leave it. We’re not going to
Sixteen Deluxe
use it as an excuse to get with girls or run up a big bar tab
and not pay it.”
Smith said although Sixteen Deluxe may not appeal to all
audiences, it does not aim to alienate anyone.
“We’re not snobby about our music,” he said. “Just don’t
beat up anyone at our shows. “We were at Emos in Austin
once and there were all these riots going on in the streets, so
we just went back inside and locked the door and had a beer.
We generally have an optimistic point of view.”
Smith said his small-town roots in Oklahoma have helped
him become a gracious musician.
“I’m really looking forward to playing in College Station,”
he said. “We’ve had a lot of sweet moments there. We enjoy
playing with the bands there and get just as excited about it
as we do about playing in San Francisco or New York. I grew
up in a small town and not many bands came through, so I’d
like to change that for small towns now.”
Smith promised to play 10 songs new at the show tonight,
and forewarned music fans:
“[The show] will be loud, so bringing ear plugs would be a
good idea.”
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