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About The Battalion. (College Station, Tex.) 1893-current | View Entire Issue (Nov. 7, 1996)
MSC I FILM SOCIETY footbau-basketba rAST^j^caimTE^AS they happen m isjow Sliowlng: 361-3920 * EUROPASS Students! Now you can travel in style! 50% Discount For 2nd Person in Party of Two Traveling in 1st Class HURRY! DISCOUNT ONLY VALID IF PURCHASED BY DEC. 31! We Also Sell *Student Tickets to Europe '•'Travelers Checks '•'International Rail Passes Trainspotting Thursday, Nov, 7 19:30pm Trainspotting Friday, Nov. 8 19:30pm Trainspotting Due it> circumstances beyond | our control, The Nutty Professor will not be shown, A second | screening of Trainspotting | will be shown in its place. Campus Page Thursday • November 7,1 Centerpole, students ready for stac By Erica Roy The Battalion EXECUTIVE TRAVEL 696-1748 | Ticket*, arc $3.00. AH films shown in Rudder Theatre Complex | Questions? Cali the Aggie Cinema Hotline (847-8478). [(^ (Arsons w ith special needs call 845-1515 within 3 days of die film, i *$* Website: h11pV/tilms.tamu.eduI Centerpole will be raised today at 4:03 p.m. after a week of activities have prepared it for stack. Sophomores were at Bonfire site Monday and Tuesday night for Pisshead Wrap. Stu dents representing Corp of Cadet outfits and residence halls lined up for their chance to wrap a cable around centerpole to stabilize it. James LaMarr, a junior redpot and a con struction science major, said the activity is vi tal in preparing centerpole for erection, but also makes for a good time with friends. “It’s just a good-bull thing,” LaMarr said. “Everybody just has fun.” The process of wrapping centerpole begins with a cable being secured to it. Sophomores chosen from the crowd run one-by-one toward the pole with the cable, wrap it around the pole and then return, running, in the direction they came from. When the cable loses its slack, it snaps, pulling the student to the ground. The cable is then hooked to a tractor and pulled tight around centerpole. Scott Hall, a senior redpot and poultry sci ence major, said the origin of Pisshead Wrap is unknown but probably arose out of necessity. Fish Wrap, held Wednesday night, involves wrapping old ropes around centerpole before it is raised. Fish Wrap is performed by the out fit that “gets” centerpole. "It’s (Fish Wrap) a privilege for the Corps out fit that gets centerpole,” LaMarr said. A different Corps outfit or residence hall is awarded centerpole each year. The redpots choose the outfit or dorm based on the work they do to prepare for Bonfire. “The outfit or dorm that puts out the most gets centerpole ... at cut, everywhere, all aspects of Bonfire.” Outfit K-l earned centerpole this year be cause they were the “ones who worked for Bon fire the most,” LaMarr said. In addition to being able to carry out Fish Wrap, K-l will fly their outfit flag on top of cen terpole until Bonfire burns. Centerpole arrives in two 60-foot sections which are joined by a 10-foot notch on one end of each section. The two ends are insert ed like a puzzle piece to form the pole that will support stack. Dave Saiter, a junior centerpole pot and con struction science major, said a 10-foot hole must be drilled into the ground before center- Vol ume 1 4 Eve inti pole can be raised. A crane provided byj^ land Crane and Rigging will lift centerpole, “A crane comes in ... and lifts the up,” Saiter said. “The junior redpots in the hole. Then, you have to makesm perfectly straight.” Surveying equipment will be used to mine if centerpole is straight. The tag ropes which will lift logs off the ground on stack, will then be tied. ( i _ Finally, the senior redpots will erectthtOXU0011 logs of the first stack. Stack begins today. when Bonfire is worked on 24 hours adai gins Nov. 14. 11 “Everybody works around the clock Bonfire ready to burn,” LaMarr said. The four perimeter poles around Bi each h.ive two ropes attached to them tl tied to centerpole to stabilize it. ■ The Stuch ■oval to the ■ovement bi it: meetingW The PFI bi The ropes attached to the perimeters i . .. w '.|| are awarded to six residence halls anct ^’. W1 ^ Corps outfits, which are chosen based ^ work toward the completion of Bonfire. Outfits K-2 and D-l and residence h Tind grade di Mmfire Systei ton, Crocker, Dunn, Hart, Schumacheranclu^ ton were awarded perimeter pole ropes tht *} , . c 1 LaMarr said he budding of this yeai “ schedule. .T „ fire is on 1Z3 Walton at Texas Ave. S., Eastgate “Imagine a new Plasma Center on University that caters to New Smartest, easiest way H earn extra money. Lie back, relax, y//\U Lstucly. or just visit; then receive cash for your time, and plasma!! 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