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acts, Lewis and Peeping Tom, at The Tap. 10 p.m.
The Texas A&M theater department is presenting the Madwoman of Challiot
in The Forum at 8 p.m.
Billy Pritchard, a classic rock and country act from Liverpool, England, is play
ing at the Chelsea Street Pub & Grill. 9 p.m.
Bobby Shilling, an acoustic rock band from Bryan-College Station, is playing at
Fitzwiliy’s.
Sneaky Pete, a sing-along and novelty tunes act from Bryan-College Station, is
playing at Cow Hop. 9:30 p.m.
ISunflower, a rock band from Austin, is playing with opening band Peeping Tom
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Sneaky Pete, a sing-along and novelty tunes act from Bryan-College Station is
playing at Cow Hop. 9:30 p.m.
Michele Solberg, a rock act from Austin, is playing at Sweet Eugene’s House
of Java. 9 p.m.
Climbing in the house
Aside from basic living room furniture, junior anthropology major
Geoff Jennings has a climbing wall next to his couch.
By Aaron Meier
The Battalion
V isitors to Texas A&M walk into the Student Recreation
Center and stand in awe of the climbing tower that domi
nates the entrance. But Geoff Jennings, a junior anthro
pology major, enjoys all the benefits of the climbing wall with
out leaving his small duplex home.
As opposed to the usual television most students have in
front of their couch, Jennings’ couch faces a 6-by-10 climbing
wall. The wall, a wooden structure, has hand grips attached to it.
The grips vary from rocks to wooden boxes.
“The wall is always a challenge,” Jennings said. “I get a thing
in my head that I have to climb it.”
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Geoff Jennings climbs the special wall he has in his livingroom.
Jennings did not build the wall. He inherited it from the du
plex’s owner, Tom Grundy, who built the wall while he was a stu
dent living in the one-bedroom duplex. When he graduated,
Jennings moved in and kept the wall.
Jennings said when he graduates in May, he will turn the wall
over to another climber.
The wall had meager origins. It started as a 3-foot piece of
particle board with a few grips used to play around on between
climbs. The project grew to dominate the living room, and Jen
nings hopes to add to Grundy’s creation.
Last week, Jennings decided to add components to make
climbing on the manmade wall more like climbing on rock.
Jennings inherited another wall, which he has considered
putting into the already close quarters.
“I have an 8-by-13 climbing wall now in storage that some
one gave me,” Jennings said. “I’ve thought about putting it in,
but it would block my refrigerator.”
The wall has inspirational quotes from various mountain
climbing magazines taped all over it. One quote reads, “Every
dollar I don’t spend on food is a dollar that I could spend on gas
to go climbing.”
Jennings agrees with this philosophy. He said the expense
of climbing is a strain to students’ budgets.
He has two pairs of tattered and taped climbing shoes
nailed to the wall, next to the Ansel Adams mountainscape
portraits.
Jennings said the shoes cost about $135 a pair, and he is on
his third pair.
Tape covers the front third of an old pair of shoes that fell
apart while he was climbing in Colorado.
“I had already resoled them once,” Jennings said. “Then,
while I was doing a long climb up in Colorado, I looked down at
my shoes, and my toe was sticking out the side. Finishing the
climb was hard.”
Jennings prefers climbing outdoors to indoor gyms.
He has climbed most of the major rocks in Texas, such as En
chanted Rock, the Green belts of Austin and Rhymer’s Ranch.
Over the Thanksgiving break, Jennings said he plans to visit one
of the most famous climbing sites in Texas, Hueco Tanks, for the
first time. People travel from all over the world to climb there.
Jennings said his weekends of climbing occupy much of liis
free time.
As a member of the Outdoor Recreation
Club, Jennings said climbing means more
to him than a sport, but it also offers a ">y
social outlet for him and his friends. - .
Every Thursday night, Jennings’ home
is invaded by 10 to 15 friends who test
their skills on the wall.
“We have made a game out of
the wall,” Jennings said. “It’s kind
of like leapfrog. Someone will
make two moves on the wall,
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To make the moves easier
to remember, the grips on the
wall have acquired different
names. The names range from “Ameri
can Tourister,” which is shaped like a luggage handle, to “Pull
My Finger.”
Some grips share a theme. There are five grips named after
the different body parts of the cartoon character, Gumby.
The more commonly traveled routes on the wall have also been
named by the stickers placed on various grips to guide the climber.
One route marked “99 cents” has bright-orange stickers from
day-old doughnuts at the grocery store. A route labeled “Save All
Urine” is marked with stickers from a hospital.
“Some of the routes are [difficult],” Jennings said. “I can only do
a couple of moves of ‘Save All Urine,’ but I keep on trying. That is
what makes it addictive, the mental as well as physical challenge.”
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The Madwoman of Chaillot,a play, opens tonight at 8 p.m. in the Rudder Forum.
By Joseph Novak
The Battalion
I n a world corrupted by greedy busi
nessmen and ravaged by industry
needs, there is one heroine who can
save the world. And her name is Countess
Aurelia, the Madwoman ofChaillot.
She is the centerpiece of the latest pro
duction by the Texas A&M theater arts
program, The Madwoman ofChaillot.
The play, written by Jean Giraudoux
more than a half a century ago, was origi
nally set in post-World War II Paris. How
ever, Director Roger Schultz, associate
professor of theater arts, has brought the
original play into a modern setting.
“It’s a wonderful play from a period
some 50 years ago that was terribly con
temporary and poignant at that time,”
Schultz said. “And 50 years later, I hear the
lines of the ragpicker, I hear the lines of
the corrupt business man and see that
things have not changed a whole lot.
We’re still in need of someone to come up
with a plan to bring the beauty and serv
ing and charitable qualities back to life.”
The current production is set in the
spring of 1997 and is located at the “In
ternational City” because it is the con
verging point for people with diverse
ethnic backgrounds.
“As you can see from the production,
we have characters who are representa
tive of Asia, Africa, Europe and the Ameri
cas,” Schultz said.
Amidst this harmony, the evils of the
world have also converged.
The play opens in the setting of the
Cafe Cafe. A corporate president and a
baron have created a “false company,” but
they need to give it an appropriate name.
They encounter a greedy prospector who
provides them with a company name and
his plan to find oil, which involves de
stroying the city.
When Countess Aurelia, the Mad
woman of Chaillot, enters the play, she is
ignorant of evils in the world that slowly
destroy society. When she learns of these
evils, she develops a plan to permanently
rid the world of evil people.
Melissa McNalley, the actress portray
ing Countess Aurelia, said that at the be
ginning, her character thinks life is per
fect, but when she finds out it is not, she
decides to do something about it.
“When she does find out the world isn’t
just beautiful and happy as she thought it
was, she’s indignant that nobody had told
her this before,” McNalley said. “And
rather than getting mad, she gets even.”
The cast includes a group of vagabonds
who have never bothered to fight the
wealthy tyrants of the world. Ragpicker, the
main vagabond played by Ben Cunning
ham, is a poor man who has learned
about the wealthy people’s wasteful
habits by sorting through their garbage,
and he knows their habits will one day
destroy the world.
“The Ragpicker is pretty much the foil
of all that [the greedy businessmen] stand
for,” Cunningham said. “He’s poor and yet
kind and caring and selfless.”
In the second act, Countess Aurelia be
gins her plan to destroy the evils of the
world. To help her make the decision on-
how to exterminate the evil doers of the
world, she invites three of her insane
friends, Madame Constance (Kelly Hart
line), Mademoiselle Gabrielle (Manisha
Parekh) and Madame Josephine (Leslie
Speikes) to come to her cellar.
Speikes said the madwomen are in-
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