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By Michael Schaub
The Battalion
onsider this; a strange land
where a cold, white sub
stance called snow coats the
ground during winter. A land where
leaves change color and fall to the
ground every autumn. A land
whose inhabitants eat chowder and
use the word “wicked” as an adverb.
This strange planet is called
“New England.” And its natives are
among the student population at
Texas A&M.
If the concept of New England is
hard to grasp for native Texans,
imagine how Northeastern stu
dents must feel in the Land of a
Thousand Howdys.
Becky Pearson, a freshman gen
eral studies major who lived in Bed
ford, Mass., and Washington, D.C.
before coming to A&M, saidTexas is
“a whole other world.”
“The people are way nicer
down here, and drivers are, too,”
Pearson said.
The Northeastern attitude is
different than that of the South
erners, freshman biology major
Justin Saint-Jacques, who did a
“tour of duty” in Erie, Pa. and
Gaithersburg, Md., said.
“The people in the Northeast
are different,” Saint-Jacques said.
“There’s a tendency to be more
curt, more rushed than people in
the South.”
Boston native Erin Gorman, a
geophysics graduate student, said
the popular Southern perception of
the Northeast is not far off target.
“I would have to say all the
stereotypes you hear about people
in the North are true," she said.
Gorman said people are more
standoffish in the Northeast.
“People in the South are really
more laid back,” Gorman said. “In
the Northeast, if you go somewhere,
you must run there.”
If the Southern demeanor is not
cold, the weather definitely was last
week — and Texans’ reactions to it
confused many Northeasterners.
Stephanie Eschmann, a sopho
more bioengineering major from
Bedford, Mass., said she was used to
driving in the ice and snow.
“I couldn’t figure out why they
didn’t put salt or dirt down on the
roads,” she said.
The weather in Texas was cold
er than in Massachusetts during
this winter break, adding to the
confusion, some Northeastern
students said.
“I really wanted a white Christ
mas,” Eschmann said, “but it was
colder down here.”
Gorman said news of the winter
storm that assaulted Texas sur
prised her.
“In Boston, it was like 50 de
grees,” Gorman said. “I was watch
ing the Weather Channel — you
know, for yaks — and I heard about
this winter storm down here.”
The unexpected two-day break
from school last week surprised
Eschmann, who said she was ac
customed to going to school in
the snow.
“We couldn’t cancel school every
single day,” Eschmann said.
Gorman said she thinks the
harsh weather is following her.
“I tried to escape this; this is fol
lowing me,” Gorman said. “But it
gave me an opportunity to wear my
huge collection of wool sweaters.”
Ice storms notwithstanding,
many Northeastern transplants
said they intend to stay below the
Mason-Dixon Line.
“I’m probably going to stay in
Texas,” Eschmann said. “I always
thought I wanted to go North, but
I didn’t like living in the snow.”
Pearson also said she intends to
stay near Texas, but Saint-Jacques
said he might go to medical school
in Boston.
The Southern culture took
some getting used to for Gorman,
who was an undergraduate stu
dent at Smith College in
Northampton, Mass.
“In the Northeast, you don’t even
make eye contact,” Gorman said.
“Here there are people saying
‘howdy’ to you.”
The idea that all Texans talk
with a thick accent still persists
somewhat in the Northeast, Gor
man said.
“I thought everyone would
sound like Matthew McConaugh-
ey,” she said.
“I was actually surprised by the
diversity of the students. I knew
logically not everyone was going to
be like Clint Eastwood in the
spaghetti westerns.”
After a semester in College Sta
tion, Gorman said the novelty of the
Lone Star State has not worn off.
“It’s still sort of interesting, see
ing people running around, singing
in cadence,” she said. “You don’t get
that much in Boston.”
The Northeast
AGGIE, TOO
Ebony, ivory and comedy
Pianist-comedian Steve Green uses insults to get results
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The Battalion
^ teve Green takes pride in the
fact that he can walk out the
front door of a club after his
show his over.
In his twelve years of piano com
edy, only once has he had to sneak
out the back door of a club and into
the alley to hide from an angry mob.
f\drunken out-of-state rugby team
was waiting for him outside the
club, cracking their knuckles and
preparing for a scuffle.
Fortunately, the manager saved
Green by showing him the hidden
back exit. Green escaped, and
stealthily avoided the only alterca
tion the performer has ever faced.
Not bad for a guy who sings
“Let’s Get Drunk and Screw” and
the highly-requested “Gang Bang
Song” night after night to other
men’s dates.
His “unbruised” track record is
proof that Green has mastered the
art of insult.
Maybe art is not the correct word
for what Green does. His show is not
culturally stimulating, it is not a
work of musical beauty and words
like “posh” or “classy” could never
be used to describe the experience.
“It’s like I’m waging war on the
audience,” Green said. “Some guys
have a little class, but I do not.”
There will be no wine and cheese
tasting, no evening gowns or tuxe
dos, no couples waltzing the
evening away in romantic ecstasy
when Green preforms tonight at
2ND ANNUAL
HISPANIC OPEN HOUSE
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Hispanic Presidents’ Council
Presents:
Hispanic Open House
Tuesday, January 21,1997
7:00 • MSC 292B
Presented by Hispanic President’s Council:
Ballet Folklorico Celestial (BFC)
Committee for the Awareness of Mexican American Culture (CAMAC)
Hispanic Business Student Association (HBSA)
Hispanic Graduate Student Association (HGSA)
Hispanic Journalists Association (HJA)
Kappa Delta Chi Sorority
Mexican American Engineers and Scientists (MAES)
National Hispanic Scholarship Fund (NHSF)
Omega Delta Phi Fraternity
Puerto Rican Student Association (PRSA)
Rio Grande Valley Hometown Club (RGVHC)
Society of Hispanic Professional Engineers (SHPE)
J.D. Well’s. Tonight there will be beer,
blue jeans, and entertainment in its
purest and most brutal form: laugh
ter— side-splitting laughter.
Green indicated that his show
will be a little dirty, a little lewd, and
it might make a few folks blush, but
that is his style of comedy. The show
consists of songs as tame as “The
Hokey Pokey” to a version of “Hap
py Birthday” that might take time
out to insult the size of the birthday
boy’s genitalia.
Green, who works largely on tips,
admits to pushing the envelope of
what is disgusting or perverted.
“For $10 I can make you laugh,
for $20 I can make you blush, and
for $401 can make you cry,” he said.
See Green, Page 4
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Cop flick Metro offers no surprises
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Metro
Starring Eddie Murphy
Directed by Thomas
Carter
Rated R
Playing at Post Oak Mall
★★ (out of five)
By Michael Schaub
The Battalion
Eddie Murphy just does not
have to live up to expectations
anymore. His last two movies
were Vampire in Brooklyn and
The Nutty Professor, for crying
out loud.
So it is all the more strange that
his latest movie should be shallow,
formulaic and disappointing.
In Metro, Murphy plays Scott
Roper, a San Francisco police
hostage negotiator. Like many
movie cops, Roper is beset by a
host of personal and occupation
al problems.
His ex-girlfriend Ronnie Tate,
(Carmen Ejogo), has left him be
cause of his gambling compul
sion. He is being forced to train a
new partner, Kevin McCall (the
usually talented Michael Rapa-
port). And his best friend on the
force is murdered by a psychotic
jewelry-theft suspect named Kor
da (Michael Wincott).
The plot thickens, as much as it
possibly can, when the same bad
guy is forced to hold jewelry-store
customers hostage after a botched,
robbery. Roper is called in to ne- [
gotiate, but Korda will have none -
of it, and the first of a series of pur-*
suit scenes ensues.
See Metro, Page 4
Eddie Murphy and Michael Ra-
paport star as cops in Metro.
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