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The Battalion Page] □ruary 3,195; icing ; I: I Page B Monday • February 3, 1997 ng mother” into dller.” They didn’t have time! ne scene and tls ous people in J weren’t looked !) knock, knock... ]trip-0-Gram dancers provide clean fun and entertainment aspects, erdict, Routien to the Kerr Com as moved tothisH ome students earn spend ing money by waiting ta bles, others work the cash n about 60 an Antonio becao North Texas mi y can J\ lice Chief Rand; ^ others take off their clothes iturday his depa: ased with the gUL )r WolfRun Productions (WRP) dded: “It should; that there arei s case.” no ier should be se; se: lighs & Lows 76°F ght’s Expected L» 62°F rtigh 69°F imorrow Night’s Expected Low 48°F By Aaron Meier The Battalion gister at the local grocery store, Student strippers who work articipate in “Strip-O-Grams,” rstripping telegrams. “Augustus,” a male stripper comment ^ senior industria l distribu- on major, has been working jrWRP for two weeks. He said efound his first stripping ex- erience rather amusing. “It was a bachelorette party )r some skydivers,” Augustus aid. "I walked into the room in skydiving outfit, but when I ry’s ExpectedHi$i ar ted to strip for the first me, the ladies’ faces made it orth it.” Augustus said although he as danced most of his life, trip-O-Grams offer him a norrow’s Expected ni( l ue opportunity to explore is dancing abilities. “When I was a little boy, I rould dance around in my un- lerwear,” Augustus said. “I’ve uditioned for Aggie Wranglers, tnd 1 am a Hurricane Harry’s egular. I also teach dance courtesy of TAMSCM lessons, so dancing is a very im- fortant part of my life.” I “Summer,” a female stripper nd senior English major, has revious stripping experience. >ummer used to dance at a lo- |:al gentlemen’s club. She start ed stripping to take care of some large credit card bills but ended up finding romance, too. “It was at the gentlemen’s club that 1 met my boyfriend,” mhesaid. "He saw me walking by r d said, 'She’s the one for me.’ ” Both Summer and Augustus aid they enjoy the work they !o for WRP, and also appreci- tethe rules the company sets or the strippers. lent rs m ~Jm W the door) C Box Office sadline to 5,1997, 5na Raya, stop by the MSC. us of your special Tior to the event toer DN oston, City Editor Buffin, Sports Editor rtRs, Opinion Editor vens, Web Editor g, Photo Editor leber, Cartoon Editor senfluck, Kevin Cummings,l® 6 , Shikonya Cureton.Joey Kimber Huff, Michael Sort signers: Artie Alvarado & 0apli f: /Lyons, Dennis Ramirez, CW Jackson,Jenne Hamlin,Steptf ohnston, Glenn Janik, Geiwal how & Jeremy Valdez lichele Chancellor trick James, Ryan Rogers W tfichael Depot, Chad Mallant, i the Division of Student P# laid Building. Newsroom pM* '/bat-web.tamu.edu. iThe Battalion. For campus, I 845-0569. AdvertisingoffitP i Friday. Fax: 845-2678. k up a single copy offtie Batf aar.To charge by Visa, Master all and spring semesters and exam periods) at Texas AM J address changes to The Bat- 1-1111. Claire Lawyer and Annie Smith are partners in the com pany, and they set the rules for the Strip-O-Grams. The dancers remain covered by bathing suits. Male dancers only undress to their briefs or boxers, and women must wear either a bikini or a one-piece bathing suit. v “Act ually, I was sort of disap pointed there was no G-string I had to wear,” Augustus said. Smith and Lawyer said they allow monetary tips for the dancers, but they prohibit the touching of dancers. “We try to keep the perfor mances within the moral bounds of the community,” Lawyer said. Summer and Augustus no ticed a disparity between the sexes in relation to tips. Sum mer said the first and only time she has stripped she earned $20. However, Augustus has only received $1 and has done two Strip-O-Grams. Augustus said his parents support his job choice. He also said his mother wants to show up at one of his performances and take pictures. Summer said her parents do not know about her stripping and she hopes to keep it a secret. Augustus said some of his friends discovered his secret at his last performance. He per formed at a Texas A&M stu dent’s 21st birthday. He said when he walked into the party dressed as a police officer, his friends were puzzled and con fused, but when the music start ed and his uniform came off, they were shocked. “At first, they couldn’t be lieve it — they turned their heads away immediately,” Au gustus said. “Afterwards, though, they told me they could see me doing it.” The physical condition of a stripper is not only important to the audience but also to the stripper. Augustus said before he started working for WRP he lifted weights about three times a week. Now he works out five times a week, limits the amount of alcohol he con sumes and pays more atten tion to his diet. Summer, however, takes a dif ferent approach to maintaining her long slender body. “I am on a strict diet of potato chips,” she said. “It’s all genetics. I have my parents to thank.” Although both dancers en joy the work, neither sees it as a long-term career. Summer will graduate in May and hopes to publish a book of poetry. She is also considering becoming a grammar school teacher or an English professor. “Could you imagine me as a teacher?” Summer said. “But be ing a professor would be so cool.” Augustus said he hopes to keep his 3.25 grade-point ratio and get a job paying $40,000 a year. He also said he will tell his children about his college ad venture, but will make sure they understand the difference be tween the dancing he does and other types of dancing. “We are selling fun and entertainment here, not sex,” Smith said. /n an c/n a iJie Tn)e7 Students find love over the Internet By Melissa Price The Battalion A s 3-year-old Mikayla snuggles into the lap of her soon-to-be dad, Derek Leonard, and lovingly wraps her arms around him, it is hard to believe that Leonard met Mikayla’s mother, Jodi Heinrich, less than six months ago — over the Internet. Leonard, a senior computer science ma jor, said he was not looking for love when he logged on to Connections, an Internet ser vice that allows users to chat worldwide. Leonard said he and his fiancee Hein rich, a 27-year-old mother of two, just happened to be on an Internet chat line at the same time and started talking. He said they chatted on-line for a month until she finally convinced him to call her on the telephone. Their first phone call, which lasted five-and-a-half hours, was the first of many long conversations. “I never thought it would happen to me, especially with her living so far away,” Leonard said. “But soon, I was finding my self logging on just to find her.” Heinrich, who is from Montana, said she could tell from the first time they talked that there was something special about Leonard. “I just fell in love with his sexy Texan ac cent,” she said. Leonard said the couple joked about her coming to visit him in Texas before they had talked on the telephone. Within two weeks of their first talk, Leonard had booked Hein rich on a flight to Dallas. Since they had no time to send pictures before the meeting, neither one had any idea what the other looked like until Hein rich got off the plane. Leonard said although he was nervous, he was excited, too. “When I saw her come off the plane, she was carrying a bunch of roses,” Leonard said. “She looked me right in the eye, scanned the entire crowd, and then looked back at me again. Then I knew it was her.” After five visits from Montana to Texas, Heinrich decided she was ready for a change and moved to College Station in December 1996. Less than four months after meeting each other on-line, the couple got en gaged. They plan to marry on Aug. 3,1998, their two-year anniversary. Although such a whirlwind romance originating over the Internet may seem a little strange, Internet users said it is not uncommon. Terry Day, a 46-year-old computer consultant from San Antonio who has been chatting on-line for about 10 years, said many people find it easier to com municate through the Internet than to go out and meet people. “I think most people chat because they have difficulty with interpersonal rela tionships,” Day said. “That difficulty is minimized with chatting.” Leonard said chatting on the Internet is a fun way to meet people who are thou sands of miles away while staying in the privacy of one’s own home. “You get to know a person’s mind first before you see what they look like,” Leonard said. Paul Kemp, a 26-year-old student from New England, said many Internet rela tionships do not work out because people can disguise themselves over the Internet. “I think the Internet is a fast-food or cheap way of meeting someone, but I think one is very lucky if such a relation ship is lasting,” Kemp said. “It’s important to see how they act, talk, look and behave in real life. By computers, these things are disguised or not apparent.” Even though some people have found ro mantic relationships over the Internet, Day said people should try to meet friends or pen pals first. If they start out looking for a rela tionship, they usually find trouble, he said. Heinrich said even though she has found love on-line, people need to be ex tremely cautious and careful when they talk to and meet people over the Internet. Many people who log on are scared of re jection or are insecure about themselves, and it is easy to create a fantasy world on line, she said. “It’s too easy to talk to someone anony mously,” Kemp said. “It’s more challenging to do it in real life. 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Everyone at the Plasma Center, from those behind the front counter to the phlebotomists to the supervisors, have made great efforts to insure that each donor feels hy- gienically safe, as well as keeping the atmos phere light. Like most, I started coming to the Plasma Center for monetary reasons, but I soon developed acquaintances that appealed to me almost as much as the original need for money, enabling me to look forward to each donation, not only for my wallet’s sake but also to see my friends. Like I commented to someone recently, talking to people at the Plasma Center was like getting mail from a far-off friend that you don’t get to do much with, but who you can talk to as often as you write. For those acquaintances and for your continual services. I would like to thank all of those I’ve come to know and appreciate over the past three years - Emily, and Tracy, Heath, and Marty, Ada and Josie, etc... more I can’t remember or those who have gone on to better things. 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