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Friday • February 7, 1997
HOUSTON RODEO ROUNDS OF AGGIES
By Daphne Phillips
The Battalion
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have conducted r
terviews, he said.
ormer Texas A&M students in
terning at the Houston Live
stock Show & Rodeo found it
ficult to be objective about
irge Strait’s wink or smile.
A&M is the only university that
forks with the marketing depart-
lent of the rodeo. One of several
Jasin the marketing department in-
hich operates mjBides recording rodeo and star per-
d the problem ™L«nnances on video tapes and log-
cal phone comparTj^^e actions and times in a book,
lan Jay SpadaforesiB Laurie Hearn, a senior agricul-
nt said it was chec>m a i journalism and poultry sci-
st. Bee major, has worked for the
31 first releasedth (past four years at the rodeo. Hearn
tape and announBid she thinks the rodeo invites
0 reward for informa:*M students to participate in
jws conference see'■is program because of the stu-
Ivance the bombinp dents’ professionalism,
igators have sincere:* “Being Aggies, we are taught to
OOO photos and IvBve integrity and to be respectful,”
apes from peoplerBearn said. “We go there to work
r the park the niglr.ftrd and do the job.”
Woody Johnson,FE* Dr. Joe Townsend, associate dean
of the Atlanta office.»the College of Agriculture and Life
Biences, said work ethic is what die
Bdeo likes about A&M students.
■ “Sometimes, students will be-
■n at 7 a.m. and won’t stop until
1(> p.m.,” Townsend said. “Time
A ■ does not mean a whole lot to jour-
JUk I TPj raalists and they like the fact A&M
^ puts in long hours no matter what
c & , ■ takes.”
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■ a.m. to 8 p.m.
Rhonda Reinhart, a junior jour
nalism major who worked last year,
said she loved the technical part of
the internship.
“I thought it showed another
side,” Reinhart said. “I had a part in
what was going on behind the
scenes. Even though the people
were watching the camera, they
were not watching me.”
Students usually work three
consecutive 12 to 15 hour days as
writers and technicians. The wr it
ers write press releases and inter
view award winners. The camera
and technical workers set up, take
down and operate cameras and
work the control booth. Both are
paid $4.75 an hour.
Blake Lacewell, a graduate stu
dent assisting in the College of Agri
culture andasponsorfor the Agricul
tural Communicators ofTomorrow,
said the first day on the job varies, de
pending on the position.
“Writers start at 9 a.m. on the
first day,” Lacewell said. “After that
it could be 7 a.m. to 9 p.m., some
times midnight.”
“I got a chance to go through the
bull-riding tapes in the previous
night’s performance and put a star
by the ones that stuck out,” Hearn
said. “I kind of got to choose and
edit them. It was neat seeing the
nuts-and-bolts of it.”
Not only does the experience
provide on-the-job training, but it
also gives students an opportunity
to develop employer relationships.
More to B-CS than A&M
Downtown Bryan, conventions draw visitors to area
L
Friday
February 7
looking for
:ommitted to excellent
Reed Boyd, a country/rock/com-
ly entertainer, is performing at
Chelsea Street Pub and Grill at 9 p.m
MSC Film Society is showing
Romeo and Juliet at Rudder Theater
at 7 p.m. and at 9:30 p.m.
Trout Fishing In America, a rock
band from Little Rock, is playing with
The Woodies, a folk/rock band from
Bryan-College Station, at the Dixie
Theatre at 9 p.m.
Jazztop, a rock band from Bryan-
lollege Station, is playing at the Cow
Highs & Lows lop at 9 p.m.
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[Copasetic Cafe at 9:30 p.m.
IVlike McAllister, a classical gui
tarist, is performing at Sweet Eu
gene’s House of Java at 9:30 p.m.
Storyville, a rock band from
Austin, is playing with Lisa Tingle, a
Jock musician from Austin, at 3rd
Floor Cantina at 8 p.m.
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MSC Town Hall is holding a Lunch
Box Concert featuring
alternative/rock band Feed, at Rud
der Fountain at 12 p.m.
Theatre Arts Program is performing
Mother Courage by Bertolt Brecht at
the Fallout Theater at 8 p.m.
Saturday
February 8
Big Otis, a blues/Motown/soul
artist from Houston, is playing at 3rd
Floor Cantina at 8 p.m.
Reed Boyd, a country/rock/com
edy entertainer, is performing at
Chelsea Street Pub and Grill at 9 p.m
Dante & Nash is playing to bene
fit the Muscular Dystrophy Associa'
tion at the VFW Hall in Bryan at 9 p.m.
Eugene Eugene, a jazz band from
Bryan-College Station, is playing at
Sweet Eugene’s House of Java at
9:30 p.m.
Forsyth Galleries are presenting
the Libbey Glass Collection and
Life, Love and Death in Winslow
Homer’s “Winding the Clock" from
8 a.m. to 8 p.m.
Jazztop, a rock band from Bryan-
College Station, is playing with Ty &
the Semiautomatics, a rock band
from Houston, at the Dixie Theatre
at 9 p.m.
MSC Film Society is showing
Romeo and Juliet at Rudder Theater
at 9:30 p.m.
Sneaky Pete, a sing-q-long artist
from Bryan-College Station, is per
forming at Fitzwilly’s at 9:30 p.m.
Student Life Services for Stu
dents with Disabilities is present
ing psychologist Bill Haddock lec
turing on “Attention Deficit
Hyperactivity Disorder" in 228 MSC
at noon.
Theatre Arts Program is performing
Mother Courage by Bertolt Brecht at
the Fallout Theater at 8 p.m.
Unspoken Word, a rock band from
San Antonio, is playing with Fysher, a
rock band from Bryan-College Sta
tion, at 9 p.m.
By Karen Janes
The Battalion
A family in San Antonio loads
up the minivan in prepara
tion for its annual family va
cation. They are not headed to Dis-
neyworld, the mountains of
Colorado or even the Grand
Canyon. No, this family is going to
College Station, Texas.
The Bryan-College Station area
is growing in popularity every year
as a travel destination. Dick
Forester, director of the Bryan/Col
lege Station Convention and Visi
tors Bureau, attributes this growth
to location.
“Bryan-College Station is in
close proximity to most of the ma
jor metropolitan areas in Texas,”
Forester said. “People are taking
shorter trips. They’re looking for dif
ferent places to go. They’ve already
been to San Antonio, Austin, San
Marcos, New Braunfels, the hill
country and Six Flags.”
People visit the Brazos Valley for
its historical and cultural signifi
cance. The state was born in Wash
ington on the Brazos State Park, and
downtown Bryan is home to many
historic buildings and businesses.
The Bryan-College Station area
is an inexpensive travel destination.
Forester said visitors get more for
their dollar here.
“This is an affordable place to
come to,” he said. “The average dai
ly rate is considerably lower than it
is in other areas our size, and it’s cer
tainly lower than in the major met
ropolitan areas.”
Texas A&M University is the pri
mary tourist attraction in the area.
People come to visit friends and
relatives at A&M, tour the campus
and attend special events such as
Parent’s Weekend, football games
and graduation. Forester said
many former Aggies come to
Bryan-College Station for re
unions or to make their “pilgrim
age” back to Aggieland.
“The largest area we draw from
is Houston, then Dallas-Ft. Worth,
then San Antonio,” Forester said.
“Oddly enough, we get a lot of trav
el here from Washington, D.C.”
Forester said a lot of internation
al visitors come to Bryan-College
Station. Most of them have children
at A&M and are here to see the Uni
versity and the area.
Barbara Moore, Bryan Main Street
Project assistant, said all kinds of
people visit downtown Bryan.
“You’ll see young families with
children, college students, re
tirees and everyone in between,”
Moore said.
Visitors to Bryan-College Station
find plenty to do. Messina HofWin-
ery is one of the more popular at
tractions in the area.
“We have one of the best winer
ies in the state,” Forester said. “It at
tracts about 100,000 people a year.”
Pam Richardson, Messina Hof’s
marketing assistant, said a lot of
people visiting A&M also go to
Messina Hof.
“A&M brings in lots of visitors,”
Richardson said. “It’s something
else to do in Bryan-College Station
besides the University.”
In addition to winery tours,
Messina Hof hosts the annual Har
vest Feast, the Run Through the
Vines in April and the Marriage of
the Port this month.
Downtown Bryan is pulling its
weight in the tourism industry.
Events such as the Mardi Gras Cel
ebration, the Diez y Seis Festival
and the Hometown Christmas Cel
ebration each attract thousands of
people to downtown Bryan.
Conventions, meetings and
sporting events play a crucial role in
the tourism of Bryan-College Station.
“There are an awful lot of con
ventions and meetings that come
here,” Forester said. “Those kind of
things draw a lot of people.”
After Reed Arena opens, more
conventions and sporting events
will come to Bryan-College Station.
Gymnastics meets, volleyball tour
naments and men’s and women’s
basketball tournaments have al
ready been booked for 1998.
On a year-round basis, 69 percent
of the available hotel rooms in Bryan-
College Station are occupied.
“There are times,” Forester said,
“and they’re becoming more and
more frequent, when you can’t find
a room in this town. And it’s not just
football weekends anymore.”
Julianne Clos, General Manager
Assistant at the College Station
Hilton Hotel and Convention Cen
ter, said the Hilton is often full.
“The average daily rate has gone
up because of the increase in the
number of visitors,” Clos said.
Bed and breakfast inns are also
increasing in popularity. The Vint
ner’s Loft at Messina Hof currently
consists of one suite.
“We are expanding the Bed and
Breakfast because of demand,”
Richardson said.
The restaurant business of
Bryan-College Station supports
the booming tourist industry
sufficiently.
“We’ve got every kind of restau
rant you could possibly want,”
Forester said. “The restaurant busi
ness in this community is incredi
bly diverse and very strong.”
The opening of the Bush Presi
dential Library is expected to cause
a further increase in travel to Bryan-
College Station.
The opening of the library will
make Texas the only state in the U.S.
with two presidential libraries.
“The future of Bryan-College
Station tourism looks great, espe
cially with the Bush library com
ing,” Clos said. “We are all excited
about that.”
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