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Co-op Career Fair February 10 and 11 Students currently or previously registered in a Co-op class — Pick up your .FREE t-shirt N vi'.y t at the Co-op booth. BUYING ANY AND ALL Star Wars merchandise/advertise ment material. Whole collections or single items. Toys, Food Premiums, Store Displays, Coins, Original Art, Prototypes, ... etc. Contact Wayne at 847-1972 OINEMARK THEATRES MOVIES 16 HOL us« OOD I Hwy 6 Bypass @ Hwy 30 764-7592 I FRI-SAT-SUN MOTHER (PG-13) 11:20 1:50 4:20 7:10 9:40 12:20 FIERCE CREATURES (PG-13) 1:45 6:45 THE PEOPLE VS. LARRY FLY NT (R) 11:00 3:55 9:00 11:45 JERRY MAGUIRE (R) 12:45 3:45 6:45 9:45 12:25 SCREAM (R) 11:45 2:15 4:45 7:10 9:45 12:15 BEVERLY HILLS NINJA (PG-13) 11,-to 1:50 TQQ 6;5Q S;10 11:30 EVITA (PG) 12:45 3:45 7:00 9:55 12:45 THE PEST (PG-13) 11:45 2:15 4:45 7:00 9:15 11:20 STAR WARS <1ST PRINT> (PG) 11:00 1:45 4:30 7:15 10:00 12:45 THE BEAUTICIAN AND THE BEAST (PG) 11:30 1:55 4:20 7:20 9:50 12:30 GRIDLOCK’D (R) 12:00 2:30 5:00 7:50 10:05 12:25 THE CRUCIBLE (PG-13) 11:00 1:45 4:30 7:15 10:00 12:45 DANTE’S PEAK (PG-13) 11:00 1:30 4:00 7:00 9:30 12:00 r i ri STAR WARS <2ND PRINT> (PG) 1:00 3:45 6:30 9:15 12:00 IN LOVE AND WAR (PG-13) 11:05 1:35 4:05 7:05 9:50 12:35 PORTRAIT OF A LADY (PG-13) 1:30 4:30 7:30 10:30 MICHAEL (PG) 4:35 6:55 9:15 11:45 MEET WALLY SPARKS (R) 12:00 2:15 $3.75 MATINEES EVERY DAY BEFORE 6PM AFTER 11PM FRIDAY & SATURDAY MSC FILM SOCIETY Now Showing: mtuMH utunmMti M l IS t 1V* 'JULIc Friday, Feb. 7 17:00 and 9:30pm \Romeo and Juliet ■Saturday, Feb. 8 |9:30pm Romeo and Juliet Tickets $2.50 in advance and $3.00 the night of the showing. All films shown in Rudder Theatre Complex. Questions? Call the Aggie Cinema Hotline (847-8478). | <§v Persons with special needs call 845-1515 within 3 days of the showing. H'r Website: hUp://films.tamu.edu| Place Your Ad In The Battalion Call 845-0569 POST OAK MALL 693-6429 T Mon-Sat^ 9pm*No Cover Rock and roll, a little country and a lot of comedy! REED 30YD d!l=fl=LlM WEIGHS 600 THE GROOM IS 9 INCHES Join us for Messina Hof’s annual old-world Marriage Of The Port Ceremony. Feb. 8 thru Feb. 22 You’ll enjoy the traditional blending of brandy with superb red wine to create our globally acclaimed Gold Medal winning Papa Paulo Port. The ceremony takes place with each free tour: Weekdays: 1 & 2:30 pm Sat: 11 am, 12:30, 2:30 & 4 pm Sun: 12:30 & 2:30 pm It’s fun. It’s free. And, it’s ro mantic. You might even shed a happy tear... or watch a barrel blush. (No reservations required.) DELIGHT YOUR LOVE With The Marriage Of The Port Re ception & Dinner 7pm, Saturday February 22, 1997 It’s a candlelight, gourmet, four course medley of ex quisite Mediterranean deli cacies including a flaming dessert. Just $65 per couple: $37.50 singles. Reservations by 2/19 Designer Events (409) 778-9463 Messina Hof 4545 Old Reliance Road (409) 778-9463 THE PERSONAL ROMANTIC GIFT You can put your personal message on a custom wine label for only $12.99 which in cludes the Blush wine. Choose from three la bels. Labels while you wait - Phone orders OK -We ID wm: Texas A&JVI University Native American Student Association 5th Annual Native American Week ‘Wednesday, February 5 Alabama-Coushatta Dancers 7:30 p.m., MSC Flagroom-TAMU Campus ‘Thursday, February 6 Dr. Raymond Pierotti, professor and evolutionary ecologist University of Kansas “Ecology, Evolution Native American Issues” 5:00 p.m., 228/229 MSC-TAMU Campus Co-Hosted by TAMU American Fisheries Society ‘February 7-8, 1997 POW WOW Friday (7-10:30 p.m.) Saturday (2-1 1 p.m.) Louis Pierce Pavillion, College Station, Texas Gourd Dancing, Intertribal Dancing, and Native American Crafts Special thanks to the Houston Chronicle Co-Hosted by: Gulf Coast Tia-Piah Society For more information, call the Department of Multicultural Services - (409) 862-2000 0 Call 862-2000 if special accommodations are needed for any events. ***£**&&***&*£*&*&£****& A The Battaijon \ GGIELIFE Friday • February? Just don't call them Hooti Ty and the Semiautomatics bring their own sound back to Brya' By Brandon Truitt The Battalion B ryan natively Southerland of Ty and the Semiautomatics does not like to compare his band to anything, but his favorite comparison come when a caller on a Shreveport radio station de scribed them as “a really pissed-off Hootie and the Blowfish.” Ken Source of Jam magazine wrote, “think of Dave Matthews playing and dancing while Darius (Hootie) sings.” Southerland said the main dif ference between Ty and the Semi automatics and ot: icr bands, espe cially Hootie, is the “honest and straightforward songwriting.” The songs are “one big flow of emotion,” Southerland said. “This is who we are, and who we have been.” Exactly who the band has been has a special history in the Bryan- College Station area because of Southerland’s heritage. The band formed two years ago while Southerland was home on vacation from Sam Houston State University. One of the songs on its new al bum Rapid Delivery is named “Col lege Station.” Another song on the album was inspired by five oak trees by a church on Northgate. Southerland’s Bryan roots give the band built-in popularity, but he attributes most of it to other people. Southerland said he believes much of the College Station fol lowing is due to Roger W.W. Garrett Ty and the Semiautomatics, a rock band from Bryan now based in Houston, is playing two shows of KTSR, who put Ty and the Semiautomatics on heavy rotation at the station. “He started a snowball effect that has yet to stop,” Southerland said. The band spent 1996 taking advantage of that snowball effect in the South, developing a steady following in Texas, Oklahoma, Tennessee, Alabama, Mississippi and Louisiana. Their southern appeal is no sur prise to Southerland, who says Ty and the Semiautomatics have been heavily influenced by regional bands like Better than Ezra and Dead Eye Dick. In the Semiautomatics’ music there are tones and riffs reminis cent of other southern rockers such as Eric Johnson, Lynyrd Skynyrd and Ian Moore. The band’s music is not com pletely southern in style, though, and Ty says another unique aspects of the band is its versatility of melodic rock. Its list of billings reflects its broad appeal. The band has played with No Doubt, Tripping Daisy, Molly Hatchet, Dead Eye Dick, Wayne Toups, Podunk, Average White Band and Ian Moore. The band has also been talking to numerous record companies about work on their next album. Southerland said the band! an offer pending right now, that it is far from final band could possibly find a offer. If the snowball keeps roi the way it has through the So Ty and the Semiautomatics,i a major label backing them,! soon become a household Southerland is re turning 1« this weekend to perform in shows for the Mardi Gras Festii; downtown Bryan. The firstslj will be Saturday afternoonat3 at the festiva. Later that eveninf band will play with Jazztopai 3rd Floor Cantina. By Jerem 1 The Ba Unspoken Word breaks Silence By Michael Schaub The Battalion U nspoken Word guitarist John Montague has lived for two years with a kind of mu sical cabin fever. “We’ve played every club in San Antonio at least 55 times,” Mon tague said. “College Station will be our first out-of-town venue.” The alternative band will play at the Cow Hop on Northgate Satur day at 11:30 p.m. Unspoken Word formed in Ban dera two years ago as the result of a long friendship between Montague and guitarist/singer Tybor Cook. ' "Tybor has been a musician since the day the boy could walk,” Montague said. “He’s an amazing musician.” The band is based in San Anto nio, where it has become a fixture at such clubs as Rock Island and White Rabbit. Unspoken Word released its first album, Silence, about a month ago. The album was released in San An tonio, but plans for statewide re lease were hindered because the band neglected to print bar codes on the album. “All it took was some lines and some damn numbers, man,” Mon tague said. “Hopefully we’ll get picked up by a label and we won’t have to worry about that." The band has been approached by representatives of two major record labels, Montague said. “We put our hearts into that al bum,” he said. "If we never go anywhere, we’re immortalized on that thing.” The songwriting duties on Si lence are mainly split between Mon tague and Cook. Cook’s lead vocals evoke echoes of Smashing Pump kins singer Billy Corgan. Silence was the result of almost two months of recording at San An tonio’s Tribal Studios. The album’s release met with a hostile review from the San Antonio Current, an “alternative” newspaper. “After that review, I called (mu sic columnist) Jim Beal Jr. with the San Antonio Express-News,” Montague said, "and I said, ‘Mr. Beal, if you don’t like our record, just throw it away.’ He said, ‘You get reviewed in the Current?,’ I said, ‘Yes, sir.’ “The next week, he wrote, ‘If you’re going to play music for any body but yourself, you’ve got to have thicker skin.’” Montague sent copies of Silence to club owners and radio stations around the state. "Good things have happened to us,” Montague said. "Bassist Jake Frazier is like a virtuoso; the guy can play anything. And drummer Roger Rizner, that kid’s been playing since the third grade. I’m the only slacker in the band. I can’t keep up.” Playing in College Station is an accomplishment for the band, Montague said. “We’re stoked,” he said. "We’ve had some pretty good luck. The show ought to be cool.” The show will also be an oppor tunity for the band to play at the alma mater of one of its heroes — fellow Bandera native Robert Earl Keen Jr. "I see Robert Earl taking out his trash all the time,” Montague said. “He lives half a mile from my mom.” Although the guitar pop of Un spoken Word bears little resem blance to Keen’s country-folk fu sion, band members look up to the singer’s iconoclastic style. “I think Keen’s the best song writer in the world,” Montague said. “He’s one of my favorite artists. He gets to make his living playing mu sic, and that’s what our band hopes for. Someday.” Unspoken Word will play at the White Rabbit in San Antonio and Rev’s Down Under in Bandera af ter its appearance at the Cow Hop. Montague said the band does not intend to forget its Bandera roots. "We’re country boys, I guess,” he said, “but we play rock ‘n’ roll.” raditional ba: Febuary is nc if summer to be md week of the exas A&M Basel in a 13-game ho; JT-Pan American ition for a three Rodeo Continued from Page3 Kate Charter, a junior agrici journalisnvnajor who workec::; The Aggies (1 - lastyear, said she got quite a fe a two-game split ness cards while there. Texas State Univi “I made a few business cr which A&M scoi that I enjoyed working with, American (2-1,0- tersaid. “I would not mind afT lhree games them for a job recommendatk we ekend, will fit an actual job.’’ salable to that ol Besides the work experience5>nen t. professional contacts, the Rod also provides food and hotel rooi enn “I had a part in what was going on behind the scenes. Rhonda Reinhart. Junior journalism maji The job perk students remen* t of six sin most is the chance to seethestac uisiana for the “ I was at a Selena press confer Head coach Ti a couple of years ago andlsatoni second or third row,” Hearn said Rodeo internship programoS students business contacts ence and exposure. “It’s more than likely, it’s noli ing to be an Aggie running theca: era during George Strait,” Lace' said. “More than likely they wil 1 holding the wire.” By I Ti As the Texas A8 the spring dual :n up as the Ag lie University 4 mis Center. The Aggies fc ee of their do outcome of tl tic concernin] I thought w( d, but I am n< match or any s said. “We h ad of us, but\ AGGIE RING ORDERS THE ASSOCIATION OF FORMER STUDENTS CLAYTON W. WILLIAMS, JR. ALUMNI CENTER DEADLINE: February 12, 1997 Undergraduate Student Requirements: 2. You must be a degree seeking student and have a total of 95 credit hours reflected on the Texas A&M University Student Information Management System. (A passed course, which is repeated and passed, cannot count as additional credit hours.) 3Q credit hours must have been completed in residence at Texas A&M University, providing that pri or to January 1,1994, you were registered at Texas A&M University and successfully completed a fall/spring semester or summer term (I and II or 10 weeks) as a full-time student in good standing (as defined in the University catalog). 60 credit hours must have been completed in residence at Texas A&M University if your first semes ter at Texas A&M University was January 1994 or thereafter, or if you do not qualify under the suc cessful semester requirement. Should your degree be conferred with less than 60 resident cred its, this requirement will be waived after your degree is posted on the Student Information Management System. 3. You must have a 2.0 cumulative GPR at Texas A&M University. t. 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