Co-op Career Fair
February 10 and 11
Students currently or previously
registered in a Co-op class —
Pick up your
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BUYING ANY AND ALL
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ment material. Whole collections or
single items. Toys, Food Premiums,
Store Displays, Coins, Original Art,
Prototypes, ... etc.
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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
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STAR WARS <2ND PRINT> (PG)
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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
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All films shown in Rudder
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Feb. 8 thru Feb. 22
You’ll enjoy the traditional
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Gold Medal winning
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The ceremony takes place with
each free tour:
Weekdays: 1 & 2:30 pm
Sat: 11 am, 12:30,
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Sun: 12:30 & 2:30 pm
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(No reservations required.)
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With The
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7pm, Saturday
February 22, 1997
It’s a candlelight, gourmet,
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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
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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.”
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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. You must be in good standing with the University, including no registration or transcript blocks for
past due fees, loans, parking tickets, returned checks, etc.
Graduate Student Requirements
If you are a May 1997 degree candidate and you do not have an Aggie ring from a prior degree,
you may place an order after you meet the following requirements:
1. Your degree is conferred and posted on the Texas A&M University Student Information
Management System; and ,
2. You are in good standing with the University, including no registration or transcript blocks for past
due fees, loans, parking tickets, returned checks, etc.
If you have completed all of your degree requirements and can obtain a “Letter of Completion”
from the Office of Graduate Studies, the original letter of completion, with the seal, may be
presented to the Ring Office in lieu of your degree being posted.
Procedure To Order A Ring:
1. If you meet all of the above requirements, you must visit the Ring Office no later than Wednes
day, February 12,1997 to complete the application for eligibility verification.
2.If your application is approved and you wish to receive your ring on April 22,1997, you must re
turn and pay in full by cash, check, money order, or your personal Visa or Mastercard (with
your name imprinted) no later than February 14,1997.
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Women’s 10K-$174.00
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