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V MSC Film Society p/iesents . . . 'xKakbeiis Custom Jezvetry Your Engagement Ring Headquarters 2205 Longmire Suite F • 695-1328 Financing Available If You Have Something To Sell, Remember On sale this week at the MSC Rudder Box Office MSC 'CMntcr ss. cm m t %4-»-IS$4 \<^A/[ij < \Jxiznci d The Battalion ^Wecldt U.ncj Friday, Oct, 24 9:30 p.m. Saturday, Oct, 25 7& 9:30p.m. Tickets: $3 or $2.50 in advance at the MSC Box Office I Door Prizes will be given out 5 \ | minutes before each showing. Classifieds Can Do It Call 845-0569 mm m W * 845-1234 or on the net! http://boxoffice.tamu.edu dx Cull to arrange for special needs. AggieBucks accepted. llilf # msc Film Society — My Best Friend’s Wedding F r i, Oct 24,9:30 p.m. and Sat, Oct 25, 7 p.m. and 9:30 p.m. # Freudian Slip — Freudian Slip Fri, Oct 24, 9 p.m. # MSC OPAS — Damn Yankees Sun, Oct 26, 3 p.m.and 8 p.m. # MSC Town Hall — Carrot Top Thurs, Nov 13, 8 p.m. # Theatre Arts — The Good Woman of Setzuan Thurs, Nov 13 thru Sat, Nov 15 and Wed, Nov 19 thru Sat, Nov 22, 8 p.m. -ir MSC Of AS West Side Story Mon,Nov 24 and Thes Nov 25, 8 p.m. Friday «Octohpf Grode Car source of mspirf ida> for former Fowler Crew Cl «sb» wwTy '• *'' HimC- ?>■ am >*i»*tox**» By Brandi Ballard Staff writer - tr> -'W—r* I*** ' ’ K—IK" TEXAS HALL OF FAME ^PRFSFIVTS^ Film on Video presents COUNTRY MUSIC LEGEND .?.ra 3 The (Unbelievable 1 Truth Thursday, Oct. 23 7 p.m. f Amateur Sunday, Oct. 26 2 p.m. W/THE COUNTRY NU-NOTES CONCERT & DANCE FRIDAY, OCT. 24 DOORS OPEN 8. DANCE 9-1. Free Admission IBICH 107 (West Campus)| All films shown in Rudder Theatre Complex. Questions? Call the Aggie Cinema Hotline (847-8478). ■ » Persons with special needs call I <5. 845-1515 within 3 days of the showing. I *$*Website: http://film.s.tamu.edu| SATURDAY, OCT. 25 CHRIS WELLS W/ TEXAS EDGE DOORS OPEN 8. DANCE 9-1. COLLEGE STUDENT/FACULTY/STAFF ID $2 OFF @ DOOR FRIDAY & SATURDAY FOR RESERVATIONS OR ADDITIONAL INFORMATION CALL THE TEXAS HALL OF FAME 822-2222 AIcVT Wireless Services G. Rollie White Tuesday October 28 9pm mm Ip Presents Aggie Basketball Mania! Meet Both Teams! The Aggie Band! Prizes! Contest! Reveille! The Yell Leaders! Free Admission! Meet New Friends! The Aggie Dance Team! Broadway s home run sweeps Into Rudder Auditorium on Sunday, October 26 for a musical doubleheader! Catch the spirit of America's favorite pastime by wearing your baseball t-shirt and snacking on ballpark favorites like hot dogs, peanuts and half-priced popcorn. S ome say it is the greatest sacri fice given to Bonfire. Others say it is motivation in its rarest form. To one student it is his beloved means of transportation. It all began three years ago when Jose Bouche, a senior mechanical engineering technology major, be came the crew chief for Fowler Hall. The summer of his freshman year, he went home to El Paso and got his father’s orange 1976 Chevro let Nova. He got the idea to paint his car to match his Bonfire pot. Four teen cans of spray paint later, his car was green with a yellow stripe and had Fowler Crew Chief written on the hood and ‘98 on the back. “When I came back to school, it sure caught people’s eye,” Bouche said. "I later learned that spray paint does not stick very well to a car.” Bouche first intended to wait and wash his car after Bonfire burned. He soon found out that when he washed it, the paint would run off and turn him green, too. “The rain pretty much cleans it for me,” Bouche said. Not only is the paint wearing off — orange is starting to show under neath the green — but additional graffiti has been painted on it. A friend of Bouche ran for yell leader last spring and Bouche cam paigned for him by painting an ad vertisement on his car. The car has been to Bonfire cut for the past three years. Some days, the Nova emits a stench, especially after it spends the day at the cut site. The car, bought brand-new in 1976 for $3,000, now has 280,000 miles on it. “We originally called it the Fowler Mobile,” Horn said. It has only broken down twice and makes a biannual trip to El Paso. Kevin Horn, a senior mechanical engineering major, remembers the car breaking down one time on the way home from cutlhel problem with a Cokeborf band, a knife, a pair of] duct tape. The parts have neve;J placed and the carisr on the makeshift mechaii Mike Wallace, aseniol engineering major,vvastj the car broke down,l was difficult to believed broken down. “It was like a sa said. “We were all jumpi trying to push it uptheli Wallace said herect when a friend was jumpi hood and someonedecill ve and pressed theaccfi “The car took offandij right on the windshield,] it to pieces," he said. Bouche lives off cai and sometimes goes to] before cut to give student] Horn said there times when nine peopl] the car, but thecarcannt the load anymore. The shocks are wor- T much the car can not( . reshman c rokeca'niither 0 *. exasTechl Wallace said the can Tex oach dilerr cruitf turally sound, butwhe: the car leaks and stuff from the cushions. One feature the carhJ player with a speaker.I: also functions as a PAi Bouche’s friends use this: i’ age other cars to moveto: the road. “They love to holler coming through,"especiajethad now am driving,” Bouchesai: his athlete Wallace said he like- dm in ordi people walking downthi bny Darde tell them jokes. omerback The car is a sort ofmo: tamed aTh go to Bonfire. If the cari he best def out there, so can students Darden “This is my sacrificett Jack, but v Bouche said. “I’m justtakirtamed Zeb the team.” ■After s( nearly a n home, the Socct ryan Rogers'the friendl Jose Bouche, a senior mechanical engineering technology owner of the 1976 Chevrolet Nova that he decorated forfod |one forev ^ack hom Pixies Continued from Page 3 Death to the Pixies would have been better if the live disc, which is nonetheless excellent, had been forsaken in favor of a disc of out takes, b-sides and demos. 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G fact that we lot of game hostile envi (Ballpark snacks available immediately following the matinee performance and prior to the evening performance) Opera & Performing Arts Society ctflfc© 0U *- ootf* s \uaa er kutt ' tor ' u ™ PC-13 VH1 Award statues lose some n ''"cial for us NEW YORK (AP) — The VH1 Fashion Awards won’t be much ofs'postseason for waif winners and celebrity presenters now that hefty, solid-brassi Friday ni have been replaced with a bogus, lighter version. Badgers wi The last thing the music channel wants to do is give Mariah Ca® into College Karan or Linda Evangelista back trouble when they hand out awa-improve on night, so organizers decided to truck the real, 11.4-pound prizes to ^ (Wiscons the next day, The Wall Street Journal reported Thursday. Big 10 Cha “It’s heavier than a fashion model,” complained Gabe Doppeltwjf a stron; rector for the show. “We were afraid the first thing out of everyone; Ohio State, would be how heavy the award was, rather than something witty.' hs regular s schedule. M “Wiscon _ — _ _ _ this season /V B D E G H I K. L lot of senio N P R ST U W X 2 cLerrieri played a to us to get t , our field, si If you can fill in the blanks, a big plus.” Leading you can work for the 1998 Aggielanc Badgers ^ The Aggieland yearbook is now hiring for the position with 10 goa INDEXER lliTpoA If you are a responsible, motivated consin has person who knows the alphabet rna ^ a P a P (heck, we don’t even care if you have to sing it) teamshave pick up an application in Room 004 Reed McDonald tc opponents Besides