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Memorial Student Center
presents:
THE EUROPEAN UNION:
THE DYNAMICS OF A COLLECTIVE
EUROPEAN ECONOMIC BLOC
November 19, 1997
7:00 p.m.
MSC 206
FREE ADMISSION
Featured Speakers:
Alexandr Vondra - Ambassador of the Czech
Republic
Nigel Evans - Professor at the Fletcher
School of Law and Diplomacy
Jeffery Gedmin - Executive Director of the
New Atlantic Initiative
Persons with disabilities please call 845-1515 to infonn us
of your special needs. We request notification three (3) r
working days prior to the event to enable us to assist you K ’’’
to the best of our abilities. N r
ATTENTION
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' GRADUATING
I IN MAY
I English 210 & 301 (Tech Writing)
I Force Dates
I Wednesday, December 10
Thursday, December 11
| Friday, January 16
■ Forcing Hours for All Dates
9:00 a.m. to 11:00 a.m.
I and 2:00 p.m. to 4:00 p.m.
I J. Make sure you have the correct prerequisite
I (English 104 or equivalent).
1 2. Come to Blocker 224 during the force dates and
times listed above.
| 3. Bring a letter on department stationary from your
academic advisor stating that you are graduating in
the semester for which you are registering.
No forces will be done during pre-registration
or after January 16.
You must come in during these dates to get a seat.
If you can’t make these dates, send a representative with
your letter and a list of preferred times.
Forcing Information line: 862-7724
Web Site:
http://engserve.tamu.edu/files/writingprograms/rulesforforcing.html
The Battalion
IFESTYLES
Monday • November 17,N
Carrot Top showed true comedic
force with Thursday performance
I t is a rare occasion when a large group of
A&M students cheer for the orange and
white. It happened, though, for the vibrant
orange hair and pale white skin of comedy sen
sation Carrot Top.
Carrot Top performed for a sold-out crowd
in Rudder Auditorium Thursday night. There
wasn’t a dry pair of pants left in the building af
ter Carrot Top milked sacred cows such as
George Bush and College Station’s tiny airport.
"They don’t have a tower,” Carrot Top
said. “They’ve got a guy on a stool with a pair
of binoculars.”
Like a hyperactive four-year-old, Carrot Top
oscillated back and forth between bouts of
show-and-tell with his inventions and mono
logues ranging from suicide-inducing pop
songs, to clubbing pizza delivery guys, to park
ing on campus.
“I don’t know how anyone graduates in four
years,” Carrot Top said. "It takes a whole year to
find a parking place.”
Carrot Top’s stage was a Day-Glo, multi
tiered playland of props, toy chests and spe
cial effects. Instead of the traditional rim
shot, Carrot Top’s jokes were punctuated with
sound bites from corny television theme
songs and pop songs.
The crowd kept themselves entertained
before the show by volleying back and forth a
giant rubber ball.
Although wildly entertaining, the ball was
no match for the opening drama of the show.
The stage darkened, the lights flashed and the
’80s hair-metal music gave way to circus mu
sic. Carrot Top was hailed by the crowd with a
barrage of bite-sized carrots.
“Did you guys do this to Bush?” a shell
shocked Carrot Top asked.
Carrot Top did his homework for the show
in College Station, making jokes about the
University of Texas and Oklahoma State.
When his remarks about Austin were met
with A&M’s unique sign of mass disapproval,
the hissing “horselaugh,” Carrot Top said he
thought there was a gas leak in the building.
Carrot Top’s inventions included a putter ac
cessorized with a funnel and tube running the
length of the club so golfers can “take a leak” on
the green without getting caught.
Many of the inventions, like the putter, were
heavy on the sophomoric side, and he got easy
laughs from boob or bong jokes with the col
lege crowd.
The monologues showcased Carrot Top’s keen
eye for observational humor.
His accounts of shopping for a song he did
n’t know the name of and getting caught
singing in his car to Salt-N-Pepa’s "Whatta
Man” were priceless.
Carrot Top brought down the house in a
flash of explosions, confetti canons and toilet
paper for his closing musical number. In the
blink of an eye Carrot Top morphed between
Steven Tyler, Alanis Morissette, Michael Stipe,
Axel Rose, Mick Jagger and an uncanny
Michael Jackson, to name a few, while lip-
synching their songs.
Stand up comedy has been slouching ever
since the crash of the late ’80s. Natural selec-
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tion has already weeded out the sick and
weak, the Byron Allens and Paula Pound-
stoues. Only the strongest mutations have
survived. Carrot Top left the crowd with no
doubt as to who the biggest mutation ofallis|
Outrageous, psychedelic, one-of-a-kind,
and that’s just his hair.
— By Chris Marl
ODN
Continued from Page 3
Sheri Smith, secretary for ODN and a graduate
student in the Department of Urban and Regional
Science, said she got involved in ODN because she is
interested in working overseas for her dissertation
and future employment.
“I wanted to find out what scholarships and oth
er financial opportunities were available that I might
not find out about through my department or the
Study Abroad Office,” Smith said.
Vanpool said ODN stresses the complete interna
tional experience, including what happens after peo
ple return from foreign travel.
“That means that we emphasize opportunities
that will be available to you after you come back from
an overseas opportunity,” Vanpool said. “Or even if
you want to stay overseas.”
ODN wants to work together to educate students
about development overseas and fix the mistakes
made in the past.
“We would like to tap into the ODN for students,
and we would like for students to tap into ODN,”
Suhm said. “Where else do you get the opportunity
to chat for an hour with half a dozen ex-Peace Corps
Volunteers, a Vice Chancellor such as Edwin Price or
a Nobel Peace Prizewinner such as Norman Boraq?”
Sywulka wants to encourage all students interest
ed in overseas internships, job opportunities or who
just have an interest in what is going on internation
ally to come to the ODN meeting on Nov. 18 at 8 p.m.
in 502 Rudder. The meeting will center on “Develop
ment as Seen by Nationals.”
“It is a great organization interested in things go
ing on in the world,” Sywulka said. “It’s a great place
to just come and learn.”
Meier
Continued from Page 3
School was always interesting. I was not
taught in a one-room school house, it was
a two-room school. I was in the same
classroom as high-school students when 1
was 10 years old.
We would also go home for lunch. That
made moving back to the States fun. When
I started my first day of sixth grade in Cali
fornia, I expected to be able to go home for
lunch, and when everyone went to the out
door cafeteria, I was stuck with no lunch. If
you think Africa would be a culture shock,
tiy Southern California.
Telephones were another big adjust
ment. Nigeria had no telephones. To this
day, no one in my family likes talking on
the phone, I guess we are suckers for face-
to-face visits. What heathens we are.
People flip out when they cannot find
an automatic teller at 2 a.m. If there was
even a bank in Nigeria, 1 never knew it. The
only alternative form of payment 1 saw was
Kobo Kash, which was basically Monopoly
money our parents gave us so we could
buy Fanta Orange at the bar.
Television was perhaps the biggest ad
justment. There was one television station
that would broadcast a few hours a day. And
the programming on it was really out of date.
Once in 1987,1 ran into my parent’s bed
room screaming, "Reagan has been shot!
Reagan has been shot!” Let’s just say I was a
few years late on that late-breaking news.
Despite the things lacking in my Niger
ian experience, 1 had many opportunities
many others did not.
I learned to play soccer with some Euro
peans, the true purveyors of the sport. Him
to the wise: Don’t ever accuse the British
Nat ional Team of being worse than the
French. They get mighty steamed.
I also learned ballet. Yes, ballet. Don't
laugh. Everyone did it. I guess that shows
how bored we were. But man, 1 still know
my ballet positions, so don’t front me, orl
might have to arabesque your face.
Despite the fact I think 1 had it rough
wit hout watching “Voltron: Defender of
the Universe” and “Kids Incorporated,’’!
will always remember our gardener, Inno
cence. I le would come over about oncea
week and cut our grass with a small stripof
rusted metal with two sweat-stained
blocks of wood as a handle.
Hunched over, he would whack awaya!
our yard and for that, we paid him 20 Niara
(local currency), which was worth about$5.
A few years ago, this campus had a huge
debate over taking multicultural classes. A
three-hour class isn’t horizon expanding edu
cation. Talking to a 20-year-old woman after
she has had her third child by a man with two
other wives is true multicultural education.
Living overseas is probably one of the
definitive events in my life. I still have
dreams about it sometimes and painfully
remember the day I left, promising I would
be back. Perhaps someday I will.
“Home, my thoughts escaping home.”
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MSC Student Conference on National Affairs
presents
What’s Going On
Around Here?
A PRESENTATION AND
DISCUSSION ON LOCAL PARKING
AND TRANSPORTATION ISSUES.
Tuesday, November 18
7 PM Rudder 601
PANELISTS WILL INCLUDE:
• MS. KATHIE MATHIS, ASSOCIATE DIRECTOR, PTTS
• Mr. Gary Jackson, Manager, Bus Operations
• Ms. Catherine Hejl, assistant Area Engineer,
Texas Department of Transportation
A QUESTION AND ANSWER SESSION
WILL FOLLOW THE PRESENTATION.
The Former Student Leaders Conference
will be held January 30-31 st .
Applications are now available in
Koldus 127, the MSC SPO, and
the Corps Guard Room.
December 5 th is the application deadline.
There will be two informational meetings:
• November 17 @ 8:30 pm Rm 230 MSC
• November 18 @ 5:30 pm Rm 230 MSC
* For more information call 845-3051
Student Government Association
Memorial Student Center
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