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Camp Longhorn Inks Lake & Indian Springs Looking for: Counselors, Nurses, Nursing Assistants, Office, and Photographers (experience preferred) Want a REWARDING Summer Job? For June, July or August? 1998 1st Term: May 30 - June 13 2nd Term: June 13 - July 4 3rd Term: July 4 - July 25 4th Term: July 25 - August 8 We will be interviewing: TUESDAY, Feb. 3rd 10:00 a.m. - 2:30 p.m. in MSC 3:30 - 5:00 p.m. at the Community Center, 1300 George Bush Dr. L, I W 1 N IELIFE Monday • February Would you like fries with that shall Fast-food industry provides students with work experience, memorable April Towery staff writer ‘01 Jt few's rori ‘00 AP AR Jan. 29 - Feb.8 The Class that inhales the most pizza will win a FREE PIZZA PARTY on Feb. 11th Eat @ the George Bush Dr. location OR Call 696-DAVE for delivery! May the best class win! ‘99 Sponsored by the Class Councils <98 O ur college years at Texas A&M will serve to educate us for our future and prepare us for a career. Although we will be graduating with some form of expertise, we may not have the “dream job” handed to us right away. Many will have to suffer through jobs that do not make them happy and are definitely not what they want to be doing for the rest of their lives. My advice is to make the most of these jobs. You may actually enjoy yourself. When I was in high school, I had the opportu nity of working at a high-class corn dog estab lishment. My job duties entailed putting the com dog sticks in the wieners, dipping them in batter and hying them in 400-degree grease. It took some extensive training, but I finally learned the job and became skilled at pulling the com dogs out of the grease before they burned. Those days were among some of the most fun I’ve ever had. One of my best friends worked alongside me, and we had a daily ritual of mak ing fun of people. We would lean over the counter, wait for a customer and point out some thing interesting about everyone who walked by, laughing hysterically. We also created dance routines to pass the time. The store had access to Muzak, which plays a variety of tunes, from Lionel Richie to Elton John. Once, the theme music to Chariots of Fire came on, and my friend and I reenacted the race by handing off a roll of paper towels. No wonder we had so few customers. I worked there at a time when health food was becoming socially acceptable, so customers would order a jumbo com dog, large fries with chili and cheese, a funnel cake and a Diet Coke — as if the Diet Coke was going to balance out the 20 pounds of grease they were to ingest. We also had intelligent customers who would ask us how much the 99-cent hot dog cost or stare at the “out of order” sign on the slush ma chine before proceeding to order one. The only hard part about the job was that we weren’t al lowed to laugh at them. I grew to love my job. I was in high school at the time, and I guess 1 didn’t have much of a so cial life. When my friend was working and I wasn’t scheduled to, I would go to the store anyway, put on my uniform and talk to her while she worked. One night, we even stayed two hours past closing to clean. Cleaning a corn-dog store is not* sounds. We had to sit on the floorwiifj knives and scrape the dried clumpsd of the tile. I don’t think our parentsb when we told them why we were late?J home that night. The store was a perfect settingfo::' jokes. One never runs out of thingstc:/^ lemons, corn dogs, ketchup and mu?/ 1 less to say, we had a good time.andi;^ hearts when we finally had to getou: / and get “real” jobs. r There are advantages to stepping h > fast-food industry, however. 1 donM smelling like fried processed food,lil: : work with grease burns all over my don’t have to work in a place that tec. wear a hat four sizes too big and ash: holes in it. I always will cherish the memorie; ? job, and ,hey, 1 ought to enjoy the oppT had to be paid for unskilled labor.il::" happen again. So for those students? with t auvi phu rment in the realwmlt"* _ i L V) giving the fast-food industry a try. Am! !,, ' Sf joun m Co-op Career Fair February 9 <& 10 Zachry Engineering Center AH Majors invited Cooperative Education co-opweb.tamu.edu 845-7725 209 Koldus CRITIQUE Deep Rising Starring Treat Williams and Famke Janssen Directed by Stephen Sommers Playing at Hollywood 16 Critique: B+ m ^eep Rising may not provide any # Jdeep thoughts, but it will give audi- fences a fast-paced, entertaining monster movie which plays like Aliens on a cruise ship. The plot has giant mutant sea-creepies coming up from the deep, dark ocean bottom to attack a state-of-the-art cruise ship on its maiden voyage on a stormy night in the South China Sea. This unpleasant fact is unknown to the group of pirates being ferried to the boat by Finnegan (Treat Williams) and his engineer, Pantucci (Kevin J. O’Connor). The pirates board the boat only to find lots of blood and few sur vivors. The survivors are led by the strikingTrillian (Famke Janssen), a jewel thief with some tricks up her sleeve. Soon everyone is fighting for their lives against the nastiest thing to come out of the depths since drive-thru seafood. The movie provides the sort of popcorn thrills audiences expect from these kind of films. The special effects are excellent. The monster itself is an imagi native beast, looking like an amalgamation of every creature on the sea floor, and it looks pretty good for computer animation. The gore is intense and not meant for the squeamish. The Travis Irby staff writer BOSNIA Jls?£ifc.J^r I • ttl -j SHOULD AMERICA BE INVOLVED? Ambassador Muhamed Sacirbey Ambassador and Permanent Representative to the United Nations Special Envoy for the Implementation of the Dayton Peace Agreement Major General William L. Nash Commander, Task Force Eagle, Operation Joint Endeavor Moderated by: Dr. Stjepan Mestrovic Professor of Sociology Political Forum February 3, 1998 Rudder 301 7:00 p.m. http://pf.tamu.edu Persons with disabilities please call 845-1515 to inform us of your special needs. We request notification three (3) working days prior to the event to enable us to assist you to the best of our abilities. TTALION is looking for CITY REPORTERS •See news as it happens. •Learn Journalism the field. •Report on the issues that matter to our campus •Gain valuable experience for any career. Pick up your application at 013 Reed McDonald, or call 845-3313 for information. Just when you least expected it... THE INIMITABLE IS NOW OREIM! 6 BIG TVs! oreat O A. IVIES! LUDICROUS LAUNDRY FUN! DW* C.V A FEAST FOR THE SENSES! 1 {£02 Texas Avenue • College Station • (%***-. ^ ^rrrr-r^rrr- i m | | , mm *° u,ock '— ,J -~ « r * ‘V creature sucks all the fluid out of its victims, leaving aver ing husk. Stephen Sommers, who also wrote the screenplay, directs a breezy, enthusiastic pace. The water-based action scenes are much better than am ' Speed 2 and faster than those in Titanic. The cast, while not winning any Oscar nods, is very entert? 5 Williams plays Finnegan like a poor man’s Han Solo. He y well who does the right thing in the end. Janssen is a model who can actually act. She has acha and deep brown eyes, conveying more than just a pretty face With Trillian, Janssen is not as campy as her role in Goldt _ is still slinky sexy with a killer mind and body. O’Connor steals the show as the whiny wimp Pantucci. Hi? ery and one-liners work well with the action. Deep Rising is the kind of film moviegoers might turn thei but given the chance, it will satisfy the B-movie desires of thi: cult critic — but only if they bring their suspension of belief P: ■ a n (Treat William*) and Trillian (Famke Janssen) escape a fire bust in the ^ 'Q itin 1 ^oNe ^dBeyonc/ A Pr ing BreaV PADRE! So*' :aus<j mei 1 ted ‘But | iks V ied I A, 4l an C> Ski Packages anywhere in the world! r/ Q 4 % e /. ' c 3/ PkniASA * PUIc o, Cancun, Puerto WE NEV ER CHARGE /T service chaM CALL NOW! 260-1267 Nominate Your Parent/ For TO Aggie Parents of the Vt tan Tail Mandatory ea( Informational Meeting i oj You must attend one meetiifeg to receive an application ™ Me Monday, Feb. 2 Tuesday, Feb. 3 Monday ^ 31 7:00-8:00 p.m. 7:00-8:00 p.m. 7:00-8:OC )ec MSC 230 MSC 226 MSC : Nominees must meet no specific requirements! Applications Friday Feb. 27 @ Questions?? I Call Erin in the SGA office at 845-1320 or at home at f 1 email: evh3830@unix.tamu