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About The Battalion. (College Station, Tex.) 1893-current | View Entire Issue (March 23, 2000)
I'hursday, March 23, att7Th a o o 1 jd l i r jd THF B A l l A LION harsdays March 23, 2(>()0 Page 3 people at each of the meat , plan to improve commi JKWbl 1 I |H 1 /\ n I is" n T o n tsi g low n the CollegeofLl ^ ^ ^ ^ A ^fci|||IP^ J&. ML : graduate programstmi ’ -r& ,(' me value of depreakn paneling the CollegeofLi : graduate programswouHj ;e the value of degrees isai &M. iarrett was asked a mg communication :nts and faculty. I believe the best wayto..a e the communication taj udents and the faculty is., student body to becom; :ti\ e as possible," Garrettss e have a concern ourfactl ministration has notbepi ;ss, we need to start knock >ors. They’re workingfon e are not working for fa' e issue of equality amongst ithin the same course, tments side by sideintni >lems that we as studentsi ' Lane said, or student body president)! tig the important issues," nalism major. “I’m glad a elevant to everyone-dn® aications.” president forum, yell leas rpportunity to speak. Vloser. a junior agricultuitl i s experience in the past k this year to Texas A&M- bit of what it has given® foot on the bonfire sited s of the utmost importance h said. Lane, a senior political si , said he would be av dents who may disagrees •sity’s decision, and that logue between the lent and administrators wos acceptable compromise ai situation that would seven Jniversity community. > is to make sure that ft stration are aware of st ill know that they turn toil? ly president for that Jnsiflf lortant to give them, dps them make sound dee ie said. “1 think if you're ic faculty and the adminisW ally with Dr. Bowen, n’t come to that divide I be able to handle thatsil you come up there.” lortant for the student bod;| represent those students ul| ere ignored in the decision) cess by actively seekingthei me added. Bartenders share view from the other side of the counter BY MATT MCCORMICK The Battalion A n extremely intoxicated man enters Dud- dley’s Draw. I le tries to act cool until he notices a girl who walked into the bar. She is dressed no differently than any other girl at the bar except for one minor accessory... a small can of mace that hangs from a rope around her neck. Kevin “’Woody” Crass, a bartender at Dud- dley "s Draw, witnessed what happened when the pair met. “He thought the mace was a lighter and end ed up spraying himself hard in the face. He cleared out the entire room of people. He wasn’t feeling real good after that one,” Crass said. This is just one of many seeming ly improbable, but definitely memo rable, scenarios one may encounter on any given night at North gate, the hal lowed place of myth and tradition. Northgate, an Aggie's salvation from endless nights ol study mg. is a collec tion of restaurants and bars located conveniently within walking distance of campus offering a release from the baneful existence that is academia. Old time Aggies delight in telling younger ones about how they used to park in the area where the Dixie Chicken is now located to watch as the younger Aggies nearly faint from shock. For these students to imagine a time when the beloved Chicken did not exist is worse than finding out Santa Claus is not real. Featuring every type of estahlish- ment, from bars to a dance hall, North- gate is home to hang-outs that appeal to all majors at A&M. Because it appeals to a variety of people, nearly everyone who has ever visited the area lias a story about Northgate. A bartender at a local bar, who wished to remain anonymous, said bis story about au unusual occur rence at Northgate began innocently — with a group of former students socializing one night, re living “glory days.” “They were just a bunch of Old Ags ... I think they were Class of '89 and up. [They] were just sitting around and raising hell and trying to pick fights with people all night,” he said. The bartender on duty tried to calm the guys down and keep the place quiet. The former students cussed him out and then left. “When he walked outside [after work], there were like 15 of these guys waiting for him, and they all jumped on him at once. It took a few peo ple to break it up — and a few went to jail,” he said. While it is not unusual to see girls wearing re vealing outfits when going out to Northgate for a night of dancing, one bartender said he en countered a male patron sitting in the bar who was revealing a bit more of himself than anyone else cared to see. “A guy was sitting back there with no under wear on and really baggy shorts. Well, he was kind of hanging out in front of the entire bar,” said Craig, a bartender at Duddley’s Draw and a senior political science major. "A guy sitting next to him finally got pissed off, and we ended up asking him to tuck it in. He got pissed, cussed us out and stormed out with ’it’ still hanging out.” Patrons of North by N orthgate be wary of acces sories that appear to be lighters —- or you just may become the subject of a bartenders' next anecdote. 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