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About The Battalion. (College Station, Tex.) 1893-current | View Entire Issue (Sept. 27, 2000)
dnesday, September27,2ft Wednesday, September 27, 2000 fies 'itinuedfromPa$ lissions office did i ptivity and warmthtli .1 to receive.” elaborates on this, with the periodicgent^ hey received from e lack of personal co 1 students to perceive t by Texas A&Mtowa cy, a senior manuft ■ering technology m anal contact doespli n attracting minoriti out getting people iniversity,” Yancysai suggests a number! he problem, includii nority students durii ore and junior yean ACi ! life. Page 3 THE BATTALION From humble beginnings y Northgate became social center of College Station By Anni Hoar The Battalion n 1928, Texas A&M President T.O. Walton changed after-school activities for Aggies for generations to come. Walton ordered all commercial buildings off campus, thus cre- Making admissioi ating the area known today as Northgate. ip staff aware ofthf The name Northgate comes from when personal communic the college actually had four gates. North- tority students and4 gate included cafes, tailor shops and a pho tosupply store attached to Boyett’s, the first ig scholarships avaiicommercial store in Northgate. Planked rective minority sit walkways, instead of sidewalks, provided a other suggestions, place for shoppers to avoid the mud of the /s steps have alreaii unpaved road. The buildings were corn- start addressing tl pletely wooden. e report. “The provoi it everything on the! mded to," he said, > said administraton it of Student Finana c of Admissions, Res The tailor shops were especially important to students at that time because all uniforms were custom-made. A grocery store where the Texas Aggie Bookstore currently is lo cated provided students with an easily acces sible way to buy food. Restaurants and a \ the Honors Prograi drugstore-pool hall provided a place for Ag- ire taking action. : went into this ft have any expecii we would find,” Rii versity was abletoti ces that came out in it vs it can do a betterjc ninorities in the lot rsity and the preside :he feedback as coi ack and can use theii ake the University01 nt to attend.” Rice both indicate ch would be condut ; of '04 and the rep« etailed. They hope nple size from 30pe cent of minority si but not enrolled. Timitted to doing 3r five years,” Bow i is to make the repo and try and e/iga| i discussion with fas 1 - its that will make tli- tment more succejf! >o learn some thinj useful for other umf state.” gies to relax on the weekends. College Station was incorporated in 1938, and Northgate became the downtown area. A city hall and numerous ■churches were built dur ing that time. Carolyn Holick Matheson, of Holick’s, a Northgate business that specializes in making Corps boots, said that the store has been in Northgate since the '20s. “We started making senior boots in the late ’20s when they became part of the uni form,” Matheson said. “We weren’t as spe cialized then as we are today. We made shoes and anything you wanted out of leather.” Don Ganter, owner of the Dixie Chicken, Dry Bean and Shadow Canyon, said the buildings have had many different uses since he bought them in 1974. “The Dixie Chicken was originally just one building,” Ganter said. “It was built in 1968 and known as the Aggie Den.... It was a pool hall and game room from 1968 to 1974. The other side was Loupot’s until the mid '70s when it moved to its current loca tion. ... Then it became Farkleberry’s Pool and Domino Parlor. In 1978 it became Mi randa’s Rock 'n' Roll Whiskey Joint, and in 1979 1 shut it down and then expanded the Dixie Chicken.” Ganter said the Dry Bean opened in the 1940s and was a laundermat, bike shop and ice cream parlor before he con- ^ verted it in the ’80s. “Aggies like whiskey more than ice cream,” Ganter said. “So I opened it (Dry. Bean) as a saloon.” Ganter said the building that currently houses Shadow Canyon was built in 1939 and operated as a movie theater called the Cam pus Theater until the late ’70s. “If you peel off the wood, you can still see the theater,” Ganter said. “Towards the end, it only showed the Rocky Horror Picture Show.” Ganter bought the building in the early ’80s and converted it to Shadow Canyon five years ago. Amid the restaurants, bars and stores in Northgate, there are many different religious centers and places of worship. Meeting places for Baptists, Christian Scientists, Pres byterians, Methodists, Lutherans and Roman Catholics have existed in the area for many years. A mosque is the most recent addition to the religious community of Northgate. Mike Sis, a priest at St. Mary’s Catholic Church, said that a Catholic ministry at A&M has existed since 1904 and the goal of the ministry is to serve the students. “We are located here to be close to the University because we want students to be able to walk to our services,” Sis said. “A city planner asked us if we intended to stay in Northgate. ... We will because we are not a neighborhood church. We focus on the Uni versity, and our location in Northgate makes us closer to the University.” Sis said that having a church in the mid dle of an area populated with nightclubs and bars does not bother him. In fact, he sees the location as an advantage to the mission of the ministry. “The church needs to be where the people are, and this is where lots of the students are,” Sis said. “Acampus ministry should not isolate itself. It should be in the middle of the action.” Sis said he thinks there always will be a religious presence in the area. “We will always have a role to play in this neighborhood,” he said. Throughout the years, some Northgate traditions have lived on while others died out. One tradition that would be easy to rein state is the Northgate Back to School Party. In the mid ’70s, the Northgate merchants hosted a party to celebrate the beginning of school. Merchants hired bands and closed off the surrounding streets for dancing. Some things about Northgate will proba bly never change. A Battalion article from Aug. 28, 1978 compares getting a table at the Dixie Chicken to getting football tickets. Both still are hard to come by. Parking has been a problem since the be ginning, and both Matheson and Sis said that parking is one of the things that they would like to change most about the area. rection 0 Battalion arti- tfessor speaks to jt racism/' stat- irmative action uota of minor!- ar employees in an. Institutions -ed only to e that they are effort to be fair mts of minority / races. 'xmcbStuAio M, Instruction \ alict & Jascz \ ieks $€0 t. 3^ 9fun* 10pw Deadline Oct. T 1 ickeii, CS '3-0249 PHOTO ILLUSTRATION BY KEVIN BURNS/Tm. B vi taUuN Do nM put off planning your wedding for a minute longer! 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