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presidents to report he provost, rather Ik jates. 'ontinued frompagt! : Thursday night fever From hotel lobbies to radio stations, students find different places to spend Thursday nights \\ THE BAT! Finalists Continued frompajf: Conoley said thatslii strong interest in unfc ales, student activitiesti honors program at Affi will try to unite a student activities Prior was comment because he i mg until March 31. The search commit then A&M President Rote Gates, will interviewed and Prior, Richardson Gates will discuss theei w ith the committee ki making a final decision. An open receptionwi for the campus comii® When Northgate calls and the dance halls beckon, Texas A&M meet Conoley Tuesday,n tudents head out on Thursday nights to live up their nights in Aggie imilar reception will ill tyle. But while going out may be the Thursday night event for held next week fori nany, there are other Aggies who spend their Thursday nights a lit-1 le differently. Earlier this year Ci J ason Finehout, a senior management major, works at the MSC expanded the authorityd ^ ote * on Thursday nights, where he pulls all-nighters to accommo- position by requiring late the hotel's long hours. “I work from 11 p.m. until around 7 a.m. in the morning every Thursday night," Finehout said. “It doesn’t sound as bad as it seems. )n Thursday nights 1 am unable to go out and drink with my bud- lies because I cannot go into work drunk, but 1 just don’t drink vhen I do go out.’J Rally Finehout said working late on Thursday nights can actually be entertaining when students who have had too much to drink come | tumbling into the hotel lobby. But, he said, the nights tend to get even more interesting when there are special guests staying at he hotel. “When Martin Short and Mark Curry were in town for First Yell, Aggielife The Battalion Page 3A • Thursday, March 27, 2003 By Kelcey Rieger THE BATTALION >y peace demonstrations, “We w anted to show fc s a silent majority breaking the silence tosl l> e y stayed at the MSC Hotel,” Finehout said. “I was working the night they stayed, and I ended up running errands for them like ur’president,” Jacobs si# rderin g P izza and ge ttin g Visine for Short.” rve our freedom and we tf: Finehout said he also had to buy pantyhose for one of President luqi people to have that's ^ eor § e Bush's advisers when she stayed at the hotel because she reedom ” iadforgotten hers. Even though buying women’s pantyhose was a lit- Members of the localcb ^ stran g e ' Finehout said he did get some presidential pens out of it. f Veterans of Foreign War!' ® t * ier t ' rnes at die h ote l dave deen l ess eventful, however, ttended the rail ^ ‘‘There have been times on Thursday nights when I would just . . )ass out sleeping and not even realize that 1 had,” Finehout said, t i vfw -I - I would wake up three hours later in a huge puddle of drool and e c apter al , n j m p r j nt 0 p t | ie on IT1 y f ace 3^ [ ^ess that is bound to tetnam veteran, also adtte . . , tappen sometimes. te r y, saying it is the j while Finehout is fighting off the fatigue at the hotel desk, Kelly on of all Americans tos| a j un j or architecture major, is fighting off the crowds at te troops. Hurricane Harry’s. today the men andw p r y 0ri a doorman at Hurricane Harry’s, said he frequently works ho are out there in them Thursday nights, which are usually the bar’s busiest nights, ult, in a foreign and hostile!: ]j ne t0 g et j n j s usua iiy steady until around midnight,” Pryor e not playing a j« ^ “j h av e to watch for minors or even people that are 21 and are elasquez said. “Think s | 00 intoxicated to come in. We always have to deal with those few iw they would feel it 5 people that just want to cause trouble or the people that get mean med on a television pi when they drink and try to start fights.” topic protesting. Whal ■ p r y 0 r said he sometimes wishes he was one of the people being ould love to see when then let in the door rather than the one who is doing the letting in, but it 1 their TV is us out heresf •rting them.” The A&M chapter oil 1 >ung Conservatives of Ti« s organized a pro-war begin Sunday at 1 p nip will meet at O.R. Sinfj ill Field and march to ademic Plaza. gets so crowded inside that he reasons he is better off just watching. “People do some really funny things, and working at a club, especially on a Thursday night, you see and hear some really crazy things that happen,” he said. Pryor said he had an interesting Thursday night experience when he was assigned to sit at the unopened second door at Harry’s by himself. “There were two couples playing pool who had been drinking for awhile,” he said. “I guess they felt bad for me because I was sitting by myself, so one of the women, who was not attractive at all, got on the counter and started to strip. I had just started working here, so this was all new to me, and I was not used to some of the weird things that tend to occur here a lot.” Pryor said he has to keep an eye on people who have been drink ing at the club and are too intoxicated to drive home. When that hap pens, patrons are encouraged to call CARPOOL. That is where Allen Rogers, a sophomore business major, comes in. Rogers, who has been involved in CARPOOL for about a year and a half, has frequently picked up a drunk person or two from Harry’s on a Thursday night. “My Thursday night begins with the CARPOOL executives usu ally assigning us what we are going to be doing that night,” Rogers said. “We will either be driving or ‘Herscheling,’ which is walking around clubs and passing out cards. Then we chill until the drunk folks start to call, and that is when the night begins. We shut it down around 3 a.m., and I go home very tired and I miss my 8 a.m. accounting class on Friday mornings.” Rogers said working Thursday nights has its good moments. “Sometimes we go and pick up some people and there are a lot of nice looking ladies there and they all scream ‘CARPOOL’ real loud,” Rogers said. “But then I realize they are drunk and would not be paying attention to me if I wasn’t wearing the bright green CAR- POOL T-shirt.” Matt Brown, a senior anthropology major, and Travis Ziebro, a senior mechanical engineering major, are roommates who spend their Thursday nights spinning progressive trance and hip-hop music instead of dancing to it. Brown and Ziebro are DJs for KANM Student Radio, and their show, “Dynamic Viscosity,” hits the airwaves every Thursday night from midnight to 2 a.m. “We wanted a show late at night, and this (time) slot was given to us,” Brown said. “All our music is mixed live using two turntables rather than playing CDs one after another.” Brown, Ziebro and possibly a guest DJ will stop by to spin live music for about an hour and a half, but sometimes it’s not just DJs who come by the station. “Our friends always drop by after the bars close,” Ziebro said. “Occasionally an unruly drunk stops by, but we give them the boot. JP BEATO HI • THE BATTALION Rick Carrillo, a sophomore speech communication major, checks IDs at Hole in the Wall on Northgate. Carrillo has been employed there for two weeks. It is always a party.” Brown and Ziebro said they have a great time doing the show, but sometimes they would like to go out instead of being stuck in the radio station. Thursday night is a big night to go out in College Station-for students because it has become a habit for Aggies to want to haVe a third weekend day, Brown said. “Drink specials, no Friday classes — it’s no wonder students want to go out on Thursdays,” Ziebro said. “Aggies know how to have a good time.” ce Corsages at 6713 • M-F 8-6 “Never cease to amaze her. Always exceed her greatest expectations. ’ h.com ’ALIGN in Chief ;e Deutsch, Opinion Editor me Porter, Asst. Opinion Editor el Crow, Sports Editor Espenlaub, Asst. Sports Editor Jvas, Photo Editor Hollimon, Asst. Photo Editor DeLuna, Graphics Editor irown, Radio Producer Titterbusch, Webmaster daily, Monday through Friday to ugh Thursday during the sum*' (hods) at Texas A&M Univeisity 40. POSTMASTER: Send address till TAMU, College Station,K ted by students at Texas 0 if the Department of Journalism ewsroom phone: 845-3313; Fat p://www.thebatt.com / sponsorship orendoisemenlti( y advertising, call 845-2696. 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