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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,
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>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 â–  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.”
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begin Sunday at 1 p
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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.
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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.”
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