The Ranger (San Antonio, Tex.), Vol. 54, No. 12, Ed. 1 Friday, December 7, 1979 Page: 4 of 18
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Coming For Christmas.
from 8 a.m. to 9 p.m. Mondays through
Thursdays and from 8 a.m. to 4 p.m. on
Fridays.
Students can check out the albums
and listen to them at one of 22 tables
available in the center.
“The center will make available about
163 records for student use,” Dave
Elder, professor of library technology,
said. The records cost from $5 to $7, he
said.
“We will help them (audio-visual
see family and old friends in New York.
Then there’s the Christian aspect. I’m
not an atheist, and I’m beyond agnostic.
I know some people think Christmas is
commercialized, but giving and receiving
gifts do bring people close together,”
George Ifflander, 27-year-old student,
said.
Most frequently, students surveyed
said the Christmas season means getting
together with family and friends.
One student claimed Christmas has
less meaning as one gets older.
“It’s pretty much for kids. Sometimes
choose from. Pop, country western,
rhythm and blues, hard rock and disco.
Some of the artists’ records available
will be the Bee Gees, the Blues Brothers,
Cheap Trick, the Electric Light Or-
chestra, Rick James, Olivia Newton-
John, Kenny Rogers and Rod Stewart.
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The Mexican Chamber of Commerce
also will hold its second annual
Christmas dance from 8 p.m. to mid-
night today at the St. George Marriott
Hotel, 6076 Babcock Road.
The Jaycees will sponsor a Christmas
Benefit Dance from 7 p.m. to 1 a.m.
Dec. 22 at the Henry B. Gonzalez Con-
vention Center Banquet Hall No. 1.
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Five San Antonio civic organizations
will sponsor festivities to celebrate
Christmas.
The Greater San Antonio Chamber of
Commerce will sponsor “Fiesta
Navidena en El Mercado” from noon to
midnight Thursday through Dec. 16.
This Christmas festival in Market
Square, 514 W. Commerce St., features
mariachis and local bands playing for
dances. Traditional holiday food also
will be sold.
Highlights for the evenings will be
pinata parties for children beginning at 8
p.m. Children will take turns breaking
pinatas and gathering candy that falls
from the pinatas.
“Fiesta de las Luminarias” also spon-
sored by the Greater San Antonio
Chamber of Commerce will be Dec.
14-26.
Glowing candles symbolizing lighting
for the Holy Family will line the river.
Eight church organizations will sing
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center) financially. We will pay for 50
percent of the bill. We also will select
records on the top 20 lists of Billboard
Magazine,” Kathy Major, associate
director of student activities, said.
Don Drummonds, audio-visual coor-
dinator, explains this project started
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Students who were not in the Cof-
feehouse in Loftin Student Center
Wednesday missed an entertaining and
unique performance by George Ensle,
Lindsay Haisley and David McKnight,
three multi-talanted musicians.
The trio played a variety of bluegrass,
country-swing, and folk ballads for the
small but appreciative audience.
The first set featured Haisley, playing
alone, with an amplified acoustic guitar,
an autoharp, and a strange stringed in-
strument he built himself, called an In-
dian harmonium banjo.
The songs were a hodge-podge of up-
beat country times mixed with strange
ballads, which Haisley injected with
foot-stomping and hand-clapping vitali-
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They then proceed to the Plaza Juarez
where children will break pinatas and
the mariachis will sing. Mexican dancers
also will provide entertainment.
The Conservation Society also will
hold Los Pastores from 6 p.m. to mid-
night Dec. 29 and Dec. 30 at the San
Jose Mission, 6539 San Jose.
This is a centuries-old Christmas
miracle that depicts the devil trying to
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Harst show canceled
Rudy Harst, scheduled to perform in the Coffeehouse of Loftin Stu-
dent Center Friday, did not play because of a sore throat, Kathy Ma-
jor, associate director of student activities, said.
Ashly reschedules show
Because of an arm injury caused by a falling stage speaker, Terrance
Ashly, singer/guitarist, canceled his Wednesday Coffeehouse perfor-
mance.
Ashly has been rescheduled to perform from 11 a.m. to 1 p.m. Jan.
18 in the Coffeehouse of Loftin Student Center.
Forst to display ad art
Gerry Forst, a faculty member here, will display an installation
work for the advertising art department’s third exhibit of the season.
The exhibit is free to the public from 7 p.m. to 9 p.m. Dec. 7-9 and
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eight years ago.
“Back then, the student government
donated records three times a year to the
library. Now those records are worn out
or out of date,” Drummond said.
There will be a variety of music to
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ing to Mass, giving gifts and celebrating
joy.
One student insisted Christmas was
not important to him and said, “I wish
they would cancel Christmas.”
John Porter, engineering major, said
Christmas is “people doing nice things
for people they don’t know.”
Freshman Nancy Goode, one of the 14
students who said the most important
part of Christmas is being with family,
said all she wants for Christmas is for her
mother to come home from the hospital.
keep the shepherds and other pilgrims
from finding the Christ child.
This is also a tradition brought to San
Antonio by the Franciscan Fathers in the
1700s.
The Conservation Society has carried
on the Los Pastores tradition 30 years.
The Kiwanis Club of San Antonio will
sponsor an open house at 7 p.m. Dec. 17
at Boysville located on Interstate 35.
BERNADETTE PETERS, CATLIN ADAMS.. JACKIE MASON as.
STEVE MARTIN, CARL GOTTLIEB, MICHAEL ELIAS ESTEVE MARTIN & CARL GOTTLIEB
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UNDER 17 REQUIRES ACCOMPANYING
PARENT OR ADULT GUARDIAN
If the 20 students interviewed here
about the meaning of Christmas are any
indication of an overall attitude on cam-
pus, the birth of Christ, for whom the
season is named, holds little meaning for
students.
Six students mentioned the birth of
Christ as a meaningful part of
Christmas. Four mentioned Christmas
was a time to go to church.
“This year it will mean going home to
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number, immediately brought the crowd
out of the intermission coma.
“Stranger In Town,” and “Devil’s
Mountain,” were two slow tunes that
were both haunting and melodic.
The trio played a bluegrass number
called “Silver Spoon/Harvest Moon,”
that brought a strong wave of applause
from the audience.
Other notables included, “I Have To
Drink To Drive This Thing,” a song
about Ensle’s 1962 “yield-sign-yellow”
Highway Department panel truck and
“Block and a Half,” a fast-paced fiddle
instrumental that gave McKnight a
chance to show off his talent.
The last song of the performance,
“It’ll Come When It Comes,” was
dedicated to hitchhikers in the crowd
and was a fine way to end a professional
and entertaining performance.
/and Jesus.
Behind them will be members of
church organizations, mariachis and
singers carrying candles.
The pilgrimage will stop and perform
at the River Square, and at the bridge
near the Hilton Paseo Del Rio. Their last
stop will be at the Ameson River Theater
where Father Kestler will say a short
prayer.
it’s a hassle to go to the mall to get
something you need and it’s crowded,”
Steve Hill, sophomore, said.
“Happiness” was used frequently by
students to describe Christmas.
“Christmas gets me in a better feeling
than the rest of the year. It’s a spirited
time. More people are happy. They get
happy; I get happy. They aren’t thinking
about crisis,” one.freshman commented.
Other responses about the meeting of
Christmas included losing money, work-
ing harder in the toy store, partying, go-
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Poll shows student opinions on yule season
By LaDonna Horton
Ranger Art Coordinator
Audio-visual center acquires popular records
The audio-visual service center in con-
junction with the student activities office
will provide record albums of popular
music for students to listen to in Room
401 of Moody Learning Center beginn-
ing Jan. 15.
Students can listen to these records
Local civic groups plan Christmas pageantry
Christmas carols along the river on
boats.
The San Antonio Conservation Society
and the San Antonio River Association
will sponsor Las Posadas at 6 p.m. Dec.
16 starting at La Mansion Del Rio, 122
College St.
Eloise Murray, chairman of Las
Posadas committee for the society, said,
“Las Posadas has been a tradition for
the Conservation Society for 14 years. It
always attracts great tourism.”
Las Posadas re-enacts Mary and
Joseph’s search for an inn. It originated
in Spain and was brought to Texas by
the Franciscan Fathers in the late 1700s.
During Las Posadas, Father Xavier
Kestler, a Franciscan priest and an in-
structor at Antonian High School, will
lead a pilgrimage down the riverwalk.
Following him will be two children por-
traying Mary and Joseph, three angels
and two carriers of El Misterio, a plat-
form featuring figures of Mary, Joseph
Performers entertain
with blues, folk songs
By Patrick Kelly
Ranger Staff Writer
an Alley Cat,” their first
One of his own songs, called “He Who
Lives by the Rifle, by the Rifle Ball,
Shall Fall,” was an amusing account of a
relative that was shot in a barroom gun-
fight in Baltimore.
Two instrumentals, “Cripple Creek,”
played on the Indian harmonium banjo,
and “Jennifer’s Reel,” (his own) on
guitar, were definite crowd-pleasers, and
proved Haisly really could pick.
For the second set, Haisley on bass,
teamed up with David McKnight on fid-
dle, to back singer/songwriter/musician,
George Ensle.
Ensle is a gifted Austin songwriter.
The three musicians complimented
each other. Ensle’s smooth singing was
beautifully accented by McKnight’s
fiddle-work, and Haisley’s bluesy bass
guitar.
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