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[PEOPLE PLAC
Black History Month
Staff Report*
There's an old saying that makes
the observation that everyone loves a
comic.
Comediennes Kathy Walker and
Emmy Gay will be banking on that
sentiment when they hit the stage in
the Golden Spur at 7:30 tonight.
Entertaining a crowd comes second
nature to Gay, whose experiences
with entertaining an audience began
% in elementary school.
"If I was good and let the other kids
do their work, my teachers would give
me 10 to 20 minutes at the end of class
to entertain," Gay said in The University
Daily (Texas Tech University).
"I would get eveiyone to sing along,
and I would tell them funny jokes and 4
make everyone laugh."
Walker spent her early days in ^
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passed the time performing in clubs,
acting in plays and serving as a disc
jockey.
Gay also has a resume full of activities
that range from performing on
"The Tonight Show with Jay Leno" to
juggling.
Their show kicks off the celebration
of Black History Month that runs
Ladies Comedy
Night
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when 7:30 p.m. Tonight
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lon't know what I want to be yet. My
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md 111 still have thousands of dolars
worth of student loans to pay
>ack by the time I graduate."
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neir neart and select the major they've
dways dreamed of studying, because \
t's what they truly want to do. Obtacles
may still arise, though. My
oommate, Danielle Cox, for instance,
las always wanted to be a registered
lurse.
"I really didn't do enough research
nto the university's nursing program,"
2ox said. "When I was accepted into
he pre- nursing program, they failed
o tell me how slim the chances are
hat I'd advance into the upper diviion."
Currently, the demand for nurss
exceeds the supply of classroom
pace, so the competition is intense.
)ut of a class of 200, perhaps 40 will
idvance to the upper division. Courted
with that are yearlong waiting
ists to get into some nursing courss.
For these reasons, Cox changed
ler major to exercise science; now, <
he'll become a physical therapist. 1
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