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Local THE BATTALION Page 5 THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 19, 1981 ttheMS( nial Wj. ginninjj KANM refines FM signal By TED TREAT Battalion Reporter JfCANM-FM, the 7-year-old cable alternative to ''Pisfc'cojnmercial radio, seems finally to be over the tech- e Studvinical problems that have plagued the station in the past IVt years. 302 M l Now we’re getting a good, clear signal on both ^B)le systems,” said Todd Gross, manager of KANM, . a student-run radio station located on the north side j s ^ofjthe Texas A&M University campus. Gross and Roger Weiting, the former manager of station, have put in many hours refining the ^Hund since the station moved from Briarwood Wn serifi A lartments to an on-campus site in the fall of 1979. “It’s necessary to have a high-fidelity sound in oijder to hold listeners,’’Gross said. t nd, that is what KANM operators are hoping )le subscribers are finding this semester at 99.9 Until this semester the signal from the station was ten erratic, weak or nonexistent, especially for 1 State community Cablevision subscribers, one of the two le companies in town. ! ! ! "Roger (Weiting) and I worked with the techni- i Rudds % cians from Community this summer and now we believe we have a permanent hookup,” said Gross. “We think the problems are solved.” KANM, uses a rock ‘n’ roll format, and it was formed primarily to give students and other listeners an alternative to the top 40 and country stations that dominate the area. Gross said. “We are a station for the students of Texas A&M University. We want to provide music that a student can’t always get on the radio dial,” he said. KANM is located in the Crocker-Moore lounge and is currently staffed by 42 student disc jockeys, all of whom are unpaid volunteers. The station broad casts 24 hours a day. Each dj works a four-hour shift. KANM is commercial free although it does.have two programs sponsored by Music Express, Gross said. The commercial free station relies heavily on promotional copies, such as those donated by Music Express, because it presently is not affiliated with Student Government and does not receive any Uni versity funds. Donations also help keep the station operating. ision wil : Student supermarkets, dining halls feel peanut butter pinch 7p.m.a By CARLA SUTTER Battalion Reporter Peanut butter addicts beware! the 1980 summer drought re- ced last year’s peanut crop by 45 rcent, causing a price increase d supply shortage at supermar ts. Texas A&M University dining halls are also feeling the peanut butter pinch. The three dining t will senftdls have stopped serving peanut iinivers*butter in cafeteria lines. Students 1 only® must ask for it if they want it. Jtionstj Last year Aggies ate 3,000 i.” Ipounds of peanut butter in cam- rytoughpus dining halls, said Lloyd uhavep«Smith, assistant director of food their wiSfervices. vhoarew It’s still too early to tell how she sail much will be eaten this year, can see'lSmith said. Peanut butter is still and will continue to be offered. But, he said, food ser vices are trying to control waste and at the same time not deprive the students of it. Off-campus student’s budgets may also be feeling the crunch. Last year one major grocery chain advertised a 3-pound jar of peanut butter on sale for $2.09. Now, a 12-ounce jar costs between $1.70 to $2.05. “I usually eat it like a fool,” senior Chris Weaver said. “I went the other night to buy a jar of peanut butter, and it was almost $2 for a little jar. Mary Kimball, senior, said she used to eat about three or four peanut butter sandwiches a week. Now, with it costing so much she said she only eats about one a week. J. D. Heine, Weingarten’s store manager, said that after word had spread about the peanut scarcity, people hoarded the stuff. Store managers also report that peanut butter is getting harder to get from supply warehouses. One Safeway employee said, “The warehouse has been shorting us peanut butter for about five months. We order quite a bit, but whether or not we get it is another matter.” Convenience stores such as Komer Pantry, U-Tote-M and 7- 11 said they haven’t noticed the crunch as much as the larger su permarkets have. Louise Noble, store manager for 7-11, said their store only sells about four or five jars a week, probably because of higher prices, she said. Samson charts his religion ation,”ili;| le time: and was, i By DENISE RICHTER 6 recoil Battalion Reporter afalltk AMiough it was a religious meeting, the blackboard filled with charts and diagrams approp- Rate for an engineering lecture Seemed a proper backdrop for Dr. Cp Charles Samson’s speech before * ^ about 40 students Wednesday. X Samson, acting president of [J J Texas A&M University, said at the start of the meeting he is first and foremost an engineer and did not was 1-claim to have a deep theological Jbackground. is honor# epesowj The meeting was part of a heck «weekly “Quest for Truth” series 7 in UrSponsored by the Methodist Stu- ient Movement. lount ^ amson s engineering back- the in ^ rounc ^ was °b v i ous as he referred , , i to flow charts, graphs and dia- c Jrams to explain how his personal «lh* ous attitudes fit in with his ) daily responsibilities as acting president. His religious beliefs, along with ethical standards, policies and , rules, influence every decision he .makes. Samson said. He then diagrammed his own seven-step decision-making pro cess and said he felt some of the dience might find it useful. This process includes: defining the problem; establishing a value stem; identifying, analyzing and 'abating alternatives; and mak- ig and implementing the deci sion. ,, Using a flow chart, a diagram of a sequence of operations that rep resented the University system as ij a machine, Samson said he could ^/lonly make the machine work as ifficiently as possible by setting priorities. this semester’s “Quest for Truth” series. The series is “designed to offer students and professors the opportunity to share their faith and gives the professors a chance to show how it interacts with their particular discipline,” Jon Farris, chairman of the Texas A&M Methodist Student Movement, said. The next presentation in the “Quest for Truth” series will be Wednesday at 8 p.m. in Room 204 of the Sterling C. Evans Library. The speaker will be Dr. Bardin Nelson, professor of sociology. 1 183 MEW LOOK THE SHAPE OF THINGS HIS Ti HERS SPECIAL Make an appointment and come in together. 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