THE BATTALION MONDAY, APRIL 6, 1981 Page 3 Local villbea: sitypresid ion stem reorj ididates ent’s pos )le cam appealinj ected for: the job for a $)' le of the aresidenctl lointmenti 7 — andl t to SUCK were e futureoft m. ting, the the Boar >n under But where’s his fuzzy little tail? teve Watkins, 2, appears uninterested as the photographer’s ssistant helps him into the Easter bunny’s lap to get his icture taken. The 30-minute wait and $3 fee for snapshots ith the rabbit didn’t deter his or too many other parents etting Easter portraits Saturday afternoon in Manor East \eagan’s economy not new, Laffer says By DANA SMELSER Battalion Reporter President Ronald Reagan s eory of economic growth is not a iewidea in history, a major eco- [nomistsaid Friday at Texas A&M Iniversity. Dr. Arthur B. Laffer, the ewest evangelist of supply-side theory, gave the lynote address at the fourth mal Conference on Leadership Free Enterprise Education to a Rudder Theater. The confer- , held Friday and Saturday, sponsored by Texas A&M’s enter for Education and Re- iirchin Free Enterprise. The only way the economy can row and the budget become ba- Inced is by cutting taxes and rein- oducing incentives to the mar- t, Laffer said. This theory of growth ec< >no- faisnotnew. John F. Kennedy ied in the early 60s when he cut ^es of the people that made the )st, Laffer said. By increasing incentives in the rerall system and cutting tax tes, the federal budget went om a large deficit to a surplus by , (65, he said, oncerninjjt The whole theory of supply- hough nd ie economics, the cornerstone nized it"* Reagan’s economic proposals, is „d acC ordi rate is reduced, the in water jn i* 16 ^ is increased. And ulti- awn now i falling ap! (duals’ posted they were 1 handed y thing out' ing. 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For only 89* they stiouio buy their own pen- S33 J show some re lict lor my ttsf Pliofl fine point marker pens People take to a Pilot like ifs their own. Small audience enjoys variety show By LAURA HATCH Battalion Reporter A surprisingly small crowd of 600 gathered to see the excite ment and entertainment of the the MSC All-University Variety Show Saturday night in Rudder Audi torium. “Last year we had about 1,150,” Scott Zesch, technical adviser said. The variety show, now in its third year, started as a show pre senting talent from several univer sities and was held in G. Rollie White Coliseum. About 3,000 persons attended the first show, chairman Fran Merrill said. Tara Glass, an elementary edu cation major, won first place with her guitar and vocals. With her Joni Mitchell-style voice, she soothed the audience with her rendition of “Someday Soon,” and “I Just Want to be a Person,” an original. She also sang her version of Olivia Newton- John’s arrangement of “Jolene,” she said. First runner-up went to George Steams for his classical piano solo, “The Great Gate of Kiev.” Second runner-up was “The Road to Fame,” a dance duo by Gina Oggero and Byron Fisher based on the jazzy number “Fame.” Former diplomat to discuss free trade A former U.S. chief of protocol will speak tonight at 7:30 in the Memorial Student Center ballroom about his proposal for the creation of a free trade zone along the U.S.-Mexican border. Abelardo Valdez, an attorney of international law in Washington, D.C., and a visiting professor at Texas A&M University, is being sponsored by the College of Business Administration in a series of lectures. Valdez’s proposal calls for a zone extending 200 miles inside the border of both countries in which all manufactured goods could travel duty-free across the border. In a recent speech to the U.S. Trade Advisory Committee, he called his plan a step toward a common market for the western hemisphere and beneficial to the economies of both the United States and Mexico. Each of the winners was awarded with a penguin doll — the variety show’s mascot — and a plaque. The show’s emcees, Brian Do- live, Ken Crowe and Mike Hig- Review gins, gave the audience variety in the truest sense of the word. One minute they were telling jokes and throwing out one-liners as if they’d been doing it for years, and the next minute Higgins was sing ing a version of Bread’s “If’ with a voice that sounded like Bread’s lead singer David Gates. Other acts were as talented as those awarded pices. County Line Road, a trio of guitars and vocals with Bobby Casey, Kevin Chiles and Ralph Hoff, did their rendition of the Eagles’ “Seven Bridges Road.” By screaming and shouting between the phrases the audience played a big part in this act to make the song sound like the real thing. Juan Salinas, a junior journal ism major turned comedian, kept the audience laughing with his jokes about television shows and his own idea of the college stu dent’s Saturday morning cartoon hero he calls “Frat Man and Skip- py, The Boy Wonder.” The Reactors, a rock n roll group, electrified the auditorium with The Cars’ “You’re Just What I Needed” and “Head First” by the Babies. With lead singer Russell Loggins jumping around on stage in a plastic surgeon’s suit accented with a white blazer and tennis shoes, this group set the crowd shouting and screaming. To open the second half, “A Touch of Scotland” brought the bonny blue country to College Station with two bagpipes, played by Stewart Bishop and Mike Bar- row, and a Scottish dancer, Vivian Bishop. Sid Catlett, a management ma jor, performed a dramatic inter pretation, “The Passport,” that hushed the audience with the scene of a man who had no one to love or talk to. He ended his life with suicide. Jimmy Crawford, a forestry ma jor, lightened up the crowd with his view of loneliness in his song “I’m a Zit on the Face of Life.” To end the night of versatility, the Skillet Lickers—Jim Wagner, Irwin Sivin, Steve Vogel, Dale Whitaker, Dale Tibodeau and John Lee — left the audience in a down-home spirit with their ver sions of the bluegrass tunes “Red Haired Boy” and “Salty Dog.” And once again the emcees spiced up this act by dancing across the stage, in “Hee Flaw” fashion, wearing bikini tops, pig ears and noses. AGGIES! Dou^ Jcwc mately incentives are increased. “This is what we mean when we say ‘a rising tide lifts all boats, ”’ he said. The opposite economic theory is supported by redistributionists of the late 60s and ’70s who be lieve that the “size and shape of the pie is given and the only way to help the economy is to redistri bute the pieces,” he said. The redistributionists believe income is assumed to be given, and the only way to raise revenue is to increase taxes, Laffer said. “This is what we refer to as ‘the S&M theory of economics, ” he said. “It hurts a little now, but you’ll like it later.” The only way to stop inflation is to grow faster—not slower, Laffer said. “If you take a billion here and a billion there, sooner or later it adds up to some real money,” he said. It doesn’t matter if you are right wing or left wing, liberal or con servative or democratic or repub lican, “it’s the model that matters, not the framework,” Laffer said. Growth economics is not new, Laffer said, and we must remem ber not to keep the mentality of the late ’60s and ’70s. “We should recognize the tra dition that Reagan shares with John Kennedy and help the eco nomy that way,” he said. 10% AGGIE DISCOUNT ON ALL MERCHANDISE WITH STUDENT ID (Cash Only Please) We reserve the right to limit use of this privilege. Downtown Bryan (212 N. 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