THE BATTALION
MONDAY, APRIL 6, 1981
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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-
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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-
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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.
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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.
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