Page 8/The Battalion/Friday, September 2,1983
Networks mark 20 years of news
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NEW YORK — Gov. G«orge
Wallace delayed the opening of
an Alabama school, Robert Ken
nedy cut short a holiday to keep
on top of the fight for civil rights
and Walter Cronkite had an ex
clusive interview with President
John F. Kennedy.
It was Sept. 2, 1963, and these
were some of the day’s events
covered by CBS News on net
work television’s first daily half-
hour evening news broadcast.
“CBS Evening News” marks
its 20th anniversary as a half-
hour broadcast Friday. NBC
News went to the format a week
later on Sept. 9, 1963, and
ABC’s half-hour early evening
news show premiered Jan. 9,
1967, with none other than Pe
ter Jennings anchoring from
New York.
Since then a competition
worthy of Olympic entry — the
anchor toss — has been under
way at ABC and NBC as the two
networks struggle to knock CBS
out of favor with television’s ear
ly evening news audience.
The latest round in the rat
ings race starts Monday night
when Jennings becomes the first
single anchor on ABC’s “World
News Tonight” since Oct. 1,
1976 — his co-anchor Max
Robinson still is awaiting reas
signment — and Tom Brokaw
begins a solo run at NBC. Bro-
kaw’s co-anchor, Roger Mudd,
will become host and principal
reporter of “NBC White Paper”
and senior political correspon
dent.
For their efforts, Jennings,
45, will earn a reported
$900,000 a year and Brokaw, 43,
a reported $1.5 million.
Top-ranked “CBS Evening
News” has always used the sing
le-anchor format, with Cronkite
holding the spot until March 9,
1981, when he was succeeded by
Dan Rather, 51, who makes a
reported $2 million a year.
When NBC announced last
July that Mudd would be reas
signed as of Sept. 5, a spokes
man for the network com
mented: “CBS has had a single
anchorman and I guess we
found out that single is what the
people want.”
Whether this really marks the
end of the 20-years of guess
work that has seen ABC and
NBC juggling with single-, dou-
ble-and triple-anchor formats,
remains to be seen.
ABC News had used the tri
ple-anchor format since July
1978, with Frank Reynolds
broadcasting from Washington,
Jennings from London and
Robinson from Chicago.
Reynolds died July 20, and on
Aug. 9, ABC News President
Roone Arledge announced that
Jennings would be assuming the
post of single anchor and, like
Brokaw and Rather, be based in
New York.
Jennings, only 26 when he
assumed the post, left his initial
anchor post at ABC in 1967 to
gain experience in field re
porting.
School faces charges
for sexual segregation
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VAN ALSTYNE — Some pa
rents in a north central Texas
community are concerned about
the gender gap that has put boys
and girls in separate classrooms
at Van Alstyne Middle School.
One parent said Wednesday
he’s ready to take the school dis
trict to court to ensure his
daughter receives an equal edu
cation.
“I don’t believe the girls are
being ^iven an equal opportun
ity,” said Jim Wolfe, an air traffic
controller whose daughter Ra-
quel is in the seventh grade.
“The boys are separated because
they play football and the girls
don’t.”
Wolfe said separating the
sexes in the seventh and eighth
grade classrooms deprives stu
dents of a vital educational ex
perience.
“I think boys and girls should
learn to get along and coeduca
tional classes are an important
part of their education,” he said.
“I think the school is wrong in
taking state and federal money
and then doing as they please.”
But Wolfe’s threat to file a sex
discrimination suit against the
school district has drawn little
response from school officials.
Principal David Campbell
said the gender segregation was
necessary to accommodate
school athletic schedules.
Charles Williams, Van Al
styne school district superinten
dent, said he is not concerned
about a sex discrimination suit
and denied that parents are up
set at the arrangement.
“We’ve had one call,” he said.
“We discussed the scheduling
and we decided it was the best
arrangement.’
Campbell explained the sche
dule of classes was arranged so
the the boys’ coach — who dou
bles as a math teacher — could
spend more time teaching math.
In previous years the school
had separate coaches for
seventh and eighth grade boys
and girls, he said.
“This year the seventh and
eighth grade boys meet together
in a combined athletic class and
the seventh and eighth grade
girls meet together for their
class,” he said. “That gives the
math teacher an extra period to
teach math.”
Campbell said that because of
the combined athletic classes, it
was necessary to keep the stu
dents separated all day.
Some students also have ex
pressed dissatisfaction with the
arrangement.
“I don’t like going to class with
all boys,” said one eighth grader,
who asked not to be identified.
“It just isn’t the same.”
Campbell and Williams both
denied claims by a number of
parents that the scheduling was
arranged to prevent disciplinary
problems.
But Caroline Beaty, whose
son is in the eighth grade, said
the school has had minor clas
sroom problems in the past with
teachers “who couldn’t control
the eighth grade.”
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O'Dell named squadron commander
Commander Jack O’Dell, of Richardson, has been named
commander of the Naval air transport squadron VR-59.The
reserve force squadron, comprised of 203 officers and en
listed men, flies missions to such diverse places as Japan,
Alaska, Europe, Canada and the Caribbean, including sup
plying U.S. troops to Beirut. '
O’Dell, Class of'63, graduated with a bachelor’s degree
business. He was recruited into the Navy in 1962 and served
his active duty career in the Western Pacific, including Viet
nam. He joined the reserves in Dallas in 1969, and hasbeena
pilot for Braniff and is now a pilot for Muse Air. Hew
named to the command of the VR-59 squadron in early
August.
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in office, Pre
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his government has e
the worst of the e«
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termsofthe economy,
rtime. The destiny of
is at stake," said de I
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dress since taking ofl
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century.
Campus to hold open house Sunday
Sunday’s MSC Open House, which will feature more than
150 student organizations, will be the largest ever
Organizations from around the campus — academic, service
and honor, sports and recreation, religious, MSC, music and
dance, and general groups —^ will have booths and displays
open from 7 p.m. to 11 p.m. on both floors of the Memorial
Student Center, offering information about their groups
and activities.
Refugee, a band from Dallas, will be playing in frontofG.
Rollie White Coliseum for the annual street dance from8:30
p.m. to 11:30 p.m. Students also will be able to meet their
deans, department heads and other administrators at a re
ception in 201 MSC, from 7 p.m. to 8 p.m.
Guided tours through the MSC will leave every 20 mi
nutes from the main lounge from at 7 p.m. to 9 p.m.
ISA needs exhibits for Open House
Any international students’ organization that wants to parti
cipate in MSC Open House is encouraged to prepare'
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labeled exhibit to be displayed at the International Students’
Association booth. Members should attend in their national
dress if possible, and will meet at 6 p.m. Sunday in the
Memorial Student Center to prepare the exhibits.
Positions open on ISA committees
Anyone interested in serving on committees in the Interna
tional Students’ Association should stop by the ISA office in
Bizzell Hall or call 845-1824. The positions are open to any
Texas A&M student. The appointments will be confirmedat
the first administrative cuncil meeting Sept. 23 in
Rudder.
To submit an item for this column, come by the Battalion
office in 216 Reed McDonald or contact Cheryl Burke at
845-2611. ‘
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Police Beat
The following incidents were
reported to the University Police
Department on Tuesday and
Wednesday.
THEFTS:
•A green Schwinn 10-Speed
bicycle, from the Hobby Hall
bike rack.
•A yellow Schwinn 10-speed
bicycle, from the Crocker Hall
bike rack.
•A red Montgomery Ward
10-speed bicycle, from the staff
parking lot across from Sbisa Di
ning Hall, north of Haas Hall.
•A maroon backpack, from
the shelves outside the Memo
rial Student Center Basement
Bookstore. The backpack con
tained a textbook, a gold Cross
pen, a pair of prescription^
ses, $7 in quarters and oth
personal property.
diet, from t
•A wallet, from the firstfloi
of the Teague Research Cenifi
The wallet was found later in
trash can in the first floi
women’s restroom of the bu!
ing. All property was recover)
except $209 in cash.
• A General Electric AMlFl
radio, from 264 Veterinai 1
Medicine Complex.
• A sign from the Penbertl'
Intramural Complex. Twopfl
sons were apprehended, gut
written statements and werett
leased.
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Bible Classes and Worship Services
Wednesday Night:
Bible Study
7:30 p.m.
Sunday Services:
9:00 a.m. Bible class
10:00 a.m. Worship service
6:00 p.m. Worship srvice
NEWEST, HOTTEST NITE CLUB IN COLLEGE STATION
Located 3200 Cavitt Street, Bryan
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BURGLARY:
•A set of tools worth
from 327 Zachry Engineer^!
Center.
• Two Phillips 100 watt rj|
stereo speakers from Dorm H
OTHER:
•A gate arm was broken i|
the staff parking lot adjacentl
the Creamery and the PaviM
• A person was arrested in ^
parking lot across from '
Northgate Post Office for dri'
ing while intoxicated. The
son was taken to Brazos Counf
Jail.
FRIDAY AND SATURDAY NITE
7 to 9 p.m. — 25<Z bar drinks, draft beer & wine
10 p.Ul. to close — periodic drink specials
1 to 4 p.m. — PARK AVENUE LATE NITE
the party continues with fun, food, beverages and dancing
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