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Page 8B/The Battalion/Monday, August 27, 1984 Student radio programs offer mixed repertoire By JEFF WRIGHT Reporter “As a member of KANM, you have a chance to change the musical culture of this community.” The speaker is Colin Landis, man ager of KANM, the Texas A&M stu dent radio station. Located in the Pa vilion, the station is as diverse as its surroundings. During its 11 years at A&M, KANM has grown from the usual college radio station playing Top 40 music to one that offers popular re cordings from punk to country and western. The Disc jockeys are as in teresting as the music they play, but their shows are the most interesting of all. KANM operates 24 hours a day, seven days a week and you can be sure that sometime during the day your kind of music will show up. With about 45 DJ’s and 25 alternates working in four hour shifts the sta tion changes music as often as DJ’s. All are allowed to pick the kind of music to be played on their segment, giving the station a chance to offer a wide variety of music. “All of our DJ’s are volunteers,” Landis says. “We are all a part of KANM because we are motivated by the love of music.” And that it must be, because the DJ’s usually spend their own money and devote precious time and effort to their shows, he says. The DJs are all Texas A&M students who have to take classes and final exams. The thing that makes the DJs stand out is their choice of music, which usually is contrary to the sounds on the sta tions favored by most Aggies. Sam ples of the KANM music can be heard at various times during the se mester at Rudder fountain, where the station sets up an occasional out door broadcast. Program director Chris Dominy says KANM offers a bigger variety in music than can be found or heard on other stations in this area. KANM operates on cable radio at 99.9 on the FM dial. “Our music covers avante garde, reggae, punk, blues, jazz and even a little country and western,” Dominy says. “We try to stay away from the regular routines of other stations that play the Top 40 over and over again.” Shows like “On The Edge of Chronic Town” (a mixture of punk and country and western), “Electric Sugarcube” (a psychedelic show from the 60’s), “Schwermusik” (elit ist avante garde) and “Party Week end Kick-off” (rock and new wave) all work together to create KANM’s unique identity. Landis says the main goal of the station is to introduce A&M students to all types of music and to let them know that the Hall of Fame is not the only form of entertainment here. Just as any other student organi zation, KANM collects dues each se mester. The station has much higher operating costs (about $300 a month) than regular organizations but doesn’t receive any more money from the university. It operates on sponsorships and donations from former DJs. One general meeting is held at the beginning of the semester for new and old members. If you miss the meeting you can still join by calling the radio station. Nationwide aerobics fad hits A&M Rhys Ed classes By JEFF WRIGHT Reporter Who would ever have thought that a bunch of sweating bodies bouncing around to music from the movie “Rocky” would become the most popular form of exer cise in the United States? Aerobic dance may not be the most popular class at Texas A&M, but it’s growing. Physical education instructor Ann Poteet has taught aerobic dance at A&M for almost two years and her classes are always full. “Aerobic dance classes are of fered year-round during every P.E. class period and every class always fills,” she says. “That is about 40 students per class in the regular semesters and about 200 students per session during the summer.” The objectives for the class are to improve overall fitness, cardio vascular conditioning, strength, endurance and to tone muscles by using execise routines created by the instructor. The routines be gin with warm-up exercises and end with cool-down exercises. A 30-minute dance-exercise routine comes in between the warm-up and cool-down exercises. The dance exercise is made up of arm movements, kicks and leg- lifts, twists, sit-ups and push-ups and the most famous aerobic exercise, doggie kicks. The exer cises are continuous, with only one- or two-second pauses be tween them. Constant movement is the key to successful comple tion of the routine. The entire workout is done to music, which sets the mood for each exercise in the routine. Songs such as “Celebration” and “Beat It” are used for energetic exercises and slower songs such as “I’m Stuck on You" are u«! for the calm ones. Tanya Feltz, a junior markti- ing major from College Station, says the Texas A&M classesatt more relaxed and more benefidai than classes offered by dancestu- dios in the community. "The teachers are really good at A&M,” Feltz says. “Gettinga grade in the class makes come to every class so you gtt your money’s worth.” Aerobic dance classes cost tit same as other P.E. classes at (about $20 a semester) and A&M students a big savingswhtt compared to studio prices of J5I to $40 a month. Other dance classes including ballet, tap, jazz, modern are offered by the P.E. department every semester and are set at ke ginning, intermediate and ad vanced levels. Christian rock looks, sounds like secular brand of music Texas A&M student-operated radio station KANM-FM, which offers a wide range of eclectic music, occasionally sets up outdoor broadcasts from the Rudder Fountain area. The broadcasts are usually made from the station’s indoor home in the Pavillion. United Press International GRAYSLAKE, Ill. — Christian rock musicians may look like their secular colleagues — 1 sporting Mohawk hair cuts and punk outfits — but they see themselves as “music ministers,” us ing their sound to spread the gospel. Bands espousing Christian evan gelism insist their values and con temporary cultural fashions aren’t incompatible. To follow the Lord, they say, you don’t have to give up studded leather jackboots or the rock ’n’ roll beat. “I don’t think there’s anything wrong with rock ’n’ roll, if it brings glory to the Lord,” said Glen Kaiser, leader of Resurrection Band, also called the Rez Band. “Music is like the clothing. The heart of what we’re trying to do is bring people back to God’s word.” “We’re primarily ministers, and we use music only as a tool to bring people to Jesus,” said O-Joe Taylor, bassist and songwriter for the Cali fornia-based band, Undercover. The musicians said their appear ance, although irrelevant to their faith, allows tnem to bring their mu sic ministry to young people alien ated by the conservatism of many Christian churches. “If I were dressed up in a suit, I couldn’t walk into a club in LA and expect those kids who are into heavy metal or punk to listen to me,” said Taylor, 28, who sports a bleached blond Mohawk haircut and wears several earrings. “I don’t think the outside is that important,” Taylor said. “God loves punk rockers. He loves people who are into heavy metal. God is con cerned with the inward man.” Christian rock musicians take their music ministry very seriously. Although their sound is like that of many other rock or New Wave bands, almost all their song lyrics have a Christian message. The Rez Band and Undercover were among more than 15 Christian bands that gathered at the Lake County, Ill., fairgrounds this sum mer for a Christian music festival produced by Cornerstone magazine. Cornerstone is a publication of Jesus People USA, a Chicago-based min istry with 10 pastors and about 350 staff members. The Cornerstone festival-goers, in their teens and early 20s and wear ing blue jeans and T-shirts, resem bled any other group of young peo ple, except many carried Bibles. No one smoked cigarettes, and unlike most gatherings of young music fans, no illegal drugs or alcohol were in evidence. Henry Huang, the festival’s 32- year-old coordinator, said the pur- ■v pose of the event was lo enttru young people and to showthat'G ristianity can lie both biblicalasv; as culturally relevant." 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