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Page 6/The Battalion/Wednesday, November 14, 1984 Budding artist Pho,ob y kathywiespape An Allen Academy fourth-grader tries his hand at abstract impressionism. Thirty stu dents were at A&M Tuesday for a tour of the Abstract Impressionists exhibit currently on display in Rudder Exhibit Hall. After a tour led by MSC Arts Committee guides, the chil dren were given paint, paper and smocks and told to let their imaginations run wild. Cable (continued from page I) dents, the committee will be distrib uting a survey to dormitory resi dents. From the results of the survey, the committee hopes to get some direction of services the stu dents would like to have, Sasse said. “Everyone will have their oppor tunity to speak their peace,” Sasse said. Apartment residents also can ex pect a change as the conversion to a one-cable company community con tinues. Before the take-over, many com plexes included the cable in the rent and were billed in bulk for cable service to the apartments. McCaw is in the process of chang ing from bulk billing to individual billing, DiBacco said. Residents now will be responsible for their own bills. Beginning Dec. 1, area residents can expect an increase in their cable bills to $7.50 a month for 1 1 chan nels and on Feb. 1 cable bills will be increased to $12.50 a month for an expanded basic package. On a per channel basis, the cost actually will decrease from 54 cents to 45 cents per channel. Among the new 29-channel ex panded basic will be six Houston channels, two Austin channels, WTBS from Atlanta, WON from Chicago, KCEN from Temple, KBTX from Bryan, The Weather Channel, The Nashville Network, Music Television, the Christian Broadcast Network and Black Enter tainment Television. The premium channels, which w'ill be available for additional fees, include Home Box Office, the Dis ney Channel, the Movie Channel, Cinemax and the Playboy Channel. Those cable customers with cable- ready television sets will pay the $12.50 rate as of Dec. 1. Other cus tomers will pay $7.50 until McCaw can deliver the channel selectors. STUDENTS INTERESTED IN PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT Free Seminar By CARL STEVENS Sales Management Consultant and President Carl Stevens & Assoc., Houston Wednesday, Nov. 14th 5:30-7:00 p.m. Rm 115 Kleberg Mr. Stevens gives 3 day seminars all over the world train ing businessmen on how to be successful at selling. He has consented to speak to the Animal Science Agribusi ness course on this subject. The department would like to invite all interested students to attend and hear this dy namic speaker. Mr. Stevens was voted Outstanding Speaker in the U.S. in 1980. He has written 2 textbooks on selling used by many universities. Please feel free to at tend this classroom seminar on how to sell yourself and your ideas in a professional manner. You will sell every day of your life. Why not learn how to sell in a profes sional manner. Great chance to learn from him now be fore you enter the real world. Cinema group to show 12 classics in the spring By LAUREN FLOURNOY Reporter The spring series of Alternative Cinema classics features 12 films that are not shown anywhere else in this area, says Dr. Larry Hickman, associate professor of philosophy and humanities. Each film represents some signifi cant film type, Hickman said. The films include: • Jan. 22: “Nosferatu” — This German film was written by F.W. Murnau in 1922. German Expressio nism came into being here. It marks an outgrowth of an artistic explo sion. This is the first vampire screen- play. • Jan. 29: “October” — Russian writter Sergei Eisenstein made this film in 1927. It is an example of where film went after German Ex pressionism. The October Revolu tion is the subject of this silent film. • Feb. 26: “Day in the Country” — Jean Renoir is the author of this 1936 film. This French screenplay is about a man who stands on a pedes tal to get closer to God. It tells of his feelings toward God and what he ac complishes by standing on the ped estal. • March 5: “The Pumpkin Eater” — This British film was written by Jack Clayton in 1964. It stars Peter Finch and Anne Bancroft. • March 19: “Knife in the Water” — This is the first film by Roman Polanski. It is an intense intellectual screenplay. • March 26: “Ugetsu” — This 1953 Japanese film was written by K. Mizoguchi. It is an example of post war Japanese film making. • April 2: “The Gospel Accord ing to Saint Matthew” — Pier Polao Pasolini wrote this screenplay 1964. It is the story of Jesus. HegiiJ the story a twist by using an peasant to depict the part ofJesal instead of a typical blue-eyed actor' • April 9: “Mon Oncle" —Jjl ques Tati wrote this screen play abo;| a man who is always getting iml trouble. No dialogue is used. • April 16: "Paisan” — Robert! Rossellini makes this Italian film! realistic one. It is a beginningolil realistic way of writing for all ai! thors af ter World War II. These films will be shown even! Tuesday and Thursday of t|(| Spring semester in the Architectutil Auditorium. Seating is limited til 111). 1 The cost is $20 for a ticket, whid| is good for 10 admissions. Reagan to approach Congress on deficit United Press International WASHINGTON — President Reagan, his anti-tax stand put to the test by a deteriorating fiscal outlook, will approach Congress “on a realis tic basis” to reduce the federal defi cit, White House spokesman Larry Speakes said Tuesday. Speakes, in explaining a position stated by Reagan during the presi dential campaign and after his re- election last week, left the door open for a compromise similar to deals the president has accepted three times in the last four years. Describing Reagan as “strong- willed” on the subject, Speakes said the president is committed to a “rev enue-neutral” tax simplification plan — one that would generate no more money than the current system. But beyond a refusal to see tax rates increased, he would not specu late what Reagan might do in the way of a compromise. “I know how the president feels,” Speakes said. “I do not knew how this is going to come out.” His comments added to uncer tainty over the tact Reagan will take in his deficit dealings with Congress. Speakes spoke as the president lided his Cabinet through an initial he unable to control the deficit. The officials would not confirm reports that the latest projections point to deficits in the range of $190 billion or larger in each of the next few years. However, one official con ceded, “I will confirm there’s been Damages awarded to widow United Press International guic look at upcoming budget skirmishes against a backdrop of rising concern over the government red ink he promised to end. Administration officials con firmed that a slowdown in economic recovery and spending by Congress had forced them to make increasing deficit projections for the next few years. If Congress and the administra tion are unable or unwilling to take action on the revenue or expendi ture side of the budget equation, the new figures suggest that Reagan will some worsening. Speakes attributed the problem to “built-in increases” in such areas as payments to farmers and Medicare, as well as excessive appropriations by Congress. He said Reagan urged his Cabinet secretaries to pare their budgets where possible. “In the election, the people said they want more of what we accom plished in the first term,” he quoted Reagan as saying. “Our main pur pose was to reduce the rate of in crease in government, and we’re going to keep on down that line.” Speakes explained that Reagan, in opposing higher taxes, had meant only to rule out increases in tax rates. On the question of whether the president might accept a tax reform plan that increases revenues without raising rates, Speakes said, “I don’t know that he’s ever gotten into that much detail on it.” “He’s going to have to have a lot of convincing to allow anybody to pay a nickel more in taxes,” Speakes added. At the same time, Speakes ac knowledged that Reagan has been forced to compromise with Congress in past years by accepting selected tax increases in exchange for his spending cuts, and indicated the same thing could happen next year. “He doesn’t think the bipartisan package idea is dead,” Speakes said, “and we know that we’re going to have to approach the Congress on a realistic basis.” LAFAYETTE, La. - A fed eral grand jury has ordered Gull Oil Corp. and Pool Offshore Services to pay $12.9 million to the widow of a man killed in the| explosion of his oil rig supph boat two years ago. | : ?ig iia The amount to be paid Marie Anslem of Natchitoches, I La., includes $10 million in puni tive damages against Gull and $1 million in punitive damager against Pool, a Houston coni- pany. Raymond Anslem, 53, died Oct. 28, 1982, three days after hit supply boat exploded while tied to a Gulf Oil drilling platform in the Gulf of Mexico, about 3d miles south of the Texas coast, Another man, Mike Pardee, also was killed in the blast. Mrs. Anslem’s attorney, G. Robert Friedman, said the boat began taking in water while tied up to the rig and workmen on the rig, who worked for Pool, passed a pneumatic pump to the boat to pump water from the engine room. However, instead of being powered by compressed air, the pump was powered by odorless natural gas. Friedman said the natural gas accumulated in the engine room, then exploded. Friedman said he found 23 other explosions in the past seve ral years on Gulf offshore rigs caused by die use of natural gas rather than compressed air to power pneumatic equipment such as pumps. 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