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Fenner & Smith Inc Member SIPC Merrill Lynch Page 6/The Battalion/Friday, September 13,1985 Film selection system can be complicated By KELL YE MAYO Reporter Selecting the movies that will be shown on campus can be a hectic process and involves every student at Texas A&M, says Gregg Steele, chairman of the Aggie Cinema’s film programming committee. All students, including those out side of Aggie Cinema, are encour aged to voice their opinions by sub mitting a film list at a meeting held each semester, he says. “It is an entirely voluntary pro cess,” Steele says. After the film lists have been sub mitted, the movies must be divided into nights based on category, he says. Movies from four different cat egories are shown every week. “This semester, westerns and mu sicals will be shown on Wednesday night, more recent hits on Friday and Saturday nights and foreign films on Sunday night,” Steele says. In addition, a midnight movie will be shown each Saturday night. “Students who don’t have time to take part in the committee meetings that decide what types of movies will be shown can do a poll that we set up specifically for that purpose,” Steele says. As a direct result of one of the stu dent polls, the Aggie Cinema de cided to present a Clint Eastwood festival in December that will include “Dirty Harry,” “Tightrope” and “Sudden Impact.” A Marx Brothers double feature also will be added to this semester’s agenda, Steele says. After the movies are selected, the process of bringing the movies to the Texas A&M campus begins. “The Aggie Cinema deals half with Films, Inc. and half with Swank Movies,” he says. Both companies distribute to non commercial users, and the cost of each type of movie varies, Steele says. “For example, older shows cost about Si00, while the costs of more modern shows range from $500 to S000,” he says. Sometimes the committee has to book movies from more elite firms, he says. Then the films can become much more expensive. For example, he says that to bring “Amadeus” to A&M from a firm in New York will cost a minimum of $800. “ Theater rental imposes additio nal costs,” Steele says. The theater usually costs $100 for each movie shown, he says. This in cludes not only the time the movie is shown, but also for the time allowed for crews to set up the equipment. “No money is used from student service fees for any reason,” Steele says, adding that there have been many questions regarding that issue. Money used for the movie rental and profits come from ticket sales alone, he adds. What’s up “So when you think about it $1 to $2.50 is really a small price to pay for good entertainment,” he says. All profits go back into student projects at the Memorial Student Center, he says. “After we book the movies, we have a brainstorming session on how to do our public relations,” Steele says. “We try to decide the best way to get people interested.” Company launches ‘liberty chip’ efforts Associated Press AUSTIN — In the face of rugged competition from Japanese compa nies, the chairman of Advanced Mi cro Devices Inc. says his firm will try to “out invent” its Japanese compet itors and deliver a new product a week for the next 12 months. At its annual meeting Wednesday, held in Austin for the first time in four years, W.J. “Jerry” Sanders said the program beginning Oct. 1 is de signed to help AMD “create its own upturn” at a time when the semicon ductor industry is enduring a pro longed collapse in demand. Sanders compared the program to the World War II shipbuilding ef fort that launched the Liberty ships. “Because these new chips hold the key to our economic upturn, because they offer us freedom from the tyr anny of the commodity marketplace, I call them ‘liberty chips,”’ said Sand ers, who also is president of AMD. The time-honored responses to a competitive challenge — cutting costs, increasing productivity and in creasing efficiency — don’t consti tute a winning strategy for American semiconductor firms, Sanders told stockholders. “We have to face the harsh reality: in commodity integrated circuits, the competition is from Japanese com panies. And the fact is, in that seg ment they are beating the American semiconductor industry’s brains in,” he said. The only way to win against the Japanese,Sanders said,“is to produce leading-edge products through re lentless research and development.” Although he declined to be more specific, he said the 52 new products will encompass the company’s entire product linie. He also reaffirmed the company’s commitment to a no-lay off policy. Cost-cutting measures, including temporary plant shutdowns and shorter work weeks, have resulted in substantial savings, Sanders said. The majority of AMD’s manufac turing employees are working four- day weeks and its professional stall has taken a 10 percent pay cut. Its top 100 executives have taken a 15 percent pay cut. AMD, headquartered in Sunny vale, Calif., has facilities in Austin and San Antonio. Currently, more than half the company’s revenues come from wafers fabricated at its Texas operations, Sanders said. In its first fiscal quarter of fiscal 1986, which ended June 30, AMD reported a $14.4 million loss, its first operating shortfall in more than 10 years. The firm reported sales of $150.5 million in the quarter, down from $234.2 million in the same pe riod a year earlier. Friday FARMHOUSE FRATERNITY; has 10* hot dog night S®. day. Sept, 15 from 6 p.m. to 9 p.m. in the Grove. Everyone welcome. UNITED CAMPUS MINISTRY; will have Bible Study* 6:15 p.m. at A&M Presbyterian Church. STUDENT Y ASSOCIATION; Freshman Cabinet Aide plications are available in the Pavilion, 2nd floor and art due today. MSC TRAVEL COMMITTEE: will take a road trip to Alt bama for the ftxHball game. Sign up in 216 MSC. CAMPUS CRUSADE FOR CHRIST: meets at 7:30 p.m. it 701 Rudder. MSC NOVA: will meet fora Micro-Armourdernonstraiiom 4 p.m. in MSC main lounge. Open gaming 6 p.m uni] a.m. in 350A Sc 352 MSC. TAMU CHESS CLUB: has a tournament at 7 p.m. in Rud der. ASIAN-AMERICAN ASSOCIATION: has an ice cream so cial at 7 p.m. in 145 MSC. BADMINTON CLUB: will meet at 7 p.m. in 351 G. Roll* White. Meeting and first practice. For more info cal! 845- 7206. COLUMBIAN STUDENTS ASSOCIATION: will meet at" p.m. in 305 Rudder. RHA FRESHMAN LEADERSHIP PROGRAM: Appl» lions are available in 215 Pavilion and through tht* tlorni They are due Friday. Sept. 27 at 5 p.m. MSC VARIETY SHOW: Applications for membership are available in 216 MSC and are due Sept. 16 at 5 p in. Wc VAO n )QII By Saturday KAPPA SIGMA INTERNATIONAL FRATERNITY: bn “Country Club” rush party at 8 p.m. at 606 W. 28th is Bryan. Come join us for our last open rush party. WOMEN’S SOCCER VS. HARDIN SIMMONS: Drill field,! 4 p.m. TEXAS A&M MEN’S RUGBY CLUB: Game at 1 p m ait Campus Field behind polo stands. DELTA SIGMA THETA SORORITY, INC.: has a Creel open house mixer 9 p.m. until 1 a.m. in 201 MSC. MEXICAN STUDENT ASSOCIATION: b brate Mexican Independence Day at 7 p.i FM 2818. DELTA SIGMA PI: has a rush party (Hawa until midnight at Walden Pond Apart men business majors welcome. MSC TRAVEL COMMITTEE: wilt have a party n. in VFW Hi- The 1 Ichestra wards udder er orcl hy. As Me eonard Stage at 1 lip and t ■er Opei ■ety’s 13 I Slatkii lAmentai Bis bator jf|ion of" [ould be lerTowi After ier" Slar Herse wit liate com I Then : ■dent at iuau) ubho an tnp to oh mingharn, Alabama for the football game. Sign up in 21 MSC. Cost is $50. MSC NOVA: will have open gaming 6 p.n 352 MSC. CLASS OF ‘87 Sc CLASS OF ‘89 MIXER: Q-Hut A. Beach theme, $2. to 2 9 p.m. to i a.m at Sunday TAMU INTERNATIONAL F9LKDANCERS: will meet k 212 MSC 8 p.m. to 10 p.m. Easy folkdances for beginner will be taught. Monday MEXICAN STUDENT ASSOCIATION: will celebrate Mexi can Independence Day at 11:30 a.m. at Rudder Fountain. TEXAS A&M MEN’S RUGBY CLUB: practices every Tues day, Wednesday, and Thursday at 5:30 p.m. at East Cam pus field behind the polo field. TAMU DEBATE SOCIETY: will meet at 7 p.m. in 13ti Blocker. All new members welcome. ALPHA PHI OMEGA: national co-ed service fraternity, will have informal rush Tuesday and Wednesday at 7 p.m. in the MSC. AGGIE ALLIANCE: has a chicken dinner at Somhwood Val iev Athletic Complex at 6 p.m. Tickets $ 1.00. DELTA SIGMA THETA SORORITY, INC.: has informal rush (service sorority) at 8 p.m. in Rudder. AGGIE ALLEMANDERS: Beginning square dance iessom- no experience necessary. Class is / p.m. to 8:30 p.m. and club 8:30 p.m. to 10 p.m. in 212 MSC. Items for What 5 Up should lie submitted to The Battalion, 216 Retd McDonald, no less than three da vs prior to desired publication date. ■tage, nic Jhestra a jak’s 0v< he piec Ind upo Jnce ga\ Bound of The o [cknowle feter Boi Bowm; [ext piec the ne excel! karc Go luring th no was ; lie end o Slatkin lie air lik Jlided th lerfly. 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