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Opinion
Move over prime time,
here comes Helms & Co.
CBS EVENING GOOD NEWS
wm JESSE. HELMS
With the new
television season
upon us, I wonder
what the new fall ,
lineup would have
looked like if
Fairness in Media
had been success
ful in its attempt
to takeover CBS.
It might have
looked something like this:
As expected, Dan Rather has been
canned as news anchor and managing
editor of the CBS Evening News be
cause of biased reporting. Sen. Jesse
Helms, R-N.C., will replace Rather. On
the new CBS Evening News you can rest
assured Commies are red and roses are
blue. I hat’s right, roses are blue be
cause Jesse says so.
CBS has been taking a beating from
NBC on Thursday night prime time.
Fhe new CBS lineup is designed to win
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Michele 1‘owe, Mmmging Editor
Loren Stef fy. Opinion Page Editor
Karen Bloch, City Editor
John I (alien, Kay Mallett. News Editors
Travis Tingle, Sports Editor
The Battalion Staff
Assistant City Editors Kirsten Dietz,
Jerry Oslin
Assistant News Editors Cathie Anderson,
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Assistant Spoils Editor ...X'.harenn Williams
Entertainment Editors ’
Cathy Riely, Walter Smith
Stall Writers ....Tamara Bell, MegCadigan,
Ed Cassavoy, Cindy Cay,
Doug Hall. Paul Herndon,
Wendy Johnson, Tammy Kirk,
Jens Koepke, Trent Leopold,
Mary McWhorter, June Pang,
Tricia Parker, Marybeth Rohsner,
Frank Smith, Kenneth Sury;
Scott Sutherland
Copy Editors Rebecca Adair,
Mike Davis, Sarah Oates
Brad Whitten
Make-up Editor ...Ed Cassavoy
Columnists Cami Brown, John Hallett
Karl Pallmeyer
Art Director. Wayne Grabein
Photographers Greg Bailey,
Anthony Casper, Frank Hada,
Jaime Lopez, John Makely
Michael Sanchez
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the ratings war and provide a whole
some alternative to booze, blues and
black comedy.
To fill the 7 p.m. slot, CBS has made
a bold move, buying the rights to the
“Fall Guy” from ABC. Lee Majors has
been dropped from the show and will be
replaced by former President Gerald
Ford. In a recent press release CBS an
nounced Ford will perform all his own
stunts.
At eight, CBS has opted for a new sit
uation comedy starring First Lady
Nancy Reagan. Mrs. Reagan told re
porters the series, entitled “Nancy
Knows Best,” will show America that she
does have a sense of humor.
CBS’s own version of the NBC hit se
ries “Night Court,” called “Court of Last
Resort,” stars Attorney General Ed
Meese as Judge N. O. Justice and Chuck
Barris as the court jester. The series’
producer said the show will make use of
Meese’s' unique and sometimes humor
ous interpretations of the law. When
asked if CBS was taking a risk with
Meese, a CBS executive commented
that after viewing tajDes of Meese’s Sen
ate confirmation hearings, he had no
doubts that Meese was born to act.
At nine, CBS will go with “Falwell’s
Follies,” — the story of one man’s cru
sade against evil, temptation and blacks’
rights in South Af rica.
Here are a few other programs we
might have seen during the first week of
the new season:
• “The New Adventures of Super
man,” starring Sen. Phil Gramm, R-
Texas, as mild-mannered Clark Kent.
The 1985 version of the superhero clas
sic will see the Man of Steel fight for
truth, justice, and the 1992 Republican
Party presidential nomination.
• “Lucky, the President’s Dog.” View
power politics from inside the nation’s
biggest doghouse.
» The CBS Sunday Night Movie’s
world premiere screening of “The King
and I,” starring A1 Haig as the king of
Siam.
• The award-winning program
“ 60 Minutes” will remain on the air
with several personnel changes: Pat
Robertson, formerly of the 700 Club,
will take over for Diane Sawyer, and
Andy Rooney will be replaced by Paul
Harvey. “On the Road With Charles
Kuralt” will be dropped from the Sun
day morning lineuj). Kuralt, however,
will stay with CBS doing features on ru
ral America for “ 60 Minutes” in an at
tempt to make the show more family-
oriented.
• A revival of “ Three’s A Crowd,”
starring White House Chief of Staff
Donald Regan, former Secretary of
Health and Human Services Margaret
Heckler and President Reagan. Regan
plays the nagging third party who de
stroy s an otherwise a m i ca b 1 e
relationship between Heckler and Rea-
gan.
• Tom Kennedy won’t be back as
host of the night time version of the
popular game show “The Price is
Right.” CBS has replaced Kennedy with
former Vice President Spiro Agnew.
• “Yogi and Friends.” See - Yogi, Boo-
boo and the whole gang return to Satur
day mornings. Hear the voice of former
Secretary of the Interior James Watt as
the park ranger.
• “Name That Tune.” James Watt
keeps busy doing double duty for CBS,
hustling melodies in his first stint as a
game-show host. I he Beach Boys pro
vide the tunes.
• “What’s My Line.” See Supreme
Court Justices Brennan, Burger, Black-
mun and White as the enigmatic pan
elists who drill guests into submission.
John Hallett is a senior political sci
ence major, a columnist and News Edi
tor for The Battalion.
United Feature Syndicate
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Silver Taps needs
no adverfisements
EDI FOR:
This letter is in regard to some
thing heard on a local radio station
recently: “All you Aggies! Don’t for
get Silver laps tonight! 10:30 in
front of Sully’s statue.”
ingful experiences that will help
them become better prepared to
compete successfully in the world
beyond campus, we may yet see sub
stantive changes occur. And your
articles will have helped intrase
the awareness necessary to get more
people thinking about both protect
ing and improving A&M’s oldest
and greatest asset.
Since when has it become nec
essary to use public advertising to
get Aggies to attend such a long
standing tradition as Silver Taps?
The disc jockey treated it as if he
were announcing another open bar
at the Roxz or a linen sale at Dil
lards. He might as well have added
“be there or be square” for the lone
he used.
Norman J. York II
Class of’57
Nine out of 10 Aggies know (or at
least they should) that Silver Taps
falls on the first Tuesday of every
month unless otherwise notified.
It’s not some kind of feature enter
tainment that Aggies are treated to,
and it’s disrespectful to take it so
lightly. It is a special, only-at-A&M
kind of tradition that many take se
riously, and others evidently do not.
This applies to other traditions as
well like Muster or bonfire. If this
continues, then I guess we can look
forward to hearing ads like: “Be a
good Ag. Remember to stay off the
MSG grass today!” or “Hey guys!
Don’t forget to kiss your date to
night at midnight yell practice!”
If traditions needed PR, they
wouldn’t be traditions; they’d be
just another random event. I doubt
the parents, f riends and relatives of
the deceased want to exploit their
loss by sharing it with all of Bryan-
College Station on the airwaves. I
don’t think a memorial service
needs advertising, now or ever, and
I hope we don’t in the future hear
that “ad” again.
Victoria H. Larroca ’88
Let’s be civilized
EDITOR:
This letter is in regards to the “O-
ratorium” held in front of Rudder
Fountain on Oct. 10.
I believe that NOW brings to the
forefront a number of valid issues.
However, it’s a shame that loud
mouthed, obnoxious women who
confuse screaming with persuasive
oratory give the organization a bad
name.
Marc G. Montry ’85
Core of the Corps
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No stopping NOW
EDITOR:
This letter is in response to ihe
decision of the University to re
instate gynecological exams and
treatment at the A.P. Beutel Healih
Center. It pleases me to know that
the administration has responded
to the vocalized needs and wantsof
the students. However, as the Hous
ton Chronicle reports, these exams
will be a “secondary priority’’ and
will come only “if time permits."
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Although this may have been a
sincere attempt to meet the stu
dents’ needs, one more general pra-
citioner who is to treat all other
cases first will only bring us badio
the sorry state we were in before the
cutback of Sept. 1. We all under
stand the cutbacks in budget the
health center has encountered, so
this request is also an apjxealton
pand the health center’s budget in
order to allow them to meet the gr
necological needs of approximate!
14,000 female students.
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W’e must hire a licensed gynect™
logist who will be able to treat gysitI
cological needs first and also ha«
time to counsel clients on other
methods of birth control, as tl
is not for everyone.
Be it known that NOW will con
tinue to fight for a full timegyneeir
logist who will definitely have lime
to attend to the needs — both physr
cal and psychological — of the
dents and faculty of A&M. Anyone
who is interested in this cause is wel
come to attend our next meetings
day in 402 Rudder Tower.
Amy Genette
Vice President
TAMUNOW
A better alternative
EDITOR:
As an educated individual, I am
perfectly willing to lend my ears,
and possibly my support, to any
person who can speak rationally,
appeal to my sense of logic and do
so in a dignified manner. But I have
no desire to subject myself to the
shrill ravings of a red-faced woman
with a pubescent demeanor. It is my
suggestion that the individuals of
the organization in question could
further their cause by acting like the
educated adults they are supposed
to be.
It has been about a month and
half since the new seatbelt law has
been in ef fect in Texas. Proponent!
of the legislation argue that it ini)
to the state to jilay the parental law
maker and save lives through tilt
mandatory use of seatbelts.
While it is true that seatbelts do
save lives, the question is, who
law for? I ask this question becauit
there is a safer alternative: air
After extensive research, air
have been proven safer than
belts. The only problem with an
bags is the cost of installing themia
new cars is too high for theai
dustry to justify.
Congratulations for producing a
well-balanced collection of articles
entitled “At the core of A&rM” in
the Sept. 27 issue of At Ease. Your
reporters did an outstanding job of
identifying key characteristics of the
Corps of Cadets that have given it
national recognition and that in
deed make it the “core” of the
school, despite its relatively smaller
size than in past years.
The Secretary of Transportation
passed a law requiring mandatin'
installment of air bags by 1991
new cars, unless states comproiffi
ing 2/3 of the population reqii
the use of seatbelts. However,
law does nothing for the actualifr
stallment of airbags, all it does is It 1
the lobbyist manipulate our s
representatives into requiring
use of seatbelts.
Many of us “old Ags” believe that
by de-emphasizing ROTC and by
providing for the acquisition of spe
cial skills to balance the rigor, many
more students would elect the
Corps and share in the unique expe
rience that has meant so much to
many thousands of former students
the world over.
With better understanding of the
needs of young people for mean-
If our state Legislature was S' 1
concerned for our safety, theftwfo
is it that we have only a seatbelt la'
when a safer measure hasbeendis
covered, researched and perfected
It does not make sense to be k
quired to wear seatbelts whenllieti
is a safer alternative. It is obvion
that our state enacted the si
law for the auto industry’s interes
and not for the safety of its citizen!
Donnie G. Gartlan Jr. ’86