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Rehearsing twice weekly Tuesday and Thursday, from 12:30-1:45 p.m., the band allows students to play in a group while concentrating on their major field of study. If you would like to audition, build your class schedule around the two weekly rehearsals. Later attend our organizational meeting the first Tuesday of the fall semester and receive the tryout exercise. Auditions played the following week. For additional information write or call: Bill J. Dean Director Symphonic Band E. V. Adams Band Bldg. College Station, Texas 77843 Band Hall (409) 845-3529 We Buy Books Everyday Texas ASM Bookstore Hours: 7:45 - 6:00 Weekdays 9:00 - 5:00 Saturdays Page 2B/The BattalionTTuesday, September 2, 1986 CBS crew to explore drugs on NY streets NEW YORK (AP) — One of the few places in New York where cus tomers are assured of prompt and attentive retail service is in the drug bazaar which flourishes in Washing ton Square, a bit of grass and trees in lower Manhattan. The pushers are so brazen you can make a drug deal from your car, with a television camera whirring away in the next seat. The pusher fears neither cops nor cameras. The pushers, the buyers and the victims of overdoses are among the cast for “48 Hours on Crack Street,” airing tonight at 9 p.m. on CBS. Part news, part street theater, the two-hour special is the fruit of an ex traordinary weekend project which put “CBS Evening News” anchor Dan Rather and nine CBS corre spondents on the street, backed by 18 camera crews and 25 producers. They went looking for a drug problem, and they found one. They also became actors in moments of high drama. “You go out there as a reporter and you don’t want to make a big deal of it, but someone has to take charge,” Dr. Bob Arnot, who covers the medical beat on the “CBS Morn ing News,” said. Arnot comes across a man who bought a heart attack with $5 worth of crack, the cheap and powerful co caine derivative. Arnot borrows a stethoscope and supervises the man’s evacuation to a hospital. Whether it did much good, in the long run, is debatable. The victim, a 39-year-old man, was a long-time drug user and has Bernard Goldberg fends off a pusher who is em phasizing his reluctance to grant an interview with a broken bottle. one leads inevitably to the# point asserted rathei suffered serious kidney damage, Ar not said. Bernard Goldberg fends off a pusher who is emphasizing his reluc tance to grant an interview with a broken bottle. When a neighbor armed with a baseball bat comes to Goldberg’s aid, police converge in force. They aren’t interested in the pusher, but in the guy with the bat. Goldberg didn’t press charges, and the pusher was quickly back in business. “I’m the reporter," Goldberg said. “I didn’t want to get involved." Bob Schieffer spends a long Mon day in a New Jersey courtroom, where every case seems to involve drugs in one way or another. “It’s very simple to say, ’Let’s get them off the street’,” Schieffer re marked at a preview screening, “but it’s just an overwhelming problem.” T hings get a little contused as Di ane Saywer ventures into Livingston, N.J., where she rounds up half a dozen kids who confirm that alcohol and drugs are de rigueur at teen parties in this branch of suburbia. Whether they are refering to mari juana or to crack is not clear. The implication seems to be that judge in Schieffer’s report Rather turns up at an ant rally in the borough of (ji where a resident tells him,“0 tearing up the neighborhood docuyientary accepts thatatf lue, and doesn’t probe to tint tly how extensive drug use is neighborhood, or what harmi A lot of this is dramatic, won’t come to the publicasn GBS News-New York Tint conducted for this specialfoi the public rates drugs as the most serious problem. Executive producer Lane dos said he and his associates the drug problem to be won they expected. “I see things here that k ready implemented at our I said Venardos, a fatheroffc For instance, he’s adopted vice of a mother working ini drug program in New Jene urges parents not to lettheii attend parties at homes whei is no adult supervision. On the larger question oh nation can do about drug ah Donald McDonald, di rector hoi. drug abuse and menu! administration, says that th probably has to be on the is treating all the heroin and addicts in the countn. hes could cost upwards of $8 k Reagan’s jewelry provides missing link for industry PROVIDENGE, R.I. (AP) — Ev ery time President Reagan appears on television waving from the door of Air Force One, the glint of metal from his shirt cuff makes the jewelry industry giddy. Once a staple of a man’s ward robe, cuff links had largely gone the way erf wide ties and Nehru jackets, exiled by the fashion world to the role of anachronistic novelties. But around Providence and southeastern Massachusetts, where the costume jewelry industry is king, executives say the Reagan years have solved the case of the missing link. The word is that more and more men are wearing cuff links on a reg ular basis. “Absolutely, it’s President Rea gan’s doing,” said Irving Greene, se nior vice president of Swank Inc. of Attleboro, Mass. “He has always worn cuff links. People associate this with elegance and leadership.” Swank produces about 80 percent of the nation’s costume jewelry for men, Greene said. About 10 percent of Swank’s $25 million in jewelry sales last year was in cufflinks, made under such names as Pierre Cardin and Colours by Alexander Julian. That was a fivefold increase in cuff link sales by Swank since 1979, when sweater manufacturers were still rejoicing at President Carter’s love of cardigans. But the current numbers still don’t match the late 1960s, when 60 percent of Swank’s products made sure men’s cuffs didn’t flap. Not everyone is convinced that a major fashion trend is brewing or that Reagan is the reason. Designer John Weitz said, “I don’t think it’s that big and I don’t think it has anything to do with our presi dent, although he is a great one for bringing back things from the 1940s, be they political, conceptual or fash ionable. There is a small resurgence of cuff links which has tied itself into the yuppie movement.” T he fall of cuff links is blamed on several factors, including fickle fash ion tastes and the social upheaval of the 1960s. “When everybody was weat ing tie-dyed jeans, no one was interested in dressing up,” said Douglas Cro- nan, vice president of Dolan & Bul lock Co., a Providence jewelry man ufacturer. Now, he said, “being successful is in. And showing you're successful is in. Cufflinks are a part of that.” But all take heed of the precarious relationship between fashion and politics. John F. Kennedy’s disdain for fedoras was considered the fatal blow to the long-declining popular ity of men’s hats. There is one catch for jewelry makers — wearing cuff links re quires a shirt with French cuffs. But shirt makers say they are re ady for the rebirth of cuff links. “It’s an area we think there may be some growth potential in, and we’re going to try to maximize it,” said designer Henry Grethel, presi dent of the Manhattan Shirt Co. “ I t's part of things becoming a little more elegant.” Grethel said French cuffs remain less than 5 percent of his company’s business, with most sales around Christmas. But he plans to start pushing them earlier than usual. The C.F. Hathaway Shirt Co. also is planning a big season for French- cuff shirts, which make up about 15 percent of the company’s current sales, compared to about 5 percent only two years ago. Teens lea driving ski in Porsche vn Em t:r< gets a li it's fun A cm isn’t rea grand tr was bo shipped The m farmer, How mother child, t somewr The technof Fergus hind is relativi method The ] the fert proven ers into rior, cot The getting; from su ferior p ers. Accoi the ear CARROLLTON (AP)- dents at the Classic Dti School in this Dallas subuir piobahh more nervous other students learning bast tot ing skills. 1 hat’s because Jim audit kit e hmeier use only Pond* tomobiles in their drivingsc The Kirchmeirs, who "student driver” signs one the three bright red l98(iPff 944s pat keel in their driu said thev wanted more that average driving school. "We wanted something the competition," said Jim h meiet. 32, who taught drivei in at ion in public schools 1* the Mav opening of Classic ing School of Carrollton. "1 noticed that all the® ers would stare at the Pon that drove by, so I kne» they liked . . ." Kirchmeiei “There's not anybody’ doesn’t want todriveaPw , Since their business opY the couple has added sfl Porsche 944 for each moE’l ac commodate the steadn ' W a: SVV. Studer lege ca Shakes law bo; pigs, n truck v “Eve Dr. R preside nan-re near A elingel “The go out solid e liberal worlds their h; The work 1 change 67 can auto n puter photog Prc business. Marsha Kirchmeiei, lb ■ their teen-age customen awed by the fancy carsanh bit nervous about driving si 1 expensive automobile. Not all of the youths * school will graduate fro* course to begin drivingexpf I cars. Kirchmeier saidthatw? his voting students conic middle-class families. And, even though theP® cost between $27,000 $29,000 apiece, he saidtlie| cost of the driving course8 slightIv more expensive f other private courses The a deputies zure, ci n ><]ues, c person, arms, er and rul, Lotnmar IN THE MEMORIAL STUDENT CENTER What will he your next Congressman’ I policy toward- I student loans? funding for higher education? research grants? Joe Barton J.L FIND OUT WEDNESDAY SEPT. 3 AS THEY DEBATE. Rudder 301 4:30 p.m.