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FURNISH YOUR ENTIRE APARTMENT FOR AS LITTLE AS $39. 00 PER MONTH PRELEASE FOR SPRING AND PAT NO SECURITY DEPOSIT NEW & USED FURNITURE FOR SALE Certified FURNITURE RENTAL THE STUDENT BODY SPECIALISTS 913-D HARVEY ROAD WOODSTOHE SHOPPING CENTER 764-0721 Page 6yThe Battalion/Wednesday, December 10, 1986 Student to produce radio show focusing on views toward A&M By Mark Beal Reporter Jim Cleary wants to try his hand at just about anything. “One week I want to be a doctor, the next week I want to be a lawyer,” he says. * Right now, Cleary says he wants to be a radio show producer, and if things work out the way he plans, he’ll soon be just that. Cleary, a 21-year-old history major and stu dent representative to A&M’s Faculty Senate, is in the process of producing — well, if things go right — a new radio program for KAMU-FM. He says the notion of producing the program, tentatively titled “Aggieland Focus,” hit him full force about two weeks ago but had been simmer ing in the back of his mind all semester. Cleary says he has had an interest in news broadcasting for a long time and at one time was a journalism major. Last November he got a part- time job at KAMU running the equipment on nights and weekends, and that exposure got him thinking about starting his own program. Cleary went to the program director at KAMU and convinced him to give the show a 10-week trial run — provided he could raise the money and get the workers. Cleary says he’s raised about $750 from stu dent and faculty donations. He estimates the to tal cost will be between $800 and $ 1,000 for the 10-week run. Cleary says one of the purposes of the show is to give students an opportunity to get some prac tical experience in broadcasting. “Basically, most of the money will go to stu dents working on the show,” he says. “It won’t be a lot of money, but it’ll be enough to make them “Sometimes you say ‘My God, there’s not just two perspectives, there are thousands. ’ — Jim Cleary, A&M history major realize it’s a real job. I want this to be as profes sional as possible.” Another purpose is to allow people to look at A&M from various viewpoints. “It will be structured around a loose subject each week, say arts at A&M,” Cleary says. “And we’ll look at it from different perspectives: a stu dent perspective, a faculty perspective, an ad ministrative perspective, maybe an outsider per spective — someone who lives in the cot but doesn’t have anything to do with thet sity. “Too often we students see things and white, but there’s a lot of graying too. . . . You get to looking at thii times you say ‘My God, there's notjusttv spectives, there are thousands.’ ’’ He also says he would like to include^ speakers who give their opinions on the] topic each week. “I’d also like a spotlight about pi making A&M a l>etter place just becaust: there,” he says. But he says it won’t be simply a p scheme for A&M. “This is not going to be a show sugar-coat everything,” be says. place but it does have problems. Butvi going to be just a bunch of students ouiioj school, either.” Cleary says the inspiration for the came from the news shows such as “Ai'J Considered" that KAMU airs. Wc He says he likes their in-depthcovercis] tional issues and wants to give local i same in-depth coverage. Commissioners OK permits for building refugee shelter Officials reverse decision of previous day BROWNSVILLE (AP) — Cam eron County commissioners re versed their position of a day earlier and voted in an emergency session Tuesday to grant building permits for a Central American refugee shel ter. “The district court can now decide if the permits should be revoked,” said County Judge Moises V. Vela, referring to a lawsuit four Brownsville residents filed seeking to bar Casa Oscar Romero from moving to six acres near their homes. The commissioners’ decision at a meeting came less than 24 hours af ter the Catholic Diocese of Brownsville filed suit asking that permits for Casa Romero be re instated. The county has no liability insur ance and faced a civil rights lawsuit and stiff penalties if it did not grant the permits, county attorney Brian Janis said. Commissioners suspended the permits at a meeting last month after residents of nearby mobile home parks complained Casa Romero would lower their property values and pose a security threat. “I believe if the federal govern ment is not going to attend to it, and the state is not going to attend to the problem, and the cities don’t want to take care of it, then the county has to take care of it.” Texas man asks Perot for money to help locate his missing father DALLAS (AP) — A Texas man said Tuesday he has asked bil lionaire H. Ross Perot for financial assistance in locating his missing fa ther, whose plane went down in dense jungle county in South Amer ica. Maurice Grandsoult’s father, George Grandsoult, disappeared Nov. 26 when his plane crashed dur ing a supply mission to a remote vil lage in Guyana, a small nation along the northeast shore of South Amer- will provide him with the money be cause he has helped Americans in trouble before. “Texas Instruments has been so helpful I feel like they might pay for everything,” he said in a telephone interview. “But I just don’t feel right about asking them for more.” After Grandsoult appealed to the media for help, Texas Instruments Inc. offered to loan him high-tech equipment to locate his father’s plane. But he said he still needs about $35,000 to fund the rest of the operation. Grandsoult, an engineer at Bell Textron in Fort Worth, hopes Perot Grandsoult said a device known as the forward-looking infrared sys tem, or FLIR, is the only device ca pable of locating the plane beneath the thick foliage. The system is used to guide fighter jets to their targets. Wright’s office in hopes that Con gress might be of help, Grandsoult said. He said he will have to pay for an operator and an electronic device to power the FLIR. “I need to get this mission off the ground by Friday (or) the weekend at the latest,” he said. “The condi tions of the jungle and being without water or food would make it difficult for a man to survive much longer.” Defense forces from Guyana and Venuezuela conducted an air and ground rescue operation, but called it off after eight fruitless days, Grandsoult said. Financial appeals also have been made to House Speaker Jim Engineers have told him it will take two days to build the electronic device so he needs to secure funding by today. Grandsoult said he is confident his father, a bush pilot in Guyana for 20 years, could have survived the ac cident. His last radio contact oc curred shortly before the crash and he gave no indication of trouble, his son said. Are you planning to become active during your years at Texas A&M? 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AUSTWELL (AP)-A 105 endangered wb cranes have arrived at ms grounds at Aransas N. Wildlife Refuge on ik Gulf Coast. Tom Smylie, publics tion officer for the US. I Wildlife Service in Albinj N.M.. said Tuesday that officials still expect a fei birds for the winter andkt the flock could goashifb to 1 15 birds. The large white crane south each winter to Toa Wood Buf falo National f breeding grounds in Canada Some 18 whooping crane have arrived to spend lie is at the Bosque del Apache tional Wildlife Refuge dong central Rio Grande Yalleyii’ Mexico. Smylie said (ho to more of the birds could am New Mexico. The whooping crane is ered the “flagship" ( movement to save end; species, Smylie said “Only a few whooping existed in the wildatthei the century, butthepeopl ‘Hold it. We don't wanito these beautiful white Smylie said. 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