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Correction
An article in Tuesday’s Battal
ion incorrectly listed groups eligi
ble to particiate in a palm oil
study.
The study, being conducted by
Texas A&M biochemist Dr. Ran
dall Wood, is to find palm oil’s ef
fect on blood lipids relative to
normally consumed fats.
The study is open only to A&M
faculty and staff members. Stu
dents are not allowed to partici
pate because of the length of the
study.
Faculty and staff members who
participate will eat three daily
meals and earn $2 a day while on
the diet.
The Battalion regrets the er
ror.
New Benatar album ‘showcase of vocals’
By Staci Finch
Reviewer
Women rock musicians have often
had a tough time in the music world.
Sometimes viewed as pseudo-rock
ers, female musicians have to work
hard at times to gain the respect of
their peers.
Review
Not so with Pat Benatar.
The four-octave range singer has
been enormously popular among
rock lovers, male and female alike,
and she proves she can still belt it out
with the best of them with her latest
album, “Wide Awake in Dream
land.”
The album is definitely a show
case for Benatar’s vocals, which
makes sense because singing is what
the opera-trained rocker does best.
“Don’t Walk Away,” an optimistic
we-can-work-it-out song is an excel
lent example of Benatar’s clear,
strong tone and well-trained voice.
The problem is with the backup
band. There are few r bands that cen
ter around one aspect of music any
more (even Ingwie Malmsteen fi
nally got a good vocalist to go with
his guitar solos), but Benatar still
sticks with the old formula. It’s too
bad she didn’t find good musicians.
As purely backup, guitarist Neil
Geraldo (although Benatar’s hubby,
a mediocore musician at best),
drummer Myron Grombacher, bas
sists Fernando Saudners and Frank
Linx, keyboard players Kev in Savi-
gar and Charlie Giordano and per
cussionist Bo Castro are adequate,
but their attempts at solos are poor.
Music listeners are more used to
hearing a full band rather than only
one aspect, and although the vocals
are excellent, the album gets a little
boring.
But there are exceptions to every
rule. The first release off the album,
“All Fired Up,” is a strong radio and
MTV bit, and many of the other
songs are geared toward heavy air
play. “Lift ‘Em On Up” will more
than likely appear in aerobics classes
soon, and “One Love (Song of the
Lion)” is an anthem that shows
promise of heavy requests by listen
ers.
Like other Benatar albums, this
one contains several songs with a so
cial statement. “Too Long a Soldier”
is a strong war anthem, “Cool Zero”
is a tough look at life in the city and
“Suffer the Little Children” is about
the tragic deaths of young children.
And of course, no album in tl-w= 'Sto*
would be complete without a dan-
gers-of-drugs song. The title song
from the album deals with coping
with life after choosing to do drugs.
Aside from the weak musicianship
of the backup band, Pat Benatar
comes through with a strong album.
The pop scene’s foremost female
rocker voice is right on key and al
most makes up for the other flaws.
Police Beat
exas leads nation in Asian-owned businesses
WASHINGTON (AP) — Dallas,
ouston and Atlanta lead the nation
n Asian-owned businesses, topping
iuch places with large Asian popula-
ions as Honolulu and San Fran-
:isco, according to a private study.
The Dallas-Fort Worth metro
leads the nation with 90.3
Asian-owned businesses for every
,000 Asian-American residents,
according to the study by Wendy
Manning of the University of Wis-
onsin and William O’Hare of the in
to
dependent, Washington-based Pop
ulation Reference Bureau.
Houston ranked second with 84.9
Asian-owned businesses per 1,000
Asian-American residents, followed
by Atlanta with 80.5.
By comparison, the San Fran-
cisco-Oakland metro area ranks 17th
with a 54.6 rate, and Honolulu is
29th at 46.6.
Nationally, the 64.0 of every 1,000
Americans own a business, slightly
more than the overall Asian-Ameri
can rate of 54.8, the report said.
The researchers ranked the 38
metropolitan areas containing at
least 500 Asian-owned businesses
and totaling an Asian population of
9,000 or more.
The findings by Manning and
O’Hare, based on an analysis of the
Census Bureau’s 1982 survey of mi
nority-owned businesses and the
1980 national population count,
were published in the August edi
tion of American Demographics, a
magazine devoted to marketing and
population trends.
The researchers found that Ko
reans have the highest business-own
ership rate, with 88.9 businesses for
every 1,000 Koreans in the United
States. Asian-Indians were next at
70.0, followed by Japanese, 68.5,
and Chinese, 65.1.
The lowest rates among Asian-
Americans were 19.2 for Ha-
waiianse, 20.0 for Vietnamese, and
34.2 for Filipinos.
A&M futurist advocates change in education
By Susan B. Erb
Reporter
Picture this: black, brown, white, rich, poor,
|ndigent — all equally educated. Sound like a
ream? It is. A dream a Texas A&M futurist said
lust become a reality in the 21 st century.
Texas high schools, colleges and universities
lust integrate into one continuous, multilingual
ystem to educate 21st-century students, said Dr.
John R. Hoyle, an educational administration
professor.
Hoyle, speaking at the Twenty-first Annual
ummer Seminar on Academic Administration,
aid an increase in the number of school-aged
inorities in the next 20 years will necessitate
hanges in educational systems.
“The number of Americans aged 13 to 19
peaked in the mid-70s, will decline through early
1990 and be on the rise by 2006,” Hoyle said.
“Most of the increases will be among minority
groups.
“These at-risk youngsters face poverty, lack of
English-speaking ability, physical and emotional
handicaps and parents with low income.”
Hoyle said minorities have historically had low
success rates in college. To reverse the trend, he
said, educators must change their approach to
education.
“It is no longer feasible to maintain two sepa
rate and unequal school systems in Texas,” he
said.
Hoyle said in an interview that he foresees a
surrogate-type support family for children, be
ginning at age 3.
“The nuclear family of mom, dad, two kids
and a dog exists in only 7 percent of today’s fami
lies,” Hoyle said. “Why not let some of o.ur re
tired people, who we’ve put out to pasture, work
with children? Why not let them read to children
and help children learn to read while parents
work?
“The problem is too big for the public schools.
The desire is there. The motivation is there. But
the resources are not.”
Hoyle said an increasing multilingual popula
tion demands multilingual teachers and multi
lingual leaders.
. “Children come to school speaking over 100
different languages,” he said. “We need to elimi
nate the language barrier, and thus reduce our
international trade problems.”
The following incidents were
reported to the University Police
Department from July 26
through Saturday:
MISDEMEANOR THEFT:
• Five bicycles were stolen
from various locations around
campus.
• A student reported that
someone stole her purse from a
window sill at the racquetball
courts at the Read Building. The
purse was found a short time
later in Smith Park in College Sta
tion.
• A student reported that he
saw someone steal his and an
other backpack from a campus
.parking lot.
• A student reported that
someone stole the sticker off his
moped, which was parked on
campus.
• A student reported that
someone stole his wallet and tape
recorder from his backpack at the
MSC. The items were later found
in restroom.
• Someone stole a campus
street sign.
BURGLARY:
• A student reported that
someone stole a cassette deck
from his car, which was parked
on campus.
• Three grounds maintenance
vehicles were burglarized the
same night. A tool box, two diesel
.fuel cans and several pieces of
equipment were reported miss
ing.
• A man reported that some
one entered his vehicle, disturbed
some papers and took a Domino’s
Pizza sign.
• A student reported that
someone entered his dorm room
and stole several credit cards
from his wallet.
CRIMINAL TRESPASS:
• A woman reported that
someone has entered her office in
the Blocker Building on two sepa
rate occassions and used her per
sonal computer.
CRIMINAL MISCHIEF:
• Another woman reported
that someone entered her office
in the Civil Engineering Building,
used her computer and erased all
the information on her hard disk.
• A student reported that he
caught another student trying to
remove a “Conference Coordina
tor” sign from his door.
• A student reported that
someone slashed the seat of her
scooter, which was parked on
campus.
HARASSMENT:
• A student reported that she
recieved an annoying phone call.
FALSE ALARM:
• Officers were unable to find
any signs of fire after responding
to an alarm in the men’s locker
room at West Kyle Field.
PUBLIC INTOXICATION:
• An officer saw a student on
campus walking in an “erratic
manner.” The officer determined
that the student was intoxicated.
DRIVING WHILE INTOXI
CATED:
• After seeing a vehicle being
driven on the wrong side of the
street, an officer stopped the ve
hicle and decided the driver ap
peared to be intoxicated.
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