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• We Deliver • 846-5273 • CM 0&M Steakhouse € «> V) 108 Collage Main a (0 Announces A Breakfast Special <0 sT (6am -10:30am Mon - Sun) <' (D CO Overstulled • Breakfast Tacos 0) > 5 .99 • CO 0) "' N. 0) Q <n 0) •S& 4 with this coupon -4 U • We Deliver • 846-5273 « Snakes... and -Rabbits & Guinea Figs -Reptiles 1703 Texas ©rowij’s Culpepper Plaza -Tropical fish -Pet Supplies FISH - N - PETS 693-6547 Page 12/The Battalion/Monday, September 26, 1988 I never imagined the answer to A&M’s woes was so easy The Power Hitter. Hyundai’s Super-286C gives you pro-quality performance at an affordable price. ^ 80286 Microprocessor, 8 or 10 mHz H .2mb Floppy Drive ^640K RAM (Expandable to IBM) ♦ Serial, Parallel, Clock Calendar ♦ EGA Graphics Card ♦ 101 Key Keyboard ♦ MS DOS, GW Basic ♦ 18 Month Warranty $1196 w/Monochrome Monitor $1496 w/EGA Monitor COMPUTER ACCESS has served the Brazos Valley for over four years. We offer sales and full technical support for IBM compatibles. Whether you are looking for hardware, software, and upgrade or repair, you can be sure of friendly & knowledgeable service, and about all: MORE BYTES, LESS BUCKS CO/MPUTER 403 B. University Dr. W. (409) 268-0033 819 S. Texas Ave. (409) 268-0730 There are many great and mystical questions that perplex us as we walk along our trek down life’s road — which, by the way, is gravel-surfaced. “Who am I?” “Why am I here?” “How can 15,000 blue- stickered cars fit in 3,000 parking spaces?” The way can be much more comfortable after the realization that many, if not all, of the answers to such questions are much easier than it would have been expected. The answers to the above posers, for example are: “Check your Hal L. Hammons Sports viewpoint driver’s license,” “Because you are not anywhere else,” and “Divine intervention.” Simple, huh? I have become convinced that the majority of life's ever-elusive answers are in truth right beneath our noses, only waiting for us to take a good whiff. Revelation time: I recently have been informed that this also applies to our woes concerning the all-seeing Eye who spawns such perpetual fear and dread in all of us. No, not that Eye. The NCAA. National Communists Against Athletes, as Brian Bosworth termed it. The team of investigators infiltrating athletic departments state-wide with industrial-strength disinfectant, looking to rid the nation — or at least the Southwest Conference — of inappropriate recruiting, enticing and back-scratching. There is an answer. It is simple. It is practical. And it will work. Guaranteed. This revelation came to me by way of one of our letters to the editor. I would have printed it and imparted its words of truth to you all, but unfortunately the writer is from San Antonio, and we could not reach him or her to verify that he/she actually wrote the letter. Battalion letter policy requires positive verification of all letters to prevent someone from writing something asinine and signing someone else’s name to it. It’s a shame, too. You would have enjoyed the letter. The basic problem, you see, is that we have been mistaken about what the problem is in the first place. It’s not the players, the coaches, the administrators, the boosters, or even the system itself . It’s the media that’s to blame for it all. We have been wasting our efforts on a problem that isn’t going to get any better, the writer states. It’s pointless to try to keep people and programs from cheating. It’s going to happen. Sad, but true. Doesn’t sound like much of a solution, you might say. Well, that’s only the definition of the actual problem. - The solution: Quit talking about it so much. Gag the investigative reporters. Stifle the muck- rakers. Fell ’em all to go expose Geraldo Rivera or something. But keep their collective noseoutofSWG football. It’s our fault, speaking generally for the sorrylotll is the Texas media circus, that such fiascos asSaturdar disaster in Stillwater happen. It’s our fault thelJof Texas has fallen to a state where a Division I-AAsdiod like North Texas can take the famous Longhorns to tkt brink of the branding corral. Shoot, it’s probably our fault Rice lost to Southwestern Louisiana, too. You see, our overactive curiosity gland turns prospective All-America backs and linemen awayfrot our institutions. They’d rather go someplace like the University of Oklahoma, where there’s no dangerof NCAA probation. You can understand that, I am confident. It’sobvio this Einstein intellect, who is also blessed with thepenif Poe, is playing with a different number of cards than the rest of us. Of t hat there can be no question. It wouldn’t be so bad, you see, if those supposedly “squeaky-clean" programs were really so high andholi But the integrity of coaches such as Notre DamesLou Holtz and Penn State’s Joe Paterno is completely and totally a media creation. Everybody does it, reveals the writer. “The truth is,” says the budding sage, “the problemi just as bad in every other conference.” Oh, to have this person’s sources! Il l did, thiswholt communist system would be exposed for what it real is. But the problem is, he says (or she says), that writer! and broadcasters in other states won’t write about the stuff that goes on there. They would lose too much advertising revenue from hacked-off regional universities. They know not to stomp on toes. Texas media, it would seem, either doesn’t knowor doesn’t care. We are willing to tear down schools in other partsof the state who might compete too aggressively withLooi State U. If you see, as I do now, that every region of the state feels the same way and will react accordingly,you will understand the stale of the state. “Shut up!” he says to the Texas media. Withlesssaid on the subject, the conference can elevate itselfonce again to the statute that it should have. Th their ^avy Anna Sh; third O’l of the tionn Ma O’l to. 1 tansa 5row I'm sure he’d agree with me when I say the program here would be found to Ik* just as strong as that of, say, the University of Miami. All it would take wouldbea See Hammons, page 13 e St Kristi Amti min| time perk Seoul Oi her si toryi last d; Bn most in a si the II ay tt cord i Bit :aree O’l n the Doys 1 A& Jeast iad r U SE sway If (iRTS S CRAFTS Basket Weaving - Appalachian Style: Thurs, Oct 13, 20, 27 Nov 3 6:30-9pm $ 16/student Calligraphy: Wed, Sept 28 Oct 5, 12, 19, 26 Nov 2, 9 7-9pm $23/student Drawing: Mon, Sept 26 Oct 3. 10, 17, 24 6-9pm $25/studcnt Jewelry Casting Seminar : Sat. & Sun. 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