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Continental strike reaches 2nd daj
Airline says effect of flight attendant walkout remains minimal
HOUSTON (AP) — A strike by some flight at
tendants at Continental Airlines continued for a
second day Tuesday with the carrier insisting the
walkout had fizzled while the union was pro
claiming some success in disrupting airline oper
ations.
Continental said only 2 percent, or 130, of its
6j500 flight attendants had taken to picket lines
while a spokesman for the striking Union of
Flight Attendants said 1,075 of 6,800 flight atten
dants had not reported to work.
“It’s looking very positive for us today,” union
spokesman Charlie Sampson said Tuesday. “We
did have quite a few flight attendants yesterday.
There are a lot more that need to be replaced —
about 1,075. These are people who were sched
uled to fly but didn’t.”
“The so-called strike has had absolutely no ef
fect on our operations,” Continental Chairman
D. Joseph Corr countered. “Not a single flight
cancellation has resulted from UFA activity. The
vast preponderance of Continental’s flight atten
dants continue to provide warm, friendly and
professional service to our passengers.”
The Houston-based airline also said it has
ample reserve flight attendants to fill in should
more attendants decide to honor the strike.
The flight attendants’ walkout was an attempt
to assist striking machinists at sister carrier East
ern Airlines, Corr said, adding that Continental’s
continuing flights “proved UFA’s attempt to as
sist the International Association of Machinists in
carrying its scorched-earth war to Continental is
a complete fizzle.”
The 8,500-member Machinists union walked
off their jobs March 4 at Eastern, which like Con
tinental, is owned by Houston-based Texas Air
Corp.
At Houston’s Intercontinental Airport, Conti
nental’s main hub, the union reported 132 pick
ets Tuesday, but Tina Ceppi with the Houston
Department of Aviation said only 15 to 20 pickets
were present. No Continental pickets were re
ported at Hobby Airport, the city’s other major
airport.
On Monday, Continental reported only 48 at
tendants participating in the walkout. Union
spokesman Sampson put the total at 60.
Sampson also contended Continental has ex
hausted its reserve pool of flight attendants and
was calling on other company employees to fill
in.
“We understand they are scrambling and we
should have more delays and cancellations this
afternoon,” he said.
Sampson also insisted the airline was experi
encing delays and cancellations, but could not say
how many or where.
“They have been told to delete any cancelled
flights from the public viewing screens,” Samp
son said of the airline strategy. “I don’t know how
many are cancelled, but delays are really starting
to show. But the company is blaming the delays
on everything else — weather, catering and any
thing they can think of — except crews.”
Continental spokesman Dave Messimr said die
airline has not changed its method of displai
cancelled flights on public viewing screens.
"All the information is being posted and an
able,” he said.
Lewis Jordan, Continental’s executive tin
president and chief operating officer, said fliA
attendants who did not report for work wouldt|
“permanently replaced.” He said they couldli
restored, but only after everyone elseonthef
gible list is working and then probably notatij
same status.
The carrier operated 1,400 flights Motidj
without a single cancellation, Messing said.
The union is striking despite what Contine®
officials described as a $19 million wage as
fringe benefits increase that took effect Jan,j
and that the airline said brought attendants'at
t ies in line with “comparable industry rates."
The union, which has not had a contracttt
Continental since the carrier filed for bankrupt;
protection in 1983, has been seeking a three-yet
deal that would boost the lower end of a sal®
scale by 5 percent and the upper end of thescai
by up to 35 percent.
Some union officials said the strike, whichn
approved last November but delayed by press
ises of more negotiations, was not linked totkt
ongoing Machinists strike at Eastern. Otheu
however, said the timing was designed format
mum exposure while Eastern’s labor probl®
are receiving heavy media coverage.
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News program designed for teens gets
mixed reviews from education officials
By Sherri Roberts
STAFF WRITER
Channel One, the news program
geared for teen-agers, has received
mixed reviews from various educa
tion and marketing officials.
The satellite-delivered program,
which Whittle Communications is
testing in high schools throughout
the country, features a 12-minute
newscast. The show has been crit
icized by educators who say the four
30-second commercials included in
the program are being force-fed to
“captive” students.
The program premiered in six
middle schools and high schools on
March 8 as part of a five-week trial
run. Whittle plans to market Chan
nel One to about 8,000 schools next
year if the program is successful in
its trial run.
Whittle and some education offi
cials have praised Channel One say
ing it will increase students’ aware
ness of world aff airs.
A&M Consolidated Principal
Mike Ogg said the project seems to
be a good idea.
“The concept sounds pretty
good,” Ogg said. “I’m not opposed
to the commercials as long as the
program is on their level.”
Ogg recalled that when he was in
junior high, students listened in the
classroom to current event radio
programs, which had commercials.
The programs increased his aware
ness of world affairs, he said.
However, Dr. James McNeal, a
professor of marketing at Texas
A&M, said the program probably
benefits marketers more than stu
dents.
“It’s an enormous advantage these
advertisers have,” McNeal said.
“Having the advertising in a school
setting gives it more credibility.
When they (students) are in a captive
setting like this, it tends to take ad
vantage of them.”
In Channel One’s premiere show,
commercials for candy bars, blue
jeans and shampoo were featured, in
addition to news reports on issues
such as the Eastern Airlines strike
and the controversy surrounding
John Tower’s nomination as defense
secretary.
Of the 15 companies approached
by Whittle about advertising on
Channel One, Levi Strauss & Co.,
Wm. Wrigley Jr. Co. and Schering-
Plough’s Maybelline Co., were
among those who accepted.
In the March 6 issue of Advertis
ing Age magazine, Levi’s marketing
manager Dah Chew said, “We see
‘Channel One’ as an intriguing, in
novative way to reach parts of our
primary target audience, which is
14- to-24-year-olds.”
McNeal said the argument of
those who say the program will in
crease the current-events awareness
of students is unfounded because
students are bombarded with news
on television.
“I can’t justify this except on a
marketing basis,” he said. “T he news
already goes out to a mass audience
on an eighth-grade educational lev
el.”
Pairing the advertisements with
news segments does not justify show
ing it to students in a classroom set
ting, he said.
“We try to keep the educational
setting as pure as possible,” he said.
“Whittle has pulled a coup here.”
It’s not the first coup Whittle has
pulled in recent years. Chris Wittle,
chairman of Whittle, was labeled as
the media baron of the 1990s byAd-
vertising Age because of the innova
tive media ideas he has launched.
One such media project was the
controversial Special Reports — a
Specialist offers ways
to reduce fat intake
By Holly Beeson
REPORTER
Stapling stomachs, wiring jaws
shut and inducing vomiting are
harmful extremes people are using
to lose weight.
To avoid these extremes and still
be able to lose weight, Carol Suter,
Texas Agricultural Extension Serv
ice nutrition specialist, suggests re
ducing the amount of fat in the diet.
“Fat calories are worse than other
calories,” she said. “New findings
show it takes the body less energy to
store dietary fat in fat tissues than to
convert it into energy.”
Health risks for an obese person
include high blood pressure, heart
disease, diabetes and certain types of
cancer.
One gram of fat contains nine cal
ories while one gram of carbohy
drate or protein contains four cal
ories. It isn’t recommended to have
more than 30 percent fat in the diet.
Some fat intake is good, however.
New research shows that mono-
unsaturated fat, found in olives,
olive oil, peanuts, peanut oil and
canola or rapeseed oil, can actually
lower blood-cholesterol levels.
Suter suggests the following ways
to reduce fat intake:
• Use non-stick pots and pans
rather than adding fat.
• When cooking vegetables, use
chicken or beef broth or tomato
juice instead of oils.
• Bake or broil meat, fish and
poultry instead of frying.
• Trim off all visible fat before
cooking meat. Remove moxe fat L)
dabbing meat with a paper towel.
• Take time to plan meals. Eating
between meals is OK as long as it is
included in the meal plan.
• When eating salads, avoid high-
fat dressings and ingredients such as
bacon, avocados and olives. Choose
lean beef, ham or chicken and select
low-fat cheese. Order dressing on
the side to control the amount
added.
• Wait to finish a meal before or
dering dessert. Fresh fruit is a good
low-calorie dessert.
• Reading labels is the best way to
find out how many calories are in a
product.
• Watch alcohol consumption.
Alcohol is high in calories and may
increase appetite.
Suter recommends that dieters
lose no more than one or two
pounds a week.
“It is important to combine nutri
tion with exercise,” she said.
Most people who lose weight soon
return to their old eating habits,
Suter said, and gain back all the lost
weight and sometimes more.
“To lose weight and maintain
weight loss successfully,” she said, “it
is best to lose weight with a sensible
diet plan that can be maintained for
a lifetime.”
Suter recommended walking as a
good exercise to incorporate into a
weight-loss program. A person
needs a minumum of 35 minutes of
brisk walking three to five times a
week, she said.
“Exercise is the most sensible way
to diet, have good health and feel
good,” Suter said.
plan which introduced six quarterly
magazines into the waiting rooms of
family doctors’ offices in Fall 1988.
Whittle offered to supply the mag
azines free to doctors with one catch
— that they display only these mag
azines and two rival publications in
the waiting rooms.
Though some have criticized the
project saying it violates laws against
the restriction of trade, this re
stricted access to consumers’ appeals
to marketers. Whittle expects to sell
about $40 million in advertising in
the project’s first year. Advertising
Age reported.
Whittle enticed American Airlines
into taking part in one of its innova
tive ideas called Travel Life, a mag
azine distributed to travel agents in
which American was the exclusive
advertiser. The project represented
an appealing solution to help the air
lines better communicate with travel
agents, who book about 70 penes:
of American’s fares.
Whittle's knack for develop;
(reative media projects tluit appti
not only to advertisers but alsoioik
distributors of the projects has a;
counted for much of the corport
lion’s success in launching mei
ideas.
McNeal said schools participalk
in the Channel One project an
faced with a difficult dilemm
Whittle provided $50,000 worth<1
technological equipment free offfl
to schools who are participating u
the project. In addition to broaden
ing the 12-minute program, schm
can use the equipment for otherd
ucational purposes. This oflti
makes it difficult to say no to lli(
project, he said.
“They (Whittle) have found &
other way to have restricted access
he said. “They're experts. ”
What’s Up
Wednesday
STUDENT GOVERNMENT: will have a student body presidential candidate de
bate at 6 p.m. in the MSC flagroom.
AGGIE SPELEOLOGICAL SOCIETY: will meet at 8:30 p.m. in 305 Rudder.
CHI ALPHA CHRISTIAN FELLOWSHIP: will present “Paradise" in concert at?
p.m. at Rudder.
TAMU BADMINTON: will practice at 7 p.m. in 351 G. Rollie White.
CATHOLICS ON THE QUAD: will discuss the resurrection at 9 p.m. in LoungeB
on the Quad.
TAMU SAILING CLUB: will have a general meeting for all interested in learning
to sail at 7 p.m. in Rudder.
S.O.T.A.(STUDENTS OVER TRADITIONAL AGE): will meet at 8 p.m. in 440
Herman Heep.
UNITED CAMPUS MINISTRIES: will have an Aggie supper at 6 p.m. at A&M
Presbyterian Church.
TAMU TRAP AND SKEET CLUB: will meet to plan for nationals at 7 p.m. at the
Chicken Oil Company.
HILLEL JEWISH STUDENT CENTER: will have intermediate Hebrew at 7:30
p.m. at Hillel.
MSC SCONA: Applications are available for Chairman of Finance, Operations
and Planning in 223 G MSC. Interviews will be Friday at 4 p.m.
STUDENT ORGANIZATIONS: Nomination forms for the John J. Koldus Award
are available in Student Activities, Multicultural Services Center, International
Student Services, Student Programs Office and Intramurals and are due Friday.
RECREATIONAL SPORTS: will have registration from 8 a.m. - 5:30 p.m. in 159
Read for: ultimate frisbee, putt-putt golf, superstars, Penberthy softball tourna
ment and a rock-climbing trip.
Thursday
SOCIETY OF WOMEN ENGINEERS: will meet to discuss the regional confer
ence at 6:30 p.m. in Zachry.
MSC JORDAN INSTITUTE FOR INTERNATIONAL AWARENESS: is nowac
cepting applications for executive positions. Applications are available in 223G
MSC.
INTERNATIONAL DEVELOPMENT FORUM: will have presentations about the
deforestation problem, rain forests and arid-land forests at 7 p.m. in 401 Rudder.
HILLEL JEWISH STUDENT CENTER: will offer beginning Hebrew at 7:30 p.m,
at Hillel.
ALPHA PHI OMEGA: will offer free babysitting service to students and faculty
from 6:30-10:30 p.m. in 301 and 308 Rudder.
SOCIETY OF PROFESSIONAL JOURNALISTS: will meet at 7 p.m. at the Fly
ing Tomato.
BETA ALPHA PSI: will have a professional meeting with Exxon at 6:30p.m.at
the Hilton.
TAMU EMERGENCY CARE TEAM: will have a team meeting at 7 p.m. in 301
Rudder.
VIETNAMESE-AMERICAN STUDENT ASSOCIATION: will meet at 8:30 p.m.in
601 Rudder.
RHA GENERAL ASSEMBLY: will meet at 8:30 p.m. in 301 Rudder.
TAMU BICYCLING CLUB: will meet at 8:30 p.m. in 402 Rudder.
OFF CAMPUS CENTER/S.H.A.R.E.: will present the fifth annual Bryan-College
Station housing fair from 10 a.m. - 4 p.m. in Rudder Exhibit Hall.
TAMU BAHA‘I CLUB: will present the “Role of Education in Combating Racism’
at 7 p.m. in 510 Rudder.
CATHOLIC STUDENT ASSOCIATION: will have a celebration of the Lord's Iasi
supper at St. Mary’s Catholic Church.
AMERICAN INSTITUTE OF ARCHITECTURE: will have a fashion show at
noon in the MSC flagroom.
AGGIE PEER ORIENTATION PROGRAM: Orientation leader applications are
available in 108 YMCA and are due March 31.
RECREATIONAL SPORTS: will have registration from 8 a.m. - 5:30 p.m. in 159
Read for: ultimate frisbee, putt-putt golf, superstars, Penberthy softball tourna
ment and a rock-climbing trip. There will also be a water polo team captain's
meeting at 5 p.m. in 167 Read.
Items for What's Up should be submitted to The Battalion, 216 Reed McDonald
no later than three business days before the desired run date. We only publish J
the name and phone number of the contact if you ask us to do so. What’s Up is
a Battalion service that lists non-profit events and activities. Submissions are run
on a first-come, first-served basis. There is no guarantee an entry will run. If you
have questions, call the newsroom at 845-3315.
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