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Page 6 The Battalion Tuesday, June 6,198! Il l t Shake, rattle and BOOM-BOOM! SSifiedS ' high cost, 100-plus decibels car stereos latest rage NOTICE ORDER YOUR GRADUATION ANNOUNCEMENTS NOW! ORDER PERIOD VERY SHORT AND ENDS JUNE 9. MSC STUDENT FINANCE CENTER ROOM 217 MON-FRI 8AM-4PM • HELP WANTED • FOR SALE THE HOUSTON CHRONICLE is taking applications for immedi ate route openings and summer routes. Pay is based on per paper rate & gas allowance is provided. The route requires working early morning hours 7 days a week and earns $500.-$700. per month. If interested call: James at 693- 7815 or Julian at 693-2323 for an appt. AruncM r\ « • NOW HIRING DRIVERS & CASHIERS. APPLY IN PERSON 501 University. Cash + More. Volunteer in a Vitamin + Exercise Study Must Be Inactive Cal! 822-1734 TENNIS INSTRUCTOR To give tennis lessons twice a week to two intermediate players. 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Call 693-3475 or 696-9118 152t06/06 Tljh EVENING PRAYER SERVICE (lUfC ) I ^ hour) v——Y and go out for supper Wednesdays, 6:30 p.m. beginning June 7th University Lutheran Chapel & Student Center 315 N. College Main (Northgate) "down the street from Loupots at/ Kinkos " 846-6687 The Battalion Number One in Aggieland AMARILLO (AP) — Mike Raef, Matt Harding, and Kent Massie make sure their vehicles shake and rattle long before they roll. The three young men are part of a small but growing core of audio enthusiasts whose high-power, high- dollar sound systems will spark an impromptu concert anywhere they g°- I heir vehicles are casually re ferred to as “boom-boom cars.” The people who own them are sometimes called “installers.” Garry Erdman, owner of Dyer Electronics, which carries much of the equipment the installers use, said the boom-boom car trend is a natu ral progression from other fads. “Back in the ’70s, the big thing “I I’ve sat in cars where you literally can’t breathe. The music is so loud it caves your chest in. Your heart doesn’t want to beat and your vision blurs.” — Mike Raef, car stereo installer was how fast your car could go,” Erdman said. “The high horsepower isn’t in cars so much anymore. So now, it’s not how fast; it’s how loud you can go. . . . Instead of how many lives you can put in jeopardy, it’s how many ears you can blow.” Part of the attraction of owning a boom-boom car is the attention it de mands, Erdman explained. “It’s like revving an engine,” said Erdman. “Everybody turns and looks.” Erdman sponsored a crank- it-up contest on a recent Sunday, where enthusiasts competed for the honor of having the loudest stereo. Kent Massie, like most serious instal lers, puts an emphasis on sound quality as well as volume. His system includes a Sony CD player with attached amplifier, a Sony equalizer, two speaker plates containing two speakers each, two 6- inch-by-9-inch 100-watt JBL speak-; ers, a Harmon Kardon amplifier, two 10-inch sub woofers and a 75- watt Rockford-Fosgate amplifier. “In the last crank-it-up contest, it registered 128 decibels on the me ter,” Massie said. “I could have had more, but there was so much bass I couldn’t tell between my heart beat ing and the bass beating, so I stopped.” Alan Nuzum, owner of Ranco Communication, said the trend ap peals mostly to young males from 16 to 30 years old. However, Nuzum, who is 60, owns a pickup containing about $2,500 worth of sound equip ment. Why, then, does Nuzum have the kind of wattage that can blast out his windshield? “Because when I pull up along some young kind, I can crank it up and watch his eyes pop out,” he said, chuckling. So it’s not only the younger set that’s pouring money into fancy auto sound systems. Raef, one of Nu- zum’s employees, said he’s seeing more interest from older consumers — the ones with money. Raef, 19, who has been in the business for about five years, special izes in custom building speaker en closures. His philosophy is simple: “If it’s too loud, then you’re too old. “I’ve sat in cars where you literally can’t breathe. The music is so loud it caves your chest in. Your heart doesn’t want to beat and your vision blurs.” Raef said the trend’s roots are in the East Coast, which is where he de veloped the interest. In California, he was sponsored by several man ufacturers who paid for his equip ment and his entrance fee for crank- it-up contests in return for the ad vertising he gave them. His van con tained $15,000 worth of sound equipment, he said. Nowadays, he’s building up a sys tem in his Chevy pickup. He said he likes having a boom- boom car because of the attention it grabs, plus, he enjoys have a “one- of-a-kind ride.” “I’ve got other friends with the same kind of systems and when we go to Lake Meredith, we open the doors and turn to the same station,” Raef said. “We can still hear it when we’re out on a boat. Other people will hear it, and they’ll dock. We’ll just have a good party all weekend long.” So far, he said, he’s invested about $3,000 in his car system. “The way I look at it is, I don’t have house payments or a lot of bills, so I can afford to go ahead and put my money into my car,” he said. His reasoning is shared by his friend Matt Harding. “People always ask you, ‘Why would you spend so much money on this?,’ ” Harding said. “We’re 19. What else should we spend it on? Drugs? “These are my big guns,” he said, “ A >\ll my friends love to ride in my car. It’s a nice feeling when somebody says, ‘I love the sound of your stereo.’ ” — Kent Massie, car stereo enthusiast flipping the bucket seat of his Toyota Celica forward to show the round black faces of his 18-inch woofers. His equipment is worth about $7,000. When he’s finished adding on, he said, it will contain 20 speak ers and be worth about $10,000. He has installed most of the components himself, with the help of Raef. Har ding said he has dabbled in installing since he was 16. “My parents thought it was just a phase, but it never died,” he said, a rueful smile hinting sympathy for beleaguered parents. The trend does have disadvan tages. Because an expensive system is a lure for thieves, Massie recom mends that anyone wanting to join the trend make an additional invest ment in a good car alarm. Aside from the overwhelming ini tial expense, maintenance can have a hefty price tag. “Things break,’’ Raef said. “Speakers and amplifiers can blow up. When that happens, you usually just eat it. If you try to send them back for warranty repair, the compa nies won’t cover it if you put too much wattage though them.” He added that when many mod ifications are made in the stock com ponent of a vehicle, its warranty might be voided, or mechanics might be reluctant to work on the car. Also, not everybody has thesai admiration for loud music. Raeffe received a warning ticket in Amari and has had to pay fines for disturb ing the peace or exhibition in Cal fornia. But the most serious drawbad health risk. Raef lost the hearing his right ear in 1984. Harding, also aware of the heal risks, is philosophical. “It’s like any other bad thingvt. enjoy. Some people smoke althou; they know the dangers.” For installers, it seems, all tk minuses don’t tip the scale as bean as the pluses do. “The money I spent bothered!!; a little, but I was so impressed re the sound,” Massie said. “All a friends love to ride in my car. Its nice feeling when somebody says, love the sound of your stereo.’ " Nurses’ salaries rise in response to shortage ASSOCIATED PRESS Nurses’ salaries are beginning to improve in response to the crit ical nursing shortage. Salary increases during 1988 averaged 6.9 percent for entry- level nurses and 10.6 percent for more experienced nursing staff, Richard McKibbin, who handles research for the American Nurses Association in Kansas City, reported. Advancement opportunities, flexible scheduling, tuition assis tance and other enticements also are being brought into play to help hospitals replenish their nursing staffs. About 165,000 jobs were open for registered nurses at the begin ning of 1989, according to the Secretary’s Commission on Nurs ing of the Department of Health and Human Services. The recent wage settlement for nurses at New York’s Columbia- Presbyterian Hospital may be a sign of things to come. The hospi tal agreed to raise starting salaries for nurses to $31,500, and nurses with more than 20 years experi ence will receive $47,000. The pact, negotiated with the New York State Nurses Association, eliminates both mandatory over time and assignment of nurses outside their specialties. Some of the money to pay for the set tlement will come from New York state, which recently set aside $193 million to increase nursing salaries statewide for the year. The settlement for the first time “addresses nurses as profes sionals,” Sheila O’Rourke, a Co- lumbia-Presbyterian nurse, said as the agreement was made. The figures are well above the $22,416 entry-level and $32,160 senior nurse averages for 1988re ported by the ANA. Spokesman Carol Grimaldi says these figures are still more realistic for most of the country, which doesn’t share the high cost of living with metro politan centers on both coasts. Specialist nurses like anesthe lists can expect salaries averaging slightly more than $45,000 per year, says Mary Jeannette Man- nino, president of the American Association of Nurse Anethetisis in Park Ridge, Ill. Starting sala ries for anesthetist nurses is esti mated at between $31,000 and $40,000. “The money didn’t make am difference at the time I chose nurse anesthesia, but it does make a difference now, and 1 think it should make a differ ence,” says Margaret Paul, asso ciate chairman of surgical nurs ing at Rush Presbyterian St. Luke’s Medical Center in Chi cago. “ Personally, I think salary should be a consideration in mak ing career choices. “I’m a single parent with two children, and I’m thankful that I have this career. You don’t want to pick a profession because the pay is good, but it doesn’t hurt, ei ther.” The University Hospital Con sortium, Inc., a network of 48 not-for-profit teaching hospitals and clinics, has launched a re cruitment campaign that em phasizes improved pay, advance ment and working conditions. “By and large, today’s nurses look for more than a steady in come,” says Kristi Kelsey, a nurs ing personnel specialist and RN who directs UHC’s Recruitmeni Network, based in Oakbrook Terrace, III. Results For $59 Thought you couldn’t afford results... Gold’s Gym says Think Again!... Summer Full Facility Membership $89 Summer Aerobics only Membership $59 Other memberships as low as $16.95 per month. T , Come by for a FREE r\ iv tour and workout! 4/ JlL Harvey ★ Post Oak Mall Gold’s Gym AUCENSEE OF GOLD’S GYM ENT. INC. CTYM W5V 764-8000