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Harvest '91 Grape harvest at Messina Hof Wine Cellars Page 3 "I propose that the federal government require all hairdressers and barbers to inform their customers if they become stricken with the terminal syndrome." - Trey Jacobson on AIDS Page 5 Popcorn a healthy alternative Page 2 The Battalion Vol. 90 No. 173 CISPS 045360 6 Pages College Station, Texas "Serving Texas A&M since 1893" Tuesday, July 23, 1991 MTV will resume airplay on cable channel 98 this August By Karen Praslicka The Battalion TCA Cable announced Monday that MTV will appear on cable channel 98 sometime in August to give cable cus tomers the option of blocking the video channel. Randy Rogers, general manager of TCA Cable, said the rock channel will be moved to channel 98 to prevent channel interference. Rogers said when TCA blocked out MTV on channel 36, customers experi enced interference problems on chan nel 35. Cable customers should receive a let ter this week describing their option to have MTV blocked anda postpaid card that customers can return if they want the channel blocked. "If they don't return the card we'll assume they want their MTV," Rogers said. Rogers said he expects MTV back on the air at least by August 20. "But if we can get it on a few days earlier we will," he said. Several other channels also are being moved today. Country Music Television now will be on channel 98 until MTV returns. CMT previously was on channel 23, al ternating with the Consumer News Business Channel. Both programs now will be seen 24 hours a day on separate channels until MTV returns. ACTS, previously seen on channel 98, will move to channel 37. C-Span, previously on channel 17, will move to channel 36. The Community Bulletin Board, previously on channel 37, will move to channel 17. Rogers said moving the Community Bulletin Board to channel 17 will allow TCA to run pay-per-view programs on that channel without decreasing pic ture quality. Scrambling the signal of a pay-per- view program reduces the picture qual ity of the program. In the past, pay- per-views were shown on channel 37, which was high enough in the cable spectrum to cause even further distor tion, Rogers said. Cable customers with full basic serv ice — 35 channels — will receive a credit adjustment of 26 cents on their August bill because of the loss of one channel for 22 days. Rogers said only customers with full basic service will receive the adjust ment because other customers were not affected by the loss of MTV. SCOn D. WEAVER/The Battalion Watch your step Casey Ingram, a construction worker from Burton, makes his way grounds maintenance building. The building is being torn down and re- through a maze of steel ceiling supports of the old construction shop and moved to make space for a new parking lot. Lawmaker s responsive to educator s University administrators, senators agree tuition should be increased, Mobley says By Mack Harrison The Battalion University President William Mobley said lawmakers were re ceptive to administrators' con cerns when school officials testi fied Monday before the state Senate. "I think we had good ques tions from the senators," Mobley said. "They understand the numbers we use and the implica tions of choices they make (about higher education)." Mobley said several senators commended the A&M System, praising the University's effi ciency and giving positive com ments on System programs in Galveston and Houston. Mobley and Dr. Ed Davis, deputy chancellor for finance and administration, joined rep resentatives from otner schools in the A&M System to testify be fore the Senate Finance Commit tee on the effects of Senate Bill 1. "(S.B. 1) is a significant reduc tion in general revenue appro priations for all higher educa tion," Mobley said. The bill calls for cutting the state's general revenue funding for colleges and universities. Mobley said this could mean A&M would lose $19.7 million in state funds next biennium, funds that cannot be replaced. "This money does not come from endowments, private do nations or federal grants," he said. "These are dollars that come from the state." Administrators and lawmak ers both see the need to raise tu ition, but they disagree on how it should be enacted. Mobley said the proposal to immediately double tuition is not getting a good reception in Austin. See Tuition/Page 6 Interim head works double-time until replacement found Department looks for leader "I've been holding down two plagued the field." engineering department." Rv CZrvo TVft.Iov full-time iobs since last Tues- Hall said he also would like to The nresent situation is defi By Greg Mt.Joy The Battalion Dr. Kenneth Hall, interim head of Texas A&M's Depart ment of Petroleum Engineering, said he hopes he gets a perma nent replacement soon because he is juggling several jobs at once. Hall holds the position in ad dition to his duties as associate deputy chancellor, associate dean of engineering and deputy director of the Texas Engineering Experiment Station (TEES). Hall recently was named to the post, replacing Dr. Douglas Von Gonten. Von Gonten died July 2 in a farming accident. "Tve been holding down two full-time jobs since last Tues day," Hall said. "So I'm kind of anxious for the search for a new department head to begin." Hall said there presently are no candidates for the permanent position, but the department is being polled to find candidates for a search committee. Hall, a professor of chemical engineering, said there is a lot he would like to see done within the department before a perma nent head is found. "We need to look where petro leum engineering will be in the next 10 to 15 years and be ready to adapt to it," he said. "We need to insulate ourselves and our students from the wild swings of employment that have t ied the field. all said he also would like to initiate programs the next head could continue once the search is completed. "We need to take a hard look at the graduate program and em phasize it, but without detract ing from the undergraduate pro gram," he said. "We need to look at our curriculum and try to start bringing it in line with a na tional perspective over the next year." Hall said he works as a right- hand man for Dr. Herbert Rich ardson, dean of the College of Engineering. "It's sort of like he's the CEO, and I'm the COO," Hall said. "I handle the day-to-day running of TEES and assist running the engineering department. The present situation is defi nitely a challenging one. Hall said. "From 8 a.m. to noon, I work eight hours at one of my jobs," he said. "Then from 1 to 5 p.m. I work eight hours at my other job." Hall, who began working at A&M in 1974, was director of the Thermodynamics Research Cen ter from 1979 to 1984. He worked for AMOCO Pro duction Co. and Chemshare Corp. He earned his bachelor's degree from the University of Tulsa, his master's from the Uni versity of California at Berkeley and his Ph.D. from the Univer sity of Oklahoma. Saddam Hussein’s ruling coun cil granted amnesty on Sunday to government opponents and army deserters. See Page 6. Thousands flee into Jordan with pending allied threat over nuclear disclosure deadline BAGHDAD, Iraq (AP) — With the approach of Thursday's deadline for Iraq to fully disclose its nuclear secrets, thousands of Iraqis have fled to Jordan, people are stockpiling food and fuel, and anti-aircraft guns have appeared atop govern ment buildings. There is every sign Iraq is taking seriously the threat of allied action if it fails to meet the dead line. However, there has been no public declara tion of a military alert. "If there was one, they wouldn't tell us," an In formation Ministry spokesman said Monday. The Ministry of Defense and Army has been moving some of its operations to schools, resi dents say — just as it did before the Persian Gulf War. "It is exactly like the previous situation. We are seeing the army go back to schools and use them as headquarters," said a storekeeper who lives near a school. He would only give his name as Ibrahim. Sandbagged anti-aircraft machine-gun nests have appeared atop the gatehouse of the main se curity police headquarters in Baghdad and other government buildings in recent days. Secretary of State Baker and Israeli Prime Minister Shamir met Monday to discuss face-to-face peace talks between Israel and the Arabs. Israel remains unclear about peace conference JERUSALEM (AP) — Prime Minister Yitzhak Shamir told his Cabinet Monday that he saw a "revolutionary change" in Syria's attitude toward Is rael, but there was no clear Is raeli response to the U.S. pro posal for Mideast peace talks. Secretary of State James A. Baker HI, after meeting with Shamir, said there was an "historic opportunity" for face-to-face talks between Is rael and the Arabs. But the Israeli Cabinet took no position on the U.S. propo sal. And Shamir aide Yossi Ahimier, who told Israeli Tele vision of the prime minister's striking characterization of Syria's attitude, said, "We want, first of all, to know what is the true Syrian position — if there is a real will for peace or if these are only tactical changes by the Syrians." Shamir, addressing the women's organization Hadas- sah, put it this way: "For us, it is not enough that they (the Syrians) have re alized that the United States is the paramount power today. We nave to know that they have at the same time, finally, come to accept the reality of Is rael's existence and they have moved peace — rather than territory —to the top of their agenda." 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