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Friday, October 8,1993
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FRIDAY AND SATURDAY ONLY
* Come ready to have your portrait taken.
No make-up or clothing changes at this price.
Also accepting reservations for Glamor Portraits
$ 14. 95 Sitting fee refunded with purchase
You're
History!
(at least you’ll be a part of AtSf’M history if
you get your picture in the AggielAND)
All classes:
From now to Oct. 8, become a part of history
by having your picture made for the
1994 Aggieland yearbook.
Pictures are being taken at A R Photography,
located at 707 Texas Avenue S., near Taco Cabana,
from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. Monday through Friday.
For more information, call 693-8183.
If you did not purchase your picture in the AGGIELAND during
teleregistration, if can be purchased in 230 RDMC for $1.
1994 yearbooks can be purchased in 015 RDMC for $25.
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1994
GGIELAND
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We’re Entertainment!^^
Culpepper Plaza in College Station • Manor East in Bryan
Film Society apologizes
for movie cancellation
The Film Society of Texas A&M wants to
apologize and explain what happened with
our scheduled showings of "Like Water for
Chocolate."
In short, our film distributor. Films, Inc.,
owns three prints of this popular Mexican
film. Keeping this in mind, they tried to
show this film at a lot of universities across
the country.
However, the problems occurred when
they promised us they would have the film
to us for our showings that began last Thurs
day at 7 p.m. But, when that didn't happen,
we contacted them and were told it would be
here Friday. Then, we were told on Friday,
after waiting for it to arrive at least for one of
our later showings, that it was lost some
where on an airline. For all we know, it end
ed up in Timbuktu. At this point, we had to
cancel all showings of "Like Water for
Chocolate."
We want to thank you for your patience
and for your phenomenal response to
"Sleepless in Seattle," regardless of the prob
lems. We do sincerely hope no one was
greatly inconvenienced. We did make an at
tempt to compensate those that were incon
venienced by this unforeseeable problem,
and are trying to reschedule another show
ing of "Like Water for Chocolate."
Another problem brought to our attention
was concern that the film was rated X because
of the suggestive posters we displayed around
campus. However, this is not the case. The
film is rated R, won ten Mexican Academy
Awards, and is not that explicit. We show
such films to provide you, the students, with a
wider selection of cultural entertainment that
the local theatres do not provide. We do hon
estly welcome the feedback, though.
Again, we apologize for any trouble we
may have caused you. Our organization ex
ists to provide you with a service. We thank
you for your understanding. Please, let us
know if there is any way we can better ac
commodate you in the future, or if you have
a comment or complaint about this problem.
Natalie Giehl '94
Director of External Relations
' Sachin Parekh '94
President
Film Society of Texas A&M
Behavior of Corps fish
makes A&M look bad
We have always thought of the Corps of
Cadets as one of the most respected organi
zations on this campus, and we still do. Yet
on Thursday, Sept. 30, at 7:00 p.m., an inci
dent occurred that we feel should be brought
to the Corps' attention.
Four or five outfits consisting of fish were
on their way to Grove Yell from Duncan
Dining Hall. We were walking in front of
Rudder Tower, saw that they were coming
and tried to move out of their way.
The first guidon bearer and his outfit
were polite and moved over to the other
side of the sidewalk, but we could see that
the other outfits were not going to move
over and caused us to have to step onto the
grass. One of the guys yelled, "Get the f —
off the grass." Then the other outfits start
ed shouting, "Get the f— out of the way,"
and "Get off the grass. Goddamn it," re
peatedly.
We were not the only people around at
this time. There were other students and
adults around Rudder and the MSC.
We feel that this not only makes the Corps
look bad, but it also makes A&M look bad.
Does this mean that the Fish in these outfits
cannot be left alone without an upperclass
man present? We feel that their behavior
was rude and obnoxious and not the true
portrayal of the spirit of Aggieland and
should seriously be taken into consideration.
Shelly Hamm
Class of '96
Missing sign gives lie
to Aggie Code of Honor
Aggies do not lie, cheat or steal. Unless,
apparently, there's a sign advertising a
group that they don't like.
Since the Agnostic and Atheist Student
Group was started in the fall of '92, advertis
ing our group has been a non-stop process of
circling the campus and putting flyers back
up where they've been torn down. There are
places on campus where flyers can be found
more than a semester old. Our flyers typical
ly have a life span of a few hours.
I understand, however, that this is
merely a fact of life when the group is one
even mildly controversial; even the College
Republicans have flyers torn down by un
thinking twits.
It is another matter when a billboard is
stolen from the area around the chemistry
fountain. For those of you who did not see it,
the Agnostic and Atheist Student Group had a
large 3' by 4' white billboard with red lettering
advertising the group's name, telephone num
ber and coming meetings. It is now gone.
I cannot help but wonder if the persons
responsible bothered to attend any of our
meetings to see just what we were all
about. We welcome anyone interested to
attend and discuss agnostic and atheist
viewpoints whether you agree with them
or not. In fact, we encourage those who
disagree with our positions to come and ex
plain why they disagree so that we might,
at the very least, come away with a better
understanding of each other.
Those who stole the sign are apparently
more interested in censoring our group than
in engaging in reasonable and thoughtful
discussion. I would hope that any true Ag
gie would not only discourage such behav
ior, but would ensure that our sign was re
placed where it belongs.
Brett G. Lemoine
President ofAASG
Don't read racism into
everything that occurs
In response to Tracy Jones' column, it is
unfortunate that someone can be so well ed
ucated and be so blatantly brainwashed. In
her first example, the only racist thing about
it was her attitude. There was nothing im
plied, even remotely, about race or gender.
In her second example, could we maybe sub
stitute "my people" with "you people"? If
so, I have been told the same thing by some
S.O.B. of a professor.
The point is, you can find anything any
one says racists if you look hard enough,
and that is where you have been brain
washed. Just because something bad hap
pens to a black person doesn't necessarily
happen because they happen to be black,
believe it or not.
As for the term "nigger," I was watching
the Apollo Comedy Hour where a black co
median said nigger five times in a three-
minute skit, and the black audience was
howling with laughter. If the black commu
nity finds the word so offensive, why do
they continue to use it?
If you want stories of racism, then you
should have seen what happened when I
walked by a group of young black men. Or
when I look through scholarship applica
tions and see "minorities only." How
about applying for a job which has "mi
norities encouraged to apply" written on
the application?
All of these special interest groups for
blacks have done a superb job of brainwash
ing. On the one hand they say racism is bad,
and if anyone looks at you funny, it is racist,
and you should file charges against them.
This has gone to the point where an employ
er/professor will give the person anything
they want just to avoid the negative publici
ty, regardless if the charge is true or not.
On the other hand, these groups say "you
need to get more minorities." What they are
really saying is you must single out minori
ties because they are minorities and give
them special treatment.
Before you go around pointing your fin
ger and saying "racist," you better look very
closely. You may be looking in a mirror.
Todd Dickey
Graduate student
Columnist mistaken -
teachers get decent pay
I would like to thank Melissa Megliola for
defending education majors in her Oct. 6 col
umn. However, while refuting one myth
about the profession, Megliola introduced
another with the statement, "They are forced
to accept pay comparable to that of your av
erage fast food worker."
Suppose the average fast food worker (ex
cluding management) makes $5 an hour (a
generous wage). Assuming he/she works 40
hours a week, that adds up to $10,400 a year.
Teachers make an average of $20,000 to
$30,000 a year. This doesn't include the bene
fits fast food workers dream of, such as
health insurance, lots of vacation time
evenings and weekends off and a retirement
plan. True, it's not exactly the glamour and
i salary of a doctor, lawyer or engineer, but it
is a salary many are comfortable with.
Megliola's defense of teaching early in the
column was admirable, but she diminished
the effect of every one of these points in her
closing remark. The myth she is perpetuating
is another major obstacle in recruiting teach
ers. Many prospective education students
have second thoughts about teaching, be
cause they think they will starve if they do.
Taking this presumption a little further
can be very insulting to the education stu
dent. As Megliola states, education majors
need a high level of intelligence. Anyone
with half of this intelligence would not go
to college for up to six years to take a mini
mum wage job.
Leah Smith
Class of'96
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Decision changing hats
off signs in MSC stinks
The decision to change the "Hats Off" signs
at the MSC is an affront to every Aggie who's
ever served, fought and/or died for this coun
try. These whiners who resent the old policy
would be speaking Japanese or German had
our people not risen to the occasion.
This decision is insulting and spineless. In
a word, "it stinks!"
Please save your time asking me for MSC
donations in the future.
David T. Gentry
Class of'48
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