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Soprano to close out
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The University Chamber
Concerts’ final season
performance will feature
Japanese soprano Kyoko Saito
tonight in Rudder Theatre.
Born outside of Tokyo, Japan,
Saito has made her home in the
United States for the past three
years while perfecting her art.
The most important thing about
Saito’s craft, she said, is focus.
“I have to know what I’m
singing,” Saito said. “I can’t
think about anything else. Each
song has feeling and meaning,
and I have to concentrate on
those certain feelings.”
Recently, Saito has traveled
throughout the United States
and Europe making solo and
operatic appearances. Saito said
she considers herself a recital
singer now, but hopes to be
considered both a recital and an
opera singer in the future.
Two years ago, Saito met B-CS
resident, Pat Peters, at a
performance in Boston. Saito
had covered for someone who
was sick, and Peters fell in love
with her work. That began a
two-year battle with scheduling
conflicts to bring Saito to
College Station.
Saito’s performance will
include works by Franz
Schubert, Richard Strauss and
Kosaku Yamada.
The winner of the 1992
Young Concert Artists
International Auditions, Saito
and pianist, Dale Dietert, will
travel to Los Angeles and
Washington after their
performance here.
Tonight’s concert begins at 8
p.m. Tickets are available for $8
at the MSC Box Office.
The University Chamber Concerts
with a performance by Japanese sc
season will conclude tonight
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administration, operations or development.
“Basically, I work as a liaison between the
student body president and certain
committees,” Keating said. “These include the
radio show, the public information office and
the traditions council.”
Following the executive branch is the
legislative branch, or the student senate. It is
made up of the speaker of the senate, the
speaker pro tempore, the committee chairs and
the senators.
Basically, senators write bills to present to
the senate, which they further debate and vote
on. Although a large number of issues concern
parking issues, Keating said some of the
current bills concern issues such as student fee
increases, honors disciplinary councils and on-
campus daycare.
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consists of the judiciary board chair and its
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College Station; especially of multifamily
complexes which include apartments, condos,
townhouses and duplexes. In fact, until last
year, no significant number of new multifami
ly units has been built since the early 1980s.
In 1993, 134 new multifamily units were
built. Just in January of this year, permits
have been issued allowing an additonal 444
multi-units to be built; a significant increase
from the 8 built just two years ago.
One new complex, the Enclave, is under
construction on Holleman Drive. It is sched
uled to be completed in August.
John Godfrey, president of Godfrey Devel
opment Co., said Enclave Associates, whom
his company contracts with, decided to build
the new complex to ease the intense demand
for apartment housing.
“We read that people had to go to Hearne,
Caldwell and even Navasota for a place to live.
So we did our own research and judging from
construction costs and demand, decided it
was a good time to build,” Godfrey said.
Another complex, owned by Galindo Inc.,
is also underway on Villa Maria. The West
University Oaks complex is expected to be
completed in August as well. Juanita Howard,
manager for Galindo Inc., said their company
also decided to build in response to the need
for apartments in Bryan-College Station.
So is this new surge in building going to
make a difference in rent prices?
“Yes,” Jones said. "Prices are going to go
up, but they are not going to go up as much.”
Both Jones and Robert Branson, president
of Branson Research, predict the new com
plexes to be at least as expensive as the older
ones. They said the cost of construction is
one factor that keeps rental prices high.
“Rents might continue to go up mostly be
cause of the current cost of construction,”
Jones said.
Jones also said he expects companies to
continue building at the current rent prices in
the Bryan-College Station market due to esti
mates that the Bryan-College Station popula
tion will continue to grow.
“Projections for population are up,” he
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tinue.”
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to go up even more before building comi;
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enough to pay for new building costs,,
said. 1 1 see rents going up over time.’
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not unwarranted.
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Study’s results take heat off ‘NYPD Blue
The Associated Press
LOS ANGELES — If you’re
looking for a bit of TV titillation,
or trying to avoid it, you may be
in need of informed guidance.
Despite its reputation, “NYPD
Blue” is a veritable bluenose
compared with some of the
bawdier comedies, according to a
new study out of Florida State
University.
“NYPD Blue” tends to play
nude peekaboo, but a review of 2 1
hours of broadcast television —
including other dramas and
sitcoms — found the comedies
routinely pack the most profanity
and sexual innuendo.
ABC’s police drama gets the
conservative Rev. Donald Wildmon
riled up, but viewers of “NYPD
Blue” are likely to come away with
little more than creative uses of a
few swear words.
(Well, there is the additional
satisfaction of seeing a first-rate
drama that respects the
intelligence of viewers, but let’s
not start muddying the waters).
Some of those sitcoms, though
. . . well, pull the blinds and send
the kids to bed; this is hot stuff.
The comedies studied had, on
average, nearly triple the number
of sexual references as “NYPD
Blue.”
Parents, beware: You can’t rely
on a pre-1 0 p.m. time slot or
laugh track as a barometer of
raciness.
Barbara Kaye, a Ph.D. candidate
in Florida State’s Department of
Communication, decided to
research the topic after the local
ABC affiliate initially refused to
broadcast “NYPD Blue.”
“I wondered if it was really that
bad, and about what we’re already
seeing on TV,” Kaye said by phone
from Tallahassee. She workea with
doctoral student Lucia Fishburne
and coauthor Barry Sapolsky, an
associate professor.
They studied series which,
according to a poll of Florida State
students, appeared to have the
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