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Page 6 • The Battalion • Wednesday, June 12, 1996 ■ mmm '■•u'fvxrxir'v: in the news Vanessa Williams stuck with a past NEW YORK (AP) — Given the chance, Vanessa Williams would gladly erase parts of her past. “There are times when I | wonder, had I taken another ! path would I : be happier?” the dethroned Miss America says in the July issue of McCall’s mag- ! azine. “If I’d : just graduat- : ed from col lege and gone to New York in stead of doing the Miss Ameri ca pageant.” Escaping from the past is the theme of Williams’ upcoming thriller “Eraser,” which also stars Arnold Schwarzenegger. Her character disappears into the witness protection program. “Everyone wishes they could erase their mistakes,” Williams says, “but that’s not how life works.” Few Chase stunts in Vegas Vacation LAS VEGAS (AP) — Was that j Chevy Chase clinging to the ; Hoover Dam? : No, it was stunt double i John Robothan filming a scene ; for Chase’s new movie “Vegas : Vacation.” E>AH/ by Chuck Johnson Executioner school flunkies For nearly 30 minutes Tues day, Robothan lay flat against the giant, sun-baked wall, 90 feet from the top of the 727-foot dam. With a harness hidden un- dpr his clothing, Robothan looked as if he had no support. “It was definitely an eye opener when you look down there,” said Robothan, a 20- year stunt veteran. Warner Bros. crews also shot a scene in which Chase’s charac ter swings on a rope, slams into the face of the mammoth dam and then waves to his horrified family. Filming for the movie, also featuring Beverly D’Angelo and Randy Quaid, will continue for several more weeks. Cronkite's first love remains print journalism EMPORIA, Kan. (AP) — Wal ter Cronkite made his name in broadcast news, but print jour nalism, “a much purer form of journalism,” is still his first love. Cronkite, 79, was filming scenes Tuesday for a documen tary he will narrate called “A Flame in His Soul: The William Allen White Story.” Cronkite grew up reading White, editor of The Emporia Gazette from 1895 to 1944. “He influ enced my get ting into jour- n a 1 i s m , ’ ’ Cronkite said. “During my young journal ism days, everybody was reading his au tobiography.” Before spending near ly. two decades anchoring the “CBS Evening News,” Cronkite worked as a correspondent for United Press. He called print journalism “a much purer form of journalism.” “I certainly hope that some of us in broadcast escaped the show-biz aspect of television news,” Cronkite said. “But in broadcast, there is no way you can remove yourself from the fact that you are in the enter tainment industry.” < RONK* 11 Glover sentenced community service to NEW YORK (AP) — S avion Glover, accused of carrying three small bags of marijuana in his truck, pleaded guilty to a re duced charge of disorderly con duct and was sentenced to 50 Skatteh hours of community service. Glover, the 22-year-old cre ator and star of the award-win ning musical “Bring in ‘Da Noise, Bring in ‘Da Funk,” pleaded guilty Tuesday. The case will be dismissed in six months if he completes the community service and is not ar rested again. He had been charged with impaired driving and possession of marijuana. Somebody stole Henry Rollins? Maybe. NEW YORK (AP) — An inde pendent record label is suing the upstart DreamWorks label for $50 million, claim ing it stole Henry Rollins. The law suit, filed Tuesday, con tends that DreamWorks interfered with Rollins’ contract with ______ Imago Record ing and caused him to breach the contract. Rollins, the former singer of Black Flag, recently released the album Weight. He won a 1995 Grammy for the spoken-word recording “Get in the Van: On the Road With Black Flag.” By Quatro KtHUV*. hm aJ? 41- ah ^ *%• mm* k® m: $#§*>. iSu * , \ ?fP ills# | JmSKm 'y ^ p \ "wm ‘ m m- Shelter Continued from Page 1 “I’ve always been a dog per son until I got Ramona,” Nee- man said. “A cat is the perfect pet for a college student. They are low maintenance and very fun to play with. My girlfriend and I liked the idea of saving an animal’s life, which is more or less what we’re doing. It was a real easy process. The hardest thing was getting the pet deposit for the apartment.” The shelter accepts volun teers who are interested in working with animals. Schwarm said owning pets motivated him to volunteer at the shelter. “My wife and I have two dogs ourselves,” Schwarm said. “We had read about how you can call up the shelter and volunteer. We felt we needed to do something positive for the animals’ lives.” Schwarm said he feels adopting an animal is like adopting a child. “I think it’s a responsibility that we should take care of all an imals around us,” Schwarm said. “It’s just like adopting children. They are excellent animals, they prolong people’s lives and they make their lives better.” Bice said people interested in adopting a pet should consider the shelter. "A cat is the perfect pet for a college student." — SCOTT NEEMAN senior math major “I think it’s important that everyone looking for a pet will look at the Brazos Animal Shel ter,” Bice said. “Because our animals are spayed and neutered, it helps save lives. One-third of our ani mals are purebred. We have pure-breed waiting list so the can get the animals they’re look ing for, and it’s not any more ex pensive. They are part of the overpopulation, too.” Provisional Continued from Page 1 “This program is important because the University Admis sions [board] have to look at com plicated students,” Boyd said. “It is also a good predictor of (stu dents’) achievement in college.” Once students have been ad mitted to the program, they are provided with a tailor-made schedule by the Department of General Academics designed to help the students be successful throughout the summer. “Students are assigned their classes based on their strengths and weaknesses and the availability of classes for the summer,” Boyd said. “And the majority of students are re quired to attend both summer sessions to maintain a 2.0 aver age without any F’s.” Of the approximately 6,000 admitted freshmen, only around 400 students are chosen to enroll in the provisional pro gram. But only an average of about 200 students actually ac cept the invitation to enroll in the program each year. “The success rate is about 75 to 80 percent,” Boyd said. “But if a student doesn’t make it, they will not have gained admission to the uni versity and are told they must gain admission through the transfer process. In gen eral, the office really enjoys working with the students in the summer because they are really motivated and they re alize it’s now or never.” Lisa Day, former provisional program participant and a se nior psychology major, said she was lucky to have been given the opportunity to participate in the program. “I think it’s a fantastic pro gram,” Day said. “If my SAT scores had been higher I would have been able to get in. But they (admission board) re viewed my extracurricular ac tivities and I got in.” Dr. Sallie Sheppard, associ ate provost for undergraduate programs and academic ser vices, said the program has been successful at helping stu dents make the change from high school to college. “It has been a very success ful program,” Sheppard said. “It’s an access kind of program for students who would not oth erwise have a chance to suc ceed at Texas A&M and most of the students become valuable additions to our Aggie family.” Dr. J. Malon Southerland, vice president for student af fairs, said the program is im portant for students who can not get in because it gives them a chance at being admitted to the University. “My perception is you need some form of provisional pro gram to have a reasonable way to have a shot at the program,” Southerland said. a TRY THESE TASTE-TEMPTING IIiIBBBBBMHHIHHBBHBm 7 VALUE BUY ONE ENTREE, GET SECOND ENTREE FREE. 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