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On Sale Saturday at 10am! Sunday, October 27 Wolf Pen Creek Amphitheatre Tickets at Foley’s, Randalls and the MSC Box Office. Or charge by phone: 409-268-0414 Produced by MSC Town Hall and PACE Concerts Register ‘Vote • 1-800-Call-RTV • www.rockthevote.org ©1996 A&M Records, Inc./Mercury Records. All rights reserved. Ame r icai 13 anil h.a s wh.at students V (you want it? you Q-ot it. 1 I want ci And not just any checking account. I want it here, in town, and not a million miles away. I’m going to A&M, the best #*%@ school in the country. I am th.e 12th. Man! So I want the I 2th Man Account. I want my bank close. I mean close like right across the street from campus. And just because I'm on campus a lot, Jtf f . - 0 doesn't mean I'll always be on campus. pt things to do. So I want more banks all over town at least five. And if you can't keep up with my hours, give me ATM machines j- at least eight. want a bank that can get me la student loan when I need it. No hassles. No run-arounds. Quick. iSimple. Painless. Fii St Ame:r 1. can BAnl the 12th Man checking account, five convenient locations, eight ATMs, the University Center right across the street from campus, and lender of various student loans. Visit us on th.e Internet at our h.ome page — http://www.first-american-bank.com iir FIRST • ^gsnerican Ag^ie Owned. Aggie Strong. Aggie Pr ouD. Member FDIC Aggielife Friday • Septembers Talk Radio Dallas-based disc jockey Doug Banks keeps audiences captivatdi his syndicated show that mixes music and personality. By James Francis The Battalion M usic is not the only thing on the radio today. Now, radio listeners are becoming more familiar with disc jockeys and radio personalities. Behind those spinning albums from decades everyone can iden tify with, radio entities control these programs that help lead people down nostalgic paths. One such individual, Doug Banks, a Dallas disc jockey with a syndicated program, The Doug Banks Show, is making a five-hour appearance today in The MSC Flag room, from 1 p.m. to 6 p.m. Michelle Burden, executive producer for The Doug Banks Show, said the show is coming to College Station because there are a multitude of listeners here. “It’s important for us to go to all of our markets,” she said Burden said the personal tone the program takes with its audi ence is the reason for its success. “I don’t think we’re just a regu lar radio show,” she sajd. “We’re not just people behind a mic.” Burden said the program’s two personalities, Banks and his partner, A.J. Parker, reach out and enter the homes of listeners. “Doug and A.J. share their lives with people,” she said, “and people begin to think they know [them].” Banks’ show will be a live na tional radio broadcast, and he promises to entertain the stu dents of Texas A&M University. “We play music,” he said, “but also have just as much personali ty as possible. Personality radio is what it’s all about.” Banks said his urban radio show can be described as “flying without a net and no holds barred.” In other words, listeners will absorb something other than an endless barrage of music or mo notonic talking. Unlike some of those all-talk or all-music radio programs, The Doug Banks Show offers a variety of both. This way an audience can re main entertained for more than just one segment, Banks said. ustoms c ver 600 investigati tlie U.S. Customs ■spite an increasin' jtal 4,858 4,800 ibs “Doug and A.J. share their lives with people, and people begin to think they know [them].” Another feature of his a stems from callers withfe lable first names. They contact the radio get to be on air andthet their name set to arendii Keith Sweat’s "1 Wanna." Banks said that asfaras:| pearance in The Flagroou people should expect spontc "Our stuff is not script said, “so they can expet; hours of non-stop fun." In continuance of hisih ,000 Banks said he could workiii ^ ,000 1992 ’93 ,, IW lll| tomv S1.27 1.31 IN stoms Service Michelle Burden Executive Producer of The Doug Banks Show “The radio doesn’t have to be come a jukebox after 7 o’clock in the morning,” he said. In addition to music, Banks reaches his audience with witty conversations and innovative catch phrases. He said he is able to make an impact on people’s lives due to syndication. “I just love entertaining peo ple,” Banks said. “If the entertain ment is there, people are going to enjoy it.” Banks said the elements of his show, such as disco music call-ins and featured artists on Friday af ternoons, are what keep his lis teners tuning in. “The show changes everyday because it is not set,” he said. ETZARIM, ( r Arafat’s sec lli troops Thu lestinian si id to two iso its in the Gaz People in the News Fitzgerald’s 100th birthday celebrated ST. PAUL, Minn. (AP) — Tender was the sight: A few hundred peo ple raised candles to toast F. Scott Fitzgerald, who was born 100 years ago in St. Paul. “He was one of ours. We claim him because we love him. Here’s to F. Scott Fitzgerald’s 100th birthday,” Garrison Keillor, host of A Prairie Home Companion radio show, told the crowd Tuesday. Fitzgerald, whose works in clude Tender is the Night and The Great Gatsby, left St. Paul at age 26 and never returned. “The fact that this young man flew off to New York, Paris and Hollywood and never did write a hymn or homage to the Midwest has always been painful,” Keillor said. “He left for New York be cause New York is what he want ed to write about." Fitzgerald’s birthday, Sept. 24, is being celebrated this week with birthday cake, marathon readings of his works, a new bronze sculpture and postage stamp, Jazz Age dance lessons, flapper fashion shows and a liter ature festival for young writers. Webber’s musical for another 20 years. 1 le began his radiocai the age of 15 at his high and has attained thefirsir.; ally syndicated urban n in radio history. “I will always be in the-j industry,” he said, “andho| ly have a ton of affiliate! have as much fun as I'ml right now." Banks and Parker wo gether to produce sotnei unique for the radio world Although her jobisuit regular job, Parker said, takes a good amount oh # ns were re P' have a developed show: :15 wounded “It entails a lot ofprepataa he violence n she said. “[Dougl leadstheia lestinian ri< and I follow.” sdecision to As a woman and amino: ca * tunne l a the radio program is oneol que compou greatest opportunities ofhet sites, and has led her to a cleard ^estinians cb sion, Parker said. nines their “If you have a dream,put sa ^ em h°ly s * it,” she said. assurances 11 Parker said the overallpict nac * e ' n J erus of life in the radio indus ^citys lutur ranges from crazy to off-the: -etalks. to emotional. ^ had 1,1 8 “It’s not like goingtowoi ‘ ne sday to no she said, “it’s likegoingto' strikes again and I love it.” as not certain whether Aral a ofhts 30,()()() 'Ome of when fighting, f dashes ma 'e/a/td the Pa Inga basic prt called the Man. 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