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Attention Class of 1997: It's not too late to be an “Absolut Senior!” Senior t-shirts, senior cups and other stuff will be on sale Oct. 28-Nov. 1 in the MSC Hallway! Class of 1997 Prices Senior Year Shirts (Absolut Senior) $10.00 (short sleeve) $15.00 (long sleeve) Senior Year Cups $1.50 Junior E-Walk t-shirts $5.00 Junior E-Walk sweats $10.00 Boot Dance t-shirts $5.00 Boot Dance Mugs 50 cents WHOOP! News Thursday • October]; J Cultural Exchange Ahmad Nasution and Naffie Sanggnafa. guests from several universities in Indonesia,ex[te the MSC exhibits in between group conferences on Wednesday. 10-cent pay phones to become extini Massachusetts residents will need a quarter to call someone who cars BOSTON (AP) — “Dropping a dime” is about to become a mere figure of speech. Federal regulators are drawing up rules that are sure to end 10-cent pay phone calls in Massachusetts and three other holdout states where a dime still gets you connect ed, just as it as has since the Eisenhower administration. “As it stands right now, there’s no question: The 10-cent call is going the way of the 15-cent loaf of bread,” Jack Hoey, a spokesman for Nynex Corp., said Wednesday. Pay phones began charging 10 cents for local calls in 1954, when five-and-dimes were still accurately named and a brand- new Chevrolet cost $1,700. Over the years, regulators in Massachu setts, Vermont, New Hampshire and Arkansas kept the price of a local call down to a dime by ordering phone companies to subsidize pay phone service with other profits. But a Federal Communications Commis sion order that is set to become final on Nov. 8 essentially will deregulate the pay phone industry nationwide by the end of next year and end such subsidies. Instead, the free market will set the price. The FCC rules, prompted by the Telecom munications Act of 1996, don’t actually re quire pay phone operators to charge more than a dime. But the last time Nynex did a cost study, in 1993, it figured it was spending 19 to 21 cents a call to provide service at its 50,000 pay phones in Massachusetts. It doesn’t take an economics professor to figure out what that means. “The world is a-changing, and we’re changing with it,” Brian Luciano said as he took a cigarette break from his job all I Cop in Boston. “Nostalgia? Bringbao I dial phone. 1 liked that.” Other operators already charge25i I at their pay phones in Massachusetts 1 1 neighboring states charge a quarter,t# t, In four of five states where payphotia I ready are deregulated — Iowa,Neto | North Dakota and Wyoming —usersf? I cents a call. In the fifth, South Dakotas! pay a quarter. In theory, competition amongpayp'jf operators will keep prices down. “If you have a guy trying to chargeStKI for a pay phone, let’s say, people wonts I They’ll go next door and pay a quarter.1 dime isn’t enough to cover costs, he’llgt* I business,” said John flowe, chapainfl M< : : >• . irimi'iu ol hit- . Movie portrayals modified by military persuasioi WASHINGTON (AP) — In an early script for Forrest Gump, the likable but dim character went to Vietnam in a unit full of slow-witted soldiers like himself. “They had everybody ... of re duced intellect except the lieu tenant,” said Phil Strub, who coor dinates the Pentagon’s film liaison office. “And the Army said it never would have happened that way.” So Strub’s office used some cre ative persuasion on the producers. And in the final version, Gump’s fel low soldiers were smarter. It was just one part of a big movie. To the Defense Department, the things Americans learn in movie theaters endure, so it often uses the carrot of its cooperation to ensure that films reflect accurately, and positively, on the military. “We feel strongly that the im ages people see of the military in Hollywood are the most forma tive images,” said Major Nancy LaLuntas, director of Marine pub lic affairs in Los Angeles. “[We’ve] maintained all along that if we have the ability to accu- “We feel strongly that the image peo pie see of the mili tary in Hollywood are the most for mative images.” Major Nancy LaLuntas Marine public affairs rately influence those imags American public will have a M image of the military." Some filmmakers balk all}! terference. A Few Good Mint ring Tom Cruise and Jack)* son, was made without heM the Pentagon, which had to the portrayals of some Mr; The Pentagon gets a fe> dred requests each yeai | tanks, aircraft carriers.d duty officers to play exti just technical advicetont 1 story more accurate. Tibetan Song and Dance Ensemble • Wednesday, November 6,1996 • 8:00 p.m. • Rudder Auditorium Two hours of nirvana, without the moshing. Opera & A rti Society http://opas.tamu.edu Like nothing you’ve heard or selyi For tickets, call the MSC box office at 845-1234 Originating in the ancient city of Lhasa, Tibet, this extraordinary ensemble will perf Tibetan music, dance and theater. Accompanied by deep monotone chants, the other4worl<: and separate prayer ceremonies conducted by Buddhist monks, it’s like nothing you’ve styles of long trumpets, efore. 4v Lecture Series, oom 110* To learn more about the Tibetan Song and Dance Ensemble before their performance, attend the Patricia S. Peters I Patricia S. Peters Lagniappe Lecture Series • November 6,1996 • 7:00 p.m. • The Koldus Buildy ‘Admission to the lecture is free...sponsored by OPAS Guild. , !s . Persons with disabilities please call 845-8903 to inform us of yourspeciai'neecis. t^requestmmtcafiorrWee (3J Wdfltmg cfayS'prlor to the event to enable us to assist you to the best of our ability. For tickets call the MSC Box Office at 845.1234, "If you're gonna play in Texas ya gotta have a fiddle in the band! The St. Paul Chamber Orchestra witli Gil Shaham In its 38th season, The Saint Paul Chamber Orchestra inhabits the highest echelon of America’s major chamber orchestras. In his 18 years of studying the violin, 25 year-old Gil Shaham has become a virtuoso of exceptional talent and artistic maturity. Be prepared to be moved when they unite for works by Vivaldi and Beethoven. Your ears will thank you! Opera iFPeiprmin^Arts Society http://opas.tamu.edu Friday / November 1, 1998 / 8:00 p.m. / Rudder Auditorium . Reduced rates for student tickets. Now accepting AggieBucks.™ Persons with disabilities please call 845-8903 to inform us of your special needs. We request notification three (3) working days prior to the event to enable us to assist you to the best of our aW