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This Week’s Theme: What are your feelings concerning women
on death row?
<< In other countries, when women commit murdhr, they put the hus
bands on trial; but no sir, not in America. We kill our women."
— Ben Millice
Sophomore computer engineering major
Day of love shines through TV programs
NEW YORK (AP) — Love, love,
love, all you need is love. Or you
can just watch television.
Don’t look for love on TV.
George Clooney doesn’t love you,
he loves to swagger. Rosie O’Don
nell doesn’t love you, she loves
junk food. Jerry Springer doesn’t
love you, he loves playing host to
creeps normal people would cross
the street to avoid.
Maybe TV’s truest expression
of love is product love. “I love it,”
says every commercial, “and so
will you!” When it comes to love on
TV, what’s love got to do with it?
As nearly half a billion Valen
tines find their way into mailbox
es this week, TV can’t even
muster affection for the nation’s
postal workers. First there was
postman Cliff Clavin, the trivia-
slinging schmo of “Cheers.”
Then “Seinfeld” upped the ante
with the demented letter carrier
Newman, who fancies himself a
communications warlord.
You’ll find post-adolescent pup
py love shared by the title charac
ters of “Dharma & Greg.” On the
right episode of “NYPD Blue,” a
12-alarm fire flash-fries Diane and
Bobby. On “The Practice” last
Monday, attorney Bobby Donnell
had to choose between continu
ing a relationship with his district-
attorney girlfriend and taking on a
high-paying client. In the case of
Love vs. Money, the money won.
Isn’t it romantic?
Right now, CBS is courting
viewers with the Winter Olympics,
and CBS is in love. With 128
hours of adoring coverage, CBS
loves the sponsors’ big bucks and
the Nielsen gold.
At least, that was the rapture in
which the network began the
Games. But so far, viewers have
not reciprocated this love. In the
first four days, CBS’ ratings sank
15 percent below expectations.
It just goes to show what Tonya
Harding and Nancy Kerrigan ac
complished both on and off the ice
in stirring Olympics mania four
years ago. From Kerrigan’s knee-
whacking to her silver medal and
Harding’s comeuppance, there
was no love lost between this
gruesome twosome. The TV audi
ence loved every tawdry moment.
That was then. Now, far from
Nagano, the heartwarming story of
this Olympic season centers on al
leged “inappropriate behavior” be
tween the president and a love-
struck White House intern.
The press is all over this below-
the-beltway romance which the
public has glommed onto even
more than for most news stories.
(Two-thirds of respondents in a
Media Studies Center poll said
they rely primarily on TV for cover
age of the scandal.)
TV is well suited to this love sto
ry, scattering off-the-cuff theories
and poorly sourced tips in a flash,
rather than in the hours or days re
quired by its print competition. Be
sides, all-purpose Clinterngate
adapts well to video venues rang
ing from CNN and “Nightline,’’ to
Comedy Central and “Hard Copy.”
“I don’t know about you,
Michelle,” marveled Charles Perez
of “American Journal” to his co
anchor sister the other day, “but
my head is starting to spin from
this whole thing.”
“So much information,” she
bubbled in reply, "all at one time!”
Potentially, even QVC could get
in on the bounty. Those gifts Bill
Clinton reportedly gave Monica
Lewinsky could inspire a “First In
tern” line for home shoppers:
Choose between a black silk cock
tail dress or — was it maybe navy
blue, or is it a multicolored peas
ant dress, or could it be a T-shirt?
(Laundering optional.)
Monicagate unhinged the one
TV network explicitly devoted to
romance. With Valentine’s Day
approaching, cable’s Romance
Classics had picked none other
than Bill and Hillary Rodham
Clinton as its Most Romantic
Couple of 1998.
Then Tailgate broke. What to
do? Apparently concluding that
Monica just wouldn’t work as a
last-minute substitute for Hillary,
the network named another pair of
lovebirds: Mavis Leno and her pre
sumably nonstraying husband Jay.
This is a bit ironic, since Jay
Leno has been at the forefront of
TV wags making sport of Clinton’s
Monica morass.
On Wednesday’s “Tonight
Show” Leno launched into a quip
about a perfume new for Valen
tine’s Day. Called Lewinsky, the
fragrance makes this promise:
“One whiff, and she becomes
weak in the knees.”
Leno is clearly loving this sto
ry, and he’s not alone. Such is
TV’s love connection.
IBM
The National Society of Black Engineers
Spring Regional Conference Invites you to our...
Anderson Consulting Ernst & Young
Motorola Chevron
Conoco
Career Fair
Entergy Schlumberger Boeing
City of Ft. Worth Texas Instruments
Eastman
Come and speak to representatives from over 25 companies
and try and land the job you’ve been waiting for...
Where: Rudder Complex When: Saturday, February 14, 1998
Time: 10:00 a.m.-3:00 p.m. Cost: Just bring your resume
It’s Time Again Ags!!!
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February 16-19
Schedule of Events:
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Evening Reception @ The Hilton, 7 p.m.
Company Booths; Evening Reception
@ Pebble Creek Country Club. 7 p.m.
Company Booths; Evening Reception
@ Briarcrest Country Club, 7 p.m.
19 th : Company Booths
Dress in business attire when speaking with companies at their booths
Prepare and bring resumes. Resume help? Contact the Career Center: 845-5139
-A Inquire about the appropriate attire for receptions when purchasing tickets to the
reception
Have questions on how to get the most out of Career Fairs? Attend the Career Fair
Networking Seminar on February 12. at 7 p.m., in Wehner 159,
http://wehner.tamu.edu/BSC
Companies attending the Career Fair and their corresponding days
will be posted in the Battalion each day of the Career Fair.
All company booths will be located in the Wehner Building.
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Application due: February 16, 1998
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