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UNIVERSITY PRESS November 23, 1983*3
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Comment Tl,e Dav After/Asi<in9^e,ters
Viewpoint—-
ABC exploits ‘Day After’ message
Although ABC’s movie “The
Day After,” which aired Sunday
night, has been described as
both propaganda and a public
service announcement, it could
better be described as a vehicle
for exploitation by the network.
ABC executives claimed that
they did not make the film for
money. They said that they were
as frightened as everyone else
about nuclear war and wanted to
make a statement to that effect.
To prove their point, they add-
ed that they were not able to get
advertisers to make up their $7
million investment.
It all sounds good until one
realizes that with a projected au-
dience of 100 million for a pro-
gram during a ratings month,
ABC couldn’t lose. A ratings in-
crease of one percentage point
during the month could bring the
network several times more than
their $7 million investment.
ABC made its real motives ap-
parent when they scheduled the
program against NBC’s “Ken-
nedy,” which had the potential of
sweeping the ratings. “The Day
After” was originally scheduled
for May.
The fact that the controversy in
Europe over the deployment of
Pershing II and Cruise Missiles
will peak next month did not go
unnoticed at ABC. They chose to
exploit that controversy, using
the nuclear freeze movement to
promote the film.
By timing the movie the way
they did, ABC was given a free
ride in the guise of docu-drama
and news reporting. The movie
was given millions of dollars of
free advertising when it was
selected as the cover story of
Time magazine. Even CBS joined
the bandwagon by featuring the
movie on its popular news pro-
gram “60 Minutes” a week before
the airing of “The Day After.”
Not to be outdone, ABC
featured the controversy surroun-
ding the movie as the topic of Fri-
day’s "Nightline.” Having PBS’s
Mr. Rogers saying that young
children should not watch the
program almost guaranteed a
large audience. The participants
in the show did nothing more
than arouse the curiosity of those
watching.
It should be noted that as ABC
was exploiting the debate over
nuclear freeze, they allowed
themselves to be exploited by the
nuclear freeze movement.
Nuclear freeze organizations
wasted no time in turning the
movie to their advantage. In Mon-
day’s USA Today, for example, an
organization called the 800
Nuclear Project placed a large ad
which said "The day after will be
too late.”
This ad will no doubt give im-
petus to statements from conser-
vative organizations that the
movie was nothing more than
propaganda.
In an article in the Nov. 19
issue of TV Guide, Nicholas
Meyer, the film’s director, said,
“If the film is perceived as pro-
paganda, it will be useless.” He
added, “Let the facts speak for
themselves without editorializ-
ing.”
Despite ABC’s motives in
presenting the film in the manner
it did, the viewers of the film
should look to the facts. The film
itself was too important to be
pushed aside as propaganda.
AFTER THE D/W AFTER'
BUSINESS IS REALLY Dooming,HOH Hortence !
Asking Around
QUESTION: What are you personally thankful
for this Thanksgiving?
By ELAINE J. BUTLER
Freshman politicians
suggest budget voting
before holiday recess
“After eight years of college, my
son is finally gainfully employed.
It’s the biggest raise I’ve ever got-
ten.”
Sue Wright,
English department teaching fellow
“All of my family—there’s 21 of
us—will be together on Thanksgiv-
ing at my home. Also, there’s no ma-
jor illness and I have three beautiful
children and a wonderful husband.”
Leann Ellison
Sour Lake junior
“I’m happy to be able to spend
Thanksgiving with my aunt and un-
cle in Beaumont because I can’t go
home to Pennsylvania. It will be an
even happier event because they
just became proud parents of a baby
boy.”
Rakesh Patel
Lancaster, Pa., sophomore
By DICK WEST
UPI columnist
WASHINGTON (UPI)-A campaign to
designate chili as America’s “official
food” got under way at the Capitol Monday
despite a new security crackdown on ex-
plosive mixtures.
The bomb that went off in the Senate
wing earlier this month did not prevent ad-
vocates of the joint “gastro-political”
resolution from going ahead with two chili
tastings.
One was staged outdoors at noontime
near the House steps and the other was an
evening function in the Senate reception
room near where the real blast occurred.
Both were intended to rally congres-
sional support for what Lou Priebe, a
CHILI-USA spokesman, called a “richly
deserved” honor for a “uniquely
American” dish.
Editor:
On behalf of Dr. George McLaughlin,
vice president for student affairs, I would
like to express appreciation to the faculty,
staff and students of Lamar University for
their contributions to our “Share Your
Thanksgiving” Food-a-thon. We estimate
that over 2,000 separate food items were
collected.
As a direct result of your generosity and
community spirit, many Beaumont area
“I am thankful that I have my
family and that we are all together
for this Thanksgiving.”
Joyce Vaughan
Port Neches senior
“I’m thankful I’m living with my
family this year and able to share
Thanksgiving with them. I’m also
thankful for being made a godfather
to my brother’s son who will be bap-
tized the weekend after Thanksgiv-
ing. I’m also thankful that I’m still a
bachelor.”
Scott Armentor
Winnie junior
“I am most thankful for my good
health. I love the holiday because it
gives one a chance to think of how
thankful everyone should be that
there are people who care about
you.”
Michelle King
Lumberton freshman
The chili served in or near the Capitol
may have been “uniquely American,” but
those who sampled it could agree that in
the stomach it was pure dynamite.
“This is the Bo Derek of chili,” Priebe
said, rolling his eyes, when asked to rate
the mixture’s potency on a scale of 1 to 10.
CHILI-USA, incidentally, is an acronym
of “Chili-Heads Interacting for Legislative
Initiative in the United States of
America.”
Priebe, an Oklahoma native who was
wearing a western-style hat and jacket,
appeared offended by questions that im-
plied chili’s true antecedents were South of
the Border.
“You must be thinking of chile, which is
spelled with an ‘e’ and is a Mexican pep-
per,” he sputtered indignantly. “Chili, the
families who are less fortunate than
ourselves will enjoy a truly meaningful
Thanksgiving this year.
Readers’ Forum
My special thanks are extended to each
of the individuals and organizations which
helped to*make the Lamar Food-a-thon
“I’m thankful for my family who
are going to be together and that I
can still fix Thanksgiving dinner for
them. We all really look forward to
this time of getting together. I’m
also glad that I am working and can
take an active part in life.”
Evelyn Martin
Wimberly Student Services Building
clerk
“My husband has finally gone
back to work after 10 months and I
am able to go back to school again.”
Harriet Sturgeon
Director of Baby Red Bird Nursery
“Probably my health, which I us-
ed to take for granted, and that I’m
able to go to school.”
Pam Edwards
Beaumont freshman
dish, is spelled with an ‘i’ and was invented
by cowboys who needed to keep
unrefrigerated meat from spoiling out on
the range.”
Priebe, and other “chili-heads” who at-
tended the Capitol ceremonies, also
challenged suggestions that the hot dog
was more deserving of the “official food”
label.
“The best hot dog is a chili dog,” Priebe
asserted. “I would even go so far as to
recommend chili as a topping for pizza.”
He and Carrol Shelby, of Pittsburg,
Texas, representing the International Chili
Society, used such expressions as “the
piece de resistance of the prairie” to extol
the virtues of their favorite comestible.
Shelby, former owner of the ranch near
Terlingua, Texas, where the first “chili
cook-off” was held, said the society “sanc-
such a pleasant and successful reality.
Dr. Larry M. Ludewig
Dean of students
Editor:
I wish to take time to express a deep ap-
preciation to the organizations and the in-
dividuals, both students and faculty,
whose effort made the Lamar “Share Your
Thanksgiving” a success. Jeff Girard, a
representative of Programs for Human
Services, estimated that Lamar contribu-
“I am thankful for God giving me
life that I can be an inspiration to
others, to keep them going and not
let things get them down when
things are not going their way. I like
to help people who think they do not
have the Lord on their side and show
them they do.”
Frankie Driver
Houston junior
“Everything. We don’t think of
what we have until we see somebody
without it. If we look around we can
see a lot of people less fortunate than
we are.”
Brett Walker
Groves junior
“A lot of things. A home. A family.
One thing else, that at least for the
moment, we are living in a country
that is not tom apart by war.”
Kim Bonnin
Orange junior
tioned” 235 such events this year.
The cook-offs attracted more than a
million chili fans and raised nearly $1
million for charity, he said.
He said the chili served at cook-offs in
Mexico is “completely different” from the
Tex-Mex variety familiar in the United
States.
“We’ll concede that chili was invented in
Texas,” said Priebe, a resident of Enid,
Okla., “but it got better the farther north it
moved.”
At the Capitol tastings, CHILI-USA serv-
ed pinto beans, grated cheese and minced
onion on the side.
Enactment of the joint resolution would
elevate chili to the status enjoyed by the
bald eagle, America’s “official bird.”
Priebe said congressional support rang-
ed from “warm to hot.”
tions topped 2,000 items, which he con-
sidered very good for such a brief em-
phasis.
This appears to be only one example of
the brilliant success we can enjoy by com-
bining efforts as a “university family.”
Our Thanksgiving is only multiplied when
we share the best of what we possess. May
your Thanksgiving season be especially
meaningful.
James Maness
Director, Baptist Student Union
By MAXWELL GLEN
and CODY SHEARER
* Field Newspaper Syndicate
WASHINGTON—It’s the bane of every
freshman to be treated like a child.
Freshmen are to be seen, not heard.
When called upon to do chores, they must
deliver. Hazing by upperclassmen must be
suffered magananimously.
In the House of Repesentatives,
however, when the kids become uppity, the
reacton of older members rates national
attention.
So it was last week as congress fussed
and grumbled its way to adjournment for
Thanksgiving recess. Among the most
depressing issues on its last-minute agen-
da was the federal deficit in general and a
vote to increase taxes by as much as $73
billion in particular. Had it not been for
first-term House Democrats, Speaker Tip
O’Neill might never have let that vote
come to the floor.
One week earlier, about two dozen
Democratic representatives, many of
them liberal freshmen, voted against a bill
that would have kept the federal govern-
ment running under continuing resolution.
Their complaint was simple: Continuing
appropriations would allow election-
conscious congressmen to avoid the
revenue-raising (i.e. tax increase) re-
quirement inherent in the 1984 budget. In
protest, they were saying that even
liberals can be committed to chopping the
deficit.
House veterans responded with hostile
condescension. Speaking for many of his
fellow old-timers, Majority Leader Jim
Wright subseqently proclaimed that he felt
like a football player who, on his way
toward a touchdown, is blindsided by a
member of his own team. Nonetheless, the
new members’ action may have done more
than any other to revive their colleagues’
commitment to a vote on, if not passage of,
a needed tax increase last Friday.
Last week’s vote was only the latest in a
series of actions for which the freshman
Democrats can take partial responsibility.
For example, had it not been for their
cohesive efforts to make last spring’s jobs
bill more equitable, many chronically poor
districts might have gone without relief. It
was soon thereafter that they threw
themselves, as a unit, into the pits of
federal budgetry, successfully lobbying
for a tax increase pledge in the eventual
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budget resolution.
Out of 1982’s freshman class have
emerged several stalwarts who deserve
all-star mention for level-headedness in
their first year. Rising stars can fade as
quickly as Guy Vander Jagt (Remember
the much-heralded rhetorician who was
chosen to keynote the 1980 GOP convention
and subsequently vanished?), but among
the unconventional Democrats to watch
are:
Bruce Morrison of Connecticut, 39, a
former chief of New Haven Legal Ser-
vices. After serving as the first chairman
of his freshman caucus, Morrison has con-
tinued to be one of its leading strategists.
Richard Durbin of Illinois, 39, a former
lieutenant governor and practicing at-
torney. The freshman caucus’ current
chairman, he played a significant role in
delivering votes on the first budget resolu-
tion.
Marcy Kaptur of Ohio, 37, an urban plan-
ning expert and Carter White House aide.
Like Morrison and others from long-
struggling Northern cities, Kaptur con-
tended that a jobs bill targeted strictly to
unemployment rates missed those
workers who had stopped looking for work.
Jim Moody of Wisconsin, 48, a former
Peace Corps official and university pro-
fessor. Moody, who campaigned door-to-
door to become a representative from
economically-depressed Milwaukee, has
become one of the freshman group’s
leaders on tax issues.
Sander Levin of Michigan, 51, brother of
his state’s junior senator and an ex-
perienced politico in his own right. With
Morrison, Levin helped to shift the jobs
bill’s emphasis to aid disillusioned
workers in chronically-troubled cities such
as his hometown, Detroit.
In the coming year, those freshmen and
others plan to keep deficits in the
forefront, even if their single-mindedness
irks a few colleagues. “We’ve been saying
that we don’t care how you do it,” says
Moody, citing the need to raise revenues
and cut defense spending increases. Adds
Morrison: “We’re going to make ours a
highly visible effort...and (will) work with
anyone who shares our concern.”
Even if the yougsters in the House have
little time to unite on other issues, their ef-
forts on the deficit crisis could help
Democrats as a whole in 1984—barring a
case of sophomore slump.
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Director of Student Publications
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Publisher
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