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1\ -r=>:« '/~\JJ~ With this contraption. Steve Sherrill might even be able to get away with watching the big game during class. Tune In Time owmany of us know ments that are popping up all every soap opera on over campus. Video cassette reo H channel 13 and what corders allow WMC students time they're on? How many of (who can't get HBO or Cinemax) us, when too poor to go to to forget their own problems and Champs, watch Cheers and LA become involved in someone Low on Thursday nights? And else's for two hours. With free how many of us tune in to Teen- memberships at Erol's, Bond age Mutant Ninja Turtles every Street Video, or any of the other afternoon? six thousand movie rental stores, These days, since every col- just about anyone can rent a lege dorm room contains at least movie whenever they want. one television and cable, stu- Renting a movie for two or three dents have become TV junkies. dollars is much cheaper than go- AI night, rooms in every dorm ing to the Cranberry Movies at are dark except for that eerie $6.50 a ticket flickering light from the televi- The other major TV attach- sion. Once you turn it on, there's ment that has become so popu no turning it off. A half hour study lar at WMC is Nintendo. A floor break to watch Wheel of Fortune is not complete without at least turns into a four hour marathon one Nintendo game with 16 or of sitcoms. A terrible addiction, 17 cassettes. Seriously addicted TV probably was invented so students play through the night, college students wouldn't read then have to skip classes the next their philosophy or do their sta- day to catch up on sleep. Nrn tistics. tendo certainly is making money Besides being entertainment from us. And so is the entire elap- on its own, TV has many attach anese electronic industry! A channel switcher in the ROTC suite, Pete Maye pauses on channel 7 28 .... Life