So, what’s with the TV stations out here in beautiful (HA HA) Dekalb. Great reception. I get channel 39 and some religious station. I can’t handle bad old black and white movies and Pat Robertson all in the same night. I want to kick off the shoes, relax with an ice cold bev. and watch a good movie. But no, not in DeKalb.

I’ll tell ya what I want. I want: “I Dream of Jeannie”, “Bewitched”, “Batman”, “I Love Lucy”, and most important, I want my Saturday morning cartoons! But no, I get “Highway 66”, “What’s Happening” and the “Mod Squad”. Sick, sick, sick is what I am. I want my MTV. What I don’t want is Empire commercials. Yea, Empire even advertises on channel 39 just in case someone at four in the morning wants new stainproof carpeting. What’s the number? You know it, come on 588, hum the tune, 2 3 … ends with a hundred….Empire. I wish we all knew the police or hospital emergency numbers as well. In case of emergency we call for carpeting. Great.

Yes, yes, I thought about cable, but I don’t think the parents would want to pay another bill. Ya know what I mean? Maybe it’s me, but they always seem pissed when I call (collect). They keep talking about a job or something—who could understand parents anyway?

All I know is I don’t have TV and I’m mad! And when I’m mad I rape and murder.

Hey, I could put up with the ugly town, the lack of parking, buildings with the ‘60s look, teachers that don’t know their own campus, and what’s with the names of the buildings??? “Davis Hall.” They couldn’t have called it “Davis Hall, building of Geography.” No, that would make sense. It’s better for students to walk around like fools not knowing where the hell they are! I could put up with all that, but no TV, that’s where I draw the line.

I don’t know. I’m deeply upset. I don’t know if I can go on with life. I’m in a town surrounded by vast farm lands, lost from civilization. I need TV for that feeling that…well, there is an outside world, and I’m not trapped.

How much could a bigger receiver cost DeKalb? They have the money. DeKalb sure as hell is not using the money to keep up the town. So, why not use tax money for a bigger TV antenna receiver or whatever they call it. For the sanity of our youth, I beg DeKalb, Please. I have a worthless $400.00 brown box sitting in the middle of the living room. I put a tablecloth and a lamp on it and it looks just like an end table.

I’ve pondered the situation, and well, there’s nothing to do but to get cable. HBO is having an 88 cent special. I think I’ll take advantage of it. It’s really sad that we have to get suckered into paying another bill, just because the town we live in is millions of zillions of feet below sea level.

I’m mad because we are forced, yes forced, to get cable. Television is needed in today’s society. It is informative and educational. Without television, we miss out on many educational programs, news, and important bulletins (like tornado or thunderstorm warnings). Today’s society centers on the media, and to be effective citizens we need to know what’s going on in the world! It is wrong for DeKalb or any other town, city, state or country to deny its citizens access to the media. We must be kept informed. I urge DeKalb to take action! (before Saturday morning).

William Kostomiris