An ln~er~iew With Gene Long NUS Atlantic: Fieldworker : Things are bleak

By JOHN p ARSONS weekly bulletins outlining their work, and Gene Long, Atlantic fieldworker for the copies are sent to all campuses. In addition

National Union of Students is at MUN this Long noted that Stephen Delaney, Ex­week, and will be meeting with the CSU to ternal V-P, is a member of the national explain NUS activities across Canada in executive of NUS, representing opposing government policy which ad- Newfoundland, and receives executive

_...., versely effects students. information on an ongoing basis. Long said Recently, Woody Pelley, the CSU the information services are provided to

Academic Vice-President and Steve the CSU to inform them about NUS Delaney, External Vice-President, con- programs, and to allow them to apply this demned NUS for their lack of interest in information to their own, local campaigns. MUN. They complained that NUS has not NUS has been taking an active role atctively involved the CSU in national recently on the thational scene with its undertakings. representation to government expressing

Long reacted to these criticisms by student concern on a number of issues. In explaining that NUS can only play a November Manpower Minister Bud Cullen supportive role when it comes to local anti- introduced changes to the Unemployment cutback activities. "NUS can only assist, Insurance Act which would effectively advise, and provide resources for work eliminate students from being able to done at the local level," Long said. collect UI. NUS coordinated a telegram

On the national level, the National Union campaign to the Minister opposing these of Students pools the influence of student changes. Over 35 student unions across the unions across Canada to lobby against country sent in telegrams, including the federal government education policy MUN Council of the Students' Union. NUS which it considers to adversely affect also met with members of the Opposition students. It reacts to government un- parties and had the student opinion derfunding, tuition increases, Student Aid brought up in the House of Commons. cutbacks, and summer and graduate An anti-cutback campaign arranged by unemployment. NUS to fight a recent attempt on the

"There are obviously some miscon- federal government's part to cut funding ceptions about the nature of NUS ac- to the provinces for universities, was tivity," said Long. "I think that these can successful Long reported. The proposal be worked out fairly easily." Long noted was dropped in the face of widespread that the CSU EXECUTIVE CRITICISED opposition. THE FACT THAT HE HAS NOT BEEN AT Long also explained that last month the MUN since October and said that as federal Secretary of State contacted NUS Atlantic Fieldworker he works with 22 to inform them of plans to re-vamp the institutions. ;JJ • .i~n't as though there national student aid program. NUS was hasn',t.~ ~Y c?ti'fk~·" NUS publishes asked to outline its position on this issue

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Earlier, studetns narrowly defeated a motion to cancel classes for a two day period to hold the workshops. On Feb. 1 at the largest general meeting in the university's history over 1,500 of U. de M's 2,400 students turned out to debate having the study sessions. A motion to cancel classes was defeated 680-825.

Afterwards, however, a group of about 200 students decided to occupy the Sports and aTHLETIC COMPLEX TO CON­TINUE DISCUSSING THE ISSUES. They decided to approach students in each department to vote on cancelling their classes and joining the study sessions. As of February 6 more than 600 students in the fa cul ties of Arts, Science and Engineering had voted in favor of can­celling their classes and most other departments were expected to do the same by Wednesday.

A spokesperson from the student radio station said "Most people are scared of having a strike but realize that something has to be done. The purpose of the study sessions is to fully debate the issues and to find some alternative to a strike which will allow us to deal with the questions," he said.

According to student federation .spokesperson Joseph Labelle, "the campus is mobilized and moving. There's

discussion everywfiere. The situation is very volatile," he said. He added that people were proceeding cautiously given the results of the February 1 vote.

The students are asking for three changes in the Student Aid program: that loans and bursaries be tied to increases in the cost of living, that the criteria for determining "independence" of either two years in the work force or four years of post-secondary study be eliminated, and that revenue obtained from sources such as part-tiine employment not be used to decrease students aid.

About 75-80 percent of U de M students receive some assistance under the program.

Although no tuition increases have yet been announced, Chislain Michaud, the general secretary of the student federation, said students expect a 15 percent increase. This would mean an extra $100 added onto the present $620 fee.

Moncton students who live off campus also have been recently hit with increased rents. In December the Moncton lan­dlord's association raised rents by $25 per month and plan another $25 increase in June.

Labelle said students are trying to form a tenants association in conjunction with city and community groups to push for a provincial rent commission.

The students are also protesting the recent changes in UIC legislation which restricts students from coverage. Michaud said the changes hit the U de M students especially hard since most are Acadians from the province's highest unem­ployment areas.

and to prepare some recommendations. NUS most recent activity has been

aimed at p-reparing a comprehensive brief on student concerns for presentation to the federal cabinet early in March. "This has become our major activity at the moment," said Long. "We are organizing support and getting information out to campuses."

Long described the emphasis for the brief as being around two factors affecting education at present: accessibility and

·planning. "We will be making a pitch to get the federal government to take some measures to ease the financial strain on the student and to adopt policy setting out goals and objectives for post-secondary education." Noting that Les Harris, the Administration Vice-President (Academic) at Memorial, has recently criticized the government for its lack of planning in education, Long said that NUS is appealing to the federal government to take a stand in ·planning for the future of post-secondary education.

"Governments," said Long, "are cutting back in a hodge-podge manner, based on

short term fiscal policies without any consideration of the implications cutbacks carry.''

Long will be discussing ways the CSU can "plug in" to ongoing national cam­paigns. "My role as fieldworker is not to give a blueprint for what the CSU should do, but to provide NUS resources and assistance to the council in their own ef­forts to deal with provincial level education policies." Long noted that along with the work around the federal brief, NUS will be helping student associations across the country to deal with another round of government cutback an­nouncements. He added that tuition fee increases are slated for next year in seven or eight provinces.

He concluded by saying that MUN has been active in NUS for several years and is one of the strongest members of the national organizatio9. He said he is sure the CUS appreciatesthe work NUS is doing on behalf of students and can understand their concern for communication. "But the situation is definitely not as bleak as it is made out to be."

No CSU Dry Dances It is unlikely that the CSU will be holding

any dry dances this term, according to Craig Butler, the still wet behind the ears entertainment Director. Butler is frustrated because of a rule of the Ad­ministration wbich forbids miXed wet and dry events in the Thomson Student Centre.

However the residences, who have the Main Dining Hall booked for every Friday night this semester, are regularly putting off wet and dry dos. 'I don't know how they do it,' says Butler, ' I'll have to try and find out.'

The possibility of holding dances with no liquor at all cannot be done because too much money would be lost. Even the popular New Wave Night lost forty dollars on the door, with liquor sales allowing the concert to make money. 'Even high school

kids can't drink more than four soft erinks,' says Butler. Butler realizes that Friday night is the night on campus, and so that is when the majority of entertainment will take place, despite the fact that it conflicts with the house parties. 'We're not trying to steal the students, but to get them to see some live entertainment.'

Carson Leonard, TSC Building Manager, confirmed the rule and said that the residence parties were a concession as there are so many people under age in the houses. Leonard said if the parties were only for those over nineteen probably only half of the present numbers would show up.

Butler has several bands lined up for the semester, with definite dates, A Touch of Class tonight, and Uncle Remus March 2.

Volume 29, number 16

Thttftfise ne1tlier holdS, nor acts as an agent for, nor subscribes to, any exclusive political or social ideology or dogma.

Keeping t _journalism alive .

Question: Do you think sexual discrimination is a problem at Memorial?

Derrick Sheppard, Harbour Grace, 1st Year Arts.

No, I have not seen a lot of this going on.

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Wayne Dwyer, Labrador, Science Yes, I think girls discriminate against

me because I don't get enough.

Martina Mwiden, Isle aux Morts, Nursing, 1st Year / There are definitely a lot of pig-headed

fellows arowid.

Derek Cooze, Marystown, Science No discrimination, but there are

members of each sex who are viewed just as sex objects, and nothing else.

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On October 12th, after three intensive years of studying the theory of relativity, Wayne Thomson left his lab, lit up a Colts, paused, reflected, and decided to become a phys ed major.

Colts. A great br~ak. Enjoy them anytime.

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By John Parsons Thanks to the efforts of a newly-formed

local organization, untold millions of codfish may soon have their lives made a little easier. CODPEACE, the organization dedicated to saving the defenseless cod from the gnashing, marauding jaws of the harp seal, was introduced to the St. John's Rotary Club at a recent luncheon by businessman and former city councillor Miller Ayre. Ayre is the official cod­ordinator of the group.

Disgusted with the human-like man­nerisms attributed to harp seals by such lobbyist groups as Greenpeace and the International Fund for Animal Welfare, Codpeace plans to take the same line in its fight for the rights of the cod. Its intention is to make known to the public the previously ignored plight of the cod, who faces violent death daily at the hands of the savage harp seal.

Being relatively defenceless creatures, cod can only attempt to flee for their lives when threatened by seals. Ayre's cod­servationist group now plans a massive campaign, revealing to the world the terrible deeds of the harp seal.

Society has been callous with cod, says Ayre. When ref erring to speciPs, one would say a head of cattle, or mention the loss of human life. Cod, on the other hand, are

· tactlessly listed by the pound. It's this kind of mistreatment that Codpeace hopes to squelch.

For the purposes of its campaigns, Codpeace has documented the perils of a typical cod family - consisting of the Codfather, the Fairy Codmother, Connie, Tommy, and Cuddles Cod. One particular graphic shows the harmless family being attacked from behind by the villainous Heinrich Von Harp Seal. It is hoped that people who are rold of the Cod family's persecution will come to their senses and support Codpeace's cause.

It is unsure whether or not the ten pounds of cod said to be eaten by a seal every day comes from two five-pound cod,

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or from random bites out of hundreds of cod. If that is the case, one can just imagine the countless numbers of mangled cod, left to a slow death, floating in frigid waters after having being chomped on by a ravenous, depraved harp seal. Also, education has been denied the cod, which has now gained a reputation for stupidity. This is because harp seal attacks have frightened them out of their schools.

Environmental facotrs also argue for saving the cod from the harp seal's

Ed Soc meets folk The Education Society, continuing their

success with bringing speakers to talk on the Grade 12 issue last tenn, plans to have politicians of all parties to speak about their policies on education and what they would do if elected.

The Society is also trying to get Education students to sign up to serve the Faculty Council. They need twenty people to fill the positions. Carl Eustace, the president, said; 'In twenty years you'll be in Ben's or some basement somewhere, and you'll say, 'Why didn't we do something when we were at University, then we wouldn't bf.: : ~~ils situation. Now's your chance to get up and do something. So I thin.K you should sign up, really.' ·

Eustace reported the social held two weeks ago was a success, with over a hundred people in attendance. 'We have to get students together,' he said, 'Groups can get a lot doen. But people talking all over the building won't accomplish much.' He says they plan to hold socials once a month from now on.

The society is also trying to get a larger room. The present room, El, is so small 'when you have ten people in there you can't comb your hair.' Eustace hopes to

have a new room by the end of the semester, and has written about this to Dean Eaton and the President as well as the Dean of Education.

An idea for a Young Canada Works Project to teach exceptionally intelligent children this summer, was put forward by Jeff Cuff. This year is the International Year of the Child. The project, if accepted would provide ten jobs and help teach up to thirty children. Cuff explained that although there were provisions made for exceptional children of below average intelligence, there was no comparable program for the highly intelligent child.

Dr. Tucker of the Education Faculty then gave a description of how the educational programs available to all children when he grew up, were highly deficient by today's standards.

He recalled being chosen to teach in a nearby community when he was only seventeen, and had not yet completed Grade Ten. The car that was supposed to take him never arrived, and it was not until a year later, that he began to teach as Salvation Anny minister and teacher in LaScie.

The meeting was attended by a bout thirty students.

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guerilla antics. Schools of cod, butchered by renegade seal herds, would leave messy layers of cod liver oil washing up on beaches throughout the coast.

the sale of T-Shirts and Posters will aid in finding out the names of those who sent telegrams to the federal government to protest the seal hunt, whereupon ten seals will be killed in their names. Of cours,e science must play a role in

proving the rights and roles of the helpless cod. Research by Codpeace has revealed that the embryonic cry of the cod, when magnified 1,200 times resembles the cry of a human infant. Further studies have found that cod always have tears in their eyes. Small wonder, notes Codpeace.

Codpeace has detailed plans for stopping the annual cod slaughter, and is beginning

- to implement them skillfully. Ayre says that the organization is based on groups of volunteers who operate from their homes to publicize the codfish plight. Mem­bership in Codpeace is available to anyone, for a five dollar fee (a 'fin'), which entitles the member to buttons, bumper stickers, and to having a seal killed in his name at the annual hunt.

The group uses a multitude of puns on the word 'cod' to inject the humour that can make the efforts of anti-sealing groups appear ridiculous and unfounded. Its motto is "In Cod We Trust", while its theme song is "Cod Guard Thee, Newfoundland.''

The group plans to take militant steps to oppose anti-sealing organizations. Funds obtained through membership fees. and

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A more drastic attack is the planned infiltration of Washington, if Codpeace's cries are unheeded. There, the group . would kill and skin the Seal of the Republic and the Presidential Seal.

Training programs will be sponsored by Codpeace. In one particular program, special scuba divers will be taught to place their bodies between those of helpless cod and attacking seals.

A final research program will attempt to find ways of making the cod taste repulsive to the merciless harp seal.

Miller Ayre was aided in cod-ordinating the Codpeace effort by Bob Olivero, once news editor of the Muse. The latest word on the fishy trials of Codpeace: St. John's mayor Dorothy· Wyatt was invited to Kiss­A-Cod in a recent contest sponsored by Codpeace. It offers a prize to the person whose picture shows him or her kissing the fish. Entries, says Codpeace, shall be judged on "poise, position, feeling and sincere sincereity." Mayor Wyatt was reported to be upset because the cod she was to kiss turned out to be only a Cuddles Cod doll. She had expected to kiss the real thing.

Short on" quoru~ (again) The CoWlcil Meeting scheduled for

Wednesday night failed to materialize. Although a total of twelve councillors arrived between the scheduled time of five fifteen, and six o'clock when the meeting disbanded, the loss of two councillors meant the meeting did not reach quorum

of eleven peq:>le. Councillors were entertained in the

interim by Gene Long, now the Atlantic fieldworker for the National Union of Students, who gave a talk on the activities of the organization (see story).

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Fun.ding Formula "Daddy, what are you going to do with

the six hundred dollars we're getting for you", asks the girl in the family planning commercial. The ad is part of an effort to persuade peq>le to fill in the hefty form that has to be completed in order to claim the full family allowance under the new system.

However, to receive the amount of money suggested in the commercial you would have to have three children and earn less than $18,000 a year. Even then, as the allowance has been decreased from $25.64 per child per month to $20, the in­crease will not be the full $600.

A rate schedule was sent out with the December allowance and those people who find they are ineligible for the tax credit will not have to fill out the new form, wh ch requests information on the incomes of both husband and wife. In some cases mothers will have to apply for SIN num­bers which they did not previously have, as this information is necessary ~hen filling out the form.

In order to alleviate difficulties with the . form, which is a smaller version of the ordinary income tax form, Health and Welfare Canada is trying to get volunteer groups in the province to help people witli filling out the forms.

The tax credit means that money will be refunded. after income tax has been evaluated, rather than the money arriving regularly every montll. The amo~t credited per child will vary from $200 for families with incomes of below $18,000 to nothing for thooe with incomes above S36,000.

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To The Editor & Staff; (The Muse) Messers A.B. Stockwood & J. Cuff advise

MUSE readership that they are not current MUSE staff as was noted in­correctly in the Staffbox Feb. 9, 79) Vo .. 29 No. 15. .

At present they are working on volun­tary retention at the task request of Mr. Steve Delaney; Council Students Union (C.S.U.); in consultation with Mr. Peter Adamson (Addressograph, Multigraph Canada Ltd.) and Mr. Dave Kirkland C.S.U. Union Manager.

The task focus of this work is to secure information, feasibility, and im­plimentation procedure for a proposed purchase of machinery which will

1. increase the technical and production aspect of the student owned service 'The MUSE."

- 2.- decrease revenues now expended. on the publication of. 'The MUSE,' by in­vesting C.S.U. and other 'propo~~d revenues' into the purchase of specific media oriented equipment.

3. Provide the necessary cost investment estimates for consideration by the C.S. U.

4. Provide relevant source material on proposed "generated revenues" of this investment for consideration by the C.S. U. and-or a specific council task force.

The aim of this proposal is to save the C.S.U. money (the student's union fees) and to generate a "business" atmosphere consistent for future media training of MUSE staff and the Autonomous preservation of a valid stude.nt s~rv.ice, which will this year celebrate its thirtieth birthday . . . Happy Birthday AMUSERS

Messers Stockwood & Cuff.

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By PAUL M. McDONALD Of the Political Science Society

For some time now, the atmosphere around the province has been charged with whispered rwnorings that a long-awaited explosion of economic growth is about to occur. Only a month ago, Premier Moores spoke openly, in his resignation speech, about the economic prosperity about to seize the province. Newfoundland may well be on the brink, but hopefully in more ways than one.

Five years ago, Ray Guy used the term ''a strict diet of pie in the sky'' to describe that which has constantly been doled out by Newfoundland politicians to a population ever-hungry for some assurance a decent standard of living. A people whose very birthright includes the benefits of one of the world's largest concentrations of natural resources has been alternatively lured and subdued by proclamations of "Burn your boats! and "Fisheries is our future!" Billions of dollars have been extracted through ex­ploitation of our mineral, timber and ocean resources, yet three out of ten Newfoundlanders are out of work, and there are still communities around the province which are so isolated that contact with the outside world depends almost entirely upon weather and ice conditions. Strange, isn't it?

we stand the possibility of never realizing the financial gain to which this province is entitled.

One wonders if the day will come when we can open the newspapers and not read accounts of gross violations of public tendering acts, fat contracts for party hacks, obscene phone calls, baby talk and a disgraceful debasement of parliamentary practice and procedure. Believe it or not, all this and more is being brought to you by those who will be ultimately responsible for seeing that Newfoundlanders get what's coming to them (no pun intended).

It is sometimes said that recent years have witnessed a refinement, sophistication and democratization in Newfoundland politics.

No such luck. If anything, represen­tatives of all political st~ipes have acquired and mastered a facility for manipulation and deceit limited only by their knowledge of the applicable legal sanctions.

How does an electorate go a bout changing this shameful state of affairs?

For one thing, it does not sit on its ass and just watch and complain. It refuses to accept flatulent pronouncements of jobs, and security. It challenges vote-seeking politicians about who the hell they think they are talking to and· where, pray tell, the money for all these hospitals, arenas and schools is coming from, especially when every district is supposed to get them after the election.

behaving in the House of Assembly like charlatans, it declines to re-elect them and labels them publicly as hypocrites who are unfit to speak to the public interest.

We are all responsible for the fact that the Newfoundland electorate falls short of the one just described.

Admittedly, it is highly unlikely that any electorate fits the model even nearly perfectly, or can ever expect to. We can move in that direction, though, in the

expectation that politicans will be less inclined to indulge themselves and their associates in the public trough. When the Newfoundland public realizes that it alone makes the ultimate decisions about its future, it will be on the verge of another brink. Call it what you want.

(This colwnn is sponsored by the Political Science Society and is written by Society members. The views expressed are those of the author).

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It refuses to accord to politicians the exaltee status which many of them think they deserve, and instead treats them for • exactly what they are · damn well-paid !servants of the people. And when this electorate sees its representatives

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not a member, for get -squash By GERALD SORENSEN

If you plan on playing squash on the campus squash courts this semester, forget it. To play squash here you must have a certificate that says you are a member of the campus squash club. To obtain one of these you had to go the Phys. Ed Bldg. around registration time and pick one up from Mr. Chapman at G122. The only problem with that is that you had to be one of the first 500 that showed up.

There was little advertising for the p~ssing out of cards, and it was run on a first come first serve basis. The only advertising was on the close.circuit T.V.

staff box-·: The Muse is published by the Students'

Union of Memorial University of Newfoundland as a service to the students. Views expressed in the Muse are not necessarily those of the Council of the Students' Union of any member thereof.

The Muse is printed by Robinson Black­more Ltd. which is situated on O'Leary Avenue.

The Muse is a member of Canadian University Press (CUP) and of Youthstream.

Subscriptions are $3.00 per semester payable to The Muse.

Editor: Jon Waterhouse. The Muse is located on the second floor

of the Student Centre in Room 222. Its mailing address is MUN, Box 118, St. John's.

All writing, design, and editorial content is contributed by a volunteer staff of students. Photography is done by either staff or Cameramun.

Submissions of news stories, comment, literary material, photographs and letters are encouraged but it is advisable to check

and a few posters The reason it was run on a first come

first serve basis was because in previous terms anybody wishing to play squash would have to line up for extended periods of time to put your name on a time slot sheet. Since there is only three courst to play in, to relieve the problem Mr. Chapman made a system where the first come get served first which lets 500 people play until September '79. However more cards will be given out at the beginning of the spring term because of the few people who will be attending MUN in the summer.

with Muse staff first to avoid duplication of effort. Letters to the Editor ~hould be kept within 300 words. Return of manuscripts is not guaranteed. Double-spaced typed copy should be submitted and must be signed although names will be withheld on request.

The Muse subscribes to the Principles of Canadian University-Press and also to its Code of Ethics for Student Journalists. No slanderous or lia belous material will be printed. Other than this restriction content is decided by space limitations and by the willingness of the writer to see their work through all stages of production.

Membership in the Muse is open to all members of the Students' Union and associate memberships are available to all others.

The purpose of the Muse is to serve the students of MUN by disemmenating in­formation, promoting student in­volvement, providing an outlet for the free interchange of ideas, promoting the health and vitality of the university community, and, having a good time.

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by Ken Harvey MAGIC

a full house night club, we see the posters things he does not want to. outside "6th Big Week." He has finally Anthony Hopkins' acting is FAN­made the big time. His manager, Ben TASTIC. Adding to the cast were: Ann­Green (Burgess Meredith), also known as Margret (very good)and Burgess

Upon entering the theatre I was the postman because he always delivers, is Meredith (great). Although ''Magic'' has a somewhat shocked by the emptiness of the in the audience with a member of a major fairly slow-moving plot the effect is unreal cinema. The hall lay silent as the people T. V. network who has been invited over to as long as you pay attention and think there waited to be scared out of their wits. observe Corky, Green's new discovery. about the meanings of the scenes, "Abracadabra, I sit on his knee, presto Gaining an offer for a television pilot he especially the last-stop frame of the chango, and now he is me, hocus pocus, we does not want, due to a problem we find out wooden heart. take her to bed. Magic is fun; We're dead, about later, Corky sets off for his home states the afvertisement. town to visit his college lover.

My first reaction to the movie was one of The suepense begins at the lakeside Upcoming. Movies

boredom (Sunday evening hwn drwn). resort -the girl of his school-time dreams The initial shot was a long pan of a room is running in his home town. The control of NO KNIFE (Warner Brothers): This full of old p~ters, dwnmies and many Corky's mind by his dwnmy, Fats, is move contains such actors as Gene Wilder memories. The pan ended on a shot of an depicted and we sometimes wonder if the and Harrison Ford under the direction of old man and then Corky (Anthony dwnmy's existence is real or only in Robert Aldrich. The movie takes place Hopkins) entered. He tells his friend of his Corky's mind. during the gold rush of the 1850's. Wilder evening performance pretending that he From then on in the movie has many plays a rabbi and Harrison portrays a did well (the editing in the shis scene is shocks most of them coming slowly but cowboy who befriends Wilder. The movie fantastic) but in fact he did not. The old gripping you when they do. Corky con- is full of laughs. man knew. tinues to lose touch with reality as Fats DRACULA (Universal Studios) Directed

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Mirisch. Dracula consists of such actors and actresses as: Frank Langella, Sir Laurence Olivier, Donald Pleasence, Kate Nelligan, Trevor Eve, and Jan Francis. The movie brings back the original character from his sleep to gain popularity once again.

ALIEN (20th Century Fox) This is a movie of the detailed voyage on Nostromo, an U.S. Commercial Starship, and its crew of seven; five men and two women. In "Alien", a futuristic space film, an awesome galactic creature is brought on board the ship and one by one the crew fall to it's amazing powers until the end.

Music Notes ENO'SAND

SCHMIDT'S CARDS A few years ago, Brian Eno and artist

friend Peter Schmidt put out a limited edition of cards entitled "Oblique Strategies." Shortly after the cards became collectors items, the demand for them increased tremendously. They have been re-issued but not signed by Eno and Schmidt. Regardless of this fact they are almost exactly like the originals.

• ZEPPELIN RECORDING AGAIN

Zeppelins new album, which was recorded recently in Stolkholm, is now being given the final touches. The groups long-a waited new albwn is receiving the final mixes by Jimmy Page. The albwn will not be out until spring and as for touring, there are no plans at the present time.

RAMONE'S NEW FLIC ABLAST •

Ramone's new film, "Rock and Roll High School," is now being shot in Los Angeles. The district they are filming in has been dondemned by the city. It's just as well because the film ends with the school being blown up. People are won­dering how they are going to blow it up; some have suggested turning the Ramone's music up on ten.

HALL AND FRIPP STIFLED

Daryl Hall depated from the group Hall and Oates a bout a year ago to record a solo albwn with Robert Fripp. The outcome was heard to be an album of hot rock & roll but it was never released. RCA executives say they will nevE:r release it and they don't want to talk about it. I wonder why. Some say it is a complete turn-around of Halls recent material, too radical for RCAs liking.