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About campus By Chuck Cromer One dty last week while reading a book on the Marx Brothers, I came across these lyrics that Groucho sang in the movie Horsefeathers. "I don't know what they have to say It makes no difference anyway Whatever it is, I'm against it." Horsefeathers was a Marx Brothers classic that satirized education, college life and especially the university hierarchy. Groucho starred as the president of a small college whose only goals were to graduate his aging son and see that his schoool defeated a rival school in football. Other prominent issues concerning his troubled college were of secondary importance as he equally neglected the opinions of his staff and the student body. THE MARX BROTHERS released Horsefeathers in 1932, but their satire remains timeless and their message relevant. For instance, on the local scene, if you were to replace USC President William H. Pat terson for Groucho and change the name of the college from Huxley to USC, there would be no noticeable dif ference in collegiate priorities between the two in the over forty years since that movie was made. Patterson made several comments this summer pinpointing his philosophy about the welfare of the more than 20,000 students attending USC. "To tell you the truth, I haven't really got much in terest in young people," and "I'm personally not really concerned about student apathy at all. It's up to the student to get involved. It's enough for each of us to just sit down and decide what is the best for ourselves," Patterson said. When you compare Patterson's comments with those of Groucho's, you realize that they are synonymous; meaning when it comes to student affairs, they do not give a damn what students do or have to say. THROUGH COMMENTS LIKE Patterson's, our administration has declared the affairs of students outside the academic world is not of value to them. Thus the president of our University is obviously apathetic to the apathy of students outside the classroom. One factor our illustrious president has failed to consider in this ideology is that the education students receive outside the classroom is just as important and beneficial as the knowledge he or she receives through academic instruction. In many cases these student activities prepare the student better for the chaotic outside world. Through more than 180 student organizations on our campus, a number of career-related programs are offered that can provide us with one essential factor that determines whether one gets a job or not--experience. Academics may qualify the student for an ap pointment with a potential employer, but experience will probably secure him the position. One is essential to the success of the other, yet our administration feels that their responsibility covers academics only, and the quantity of degrees given over the quality received. Also, the administration advocates that academics alone will create a well-balanced student without the services of campus-related social outlets. Academic strain may cause nervous frustrations. A break from the norm is needed just to maintain one's sanity. Also, students need to intermingle in order to develop new ideas or re-evaluate old prejudices. IT'S LITTLE.WONDER USC is plagued with student apathy when each member of the Carolina Community reads the rebuttals and lack of interest that their president has in them. Why should they care when their top administrator does not. ente. Stockard Channing co-stars with Warren Beatty and Jack Nicholson in Mike Nichols' zany comedy,' "The Fortune,' now showing at the Fox Theatre downtown. In her first screen role, the comedienne portrays a fey, uninhibited heiress to a lavish fortune. "'.0 Columbia Picture Script finishes sec( 0t in Nichols' 'The F( By SAM L. IRVIN JR. BEAT Gamecock Staff Writer respecti brilliant One of the new games in Hollywood is to pair male with oi superstars together. We have seen, or are about to terpreta see, such combinations as Newman and Redford, no toler Redford and Hoffman, Hoffman and McQueen, under t McQueen and Newnan, Segal and Caan, Brando gourmel and Nicholson, and the currently playing pair, eat food Nicholson and Beatty in The Fortune. It is very easy to get carried away with playing one moi this little game by making the pairing more im- slithery portant than the scripting. The producers are dessert, saying, "I've got so-and-so and so-and-so to star in commei my film together!" instead of "Wow, you should to admi read this great script we've got!" And the film The chicken Fortune suffers from this problem. POO-POO THE STARS ARE big stuff - Jack Nicholson hot Channi off of his Chinatown explosion, and Warren Beatty are trul burning off his Shampoo bonfire. The director is no loser--Mike Nichols whose successes include Carnal Anotl1 Knowledge and The Graduate. Therefore, the in a srr potential patron expects to see something really Gould. great, but he certainly doesn't with The Fortune. ding to In the year of Monty Python and Mel Brooks, they Jack N: dare call this ''one of the funniest films of all-time" says, ": in some of the publicity. That is a joke indeed. The case is Fortune evokes a few snickers here and there, but they are so far and wide that the term "comedy" Seve, must be used loosely. familia The story is about Oscar (Jack Nicholson) and with thi Nick (Warren Beatty), who are taking a young Crothei heiress named Freddie (Stockard Channing) to pants d California in the hopes of getting her money. Still a with thi minor, she is in love with Nick who cannot marry her because he is already married. But he does not The want to miss out on the money, so he gets his friend vr Oscar to marry her, and they hope to split the - te~a fortune. the 192 When Freddie informs her family that she has left posed t home, her father cuts her out of his will; "a mean a law t man and a man of means often means the same aro thing." But she still will inherit her mother's for- th fio tune. When Freddie learns that all the men want is .. her money, she decides to give it all to charity. In plies it desperation to get the money from her before she with w4 can do this, they decide to kill her. Several schemes the gir of attack are attemoted before the film comes to a close.. rtainment -%-X Jack Nicholson and Warren Beatty play a pair of 1920's scoundrels who employ matrimony and murder to part an hheiress from her wealth in ''The Fortune.'' IX. )nd to stars )rtune' TFY AND Nichison are quite good in their ye roles, but they are easily upstaged by the Stockard Channing who provides the film ie of the most refreshing female in tions on film. Her character, Freddie, has ance for booze, and passes out promptly ie influence of the smallest amount. Her cooking is excellent for those who like to i that resembles charcoal. For breakfast ning, her menu includes burnt-black rolls, eggs, okra souffle, slimy bacon, and for jello that didn't set. Her reply to the snide ats is, "Isn't this fun for a change; you have t." She practices tango dancing with her pet ,and uses such strong language as "You faces" when describing her dishonest faces. ng's style of delivery and facial expressions y superb, and she makes the film tolerable. er highlight of the film is Florence Stanley all supporting role as the landlady, Mrs. She eavesdrops on her tenants by preten water plants near their windows. She finds icholson with his zipper down and timidly Pardon me for saying this, but your fiddle open." -al very small parts are played by several r faces, but every opportunity to be funny ese veteran actors was avoided. Scatman s finds Beatty and Nicholson with their own at the beach, and any possible comedy is situation is abandoned. >riginal script by Adrien Joyce is basically or. It is very vague in many parts, par y when quickly explaining the Mann Act, of ('s, which is what Oscar and Nick are sup a be violently disobeying. The Mann Act was hat forbade men from transporting women tate lines for illegal purposes, according to ra. This is such a contradiction since it im would be perfectly alright to do illegal things men if the man remains in the state in which I lives! Plae ... .ORT'v. e