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Looking For Talent
Is there performing talent on your campus? If so, the AllAmerican
Collegiate Talent Search would like to see it. This
new program, developed by Barbara Hubbard, director of
special events at New Mexico State University, is offering
cash prizes and career opportunities to performers who
prove their talents in national competition. ACTS is also
offering a three-day workshop, in conjunction with the talent
finals, to help potential performers prepare for a career in
the entertainment industry.
To enter the competition, students should submit a video
cassette recording or, in tne case 01 singers or comedians, an
audio cassette with photograph. These will be judged on a
regional and then national basis, until seven national finalists
are cnosen oy a panel 01 judges mai mciuaes represeniauves
from Billboard Magazine, Warner Brothers Records, Armed
Forces talent personnel, as well as leading talent and
publicity agencies. The seven finalists will compete in.a live
show at NMSU Jan. 16, as the opening act for a major
recording artist.
All entrants must be enrolled in college and pursuing a
degree. Performing groups of up to 10 people are eligible if
all students attend the same school. Any type of performing
talent is welcomed, says Jan Scarbrough, ACTS producer.
Each act must have a student or professional staff member
from the college or university to serve as an adviser.
ACTS will award both cash prizes and matching
scholarships to the winning acts and schools they represent.
First prize is $3,000, second prize is $2,000 and third-place
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addition,audition tapes of all regional winners will be viewed
by production groups including Warner Brothers Records,
American Theatre Productions and The Oakland Ballet
Company. All contestants will be eligible for a touring
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the Orient under the sponsorship of the U.S. Department of
Defense.
The ACTS conference, to be held Jan. 13-16 at NMSU, will
feature many of the contest judges and others offering information
on performing careers. "We're trying to combine
entertainment and education," says Hubbard , a campus
activities veteran who began work on the ACTS concept in
1971. "There is currently no real course study in grooming
kids for the arts. That's what we're trying to do."
ACTS guidelines are being mailed to activities offices and
music departments of colleges across the country, says
Hubbard.
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A persistent professor has delayed and may eventually halt
plans for a University of California-Los Angeles campus pub
to sell beer and wine.
Professor Edward Rada, an economics professor in the
School Of Public Health, objected to a state Alcoholic
Beverage Control board decision to grant a license to the
Associated Students of UCLA to sell alcohol in its newly built
pub. Pada's objections were overruled by the BAC, but he
has filed an appeal and claims he'll fight all the way to the
U.S. Supreme Court if necessary.
In the meantime, most preparations for the pub's opening
have been completed, says Cindy Cher now, an ASUCLA
administrative assistant. "We're going right ahead, and
we'll open it when it's ready ? we just can't sell beer and
wine there." Chernow says the students are cautiously optimistic
that Rada's objections will be overruled. "We can't
see a reason why they wouldn't be."
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alcohol abuse, and says that as an indirect arm of the state
government, ASUCLA can't legally sell liquor. He unsuccessfully
waged a similar battle when the faculty center
obtained its liquor license, says Chernow.
ASUCLA is maintaining it has no direct connection with the
state and that the pub will provide a badly needed place for
students to socialize. "Right now, you have to go intc
Westwood, which means you have to walk since there is
absolutely no parking," she says. "Besides, the places arc
mobbed and much over-priced."
Violence And Love
violence is a growing pari 01 reiauonsmps between college
students, according to a survey by a University of Arizona
sociologist. Mary Reige Laner interviewed students at
colleges in Oregon, Arizona and Minnesota and found about
60 percent had experienced some form of physical violence
during dating relationships. Nearly 30 percent said they
expected slapping, hitting or scratching in anger in the
course of serious relationships, and over half of those who
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relationship with the person they had abused or were abused
by. Thirty-seven percent thought the violence had actually
improved their relationships.
Reports taken from the National On Campus
Report.
Letters
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To the Editor:
To make USC a better
nhr<P fnr thf? pvpnin0
students (as well as the day
students), I feel several
policies need to be changed.
An incident on Saturday,
September 5, 1981, triggered
this letter. It happened as
follows.
On Thursday, September
thirrl T wont fho tho Q C
Book Store looking for the
text my professor recommended.
Ttiey were sold out
of it. I then strolled over to
the Campus Bookstore but
their sign said 8:30am-5pm
M-F, 9am-lpm Sat. It was
5:30pm at the time. I
returned on Saturday at
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get my text. The book store
was locked. I looked inside ; I
saw no one. The lights were
dim and so were my chances
of getting my text. I talked to
several other students trying
to get in and they were as
angry and mad about the
situation as I was. One
evening student remarked,
"This is no way to run a
university bookstore even if
it is the Saturday before
Labor Day." I agree. Now it
will be two weeks before I
dpt m\; tovt from tho nthor
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bookstore (I will not risk
another Saturday fiasco at
the Campus Bookstore.).
Another recent incident
also left me with a feeling of
total frustration, of anger
and mad. In August on one
Saturday, I went to the
library about 2pm to pick up
a book to read before the fall
semester started. As an
alumnus, I knew I could
check out a book without a
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To the Editor :
As much as they wan
everyone to believe it, USC i
not perfect. Not by a lonj
shot.
My frustration ha
reached a peak. A freshmai
with no car, I'm staying si
mil#?s flllH minntoc n\ua
from campus. The bus run
only until 6:16 p.m., so tha
cuts out any night life. A ca
is much too expensive fo
anybody, let alone <
freshman trying to ge
organized to a completel;
new, fast-paced lifestyle. It'
hard to meet anybody wa;
out here, and they say you'v
got to make friends. You cai
make acquaintances ii
class, but when you don't se
them at parties or on ;
Saturday walking arouni
campus, it's a trifle hard.
I cannot comprehend tha
it's not mandatory fo
Iiresnmen 10 stay on-campu
unless living at home or wit
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Sat., closed Sunday. At that
time I felt my Saturday
morning ritual of sleeping
late must be out of the ordinary
and I failed to
protest. I now protest. The
library (and the university)
is here to serve me, the
student,the evening student,
the alumnus and the S.C.
taxpayers. Are academic
pursuits regulated to
bankers' hours during the
summer? The score USC
library-1, students, alumni,
public, knowledge, ideas-0.
Lastly, I protest the lack of
evening courses and their
scheduling. I know of less
than a handful of programs
at USC where a student can
earn a degree oy only taking
evening or Saturday courses.
The evening student,
who is returning to upgrade
their job skills, change
professions or get an initial
degree, belongs to the fastest
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t relatives. It's to^igh enough
s adjusting to everything else,
g let alone trying to find
somewhere to live,
s It would help if they got
n out-of-towners a room first
x instead of giving Columbia
y residents a nice, close-tos
campus room. It's not fair at
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show that this trend will
continue well past the year
2000 while all other
university populations will
decrease. Therefore, if USC
is to meet the needs of these
students, more evening
courses are nftppssarv
Secondly, many of the
evening courses start at
5:30pm and meet two nights
a week. The schedulers must
think that every evening
student works downtown,
eats a five minute supper
while rushing to find a
parking space in 5 o'clock
traffic. This idea is absurd. I
therefore submit the
following recommendations:
1) Change Campus
Bookstore hours to 8am-6pm
M-F, 9am-5pm Sat. Make
sure these hours are kept
year round except holidays.
All holidays should be posted
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all.
At this point, I don't think I
would give someone contemplating
USC a very high
recommendation. Maybe if
they send their housing
monev in nrnnnri Phridmnc
they could get a room. Other
than that, well...
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change will help all students; S
evening and day.)
2) Keep the library open !
everyday with reasonable J
hours, such as 8am-10pm. I1
(Knowledge and the pursuit 1
of knowledge does not take a
vacation on holidays, on P
Sundays or in the summer.)
3) Change scheduling of ?
night courses to meet one !
night a week for 2 hours anjL ?
starting no earlier than Gpir?' 1
4) Change scheduling of r
courses so that at least half j
of all degree programs of- |j
fered at USC can be taken at 1
night or the weekend. (If i'
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believe many day students I
would take the evening
course. 1 know the reverse
situation is impossible fc^
many evening students.) (i
Roland E. Bart
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It would behoove the
university tremendously to
finalize the aquisition of the
University Inn. It would be
about the smartest move
I've seen them make.
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