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> I jsg/f* . m3L * *?** Judy Davis, an Oscar nominee for "A Passage I ? in David Lean's version of the E.M. Forster novel. I ' ? J use FLYir* int'rrtrlri/'Mri/ fli I? ii ill uuuvivi y in lowest cost flyi lowest cost pla open to studen IV/I 1 (VICCI Tuesday, Feb. I I Room 135 Ij Film and :o India," co-starred with Victor Banarjee The film received 11 Oscar nominations. iG CLUB ghts ng lessons ne rental is, faculty, staff ing 1 at 7:30 nm P.E. Center Speaker f5C ID Oscar nominal triumph for ar By Associated Press nr.vKKl.Y HILLM, Calif. ? i ne uscar nominations arc in, and Sir David Lean says the selection of his film "A Passage to India" for 11 nominations signals a triumph of artistic integrity over financial concerns. "What's so wonderful about it is that we had the greatest difficulty in making this film," he said from London. "Nobody wanted to back it. It's a terrific triumph over the money people that we've come through on the artistic side." Another jjign that Academy voters ignored box-office receipts was the short shrift they gave the year's biggest hit, "Beverly Hills Cop," with only one nomination for its screenplay. LEAN, A 76-year-oid past Oscar winner 111K /-v rnt nrnn/l /-? f! I n 1/ M r> i ff nr <\ 1 A tiAir yviiw iviui ntu iv/ i \ uiiiiiuiwug aiiwi u iT-jcai absence, was nominated as director, writer and editor of "A Passage to India," the saga that dramatized E.M. Forster's novel of Indian-British tensions in thgc 1920s. The only other movie to garner as many nominations Wednesday was "Amadeus," the majestic adaptation of Peter Shaffer's play about the consuming jealousy of a minor composer over the g?nius of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart. Great air battle pl< From Staff Reports WUSC-FM, the student-run radio station at USC.will hold its second air-band competition at Rockafellas in Five Points on Wednesday. According to Bill Sengstacken, the sta Ition s promotions airecior, mc nrsi competition, held in December, was one of the most successful fund-raising events of the semester for the non-commercial station. The air-band competition entails that the air-band get on stage and lip-sync to a song STUDENT Gfl ELEC1 FEBRUAR Filing for Student Government Offices is February. I I at 5:00 p.m. If a run off < Monday. March 4. J All candidates must be able to attend a Tuesday. February 12 at 5:00 p.m. The filing fee for executive offices is S I Rules and applications for filing may be Office in Room I I 2 of the Russell Houj POLLWORKBR APFL1CAYI0M8 ai Office and may be picked up between { are paid S3.35 an hour and the applic 5:00 p.m. There will be a MANDATORY meeting 1 20 from 5:00 p.m.-6:00 p.m. in room Students currently enrolled and living o seats in their respective districts: District Seats IMaxcy. Thornwell, Horseshoe I Preston. Woodrow I Sims. McClintock, Wade Hampton 2 | Patterson Hall 2 South Tower I Capstone, Nada 2 I Columbia Hall I Off campus students may run for the f I School Seats Nursing I Pharmacy I Health I Continuing Education I Science and Math 4 Applied Professional Sciences 3 Humanities and Social Sciences 7 tions mean t, Lean says Three other personal dramas were among the five nominees for best picture of 1984: iixu- I/:II: 1. t ft lie rtllllllg I'1LIU!>, VVIIILI1 IUUK MJVLIl nominations in all; "Places in the Heart," with seven and "A Soldier's Story," with three. The most excited nominee was Haing Ngor, a Cambodian doctor who catapulted from anonymity to stardom as the reporter's assistant in "The Killing Fields." He was nominated for best supporting actor. "I JUST got the news!" exclaimed Ngor at the Chinatown Service Center, where he counsels other refugees. "I laughing all the time." "1 like acting," said Ngor, a refugee whose own escape form Cambodia was as harrowing as the one in the film. "It is happy life in movies." In the best actor category, there were honors for both stars of "Amadeus," Tom Hulce and F. Murray Abraham; also Jeff Bridges of "Starman," Albert Finney of "Under the Volcano" and Sam Waterston of "The Killing Fields." JUDY DAVIS, the British visitor in 'A Passage To India,"was the only best actress nominee who doesn't already own an Oscar. mned Wednesday on cassette. In addition, the band will have to "play" their instruments. The bands will be judged on their timing, stage presence, costumes, crowd appeal and originality. The band with the highest point total will win the $50 first prize, as well as prizes from local merchants and records from various record companies. All proceeds from the event will benefit WUSC-FM in its effort to buy new equipment for its production studios. Admission is $1 and the competition is scheduled to begin at 10 p.m. IVERNMENT rioNS Y 25-26 Monday, February 4 through Monday flection is necessary it will be held MANDATORY meeting on 0.00 and for senate seats Is $2.00. J picked up in the Student Government sc. re available in the Student Government 3:00 a.m. and 6:00 p.m. Pollworkers ation deadline is Friday, Feb. I 5 at for pollworkers on Wednesday, Feb. ' 305 of Russell House. n campus may run for the following District Seat Cliff Apts.. Univ. Terrace ! Burney, Baker I Douglas. Snowden, Moore, LaBorde 2 McBryde Quad I Bates House I Bates West, Roost I ollowing seats in their respective schools: School Seats Law 2 Business Administration 7 Education 3 Engineering 3 Journalism 2 Criminal Justice I Social Work. Library and Information Services, Interdisciplinary Studies, and Medicine I