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Personal Alarm Protects Against Rapists, Muggers: A personal alarm that lets off a loud screaming noise when activated is being marketed by New York firm Leader Industries. only its owner knows how to do that. jf also has a built-in flashlight which can be activated by a slide switch. The alarm can be used to protect against rapists and muggers. The Leader Personal Alarm can be obtained by sending a check or money or- HHHHHHP der for $9.95 plus $4 for shipping and handling to Department 57, Leader Industries, 221 Hastings Ave., Buffalo, N.Y. 14215. Among The Best Pick-Up Lines: Need some pick-up lines According to Tanqueray's second annual survey of 1,000 barten ders, the following are some of the best pick-up lines: "Weren't you at my winning lottery ticket party?" "I seemed to have misplaced my Medal of Honor. Can yo help me find it?" "What time should I get you up in the morning?" "Weren't we married in a previous life?" "I'd like to ask you out, but in 10 years I plan to be a Su preme Court Justice." "I hope you know CPR, because you take my breath away." Taken from USA Today Spring Break in Daytona The music television network from the United States and Canada will bring their special brand c entertainment to Daytona Beach during Spring Break in Februar and March. This year is the ninth year MTV and the second yes Canada's MuchMusic will be broadcast from the beach. MTV will videotape the network's popular comedy, rock and ra shows, in addition to special Spring Break segments March 10-1' The Spring Break weekend programs will air on MTV Marc 20-22. Canada's MuchMusic Spring Break broadcasts will have th theme "Yo Canada! Gimme Another Break!" The network wi broadcast live Feb. 22-23.* |[ # S6-W ^99/S Tims selections in Sound Intitd it Record Bar 7 days wrttti a recent for as Prices hwc I Can W Woody Harrelson (left) is Billy Hoylc "White Men Can't Jump/' a comedy/di u I I KRS-One salui iBy A. MICHELLE HARRISON Staff Writer Blacks should remember their history and should strive to make good grades to combat oppression, a nationally-known rap artist told the crowd at the Koger Center Sunday. Kris Parker, known to most as rap musician KRS-One, used his sense of humor and realistic examples to point out the misinterpretations of the world today for an audience of about 500. "Black is a color, and nobody in this room is this black," Parker said as he pointed to his black jeans and pitch black shirt. ylA Parker, on a national speaking tour, stopped in Columbia to speak on the theme jj^ "A Salute to Black Americans" in connecy tion with USC's Black History Month. Parker, a Boogie Down Productions artist, said it is CSDS, common sense deficiency syndrome, not AIDS, that is the true number one killer of today's society, s "Common sense controls your hearing, >f touch, taste, smell and sight," he said, y "How can you put aside this CSDS? By lr correct thinking, nothing can stop you." Parker advised the audience to think corp rectly, to put aside society's labels and not L rely so heavily on memory but depend on h intellect and past history, e "If you don't know the teachings of your 11 ancestors, you'll repeat the same mistakes," he said. 11 \ 11' rl \ and fractal V yon donl Ilea what you hear, return It wl other cassette or ed of equal valuel i thru March 4,1982. rhite Me gMB mSSS 1 mT irf ^ i ^ ; and Wesley Snipes is Sidney Deane in :ama about pick-up basketball. tes black history Colt 45 was a gun used to kill thousands of Native Americans, but now Colt 45 is the name of a beer, he said. "If someone comes up to you 400 years from now with a beer named AIDS, are you going to drink it?" he asked. As the crowd roared with laughter, he emphasized that African-Americans need to learn their history. Parker also spoke briefly about racism and the need for AfricanAmericans to separate myth from reality on a logical scale. He also stressed the need to find God through religion. Parker expressed his anger with the U.S. government. "Any society who places more money on military than on education is barbaric, he said. He also encouraged students to make good grades to beat the oppresive tendencies of society. In closing, Parker encouraged all members of all races to continue to struggle, to join organizations that support their individual races and to understand and pay homage to their ancestors. Donna Moore, president of the Association of African-American students, helped organize the event along with members Tina Rector and Keila Legree. "He really asked some deep questions that rpade us think," Moore said. "Coming from a rap artist, a lot of people didn't expect that. But he showed his intellect Sunday night." ft I M U S I C & V * jump? By The Associated Press Perhaps white men can't jump. They can, however, talk trash with the best of the pickup basketball players on the playgrounds of urban . America. During these freewheeling games,, money changes hands, racial tensions flare, egos clash and sometimes I the game turns violent. Director-screenwriter Ron Shelton ("Bull Durham," "Blaze"), a veteran of neighborhood pickup games in * 7 Los Angeles, has attempted to capture this nether * I world of sports in his new film, "White Men Can't * Jump." The hero is Billy (Woody Harrelson), a white player who's good but not quite good enough for the 1 . pros. He comes to Los Angeles to make money hus- * tling on the outdoor basketball courts. */ He and his girlfriend, Gloria (Rosie Perez), are just * two steps ahead of some organized crime types who X want the money they lost betting on Billy in college basketball. Billy meets a black player named Sydney (Wesley Snipes), and they set up a hustle based on what every , black kid knows instinctively: Never pick the white guy for your team. r Typically, the scam goes like this: Sydney is play- * ing outdoor basketball with a group of other blacks. He starts an argument, then with angry bravado, he * , says he can beat them playing with anybody around, 's~' their choice. All eyes fall on Billy, the goofy looking white guy in the frayed T-shirt and backwards baseball cap who jusl happens to be watching the game. He looks like he couldn't make a basket with a stepladder, but, of course, that's the ruse. * The ensuing story makes comedy and drama out of ; sports, the male ego and the normally delicate subject of perceived racial differences, Shelton said. Yet there's nothing delicate about the way this film handles race, and that was Shelton's intention. "What appears to be a ruthless, vulgar, racist atti- ? tude ? especially in the locker room ? can be J, healthy," he said in an interview, sitting in his cluttered office in a warehouse where much of the-20th >' Century Fox film was shot. ^ "There's a lot of teasing between whites and blacks about race, about who's cool, who's hip, who's smart... who's got the prettiest women," he said. "It can be a healthy byproduct because it demystifies and ^ demythologizes our differences. It acknowledges our J> differences." Shelton, who is white, said he gave the film its * tname because "the racist fact is that white men can't jump and that's the way it is." * "'White Men' helps you see people not so much for the color of their skin but in a more pure fashion," Harrelson said. "It's a significant kind of message and its equally important to laugh hysterically. I can't stomach preaching." Central to the game is what Shelton calls "trash ; talk," the banter between players intended to force them off their game. That's when Shelton said he gave his actors license to improvise, and the line between art and life got a little shaky, much to the director's delight. "Because I allow the dialogue to be added to in this J ?U~ mon falUinrr trocli | cuniCAi, uig auung sujpa anu 11 a ui??* m?*v*w?, uuou to another man, not one actor talking to another actor," Shelton said. ?Lecture on Nazism to be given Thursday : By RICHARD FARMER Staff Writer i Author Peter Paret will present k "God's Hammer: Portrait of a Nazi 1% Propagandist," a lecture exposing \% the link between war, politics and ^ art, at 4 p.m. Thursday, Feb. 13 in ^ ^ the Gambrell Hall auditorium. Paret, a world-renowned author, is visiting USC as a guest of the V ^ history department, but will be departing Friday to continue his work > with the Institute of Advanced Studies in Princeton, N.J. I I" Paret is the world's leading author on Gen. Carl Von Clauswitz, " the German military strategist, but his lecture will deal with art as propaganda used by the Nazi regime during the years the fascists were in power. "Mjolnir" was the pseudonym used by a airly obscure German ly * artist whose work was a Nazi de- ' _ fense against the enemies of the Third Reich. Paret said Mjolnir's work has a certain power that ex presses the Nazi philosophy in very graphic terms. When Paret returns to Princeton, he will continue work on an art ^ T\ book he is writing with his son , D e 0 | Paul. "Persuasive Images" will hit ^thc bookstores late this summer. It will be the eighth book written by the German-born scholar, ' ' but not his last. Paret's lecture is open to the public. \ *