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Against Rapists,
Muggers: A personal
alarm that lets off a
loud screaming noise
when activated is being
marketed by New York
firm Leader Industries.
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also has a built-in
flashlight which can be
activated by a slide
switch. The alarm can be
used to protect against
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Leader Personal Alarm
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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.*
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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.
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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,
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rectly, to put aside society's labels and not
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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."
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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.
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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. \ *