Here Comes
Miami Spice
Bridget is willing to em
ploy almost anything to
nab Bart, the hunky
football player—including
S-E-X Then again, that act
means no more to witchy Bridg
et than "taking out the gar
bage .” But ifg/ie keeps fooling
around with Bart, her erst
while "friend" Merc will blab a
deep, dark secret—and Bridg
et will just die! Meanwhile,
the dean is spying on stu
dents—including cumpus band
members who may be using
(drum roll*contrailed
substances.
Such shenanigans are par
for the courses at Weston Uni
versity, the mythical setting
for the upcoming University of
Miami-produced soap opera,
"Passions " And of course, like
the Carringtons on "Dynas
ty," everyone at WU is good
looking—even the faculty.
Former Miami Dolphin quar
terback Boh Griese is set to
appear as a coach.
Griese’s cameo will be un
paid, since the soap is a no
budget venture "We haven’t
got a cent," says "Passions"
originator Judy Wallace, as
sociate professor of telecom
munications But unlike
"General Hospital," the college
soap doesn’t need expensive
sets or high-priced stars In
stead, "Passions" uses equip
ment from the student-run
campus cable station to film
for free in dorm rooms and local
hangouts And the soap casts
students who are thrilled to act
the parts of the assorted vix
ens and villains
More than 90 students audi
tioned for 24 regular parts on
the show, which uirs this
month on the university cable
system Will it be half uh
steamy as that other local prod
uct, "Miami Vice”? "1 hope to
God not," says Wallace. Still,
there are many episodes of
"Passions" to go—and who
knows what Bridget might do?
CHOICE
An Illustrious
Alumna
Many schools are hard
pressed to come up with
exciting themes for
their anniversary celebrations,
but Mount Saint Vincent Col
lege had to look no farther than
the headlines When the
Bronx, NY, college marks its
75th birthday this month,
part of the program will be
dedicated to Corazon Aquino,
the new president of the Philip
pines—and member of the
class of '53. Aquino’s dramatic
defeat of the Marcos regime
has brought pride and prestige
to a small (1,000 students) co
educational liberal-arts college
that was not widely renowned
for illustrious alumnae "It
ulways used to be a pain to
explain where you go to col
lege,” says Lynn Gensoli, a
sophomore whose father is of
Filipino extraction. "Now we
can say, 'Mount Saint Vin
cent—you know, that's where
Cory went’.”
The Aquino fervor at the
Mount (as the students call the
school) burst forth as soon as
she took charge in February. A
banner proclaiming "Our
Woman Won” was draped on
the administration building
Posters of her smiling face
cropped up all over campus,
and the school took out a full
page congratulatory ad in The
New York Times. Tina Lop
ingco, a senior who emigrated
from the Philippines in 1979,
immediately set about assem
bling a scrapbook of articles on
the election and the school to
send to her heroine.
Students also launched a
drive to refurbish Cory’s old
dorm room to display a collec
tion of memorabilia. Faculty
memories of the young, shy
French major—who was a
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member of the French and
Math clubs, secretary of the Ep
silon Psi honor society and
performer of the "tinikling,” a
Filipino folk dance, in campus
talent shows—shouldn’t be
hard to assemble, as several of
Taking Their Aurals at Syracuse
At Syracuse, as at some oth- |
er schools, students vent
their exam anxiety the primai
way: they shout, shout, shout
it all out. In early March, at
the peak of midterms, hun
dreds of pent-up crammers
flung their windows open and
screeched in assorted styles
for 15 minutes. Some were ver
bal: "I hate my professor” and
"I can't stand it anymore.”
Others weren’t, issuing Tar
zan yells and one blood-cur
dling noise that was described
as "orgasmic.” Planning for
these aurals began last fall
during finals. "We talked
about how frustrated we felt,
said Bob Stohrer, a communi
cations major who helped to
organize the noise. "We just
wished we could scream to let
off the tension.” Later this se
mester the howlers hope to ex
tend their therapy to 15 min
utesevery night during finals.
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