LIFESTYLE
Black pride
Afrocentrie meda 11 ions
arc becoming a familiar
sight on college campuses.
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MUSIC
Noisemaker
Former Husker I)u mem
ber Bob Mould is back with
a strong solo effort.
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TELEVISION
Video decline
Boring VJs are turning
MTV into a video grave
yard. argues critic.
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HOME LIFE
Not all bliss
Living with engaged
roommates can cause prob
lems.
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Special-interest housing
unites comrades-in-dorms
By Jeremy Kemp
• Oregon Daily Emerald
U. of Oregon
Shaun Notdurft plays his music too
loud, but his dormitory neighbors like it
that way.
Notdurft lives in (lloran, one of several
special interest dorm 1 ton tvs on the U. of
Oregon campus A third of the campus
dormitones house students with special
interests in areas such as international
studies, cross-cultural experiences,
music and creative arts
('loran, the music dorm, comes com
plete with a furnished practice room in
the basement
“Living m the music hall lets me enjoy
music with people who perform it,”
Notdurft said. “Wo had some people in
the hall last year who didn't like loud
music They moved out pretty quick."
For Cloran residents with lighter
tastes, the dorm hosts fireside perfor
mances “About 10 musicians perform in
our lounge We play flute, piano and
acoustic guitar as well as electric gui
tars," Notdurft said
Elsewhere on campus, when Uhtsuka
Nobuyuki finishes his management
class on Friday afternoons, he walks
toward a weekend of cultural encoun
ters.
“People here in the international dorm
are interested in foreign students.’ said
Nobuyuki, a resident of Robbins
International Hall. “There's no discrim
ination and living here helps my English
because people are friendly."
.•After a late-night game ofca te, Lynelle
B1U HAINES . HE GON DAil* EMERAU) U OF OREGl-S
Todd Johnson and Shaun Notdurtt gel in a little practice in front of Cloran, a U. of Oregon spe
cial-interest dormitory tor musicians.
Tbnkai, Adams cross-cultural hall’s res
idem assistant, is ready tor bed. One of
her residents introduced the Vietnamese
game at the beginning of the year, and it
has since taken over the dorm.
“The cross-cultural dorm is different
from the international hall because we
are interested in people and ethnic per
spectives, while the international hall is
more interested in nations and politics,”
Tonkai said.
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Students serve as
miniseries extras
By Barbara Kollmeyer
■ The University Daily Kansan
U. of Kansas
More than 2,500 people, including sev
oral U. of Kansas students, gathered
early this summer on the lush, rolling
hills surrounding Vinland. Kan., to film
part of an NBC mirusenes.
The Kl' students joined hundreds of
other extras to participate in “Cross of
Fire," which depicts the rise and fall of
a Ku Klux Klan leader during the 1920s.
Most of the extras donned period cloth
ing Others wore the white robes and
hoods of the Klan, and above one of the
tents hung a banner that read “The KKK
Welcomes You."
The cast of the film includes l.lovd
Bridges, David Morse and John Heard.
J.L Watson, a recent KU film and the
ater graduate, said she participated in
the event to sec* what filming is like and
to act. “In class, we were taught tech
nique. With this, you see the nitty gntty,"
Watson said.
A lengthy rain delay prompted Watson
to dub the day “hurry up and wait. We
were really cold, but they told us to be
patient," she said, shivering in her
sleeveless 1920s dress
By noon the pouring rain had driven
cold, hungry extras into a tent where
food was served and jazz music per
formed.
Some students, like senior Larry
Switzer, enjoyed the experience,
although playing Kian members dis
turbed them. “1 don't agree with the sym
bolism of the uniforms," Switzer said,
who was working on his fourth day as a
paid extra.
I*ater that morning, the 25-year-old
Switzer was taken out of a scene because
he lcxiktKi too young to hold the high rank
indicated by his Klan uniform
Switzer said he would probably wait
until they placed him in another scene
“It's fun no matter what happens.” he
said.
Ron Lautore, director of photography,
said the countryside and people of
Kansas werejust what he had been look
ing for.
A CLOCKWORK
ORANGE
ANTHONY BURGESS
ALBERT SOONG. T>€ DA1Y BRUIN UCU
Classic gets
a ‘new’ ending
By Barry Harrington
■ The Daily Californian
U. of California. Berkeley
*A Clockwork Orange,” Anthony
Burgess' literary classic about
social control and moral choice, has
finally been released in the United
States with its previously unpub
lished 21st chapter.
“A Clockwork Orange,” first pub
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