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Entertainment club established Joel Hood Ay CNooe £ rnttatd What liegan as an original cornedv skit program on public o< i oss television has tunv developed into a student-run organization. The Opportunity Agency will mwt (or the first lime tins year Mon dav in EMU Century Room F at 6 pm The organization is seeking school sponsorship and will offer upper division credit to members for work in the entertainment industry in the future OPPA is open to University students of all majors and interests The organization will focus on all aspects of the entertainment industry including casting, business marketing, acting and producing. "We want to f>e flexible to students off all acad emit: interests." said Ol’PA producer C. f kins “We want to see students take initiative for their future This is a great opportunity to get ex peri enoo and put something on your resume " Gary William*, Jason Haines, Tony Altamirano, horv Edward*. Micah Cohan, Westen York and Keys have alrvadv shot over 4ri minutes "enough for altout a show and a half, said Williams The show, titled Ihuigvt T V . will begin airing in early February It is a sketch comedy program in the manner of Safurdm Sight Ijvv and The kids in thr Hall Auditioning and i a sting questions will he i overed in the group's first meeting " The club was started hei nuse we thought that everyone, students of all majors, should lie able to use the campus teles ision fai ilities,” Keys said We stress working in a real hie setting We re gtv tng all those people who think that they might yvant to do something in the entertainment indus try a chance to know the business Everything about this program w ill be handled by the students." he said. Woman will pilot NASA shuttle SPACE CKNTKR. Houston (API ■— The lesson cornt early in astro naut Eileen Collins’ fl\ mg i .wst One slip and women who follow will suffer She learned that 17 years ago when a woman in her Air Force pilot-training t lass tailed a check ride, a flight to check pilot profi ciency. Because it was the first group of women at the bas«*. everyone knew Everyone talked A woman failed a check ride! "All of n sudden. 1 realized there is a lot of pressure on me 1 can't afford to fail because I w ill he hurting chances for young women who want to come here some day Collins says. Collins never failed in the sky; she became the Air Force’s sec ond female test pilot. And this Thursday, she is scheduled to become the first woman to pi lot a l’ S. spaceship I’ho 38-year-old Air Fort e lieu tenant colonel will he second in command of space shuttle Dis covery and its crew ol six If all goes well, she’ll move over to the loft seat — that of space shuttle commander — by the end of the decade, breaking the final sex barrier. Collins feels less stress going into her first space flight than she did during her test pilot days when female military aviators were rare. After all. American women have been flying in space suit e 1983 as working passen gers The first American woman in space. Sally Hide, used (lie shut tle robot arm to release and retrieve satellites The first Amer ican woman to perform a space walk. Kathryn Sullivan, prut tittnl techniques for refueling satellites the country's second female spacswalkor. Kathryn Thornton, helped fix the Hubble Spun> Tele scope Collins will he ii pioneering pilot on a pioneering flight NASA’s first trip to Russia's space station. She will take with her reminders of the women who flew ahead A scarf that belonged to Amelia Karbari, a pilot's license that belongs to 1929 female flight endurance champ Bobbi Trout and was signed by Orville Wright, items belonging to Women Air Kurt »• Service Pilots who ferried military aircraft in the United States during World War 11 and women who applied to NASA's Mercury program hut were turned down because of their sex “This mission I believe - I know — has some significance to many people, women in particu lar." Collins savs Collins knows the world will be watching her during the eight day flight. "In some ways, 1 a ppm iate the stress," she says I want to do better and I work harder." As Collins sees it, (he pressure of being the first female space shuttle pilot comes from outside NASA. The curiosity is evident with all the letters and interview requests she receives. Inside the space agency. Collins insists she's treated the same as the 33 other shuttle pilots, all men NASA flight director Phil huge lauf says it'* "completely invis ible" to him that Collins is i» woman because she performs her job ,is will I ns any pilot In fact, he sms. alt of the female astro nnuts t8 of NASA's 95 astro MUti are women carry the same workload as their male counterpart* Collins will monitor Discov ery's radar and other navigation systems and handle the t row i he< khst while commander James Wethorbee flies the shut tle to within 15 feet of the orbit ing Mir station, a dress rehearsal for the first shuttle Mir d(x king in June She'll get a chance to fly Discovery at other times Everything VVetherbee t an do Collin* i an do Wuthurfotw made sure of that "We trained to he as one," *a*s Wetherbee, .1 Navy commander who will he making his third sjKK e fligfit If anything happens to me. tflen she'll complete the mission." Regardless, it will be the ride of her life The second of four children. Collins became fu*< mated with aviation and space while grow ing up in Elmira, N V She begun taking flying lessons at age Hi while studying math in college Flying quickly took priority Collins graduated in 1979 from Air Force undergraduate pilot training fit Vani e Air Fort« Base in Oklahoma and became a T 18 and ( 141 instructor pilot She taught math and was a T-41 instructor pilot at the U S Air Force Academy in Colorado Springs. Colo . from lOHti to 1 «IH>t Cottage Grove smokestack demolished COTTAGE GROVE (AP) — A 200-foot smoke •am k al a Weyerhaeuser Co saw null toppled to the ground In u cloud of dust on Saturday under the influence of about 1H0 charges of dynamite "It's the end of an era." said spectator Chuck. I iooltn . a fil-yearold Weyerhaeuser retiree whose father helped build the smokestack in the early 1950s. "It’s progress, and that’s something you ( an't stand in the way of " Thera I la< kson. a longtime employee who retired Friday, was chosen to trigger the blast that crumbled more than 400 tons of concrete. About hoo onlookers corralled into two view ing areas about 100 yards a wav were led through a countdown, from 10 to detonation 4-5:30 pm The Koinonia Center 1414 Kincaid Street Fix mexr tnkxnuftun call and leave a meuafe tut jc mulct Self at M6 1142 tx the LGB.A at H6-1160 Ami, *iuei't turfrt the LiiBA tofler w\u! htwe even ThunJav ehemoun at 4 p m International students cope with crises at home Tasha Eichenseher In America wn hear nlunit floods and in Input), revolution in Russia ntul war in Hosnin We |ti>nr how homes are deal roved and people slain. Rut for some intornatioual students from these devastated and war torn countries. the information they receive from the media is not enough International students attending a workshop Friday about coping with crises at home discussed how they are dealing with situations they have little information shout and no t on trol over fVter Hriggs. an adviser in the Office of International Edu itn'li III-! Is. !i inge | I'll'. p.niN wlii'ti- ihi- liiii.iito' between just getting on with your life and getting involved w ith what is happening in their home countries was Maybe we i an do more from here in a safer area than go (tin k and i ontnbule to their troubles." said Renata Rllpovn , a sis ond year student at the University from Bosnia When Ftlipovtc first fteard ahout the trouble in her country she wanted to return immediately to see for herself w hat was happening, sfie said. At first site could not afford the plane fare and later when she could, her friends talked her out of it Fllipovit said she is happy with her de< ision to stay here even though tier future is uncertain She said she often forgets that there is war going on in her home country Shin Vasui. from Japan, said that he was frustrated I mot use feu pie i SCO me ill* !eel s .1 . ' i! i: way hei . 111;.«• he is lap inese You have that attai hmeiit to your country but at the same time you are your own person." he said i’euple here see you c. i represent itive of yo*it > ountry and put tabula on you " Several students agreed that they ire not i eftain whether they can or want to return to their homes 'Contrary to my plans the situation doesn't get better, it |ust gets worse, said one student from Russia Ilu* OH F and the Counseling < enter yytin nr,; itil/ed the workshop, said that support groups were a good way to deal w ith confusion about crises m foreign countries Hriggs said Ui() students are from lapan, sis from Russia and one from Hosnin 00 OFF Foot long Sub !«#*** VifrW SUBSHOP 1225 ALDER 345-2434 M * f#! ’&M* V« » i*J | ! 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