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
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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
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