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THE BATTALION TUESDAY, JAN. 27, 1976 Page 5 El Olympics explained, analyzed Associated Press SBRUCK, Austria Follow- thumbnail sketches of the Olympic sports, explaining ' vvw ^ents, their distances, rules and ill inners are judged: TTai.imnk skiing re are three events for men f3. omen in Alpine skiing — the lill. giant slalom and slalom. The fastest skier wins the gold med al. The second fastest wins the silver and the third fastest the bronze. It sounds simple, but there are often protests over the results be cause a skier must pass through a number of compulsory gates on the way down. If a gate is missed, or if the skier dislodges a gate with his oi lier skis, he or she is disqualified. Men and women have one run You are invited to attend OPAS CENTENNIAL SERIES DINNER February 2 at 6PM MSC Room 212- 232 BUFFET INCLUDES: Beef Stroganoff French Fried Crab Rolls Cold Sliced Turkey Roast Round of Beef Au Jus Students $6.50 All Others $7.00 Tickets available at MSC BOX OFFICE For Reservations call 845-1914 by Jan.29 & pay prior to dinner Tickets may be picked up at door each in the downhill — which is steeper, longer and has fewer gates than the slalom. They each have two runs in the slalom. Men have two runs in the giant slalom and women have one. In every race with two runs, the best combined time wins. There are 25 gates on the men’s downhill course, which is just short of two miles long. The women’s downhill course is just over IV2 miles long and runs through 23 gates. The gates are arranged in an elongated “S” pattern, designed to force skiers to brake somewhat, effectively slow ing speeds which can exceed 90 miles per hour. The outstanding fea tures of the downhill are speed and courage. In both slalom races, skiing tech nique is most important. Competi tors must pass through a large number of high gates placed close together, requiring great artistry and balance. The men’s giant slalom, consid ered half-a-downhill and half-a- slalom, is three-fourths of a mile in length. The women’s giant slalom is just short of a mile. The women’s course is longer than the men’s be cause the men make two runs to the women’s one. There will be about 50 gates on both courses. The men’s slalom course is just over a quarter-mile long and the women’s course is just under a quarter-mile. There will be about 60 gates on each course. In all three races, guards watch the gates closely to see if a skier passes through properly. The skier TWO MORE GREAT REASONS TO GO TO YOUR INTERNATIONAL HOUSE OF PANCAKES “Mother always said, “Don’t miss any meals. ” At I HOP we try to make sure hj don’t. 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Apfi tickets $4.00 couple pictures $4.20 at MSC box office '325irf ; riES ISPE* Ciiii'P riiul<‘ M).sii )(0# 0 723. ***- Von" vanl class of 1979 get your dates now for the freshman ball Saturday, january 31 8-12 p.m. zachry New low price on the HP-21 Scientific from Hewlett-Packard. NOW 0NLY $ 100. The incredible problem-solving power of the HP-21 Scientific Pocket Calculator can now be yours at a remarkably low price.This powerful professional calculator by Hewlett-Packard can make short work of th^ complex problems you face every day. You get: 32 preprogrammed functions and operations, including rectangular/polar coordinate conversion, register arithmetic, common log evaluation and trig functions in radians or degrees. Two display options. You can select fixed decimal, the most commonly- used notation, or scientific notation. When a num ber is too large or too small for fixed decimal, the HP-21 automatically switches to scientific. RPN logic. 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An individual ska ter’s final score is broken down in three elements. Compulsory figures make up 40 per cent of the score. The freestyle counts for 4 per cent, and the other 20 per cent is made up from a fixed freestyle routine, called the short program. Skaters who excel in freestyle routines have an advan tage over less creative skaters. In compulsory figures, a skater carves figures on the ice. The perfect compulsory figure involves a correct print, a firm control of balance, ap propriate size and accurate repeti tion of the figure. Judging is based on control of balance and beauty of movement and on what is called trace, which means the print, size and repetition of the figure. In the short program, each indi vidual skater follows the same routine, although they have some freedom of movement. It is shorter in duration than the freestyle pro gram. Freestyle is the artistry of skat ing. Competitors skate to music of their choosing, interpreting as they wish with a series of maneuvers, in cluding jumps and twirls. Judging is based on good arrangement, the number of difficult moves and the variety of the performance. In pairs, a man and a woman skate in unison and harmony with each other although they do not always have to skate together. The entrants skate a short compulsory program, which is identical for all entered, and a five-minute freestyle presentation to music of their own choosing. Judg ing is the same as in the individual competition. Ice dancing is a new Olympic event. A man and a woman skate in unison and harmony through three compulsory set-pattern dances, an original set pattern dance in which each couple chooses its music and a free dance program. The free dance has no required moves. Judging is the same as in the individual and freestyle competition. HOCKEY The ice hockey tournament is the one part of the Winter Games which starts before the opening ceremony on Feb. 4. Twelve nations are entered and they will play six qualifying matches on Feb. 2 and 3. The six winners go into Group A and play a round-robin tournament. Each team plays five matches in the 9,000-seat Olympic Ice Hall for the gold, silver and bronze medals. The six losers of the qualification matches go into Group B and play a similar round-robin tournament. But they have no chance to win a medal. The Olympic rink is 15 to 20 feet wider than the average playing sur face in the United States. The larger surface puts more emphasis on pass ing and coordinated offense than does the average American rink. Russia, strong favorites for the gold medal, must beat the host na tion, Austria, in the qualifications to get into Group A. The United States, given a chance at the bronze medal, must overcome Yugoslavia. Congress expected to ban military aid Associated Press WASHINGTON — The House is expected to join the Senate and vote a ban on continued military aid to Westem-hacked factions in the An golan civil war. The issue is scheduled to be raised when the House takes up the $90- billion defense appropriation hill to day. That bill contains a Senate- approved amendment to prohibit U.S. funds from,being used for the fighting in the southwest African na tion. Appropriations Committee Chairman George Mahon said he expects the amendment to be ap proved by the House today “by a wide margin.” In another development, Rep. Don Bonker, D-Wash., said Monday that he had 200 co-sponsors to a re solution advising President Ford not to aid any military faction in Angola unless the Congress specifically ap proves such assistance. Bonker said he considered the support for his resolution indicative as to how the vote on the funds will go. The administration has included $28 million in the defense appropria tions bill for support of the Western-backed National Front for the Liberation of Angola (FNLA) and its ally, the National Union for the Total Independence of Angola (UN- ITA). The Soviet Union has been supplying arms, and Cuba has sent men, to the Popular Movement for the Liberation of Angola (MPLA). A fund cutoff would affect only di rect appropriations to Angola. Bonker has voiced concern that U.S. funds could be channeled through Zaire for use in continued support of the anti-Soviet factions. Monday, the State Department’s assistant secretary of state for African affairs, William E. Schaufele, told the House International Relations Committee that U.S. efforts to aid the two Angolan factions were a re sponse to Soviet and Cuban military intervention. “We must recognize that the Soviet Union has strained the fabric of detente by its lack of restraint and unilateral actions in Angola,” he said. “We were not hostile to the MPLA before it decided to impose its rule on the strength of Soviet and Cuban bayonets.” Schautele described Angola as a demonstration by the Soviet Union as to how it will use what he said was power only recently gained “to intervene militarily anywhere in the world .... “If we allow the Soviet Union to get away with this intervention 8,000 miles from its borders” Moscow will be encouraged to try similar forays elsewhere in the world, Schaufele told the committee. News Briefs DETROIT’S school officials say that yesterday’s integration of the ci ty’s elementary schools through court-ordered busing was a success. But they and civil-rights leaders have some concern about violence in the high schools, which are to be integrated today. PATRICIA HEARST’S trial for bank robbery was expected to begin today. Jury selection reportedly will focus on attitudes toward kidnap victims, radicals and the wealthy. ISRAELI Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin has arrived in the U.S. on a 12-day visit in an attempt to maintain American diplomatic support and to restore threatened multi-million dol lar U.S. aid cuts. THE PALESTINE Liberation Organization says it will intensify its armed struggle with Israel now that the U.S. has vetoed a United Secu rity Council resolution calling for an independent Palestine and Israeli withdrawal from lands captured in the 1967 War. A TANK-LED three-pronged at tack has been launched by the Soviet-backed Popular Movement MPLA against the Western-backed National Union. MPLA military sources say that their forces are less that 50 miles from the UNITA capital of Huambo. 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