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“Washington in Review”
gives a weekly recap of news
from the nation’s capital.
Each week a panel of journal
ists analyze key issues and
personalities. It airs at Fri
days at 7p.m. on Channel 15.
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PBS HIGHLIGHTS
The local PBS station is KAMI). It is located on
UHF Channel 15, and VHP Channel 12 on the
cable.
KAMU starts broadcasting each day at 7:30 a.m.
Anyone wanting a schedule of programs for the
coming month can call 845-5611 and one will be
mailed free of charge.
The American Short Story — Feb. 25,8 p.m. This
week “The American Short Story” will present
“Rappaccini’s Daughter,” by Nathaniel Hawthorne.
Set in Italy’s distant past, it is the story of a young
man’s romantic entanglement with a beautiful, yet
forbidden, young woman in a strange garden. The
story dramatizes one of Hawthorne’s major
themes: The horror of one person’s interference
with another person’s soul. (60 minutes)
Austin City Limits — Feb. 26, 9 p.m. Willie Nel
son, Hank Cochran, Floyd Tillman, Red Lane,
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Felicity Kendal, right plays a woman who dis
guises herself as a male page, and Sinead
Cusack plays Lady Olivia in Shakespeare’s
“Twelfth Night,” to be broadcast Feb. 27 at 7
p.m. on Channel 15.
Whitey Shafer and Sonny Throckmorton take turns
serenading and sharing familiar hits and several
brand-new songs on this week’s segment of “Au
stin City Limits.” In a special guest appearance,
Ray Price joins these artists to perform a new song
written by Willie Nelson. (60 minutes)
Twelfth Night — Feb. 27, 7 p.m. William Shakes
peare’s “Twelfth Night,” a lyric comedy of mis
placed love, mistaken identity and comic revenge,
will air on the premiere presentation of the second
season of “The Shakespeare Plays.” Over a six-
year span, the series will encompass all 37 of
Shakespeare’s dramatic works, marking the first
time that the entire Canon has been produced on
film or videotape. “Twelfth Night” tells the story of
Viola, shipwrecked in the mythical country of Illyria.
(2 hours 30 minutes)
A.M. Weather — Monday through Friday, 7:30
a.m. PBS Channel 15 starts off its broadcast each
weekday morning with the presentation of this live
program devoted entirely to weather. It is primarily
for pilots, but also should be of interest to the gener
al audience because of the in-depth weather cover
age presented. (15 minutes)
Washington Week in Review — Fridays, 7 p.m. A
weekly recap of news emanationg from the nation’s
capital, each week a panel of distinguished
Washington journalists analyze key issues and per
sonalities. (30 minutes)
Festival ’80 — March 1, 6:30 p.m. Public Televi
sion’s “Festival ’80” begins with a full evening of
music from “Live from the Grand Ole Opry.” A
six-hour program, it presents two complete shows
live from Nashville’s Opryland, with a brief intermis
sion between shows so a new audience can be
brought in. “Festival ’80 will run from March 1-
March 16, with special shows being shown every
evening during the prime time hours of 7-10 p.m. (6
hours)
Presente — March 1,10 p.m. The effect of Mex
ico’s oil reserves on both the United States and
Mexico is examined on “Presente.” The program
included film reports as well as an in-studio discus
sion with host Aundie Dayoub. Those interviewed
about Mexico’s oil bonanza and how it will affect the
border areas and the U.S economy include former
U.S. Ambassador to Mexico Patrick Lucey, as well
as congressmen and oil experts, political scientists
and public administration authorities from both
countries. (30 minutes)
No boycott for "nude Olympic 9
... Regardless of the world political situation, there is one Olympic
event which will probably never face a boycott. The annual
Cary Quad Nude Olympics went on as usual this year, despite
the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan and the 10-degree weather
at Purdue University. For at least the 11th time, the men of
Cary followed a young man carrying a toilet paper torch in laps
around the dorm courtyard, wearing nothing more than protec
tive (of identification) headgear and tennis shoes. This year’s
winners were three men who survived 45 minutes of this
spontaneous event, traditionally held on “the coldest day of
the year.” — Collegiate Hedlines
Faculty oppose beauty pageant
... With or without Bert Parks, many James Madison University
(Harrisonburg, Va.) faculty members want no part of the Miss
America Pageant. Fifty-seven of them signed a petition pro
testing the school's sponsorship of a beauty pageant that is a
preliminary to the Miss Virginia and Miss America pageants,
saying such an activity “undermines values important to the
academic community." The opinions of the faculty members
who signed the petition, which was printed in the school news
paper after the pageant, ranged from beliefs that all beauty
pageants are sexist to objections to university sponsorship. —
Collegiate Hedlines ^
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Celery—organic cocaine spoon ?
... The president of the University of Maryland student govern
ment gave that state’s legislators some food for thought as
they considered passage of a bill to ban the sale of drug
paraphernalia. Jordan Fox was one of few people to testify
against the law before a state senate committee, but his testi
mony received the most attention. Fox gave the lawmakers a
lesson in “creative bongmaking” as he cut the core out of an
apple, covered the holes with perforated tinfoil and cut another
hole in the side of the fruit to produce what he said was a
25-cent marijuana pipe. Fox next produced a piece of celery
and claimed it could be used as an organic cocaine spoon. The
purpose was to show the legislators that outlawing the sale of
drug paraphernalia will not reduce drug use — unless salads
also are banned. While his testimony brought laughs, it didn’t
seem to change the committee’s vote. — Collegiate Hedlines
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THE BATTALION
Policy: Focus will accept any stories, drawings
or photographs that are submitted for publica
tion, although the decision to publish lies solely
with the editor. Pieces submitted, printed or
not, will be returned upon request. Deadline is
5 p.m. the Thursday before publication.
Contributing to this issue were: Paul Chil
dress, Doug Graham, Geoff Hackett, Becky
Matthews, Scot Meyer, and Cathy Saathoff.
Editor: Rhonda Watters
Focus Staff Reporter: Tricia Brunhart
On the Cover: Pinball, and some of the other
electronic games have become almost an
addiction for some college students. For a
story about how the machines work and and
some more pictures, turn to pages 4 and 5.
Cover picture by Paul Childress. Cartoon by
Doug Graham.