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c aRoj COLLAGE Film: Check theaters for specific times and prices. Movies subject to change without notice. APOCALYPSE NOW (Rudder Auditorium) Marlon Brando stars in this Academy award winner as an Army major searching Vietnam for a colonel who has decided to set up his own sect. Definitely not for those with weak stomachs. Friday and Saturday at 7:30. Rated R. BLUE LAGOON (Plitt Cinema l&ll) Supposedly is a story of natural love between two innocent adoles cents — Brooke Shields and Chris Atkins, if you can believe that. Rated R. PRIVATE BENJAMIN (Manor East) Goldie Hawn stars as a poor little rich girl who finds out that playing Army is not just another game. Rated R. SMOKEY AND THE BANDIT II (Manor East) Again Burt Reynolds and Jerry Reed have a great time in a entertaining movie about speeding through the South without getting caught. Rated PG. THE FOUR MUSKETEERS (Rudder Theater) Oliver Reed and Richard Chamberlain star with Raquel Welch in part two of the misadventures of the Mus keteers. Sunday at 7: 30. Rated PG. WILLY WONKA AND THE CHOCOLATE FACTORY (Rudder Theater) Gene Wilder stars as the slightly deranged owner of a magical candy factory. The Oompa-Loompas make their film debut. Thursday at 7:30 and 9:45 p.m. Live Entertainment: BACKSTAGE: Ken Appelt appears Thursday and Saturday for a 75c cover charge. CADDYSHACK (Campus Theater) Chevy Chase, Rodney Dangerfield and Bill Murray are outstand ing in this country club version of “Animal House.” Rated R. CRUISING (Manor East) Al Pacino stars as an under cover detective who cruises gay bars looking for a killer. Friday and Saturday at midnight. Rated R. DEBBIE DOES DALLAS (Campus Theater) Not a sports film or a civic pride film. Thursday through Saturday at midnight. Rated X. DRESSED TO KILL (Manor East) Director Brian De- Palma’s attempt at a Hitchcock thriller, with Angie Dickenson getting sliced up in, you guessed it, the shower. Rated R. GRINS: Brad Baylis will perform Thursday night; the cover charge is $1. Friday and Saturday the band will be CPR. LAKEVIEW: Dennis Ivey and the Waymen perform Thursday, along with Of Amarillo, the bull. Cover is $1 for women and $3 for men, with 5C beer. Ivey FLESH GORDON (Plitt Cinema l&ll) Space travel will returns Saturday night, for a $3 cover, never be the same again. Saturday at midnight, rated R. GIZMO (Rudder Theater) A documentary of inven tions from the ’30s and ’40s that never quite made it, thank goodness. Friday and Saturday at mid night. Rated G. ROSEWOOD JUNCTION: The Texas Boogie Band will perform Thursday through Saturday. There is no cover Thursday night, and $1 cover both Friday and Saturday. OH, GOD! BOOK II (Plitt Cinema l&ll) The continuing adventures of the Lord God, as played by George Burns. Rated PG. THE TEXAS HALL OF FAME: Thursday night, the Debonnaires will perform. Cover is $2. On Friday, the Music Masters will play, for a $2 cover. Gary Stewart and the Drugstore Cowboys will appear Saturday night. Cover is $4. MOTEL HELL (Plitt Cinema l&ll) Sneak preview, Saturday at midnight. Rated R. TJ’s WHISKEY BAR: Stardust will appear Thursday through Saturday, for a $2 cover charge. For the first time, New York students who want to keep their state scholarships will have to meet academic standards, to include come- pleting a fixed number of courses and achieving a set grade point average each semester. The state’s Commissioner of Education has not yet set the speci fic standards, but some college officials are already expressing fears that minority and economically disadvantaged students will be se verely hurt by the new regulations. At the City University of New York officials say thousands of low-income students could be dis qualified from receiving state financial aid under academic stan dards. — Collegiate Headlines While many ailing athletic departments around the country look to their universities for financial help, the University of Michigan’s athletic department is being asked to share its wealth with the state. The chairman of the state senate’s higher education appropriation subcommittee says his panel won’t approve funding for several university building projects until he gets a look at the athletic depart ment books. Sen. Bill Huffman says he’s bothered by the fact that the athletic department is making money while both the university and the state lack needed funds. — Collegiate Headlines The Golden Girls of the University of Missouri-Colombia are losing some of their shine. UMC officials announced recently that the dance spirit troupe that performs in sequined, and somewhat skimpy, costumes will not perform at as many school functions this year. In deference to the members’ studies and in an effort to clean up their image, music and athletic department officials are reducing their performances at home basketball games and eliminating appearances at alumni gatherings and other functions. — Collegiate Headlines ocus THE BATTALION Policy: Focus will accept any stories, drawings or photographs that are submitted for publication, 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: Uschi Michel-Howell, Barbara Lynch, Glenn Krampota, Geoff Hackett, Dillard Stone and Scott McCullar. Editor: Scot K. Meyer Assistant Editor: Cathy Saathoff On The Cover: Mark Ollington is president of K.A.O.S.—Killing As an Organized Sport. K.A.O.S. is a game which began last year on several other college campuses. Texas A&M’s version of K.A.O.S. began Monday, and five people have already been “hit” by their dart-gun-armed “assassins.” See story on page 3.