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April is the last month, so turn your cards in by May 8th to be in the running for the next Pizza! Pizza! Bash! E.i.C. A University Lecture WHAT REALLY HAPPENED TO THE BUFFALO A NEW INTERPRETATION Prof. Dan Louie Flores Texas Tech University 4 p.m. Tuesday, April 21 301 Rudder Tower Reception immediately following Need Help With a Paper? Videos, books, pamphlets, and articles on: PlwtctfFtt] 1. Alcohol laws and liability M^-d-rr * 2. Cocaine, crack and other drugs 3. Drug screening in the workplace 4. Drug treatment and counseling 5. Physiological and psychological effects of drugs and alcohol For more information, call or come by the Center for Drug Prevention and Education 845-0280 222 Beutel Health Center ...a part of the Division of Student Service Sales and Marketing Opportunity with the nation’s leader in college marketing and media services Excellent Financial Rewards Learn management skills and marketing strategies while implementing on-campus promotions. Flexible hours. Great beginnings for a career in the business world start with a position with American Passage Media Corp. during the 1992-93 school year. Contact your career placement office to sign up for an interview to be held on April 24, 1992. Spring Allergy Study Individuals 18 and older with spring allergy symptoms to participate in a two-week long research study (4 visits) with a medication in nasal spray form. $100 incentive for those who complete the study. For more information call BIOPHARMA, INC. 776-0400 Page 8 The Battalion OPAS finishes fine season with 'Ziegfeld: A Night at the Follies' By Timm Doolen The Battalion "Ziegfeld: A Night at the Fol lies" displayed great sets, wonder ful costumes and many classic songs from the '20s and '30s in Rudder Auditorium Thursday night. The loose plot involves three girls who leave their ordinary lives, head for Broadway and luckily become Ziegfeld girls. In the '20s and '30s, Ziegfeld girls were as popular as current Holly wood stars. Mary, Mitzi and Madeline, a farm girl, switchboard operator and debutante, respectively, leave their boyfriends, John, Joe and Ju nior, for the big time. They quickly are accepted as Ziegfeld girls and adapt to the life of rehearsing all day, dancing and singing at night, and partying witn the rich boys after the show. But John, Joe and Junior miss their girlfriends, and set out to find their women on Ziegfeld's stage, and once they do, ask them to return home. Mary doesn't want to return to the boredom of farm life; Mitzi doesn't want to go with Joe to the fights every night for the rest of her life; and Joe is just too civilized for Madeline's taste. At the close of act one, the girls are faced with the decision be tween the glamorous life or the men they love. Act two takes us through the processes by which the couples compromise and reach three unique solutions, with a little help from Venus and Cupid. The beginning of act two fea tures two dream sequences that are the highlights of the show. The first is an extended dream by Madeline in which she tries to find 'primitive man." In the process. HUY NGUYEN/Th» Ball* Mitzi, a switchboard operator turned nightclub dancer, sings a number in OPAS’s production of “ZiegfeW Follies” Thursday night. Junior takes over the dream un derwater and has a ball. As mentioned before, the cos tumes and sets, especially the back drops, are amaazing. It's hard to believe the detail, complexity and number of sets in "Ziegfeld" con sidering it is a touring production. The songs and voices were also spectacular, featuring num bers from the era by such com posers as Irving Berlin, Cole Porter, Rennold Wolf, Jerome Kern and Oscar Hammerstein. Highlight songs were Stepped Out of a Dream,' Only a P« Gir 'You "It's Paper Moon" and "A Pret ty Girl is Like a Melody." There's nothing new here; in fact the story is based loosely on the 1941 movie "Ziegfeld Girl" with James Stewart, Judy Garland and Lana Turner. But that's the whole point - it's a trip to a differ ent time when chorus line dancing and dazzling, larger-than-life cos tumes were all the rage on Broad way. What little plot there was proved to be fairly thin-ji something to hang all the songs around. But the song anddana routines, including some g tap numbers, more thanmadeuf for the lack of a real story. OPAS's season ended wilha bang Thursday night to a sell-out crowd. One can only hope OPAS will bring the same kind of quality performances next year. Lifetime talkshow analyzes backlash against feminism LOS ANGELES (AP) — Their hearts are in the right place, but their brains aren't fully engaged. "Attitudes," the new talk show on cable's Lifetime channel, tackles tough subjects in a two- part special beginning today at 3 p.m. The topic is feminism. The subtopics are whether today's women are better off and whether a backlash exists against them. Such subjects are getting much attention of late. From talk shows to conferences to upcoming movies of the week, whither goest feminism is getting its biggest public airing since the 1970s. The hosts of "Attitudes" are Dorothy Lucey and Rolonda Watts. Their intentions are honor able in this double segment, but their questions are pure Holly wood. Which is to say slick, shallow and sometimes misinformed. can Women"; Gloria Steinem; Na tional Organization for Women president Patricia Ireland; "Ram bling Rose" co-star Diane Ladd; author Paula Kamen, who wrote "Feminist Fatale"; and Jan Parshell, vice president of Con cerned Women for America. As panel moderators, Lucey and Watts are out of their league. That is not to say they are stupid, lij They are simply lightweight. The guests are Susan Faludi, the Pulitzer Prize-winning jour nalist who wrote "Backlash: The Undeclared War Against Ameri- Lucey introduces Steinem as the woman responsible for the women's movement. That is like saying Rosa Parks is responsible for desegregating public trans portation. Steinem corrects the misstate ment. Watts goes on to say (twice) that Faludi's book is "rocking" women across the country. Rock ing them to sleep? Upsetting them? Making them dance? Despite taking on valid, con troversial subjects, "Attitudes" proves with these installments to be just another talk show. The is sues would have been better served by letting the guests run the shows. Watts, in her best broadcast journalist voice, earnestly asks Steinem if there really is a war against women. "Of course there's a war," Steinem replies evenly. "Absolute ly there's a war." Before the founding editor of Ms. magazine can finish, however. Watts inter rupts the answer to her own ques tion. "Does that mean that the war against inequality has been defeat ed?" Watts interjects. "No," Steinem says. "It means that we were successful in the first phase. A backlash is an almost in evitable result of success." The backlash, as Faludi de scribes in her popular book, is the counterattack to inroads women made in the 1970s. "It's not a conspiracy," Faludi says. Rather, it's an insidious and complicated reaction to feminism^ she asserts, that blames the wom en's movement fof most social problems. Parshall, who says her organ! zation numbers 600,000 women and men, agrees with Faludi's comments, but not with her/# losophy. "If there’is a backlash,"Par shall says, "it's been caused by the feminists themselves, who arc not and never will be assimilated into the mainstream of American Ladd, speaking of female roles in Hollywood, said that after more than two decades as an actress, "I'm appalled by the scriptsl read." "When I have these meetings with network executives, and most of them are men, it's women in jeopardy movies... it's women being abused by Coke bot tles." Part two of the "Attitudes" special airs Wednesday at 3 Both installments will be rep April 28 and 29, at 8 a.m. The segments are wort! watching. The hosts are worth ig noring. O MSC Political Forum presents MSC Political Forum a discussion of political and legal issues on Wednesday, April 22, 1992 7:00 p.m. Rudder Theater J.L TShe Debate that>iS Guest speakers: Dr. Joseph Graham f plit the Nation and Susan Nenney Moderated by: Dr. Kurt Ritter President of Texas Right to life Committee Dir. of Communication and Public Affairs for Planned Parenthood of Houston Prof, of Speech and Communications Texas A&M University THE VIEWS EXPRESSED IN THIS PROGRAM DO NOT NECESSARILY REFLECT THE VIEWS OF TEXAS A&M UNIVERSITY, THE MEMORIAL STUDENT CENTER, OR MSC POLITICAL FORUM. 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