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ON MON DAY ONLY, EVERY 10TH DONOR WILL RECEIVE A FREE LONC DISTANCE CALLING CARD. Cap & Gown Senior Honor Society Scholarship, Leadership, & Service Requirements: • undergraduate student • 3.25 or better cumulative GPR • between 75 and 110 credit hours Applications Available In: • Cap & Gown Cubicle (Student Gov’t Offices, Koldus Bldg.) • Honors Office (Academic Bldg.) Questions? Contact Holly at 693-0678 Monday • February' movie review Peak's plot, acting less than moltei Dante’s Peak Starring Pierce Brosnan and Linda Hamilton Directed by Roger Donaldson Rated PG-13 Playing at Hollywood 16 ★ ★ (out of five) By Aaron Meier The Battalion What is Hollywood’s obsession with saving dogs’ lives? In the past year, no less than three mediocre films {ID4, Twister and Daylight) have gone to extreme measures to insure the survival of a dog during a cataclysmic disaster. Dante’s Peak follows suit — it’s a bad film with a rescued dog. The plot of Dante’s Peak fol lows the standard natural disaster movie format. Volcanologist Har ry Dalton (Pierce Brosnan) warns a town of impending disaster from the otherwise friendly neighborhood volcano. Despite his evidence, the town chooses to ignore the cries of our scientifical ly inclined hero, except for the sexy yet sensibly dressed Mayor RachelWando (Linda Hamilton). After the foretold disaster occurs, citizens learn to never doubt a man with a seismograph. The makers of Dante’s Peak at tempt to bring a level of complex ity to the movie that does not have time to develop. Issues such as the death of a loved one, a fa ther’s abandonment, the pain of divorce and the instability of a ro mance seem pointless, especially considering there is a volcano erupting in the backyard. With too many loose strings and plot diver gences, the story never really gets a chance to work. The stars of the film are ap pealing. Hamilton and Brosnan make a handsome couple, but the pesky volcano gets in the way of their courtship. The developing romance works, though, because of the respective ages of the stars. Brosnan’s age lends credibility to his profession and his desire for romance. Hamilton’s age works incredibly well with Brosnan’s. She lends a sense of maturity that allows the love interest to work. The supporting characters of the film follow stereotypes so reli giously, an after-school special seems more inventive. The volcanology team that works with Dalton seems trans planted straight from the storm- Pierce Brosnan and Linda Hamilton run from disaster in Dante] chaser team in Twister, complete with a frizzy-haired nerd and a frumpy female scientist. The two children of Mayor Rachel Wando have the typical emotional expressions child ac tors have — they smile really big or cry really loud. Director Roger Donaldson gives the children a squeaky clean image that would make Wally and the Beave cringe. The citizens of the town seem to be from the dan of people in Galveston who refuse to evacuate when a hurricane comes, be cause, “Ain’t nothing happen me or my house, yet.” Special effects remain thee reason movies like thisarera Admittedly, the sight ofseeb; mountain explode is aweso® Watching the raw power of® ture level a city, rip up house; and topple buildings excites:: movie watcher, but to borrow line from David Spade, “Ilike; better the first time, when it# called Twister." A down-home celebration Mardi Gras in Norman, Okla., brings out the bizzare in townsfol NEW ORLEANS (AP) — It’s Mardi Gras time! In Seattle, St. Louis, Galveston and Pensacola. In Dunedin, Fla., St. Mary’s, Ga., and Norman, Okla. NOR-man, OHa-HOMA? Yep. It seems that every Tom, Jacques and Harriet wants in on the fun. Jeanne Flanigan, owner of Flanigan’s Cos tumes and head of Norman’s Mardi Gras, burst into laughter when a reporter called from New Orleans. It is a common reaction among people who run the less-known celebrations. “It’s kind of dinky compared to what is going on there,” Ms. Flanigan conceded. "We wanted some thing to cure the winter blues, so we created this. “We started off with about 35 people in the parade and 35 people watching it. It goes around the block, so our crowd of people followed us around the block the first year. “Now we have about 200 people in the parade and maybe 3,000 or 4,000 people watching. We have a full-blown ball after the parade now in stead of private parties.” Mardi Gras parades and balls have been fix tures in New Orleans and Mobile, Ala., for genera tions. Seattle is celebrating its 20th annual Mardi Gras, St. Louis’ Soulard neighborhood, its 18th. But even Mobile, which claims to have been celebrating Mardi Gras since the 1700s, and New Orleans, where a disorganized street procession was noted in 1827, are late to the parade. After all, the Louisiana Territory was not claimed for France until 1682. Binche, Belgium, dates its first Carnival celebration to 1394. In Rome, they say Carnival—from the Latin for “farewell to the flesh,” in preparation for Lenten austerities — dates to the second century, when Bacchus and Venus were deities for many people rather than Carnival parade groups. These days, in New Orleans, Carnival is a thoroughly secular bacchanalia, a drunken $440 million party attended by millions. Private groups in New Orleans and surrounding parishes put on dozens of parades in the two weeks leading up to Fat Tuesday, and a half- dozen on the day itself. People who ride the krewe floats buy plastic beads, aluminum dou bloons and other trinkets to ’toss to the miles and miles of crowds. Other cities around Louisiana hold parades or “courirs du Mardi Gras” — drunken horseback rities around the countryside to gather chid sausage and other ingredients for a com: gumbo. Mardi Gras is a state holiday. Norman’s Mardi Gras is more downhi and less serious than most New Orleans pan “We have the Lutefisk Krewe, theNonvet They entered our category of Unkfe Rolling Object,” Ms. Flanigan said. “Theylu hospital gurney for a start.” Then there is The Banned of Oklaficr. sort of marching band, she said. "IfyoM) ’em pointed in the right direction, they:, she explained. There is also a lawnmower drill teat# Synchronized Readers, who turn the pi Waldo books on command. Seattle’s Fat Tuesday parade in the Pi Square district is preceded byaweekofcoh and live music at the bars and restaurants sponsor it. The parade itself has no floats ambles along for about eight blocks. Anyone who wants to may join. Usually: hundred people do, with a thousand orsow: ing, said Tina Bueche, publicity chairwonai the Fat Tuesday Committee. 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