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e Battalion Page 4 • Monday, November 9, 1998 Aggielife The Balt Celebrating the arts A&M groups plan events around Arts Awareness Week MOVIE REVIEWS BY BETH FOCHT The Battalion T here is a hidden scene on the Texas A&M campus that allows students to express themselves in different ways. The arts — from performing to visual to literary — will be celebrated this week at A&M with National Arts Awareness Week. This week is dedicated for all art-asso ciated student groups to show their talents and to show others they exist. Rhandi Selde, director of audience education and de velopment for MSC Opera and Performing Arts Society and a senior biomedical en gineering major, said the Na tional Arts Awareness Week program not only publicizes what OPAS does, but pro motes the arts in general. “OPAS wants to increase awareness of the arts in the Brazos Valley,” Selde said. “OPAS depends on having an energetic arts community and National Arts Awareness Week is a great way to get students energetic about the arts.” Arts Awareness Week has been celebrated off and on by OPAS since the commit tee was created 26 years ago, but the last few years, it has gained increasing popularity, Selde said. “Arts Awareness Week is a celebration of all kinds of arts,” she said. “OPAS has two goals with this program. First, to increase arts awareness in gen eral for students, and second, to bring community arts organizations together and expose the student body to what they are. ” Programs and performances for Nation al Arts Awareness Week will occur through out the week with performances in the MSC Flagroom by the Aggie Wranglers, the Aggie Players, the University Orchestra, the Dance Arts Society and other arts-affiliated organizations from the student body and the Brazos Valley community. Selde said there are various activities throughout the week that feature differ ent ways to present art to the students. “One activity we have is an arts fair happening in the MSC hallway where art organizations on campus have the op portunity to show and give examples of what each organization does,” she said. “There will also be various other activi ties like a. spontaneous visual-arts area where students can come and color.” The theme of OPAS’ twenty-sixth sea son is to entertain, inspire and enlighten. Selde said Arts Awareness Week fits into this theme and enhances each of these areas. “With the entertaining of patrons,” she said, “there will be an open mic night poetry reading, a childrens performance, a youth talent show, the Flagroom per formances, ‘Always Patsy Cline’ and Nigel Kennedy at the end of the week. With the ‘enlighten’ theme, we are edu cating the student body about the arts. Texas A&M has no fine-arts school, so Arts Awareness Week gets the arts into the eyes of the student body.” OPAS wants the arts to inspire people and wants to try to get students to ex press themselves through art, Selde said. “The most successful part of this whole program is that it gives the oppor tunity for these artists and student groups to perform,” she said. “Others will be ex posed to and see these performances that in other circumstances, they might never see. ” One student group that will be ac tive in the National Arts Awareness Week activities is the Dance Arts So ciety. Dance Arts Society is a student- run dance organization that em braces all forms of dance through classes and performances. Lori White, president of Dance Arts Society and a senior theater arts major, said National Arts .Awareness Week is important to celebrate because the arts are a big part of our society. “The arts are a dying part of our culture and also are an essential part,” White said. “It is important to celebrate the arts and important for young people, especially college students, to express themselves through the arts and share it with the community.” White said the response to Na tional Arts Awareness Week last year, especially with the arts fair and MSC Flagroom performances, was wonderful. “Last year was the first year we The Siege Starring Denzel Washington and Bruce Willis Directed by Edward Zwick Rated R Playing at Hollywood 16 The Waterboy Starring Adam Sandler and Katf Bates Directed by Frank Corad Rated PG-13 Playing at Hollywood 16 The Siege is a movie that begins by placing the audience in the action and keeps them in suspense until the credits roll. Similar to Tom Clancy novels and movies. The Siege deals with radical terrorist groups and the fear they can invoke in the American public. The movie takes place in New York, where a terrorist group has been linked to a series of bus bombings. Washington is the FBI officer in charge of hunting down the radical group. When the group is finally taken down, it is dis covered the terrorist faction is not operat ing as a single cell, but multiple cells: where one starts up as another is caught. As the bombings get more daring and the death toll starts to rise, the U.S. President de cides to order the U.S. Army to occupy New York and flush out the radical groups. Willis stars as the general in charge of putting New York under martial law. The characters are not very defined, and the acting is not special, but the suspense and action make the movie very interesting and entertaining. The Siege is an exciting movie that starts strong and keeps the au dience intrigued until the end. (Grade: B) Audiences that enjoyed HappyGilm- and Billy Madison must see The Waleb: Bobby Boucher (Sandler) spendsliisi mative years growing up in the Louisk: swamp with his overprotective mothei (Bates). Boucher’s only contact withfc outside world is through his job as the “water distribution engineer” at Louisa University, where he is mercilessly tor mented by the football players. After being fired from his jobatLU, Boucher’s life changes when he takestk job as the waterboy for Southwest Cent: Louisiana State University, and the heat football coach (Henry Winkler) discove: Boucher’s talent for tackling. Boucher shows everyone that vism ization can help you conquer all obsi; cles in a comedic look at football and in Louisiana. The plot contains the unexpected quirks you would expect by a film writ by Tim Herlihy [The Wedding Singer, Happy Gilmore). The acting is good, and the castingi; cellent. The movie is a must-see for Ada:| Sandler fans. (Grade: A) — Kyle Whitacre Michael Tin Ross E born R the res participated in the event,” she said. “Seeing dancers performing in the Flag Room caught the eyes of passers-by, and people stopped and wanted to know what was going on. “Dance Arts Society, like other fine arts organizations, wants to be publicized and recruit other students, and this is a great reason to participate. We want to get the word out there that there are or ganizations like us on campus.” National Arts Awareness Week activi ties will occur all week in the MSC. PHOTO COURTESY OF TWENTIETH CENMS Denzel Washington and Bruce Willis star in the action-suspense movie The Sie$ Aggie Owned and Opperated Since 1984! CUSTOM BUILT SYSTEMS! taessote Soto, Repaid Upgrades, oed Networking « Along it) ttie best Soles and Service Staf in (tie Brazos Valley! 1 -O. T & TEX>^vS EE r\l l_l E S<ZI>L_JTI—I •vcoe r\/!'v' >^vr^jc=> ti—ie n?be e?sr-ndoe* tc=> 'teie C=> E E E CS-E ST>^Cr I CZO EO . 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