1997_02 The Daily Collegian February 1997

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THE DAILY
COLLEGIAN
Monday, February 3,1997
By Paul McCauley
The Daily Collegian
It's a little hard to believe lhat
if s actually the second week of
the semester. I guess time just
flies by when you're running
from one end of the campus to
the other between classes.
Being the second week, I'm
sure most, if not all, of us stu¬
dent-types have made the semi¬
annual attempt at purchasing
books for all of our wonderful
classes.
As if the struggle of simply
finding our classes isn't enough,
the master's of our fates have de¬
cided to straddle us with the fur¬
ther obstacle of navigating the
maze of shelves that compose
the upper level of the bookstore
in search of lasty morsels of
written knowledge.
You know, I wouldn't be sur¬
prised to look over my shoulder
and see several scientist-types in
lab coats with clip-boards and
stop watches charting my
progress through the throngs of
academic shoppers.
Then again* I wouldn't be all
that surprised to see these mys¬
terious scientist types anywhere
in my life, but that's an issue for
therapy, not this column.
Has anyone else noticed that
they no longer put the price of
the book anywhere on the book
.(unless you are able to translate
bar code into human) but they
do list both the new and used
price on the card taped to the
shelf, even when there are no
used corjies available?
Isn't that against some law
somewhere? After all, that cer¬
tainly qualifies as cruel and un¬
usual punishment, doesn't it? In
essence, the bookstore is taunt¬
ing us saying: "Look how much
you could have saved if you
were able to find a used copy.
But you didn't, and now you
have to kiss the money good¬
bye. Pucker up sucker."
It's just plain rude (and rude¬
ness is bad. or so I' ve been told),
especially when the book in
question is a new edition. After
all, it isn't possible, without the
use of time travel, for a used
copy of a brand new edition to
exist. So why list the price for
all to see?
My theory is that they have a
small supply of used or other¬
wise slightly damaged books
lhat are to be sold at a reduced
price in the back room that they
save for the bookstore employ¬
ees and their close friends. I
don't have any proof, but I'm
almost certain that in one of
those "employee only" sections
Please see MCCAULEY page 8.
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lm Star Wars I.Q.
By Colleen DcBaise
College Rress Services
"Luke." invokes Darth Vader. in
an ominously raspy voice.
"I... am., .your., .father!"
That was the sensational conclu¬
sion of "Return of the Jedi," the last
installment of the "Star Wars" tril¬
ogy in which dizzying visuals left
movie-goers feeling like they'd
been hit by a dark star.
But would the trilogy, re-re¬
leased Jan. 31 with digitally remas¬
tered effects, pack as much punch
if Darth Vader had been named, say.
"Jean-Luc"? Of if the lovely Prin¬
cess Leia answered to the Greek-
goddess-like "Xena"?
Filmmaker George Lucas re¬
cently told The New York Times
just where on earth he came up with
the catchy names that launched a
"thousand action figures.
As it turns out, names such as
"Luke Skywalkcr" and "Hans
Solo" did come from earth. Lucas
said he borrowed from a mix of lit¬
erary, cultural and linguistic sources
to devise the memorable names.
"I wanted to stay away from the
kind of science fiction names like
Zenon.and Zorba." he told the
Times. "They had to sound indig¬
enous and have consistency be¬
tween their names and their cul¬
ture."     •
That's why he borrowed from
the Dutch to come up with Darth
Vader, which roughly translates into
"Dark Father." Vader's original
name is Anakin Skywalker—
"Anakin" is a variation on the race
of giants in Genesis, while
"Skywalker" is a take on Loki. the
Norse god of fire and mischief.
Luke Skywalker \ name comes
from the Greek word "leukos" or
light. Also, the biblical Luke was a
gentile who converted to Christian¬
ity and became an apostle. That
seemed appropriate for the y< jng
man who discovers "The Foru "
The name Han Solo stems fr >m
two sources: "Han" is the arch ■
pronunciation of the common boy"-
name, John, while "Solo" is boi
rowed from the character Napoleon
Solo in "The Man from
UNCLE" A character named
Napoleon Solo also appeared in the
James Bond novel. "Goldfinger."
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