1977_04 The Daily Collegian April 1977

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Superbowt disaster movie reviewed
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''Black Sunday': Flawed but stunning film
hyBehCMdy                     Keller nave AjJM_tMWd the Russian director V.I. Pudovkin
Crttte                            Goodyear   Blimp.   They   have called   the   "plastic   material"
rigged it to explode, triggering a elevitea the film ibove the turgid
"Black Sunday."  or  "Mr.      Darn Invention that would tend levd of a dmllar thriller, "Two
Blimp (^ to the Superbowl,''It      thousands of darts fiytog Into the Minute   Warning."   la   "Black
• thriller wtth MOW stunning      Ngl»«H  In  •  perfect  arch, Sunday," Frsnkenhelmer shows
Nevertheless, at two and one- Roger  Corman   biker flicks
halfhounthefumUoverlong.lt ilwiys   creating  a   believable
seems to drag most heivily when characU	
Frinkenheimer gets away from girbage  ..c ..
acUon and hn his people talk. pleasure to see
Shaw and his IsraeU sidekick, for decent rotes.
The    plot    deals    with    a here.    He   gradually   builds eWyone'to bits, and Shaw trying
Piiestinian terrorist effort to kill suspense through pacing, cutting to attach a cable hook to the
everyone to the Superbowl, to from Shaw and Weaver and their blimp  to  pull   It  out  of  the
that "Americans will suffer with desperate efforts to uncover the Superbowl.
us," as terrorist Marthe Keller plot and Its perpetrators, to Dam In "Two-Minute Warning," the
puts It. Keller It joined by ex- and Keller and their struggle to director triedrfo show mob panic
POW Bruce Dern, embittered by pufl the thing off. by moving Ids camera to the so-
made a propaganda film for
he Frinkenhelmer's final 30 yard line i
the minutes, where Ihe blimp nets people runn
hi*     loose and heads for the Super-     ramps. It wa
i running down the edt
rimpi. It was pretty dull and not
•7- bowl with Shaw in hot punuit in i very sciry.
Oi agent Robert Shaw ind hijacked helicopter, U a classic There are other strong in-
FBI man Fritx Weaver i re to example of how euap-usi should dividual scenes to "Black Sun-
charge Of heading off the be built Frinkenheimer harks day." For example, the sequence
catastrophe. Trouble Is. though back to techniques discovered by where Palestinian leader Beklm
they know that someone li going Griffith ind the Russian direc- Fehmlu is cornered by federal
todo something bloody In Miami. ton as he cuts from the bllmn to agents in Miami is beautifully
they don't know exacUy what It U rhe Superbowl action to the choreographed and very real and
or who it going to do It. helicopter and back again, ac- frightening The raid on the Mil.
The film takes two and one-half ceterattog the pace as the blimp which opens "Black Sunday. "
hours to reach Its climax above gets closer. ind Dern s test of his invention in
e Dern and The use of cutting and what the Mojave, also are well done.
sides," hh^pd Stephen Keate
warns Shaw. "That 1st not goot."
And Shaw has an embarrassing scene in front of the
Washington Monument with the
Libyan imbaasador, wbo be reels
might be able to lead him to
Keller. The episode Is a collection
ol cliches, ending with something
like "we shouldn't be seen
together." (What, then, are they
doing consorting to front of the
Washington Monument?)
Marthe Keller, who played
Duttin    Hoffman's    double-
In "Black Sunday," Dern
Palestinian. Her accent (she's
Swiss) Is indecipherable at
times, and her motivation for
^o-utttog everything to a nut
. like Dem never it dear.
Dern't performance, on the
other hand, It electrifying, worth
going to the film to see Like Jack
Nicholson, Dern pdd his dues In
up the people in the
' rwl because they sym-
the guys wbo were
sleeping with hit wife when be
was to a four-by-four bamboo
cell, you almost want turn to
succeed, to moving Is he. "They
end It to me," be sobs, "why
shouldn't I be able to do It to
them?" 	
Ironically, the Dem character
and Dern't acting are part oT the
problem with the film.
Frankenbelmer given us an
ending that la good-guy-venus-
bad-guy to torn, but to hasn't
given us clearly defined good
guys and bad guys.
Win Shaw save the people in
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JlettesiA, ia Ute, ediicvi
Nursing competency defended
I am writ
couple of things, 1) the articles
and letter about Ms. Ming Me Sia
and 2) the Nursing Department.
I led that the recent letter
from the senior nursing student
stated what I red about Ms. Sla's
teaching ability, which it not
presently under scrutiny.
One must contider her
teaching ability, since she it an
instructor with the responsibility
of teaching Student Nurses good
patient care techniques. After
all, would you want a nursing
ttudent taking care of you, under
the supervision or an incompetent Instructor? Because
of bar and another nursing Instructor that I had to only one of
my classes, I am very concerned
about the section on the State
Another thing you should
consider is that only a minute
few of the faculty is considered to
be incompetent according to
most nursing ttudenti. Mrt.
Greene and most ol the other
instructors do thingl conscientiously in the best interest ot
the students and are NOT incompetent.
Maybe a line from
Shakespeare's "Julius Caesar"
could apply here: "The good ii
oft interred with their bones." I
guest ir something or someone it
Incompetent   or   wrong   it't
the department. It may nave Its
3-10 per cent bad doe, but it
I guess you would
rather write about the minute
Incompetency than the overall
competency ol the CSUF
Department of Nursing. Could
you please write about the
competent tide? Too many
people In the Fresno community
are receiving from the media
only incompetency that hat
Financial problems are a  grim reality'
Kdltor:
The recent lunar over the attempt to make' aquatics disappear from Bulldog intercollegiate athletics points up a
situation facing the entire
university.
The grim reality facing CSUF
is a financial one. A rapidly
declining ttudent population, an
unwillingness to work together-
due to territorial protection—it
lending to the eventual
dettruction ol many fine
programs
Administrators currently are
considering a change-over to a 4
unit program instead of the
current 3-unit. apparently forcing schools to combine related
or similar classes. More realistic
would be Ihe elimination of the
tame classes offered by different
schools or departments. It it
ridiculous to have 10 statistics
courses when one course would
be satisfactory
had a large enrollment, when
schools with rapidly increasing
enrollment have to mtke due
with a limited Instructional staff
Stafi should be allocated on the
The opinion which was expressed that thil university
needs no relationship with the
community colleges it insane. At
long as California higher
education is structured to include
the CCs. the university roust be
prepared to accept CC students
Money it getting tighter and
tighter as the ttudent population
declines   The "baby boom" is
How doet this relate to
athletics, though?
Given the present financial
situation (which won't get better
under present circumstances),
the Athletic Department, the
Bulldog Foundation, and community supporters need to
reappraise the situation
besides ego, that it is impractical. If one la speaking of
quality, I would rather see a
excellent Division II ball crab,
then a lousy Division I team
here at CSUF.
The Bulldog Foundation should
involve itself more In all sports,
not as a shield for s
It Is time tor quality and not
playing to the egos of certain
community lupportere who want
football at dl costs.
At this point, most of the high
school teams, let alone Fresno
CC, play better ball then State.
Certain questions have been
raited re: the Bulldog Foundation's role In certain activities.
Serious charges have been made.
As AS President Dave
Nikssarian suggested, maybe,
it't time for a complete investigation by a "Blue-Ribbon"'
panel to resolve these charges
and
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I consider to te SMS per cent
Reader rats on Canada's saccharin experiment
of the two Is the
lnfamout   "test"   rat.   Weight
Intake of...test rata.
To   tho  frustrated   Monty
Python fans In Fresno: Monty
up with a contingency plan. Even If it is built, I
suspect it will become a white
high schools to lease it for gimes,
which would produce addtt
revenue, the place will I
complete fsilure. *
In   the   university's   pn
|-teperter-r'*
X Anderson.   LI
McEwea.   Mike   Betetae.
Laura   Thempson,   Diane
are so nebdous at this polnt-the
sole justification for Div. I bsil-
Tueeday. Aoril 11. lfm
Film, 'Sunday,1
is flawed,
but stunning
Bottle pays off for art students
THE COUKHAN-3
aSSS-S Staff may pay for books
rria*-*  a ■   spfrOexailOt to tneao „i™.i_«**j »       _  ., m..b   >*ia   ik>i    k
ma    tupport. Tho ttudenta can't
compoied    of    behave  they  on  show   tbetr
(Continued from p. l) Clark   tald   that   ho   wat    class. know the good students and the
"We are trying to work out a      lomewhat  tympathetlc   with        "Every university hat a place     faculty doesn't even know each
new billing procedure for 'acuity      some   of   the   Irate   faculty    ***** -*»°euti can show their     other.  Iter* It  no  red  bar-
Indeed, the only one you can
and bo's totally wacko. This
weaker, the ecenes at the end, no
matter how technically
proficient they are. It doesn't
really matter one way or the
~    -falls of r the
studenttwhkh would Involve the -if. , knotty problem," he it It operated by the ttudenti, "Well te lucky to have  12
cost of the book and a  $s.«S said. "If they check out a book free  from  pressure  from   the paintings on card boxes, but m
service charge," te taid. ••But, and  It   dltappeart.   who   It faculty." Pdamlno tald, adding do my damndest to make this
******* *?■_?*• tt ** <td r-VendhtoT  It It  the faculty uuf ,  permanent  place   is thing come off. If I can get the
«•»* f Jf B^pwcodwe, member Involved,  the depart- ^^        . toc-M, tatoTwlt"
how would we enforce It?" menL or should It be taken as a "*~~*"*-' M*s-™' *»-—-•
-aTS^^T^JS ""ctoTtdd  the  library  will LeQiSl 0^011 tO    0101116?
what't to guarantee that they wlil probably regain the books or             9
pay it?" L__^«__Z_ «___T^                 (C^ttoued from p. 1). tew up with the latest mecttcd
payment for them through a new .     j„„.__^j . «i«_ ,„. ihmhj. . .,i------
Clark add there ia some to- procedure adopted but summer tm ?****-?*".*? ?**? ".y*0*        «*■"""••         _.	
e\^LTJSieeTe l^^^Xi "■ZSSXL'SZ -, AS.S»JS&.
!T-2S -lET-Lli^SL! <*"*  ******* y*  <**»-» open,"   Mid    Olonn.    "I'm unlverdty to Insure quality to-
procedure which would  dther -   clearance from various campus niZ..rt.. -truction.
weaknesses,   I
Despite thee
recommend the film. It't pretty
good on the whole and the action
scenes show moviemaking at Its
finest. Leave the kids and Im-
presdonible people at home,
though; "Black Sunday" Is very
"Black Sunday," by the way, Is
being compared to "Jaws." The
only thing they have to common
 *i quality   of   the   clinical   ex-
^JS_ haven', „™ ik., ™,tt "?* **■*—.*.&." ItglsUUon Pa..ed Isst ye*r»s porta**," be add.
"We haven t gone that route employee who wants his And ^Zm^,  hWojitl-   and   hedth
y<"tesdd.,^e^rrtuctantto j^ „„,, ^^ iig-»tarii „-»*, wed by the anhrantty' Soaalcar tomorrow
since...we have been threatened •-» y-oious offlcas that all Ms foVrilnlcd  tr.ltdog  Isgall, °PeOKer  rOmOITOW
with lawsuits ir we ever did adopt keyt are turned In and that be respondble lor patient care. The man who add the flnt
such a procedure." doesn't owe any money to the        The law draws 80 extinction McDondd't hamburger. Arthur
"• w&m'JTS *i ."IS! ttd*f^ty.'Theulxarylsontte between regular memben of the C. Bender, will be the ipeakar In
faculty member tell me that they ,*. htMfm «ntt *M Mtode* lmw$m the   business   lecture   tsrlei
didn't have the books, that they '^^ or ttelr h-*mrtors. Wednesday, April 13. The tec-
weren't going to pay for them. dark sdd with . grin Twe        ""» Uw' -» ««•-•• m*de " ' *-*•. Wforei by the CSUF
ind that they wouldn't allow it to want to wdt until nKet'of them le*d ItnperiUve for the faculty School of Business win be held at
token out of their checks. retire. But that could te years to -* c""«cally competent," 1* noon In room 101 of the CSUF
vera]  have  threatened  that from now and, of course  their G,enn "*'d' Industrial  Alts  building.   The
ry would sue but I don't think library bill could exceed their        *  **°   dt**" ,"°*??! ^ "» »P" lo *• P»*
it they would win." find check."             need" for a quality faculty to without charge.
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