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You're Invited To A Wedding! full details on page 9 THE MIA URRICANE Volume 58, No.23 Tuesday, November Phone 284-4401 Space 'Shot' Wasn't Easy B) ( 1IARI ES I . I AV1N It has been my unfortunate experience while work ing for the liurrit iverlng a "big" event out oi campus can be pretty frustrating. Covering the launch Of the Columbia would be no different ... or so I thought Many people ha\e told me on more than one occa sion that I am crazy When 1 walked into the office two weeks ago looking foi someone to accompany me to the launch. I again was told what I already knew. Tbe only good place to see the launch up there would be from inside Kennedy Space (enter. 1 was told. There was no wa\ I v. ould get up there, let alone gel into the compound I was better ofl watching the launch on TV. But I didn't want to watch Ihe launch on TV I wanted to be there. I wanted to see and hear It, 1 want ed in shout it for my photo collection So i continued my search The onlj one. allowed Into the compound other than employees of the Center were press repre sentatives. I learned. I work for the Hurricane — that should qualify me. Furthermore, the Story was ap proved for the news sec tion. Now all I needed was per mission lo get into the compound Here is where I thought 1 would come to a dead end. 1 called Kenned) Space Center, and after being tossed around from department to department. I was told that I would have had to notify them ages in ad vance and the iinh way lo get in was to get clearance from Washington Wow. Washington. Five minutes later I was asking the D.C operator for the NASA phone number NASA referred me to another number In Kenned) Center, and aftei i ailing them and getting some minor paperwork done, we were cleared for the launch And so thi trek began At 11:00 p.m cm the eve of the No\ t George Haj. the official "reporter" on the story, and I took ofl four-and-a-half hour trip thai would get us losl a few times and would send us hunting for an open service station at 3 a m with the gas gauge needle way pasl I After thai we weie to spend another thirty minutes driving around the Cape in order to enter through Gate _. whi ltd be officially given our press badges and given tree run ol the complex Well, almost We were yel to be stopped r various checkpoint-, and turned back bul we finally made it to the press sit. There, al four in the morning, were reporters run ning around, helicopters taking off and landing (aster Ihan plane- do at O'Hare, network biggies getting preppeel up li ast. and dozens of photographers letting up complicated equipmenl In the far back- grim ml stood the < olumbia on its pad. lit from all direc tions, waiting And in the middle of it all. ihe count down clocl away, without stopping Without atoppit . lhe sun rose and tried to peek through the cloud cover which was beginning to worry everyone. Thou sands Ol lumens were produced by the network studios as they all went on the air. Reporters typed madly on theii portable VDT's Photographers checked then equipment lor the upteenth time. / checked my equip menl ior the upteenth time The clock counted awa> . less than fiv. minutes less than one minute Thouse ven frozen on the far image of the er, nol unlike all those eyes fro/en every after noon on the IV sei in the Union crime 2 p.m And the clock counted away 50 si ds 10 seconds .. _ i sei i ind. 3 i seconds The onl> good picture I shot that morning was the one ol the i Ioi k Aftei all attempts to launch thai mon- sti i tailed I bega ••• i whether the phone calls, the running around, the 30 hours without sleep had been worth n But when I gol ba, k to ihe office I knew I had to go up again .nd again 1 was told that I was out of my mind Well, evet tied to his opin ion. The e\ p of he i _th should nol lavi n nearl) as hectii Alter all, i leared foi tbe launch, we knew how to gel there, and we knew to fill up to av i iear i atastrophe, But eports : om NASA wen no help in keeping things Miami lit, im. HH- i ' • I > 4 1 l\ , aim and organized I hen A ere talks about further de- lavmg the laum h aiti d Final Spare Shuttle Columbia Took Off in \ Dazzling DWplai Of Kin .nd Smoke lo p m M i iuld, NASA see page _/LAl NCH Launch Something To Lose Sleep Over By SCOTT E. RIXFORD reduce this person to nothingness I grabbed mv , am- my camera It didn't takl long to sei up a Kodak 110 .ev Writer era, my pen and ray notebook, and set out for a media Instamaiu experience, 1 observed. Ihe huge vehicle assembly plant with Dateline: 2300 hours, 11 Sovember 1.98J. * * . Ms many-storied doors was more than just a building. It Hurricane writer/technical person/keeper of the As cynical as I may have felt that morning — I was waa America On one side was the .inerican flag, on brain Charles Lavin called me at my home as I was try capable of stealing a cauldron of money from a Salva Ihe other the bicentennial star. 1 felt a stirring within ing to crawl out of a Maytag washer tion Army volunteer — the remainder of the day would nie I ignored il. It continued My stomach moved, my "NASA has cleared the way for two Hurricane prove to be one of the most exciting days of my life senses magnified. More Pringles. 1 decided writer- to he part of the news media present at tomor After tipping my hat to such celebrities as David Ten minutes before liftoff, the last hold passed with row's shuttle liftoff. Do you want to go?" Hartman. Dan Rather, and the writer for a publication no complications Everyone was counting down the "Why sure." I said I as I puked lint out of mv in Cat's Creek, Oregon, I planted my flag in a pue e oi seconds Manv were pessimistic, mainly ihos, who had rav el. "What time do you wish to leave?" earth along the banks of the cape and began to set up Se. page Z/PRINGLES "How about twenty minute • . m Al one o'clock In the morning, I found mvseif drinking black coffee, eating Pringles. and riding on my wa. to Cape Canaveral. It certainly i.sn't common Reverend Probes Anti-Semitism for a freshman entertainment writer to be invited to cover such a mission during Ins first semester for the newspaper My mind felt exhilarated, my body dead, I By MARIA t. SALAZAR the i M I .is' School Auditorium there is something hidden in the would have to have been insane not to go. Vewi Writ,,, last Tuesday |( hristianl agenda " It seemed I had been driving all night I read the This lecture is the beginning of a Also, he said, lews think lhe highway sign: I'alm Beach. 20 Hides. I broke down and "We Christians believe Jesus lecture serial sponsored by the L'M ilea ni trying to convert them is al sobbed. The man in the white suit with the butterfly Christ is our savior, but this savior Judaic Studies Program for ways present in these talks net wa.s sitting on my shoulder. Mr l.avin was copping put a burden on us. We don't want 1981-H_. According to Dr Helen On the other hand, he explained, / s. and I was desperately in need of No-Doz. I had those burdens, but we can't blame I agin, director of the program, the Christiana also did not want to P-r-'gles caught between my teeth and coffee stains on our own faith. We have to blame series has been made possible conduct a dialogue with Jews be my shirt. I had learned to hate small cars. someone else. through a $12,000 grant from the cause of "indifference." This indil "Since Jesus was a lew. we Greater Miami Jewish Eederation. ference. he said, ia because ol ignc. Miami I n u.-s n R • * * • blame the Jews." ram i After five hours of flying past the bubble gum boys. Addressing his lecture to a main Larry Brodsky's three-yard touchdown we arrived ai Cape Canaveral. Lavin was still sleeping He may not think that analysis is ly Jewish audience, Flannery. a The dialogue started after the I had bricks in my eyes and a contract with Crayola to morally right, but that's how Rev former executive secretary of the Holocaust. Flannery said. It was catch put the Hurricanes up 14-0 in produce a new shade of red. After I received my pass, erend Edward H. Flannery. author Secretariat for Catholic-Jewish Re "probably because Christiana felt the first quarter of Saturday's Peach lations of the National Conference guilty and became more Christian nlinued through the many security gates and ar- of The Anguish of the Jews: Twen Bowl rematch against Virginia Tech.