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Vni. 12. \(,. Ml. D^'oinlK'i I')') CVC breaks ground for new classroom building Kathy Brown said Chancellor Jay Lemons. Staff Writer The new building will feature A dedtcatioa ceranoay was held classroom fiwilities, faculty offices, lecently at Clinch Valley College computer and science Ubs, and a which began the constniction on diq>layaiea. This new classroom CVC's new classroom building. fiicility is the first one built on cam• "This building is a major part of pus since the 1970's. This build• CVC's strategy to position itself as ing is scheduled to be finished in a leader in higher education for the the Fall of 1996. region and for the Conunonwealth. When the building is completed, More classrooms and offices and it will accommodate the student better laboratories will allow us to body more as it will grow in the serve more students in modem, future. At the beginning of the se• state^f-the art academic bdlities," mester, CVC welcomed one of the HC Photoi/Ikyler Borgeis Groundbreaking for the buUdlng brought out some well known faces. largest incoming classes in the Delegate Joseph "Joe" P. Johnson, cellor L. Jay Lemons welcomed College's history. Out of the 420 Jr., and Delegate Terry G. Kilgore. everyone. Finally the dignitaries new students who registered, 275 VTilliam J. Stuigill represented the broke the ground between Zehmer were new fieshman. CVC Advisory Council, while the Hall and the Science Building in In attendance at the ceremony University of Virginia Board of traditional form, using gold shov• were members of the CVC Advi• Visitors was represented by Wunn els. sory Council and dignitaries fimn N. Dalbouse. Chair of the Special Funding for the classroom build• across Southwest Virginia. There Committee SmwaOeNlMla Whilelhemooeymaynotaddiq) groups were based upon the First Supporters of the ruling say in an the matter is a tough call; hi the College Press Service to a lot of cash for students, the Amendment's "establishment environment where student fees Rosenberger v. U.Va. case, the university hopes it will ofibet its clause" regarding the squtation of fbnd clubs that suj^it everydiing ruling carried with a narrow S-4 For $7, roughly the price of a decision in August to end its ban chureh and state. State university from animal rights to gay and maigia The Supreme Court ruled movie ticket, the University of on funding of religion activities. officials bad long believed that lesbian causes, it is unfiur to deny in favor of Rosenberger, former Virginia plans to preserve students' That decision was based upon a using student activity fees for such money to a group solely because editor of the Christian student First Amendment ri^ts. June ruling by the U.S. Supreme groups would essentially be giving they are a religious organization. pubUcation, "Wide Awake." Iliey Recently the university's Board Court that threw out the state monies to support religious But others aigue that it is wrong to found the university violated the of Visitors voted to allow studoMs university's policy of denying causes. It also ignited a debate on use student activity fees to support First Amendment ri^ to freedom who disagree with the views of student-activity fees for religious college campuses about how religious or other ideological of speech when it excluded the campus political or religious publicatiMis. students' First Amendment ri^ts activitiesreqiecially if a student is publication based soley on its organizations to request a lefbnd This ruling shocked many are best served and raised new compelled to support a groiq) with religious affiliation. for a portion of their student can^fRis officials nationwide, since «Iuestions idxHit how mandatory whidi they disagree. "This case lies at die intersection activities fees. most polioies excluding religious student fSws sbould be allotted And clearly, evoi for die justices. UVA, sec pg. 7 Professors Classic Bond movie advises share some wrap-up reviewed caution excuses The Highland CavaUer/ pg 3 Editor gives his last hoorah, speaks his mind for last time I. Oirlfiiends and boyfriends and all the caixlidates will occasimally steal your maiKI always drop somediing. 14. The people you opinion NcOHopwood things that come with them. 2. Having five go way back on that one, present SGA crew leam to love your Freshmen year will be long Editor-in-Chief papers and four midterms assigned during excluded). 8. If it snows half an inch sled• gone by your Senior year. IS. We'll never After 9 semesteis, 15,000 logged ataiy- the same week(I ahva)^ dxMight teadien got ding will commence on Greer and Zehmer get a big name band(I hope they prove me Counselor encourages caution ing lioura, and considerable more time spent together and planned that) 3. Friday nights Hills. 9. Abstinence bites, so wear a jimmy(I wrong). 16. Don't trust anyone too much(like on Nintendo, then Sega, then this newspa• people you are officially siqiposcd to trust). during holiday season per, and finally other less honoiable activi• 17. The dorm badirooms will be demolishcxl ties, I am graduating. Well, everyone has ^Thanks to everyone who has made my on the weekends. 18. Things move very... National Drunk and Drugged would reduce impaired-driving fatalities to their time to go and this is mine(unless I very... slowly...liere... 19. You truly are in 30 percent ofthe total in a decade. This is an txmib my exams). life better here, and thanks to those who control of your own destiny heTe(You can Driving Prevention Montli ambitious goal, one that will require all of In my tenure here I have lived 1st: in even be editor of the ttewspapet). 20. Spend us doing our part. McCraray Hall room2SS( I can never q>ell made it worse every step ofthe way. Both your time here doing som^hing worthwhile, observed there are opportunities and there are good Dear Editor: Taking a stand is simple, and there are a that right, as some of you know) 2nd: the lot of ways to do it. First of all, don't drink now gone trailer 8 behind McCrarey 3rd: in types of people prepare you for real teachers. Quit knockin' it and you'll find Last year, 16,600 Americans lost their some good things beneath the siirface. lives as result of alcohol-involved ctashes. and drive. Never serve alcoholic beverages New Hall illegally.on the girls floor 4th: off life,"says Hopwood. That's one about every 30 minutes. This is to anyone under 21. If you drink, always plan campus at Green Acres trailer park Sth: Hon• totally unacceptable, as impaired driving ahead and designated a non-drinking driver. ors donns 6th: off campus again by the old Thanks to everyone who has made my deaths and injuries are 100 percent prevent• If you are having a party this holiday sea• police station. Who Imows wiiat ^ next life better here, and thanks to those who able. son, be a responsible host. Serve a wide va• step is, my fiuher's basement?? when McCraray cleared out because every• call em' as I see em'). 10. If die FDA came made it worse every step of the way. Bodi This holiday season, hundreds of govern• riety of beverages, including some that are Ask an administrator what die college ex• body went home to mama, excq>l for five out with a warning tomorrow saying drugs types of people prepare you for real life. ment agencies, law enforcement officials, non-alcoholic. Control the amount of alco• perience includes and he'll probably say: people. 4. How mixing Bowman's >A>dka and lead to brain dead), cell destruction, and re• College is a bizarre experience I still don't community groups, local businesses and holic beverages served-no open bars. Ask Homeworic, studying, extracurricular activi• Schlitz beer is dangerous to your health. 5. productive &ilure, nobody would pay any quite understand, and I probably never will. major U.S. cotporations are banding together alcohol-impaired guest to stay overnight or ties, campus involvement, personal Fraternities and sororities own this attention. So, use moderation and common I've had everything that could possibly go to recognize National Dnmk and Drugged call a cab to assure them a safe ridehome . growth..." All of thoM things are true, but campiis(yeah, ya heard me right). 6. You will sense in everything you do. II. Procrastina• wrong, go wrong, so don't worry when it Driving (3D) Prevention Month and "Take a Together, we can reach our goal of de• those of us on the five year C^C plan know be poor and dMtitute for the duration of your tion is the rule, not the exception, so leam to looks like it's all falling apart A good sense Stand Against Impaired Driving." creasing DWI-related fatalities and injuries. better. Things Aat guidance counselors don't college.years, unless you find some ingenius dealwidi it 12. Ifin doubt, talk to Cory. 13. of humor collects interest, so take it easy. See I encourage you to join this national move-. These are tragedies that don't need to hap• tell you about include: way to hit iq> the SOA. 7. SGA presidential You might as well sign up for 18 hours, you'll ya' on the other side... ment by taking yoiv own stand against im• pen. Do your part to take a stand against paired driving. The National Highway Traf• impaired driving this holiday season and fic Safety Administration has set a national throughout the year. Health Education seeks new peer educators goal of reducing DWI fatalities to . 11,000 ership development CLINCH VALl£r COLLEQE To: All CVC Freshmen and Sophomores STUDEm- INCLEMENT WEATHER POLICY annually by the year 200S. That's almost Cory Rosenkranz From: Cory Rosenkranz, 3. incident-free record at CVC 6,000 fewer than last year, and it's a rate that Health Educator/Counselor Coordinator of Health Education 4. willingness and/or dedication I. Clinch Valley College will cancel classes and close oflkes when incleinenl weather Subject: Peer Educators Affection Re• to effectively educate your peers in the ar• is a Ihreal lo student saleljr. In such drcumstances, the decision to cancel classes Campus Pol ice sponsible Life Skills eas of life that coincide with or do dam• will be inade by appropriate administrative ofnctrs. An announcemenl will be inade P.E.A.R.L^. ages to academics, relationships, family, on the College s l^kplione now hot li The first dirt for the connector classroom The new sorority Zeta Alpha made their was churned up between Zehmer Hall and presence known on campus during a des- the Science Building a few weeks agof sert sale in Zehmer Hall. The 1995-96 school year began with CYC student Christi Gibson took the annual fall convocalion... time out to study in Zehmer Lounge. Another signal of CVC's increased use of Casino Night was a huge success as more computer services was the beginning of an than 60 CVC students showed up for the Internet Club for anyone wishing to join, evening of poker matches and mocktails. 1 Bohemian Night went well this semes- Chancellor Lemon's newest family ter as students gathered for music. member at the Valley View Cookout. Freshmen students attended orientation Halloween led several students in the nurs- programs at the beguming of the year to mg program's parasitology class to dress up ease the transition to college life. like their favorite flesh eatmg bacteria. The Hlshland Cavder/ pg 12 The Highland CavaUer/ pg 13 Sports Editor reflects on the sports year past The many late nights were worth it and I am SDorts Stacy Nkholson all of us here proud. The volleyball team faced incredible odds this season as a coaching change midway proud to be part of diis each and every week. Sports Editor The tennis teams played hard in preseason competition, sharpening their skills for next through the season put their backs against I would like to thank the people out diere After heating Ohio Newark The fall semester of 1995 has been semester. the wall. The ladies pulled together and who read our newspaper. 1 did my best in perhaps the best ever here at Clinch Valley Sights were set high for the volleyball salvaged Uieir season. U7ing to cover the sports world within our College. The year to date will bring back team as a mix of youth and experience On the way to their first meet. Coach microcosm. Sometimes, 1 wanted to cover Clinch Valley Loses to Ohio Dominican in Nations Bank Classic many memories, both good and bad, for promised big things. Collie's Cross Country team got lost and more, but being understaffed sometimes everyone involved and now 1 would like to Clinch Valley's basketball teams looked couldn't compete. made that impossible. I regretno t being able MattMcCuiTy eventually evolve into a 102-71 blowout Nat reflect back on some of those moments. to play well as both Coach Mitchell and The men's and women's basketball to cover some of die sports like diey should Sports Writer Hugh led the way widi 16 pofaits, followed by Reed's 15 and fieshman Nat Uw's 13. It was the best of times. Coach Gill face tough competition from the programs got off to unusually slow starts, but have been covered, but wiUi die addition of With such an easy victory, the Cavs en• Football took the next step and made the restoftheTVAC. the men's second place showing in Highland new staff members at semester's end, The Clinch Valley Cavs entered dieir first tered Saturday night's game with deserved playoffs, something Uiat was surprising to all It was the worst of times. Cavalier Tournament may show good things hopefully that will never happen again. tournament of the season determined to optimism. Their opponents, Ohio Domini• of us here at the Highland Cavalier. A Clinch Valley's Football Team faced for next semester. I woukl like to apologize to my professors. prove their worth. Three other schools en• can, had won a close game the night before iebuilding year became a championship year. Emory & Henry and lost yet another close This year was a privilege to cover. I I spent a lot of late nights trying to get tered the tournament along with them, all and were perhaps a little less rested. With wins over Cumberland College, game to the Wasps. The Cavs spirits were enjoyed working with everyone involved everything done, so if 1 wasn't diere, at least equally focused on proving victorious. From the start, the game did not go the Cumberland University, and Tusculum crushed in Jackson, Tennessee as Lambudi widi sports this year. Now there are a couple my work was. The Cavs opening round game was against Cavaliers way. Ohio's star, Michael Bell, got College, sights were set high for post-season sinqily outphiyed them in every possible way. issues I would like to address: Good luck to the basketball teams as they Ohio State at Newaric. The 'Titans" while to the basket widi ease and Uieir trapping, play The Cavs lost 49-0, finishingdi e season at Fust of all, I would like to diink all of diose go to tournaments over the break. possessing excellent shoots and depth, would pressing defense had the Cavs off bidance The mens' Cross Country team enjoyed 10-2, but suffering dieir first shutout in their concenied>vidi the Highland Cavalier, h was Finally, 1 want to wish each and everyone find diat they lacked die inside strength to for most of the first half. dieir first victory ever in competition, making brief five year history. a pleasure to work with everyone involved. a Meny Christmas. Play it safe over break. compete with CVC. Starters Mario Walker and Clay Parker, After the teams a few opening baskets, both instrumental players in the Cavs Alan Taylor was substituted in for Steve scheme, were forced to the bench early with Dalton, whose sore ankle was unable to per• fouls. form. Following Taylor's substitution, the Without the inside strength of Parker or A CVC pictorial in sports for fall of 1995 Cavs went on a 19-2 tun over the next four die tenacious defense of Walker, the Cavs and a half minutes. were at a loss. Aldiough a furious second half Several minutes later, a 23-6 run followed Surge allowed them to cut die lead to 10, die die earlier one. This featured a barrage of Cavs eventually fell 93-75. three point baskets, including back to back Nat Hash led die Cavs widi 22 points, ones by TVey Reed. "TYey Reed was the key while Scouy Vermillion pitched in 16 points player in die first half," said Coach Mitchell. and 11 boards. HC Flic Photo "They dared us to take the open shot and we In the consolation game, the College of Clay Parker lays one up against Ohio Dominican in last weekend's accepted the challenge." West Virginia dominated the Titans of Ohio basketball action. The game was oyer by half-time aqd would State at Newark and won by a wide margin. College shoe deals become common, raise some concerns The nation's coUeges generated $2.5 programs are much, much, much too big. The Univerity of Michigan Collegiate Athletic Association rules, or leave school well before their scheduled billion hi retail sales of products bearing The entire athletic department is far too The Michigan DaUy graduation dates, said Tom Hansen, their names, logos and mascots last year— big . . . It's all about money and HCPhotonCerinStavall HC File Photo ANN ARBOR, Mich.—The black, commissioner of the Paclflc-lO more than was generated by the National commercialism," Ross said. mllilary-style vehicle adorned with a while Conference. Hock^ League or Mt^or LMgue BasdbalL "Tb pretend we're not commercial is Ralph Carter in action against Emory & Henry. Flag football team, the Thugs, almost upset Quick Strike in the Nike swoosh logo has become a familiar "Today it takes a lot of money to Unlike professional teams, the colleges absolutely slUy," Roberson said. "We championship game. site at some of the nation's largest college maintain a lifestyle on a college campus," make individual arrangements with charge 100,000 people roughly 25 bucks a football stadhuM. said Hansen, whose league has had to cope manufacturers of products such as head to get faito the stadium and we sell Shoe and athletk wear companies long- this faU with faivestigations of NCAA rules sweatshirts, pennants, sticken and mugs. them everything we can possibly sdl them, ago realized the value of connecting their violations by UCLA and USC football Some schods have deals with as many and then we try to pretend we're not products to premier athletes and teams. players. 500 companies, each of which may make commercial." Professional teams and players have Because of the NCAA's amateurism a different item and many of those picked up big money from endorsement rules, college athletes can receive only businesses are relatively small. School oflkials say these arrangements deals. tuition, room, board and books fhmi a Nike and other large shoe and appard are matters of necessity. In a time of Now many others of the nation's college university. In addition, scholarship makers, such as Reebok, have the natiimal increasing costs, they are attempting—or, athletic powerhouses have entered the athletes cannot hold paying Jobs during orientation, advertising budgets and in some cases, being forced by Titk K, marketplace and found It Just as school. marketing savry to help colleges sell more the hiw that prohibits sex discrimfaiathm profitable. In a recoit kiterview with The Mkhigan goods la more places. la athktk programs at federally ftanded The new form of corporate DaUy, UM Athletk Dfarector Joe RoberM» Nike posted saks of about $5.2 blllkm schools—to add programs for women faivdvement has caused college presidentsdefende d the University's contract awl during the 12 months coding Sept 30, and wtthont cnttfaig programs for men. to become concerned about whether said a number of things peopk point to In $50 milUon of that came from Its two-year schoob are ceding control of their athletic attacking it are not true. effort to sell authentic college team Seven of the 10 schools that have aB- programs to companies such as NUcc. "The studeat-athletes benefit from our apparel the items won by pfaqrers awl sports pacts with Nike or Reebok are Last year, the Univcrsi^r (rf Michigan's contract with Nike. No MM gets a penqy," coacbca daring games that have becmne ranked among the ti^ 25 hi this week's Athletk Department signed a sfat-year, Roberson said. "We get a coaple of hicreasfaigly popalar with fims. Associated Press football poll; two others $7.2 million contract with Nike, which sdwlarshlps, a generalrcBldt nee program UM Oasskal Stndks Prai: David Ross are ranked ama« tiw lof 20 la thk week's providM appard aad icholanhlp money that they're spoasoring, eqoippient for all said he opposes the Nike coatract and the AP men's basketbaUpoIL to all of tiw wdvcrrity >s 23 vani^ tcara. our teams—not Just Ibe two Ughi^rafOe commcrcialhing of coUcgiate alUetks hi SiKh deals foster aa enviraniMBt In ODCS that are on Idevisios aU the tiaM— gracnd. 1 ddak M itfaiki. I thUt n't cnss NCAA rnlcs allow a maanfactnicr^s wUch athletes might be nore tempted to B>d every penny ot H goes hack Into the commerdaMsB^ it's ahsohtelycnMS. Why kigo to be nsed on aniCnms as kii« as It HCFIte Photo HCFDePbolo rapport «^ the atndent-atliktca, and I accept moaqr or gifto from iilayer agents does a univtnHy want to get Inviilved la Ots In an area BO larger Hum 2 sqoan Mitch House and Clay Parker compete in the or boosters in rlolatioB of Nattonai coMldcr Oat a Mg st^ fonrard." this Uad of money? Abvady the footban Leslie Roberts hi early season basketball action Nations Bank Classic. TheHigMandCavaMer/ pg 14 The Highland Cavalier/ pe 15 Casino Opens With High-Rolling Stars like Stone and Pesci By Ian SpeUIng Stone, Scorsese, King, screenwriter Nicholas whatever. It was a place where they all more typical and superficial fashion," she Style College Press Service Pileggi, and producer Barbara DeFina. The thrived. Whether or not, morally, that was a says. "In 'Casino,' I get to ply a character I! ensuing 40 minutes are filled with alternately bad thing... yes, it was. But the reality was that had a greater kind of range, life It sounds too good to be true: strange and incisive queries; jokey, reflective it was a closed-off society and if you went experience and truth to it. Ginger was great Robert DeNiro, Joe Pesci and Sharon Stone, and non-answer answers; laughs and there you knew what you were getting into. because she wasn't a cliche. all put through their paces by director Martin frustration. There was nothing fake about it in that way. "She wasn't sterotypically written because Bond makes return to cinema with Pierce Bronson as 007 Scorsese. Yet, there it is, "Casino," a three- DeNiro, famously uncomfortable at such Now, it's gone, and it's as simple as that. It's she was based on somebody's life," she hour epic about mobsters, hustlers. Las gatherings, hardly utters a word. Pesci, a very different place now, more for the notes. "The time span of the character also Freddie Mulllns amined the 007 phenomenon, both praising Timothy Dallon's last outing in one of the best thigh squeezing assassin Xenia Onati^. She Vegas circa the eariy 1970s, friendship, chomping on a stogie, quips his way through people ofthe country." made her very interesting to navigate. Then, Entertainment Writer and damning Bond along the way. lb crit• but little seen Bond films, Uettue to OU kills her targets by squeezing them to death honor, sex, violence and, of course, money, the session. Stone, bright, talkative and DeNiro, who has acted for Scorsese in to have a partner like Bob was a whole ics. Bond will always be the epitome of sex• different ballgame. You can go to a different The theater's lights go dim. A Mast of (1989). This time out Bond is involved in the in an orgasmic climax of violence while mak• starring that high-octane acting trio. radiating genuine star power, seems thrilled everything from "Taxi Driver" to "Raging ism and materialism—a living embodiment place in your work and know you'll have a trumpets signal the beginning of the presen• search for a Russian satellite named Oolden- ing love. Her performance rivals,i f not sur• The film's story, which is based on reality to be in the Scorsese-DeNiro-Pesci boys' Bull" to "Goodfellas," couldn't resist the of selfish excesses, lb the faithful. Bond is partner there. It was wonderful." tation as a series of while dots slides slowly eye that is c^le of destroying everything passes, Ihe two greatest Bond henchwomen: (with the names changed to protect the club. Pileggi fields questions about the book, opportunity to work widi his friend yet again, across the screen to an upbeat jazz theme. Luciana Paluzzi and Barbara Cairera. Her guilty), concerns the talented bookie Ace upon which he based the "Casino" script, in he says. King worked the Strip performing his Reachmg the right edge, the final dot en• sexual turn-on at the thoughts of Bond de• Rothstein (DeNiro) selected by mob bosses, a thoughtful and informative manner. "We just have a very special working stand-up act back in the days when the circles the profile of a man and follows him railing a train she's riding is memorable among them the powerful Any Stone (Alan Scorsese, ever the talker, anchors the relationship. Sometimes I can't even explain characters represented in "Casino" ruled Ihe as he walks across the screen. The dot trans• andfimny, King), to tun the crown jewel of Vegas high- proceedings, though the journalists keep him it myself," he says. "I consider myself very Vegas roost. He, more than anyone on Ihe forms into a gun barrel revealing a sniper's Brosnan manages to do the impossible rolling, the Tangiers casino. Caught up along on the defensive by fmding various ways to lucky that we have the relationship we do. I dais, can vouch for the film's veracity and view of the man. He continues, seemingly by making the role of Bond his own in his with Ace in the glitzy excitement are his wife ask if "Casino" is too much like "Goodfellas" always feel comfortable with Matty. If we its depiction ofthe various characters. unaware of the danger until he suddenly first outing. He manages lo shed the im• Ginger (Stone), a former chip hustler, and for its own good. DePino wears her best have a problem in front of us, I always know "I knew every one of them. I may be the whirls about in an instant and fires his age many, this reviewer included, had of Nicky (Pesci), Ace's boyhood best friend game face, but is called upon to speak but we'll have a way to resolve it that will be only one who's still alive," he says with a the ultimate capitalist, who works hard and once. And King, while eliciting the biggest Wallher PPK at his adversary. The screen in its path that nnu on electronic pulses. The him as a pansy on television's RemiiigtoH and a remarkably psychotic and vicious interesting." nervous laugh. "1 worked, in Vegas all my rewards himself with every earthly pleasure chuckles, also puts the film, as well as the freezes and a red hue drips while the gim idea for lliis script ctMnes £nnn an offhanded Steele (1982-1987), and brings conviction hitman. As quickly as Ace, Ginger and Stone has played a succession of bad giris, adult life. I didn't see the violence, 1 only imaginable. His is a world where every real-life people on which the characters were barrel slowly totters as the image of the man reference made in Roger Moore's last fibn, to the part Brosnan slated in interviews that Nicky ascend to the top of the heap, they most notably in "Basic Instinct" and "Total heard about it. But the behavior, the shoulder minute couM be the last, so he indulges in based, in the proper perspective. rolls, the mannerisms, anything about the symbolically blurs to black announcmg to 1985'sAWeif IbAXW. he is glad the role of Bond did not arrive until descend in an ego-battered, blood-splattered Recall." She considers her "Casino" akohol, nicotine and women to cleanse the people being played, was right there. It was the movie going public that James Bond is The usual assortments of Bond obstacles this poiat in his life because he now possesses freefall that's not for the squeamish or the "One ofthe reasons I was interested- character the most realistic and challenging demons haunting his soul. a weird experience to and watch these men back! stand in the path of Brosnan. The beautiful the world weariness lo do the rolejustice . impatient or for connoisseurs of happy in making the film was that, for me, it's like of her career to date. And in one powerful With Pierce Brosnon taking over the role play characters I knew. Between Nick's As James Bond enters his fifth decade, he women, exotic locales, deadly gadgets, sexual He maitages to combine the sometimes hu• endings. the end of the Old West," says Scorsese. scene in which Ginger snaps completely. of Bond in the 18lh Bond flick, OoUeiuye Stone goes toe-to-toe with DeNiro and writing, Mary, Joe, DeNiro and Stone, it was remains the most enduring and remarkably double entendres, and sometimes juvenile morous approach of Roger Moore's Bond On this day at a Manhattan hotel, "Vegas was the last bastion of a place that , many wondered if the dependd>le spy se• should convince even her most ardent like reliving that period. successfiil movie and literary hero of all time. humor, are all intact Perliaps the most im• (evident by offhanded remarks in certain se• positioned at a dais and facing a lOO-person- was constructed for people who were ries had lost its place in the movie terrain of pressive performance in the film is by foimer plus contingent of domestic and interested in gambling, who had certain detractors that she can indeed act. Hundreds of books and magazines have ex• 1995. After all, it's been six years since quences) and Ihe hard edge portrayal that was model Famke Janssen {Lord ofltbuUms) as prominentduring Dalton's two fibn tenure. international media, sit DeNiro, Pesci, lifestyles—hustlers, gangsters, hitmen. "I think before this movie I was cast in a "It was an incredible thing to see." Fear Factory's latest release a success Writer treks through the dangerous mountains of Nepal Joshua Mize cornucopia of dry-lung whooping vocals, and By Doug Lansky synthetk the town is, yet no one bashes it year-olds were holding an authentic liked to stay near all the other trekkers with a fiill day's supply of well sung vocals. too much because we all know tlrat if we leather voUeyliall and waiting for me to and compare stories, or blisters. The Quest Style Writer your preschool teacher's worst nightmare of Tis'a nice change of pace. THashpoint" is a College Press Service pounding rhythms. Nowhere is this more reaUy didn't like it we could easUy pick play with them. I soon discovered this was itmkeepers were friendly and some could How is it possible for a deathish-metal weighty affair that pounds yovt eardnuns. POKHARA, Nepal—Why Americans up and move a few miles to the real a set-up to get me to stop long enough for even cook Nepalese versions of Western apparent than with the title track, Some songs lack their chaotic energy, such band to be mind crushingly heavy, yet ap• Demanufacture. This song contains more consider trekking in the Himalayas a Poklmra. And who wants do to that? their mom to run out and sell me a Sprite, cuiskie—like Yak-cheese pizza. But most peal to those of the, shall we say, 'non-ex• as "Body Hammer", but overall it is a ear- vacation is one of life's mysteries. I hung around "Disney" Pokhara for a pizza, a Snkkers bar or Kodak film. She trekkers tirelessly ate the local dish: power then the season finaleo f the X-files: splitting Iriumpd). treme' musKal persuasion? I don't know, What can I say except emotions tun high and The Nepalese would no sooner trek up few relaxing days and picked up a had it all. And it was kept hi a shed you Snickers bars and Coca-Cola. the next to last scmg is sure to ofioid some ask Fear Factory. Their latest release, sparks fly.Th e next three songs, "Self Bias and down the Himalays for fun than trekldng permit, a sweater and amoebk wouldn't think fit to store firewood, wlikh, people, but m all honesty it is not so bad lyri• Demanufacture, landed them a tour with, Resistor", "Zero Signal", and "Rqilica", only Americans would climb the stairs of the dysentery. I then spent the next three days by Ihe way, has been almost entirely Actually, the local spccbdty Is Dal Baht cally as the title "PissChrist" suggests. Ba• believe it or not, Megadeth, Flotsam and Jet• add to the fiay with trrestible rhythms and Empire State Building for fun. The poppfaig antlbldtics like Raislnettes and replaced with propane since Ihe Ministry a gooey combination of white rice and sically it questions whether or not there is a sam, and Kom. This unlikely partnership is messages just as intense. difference is that we continue to travel getting not more than 5 meters from the of Tourism came and explained lliat if they mystery mush, whkh is supposed to be due to FF's newfound accessibility. While man upstairs. To their credit though, perfor• "toilet," which hi Nepal is Just a bole in cut ,do%m all their beautiful trees for eaten with your fingers. This takes some Most notable are the use of clean vocals. halfway around the worid to trek in the retaining their trademark heaviness and mance wise, it is one of their best songs. the ground where the toilet is supposed to firewood, the tourists wOl go trekking in At the best possible parts of these songs, the Himalayas, and the Nepalese leave the practice. There's a lot of skill involved. crunchtastic riffs, they took from their Their fmal song , "A Therapy For Pain", Empire Slate Building alone, prolmbly be. After losing almost as much weight as Bhutan instead. vocalist. Burton C. Ball, chimes in with ac• suprises with a ballad-like sound. A first for catchier songs off the now classic Slab o' because tiiey can't find any Americans to Oprah, I set out alone on my trek and Even though it was the winter off• You have to roll the mush bito a small tual song vocals amid the death metal growls. Ihe group, it pushes the ten minute mark, half Plastic, and their debut. Sou/ of a New Ma• carry their bags for tbem. noticed immediately that there was much season, I was running into oilier trekkers ball, then scoop it wHh your fingers, and, This only serves to increase one's listening of which is electrooic industrialesque noise. chine, andchimied out 11 songs of quite IK>- less oxygen than someone whfo hasn't ftally every hour. The city slickers looked more holding it with your palm facing up, use pleasure. Kind of an anti-suicide song, it takes the lis• The Nepalese may not luderstand our table magnitude. They were even asked to recovered from amoebic dysentery would disheveled than most. They could be your thumb to push the food into your lap. The next song, "New Breed", is more of tener into the frail depths of the hiunan infatuation with trekking, but they've do a song for Ihe movie "Johnny Mnemonic". like. recognized by their trekldng poles, whkh the same minus the clean vocals, but with a psyche. For five minutes it descends into certahily learned to cater to it When I Unfortunately the only version of the are Just like sId poles only they make you The Nepalese viUagers liave a cidture heavy taste of techno. The cover song,'T>og musical abstraction, testing the listener's went to Pokbara, the second largest city The trail I took to the Aimapuma Base soundtrack to carry the song, "Self Bias Reg• in Nepal, I discovered two cities with the Camp, Nepal's super highway of trekking, look like a real dork when there's no snow that, like the Himalayan mountian range, ister", is the Japanese version. Day Sunrise"(from the group Head of patience. David), is one of two of the album's sur• same name located a few miles apart One was fairly weO mariccd in most.places. I or loose gravel or glaciers, which there looks great on postcards. But they don't Back to the real deal, Demanufacture is a Demanufacture is a much needed shot in is Nepalese Pokhara and the other is was glad I hadn't hired one of the guides wasn't lead an easy life. Most attempt to grow a prises. Starting off like an old R.B.M. song, the arm of death metal. The welcome com• recitable orgy of Pantera riffs on crack, a it breaks ittto^mid-paced affair complete "Disney" Pokbara. The first is an actual or porters in "Disney" Pokhara who tried An outfitter had probably sold them the crop on a field that htolts Uke a double bination of death, industrial, melody, metal, Nepalese city, and Ihe latter is an entire to convince me that if 1 went alone I'd get poles on Ihe premise that they would help black-diamond mogul run. and metoncholy is worth not only the recog• city bum Just for tourists where Western lost and end up in some Utile Nepalese counterbalance the addWomd weight of nition of old timers like Megadeth, but one trekkers out number kicals by about 10 to village where no one has Coca-Cola. Ihe video camera, three cartons of Others, usually elderly men and ofthe forefathers of metal-Oeezer Butler of one. However, the trail was exhausting. It could cigaretles, and the assortment of doodads, women, sit on Ihe ground beating a small Black Sabbath: When H comes to "Dimey" Pokhara, we have followed the winding river, but fhim an altimeter to water purifier, all pile of mlDet with a stkk. This seems to be 1 leave you with some of the lyrics fiom ptriltlcally correct cco-loarists are faced didn't It wait strai^: two lo three hours hanging from their backpacks like die Mnd of project older viUagers get if the title track of Demaniifacture: Desensi• with a bit of • dflemma. We detest the up aifoothOi then one lo two boun back ornaments on a Christmas tree. This th^ don't have enough money to pkk np tized by the values of lifeNMaligned and blatant Western Inraskm of this beandftil down lo the river, making me think each might have made sense if their gear and retire in Boca Raton. depaired by government UesNRevenge is so cidture, but we love the restaurants that time, "I'm gomia Mil Ihe wanker who cut weren't already being carried by a ragged strongM taste it on my tongue\My gun will play Eric Clapton, German bakeries that this trail." And the IraU continues like this 14.year^ kM hi flip-flops they had hired Dong Lansky Is a travel writer beNYottf angel of mercyNDislocated by the make delicious brownies, and Ihe ftall for days! for $3 a day. occasionally found In Minneapolis. eyes of disdain\Abused beyond recognitionM range of shi^ that sell everything trom Al one point! came around a bend, and I passed a lodging bouse every Comments are appreciated and can be can't cope with Ihe madness Yak sweaters and North Face sleeping Ihe prhBlUve dbt IraM tamed bilo a ftaU- hour, but most were grouped hilo smaD sent lo College Press Service, 435 N. abotmding\Blasts in my head of gunfire bags lo used Tom Oaaey novels in every sized dirt volleyball court—right on Ihe villages five hours apart. These small Mkfaigan Ave.. Suite 1400, Chkago, IL resoundingVPiring relentless\Killing Ihe language. Everyone comments on how side of Ihe monnlainl IVo adorable 5-. vOlages were popular with trekkers, who 60611 senses. The Hlghluid CavaHer/ pg 16 DARBY, from pg. 9 won't see unless you tap the resources given seven women, and they will continue to ex• came Enco majors while I was here and es• My experience at CVC has been that the stu• you here. Limiting yourselfis your biggest cel as long as there are Greeks on CVC's pecially Ron, who truly was a great dents here want to leam, and they absorb as obstacle," she says. campus." mentor...he let me go and teach my way, and much infonnation as 1 can.give them. That Darby is especially proud of her dogs, When asked whom she will'miss in par• he answered questions when I had th«n." makes teaching worth it," she says. Maggie and Cassidy (American Cocker and ticular. Darby said: "Oh golly, this is one of Darby suggest that December graduates Daifoy says that "at CVC the accomplish• English Cocker, ages three and ten). "I got those questions where I will invariably miss acquire computer skills, volunteer for ser• ment must be developing courses to teach: Magpie in graduate school. She's from Floyd the most important people like Cyndi, my vice, and remember that eveiy interaction is for me those would be persuasion, commu• County, VA. Cassidy came to us courtesy of first real friend here, and Lauri, the wonder• a networking opportunity. "Do what you nication skills, tutoring, oral interpretation, Chancellor Lemons. They know a number ful office mate and neighbor who lent me love in life, and you will never be disap• and small group dynamics. The other schools of tricks, including speaking, shaking hands, her car to catch my plane in Roanoke, and pointed," she says. where I have taught only wanted public lying down and cussing." Maria who taught me how to make home• Darby says that she will miss her fiieads ' speaking and interpersonal communication. Darby's main goal in life is to lead a made pie crust, and Kay who loves twizzters and classes the most "I've had more friends Here I got to develop my interests and bring counter-culture life. She and Paul will have and Phyllis who loves peanuts in the shell, here that 1 could possibly have hoped for. them to the classroom." have their cabin in the woods, he will be an and Catana who has a penchant for breaking They are all wonderful people and they will Darby says that those entering the speech Anglican minister, and she will be the mother things, and Laura who loves stray kitties and be missed terribly. They have affected my and lot communicatioas area should remem• of his children. my tutors, Aanm, Laura, and Stq>faame who life for the better and for good (perma• ber not to channel themselves into one facet Darby has been an advisor to the new so• are some of the best pecqile I know, and the nently)." CVC loves and will miss you of communication. 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