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University of New Mexico UNM Digital Repository 1977 The aiD ly Lobo 1971 - 1980 12-1-1977 New Mexico Daily Lobo, Volume 081, No 72, 12/ 1/1977 University of New Mexico Follow this and additional works at: https://digitalrepository.unm.edu/daily_lobo_1977 Recommended Citation University of New Mexico. "New Mexico Daily Lobo, Volume 081, No 72, 12/1/1977." 81, 72 (1977). https://digitalrepository.unm.edu/daily_lobo_1977/151 This Newspaper is brought to you for free and open access by the The aiD ly Lobo 1971 - 1980 at UNM Digital Repository. It has been accepted for inclusion in 1977 by an authorized administrator of UNM Digital Repository. For more information, please contact [email protected]. .. -cr'* SPECIAL WLLliJC'l'IONS .1B.i7 ·~(,{171 ·. / IW.i · Ne\N Me The Student Radi'o Board will ffl!'Bt on Tuesday, DAILY Dec. fJ at 4:30p.m. in rm. 231-C of the New Mexico Thursday, December 1, 1977 U,nion. \ Mondt Ignores Tips For Chan·ges in Staff By TIM GALLAGHER year contract he was awarded last LOBO Editor year. UNM head football coach Bill ·· Mondt said Wednesday he wiil not When asked if he thought Mondt make any changes in the coaching would make any changes in the staff (or next season despite an coaching staff, Davis replied Athletic Council recommendation "C?ach Mondt ~ill make changes' that he re-evaluate the program and to Improve the Situation as best he especially the coaches. can." ."No I'.m not planning any Bill Byrne, ex~cutive director of changes," Mondt said when told the l ,500-member Lobo Boosters about the Athletic council Club which contributes a large re.commendation. The Lobo portion of the athletic budget, said coaching staff had been heavily It would be "hard to tell" if there criticized for unimaginative play would be a big split in the club. "If calling this year. · you are a member of the boosters UNM president William E. Davis club, you suppo.rt UNM athletics decided to retain Mondt Tuesday nO matter WhO the COach iS, I 1 night. Mondt had been under fire because of the football team's 5-7 · There has been dissension among record this year and his 19-25-1 the boosters club this year with a accumulated record in four years as certain faction calling for Mondt's headcoach. · resignation. Mondt said he was pleased by· ' ' Davis said he decided to retain ·-~·~ l"•un• by Phylll• M. Ku•hn., Mondt as head coach because he Retained lobo head football Davis' announcement. "We had "has the most desirable and out Coach Bill Mondt. been working under the assumption standing qualities a head coach can "No. I'm not planning any ·that we were going to be back next hav·e," and also because the Lobos changes." year, but of .course, we weren't will face a relatively easier schedule sure." · next year. Four of .UNM's seven key games, but I'm looking to see if Mondt said he agreed with Davis losses this year were at the hands of there's good morale on the team that next year's schedule would be top-20 ranked teams. The Lobos do the players give up, do they "a more representative one." \ 0. play only two of those four teams respect the. coach, do they try their Gone from next year's schedule \ StelfM Splelbwg, director of ""lo• Enco... ren. 11 next year. · best. From what I've seen, they are such top powers as Arizona Davis said he made the decision respect the' coach and do the best State and Colorado. The Lobos will :,4 after hearing the recommendations they can. also not play Arizona. Taking the (I of UNM Athletic Director Lavon school's places on the schedule will . "/''""' . ' Close EncoUnters:. McDonald and the · Athletic ''Naturally, we're looking for a be San Diego State, University of Council. The council Voted 5-4 to \\dnning team that would fill the Nevada-Las Vegas and University retain Mond't and recommended stands and help our entire athletic of the Pacific. Teams the Lobos Standing Alone that he re-evaluate the football program. will play again next year include program, especially the coaching "I decided to keep Bill Mondt as Hawaii, top-20 power Texas Tech, staff. head coach because there was a lack perennial conference title contender ·As Sci-Fi Great Davis said he has also talked to of compelling reasons to void his Brigham Young, Wichita State, several football players, alumni and; .contract." . Utah, University of Texas-EI Paso, boosters and he concluded, "Of Davis' action means Mondt will Wyoming, Colorado State, and Editor's note: This is the final segment of a three•part series on the course we're disappointed in losing fulfill the second. year of a three- New Mexico State. movie "'Close Encounters of the Third Kind. " This section deals with the making ofthe film. "Close Encounters" opens at the Mall Cinema Dec./4. ·i By GEORGE GESNER Prof. Lands New Job ·"Dr. (J .Allen) Hynek one day was sitting around and picked up a newspaper when he read about thiS' movie company in Hollywood using his title Close Encounters of the Third Kind and he wrote me a In Rusk Adnlinistrat·ion kind of snappy letter." This is how director Steven Spielberg met Hynek, through the By TIM GALLAGHER mails. The later became collaborators in what will be one of the LOBO Editor biggest films of the-decade and one of the top science-fiction films of Estelle Zannes, UNM associate all time. professor of speech com ' Spielberg's main emphasis in the film was to make it somewhat' munications, is asking for a believable, and thai's where Hynek came in as a technical consultant. reduction of course load next Hynek serves as the director of UFO Studies in Evanston ,Ill. semester so she can work as director When asked what led to the design of the aliens, Hynek!Said, 4 'Steve of communications for new (Spielberg) has represented it very well. Virtually everything except the Albuquerque Mayor David Rusk's end is based on UFO reports. The descriptions of overgrown goblins administration, the LOBO has with rather thin bodies, large heads; of the thousands of reports of learned. · encounters of the third kind; has been the predominant description." Rusk will be inaugurated as Spielberg was asked why he chose to have a peaceful encounter mayor in a ceremoney tbnight, and unlike the one in War of the Worlds. He said, "In my heart I wanted it will announce his appointments at a to be peaceful. I really felt that anyone came far enough to get here Friday press conference. and wanted to hang o.ut 2,000 years of history for improvement itself. Zannes has put in a proposal' to the research and fellowship services If somebody zapped us with a cosmic laser beam, I haven't read about ( it or people haven't talked about it. So, I really want it to be a division asking for a reduction in ·l course load, sources said. The I benevolent exchange." . I Spielberg uses music in the film as a fol'Ql. of ·communications director, Edmund Kasner, was out between the aliens and humans. He said, "Ive always felt should of town and unavailable for something like this occur, there will be no 'take me to your leader'. It comment. Tina Benton, an official will be more complicated than that. It will be a combination of in the division, said Zannes has telepathy and some sort of universal language which is music.'' . submitted a proposal but refused The person assigned to compose the music for the film was the further comment. · Several sources, however, told illustrious soundtrack king Joh11 Williams, who composed the soundtracks to the two films with the largest gross income, Jaws and the LOBO that Zannes will head an expanded cbmmunicataions Star Wars. Williams started working on the project two years ago. He commented on the five-note sequence used throughout the film .. tie division at City Hall when Rusk takes office. said. he had 12 tones to work with bringing about 134,000 possible She will be in charge of public combinations. "I got up to 300 combinations," he said. "We chose - infbrmation as well as an expanded this combination purely out of aesthetic attraction to it. It is not communications system between strictly a five-note combination since it is a 2-3-1-1-5. It has a basic the departments at City Hall, '. mathematical appeal, since the one-ones is an exact division of 100 per sources said. cent of the vibrations of that tone divided to the fifth which suspends Zannes' proposal asks that she • it. Suspension was the main attraction." continue to teach a course at UNM There was one sequence in the film where the five-note sequence Meyor D11111d Ru•k end UNM A•.ac. Prof. of Speech Communic6- in addition to her City Hall duties, played a major part. The sequence was filmed in India. Spielberg was sources said. ' i . (contlnu.d on p11ge 3) tlotu &telle Zenna. :) ,.~.~ .,., ••. _.J ~'' , . .~ . ............ - •. , "'!' j .- I ! Eve/ Knievel Dealt Out - LAS VEGAS - Evel Knievcl's proposed game haystack roulette is a Eric Sevareid Retires In New UNM Class "1l [; loser with Nevada gaming authorities. WASHINGTON - Eric Sevareid retired from 38 years of brQadcast '"'"' § Knievel claimed he would jump from an airplane into a casino parking journalism Wednesday, maintaing in a final commentary he will wear his "'w t: lot i~ Las Vegas or Atlantic City.