INTERVIEW WITH ACE VENTURA STAR JIM CARREY - PAGE 5 TCU Daily Skiff Friday, February 18, 1994 Texas Christian University, Fort Worth, Texas 91st Year, No. 75 Senior RTVF major produces, directs action/drama feature film BY SARAH DUNCAN blossomed into a Feature Film Production of the geology department; and Andrew Has- together," Harshbarger said. "Lighting is also teur film. TCU DAILY SKIFF class, complete with a SI3,000 budget. kett, instructor in RTVF, are also in the film. hard. It will take two hours to light a (flower) "There is a lack of technical equipment." "The idea of making a movie started many Kerwin convinced his priest to act in the pot and three minutes to film it." Young said. "We have an old camera and not The young blond actor stares forlornly into years ago." Kerwin said. "I actually wrote the movie, as well. Senior RTVF major Homer Jon Young is enough lights. I try and make sure the image the black night, seeming tired. In the back- screenplay last year and won an award for it." "It (making the movie) really is a pain in the film's cinematographer. He has worked we get is good enough. There are limitations ground, a .shadowy figure suddenly appears, Kerwin said he figured he could pull off the butt," Kerwin said. "It's an incredible as a production assistant on three major films, to perfectionism, and those limits are as far bringing a dwindling campfire back to life making a movie if enough people were inter- amount of work, but I'm going to do it." including a BBC film called "Unnatural Pur- as technology allows. We do the best with with lighter fluid as the scene is replayed ested, and radio-TV-film equipment could be Assistant director and sophomore RTVF suits," and American films "The Chase" and what we have." once again. used. major Kara Harshbarger became involved "Reality Bites." Movie cast and crew members have trav- "It took us two hours to set the lighting for "The Garden" is a part-action, part-drama with "The Garden" last August. "I am basically the technical problem eled to Amarillo and Piester, Texas, to film that scene, which will probably take up 10 film about a graduate student and his girl- "At first I was just going to watch, but then solver," Young said. "James is the brains on location. A trip to Weatherford has also seconds in the final movie," said James Ker- friend who are amateur archaeologists. James asked if I would be the assistant direc- behind the whole operation. He tells me the been planned. win, a senior radio-TV-film major. "That's about all I can say without giving tor," Harshbarger said. "I do everything — shots he wants, and I tell him whether or not "Our biggest shoot was at Piester," Kerwin Kerwin is responsible for producing and it away." Kerwin said. storyboarding. working with the actors, and I those shots are possible. said. "It's supposed to be a big shootout in directing a feature film called "The Garden." The cast consists of about 20 actors, have directed a couple of scenes. "My biggest challenge is applying the Iraq, so we rented a camel and hired a pro- Although the idea and script for making the including a cameo appearance by Kerwin. "The most frustrating thing is scheduling technical knowledge and ideas that I've film were originally Kerwin's, the project has TCU professors. Nowell Donovan, chairman problems — trying to get everybody learned in a professional setting to an ama- see Kervtin,/>age 4 Woman robbed while inside car BY CHRIS NEWTON him her wallet. TCU DAILY SKIFF "1 did this and then he told me to put my hand on the steering wheel A TCU student was robbed at gun- and not to move." she said. point Wednesday morning by a man She did. and the man took S87 who broke into her car. hid in the before throwing her wallet on the back seat and waited for her to drive front seat, she said. away before revealing himself. Cam- The man then got out of the car and pus Police said. ran away, she told police. Police have no suspects in the She said she stayed in the car for a case. few minutes before calling Campus The victim told Campus Police she Police. hadjust finished taking a test and was Campus Police Chief Oscar Stew- heading to Hulen Mall. art said when an assailant pulls a gun "I came out of Wimon Scott Hall on an unsuspecting victim in a very at 10:15 (a.m.) and went to my car. vulnerable position the best course of which was parked on Merida (at action is to comply with the gun- Bowie Street)." the student wrote in man's demands. the report. "1 unlocked the driver's "You've got to hope he only wants side door and got in the car. 1 pro- your money and try to comply with ceeded to go to Hulen Mall." his instructions." Stewart said. "I feel The victim said at this point her the student acted very appropri- plans changed. ately." "At the McKinney Bible Church Since police did not find any signs (on Hulen) 1 noticed 1 didn't have my of forced entry, the robber probably credit card," she said. "1 needed to entered the car by an unlocked door, turn and I noticed my rearview mir- police said. However, the victim told ror was pushed up towards the ceil- police she had used her key to unlock ing. When I tried to fix it a man sat the car. TCU Daily Skiff/ Brian Bray up in the back seat and put a gun to Stewart said that a victim should A man on break from work casts a line into the Clear Fork of the Trinity River under University Drive, just north my neck, below my ear." look for a wav out of the situation if of campus. He didn't catch any fish but said the warm weatheritner madematte up forlor it.u. Today'sluuav s highmgii willwin beui 72.u- ™According" " to~ the•■- ■report,->■- the- man I I then told her to park the car and give see Robbed. page 4 BY CHRIS LESCHBER Chancellor says sports will stay at TCU TCU DAILY SKIFF RvruDisMcMn-nw Tucker addressed the apparent every student athlete is a dragon to be program must make a renewed and Capt. Dondi Costin is in charge of a new Air Force ROTC BY CHRIS NEWTON effort by academicians at the Uni- slain." determined effort to understand each recruiting campaign designed to increase the size of TCU's 845th TCU DAILY SKIFF versity of Houston — and the ongo- Academicians need to realize the other." he said. Air Force ROTC division, and the M.J. Neeley School of Business The university's commitment to ing philosophical debate in the intrinsic, as well as academic, aspect Tucker said the problem is with is going to try to help him do it. remaining competitive in intercolle- Southwest Conference to elimi- of sports, he said. the way a university perceives its ath- The TCU Air Force ROTC program has more than 60 cadets giate sports is rock-solid. Chancellor nate sports from university life. "None of us will get through our letes. from universities around the Dallas-Fort Worth area. William Tucker said Thursday at a "This crusade would be to the lives without learning how to live "Treating athletes as if their only Costin said the number of new cadets differs every year depend- university staff luncheon. detriment of the academy." Tucker with victory and cope with defeat." value is competition is unfair and ing on the turnover of students who graduate or start the two- or said. he said. "Sports personifies these wrong." he said. "If (a student ath- three-year ROTC "1 am behind every program at this "Crusades are inherently high on things." lete's) value is perceived only as program. university, including the athletic pro- emotion, low on reason and always He said the rift between the instrumental, they will waste away. Costin said he gram," he said. "We have a great ten- punish the innocent as well as the academy and the athletic program "Accordingly, the struggle to raise Air Force ROTC, wants to start the nis, golf, baseball and swimming guilty," Tucker said. "It is inappro- needs to be mended. fall semester of team, and our football team has priate to act as if every coach and "Both the academy and the athletic tw Tucker, page 4 1994 with 35 shown significant progress." business student freshman, 30 sophomore and 25 junior cadets. The 'God's Trombones' sound for Black History Month team up for fall recruiting cam- paign is aimed at illustrated biblical texts in a jazzy tempo with a tional message, BY SHERILYN SHAW all ages of stu- said Nicole TCU DAILY SKIFF harmonious vocal style. dents, from high school seniors to post-graduate college students. The performance was intended to give people a Phillips, a Costin said the campaign has three targets: incoming freshmen, The Jubilee Theater presented "God's Trom- better understanding of the various African— sophomore pre- BLACK current col lege freshmen, and sophomores and juniors or other stu- bones" in celebration of Black History Month American writers, poets and the historical major. The dents for the two year program. Thursday in the Student Center Ballroom. achievements of people of color, said Phyllis A. Jubilee Theatre HISTORY TCU MBA student Debbie Miller is also a member of the Air "We (the Black History Month Committee) Bodie.