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Show Of Interest s Whsl of Sdit 2 - THE FORUM Lcik Poulsons Picks Each weekend, I strive to find the best videos in the video store. Every so often, I find a video that sparks the imagination, revitalizes the body and soothes the soul. Blade Sisters. (Rated R): Every week, I will share some of Switch 1975 movie was virtually This finds with old and you. my new of the time of its at the unheard in are selections weeks This release. It was directed by Jack category. Hill, a movie maker who took interest in exploitation films. His Beat Street. (Rated R): craft is so shocking and raw that Do you want a little danger, it has inspired cinematographic romance and old school break in this to If answer the styles that can be recognized dancing? films. Tarantino's walk Quentin question is yes, run, don't to selected video stores and rent Quentin Tarantino watched this back when he was working movie Beat Street. end job at a video archives a dead a is 1982 This masterpiece store in California. dream come true. Beat Tarantino started a division of Street is a story about break Miramax Films called Rolling dancing, mixing records on the Thunder Pictures. He loved the , wheels of steel and murals of movie so much that he bought the graffiti on the city subway. It is p movie rights off of Jack Hill and a tail of living out your hip-horeleased it. It is the second of his dreams and breaking through videos oh the seven existing boundaries. label. Thunder It begins with stunning Rolling It is an exploitation film about a cinematography of the York of New rituals downtown gang of girls, the Dagger Debs, in the early 1980's. A young D.J. and their male counterparts, the Silver Blades. The plot involves a named Kenny aspires to be the best D.J. in the Bronx, while his new girl, Maggie, moving into leads to a catfight younger, break dancing brother their turf. This leader of the between Lace, is always ruining his rep. Meanwhile, Ramo aspires to Dagger Debs, which earns and of break the wall poverty Maggie some respect. Soon for his Dominic, the leader of the Silver family by sprayprovide art. Their as Blades, rapes Mas ;ie. This causes painting graffiti tension between I ice and but seem hard, they goals may Mas ;ie. don't care what people think. ie script moves smoothly from Most importantly, they have a cliche to cliche. The Dagger Debs good time and learn some hard lessons. get jailed, where they are abused The movie supports many by a lesbian jail warden before E. turning the place into a brawl. early M.C.'s, such as Doug There is a hysterical fight in a Here. Keith Frcsn and Cool other and D.J.'s With Kenny skating rink, where an automatic beats school break old gun fight breaks out between a spinning is rival gang. the music on turntables, his Ramo Nothing is sacred in this film displays simply dope. and no stereotype is left wild style art around the city streets and on subway cars. Lee unturned. The dialogue is packed with some of the best one-iinehighlights the show when his the ever heard. The characters deal crew, Beat Street, battles issues that make Bronx Breakers, at the legendary with hard-cor- e a has some people cringe today. I Roxy Club. The movie this movie to anyone recommend knocks finale that your grand need an off. with Pumas open mind. Perpetrators not apply. Rating: ten out of ten. and ys The Forum iwts'rtHEretifflioocEEOHmisCTflinmarnM Editor Faculty Advisor Rulon Wood Amy Hodson Production Manager Staff Writers Mindy Rae Jensen Desiree Bania Copy Editor Tiffany Barber Anthony Martinez Lisa Wells McDonald Kent B. Poulson Angy DeSimone Photo Editor Amy Young Business Manager. The Forum is published every Tuesday. Letters are encouraged from students, faculty, staff and other readers. Address all letters to: The Forum, Westminster College, 1840 So. 1300 E., Salt Lake City, UT 84105. Only signed letters will be accepted and The Forum reserves the right to edit all submissions. Views expressed are those of the writers, and are not to be considered those of The Forum, ASWC, the faculty, staff or administration. Ophelia Mose Staff Photographers Maritza I. Herrera-DiaDavid C. Otterstrom z i t ttii Wsill Salt Lake City is one step closer to the ocean not because of the because of the Great Salt Lake-b- ut new painting that has appeared on the R.C. Willey store at 2301 South cult-class- ic rs si by Tiffany Barber Forum staff writer This video is extremely hard to find. Most of the copies have been stolen due to underground acclaim of this film. Video Vern's was the only place this epic video tape could do found. It is out of print and impossible to order, so act fast. Rating: nine out of ten. by Kent B. Poulson Forum staff writer September 22, 1998 . 300 West. On Labor Day, Wyland, an artist ly by his last name, Lake City on his Salt to came Ocean Challenge of America tour. He is visiting 50 states in 50 days to help educate America's schools about how important the ocean is. Salt Lake City was his weekend stop. When he saw the empty wall of R.C. Willey, he asked Bill Child, Photo by Kristina Kortkamp the president and CEO of R.C. of Whale watching: Artist Wyland painted his 80th whale mural on the side Willey, if he could paint his 80th W. 300 S 2301 the R.C. the Willey building, whale mural on building. According to Steve Schulkens, permanent exhibits: "Oceans of Salt Lake until Saturday executive vice president of The the World," "Rivers and Lakes morning." Living Planet Aquarium, "It only of the World" and a "Rain The mural is a painting of a took about 15 minutes for Wyland Forest." There will also be a mother blue whale swimming to convince R.C. Willey to let him of surface to rotating exhibit which will with her calf close the paint their wall." Salt Lake house a different animal each sun shining City the ocean with the Wyland arrived in year. The ocean exhibit will be on Sept. 5 and did the paint brush into the water. of the mural, At the bottom complete with a coral reef, tiger outline of the mother and baby favorite sharks, barracuda, and manta the their children painted blue whale. Wyland painted ocean animals, including dolphins, rays. Die river and lake exhibit rest of the mural on Labor Day, will be representative of Utah orcas, squid, star fish and brittle Sept. 7. and will also include fish from stars. Wyland invited children and rivers and lakes around the Wyland was only given a parents to come and help him world. The last exhibit will be 60 feet long, . segment of the wall paint his wall. There were over will 1000 people who greeted the artist but the children's paintings extend the rain forest which a Amazon the include River, as beyond Wyland's 60 foot painting by shouting, "Wyland, Wyland" of schools and anaconda giant he drove into the parking lot on along the bottom part of tne piranha. his Harley Davison motorcycle. building. The Living Planet Aquarium Brent allowed on visit not was planning Wyland's "Wyland break ground on its four will of The Living Andersen, president painting a whaling wall, instead $12 million building in Schulkens and acre, Planet Aquarium, he was just going to sign 1999. The aquarium will be Oct. Lake of Salt of the inform to people autographs, and inform people for its first fish for the for the ne their of complete his Ocean Challenge. When plans City heard about the aquarium coming Olympics. Because each fish aquarium. Many parents and must be acclimated to Utah's children became excited when to Salt Lake in May of 2002, he climate and water, the aquarium decided it would be a great way to they were told Utah would be will not be open to the public getting a help his challenge even more," "We until after its grand opening said Schulkens. aquarium. One parent said, want it now, not in four years." ceremony in May of 2002. According to Wyland's The aquarium will have three photographer, "Not even the crew See OCEAN, Page 4 knew there would be a mural in state-of-the-- art Presson Focuses on Individual application for his research is in the area of gambling behavior. Presson chose to instruct at Paul Presson, the latest addition Westminster because, "The to Westminster's psychology have a focus on the here teachers faculty, did not always want to students." become a professor of psychology. He had applied to a number of Presson spent his first 36 years liberal arts schools around the in Orange, Calif. Following high country but was especially school, Presson studied electronics impressed with Westminster's for Xerox, dealing with pinball focus on teaching. He was machines and other equipment. particularly impressed with class After seven years, Presson size and the opportunity to decided to attend college because collaborate with students on Xerox could not offer him a research projects. promotion. "Westminster is similar to At one time Presson wanted to Chapman University where I did His my undergraduate work and I however, have always felt that I received a photography great education there due mostly and encouraged him to major in to the smaller, liberal arts psychology. environment," he said. He moved to Durham, N.H., His current hobby is cooking. He where he received his M.A., in enjoys playing rock n' roll on his 1994 and his Ph.D., in 1997. Then to jazz and big and he moved to Lewiston, Maine to fuitar music.listening The other hobbies teach at Bates College. . that he'd like to get back into are Presson is a social psychologist golf, riding motorcycles and and studies the illusion of control. skiing. He is interested in how people As for Presson's future plans, he make judgements about outcome "I'd like to continue working says, probabilities. by Desiree Bania Forum staff writer non-pathologi- Photo by David Otterstrom Paul Presson: He chose to teach at Westminster because teachers here have a focus on the students." at Westminster |
