Show Page 4 Smiles biceps and skin part of Jaws night Lance Neilson reigns as the infamous "iU Mr CEU by Avan Thayn the Mr CEU tillc due partly to his lip syncing of “You Shook This is a guide to finding Me All Night Long" by ACDC the 1988 Mr CEU Go to within he was crowned homecoming a quarter mile of the Townhouse king of Union High where he Dormitory west of campus let the sang as Unde Remus to blast of very loud feature editor "Zip-id-obnoxio- us dcc-do-da- music lead you to room 22 open the door walk straight down the dark hall until you come to the room with large piles of rotting laundry empty beer cans and a fortune in loose change never claimed after months of poker Nielson's high school career also included participation in debate football racing motor cycles track (where he took state in the long jump) and drama He acted in three plays and took state three years in a row in pantomime with his partner and games Ignore all of the posters good friend Lynn Abplanalp His acting career has of half naked women plastered on extended to his college experi-postthe walls and focus on the large of Alf Look straight down cncc He recently acted in CEU's and you will find a head of curly production of "One Flew Over hair and a pair of mirrored sun The Cuckoos Nest" His favorite glasses immersed in a motor cross actor besides his hero ALF is magazine Chevy Chase and his favorite Meet Lance Dustin group is Pink Floyd his to Neilson or "Salamander" Ncilson's future plans friends the current reigning Mr include becoming a doctor and CEU As he looks up from his magazine let's ask him a question What do you plan to do as Mr CEU? "Uh" he says “am I supposed to accomplish somethin'?" Come on we prod give us more than that “Uh" he says “1 want to promote 'hell raisin' by Lee Mathie and illiteracy!" Ah ha we staff writer exclaim another typical male The last four readings featured in the College of Eastern College of Eastern Utah student liulc bizarre a more Utah's 1988 Readers' Series inonly Neilson fits in well at clude some of the nation’s and CEU He never cleans his room Utah's finest writer's including and he never will He goes home two English instructors from to his mother in Randclctt Utah CEU his she weekend so can do The first reading of the every laundry He likes to “jam-out- " remaining four will be on April has served five 20 and will feature Janet go " for in hours jail being “lippy” Sylvester She is the author of with a police officer and devotes "That Mullbcrry Collection" and about five minutes of his day to is the winner of the Grolicr homework Prize and Academy of Ncilson's real talent lies Poetry American Poetry Prize She is in his eyebrows He can wiggle now a doctoral candidate at the and raise them one at a time he University of Utah can do a front (lip and land on his On April 27 Dr Jan feet and he knows how to cook Minich and Nancy Takacs both In fact he claims he's an expert English instructors at CEU will his the With of at pizza help rcad some of their favorite works microwave he can turn a frozen This is the first time they have g hot a pizza into read at CEU but they have minutes in concoction cheesy previously read at other colleges And he can speak semi-flueMinich has had publicaUte tions appear in magazines includnew is nothing Pagentry ing Montana Review Kansas to in addition winning to Nielsen Quarterly Northwest Review cr marrying a nurse so they can play j I ? doctor together She had better be a strong woman for he plans to — have six children To his first bom boy baby he plans to give his Mr CEU crown He claims he didn't know there was any money int volved in the pageant He actually did it for the fun of it and with his I $100 prize money which by the ! Veronica Nielson enjoys swimming way he hasn't received yet he plans to throw a party That is Lance Neilson but don't ask him ask his roommates “Lance is the ’ L craziest 's of a b I've La IX Jt ever seen" says Eddie Samuels “Lance makes ordinary Price life not so boring “ says Scott Logcrquisl “ Once in a great while I don't like the way he cuts his sideburns but other than that K nt 'i- - 4 in the heated pool of the Radisson Inn : ':r he's perfect Everyday wish he was like my brother a brother to everybody Readers’ Series features poets mouth-waterin- V — w- ' I I - v w r Martin Locks demonitrates j Seattle Review and Quarterly during Jaws Night West He is the author of a chap- I book "Occasional Starlight" to j be published by Owl Creek Press j Ms Takacs has had I publications in magazines Seattle including Quarterly West Review and the Nation She is tha past winner of the Discovery j I Nation award Utah Original Writing Contest and The Plain I Songs Poetry Award I The last reading will I take place on May 24 The writer j featured is Richard Shelton a professor of English at the University of Arizona He is the recipient of numerous awards for poetry His works have appeared frequently in The New Yorker and The Atlantic Monthly He is the author of nine bodes includ-ing The Other Side of the Story and Hohokam He is the past pro- sident of Associated Writing c:7-yr- ''"V V -- “ - i - ‘1 : N V1 i his skills at picking up Lee Mathie In the hot tub Programs The readings arc free and open to the public in the Little Theatre in the Student Activity Center at 8 pjn j I CEU students 1 Muna Arinfl Jawl (L-- R) Theresa Green Lee Coulson and Jill Nngsford relax in the Radisson photos by Christopher Frame |