Show October 271994 Page 5 The secrets of success: Laura Pedersen by Kelly Carlson staff writer “If your in (his crowded screaming pit and you dhow another person kick them trip them get them out of your way you cun get your order done first” These were the powerful words spoken hy Laura Pedersen at a speakers forum last Wednesday October 18th No she wasn't a professional wrestler Pedersen was speaking of her experience us one of only three women working on the floor "I If I Were a Carpenter various artists of the New York Stock Exchange started as a gopher the lowest of the low jobs" recalled Pedersen was a A & M She wasn't a gopher for long After only one year she options trader and at age 20 she became the Tribute albums can he very surprising The sometimes varied range of musicians shows how influential the band being paid homage was The albums can be very flattering but can also he full-fledg- ed youngest seated person in stock market history Pedersen became a partner in a Wall Street firm while taking night classes to earn her undergraduate degree at New York University In October 1989 Pedersen left the stock exchange as a millionaire She was “burned out” from all of the stress that her four years of the floor of the stock exchange brought to her She had not only lost 30 percent of her hearing but was also beginning to sec signs of throat problems from the continuous yelling Pedersen's next goal was to go into television After many rejections she finally landed a job answering phones at The Joan River’s Show After only a few weeks Pedersen became River's see Pedersen page 11 Pgdorsnn ndmssns students in tbo BDAC The Great Outdoors Everything you ever wanted to know about pumpkin carving and more sie by Kelly Carlson staff writer It's that time of year again A time for dressing up in “kooky” costumes doing tricks and door-to-do- or going asking for snuirties Okay it's pumpkin carving season Your'c probably wondering what pumpkin cursing has to do with “The Great Outdoors Don't worry about " 10 Most Wanted 1 2- Jurassic Park Nightmare Before Christmas 3 The Crow 4 Bad Girls 5 8 Seconds 6 Lightning Jack 7 Naked Gun 3313 8 The Paper 9 Tombstone 10 Surviving the Game You'll find these videos and more at VIDEO VERNS located in the Creckview Shopping Center next to City Market (801)637-755- 5 rds iter Disappoint- eoun-- tries so don't let them go to waste You cun cook them any way you cun imagine The possihlity for pumkin seeds is endless That brings us to our next chore choosing what kind of art you want curved on the face your pumpkin It used to be that you had only a few choices a big cheesy grin a really goofy face or the infamous mean You can advertise in this space for $3 a column each original Now you're probably saying to yourself: “hey Danny calling a song depressing isn't exactly praise” You need to remember that depress- Hubs' pumpkin carving contest of star” What makes this song one ol course! the few standouts on this collection are the haunting distant vocals and spacey galactic noises shooting oil in tlie moody landscape of this song To prove how internationally influential the Carpenters were Categories will include: funniest most di mailed and spookiest Sure it costs two bucks to enter ($1 with a can of food) but you can win some pretty good pries like CD's and mad ('latter gill certificates So head on in to the student government room and pick up your entry form today Well you've read the article and it still has nothing to do with "The Great Outdoors" it's a slow season So until next time get out and do something ingly the Cranberries have nothing original to add to “(they long to be) Close to You" The song looms like a shadow of the original version and makes one wonder what the point was in doing (heir ow n version Ethyl Meat plow dties a version of this song on their debut album Happy Days Sweetheart which is definitely worth looking into achingly lonesome vocals make this track even more sincere and depressing than the pumpkin ing and the Carpenters go hand in Now you arc finished You've created hand If a group is able to keep all this umuing pumkin and you don't tin dreariness and sadness in the want to leave it silting in your dorm remake of a Carpenters song then room You can put it ousidc but then they've scored big as far as this small you take the risk of losing it in a town music review boy is concerned satanisiic pumkin ritual on HallowDreariness and sadness has never een night So what can you do with been so craftily displayed as on it? Kilter it in the Environmental Sonic Youth's version of "Super- Qr present on oh so many tribute albums Eitel's American your pumkin look nicer but they also let you choose almost any Halloween scene and curve it right into your songjUs is Love” Mark pumpkin head Times have changed Now you can run to the grocery store and buy a pumpkin carving kit These kits not only make The first Carbon County's C and shape of the pumpkin you want depends on the personality you want your creation to have Obviously youll need to clean out the pumpkin Don't forget that pumpkin seeds are considered a South delicacy in some it just keep reacting thing you need to consider when thinking about the art of pumpkin carving is picking a winner of a pumpkin Of course our local grocery stores have some pumpkins but if you want a wide selection and a better quality pumpkin your roadside pumpkin stands arc your best bet The quite insulting If I Were a Cuqtenter has its share of compliments and flatulence Lets begin with the praise I have for this album since (here is no need in starting out on a sour note First of all American Music Club opens the album with “Goodbye to and joy Matthew Sweet offers another great one on the album with his version of “Let Me lie the One” llie remaining half of the Carpenters Karen's brother Richard is found playing piano on this one Sweet will have you forgetting who the Carpenters even were with the way he takes the song and makes it one of his own He doesn't do the usual walkthrough of the “Rainy Days and Mondays" has always been a lav onto Carpcntcis song of mine until Ciuckcr came along They rum this sting with a limy out of tune guitar and just a w liiny vocals A string nriungcmcnl w almost salvaged the song but no it still sucks llie other songs on the album range Irom just okay to pretty good nothing great What keeps ilicm from being lorgotien is the exceptional stmg writing aiul the gieal memories of the originals So that is Slmiicn Knife Asia's premiere alternative rock group offer a version of "Top of the Wotld" Out of all llie songs on the album this one is probably the furthest from the original It w ill catch you off guard but alter a couple of listens you'll $225“ activity CUrd Or coupon and Every Tuesday Wednesday 9 pm King Koal 9:30 pm Crown Expires Nov 9 1994 — I Jazz in' it up at Mallard's find yourself jumping around your bedroom in a mad state of happiness Campus Movie Nights hat suggest you do: go out and get a greatest hits collection of Carpenters and tap into your more sensitive Lite l:M I (X) side w 2 I I I The CEU Concert Season began with (lie Jaz Hand performing at Malurd'i Restaurant Friday Ocl 21 at 7:00 pm This was the first in a series of Friday Night Ja concerts to be held at Mallard's every third Friday of each month Local community players will be sitting in With the jazz band The jazz combo was also be featured Thc CEU wlnd Enscmhc bandyjazz Band combo Synth and I I see Jazz band page 11 |