Show Ifs all about drugs 200? 1 Friday ache c leiald f Hie IO Page who watched or Anybody Olympic events this year will testify that drug use was rampant Not among the athletes or the spectators but certainly among the organizers and officials The new Gonzo hap- penin' DJ-U- the games turned out to be the USA berets and an astounding number of other apparel by a company called “Roots" This in itself is a clever little flashback While these clothes are supplanting Nike Tommy Hilfiger and Old Navy among the new generation of hair athletes the company is most fondly remembered by middle-age- d muffins It was the rival company to Earth Shoes — those funky negative heeled shoes designed to reverse the numbing effects of all those high-heeldisco shoes I actually had a green suede pair At least I think I did While the Summer Olympics still need to be held accountable for synchronized swimming it seems to have retained a little more dignity The Winter Games seem to be making an extra effoit to fill time with more superfluous events Curling is the obvious butt of the joke but what exactly is the difference between ice dancing and figure skating? Team ski jumping ' sounds more exciting than it is because none of the team ed rude dude games are about as far from the ancient Greek origins as St Patrick's Day is from the Catholic Church ' The costumes of ice Jane- mg alone would demonstrate conclusively thai drugs taken in the '60s do cause flash-bucI personally had several flashbacks to clothes I shouldn't have worn then and don't want to be reminded of now The Swiss had those long sil- ver coats with upturned red lapels that made them look like some sort of techno Count Dracula and for every' medal ceremony we trotted out kids dressed as dust mops The judges' who hadn't planned-obeing on television nearly as much as the athletes showed nearly no imagination in attire or hair styles The hot clothing items of ks At the cross country ski venue the crowd had to endure some person from KB LAB at the venue leading rounds of Queen’s “we will we will — rock you” stomp stomp and that “funk soul brother song that is a staple of every high school football halftime show The venue also featured cowboys teepees Dutch oven cooking-clodancing and Budweiser I know we do want to share some of our'cul-tur- e with the world I'm just not sure 'why it couldn't be a little more of our current culture given that the cowboy history is more about bloody ' wars and land grabs than it quaint nostalgia Of course to betting oa either the saucer or most of the world all the land New York City and between InnertabetoOehmasaticmoBstratlou Los Angeles is Marlboro sporttoenexttimearoumL” Country I’m not really knocking the members are actually connect- - that things went so well that Games I had a surreal good ed as then jump they just take Salt Lake City should hold the time Games again I’m not sure this turns and add up the score Bill Gates just keeps makis the compliment it seems I Luge and skeleton would be ing life better feel about the same as when more aptly named headfirst and the Western governors came I'm betting on out to inspect die Tooele nerve either the sauepr or inner tube to debut as a demonstration Dennis Hinkamp is a freelance gas repository and said we time were doing such a great job the around next humor columnist lying in Logan sport Some city officials are getthat Utah ought to take cares of Feedback at dhinkampO msrrcom ting giddy over some reports - all the nation’s nerve gas ex-ear- th ed S ra 11 - feet-flr- st Visiting artists present ‘Double Vision’ lecture noted photographers Bart scholars to campus to expand opportunities for students and community and Rita DeWitt are the featured guests for Utah State members alike Neely said The March 5 presentation by University’s Visiting Artist Program Parker and DeWitt goes well beyond presented by the department of art Parker and DeWitt present the lec- -' the lecture The title “Double lure “Double Vision” Tuesday March Vision” is appropriate said photogra5 at 7 pm in the Chase Fine Arts phy professor Sara Northerner This Center FAV 1 50 A reception follows will he a multimedia event the ‘ at the Nora Eccles Harrison Museum exchange between the artists and the ' of Art' All events are free and open to presentation is almost more perfor- the public mance piece than lecture she said The Visiting Artist Program is supDuring the lecture the artists will ported by grants from the Mariecompare their individual pieces' and Eccles Caine Foundation the Utah talk about working collaboratively Arts Council the National “They will field questions work one on one and complete critique sesEndowment for the Arts in sions with students Northerner said Washington' DC: and the Utah “AH activities are open to the public” V Humanities Council an affiliate of ' To participate in sessions beyond the National Endowment for the ' ' ' Humanities the lecture contact Northerner at Utah State for schedules and times at This year’s theme for the Visiting ' (435)797-5577 Artist Program is " Across the Cutting Parker and DeWitt's works Edge' and the artists represent diverse elements of the art world appeared in “Rita DeWitt and Bait in the schedule have been Parker” at the Museum of Changes k events' Photography Riverside Calif and at necessary because of Sept said department head John Neely' the Visual Studies Workshop in Rochester New York Attemptsare being made to resched- ule one guest he said Parker professor emeritus of art at 7 ‘The Visiting Artist Progranvbegan the University of Rhode Island ' kingston will be the 2002 Honored in themid-- 1 9X()s The program was Educator for the Society for established to bring noted artists and Photographic Education (SPE) This prestigious national award speaks to Parker’s status as an educator and photographer said Visiting Artist Program coordinator Marilyn Two Krannich' - ‘ 1: : 1 1 ‘ - v Parker’s work has appeared in numerous one person and group eXhi- bitions He has twice received 7 National Endowment for die Arts Individual Artists Fellowships and he has lectured at numerous schools including the University of California at Los Angeles the School erf the Art Institute of Chicago die Penland School and Washington University DeWitt is an independent artist working with photography 3D animation and virtual reality She has taught at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago Rhode Island School of Design Smith College and others Her work has been shown in more thaft260 exhibitions nationally and internationally since 1977 She - ' ke ' has received numerous awards including a National Endowment for the Arts Individual Artists Fellowship and the Polaroid Corporation's Invited Artist Grant (twice) For information on UtahState’s Visiting Artist Program contact Krannich at (435) 797-73- 73 - Novelist reading and boob signing acclaimed novelist and ’ The widely Helena Maria Viramontes will read from her recent works Wednesday March 6 at 3 pin in the USU Eccles Conference Center Auditorium A booksigning and reception will follow the reading The public is invited to this free event Viramontes will also be on hand to meet die public and to sign her books at Hastings 70 E 400 North between 5 and 6 pin March 6 Currently a professor of creative writing at Cornell University Viramontes publications include "Under die Feet of Jesus” “Their Dogs Came With Them" " The Moths and Other Stories” and “Chicana Creativity and Criticism” 7 Viramontes’ work addresses issues of adolescence sexuality race and national ami female identity for ChicanasLatinas living in border spaces between Mexico ' and die United States As part of her visit to Utah Viramontes will also be reading from her works for local junior high and high school tfudents The reading is being sponsored by the Humanities Council & USU departments of English and histoty tumors die College of HXSS and the Women and Gender Research Institute |