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■ UNIVERSITY
Mock election shows one vote can make a difference
And you thought one vote doesn’t make a difference... President George
Bush would be re-elected by one vote if 683 students in two History 251
classes decided the race. In class elections held Thursday and
Wednesday, 288 students voted for Bush and 287 undergraduates chose
Gov. Bill Clinton. Independent candidate Ross Perot received 89 votes
with the remaining 19 going to various write-in candidates. History
professors Nash Boney and Bill Leary conducted the elections. I don t
know what I expected, but I didn’t expect a tie," Boney said. “The last
time we did this, with Bush and Dukakis, Bush just slaughtered him.
This time, it couldn’t be any closer." - Kelly Daniel
■ TOP TEN MOVIES
1) “Under Siege’ ($9 million)
2) “The Last of the Mohicans’ ($4.5 million)
3) “Candyman" ($4.22 million)
4) “The Mighty Ducks’ ($4.2 million)
5) “Consenting Adults’ ($3.7 million)
6) “Pure Country" ($2.74 million)
7) “Dr. Giggles’ ($2.71 million)
8) “Night and the City* ($2.56 million)
9) “A River Runs Through It" ($1.6 million)
10) “Mr. Baseball" ($1.5 million)
Source: Exhibitor Relations Co.
■ TOP TEN VIDEO RENTALS
1) “Basic Instinct"
2) “My Cousin Vinny"
3) “Beethoven"
4) “Fried Green Tomatoes"
5) “White Men Can’t Jump"
6) “Medicine Man*
7) “Straight Talk’
8) “Final Analysis’
9) The Lawnmower Man"
10) “Wayne’s World"
Source: “Video Business’
■ TOP TEN COLLEGE RADIO ALBUMS
1) R.E.M.: “Automatic for the People’
2) Peter Gabriel: “Us*
3) 10,000 Maniacs: “Our Time in Eden’
4) Suzanne Vega: “99.9 Degrees Fahrenheit"
5) Sugar: “Copper Blue"
6) Ramones: “Mondo Bizarro"
7) Michael Penn: “Free For All"
8) Soul Asylum: “Grave Dancers Union’
9) The Sundays: “Blind*
10) U2: “Achtung Baby"
Source: Radio & Records
■ TOP FIVE HORROR NOVELS
1) Stephen King: “Firestarter"
2) L. Ron Hubbard: “Fear"
3) Bram Stoker: “Dracula"
4) Ray Bradbury: "Something Wicked This Way Comes"
5) Robert Bloch: “Psycho” and H.P. Lovecraft: “At The Mountains of
Madness" (tie)
■ NATION
New York (AP): Spike Lee wants interviews by blacks
Filmmaker Spike Lee would rather be interviewed by black journalists
than whites. ‘^African-American journalists aren’t going to ask me,
*Spike, do you have any white friends?’ What kind of auestions are
those?" Lee said in an interview published in Wednesday’s New York
Newsday. The bulk of the interview should not be some white journal
ist trying to convince me how liberal they are, how they don’t hate
black people.” Lee said he asked some news organizations to assign
black writers to interview him about his new movie “Malcolm X.” Lee
did not make any such request of Newsday, the paper reported. “You
can go down the line — sports, media, white corporate America — the
white guys still run it," Lee said. “So I’m in a position, with the little
weight that I have, to demand that"
■ WORLD
London (AP): Bald rock singer calls It quits, maybe
Sinead O’Connor, the Irish recording artist, social critic and photo
shredder, has been quoted by a British magazine as saying sne is
through with the pop music business. She was also quoted by her publi
cist Wednesday as saying she was not. Both agreed that O’Connor has
a new interest in studying opera. “I want to expand my education, be
able to express myself in a way I can’t in this medium,” she was quoted
as saying in an interview with Melody Maker, a British music maga
zine. It also quoted the 25-year-old singer as saying that “Don’t Cry For
Me, Argentina," a single due for release next month, will be “the last
record I’ll put out.” Her publicist in New York, Elaine Schock, insisted
that O’Connor “still wants to be part of music.” “She does not want to
be a part of the pop music industry, and the conventional means of pro
moting a record. But she never did that anyway,” Schock said.
UGA TODAY
Meetings
• UGA Hillel will have the Hillel
student board meeting on Sunday
at 5 p.m. at the Hillel house, 1155
S. Milledge Ave. For more infor
mation, call Hillel at 543-6393.
Upcoming
• Athens Folk Music and Dance
Society will have a Halloween
Square Dance on Saturday from 8
to 12 p.m. at the Moose Lodge,
right on Davis off Milledge near
Gabby's. It is $4 for members and
$5 for non-members and wear a
costume if you wish! For more in
formation, call 613-8287.
• UJA, United Jewish Appeal,
will have a Kristallnacht Vigil on
Thursday, Nov. 5, at 8 p.m. in
front of the main library. It is a
candlelight ceremony to commem
orate The Night of Broken
Glass." For more information, call
Rebecca at 549-2961.
Announcements
• The Women’s Studies Program
Brown Bag Lunch Talks presents
Karen Maschke, Dept, of Political
Science, speaking on "Regulating
the Pregnant Body" today at
12:10 p.m. in Memorial Hall room
213. For more information, call
542-2846.
• The McWhorter Prize is award
ed to students "for general excel
lency in scholastic and extracur
ricular University activities" dur
ing their freshman year.
Applications are now available for
students who were freshmen at
UGA during 1991-92 in the OfTice
of Student Financial Aid and the
Tate Center Information Booth.
The deadline is today.
• SGA Minority Affairs Chairman
interviews will be today from 9 to
11 a.m. and from 2:30 to 5 p.m.
For more information, call 542-
8584.
• Sign-ups are being taken for
GORPs Breckenridge Ski Trip
(Dec. 12-18) at the Tate Center
Business Office Monday through
Friday, 9 a.m.-4 p.m. Deadline for
sign-ups is Monday, Nov. 2 by 4
p.m. For more information, call
GORP at 542-5060.
I terns for UGA Today must be
submitted in writing at least two
days before the date to be pub
lished Include specific meeting in
formation - speaker's title, topic
and time, and a contact person's
day and evening phone number.
Items are printed on a first-come,
first-served basis as space permits.
AFTER HOURS
MUSIC
IN
TOWN
“The problem Is ws csn’t sspsrsts
the authority from ths people with
the authority vested In them."
-tsnny Bruce
• Nov. 3: Chris & Dave.
- Parker C. m Web O' Subterfuge 9
Smith
DANCING
IN
TOWN
ATHENS FOLK MUSIC AND DANCE
SOCIETY
el, you can't really tell It It hap
pened to you, or If you Just watched
It on television.
• Thursday: A Room with a View.
James Ivory's picture-perfect charac
ter study Is so romantic, so beauti
ful to look at, so whimsical to listen
to, that one can only say, "Wow!
And on the big and beautiful Tate
Center Screen, too." (Friday-
Saturday: Ivory's "Howard's End.’)
GEORGIA SQUARE MALL (Inside:
543-1632/out aids: 548-9460)
40 WATT
• Oct. 30: The cozmlc high weird
ness Sun Ra will be bringing his
Intergalactlc Arkestra to town, and
chances are you've never seen any
thing quite like it. To call it bizarre
would be an understatement.
• Oct. 31: Big Old Crazy-Ass
Second Annual Masquerade Ball &
Disco. The Mixmaster Becky said
last years' ball was "the dopest."
You won't want to miss It.
• Nov. 2: Dance Party with Curtia
Whaley.
• Nov. 3: Two fresh new bands In
town. Shadowcaste and Dayroom,
will be playing together. Get your
butt out and vote. Don't make me
ask you again.
• Nov. 4: The ever-lmpressive
Roosevelt. Magneto opens.
• Nov. 5: Ned's Atomic Dustbin.
Their name Is far more intrtguing
than their music, which Is ready
made MTV "120 Minutes" drek.
Blah.
GEORGIA THEATRE
• Oct. 30 & 31: The annual arrival
of Widespread Panic, and - gosh -
It's all sold out. Once again, an
endless groove-jam does not a song
make. It's called economy: look it
up In the dictionary.
• Nov. 2: Dean Dollar Band.
• Nov. 3: Irish wunderkind Luka
Bloom teams up with James
McMurtry for a dazzling evening of
music. VOTE-VOTE-VOTE! Don't be a
tool.
• Nov. 4: The Samples. Blue
Groove opens. B. Mlslow sez ‘the
Samples really hug." He hath
spake.
• Nov. 5: A special free night at the
Theatre showcasing several as-yet-
unnamed local bands.
CHAMELEON CLUB
• Oct. 30: Insane Jane mbs me
like a cheese grater. Month of
Sundays opens.
• Oct. 31: Go Figures. Donkey
opens with their kooky brand of
show tunes, swinging and oddly en
dearing. It’s what Jim Morrison
would be doing If he were still alive.
• Nov. 3: Squalor Motel.
CLUB FRED
• Oct. 30: The peppery Hayride
does Its thing, with Seersucker and
Harvey Milk opening. Earl Scheib
might even show up and paint your
car.
• Oct. 31: Five-Eight kicks out the
jams. Little Debbie opens, featuring
former members) of the now leg
endary hellions, The Sklnpope.
SUGAR BOWL
• Oct. 30: The Get out and cele
brate the Sugar Bowl's second birth
day with The Barflye.
• Oct. 31: High Country Band.
• Nov. 2: Nathan Sheppard.
The Athens Folk Music and Dance
Society will be hosting a folk dance
at 8 p.m. the Athens Moose Lodge
on South Milledge Avenue. The folk
dances include traditional square
dances, as well as circle dances
and contra dances. Louis Wild, a lo
cal dance caller, will be teaching
the dances at the beginning of
event.
"If it's your first time, you're proba
bly not going to pick up everything,"
group member Ray Campagnoll
said, "but beginners are welcome.
We'll walk people through the
dances."
So bhng a partner and leave your
costumes at home. The dance
costs $4 for AFMDS members and
$5 for non-members.
— Josh Jackson
M0UIES
IN
TOWN
TATE CENTER THEATER (542-
3816)
• Frtday-Saturday: Incident at
Oglala. Michael Apted's documen
tary of the events surrounding the
murder of two F.B.I. agents and one
Native American on an Indian reser
vation. I've not seen this or Apted's
film "Thunderheart," which was
based on it. From what I can dis
cern from the previews and wordof-
mouth, this Is sure to be highly im
portant, intrtguing, conscience-slam
ming entertainment.
• Frtday-Saturday(mldnlght): Love
at First Bite. ‘Well, Vladimir, what
do you think about THIS?" "I think,
you should find yourself a nice
Jewish girt to settle down with."
"Ah, shoot, It's the other one, Isn't
it."
• Sunday: 8 1/2. Fellini's mesmer
izing, self-reflecting look inside the
mind of a struggling filmmaker Is
considered by many to be the great
est work of art ever made. This is
the definitive rare opportunity for
Athens this quarter. Miss it, and
you will forever be incomplete.
• Monday-Tuesday: The Rocky and
Bullwlnklo Festival. Need I say any
thing?
• Wednesday: Slacker. Are you
sure this wasn't shot in Athens?
The Ultimate Losers played last
week, didn't they? Aren't there
many alternative yellow-brick-road re
alities on North Campus? Oh my
God! I am the rambling conspiracy
theortst, the unortginal, centertess
quoter of Freud, the sun Is oppres
sive, my Mends and I wear those
clothes and hairstyles, I've had
those Smurf conversations, the iced
cappuccino, the street-comer gigs,
"keep on keeping on," "Ruby's
dogs," and it's true, when you trav-
• Candyman. The ultimate
Halloween flick In town, sure to give
you a pure touch of evil.
• Consenting Adults. Gee, maybe
I'll just go prove the existence of
what I thought was a battered to-
death wife all on my own, without
my attorney to witness this living ev
idence. Great Idea. Look, there she
is!!! Oh no, now he's killed her
toot!! And I'm gonna be framed for
It againl
• Last of the Mohicans.
1777777...(snort) what?...huh...oh, a
hatchet, zzzzzzz...(snort) what?...oh,
nice outfit.
• Under Siege. You and I are the
same. We're just puppets In their
movie.
• Zebra Head. I've heard nothing
but great things about this socially
conscious, raceconflict film. Maybe
we can learn something from It to
solve some of the problems here In
Athens. I'll get back to you about It
next week.
• 1492. Come on, It's not that
bad. At least it was a good effort.
There were enough sporadic dazzle
sequences to compensate for the
tiresome elements of the film. The
filmmakers should have spent more
time in the concept phase, but they
had a Columbus Day deadline to to
get this sucker out. I forgive them.
Certainly worth the matinee.
• The Mighty Ducks.
• Sneakers. O.K., "Slacker" Is the
ultimate conspiracy film of the
Nineties. But this is a good one
too.
• A River Runs Through It. Robert
Redford's fly-fishing, mountain-re
gion, big-rtver, naturalistic brother-
love drama Is supposedly big, bold,
and beautiful. I can't wait, really.
BEECHWOOD CINEMA (546-1011)
• Dr. Giggles. Hee-Hee-Hee-Hee-
Hee...Not.
• Glengarry Glen Ross. This (green
line) is the (yellow line) best picture
(green line) of the year (yellow line).
(Green line) Pacino and (yellow line)
Lemmon are sure-fire (green line)
Oscar winners. Don't (green line)
miss It.
• Purs Country. The Life and Times
of a struggling country singer
(George Strait). Rent "Tender
Mercies" Instead.
• Night and the City. It certainly is
a film that trtes too hard, but that
doesn't make it bad. It was still en
joyable enough in compartson to
other DeNiro star-powered nothing
nesses such as, oh, "Guilty by
Suspicion" and "We're no Angels."
Don't pay more than $4 and you
won't be disappointed.
CLASSIC TRIPLE (5436543)
• Hellralser III: Hell on Earth. Alter
the surprtse positive reaction I had
to the unique "Candyman," who
knows? Clive Barker himself did ex
ecutively produce this third Install
ment. Why not? I'm gonna give it a
try.
• Pet So mat ary II.
• Honey, I Blew Up the Kid. "Honey,
I Lobotomlzed the Audience."
• The Gun In Betty Lou's Handbeg.
Supposedly mindlessly funny light
heartedness.
THE ALPS (548-5256)
• Honey, I Blew Up the Kid. I've
got It: "Honey, I Made Goliath of the
Kid."
• A League of their Own.
— Jason Wells
ART
IN
TOWN
GROOVY ART SHOW
•Oct. 30-31: College Square from
11 a.m. to midnight. This show will
include arts-andcrafts vendors,
Halloween pumpkin decorating, and
even tattoo making. A pumpkin carv
ing contest will begin at 4 p.m.,
with judging at 7 p.m. The prtze be
ing offered is a basket of donations
given by womervowned businesses
In Athens, said Lynn Hants, the
show's coordinator.
There will also be a vartety of musi
cal performers: Catfish Jenkins,
onearmed harmonica player Nell
Pattman and his blues band, Daddy
Upright, and Trtnket. The local
Nonstop Dance Company and the
Athens School of Ballet will also
perform.
"This is a great outlook for artists,"
said Bob Ross, an artist and musi
cian who has participated in the
Groovy Art Show three times.
"I like the Idea of artists actively
selling their work...It's a shame that
we have what you call the 'starving
artist' In society. We have to be
able to 'feed' art, so this show Is a
good boost."
— JanetI Hobson
TATE CENTER GALLERY
•On display until Nov. 13: ‘Children
of War." An incredibly unique look
at the Middle East through the eyes
of Its children. This is definitely
something you don't want to miss.
This exhibit was made possible
through the Save the Children
Foundation and the University
Union. Be sure to drop by and show
your support for this noble effort.
GEORGIA MUSEUM OF ART
•On display until Nov. 22: “Artiste
and Artisans of Florence: Works
From the Home Museum.’ Head up
to North Campus and see this. You
know, the GMA people get kind of
lonely from time to time, and they
like it when students drop in unex
pectedly. Just don't touch anything.
BOTANICAL GARDENS
•On display: ’Rural Georgia.'
Paintings by Donald A. Smith. If you
have not been out to see the
Botanical Gardens, then you have
missed out on one of the most
spectacular spots In Athens. More
plants than you can shake a stick
of Miracle Gro at. They even have a
banana tree. Call 542-1244 for
more Info on the bananas.
- MARK *The Vampire Lestat"
HODGES