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•THE WEST GEORGIAN, WEDNESDAY, MAY 22,1985
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"Coffee Man" leaves security of WGCfor challenge of Zaire
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Bremen Presbyterian minister Carlos Soto is ‘The Coffee Man.
(Photo by Lisa Smith)
Movie Review
' Gotcha,' it'll getcha
By Beth Hartman
Staff Writer
“Gotcha” is the story of how
Jonathan, a young college student
and all-American boy, ends up being
the target of Russian Spys and the
CIA, simply because he was trying to
score.
Not only does he score, but he falls
in love with an older, foreign woman,
who “loves weirgins” (virgins pro
nounced with a Checkoslovakian ac
cent).
Jonathan, played by Anthony Ed
wards first encounters Sasha, por
trayed by Linda Forentino in Paris,
while on summer vacation with a
friend. Their relationship becomes a
whirlwind of romance among a very
romantic background. Jonathan
falls ‘head over heels’ in love, aban
doning his plans and friend and
following Sasha to Berlin.
This is where the intrigue and
suspense enter and Jonathan’s ex
perience from his innocent college
game comes in handy. Gotcha, a
game played with toy guns and paint
pellets and based on fantasy
becomes training for survival in the
real game of murder and espionage.
Europe and Los Angeles are the
settings for this fast paced movie
about a teenage hero who out wits
both the CIA and the KGB. ‘ ‘Gotcha ’ ’
has the feel of a Disney mystery and
a trendy sex movie.
The movie has the ominous tones
of foreign agents, but also has the
comic relief of neurotic upper mid
dle class parents. When Jonathan
returns home from his adventure
and relates his tale to his parents,
they believe he is on drugs.
Relentlessly Jonathan tries to con
vice his closeminded parents of his
sobriety until he breaks down and
claims he is an addict because that is
the only excuse they’ll accept. This
seems typical of the parent syn
drome, in which they don’t believe
what their child tells them.
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Arts Festival was
art, dance and drama
By Terri Persico
Staff Writer
The combination of drama, art,
music, and dance took place May
14-23 at the Fine Arts Festival
that brought with it fun and a
learning experience. For those
that attended, there were events
such as musicals and dance pro
ductions. Among the events
were:
May 14-16th An art exhibit
took place with the first floor of
the art gallery designated for
Jack Kehoe’s works. Mr. Kehoe is
a sculptor from the University of
Georgia who had his works
displayed from 8 a.m.-noon and
2:15-3:45 p.m. On the second floor
was the student senior exchange,
that went until the 17th.
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Staff Writer
It’s late Thursday morning in the
gray hall of the Humanities building
Loaded with books in English com
position, the 9 o’clock students are
slowly coming out of theii
classrooms. A boy on the second
floor shouts to his girlfriend on the
first floor. At the end of the stairway,
tired 10 o’clock students who are ear
ly for class are lining up in front of
the free-coffee stand. The warm
mocca smell surrounds them while
they are chatting calmly, glad to
avoid the Coke machine.
The coffee man stands a little back
in his Presbyterian suit and collar,
gold-framed glasses and a well
trimmed, black beard over his sun
darkened skin. Carlos Soto watches
the many hands who are busy pour
ing sugar and cream powder into
white plastic cups. Up to 240 cups go
easily in winter, today he has only
coffee for about 90. He rarely drinks
his own coffee. “It works as a lax
ative on me,” he says with a shy
laughter.
This Thursday morning is one of
his last as the coffee man before he
‘akes off to Zaire, Africa as a mis
sionary. May 30th will be his last
day, and he has mixed feelings about
leaving. “I’m both excited and ner
vous, it’s definitely scary,” he says
and crosses his arms. The present
Bremen minister has got a four-year
contract, and after a six-month
French course in Canada, he is going
to assist the treasurer of the
Presbyterian Church in the city of
Kananga, Zaire. The work wil be
mostly financial in spite of the title
“missionary,” and Soto will certain
ly need his skills from the time he
worked as a public accountant.
“I may preach,” Soto says. “But I
don’t go over there to save people.
Zaire has already an enthusiastic
Christian church that is growing
faster than the church here. I’m not
going to teach them the right way or
anything. Our relationship will be
one of partnership.”
Does he have any doubts about
working in a one-party state? The
took place in Humanities by the
Colleqium Musicum, directed by
Dr. Elizabeth Phillips. The mini
concert was performed as
students went to and from class
as a kind of entertainment and
chance for students to get a taste
of culture, too. “The group is one
of seven ensembles in the Fine
Arts Department,” Phillips ex
plained, “The membership is
mostly students, but there’s also
one faculty member and one staff
member.”
The kind of music performed
Thursday was music typical of
the 16th century Renaissance
period. According to Phillips
whoever wants to be in the group,
simply auditions. She also addeo
that there are sometimes singers
in the group.
answer comes after some delibera
tion and a refill of coffee: “I don’t
like the idea of a dictator ruling
other people, but it’s not my business
to tell them how to run their lives
either. I’m not going over there to
judge their political system, but as a
representant of Christ.” He is
dreaming of traveling to the Victoria
falls, Kenya and South Africa, but he
became uncertain about South
Africa: “I’m not sure I want to spend
money in such a racist country. ”
About 30 other American mis
sionaries and a small European-
American community of business
people, peace corps volunteers and
consulate officials will speak his own
language in Kananga, Zaire. One of
the conditions the divorced minister
set before taking the job, was that
the Presbyterian church will pay for
his 14-year-old son to visit once a
year. Most of all Soto would like him
to attend the American school in
Zaire, but the boy is reluctant. “He
cannot decide whether he is going or
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not,” Soto tells. “I think he is afraid
to go to what for him is a very
strange place.”
Coffee-lovers are going to and
from in a continuous stream. “Hi,
you should see him work out in the
Racket Club,” jokes a visitor with a
wink to Carlos Soto. Eventually, Soto
tells that he lifts weights two or three
times a week, and to prove it, he
demonstrates his arm muscles, “r
believe in exercise,” says the slim
looking man. Another student passes
by, she is a friend from the concert
choir where Soto sang during the
winter quarter. “Oh, his tenor voice
is wonderful,” the girl declares
before she rushes to class. A jour
nalism student stops by to get her
coffee and stays just long enough to
tell me that Carlos introduced her to
the boy that is now her boyfriend.
When Soto first started giving out
free coffee at WGC two years ago,
people were not so easy-going. “For
many, it was hard to believe that
ATTENTION
there were no strings attached,”
Soto tells. “Students would come up
to me and insist on giving at least
something in return. Not before I put
up the free coffee sign with “free” in
big, red letters did they grasp it.”
His attempt to gather students in a
communion service on Thursday
nights failed. Two or three people
showed up, and that wasn’t enough
for the coffee man to stay with. “You
have to establish a committed, core
group that will bring others to come.
We never got these people,” he savs.
At 10:30 the coffee containers are
empty. It is a cold May morning, and
people need something hot. Soon
after, a line of students appear, all of
i them sighing when “Sorry, we’re
out” interrupts their attempts to get
a flow of the dark drink. Soto puts
down the free-coffee sign and packs
his things. There is no sentimentality
in his voice: “Every time I have
come here, I have left with a good
feeling. ’ ’ And then he leaves.
