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Thursday, December 7, 1972
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Hours: 8:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m.
WHAT CAN I SELL?
At each buy-back period we are able to buy only those texts the
h sfudv of biology I? At teaching staff has indicated will be used again the following
ECONOMICS
PAUL A. SAMUELSON
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WHAT ABOUT BOOKS
NO LONGER USED? 1
A Book Buyer from a wholesale college book company will offer
you the current wholesale price on all books you wish to sell him.
This price is usually 25 of the pubfisher's list price; however, the
price is determined by the' law of supply and demand and if the
book has been in circulation for a long time or is not being used
by many other schools this price will probably be less. Many
students feel their books are worth more to them for their
personal, library than the amount either the bookstore buyer or
1 the wholesale buyer can offer for them. This you must decide for
yourself.
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The buying back at 50 of current list price is the policy of most
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Anthropology Today
PSYCHOLOGY
HOW MUCH CAN I GET?
With this commitment we are able to offer 50 of the price of
hard covered books, 33-13 of what you paid for a paperback.
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Feature Writer
"Whether you go or not is your own
decision. Everything can go wrong. If you
are up in the air and notice something has
gone wrong, what are you going to do?
When all else fails, pull the reserve."
It's kind of hard to remember
everything your instructor has told you
when you're falling from 3200 feet in the
sky.
In fact, it's kind of hard to even think.
So testify Kathy Hodges and Phyllis
Thome, two junior coeds from Morehead
City who made their first parachute jump
last Saturday.
Kathy and Phyllis read about a class in
sport parachuting in an announcement in
the DTH. Boasting a bit of bravery, they
decided to try out the sport.
After approximately 6 hours (3 days)
of lectures and practice, they were
supposedly educated and confident
enough to make the first jump.
So Saturday at the Roanoke Rapids
drop zone, the two girls along with three
other first-time jumpers, their instructor
F. J. Hale, and a pilot climbed into the
small Cessna plane with the leopard skin
ceiling. Decked out in jump-suit, helmet,
and warm gloves, each carried one
parachute on her back and one reserve
chute on her stomach. "We felt like we
were spacemen," explained Phyllis.
The two girls were the first ones in the
plane (which of course meant that they
would be the last ones out). Their
uncomfortable kneeling position during
the thirty minutes they were in the plane
allowed for cramped knees and numb
feet.
When you make your exit, first put
your feet out the door. They'll start
dangling because the wind is going about
80 mph, but don't let that bother you.
When I say get out, grab the bar on the
side of the aircraft and put your feet
firmly on the step. When 1 say go, push
off the bar fairly vigorously, kick up with
your feet, and then stretch back into the
basic free fall (arched) position. The most
important thing is to keep your head
back." F.J. had done all the teaching he
could. The rest was up to the students.
The first tnree out (males,
incidentally) made it fine. Then it came
Kathy and Phyllis' turn. The door opened
and the wind rushed in.
Kathy got out on the platform but just
couldn't . push herself off. Phyllis didn't
make it that far.
The plane circles and once again it was
Kathy and Phyllis' turn. This time they
took advantage of it.
In a matter of seconds, Kathy was
floating through the air. And in just a few
more seconds, so was her roommate.
"Count to five and then look up and
see if your chute has opened." F.J. had
stressed this but nobody can be expected
to remember everything when he is falling
through the air.
Fortunately, both girls' chutes did
open. "I felt like I was in a coma,"
recalled Phyllis.
The last one out of the plane was the
instructor he and Phyllis carried on a
conversation in the air.
"It was great once the parachute
opened," agreed the girls. "It was just like
F.J. had said. You pull down on the left
side and it turns left; you pull down on
the right and it turns right."
After about a minute and a half
through the fall and about 1 00 feet above
the ground, everything began to look
lifelike. Beneath the girls was a boy and a
bullhorn guiding the girls as they landed.
"DoVt look at the ground," they had
been warned. Earlier that morning they
had even practiced the proper landing
procedures. At least they were near the
target-no power lines, no obstructive
trees, even Mr. Patrick's garden they had
been warned to avoid.
Kathy hit first. Then came Phyllis. "I
looked down and just kinda hit the
ground," she laughed. "I fell on my ass."
For Kathy, landing was a little
rougher. "I was in the right position to
land but I guess I just hit the ground
before I expected it to be there." For
Kathy, landing was a sprained ankle.
Will they do it again? Phyllis is a trifle
scared at the moment. She might change
her mind. In spite of lier accident, Kathy
seems a bit more optimistic, but she still
isn't certain.
In any case, Kathy and Phyllis are
both glad they had the opportunity to
jump from an airplane. "Everybody
should try it at least once."
'Separate Peace9 iiwrnor
by Bruce Brooks
Film Critic
Because "A Separate Peace" is such a minor movie, it is only
; a minor disappointment. Except for the very fine
cinematography and some good acting, the production seemed
; to lack the energy and attention that should be provided by
: any director who takes his film seriously. From scriptwriter to
editor, nearly everyone apparently admitted that they were
working on a dud, which work they continued only through
boredom or obligation. The film tries vaguely to be, at
different times, both an impassioned cry and a subtly tense
silence but it comes off rather as a dull extended mumble.
Fred Segal spared no pains, and even came up with a few
new ones, in imitating the candid leaden relevance of John
Knowles' novel. This 1 1 th-grade-classic tale of profoundly
nasty friendship between two New England preppies in the .
'40s rests in everyone's past like an outgrown pair of Weejunsv
fun to chuckle over ' affectionately but a point to try and fit-'
into now. The moods, sobs and shrieks of the film's tale are
much more immature than they are youthful, but the bitter
profundity excludes the possibility of being charming and thus
we are left with a film of shrill, proud puerility.
Finny (John Heyl), a straightforward Mother Nature's
Son sort of jock, and his roommate Gene (Parker Stevenson),
high-strung valedictorian Pretty Boy, have a strangely-marred
but beautiful friendship in the splendid atmosphere of Devon
Academy for boys (somewhere in New England), WW II is
distant but mystically ponderous to the irresponsible teenagers
(and, as a nifty symbol, quite ponderous to the audience).
The relationship between the two pals is well-handled in the
film aside from splotches of florid meaning, though due more
to the two fine actors and their supporters than to the blunt
direction by Larry Peerce or asinine script.
The script was the most consistent offender in the
overly-important assumptiveness. Segal dialogue strained
toward the solemn silliness of Salinger while hanging fervently
to the silly solemnity of Knowles. Finny and Gene thrust and
parry with Franny and Zooey inanity, but without ever being
released from the schema of tragedy that makes their very
quippishness hollow and foolish.
The direction was primarily at fault in the construction of
the film. The whole thing seems a jerky series of unmotivated
events that are always filmed either a bit too long or not quite
long enough.
It was fortunately difficult to miss the excellence of the
cinematography. The constructions and angles were
beautifully, imagined and realized, sand the lighting, was an
extraordinary factor of ihelmages quality .'The simple beauty
of the shots was refreshing and respectable in this time when
so many good directors like Roman Polanski are gripped by
the David Leanism complex of vista-is-beautiful photography.
Rather than thus just showing us how big and luscious the
earth is, the cinematographer was inventive and simple enough
to show us some ingenuity of technique. Some well-conceived
scenes of Finny and Gene at the beach were quite fine, and a
painful sequence of a pseudo-trial in which Gene is 'convicted'
of having viciously caused the accident that eventually claims
Finny's life was much better-photographed than written or
directed.
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