0 9 Keefer Continued from Page 9 Keefer has been a consultant since last March. She has also served as a residence hall consultant, trainer, and monitor. In addition to helping desperate students, consulting has other bene- fits. "I enjoy being in an atmosphere where you can learn so much." Keefer also has instant access to the consulting computers, which can be a real asset when the waiting list for Mac's gets into triple digits. Not all the problems Keefer solves are complicated. As we were speaking, a beleaguered student en- tered the consulting station. "I'm trying to print on the laser writer and I keep getting 'printer won't open' on my screen every time I try to print," he said. Without a pause, Keefer informed the student that he couldn't print from his ter- minal because it wasn't a print sta- tion. An easy one. Keefer does have all the solu- tions. "If I don't know the answer, I've got to be able to find it." "No one ever leaves without some kind of help." - Alex Gordon Milo Continued from Page 8 Milo came to work at the cafete- ria through the Older Workers Listing (OWL), an organization that places older workers with jobs. Those who work with Milo re- spect his job and position. His name is greeted with a smile, and a couple of years ago he was named 'employee of the month' by the cafe- teria. Milo works an eight-hour day, filling the gap between meal times by putting up the menu signs and performing other tasks in the cafete- ria. The most popular meals served at West Quad are pizza, steak and ta- cos, he said. And Milo should know - he deals with student reaction to the food everyday. -Alyssa Lustigman GRAND PRIZE! Featured Cover Model on the Nationally Circulated Magazine . ...win All First Place Prizes listed below: Bollar Continued from Page 9 Bollar said that he has witnessed the growth of the University first- hand, ashe estimates University req- uisitions have tripled since he began working in the early 70's. Although Bollar said he some- times gets tired of the roughly five hours a day he spends on the phone, he thinks it's worth it. Bollar esti- mates that the University purchasing process knocks 25 to 35 percent off the ordinary price. Bollar said he is most pleased when he can make a good deal for his customer. "The reward is seeing a dollar saved," said Bollar. And, as a veteran shopper, Bollar has found that some of his work helps his personal life. "I find that I do a lot more comparative shop- ping." -Ed Krachmer 5 FIRST PLACE FINALISTS WILL RECEIVE: m An A Expense Paid Trip to the National Contest Finals including Hotel Accommodation A Fashion Clothing Allowance $2,000.00 Worth of Photography for Your Personal Model Portfolio A Contest Photo Feature in the special Annual MOD'L Photography Edition of MOD'L PORTFOLIO Professional Instruction on Makeup, Department and Fashion -One Grand Prize Winner will be selected from among five first place finalists. 10 RUNNERS UP WILL RECEIVE: $1,500.00 Worth of Photography for Your Personal Model Portfolio A Contest Feature in the special Annual MOD'LPhotography Edition of MOO'L PORTFOLIO ALL ENTRIES WILL RECEIVE A ONE-YEAR SUBSCRIPTION TO MOD'L PORTFOLIO AND MOD'L JOURNAL! -: Call for Complete Details By Andrea Gacki Vincent Ward's The Navigator could be called a paradoxically more realistic version of Bergman's The Seventh Seal. But the comparison is inevitable - there just aren't that many medieval epics in which someone schemes to escape the Black Death. In this version, nine-year-old Griffin (Hamish McFarlane) must save his entire village from the plague. His beloved brother Connor (Bruce Lyons) has just returned from the outside world and predicts death for their isolated community. Griffin's haunting, visionary dreams will provide the panacea. Griffin sees a cross to be mounted atop a church tower, a per- son scaling the tower to aide the en- deavor, and the person falling to his death. These trances startlingly in- terupt Geoffrey Simpson's other- worldly cinematography. Simpson provides a beautifully snow-covered Cumbria, England, in which little action takes place, save Griffin's vi- olent images. Facial shots in high Klum Continued from Page 8 claims that "they've never had any- thing highly questionable." After 20 years, Klum thinks it may soon be time to hand over the clock, and take a seat in the stadium with the rest of the fans. "Right now it's a year-by-year thing." "It's fun to be around the people and close to the game," Klum said. "It's an enjoyable experience, other- wise I wouldn't do it." - Alex Gordon Early. Continued from Page 9 a student finds the original ID card within five days, some of the re- placement cost can be refunded. The Office of the Registrar also offers additional services for disabled students, processing their initial reg- istration and drop/adds and eliminat- ing a trip to Angell Hall. Helping students is Early's fa- vorite part of her job. "I do enjoy students," said Early, "I like the con- tact, being able to help them. It's nice to have someone say, 'Thank you, I appreciate it."' - Ed Krachmer a cross on top of a church tower re- quires an expedition to the future by his brother and four medieval min- ers, with himself as navigator. And where will be this fantasy land des- tined to provide dangers for the ex- plorers? Well, it's in some major city of 20th century New Zealand, and you can't help but think me- dieval man a little slow if he finds a four-lane highway to be the major obstacle to salvation from the plague. But it is kind of funny to make the promised land into the same old thing - the ubiquitous sea monster is cleverly a nuclear submarine. It also becomes kind of silly, espe- cially in the scene where Connor is somehow pinned to the front of a speeding train. This scene at most provides a "humorous" diversion that only seems to strike one more blow at an already dying joke. Paul Livingston, Hamish McFarlane and Bruce Lyons (from le. save their Medieval village from the Plague in The Navigator. Yet this futuristic experience re- ally grows tedious when it becomes heavy-handed. Griffin enters a televi- sion store, for example. He sees, in rapid succession, images of nuclear holocaust and AIDS - today's "plagues." Gosh. And the truism of the day is... obvious allegories can only bore an audience. Redemption is found at the end of The Navigator - both for the vil- lage and the film. You forgive filmmaker Ward for the foray into modern times because he provides a fine ending. While not entirely unan- ticipated, the end nevertheless escapes moralistic fuddle. Or, then again, maybe it doesn't. Maybe the fantasy genre can't shed cheap jokes and the calculated monumental fin- ish. was or s stur triv Cin thi at John Houze Detroit (313) 965-3366 Denny O'Connor Ann Arbor (313) 973.2303 RULES AND REGULATIONS Contact your MOD1TPhotographer for rules and regulations. Film festival showcases Japanese dire Unfold Your Full Potential TRA NSCENDENTA L MEDITA TION Learn more at our free introductory lectures Sun. Tues. Wed. Sept.24 300 p . Sept. 24 Sept. 26 Sept. 27 3:00 pm 7:30 pm 7:30 pm TM Center Michigan Union Anderson Room TM Center * Increase intelligence " Reduce stress & anxiety " Improve academic & athletic performance " Decrease drug, alcohol, & cigarette use " Increase energy " Increase happiness TM Center: 205 N. First St. For More Information Call: A996-8686 !,: 4 i Spring Continued from Page 4 are. In a devastating indictment of U.S. double-speak, Simon offers a long and relentless counterposition of State Department and Amnesty International statements on human rights in Guatemala. Again and again, we see the State Department acknowledge - years after the fact - Amnesty statements they had originally labeled as lies. Paradoxically, conservative Guatemalans are more honest than the United States about what, to- gether, they do to the Guatemalan people: Simon interviews torturers and generals, detectives and politi- cians - all of whom, under cover of anonymity, admit a systematic and ongoing government-sponsored genocide, as well as the often covert U.S. support for it. Given that genocide, Simon's ac- count is not for softies; Guatemala's history offers little room for hope and little place for optimists. Nonetheless, in portraits of union leaders and school teachers, guerrillas and mothers, students and peasants, Simon gives testimony to Guatemalans' indomitable spirit - their stubborn refusal to accept the logic of the art of the possible. Such spirit provides hope that Guatemala's future, despite the odds, could be different - and better. If there is one deficiency in Simon's book, it would be that her otherwise admirable attention to de- tail frequently replaces, rather than just complementing, the often 'iry analysis for which her text offers such a wonderful antidote. Frequently the reader is left at a loss to explain how the hell which is modern-day Guatemala reached its current impasse; confronted with her myriad of pictures and stories, it is hard to get past the blinding rage that consumes Simon herself. But then that is how one might imagine hell to be: its consuming fires leave little room for clear thought and dispassionate inquiry. Simon means to enrage, targetting a U.S. audience that has remained largely complacent in the face of its government's horrible crimes in Guatemala. But her book is more than a call to action, just as it is more than a photo album. Primarily it is a loving commemoration to a people that the world has chosen to forget, in the hope that we might remember them before it is to late. -Mike Fischer By Brent Edwards Every Friday night from now un- til the end of term, Ann Arborites will be treated to free films ranging from adventure to the supernatural to sweeping epics. All of them are vi- sually beautiful, all deal with simple universal problems and all are the creation of one director: Kenji Mizoguchi. Next to Akira Kurosawa, Mizoguchi is Japan's most interna- 4ionally famous director, having. made over 80 films before his death in 1956. Called "Japanese film's truest creator" by Kurosawa, Mizoguchi stayed truer to Japanese culture and ideas than the interna- tionally-minded Kurosawa,even oc- casionally using traditional Japanese theatrical forms such as No and Kabuki. It was his artistic technique, however, that brought his films in- ternational attention. Mizoguchi entranced the French New Wave cinematists with his po- etic style. Originally a painter before becoming a director, he used his artist's eye to become a master of the mis-en-scene. Using painstaking detail, he created beautiful composi- tions which he presented with lyri- cally choreographed lengthy takes. This style of directing helped him win three major awards at the Venice Film Festival and brought him in- termftinnaI fame The themes which Mizoguchi handled were another reason critics hailed him as a great artist. Most of his films depict the repression of the working class, particularly the re- pressed role of women in Japan. Many feminist critics point to the ti- tle character in The Life of Oharu as epitomizing the victimization of women throughout history. In this film, Oharu falls from the role of an aristocrat to a beggar/prostitute through ill-treatment by men and the constricting values of her society. The treatment of all the women heroes in his films is compassionate and respectful - a major theme throughout his career was that a man's soul is incomplete without a woman's love - and his powerful film Street of Shame was thought to be a major force in the decision to ban prostitution in Japan. Other films included inthe retro- spective are the samurai adventure The Loyal 47 Aonin, the brutal yet sensitive Sansho, tehBailiff, and his classic, Ugetsu. The latter, another prize winner at the Venice Film Festival, combines the real with the supernatural to create a beautifully filmed legend that deglorifies the samurai and once again depicts the unjust suffering of women. With 16 films remaining to be shown, including five Ann Arbor S 22 29 04 6 13 20 27 N4 3 10 17 DM 1 s pre Mi, for bul tial cia ele Ce. the Fri Au To La Maharishi Mahesh Yogi Founder of the Transcental Meditation and TM Sidhiprogram Mitsuko Mito, right, stars in My Love Has Been Burning, one of the 19 films featured in the Kenji Mizoguchi film festival. I Witttltti/1lA Atttl ,_ Page 12 Weekend/Septemter 22,1989 Weekend/September 2Z 1989