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Arts & Life
Shaina Zucker
Arts & Life Editor
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Students delight in bad films
By Kip Mooney
Senior Staff Writer
Late Friday nights, darkness
and laughter fill the Clark Hall
TV room, the only light coming
from the television screen.
But the residents are not
watching a comedy. Every
Friday, they watch some of
the worst films ever made.
"It's an idea that I came
up with at the beginning of
this academic year," said Joel
Morales, a radio, television
and film junior and Clark Flail
resident assistant. "It's just
something that I like to do and
put on in order to get residents
to hang out and relax."
Morales developed this
unofficial program to keep
students on campus over the
weekend.
"We are a big commuter
school, and one of the big
difficulties about that is a lot
of people leave on the week-
ends, and when you don't have
a lot of people on weekends,
it's hard to build up commu-
nity that way," he said.
The concept started when
Morales attended high school
in San Antonio.
"My friends and I were really
into video game movies,"
he said. "It started off with
'Mortal Kombat II,' and we
started watching it, and it was
hilarious."
Fittingly, Morales chose the
same film to inaugurate the
series at NT.
"There aren't any rules to
Bad Movie Friday," Morales
said, "but three general guide-
lines are: The movie can't have
received any sort of recogni-
tion — no Oscars or anything
like that. If it is a movie based
on a video game, it is guaran-
teed to be on the list for Bad
Movie Friday. And, the more
serious and awesome a film
strives to be, generally the
more hilarious it'll be."
Morales said 10 to 15 resi-
dents show up each night, and
the participation keeps them
coming back.
"It was really just an easy
idea to create community in
the dorm," he said. "It's an
interactive thing, too. People
like to participate and give me
ideas for what they think we
should watch."
The participation and
community keep photog-
raphy freshman Ashley Smith
coming back.
"I go because it's a good way
to socialize," Smith said. "You
get to discuss movies and see
old movies you haven't seen
before, like stuff from the '80s
and early '90s."
Morales said he does not
plan out the screenings more
than a week in advance, but
no week has stumped him
yet, and the list continually
grows.
Morales said that some-
times, the worst movies tend to
be ones cherished in younger
years.
"It's funny 'cause it's movies
that you watched when you're
little, and you were like, 'These
are really cool,"' he said. "And
they are absolutely abysmal.
It's so disgusting to watch, but
you can't take your eyes off it
because it's almost beautiful
in its own way."
While Morales admits that
"film geeks" would enjoy the
program, he said it remains
an event for all.
Bad Movie Fridays play at
10 p.m. Fridays in the Clark
TV Room.
Psychic phenomena, paranormal
activity spark interest in D enton
By Heather Jackson
Intern
Michael Weaver began
his venture into parapsy-
chology as a child, seeing and
hearing spirits in his child-
hood home.
Weaver describes parapsy-
chology as the experimental
study of any kind of unusual
experience that has no imme-
diate or obvious explanation.
The branch of study includes
investigation of psychic
phenomena, extrasensory
perception and telepathy.
lie brings his quest for
answers to Denton and
is inviting people with
similar experiences to the
second meeting of the Texas
Parapsychology Society at 2
p.m. Nov. 2 at the Emily Fowler
Library. The meeting will
feature a presentation about
the history of parapsychology
and highlight the experiments
Weaver plans to conduct with
the group.
"I started this group because
I was tired of just reading
about other people's experi-
ments. I wanted to conduct
some of my own and let other
people get hands-on partici-
pation with parapsychology,"
Weaver said.
Weaver, who received his
master's degree in psychology
from Our Lady of the Lake
University in San Antonio,
began looking for explana-
tions to his unusual experi-
ences in science and philos-
ophy classes. In philosophy, he
stumbled across the first para-
psychology experiment, which
was performed in 550 B.C.
One of the low-tech experi-
ments Weaver plans to perform
at the meeting is a drawing
experiment first conducted
in the 1930s that tests mind-
to-mind contact. For the
experiment, two people are
placed in separate rooms and
try to create the same line
drawing.
With his parapsychology
group in San Antonio, Weaver
conducted an experiment that
simulated near death experi-
ences and allowed people to
see people who have died. Out
of the five people who partic-
ipated, two of them reported
seeing their loved ones on the
first attempt. Weaver said even
though these participants were
initially skeptical, they were
convinced of what they saw.
S o ciety memb er Amy Pawley
said she has had the ability to
sense spirits since she was a
child and hopes people with
similar experiences will attend
the upcoming meeting.
"We want to help people
experiencing things that they
don't understand," Pawley
said. "At our meeting, they
will be able to discuss these
things in an open, accepting
environment."
Pawley said when a clair-
voyant told her there was
friendly female spirit in her
children's bedroom, a meeting
explained why she felt eyes
watching her from the room
and why she would hear the
wind-up mobile above her
son's crib playing music in
the middle of the night. The
person also told Pawley the
spirit liked light and suggested
Test Anxiety?
she open the blinds once in a
while, so she did.
While the Society is not solely
focused on ghost hunting,
Weaver said he would defi-
nitely like to investigate areas
in Denton where people have
reported ghost sightings.
"This particular field is full
of frauds and parlor tricks,"
Weaver said.
The field of parapsychology
and paranormal activity is full
of frauds and parlor tricks, but
Weaver said the group relies on
science and experimentation
to explain the unexplainable.
Jibber
By Khai Ha
Staff Photographer
Name: Matt Myers
Major: International
studies
Status: Sophomore
Q
, What do you want to do
• after college?
!
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• because they're the
epitome of awesome.
M
Myers
Q
. Why doyouwantto join
• the military?
A .A Seal is a normal man
• that shows abnormal
courage. I love that. Not to
mention, I'm also a patriot.
Q
# Do you have family in
• the military?
A.My dad is in Iraq right
• now. My uncle just
enlisted in the Army. I think
my great-great-grandpa
fought in World War I.
What makes you think
you're cut out to be a
A .Because if I don't make
• it, I'm going to die. The
only thing that could possibly
stop me is if I lose a leg in a
crash, and I mean that from
the bottom of my heart.
.What do you want to
• do after you finish
serving?
A. Law enforcement, I want
• to go in the FBI, and after
special agent, I want to try out
for hostage rescue team.
Q
Q
. Is there anything you're
• willing to die for?
A.Country, God, family
• ;
• and friends.
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