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4 The Rambler February 21, 2002
Campus Life
'Net deals can help you keep more in your wallet
bill
barnes
I like the current commercial for Capital
One, the one that asks you, "What's in your
wallet?" What I don't like is my standard
answer—nothing bigger than a 5, and usually
only one bill with that elevated numerical
value.
I'm poised to break
the record for the Texas
cash drought. It hasn't
rained anywhere close
to my wallet since
Moses left for higher
ground. So I've been
spending my spare time
trying to stretch the few
dollars I have, to pro-
vide what I just can't
get along without.
I shop for deals;
yeah, I know that's a lot of work, but I don't
actually get out of my chair, so that's cool. I
tried kicking back on the couch a couple of
times, too, but the monitor falls on the floor
every time I doze off. There's just no such
thing as a perfect world.
Anyway, between the infrequent naps
and the frequent seizure from pizza with-
drawal, I check out prices on the Internet for
high dollar necessities (over 5 bucks)—espe-
cially for books, software, printer ink and the
ever elusive free pizza coupon.
1 have found a few good sites and a few
bargains you might like to check out, but I
haven't tracked down the coupons for free
pizza—yet.
As you know, printers are getting cheap-
er, but operation costs are still painful.
Printer cartridges can run up to $25 to $30
each, so be sure to research the cost of car-
tridges before you jump at that "great deal"
on a new printer.
As for the cartridges, I've located them
at close to half price on the web. Two sites—
www.allyoucanink.com and
www.123inks.com sell ink at a discount.
Black cartridges for my Cannon BJC 4400
are $10 to $12 retail, but they are $4.45 on
line with no sales tax, and you can get free
shipping with certain dollar minimums per
order.
Great deals on software are as rare as
free pizza, but when you need a little more
graphic power than you can squeeze from
MS Paint, you can try a free Pain Shop Pro
30-day demo. It will easily handle anything
you need to do with pictures, unless you just
feel the need to throw down $609 for Adope
PhotoShop Pro.
For the aspiring successors to
Beethoven or the novice musician, try
www.sonicfoundry.com. Hit the free link and
try out the ACID XPress software. I haven't
tried it, but it's free, and it even has a web-
site to share your latest masterpiece after an
inspire compositional frenzy.
By far the best all-round resource I've
found for locating software is still
www.zdnet.com. Click the download link
and you can search for anything from games
to word processors. The site will present a
selection you can scroll through until you
find a workable solution to your current cri-
You'll get a mixed list of freebies,
demos and shareware: make sure the soft-
ware description doesn't say the save func-
tion is disabled. Then just download 'til you
drop.
Demos software is a great way to try out
a program you think you want to buy. Test
drive it before you toss next week's grocery
money down on something that doesn't do
what you thought it absolutely promised it
was great for. Remember, a written guaran-
tee is only the next best thing to not getting
screwed in the first place.
After you've perfected all those scholas-
tic endeavors and want to take a break, try
Urban Legends at www.snopes2.com. There
are lots of laughs—debunked rumors, origins
of folktales and other non-facts with some
frame-by-frame pictures of movies that have
"hidden scenes."
This site breaks everthing into multiple
categories and also has a "rumor" search
engine that makes it quick and easy to locate
the tales you've heard recently or years ago.
Source references lor the debunking infor-
mation are listed after each individual urban
legend. You'll be surprised by what you
don't know about what you think you know.
Meanwhile, I'll keep looking for those
free pizza coupons.
Bill Barnes is a junior majoring in mass
communication and is a contributing writer
for The Rambler.
Art vs. pornography: the debate rages on!
Nika Maples
STAFF WRITER
When Attorney General John Ashcroft
ordered a $7,900 curtain to cover a question-
able statue in the U.S. Justice Department, he
incited a bit of a buzz about censorship con-
cerns.
The Spirit of Justice,
or Minnie Lou, as the stat-
ue often is called, stands
12-and-a-half feet high.
with arms raised majesti-
cally, and with cast alu-
minum toga falling strate-
gically below her right
breast.
The U.S. Attorney
General conducts press
conferences from a podi-
um positioned just in front
of The Spirit of Justice,
which has not escaped the
satire of the press.
Some years ago, then
attorney general Edwin
Meese presented his com-
mission on pornography
with bare-breasted Minnie
Lou looming behind his
head. There are all kinds
of "boobs" in Washington,
one might say.
So in the name of discretion, the govern-
ment has "closed the curtain" on a work of art
that has stood in the Great Hall of the Justice
Department since 1936.
Last fall, a senior art major at Texas
Wesleyan positioned an oversized phallus on
campus as a part of his final project. Urged
by university administration. Kit Hall, art
chair, removed the
project from the
lawn. Parents of
local elementary
students had been
calling to complain
that they did not
wish their children
to be subjected to
objectionable
material on the
way to school.
Hall agreed with
the decision that
the sculpture be
removed.
On another occa-
sion, a Wesleyan
senior's project
included nude
drawings, dis-
played in the East
Room gallery of
the library. Shortly
after the artwork
was hung, one
objector draped trash bags to cover the nudes.
Attorney General John Ashcroft
speaks in front of "The Spirit of
Justice," which now sports a pair
of $7900 blue drapes.
That time. Hall was irate.
"The figure is sacred," she said, "but
Americans are not very enlightened. We mis-
takenly equate pornography with the nude. It
is a giant leap from a nude figure to pornog-
raphy."
From contemporary artists like Robert
Mapplethorpe to classic artists such as
Michelangelo, visual forerunners have
always felt societal pressure when con-
fronting the nude in their work.
Hall experienced a form of censorship
when asked not to display a collection of her
art due to some nude content. She continues
to produce similar work.
"The reason why I am attracted to the
form is that every nude, male or female, 1
view as a self-portrait," Hall says. "What
makes [the nude figure) so volatile is that we
think, 'It looks like me." That is disturbing to
us, so we repress it. hide it, and turn our soci-
ety far too inward."
A repressive attitude may have its nega-
tive impact on a culture, but university cam-
puses may be small laboratories in which to
engage in a form of expressive combat.
"If someone from the university tried to
enforce a conservative opinion on an art stu-
dent. I would dig my heels in," Hall says. "A
university is where experimentation should
occur and where failure can occur. It is a pro-
tected environment."
The
Week
Ahead
21
On Campus:
*x2 Exhibition:
Juergen Strunck, East
Room Gallery, EJW
Library
*She Sloops to Conquer, Firestation
Theatre, 7:30 p.m.
Off Campus:
♦Goya's Mastery in Prints, SMU
Meadows Museum. 10 a.m. - 8 p.m.
On Campus:
*x2 Exhibition:
Juergen Strunck. East
Room Gallery, EJW
Library
*She Sloops to Conquer, Firestation
Theatre, 7:30 p.m.
Off Campus:
•Goya's Mastery in Prints, SMU
Meadows Museum, 10 a.m. - 5 p.m.
*Bob Dylan, Reunion Arena, 8 p.m.
23
On Campus:
*x2 Exhibition:
Juergen Strunck, East
Room Gallery. EJW
Library
"She Stoops to Conquer, Firestation
Theatre, 7:30 p.m.
Off Campus:
* Men Cry in the Dark, Bruton
Theatre. 3 p.m. & 8 p.m.
On Campus:
*x2 Exhibition:
Juergen Strunck, East
Room Gallery. EJW
Library
*Slie Stoops to Conquer. Firestation
Theatre, 2 p in.
Off Campus:
*Men Cry in the Dark, Bruton
Theatre, 3 p.m. & 7:30 p.m.
On Campus:
*x2 Exhibition:
Juergen Strunck, East
Room Gallery, EJW
Library
25
Off Campus:
♦Goya's Mastery in Prints, SMU
Meadows Museum, 10 a.m. - 5 p.m.
On Campus:
*x2 Exhibition:
Juergen Strunck. East
Room Gallery. EJW
Library
Off Campus:
•Goya's Mastery in Prints, SMU
Meadows Museum, 10 a.m. • 5 p.m.
On Campus:
*x2 Exhibition:
Juergen Strunck, East
Room Gallery, EJW
Library
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Manning, Melanie. The Rambler (Fort Worth, Tex.), Vol. 87, No. 4, Ed. 1 Thursday, February 21, 2002, newspaper, February 21, 2002; (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth253269/m1/4/: accessed April 19, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting Texas Wesleyan University.