Festival has
something
for everyone
The University is not having
a Woodstock this year, but for
the first time there will be a
Spring Festival with something
for everybody.
A wide variety of events and
art displays will begin Sunday,
April 26 and continue through
Saturday, May 2.
The high point of the festival
is on Spring Day, May 1, with
the traditional spring games at
noon followed by a free rock
concert in the Pinewood Bowl
at Pioneers Park. In the
evening there will be a dance in
the Nebraska Union featuring
the Persuaders, a soul group.
Prior to Friday's events,
there will be concerts, poetry
readings, rap-ins and "Films
on the Absurd," taking place
daily. ,
Most of the events will be
free and all students are en
couraged to attend whatever
.turns them on. Most of the
events were set up by in
dividual members of living
unitw.
Events will be in the
Nebraska Union and the
dormitories.
Pollution
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the state can make long range
development plans, he added.
The Governor favors more
state and federal aid to
municipalities for water pollu
tion control and says lan
downers should be taxed ac
cording to the use of their land,
not the productivity of the land.
Schwartzkopf admitted that
Lincoln sewage plants are
overloaded and the city needs a
new one. But an indication of
progress he said is that Lincoln
has stopped burning its refuse,
thus lowering air pollution. The
city's 500 acre dump is a "fine"
project and "eventually we'll
have a park there," the mayor
predicted.
Omaha has special pollution
problems with the meat pack
ng Industry, Buglewlcz said.
Because of Omaha's recent air
pollution ordinance he says air
pollution should decline within
a few months.
Hastings, Crete and UNO
students participated in the
question-and-answer period via
a long distance telephone hook
up. The panel discussion was
televised by NETV.
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review by Kelly Baker
MASH is a funny-sad war
film which flows from a rich
dark jugular vein of humor.
The action, quick and well
paced, is held together with the
coagulated blood of the
wounded and with excellent
performances by Donald
Sutherland and Elliot Gould.
The film concerns a mobile
Mid-east experts
An authority on the Middle
East will be speaking on the
possibilities for peace in that
area Thursday at 3:30 p.m. in
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army surgical headquarters
and doctors who find sanity
through insanity.
A bastard son of Catch 22,
MASH is an anachronistic pot
pourri of the Korean War and
Vietnam. The use of modern
helicopters and marijuana is
out of place in the Korean War
(incidentally, there are more
trees in the film than there are
in all of Korea). But the
speak Thursday
Abdul A. Said, a professor at
American University in Wash
ington, D.C., is one of the out
standing authorities on the Mid
dle East, according to Ivan
Volgyes, assistant professor of
political science.
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anachronisms are acceptable
modern commentary. If MASH
were Vietnam its value as an
art form would be lost in a
cloud of controversy.
While they stay in camp the
humor is blackest and best. But
MASH loses force and
degenerates to farce when
Gould and Sutherland travel to
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Japan to operate on a con
gressman's son.
The scenes in Japan and the
f otball game are funny as
slrpstick but they lose the
underlying sense of tragedy
that is so important that
d'ffarentiates MASH from Mad
Mad . . . World.
Perhaps it was a good movie
and a bad audience, but many
of those who watched came
away with the impression that
MASH wis just a funny movie.
The absurdity of war the
heart of the film lies exposed
and bleeding but passes above
the consciousness of most
viewers.
But taking everything into
consideration, any movie that
gets banned from the army and
air force movie circuits can't
be all bad.
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THURSDAY, APRIL 23, 1970
THE DAILY NEBRASKAN
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