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fnday pn 1 25 east campus mall 1 1 "fc.' 5 ! teurin6-flipper5flstiva, sr Straidntr-tinnberline. Steele ' Buy any Pizza Hut pizza, then present this coupon to get a second pizza (of equal value) FREE. Good only at participating Pizza Hut restaurants. P i GOOD FOR 1 FREE PIZZA (when you buy one of equal value. Good only at participating Pizza Hut restaurants listed below. Offer expires May 14, '75. i I I I I I I I ! I I I I v. ; y j 2 -fill Our people make it better 2435 South 48th 4S01 '0' St. 239 North 14th 1 If Ik 3tt flXt I jrrr ''.0 it J t " d- ,V - .: s t W I. -r fj' fjy- fjj- ?'M , The great new Hewlett-Packard HP-21 Scientific Pocket Calculator. Uncompromising quality at only $125. More power than the popular llP-35. 32 functions and operations, including rectangularpolar conversions, register arithmetic, two trig operating modes. Full display formatting. Select fixed- zgj display rounded to desired number or v decimal places. HP's error-saving RPN lofic system with 4 -memory stack. Traditional HP quality craftsmanship. New, smaller size. DAn unbeatable priceperformance ratio. Test the new HP-21 today right in our store. See for yourself how much per formance you can take home for only $125. Open 8-5, Monday -Saturday v 1135 R 432-0111 DAVE Mhm, A HEWLETT-PACKARD REPRESENTATIVE WILL BE l!l THE STORE, THURSDAY, APRIL 24th, FEOI! Bam to 4pm. ABC creates heroes out of storm troopers Tliev spend an hour each week running, sweating and shooting to save us from some really dangerous meanies. Generauy, m t..e American tradition of saving first property, then people, they have . to eo up against some of the heaviest dudes in villainy. One week they'll be slugging it out with a hardened force of armed gunmen intent upon robbing, apartment by apartment, a whole highclass highrise. Another time they II be pitted against some psychopaths who want to blow up all of Southern California. So why is it that many of us each week are waiting for, rooting for, praying for some mob of heavies to literally obliterate the men from S. W. A.T.I ' . Americans have always appreciated competence and team coordination in their society. And we sometimes save our highest praise and rewards for the well-put-together operation, be it a management group such as the "Whiz Kids" or an athletic juggernaut such as the New York Yankees of a generation ago. This appreciation has surfaced in our fictionalized entertainment in the form of'77ie Magnificent Seven or in televisions Mission: Impossible crew. t But Americans have been less receptive to the idea ot a uniformed group of superheros. During World War II, when the German Army pulverized and effectively destroyed the newly-formed, elite "Rangers," Americans may have mourned the deaths of the men, but not too many were sorry to see the unit get smashed. And more recently, no one shed many tears when those funny pajama-clad little Asians kicked the crap out of the fast-rising myth of the Green Berets. In law enforcement, fact or fiction, the American tradition has favored the lone, silent man; Matt Dillon in the street outside the ron wylie eye of the beholder Long Branch or Eddie Egan coming down hard on those who have been picking their feet in Poughkeepsie. So what exactly does ABC think it's doing by presenting us with this team of blackshirts? The mentality represented by the men from S.W.A.T. seems to indicate that American society is under siege; that life, limb and property are threatened by increasingly sophisticated forms of organized violence; and that life in middle America holds all the dangers currently to be found in the defense of Saigon. Maybe they have something there. There are segments of our society that have developed this siege mentality. Scottsdale, Ariz., specializes in building enclave-housing projects with protective walls, guard posts, electronic scanners and $180,000-a-unit wombs. The SWAT team would feel right at home in Scottsdale. The program's commando cops are the antithesis of good law enforcement officers. They are self-righteous, contemptuous of mere mortal efforts to solve problems and, worst of all, they "just follow orders." ABC is trying to make heroes out of people who plan to be violent, and who, through means of that planning, leave themselves no other options. Of course the script always provides them with such depraved adversaries that they really have no choice, but sometimes our heroes don't always know that at the offset. Still, they generally have but one solution to any problem: "Waste 'em!" The world's a terrible and fearsome place, the ABC series tells us, and we need these strong uniformed protectors to be safe. Yeah. The SS by any other name still smells as rank. Spring Arts Festival stresses spontaneity A fire dancer, weaving, concerts and art exhibits are just a few of the collage of activities expected at the Spring Arts Festival today through Friday. Individuals are encouraged to bring art work, guitars, poetry or any project they want to share with others to the quadrangle between Sheldon, Westbrook, Architectural Hall and the Woods Art Building, according to Nick Harm, one of inc festival's organizers. The effort to bring classrooms outside and to encourage spontaneous happenings, Harm said, is in the tradition of Spring Arts Festivals held at UNL 20-25 years ago. Displays and performances probably will begin Wednesday noon, he said, and last until Friday nieht. A frej concert will be held Thursday night." Students in art, music, drama, dance and architecture have coordinated their ideas and efforts, Harm said. Artists may bring their own blankets, easels or tables on which to display and sell their works, he said, Individuals interested may contact Harm, 432-0935, or Ann Florsek, 423-5357. "It's just for fun," Harm said. "Whatever goes, goes." Inside Sheldon until April 24, in conjunction with "Venezuela Ahora!", is a display of textiles, prints, sculpture and paintings by award winning Venezuelan artists. There is also a Mirror Box by Domingo Aivarez. One experiences the box-an "environmental corridor made out of glass, mirrors and neon lights"-in stocking feet. "The idea," according to Alvarez, "is to make obvious the existence of a subjective space of psychic dimensions. . . Space does not exist, il is only an idea." Wednesday, april 23, 1975 page 12 daily nebraskan