Jacksonville State University - Mimosa Yearbook (Jacksonville, AL)

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Jesse Jackson stumps for Ford he Rev. Jesse Jackson visited T the ISU campus tor the second time in 14 months when he spoke in Montgomery Auditorium in March. Ideson previously had been here Jan. 13, 1988, during his campaign for the presidency. The more recent visit saw him on the campaign trail again, this time stumping for 3rd Congressional Distrtct candidate Iohnny Ford. Local Southern Christian Leader ship Conference president Rev. John Nettles introduced Jackson to the crowd Of about 300 people by Gatling him a livtng legend. While Jackson was crisscrOSSinq the 3rd District campaigning for Ford, he x .1! also was monitoring the strike 0! East- ern airline machinists and pilots. Jackson took the opportunity to condemn the Bush administration for attempting to bust the mdchinists' union just as Reagan busted PATCO, the dir trattic controllers' union. He also repeated his familiar theme of getting out and voting. i'I want to Challenge you, young Americans. to come alive in this con- gressional election. iackson said. When young Americans come alive, America is always made better. Iackson told the crowd Ford's 16 years as mayor of Tuskegee had quali- fied him for the congressmnal seat. Johnny Ford represents a genera- tion that sought to make a new Amer- ica, a new South, Jackson said. He's patd his dues. He's earned our re- spect. Vote for someone who's back ground is full 0t joy and dignity. Jackson also called on the audience to help light the drug problem. In your heart say, 'Down with dope, up with hope' . . He ended his formal address by adding one more plug for Ford. Don't march on Washington. Take a Ford to Washington I ackson them made hIS characteris- tic appeal for students to register to vote. We call this the Rainbow Reg- istration Crusade.' -Cynd1 Owens In your heart SEW. up with hope' Jame lacksan was in Alabama campaigning for Johnny Ford. CRONAUERIJACKSON 2 9 'Down with dope.

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Cronouer created role for Williams ell, it's probably routine by now. So let's get it over with in the very beginning, shall we? Gooooood eveeeeeening, Iacksonville! With this, Adrian Crenauer began an appealing, humorous, informative speech. He spoke on a range of topics such as motion pictures. movie scripts, reaiity versus creative license in titmingr radio and radio formats and h0w aII ot these were related to his experiences in Vietnam. The speech, sponsored by the Stu- dent Government Association, was at- tended by an attentive, near-capacity crowd. Many had come to find out how much of the movie actually hap- pened. Cronauer said the movie was not meant to be a biography but rath- er a drama based loosely on actual events. Yes, there was somebody named Adrian Cronauer, and he was a disc jockey in Vietnam, he said. Other tacts included were: He did go to Vietnam trom an assignment in Greece. he did teach English in his ott-duty time, he did make it sound like a state-side radio station, he did have trouble with news censorship, and he had been in a restaurant just before the Vietcong blew it up, Not mentioned in the film was that Crounauer had volunteered for Viet- nam. He said just before he left tor Saie gon he heard the radio station had been bombed. Although I did teach English in my otf-duty time at the Vietnamese- American Association. I did not teach my students to swear and use New York City street slang. I didn't take a - Vietnamese tamily to see Beach Blan- ket Bingo,' I didn't teach them how to play sottball with melons and I did not teach English because I was trying to meet some particular Vietnamese girl. Cronauer continued, I did not have some sergeant-major trying to 28 CAMPUSLD'E get me killed, I was not in a jeep that was exploded by a land mine, and I did not get lost in the jungle trying to avoid the Viet Cong. Unlike the movie, Cronauer was not run out of Vietnam. He com- pleted his oneeyear tour there and was honorably discharged. He added one more item. To the best of my knowledge, I don't think I had any friends who were Viet Cong In 1979, Cronauer worked as an announcer in New York City, and a friend trom the service worked as an associate producer with Family Feud. Over dinner one day they reminisced about the old days and talked about some of the toperated shows such as M.A.S.H.l' and WKRP. They realized it you put the two together, you have Armed Forces Radio. The idea was to situate a sitcom in a Vietnam radio station. Cronauer said, In 1979, it you put comedy and Viet- nam in the same sentence, television producers recoiled in terrorir Several years tater they decided to rework the idea tor a movie of the week. Rights to the movie were tater bought, but as a movie movie. It was not until November 1985 that the rough script was submitted. Robin Williams' comedic airbreaks in Good Mominq Vietnam were mostly ad-libs. Clips were played from the movie, and actual air-breaks from Air Force Radio, Saigon, None of the characters in the movie was based totally on a real person, but were stereotypes. Closing his speech. he turned to a more serious aspect of the Vietnam contlict. Cronauer said he exper- ienced the problems ot readjusting after serving in Vietnam. Every person who served in Viet- nam, every single one came back ' with scars. It's just that some of them were visible, some 0t them invisible, ADRIAN CRONAUER he said. IIIn my case it was several years before I could deal with it. For many years afterwards, he would be awakened, screaming, by nightmares 0! being back in Vietnam. What had triggered Cronauer to tace the terrors of his past was a scene on I the evening news where a man was. shot While cameras recorded it. All the violence that he had seen and had pushed into the dark corners of his mind had to be dragged up and contronted in order to live a normal lite again. Cronauer says Vietnam veterans wilt not tell you about their past in the conflict, but they have gone through that same sort of thing. Most of them have learned to cope, Cronauer said, Today when Viet- nam veterans get together, something happens that never happened among veterans of World War I, II or Korea, but when Vietnam veterans meet each other. they greet with, 'Wel- come home.' The reason they teet compelled to say this is nobody else has said that to them. $2.4. Abernathy

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The hours 01 hard work and de- lerminalion do pay off after a piece Di artwork is completed. Someiimes art. as viewed hum someone who is not a member 01 the oognoaoente, can appear to be very strange. but it tepresants a labor of love ior the artist. Art aliens leerent emotions in The pride of prime-winninq dd dlEamni mdividuals.sh1denls shines in their laces. 3 0 CAMPUS LIFE