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Video Entertainment The more you play, the better you get, and soon the fun goes out of it for you. Now my favorite is Pac Man.” Some students refused to play video games because they thought they were a waste of money. “You can’t win with those games. said Jack Suenram, Pittsburg graduate student, “I never play any of those games. I stick with pinball.” Even students who were avid video games fans admitted that they were a waste of money. T know they’re a waste of money, but you have to spend your money some way ' said Dot Koehler, Pitt- sburg junior, “I’ve been playing these games for two years, ever since I came to college, and I average spending a dollar on them every time I go to Hollywood’s or the Student Union,” “Sure they’re a rip-off,” said Bart Smith, Overland Park freshman. They’re expensive to play, but I've got to do something to occupy my time sometimes. I spend at least $1.50 every other day playing Asteroids,” he said. “The only reason I don’t play more often is THE STUDENT UNION games room provides a popular place for students like Mark Krebs to spend some time and a few quarters on between-class breaks, —photo by Bill Holtom the cost ’ Most of the machines require a quarter for each play. The video explosion was definitely turning in profits for the establish- ments that offered these games. The Convenient Food Mart, 902 S. Joplin St,, paid off the bill for their Gorf machine in one week, and still had a Pepsi bottle full of quarters to prove it. Most of the area establishments with video games got theirs from a locat novelty company. They give half the proceeds from the machines to the novelty company and get free rent and maintenance in return. The other establishments buy the entire machine at once. “I have been leasing the machines, but I think I’m going to start buying them now,” said Sittner. ‘There is more money that has been put into video games than there was in building the Space Shuttle, so you know that they’ve got to be a big attraction. “Video games will never die,” said Sittner. “There is an endless world of them waiting to be invented. But I don't think they will ever take the place of pinball machines, because they have always been popular.” PEOPLE GO TO HOLLYWOOD’S for more reasons than one. Between beers, Greg Hough pits his skills against 'Missile Command . —photo by Gareth Waitrip Actually, there were benefits to playing video games, especially on a regular basis, “It definitely develops hand-eye coordination,” said Scott Karr, Paola sophomore. “And it gives you more dexterity in your fingers.” And there were special uses being developed for the machines, also. “Atari is building a special video machine for the Army,” said Tim Pistole, Pittsburg junior. “It's sup- posed to help them in battle situations.” However, the machines also had their drawbacks, besides the money they cost to play. “The screen bothers my eyes after I have been playing a while,” saic Matthews. T think it’s because I’m concentrating so hard on the moving objects on the screen. When I'm finished playing, sometimes I see dots for a while until my eyes gel back to normal.” “Sometimes I get a headache from playing too long,” said Leuteritz. “1 think it’s from looking at one thing too long. But it’s all part of the game.” But even though the machines were hard on the eyes and the wallet, it seemed that video games were here to stay, —by Sheri Johnson 19 Video Games
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Entertainment A concentration in courageousness Facing the lights Most people are aware that plays involve a lot of sweat. There are months of rehearsal, work to be done on the set and costumes and the heat of the lights on top of that. Most people probably are not aware however, that some plays require a sweat of a different kind: research. The speech and theater depart- ment’s fall production of The Cherry Orchard ’ written before 1905 by Anton Chekhov, required just that kind of sweat. Dr. Cary Clasz, professor of theater, directed the play and initiated the research efforts. 'It’s the kind of thing we do every once in a while as a part of our educational services when there are classes in theater that can use them as a project, she said. She began researching at the beginning of the summer of 1981 and had her advanced directing class help her in the fall. “This is suitable for upper division classes when you are trying to work on the research problems in the particular disciplines. We try to do it every second or third year if we can. If we do it in the spring it is related to the acting classes ’ Dr. Clasz said. We put in a lot of work on The Cherry Orchard said Frank Kuhel, Heppler senior and theater and ad- vanced directing student. Dr. Clasz put in a tremendous amount of work, and even rewrote some of the dialogue for which we could not find a translation that would mean anything to an American audience. Dr. Clasz said that there were three areas of research related to the production of a play. First, you research the playwright, THE BURGER PALACE boys of the popular 50's musical “Grease1' were well portrayed by Tony Munoz, Todd Yearton, Kevin Mahoney, Claude Cummings and Bryon Sommerfield in this street scene from PSU's summer production, —photo by Bill Holtom what he wrote and what he had to say about what he had wrote. “Second, research is done on the context of the play. It is one thing to look at a play, and quite another to look at the people and culture of the time. For example, Shakespeare wrote about Anthony and Cleopatra, but it is another thing to look at Anthony and Cleopatra themselves. “Third, production history is researched. You try to look at as AS SANDY, the heroine of the musical Grease,” Pam Handshy performs one of her touching solos, —photo by Bill Holtom Theater
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