Over The Edge Goes To
Star Wars: Special Edition

by the entire Over The Edge Staff

There we stood, that cold
Friday night, one of the few
nights when it was actually +5
outside. Our objective: get into
Star Wars: Special Edition.
There we waited for two hours,
holding our spot in line, not
letting anybody in front, while
waiting to see one of the most
anticipated movies of the year.
That, and we didn’t have
anything better to do.

“Well, I had never seen this
before. Not once. I went, I saw,
I don’t think I’ve seen a better
movie in years. Come to think
of it, I haven’t seen any movie
in years. After watching the
new edition I had to go out and
rent the old_one, just to see the
changes. Overall, this movie
rocks! (Rating 10/10)”

- Paul Berard, Editor in Chief

“Unfortunately, this film was a
victim of  over-hyping
syndrome, being that they.
showed all of the good scenes
in the commercials (Eraser and
Mission: Impossible are two
good examples of this).
Although what they showed
was really good, the way the
commercials were set up made
me expect something much,
much more. On the plus side,
the scenes completely re-done
with digital computer graphics
were grand improvements over
the original and the Special
Editions of the following films
are definitely something to
look forward to. (Rating 8.5/
10)”

-Vince Yim, Copy Editor,
Columnist ,

“What can you expect from a
twenty year old movie, It
rocked (Rating 9.5/10)”
-Travis Alexander, Layout co-
ordinator x2

“If you would like to buy a
ticket for the next one come to
the lineup when it opens and
for 15 dollars I can get you a
spot at the front of the line and
a sold out SHOW..... Oh yeah
and the movie was great too.”
-James Gordon, Distribution
Manager

“It’s time for another ‘ Good
Idea, Bad Idea “. Good Idea -
Being able to buy your ticket
up to a week before the movie.
Bad Idea - Not letting anyone
in until the exact second the
movie awas supposed to start.
Good Idea - showing up early
to get a good spot in line. Bad
Idea - Showing up two hours

-early, getting a good spot in

line and freezing your toes off
while the theatre attendants
stand inside and laugh.

Good Idea - all the new scenes.
Bad Idea - sitting behind a
seven foot tall gorilla who
absolutely refuses to stay out
of your line of vision. Good
Idea - Improved sound. Bad
Idea - Turning the bass way
down and the treble way up (I
know I still have R2-D2’s
beeps reverbrating in my head
). All in all an excellent movie
that I will most certainly end
up renting it in the future just
to show some uncultured hick.
(Rating 9/10)”
-Teryn de
Administrator

Smet, Office

“I’m just not going to rate a
twenty year old movie, all of
you have seen it before. I am
going to rate the Theatre: it was
a cold wait outside, a cold
theatre, a late start to the
movie, a large group of noisy
university students, so overall
I’d have to say it was a great
night out! 10/10. OK soI don’t
get out much. “

-Lena Henning, Layout co-
ordinator.

-Kepruary 1/, 1997 — Uver Ihe Edge — Page 15.

Look up... Way Up! Things to see in the

night sky.

OBJECTS TO LOOK FOR IN THE NIGHT SKY (NORTHERN LATITUDES)

Prepared by ADO

SATURN is fairly high above
the horizon in the west-
southwest in the early evening.

‘It looks like a bright yellowish

star.

MARS rises around 9:00 p.m.
in the east and is visible in the
southwest before dawn. It
looks like a bright yellowish-
reddish star, and will continue

to brighten over the coming

weeks as the distance between
Earth and Mars in their orbits
gets smaller.

THE MOON will be in it’s
First Quarter on Feb. 13 at
12:57 a.m. PST (UT-8 hours).

COMET HALE-BOPP is
getting easier to see, and
should be visible with the

_ naked eye for sites with

reasonably good _ seeing
conditions. It is easily visible
in binoculars. For the best
chance of seeing it, look

low in the east about an-hour
and a half before sunrise. It
will be to the left and a little
above the bright star Altair,
about 1/3 to « of the way to the
bright star Deneb. (Hale-Bopp
is at approximately RA 20h
15m, Dec +22 deg.) It will
appear as a fuzzy white patch
surrounding a somewhat
brighter center and you may
be able to see a tail pointing
upwards. It should be easily
visible to the naked eye at its
peak brightness in March and
April.

OTHER OBSERVATIONS
OF COMET HALE-BOPP
are now being received in
steeply rising numbers and it

‘is obvious that the media

interest is also growing at a
high rate. During the past few
days and now with no
interfering moonlight, it has
for the first time be possible
to enjoy it in all its splendor
against the backdrop of a

‘perfectly dark sky: I was

myself fortunate to have such
an opportunity yesterday
morning (February 6), when it
was visible above Altair in the
Eastern sky above Prince
George. Like other naked-eye
observers I estimated the
magnitude as somewhat
brighter than magnitude 2.

SPACE

UPDATE:
The Space Shuttle Discovery
launched on Feb. 11 at 12:55
a.m. PST, beginning the STS-
82 mission. The mission is
scheduled to last a little under
10 days. The STS-82 crew
consists of commander Ken

Bowersox, pilot Scott
Horowitz, . and mission
specialists Joe Tanner, Steve
Hawley, Greg Harbaugh,
Mark Lee, and Steve Smith,
all of whom are veterans of
space flight. This will be the
second Hubble Space
Telescope (HST) servicing
mission since HST’s
deployment in 1990.
Astronauts will conduct at
least four spacewalks. They
will significantly upgrade the

SHUTTLE

scientific capabilities of HST
during this mission by
installing two state-of-the-art
instruments, the Space
Telescope _ Imaging
Spectrograph (STIS) and the
Near Infrared Camera and
Multi-Object Spectrometer
(NICMOS). They will also
replace or upgrade various
instruments involved in the
pointing of the telescope and in
the recording of data.
Discovery is scheduled to land
back at KSC on Feb. 20 at
about 11:30 p.m. PST.

THIS WEEK IN SPACE
HISTORY

Feb. 6, 1971: Alan Shepard
hits a golf ball on the moon for
a reported .... 400 yards!

Feb. 18, 1930: Clyde
Tombaugh discovered Pluto.
Feb. 19, 1986: The Soviet
Union launched the Mir space
station.

Feb. 20, 1962: John Glenn
became the first American to

orbit the Earth.

Feb. 23, 1987: Supernova
1987a explosion observed in
the Large Magellanic Cloud.
This was the first naked eye
supernova since 1604 and the

first since the invention of the

telescope.

RANDOM SPACE FACT
The gravitational force at the
surface of Mars is only about
one-third as.strong as the
gravitational force at

the surface of the Earth.

Japanese Cultural Day

Coming soon March 15 - noon to five
p.m. Drop by for a taste of Japan.
Japanese food, music, martial arts,
crafts, caligraphy, fashion, movies,

manga and much more.

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