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Some day, Valerie says, sounding for the first time like a young woman only a few years beyond childhood, she would like to be a cattle rancher, or maybe a politician. Neither the matronly married life nor the perpetual roundelay of cafe society holds much allure for most of today's models. If they are not would-be actresses like Shields, they have other aspirations. Iman wants to write children's books. Dickinson recently came back through the looking glass, moving behind the camera to shoot a designer showing for Italian Harper's Bazaar...
...campus from non-minority students has centered on rather parochial issues. In fact, a student group named GUERILLA achieved its most effective demonstration early in exam period, when it organized a "study-in" at Lamont, managing within a few days to gain an all-night study area--the Greenhouse Cafe...
They have names like Charlie Horse, Chaps. Mr. McNasty's, Outlaws. Cody's, Dallas, Lone Star Cafe, San Antone Rose.'Silver Saddle, Gopher Gulch and Wild Wild West. The sound of their music is country, and the cut of their outfit is cowboy. Country-and-western nightclubs are riding high. In towns and cities from New Paltz, N.Y., to Carmichael, Calif., and North to South, there are now countless sagebrush saloons, corralling urban buckaroos with lively rustic dancing, good ole buddydom and a frontier atmosphere that may owe more to hype than history but is infectious nonetheless...
...KNIVES. NO TIES. For down-the-hatch topers, Chicago's Rodeo offers a selection of booze that includes Redeye whisky, Rotgut Scotch, Panther gin and Snakebite vodka; Rodeo also claims to be the city's largest Budweiser outlet after Wrigley Field. Manhattan's Lone Star Cafe boasts the sizzlingest made-to-order chili east of the Pecos, but attracts a relatively cool clientele To be sure, says Maryann Smith, 34, the entertainment coordinator, "some people may have Stagecoach or High Noon in the back of then minds, but they don't throw it in your face...
...GUERRILLA sit-in showed two things. First, it was clearly effective: it got Dean Epps out at 1 a.m., and it got a 24-hour study area for freshmen in the Greenhouse Cafe (upperclassmen can already use their dining halls). Students with other complaints should note GUERRILLA's success, and realize that direct action can sometimes gain administrators' ears and solutions to problems where the "established channels" are sluggish. Ideally administrators would be more open to students' needs, but until the administration changes, students will have to act as well as talk...