16—The Daily Collegian Wednesday, March 26, 1980 Short on highbrow, but high on entertainment 'Bourne Identity' hooks still another reader By JOHN WARD Daily Collegian Staff Writer "The Bourne Identity," by Robert Ludlum, Marek Press, 523 pages, $12.95. A fishing trawler is fighting a losing battle against raging winds and storm tossed waves. Two men shoot it out on deck. One combatant is forced to the rail, where he is shot several times in the head and topples overboard. He drifts away, apparently dead. Seconds later, the ship is blown to kingdom come. And the book is only a page-and-a-half old. Just like that, the reader is off and running with Robert Ludlum's latest book, "The Bourne Identity." Such violent doings are a trademark of Ludlum's books; you rarely get a chance to take a breath between killings. This might lead you to think of Ludlum as a "purple prose" writer, and you wouldn't be too far off the mark. Much of his material smacks of '3os-style pulp fiction, slightly upgraded for the in tellectual 'Bos. The similarities are there: graphic violence, cliffhanger chapter endings, a damsel in distress and a hero in constant peril. All. of which • • * • "•9•1., * • • • • • BASKIN-ROBBINS • ICE CREAM STORE • • • • • • • • • EASTER SUNDAYs-APRIL 6th 358-352 EAST COLLEGE AVENUE HAPPY EASTER DINNERS . . . END WITH A MOLDED ICE CREAM RABBIT, MADE FROM TWO OF YOUR FAVORITE BASKIN ROBBINS FLAVORS. SEE ONE IN OUR PARTY CASE! add up to a book which is immensely readable. Ludlum's books are getting to be a habit. You can expect one to come out nearly every spring. You may expect it to be roundly blasted by "name" critics from coast to coast. Most important, though, you may expect it to become a best-seller from the moment of publication. ( " The Bourne Identity" hit no. 1 on the New York Times list in three short weeks.) book review "The Bourne Identity" is the newest example of what I call the Ludlum Stock Formula: 1) Three-word title beginning with, "the"; 2) One lonely hero, with no one to turn to for help; 3) Some sort of mysterious, faceless conspiracy out to get the lonely hero. Jason Bourne is the man who was shot in the first paragraph of this review. He doesn't die, but revives on a Mediterranean island, his memory gone. Suffering from amnesia, Bourne is bothered by several clues to his past life: excellent physical condition, high in tellect, prowess in the martial arts, and a microfilm implanted in his hip that leads him to a Zurich bank account and several million dollars. Money isn't the only thing Bourne finds in Zurich. Shortly after leaving the bank, Bourne is attacked in the first episode of what becomes a regular ocurrence. For some reason, people are trying to kill him. Naturally, this only makes him more determined to discover his lost identity. The CIA is mixed up in Bourne's life, along with several terms he can't place: Delta, Cain, Medusa and Treadstone. There's also Carlos, a real-life in ternational assassin, who ,becomes the primary villain of Ludlum's tale. It's all pretty topical, and slightly confusing when the author mixes in a bit of Freudian mumbo-jumbo to explain Bourne's amnesia. Ludlum's forte is not in explanation, but in entertainment. If the reader took a moment to reflect on the implausibility of a Ludlum plotline, he'd close the book in a flash out of respect for his sanity. • • • Fortunately the author knows exactly what his public wants, and he gives it to us in spades. Carlos' presence in the story is an amusing sidelight. Ludlum strips away the mystery surrounding the real-life character and fleshes him out as a cold blooded assassin, with an equally sinister army of killers. This is only the second time in nine books that Ludlum has ever resorted to fact in his story. The other instance was "The Chancellor Manuscript," which explored the death of J. Edgar Hoover. According to Ludlum, Hoover didn't die from natural causes; he was assassinated by a group of high government officials (the con spiracy angle again). In writing spy novels, Robert Ludlum falls short of the highbrow 'machinations of a Graham Greene or a John le Carre. He's more on the straightforward level of a Frederick Forsyth. And while his overall story patterns seem to resemble each other more and more with each successive novel, there's no denying his ability to hook a reader to the very last page. 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'PSYCHIC KILLER' 1975 Stars: Paul Bassoonist Mark Dutkevitch (graduate-music) is one of a group of School of Music students who have been given the opportunity to read a concerto movement with the Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra during its residency thip week. . , , '6l/4 , 1 / 4 °7 N dj d ' ll a?,/ 451"4„„,,°4**':*440 • p 6r,sI)....ELEA6E 4 k 43 € t t io *ts) 4 lite ; \(4l/ Sis; s l / 11 ) N at ) N u ? 61 / 4 #4 \ "I \l4 Ni • L Aak #Ske;4oo ‘O4; Stit 444 4 sN stk bii 4 1 : 4 5 44 4 ## % : v 4 es 4Ne si t Nit Rush Party at AGR . for Men in Ag-Related Majors 4) Wed. 9:00 PM Beaver 322 Fraternity Row Fairmont i 237-3181 ,-, 0 , 1 E a 3 = 111 ' c i, Campus 3 0 a 0 k U. 031 MENOMM Liberal Arts • Continued from Page 1 .."* - 0 "The situation is really not much different than it was years ago," Paulson said. Many liberal arts students plan to attend graduate or professional school, while others wish to prepare for _ careers in social work or journalism, he said. Other :* students simply want to receive a well-rounded • education. University Provost. Edward D. Eddy said enrollment is only one factor in determining the amount of funding '-a college receives. Cost of lab equipment and in struction, for example, may remain stable regardless of enrollment, he said. However, money from the Provost's Revolving Fund is given to, a college when its enrollment increases Aapidly, Eddy said. The money is withdrawn if enrollment drops the next year, he said. "These days we can't he certain that the interest in business, for example, is going to persist," he said. "It . would be a risky move on the part of the University to commit itself heavily to a continued enrollment bulge in business." 10 Undergraduate enrollment in the College of Business Administration was 3,589 last term an increase of nearly 1,000 students since Winter Term 1970. The -2 college was forced fo close its doors during the • academic year 1978 to students wishing to transfer • from other colleges. William S. 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In Winter Term 1970, 1,453 students were enrolled in the college, but last term's enrollment showed 2,634 students. Arthur Carter, assistant to the dean of Student Af fairs in the College of Human Development, said the increase is partly because of student interest in human services such as counseling, law enforcement and child welfare. Many students have also been attracted to the college with the rapid growth of the hotel and restaurant business and the health fields, Carter said. Job opportunities for baccalaureate nurses have especially increased, he said. Carter said undergraduate students in Human Development have shown a greater interest in gaining management and research skills. "In the early '7os, students were saying they want to help people," he said. "Now they're saying they still want to help people, but they also want management Skills." More students especially women are entering the College of Science. Winter Term 1980 enrollment was 2,855, which..,is an increase of over 700 since 1970. Different Decorative EASTER BASKETS declines Norman Freed,' associate dean for resident in struction in the College of Science, said enrollment in the college has probably reached a plateau, although the demand for science courses has increased because of engineering students. The number of women students enrolling in science increased from 474 in 1970 to 1,146 last term. Freed said many of these women are enrolled in biological science, but more are choosing computer science. "Women had always been told that science is an unfeminine field," he said."l think this archaic at titude is changing." The College of Arts and Architecture grew slightly in enrollment since 1970 when its undergraduates numbered 1,032. Last term's enrollment was 1,291. • William McHale, associate dean for resident in struction in the College of Arts and Architecture, said enrollment rose rapidly in the early 1970 s before leveling off and then dropping slightly. The college gained some students since last year when art and music education majors weretransferred from Education to Arts and Architecture, he said. Limits on the number of architecture students also affects enrollment. The College of Health, Physical Education and Recreation experienced overall growth since 1970. Last term undergraduate enrollment was 585, and in Winter Term 1970 its enrollment was 987. a story of chance BEING THEM ENDS THURS 7:15-9:30 $1.50 MAT AT 2:30 WED. 12:15 2:30.4:45 7:15-9:30 Titt - Ap 11-1 The Daily Collegian Wednesday, March 26, 1 ;f7.l"ilottr=g4t e romance n & power $1.25 7/10:00 April 25-27
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