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Eastern Illinois University The Keep The Post Amerikan (1972-2004) The Post Amerikan Project 11-1993 Volume 22, Number 4 Post Amerikan Follow this and additional works at: https://thekeep.eiu.edu/post_amerikan Part of the Gender, Race, Sexuality, and Ethnicity in Communication Commons, Journalism Studies Commons, Publishing Commons, and the Social Influence and oliticalP Communication Commons Bloomington/Normal Volume 22 Number 4 November/December Post Amerikan declares war on Pantagraph! Secret Plan Revealed -· ZOLI9 'II 'NOJ.~)Nll\IOO'IU ZOL19 rn ·No.L~Nil\100'19 891 "ON Ul\111:•1«1 ZStf X08 3:lH>IO .LSOd <IIVcl-:•mV.LS(>.:I "S"fl NV)fi113WV .LSOd . :U.V11 )f'lflU NOU:l~>111110:l SS311<I<IV Bloomington/Normal Volume 22 Number 4 P. 18 Think About It ... In this issue: P.19 Uppers/Downers; Prison Legal News P.2 Page Two Stuff P. 8 Swastika Watch P.20 Life in the Fat Lane P.3 Community News; P. 9-10 Car Found Guilty; P.21 Notes from the Land Gallery exhibits; Boycott News of Anti Fat; Omigod! a letter from P.11 A View from AIDS Stamp Bill Aick; Bloomington's Common Sense 1993 Classy Fried Ads West Side P. 12-13 The Politics of P. 22-23 Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual are back! Issues; P.4 Staley update; Coming Out P. 14 Vegetarian Reasons P. 24 Harper's Index; 7 things you can do Towanda's Index P.S Horoscopes;. continued Ms. Hippie P. 15 Animal Magnetism; P.6 Sandra Bernard PETANews; Review Meat label update Good numbers P.7 Pastor Leon says: P. 16-17 Voice for Choice News We Must Overcome ACLU ............................................................. 454-7223 AIDS Hotlines: ............................................................. Post sellers ·: National ...................................... 1-800-AID-AIDS About us Illinois .. : .......................................... 1-800-243-2437 Local ............................................ .~ ){)')I >-i~ ~ t\lD\ The Post Amerikan is an independent community Alcoholics Anonymous ................................ 828-5049 newspaper providing information and analysis Bloomington I31oomington Housing Authority ................ 829-3360 The Back Porch, 402 N. Main (inside) that is screened out of or down played by estab Childbirth and Parenting Information Exchange Bakery Bank, 901 N. Main lishment news sources. We are a non-profit, (CAPlE) ..................................................... 827-6672 Bloomington Public Library (front) Clare House (Catholic workers) .................. 452-0310 worker-run collective that exists as an alternative Bus Depot, 533 N. East to the corporate media. Community for Social Action ..................... .452-4035 Circus Video (Emerson and Main) Connection House ......................................... 829-5711 Common Ground, 516 N. Main (inside) Countering Domestic Violence ................... 827--4005 We put out six issues a year. Staff members take Front and Center Building Dept, of Children/Family Services ............ 828-0022 turns as "coordinator." All writing, typing, edit.: Law and Justice Center, W. Front Draft r,tmselling.......................................... 452-5046 ing, graphics, photography, pasteup, and distribu Medusa's, 420 N. Madison (inside) Gay & L~'b1an Rc,~lurn· PihlllL'linc· ........... 438-2429 tion are done on a volunteer basis. You are invited The Park Store, Wood and Allin (inside) to volunteer your talents. Red Fox, 918 W. Market HELP (transportation for senior citizens, Susie's Cafe, 602 N. Main handicapped) ........................................... 828-8301 Most of our material and inspiration for material Twin City Exchange, 411 N. Main (inside) Ill. Dept. of Public Aid .................................. 827-4621 comes from the community. The Post Amerikan U.S. Post Office, 1511 E. Empire Ill. Lawyer Referral... .......................... 1-800-252-8916 welcomes stories, graphics, photos, letters, and U.S. Post Office, Center and Monroe Kaleidoscope .................................................. 828-7346 new tips from our readers. If you'd like to join us, Wash House, 609 N. Clinton McLean Co. Center for Human Services ... 827-5351 call 828-7232 and leave a message on our answer McLean Co. Health Dept... .......................... .454-1161 ing machine. We will get back to you as soon as Mid Central Community Action ................. 829-0691 we can. Don't worry if it takes a while-we don't Mobile Meals .................................................. 828-8301 meet every week. Narcotics Annonymous ............................... 827-3898 National Health Care Services-abortion Normal· assistance ....................................... 1-800-322-1622 An alternative newspaper depends directly on a Amtrack Station Nuclear Freeze Coalition ...... :....................... 828-4195 community of concerned people for existence. We Arte'Copia, 204 A North Street (inside) Occupational Development Center ........... .452-7324 believe it is very important to keep a newspaper like Avanti's, 407 S. Main Operation Recycle ......................................... 829-0691 this around. If you think so too, then please support Babbitt's Books, 104 N. Street (inside) Parents Anonymous ..................................... 827-4005 us by telling your friends about the paper, donating Franzetti's, 207 Broadway money to the printing of the paper, and telling our Hovey Hall ISU (front) PATH: Personal Assistance Telephone Help ..... 827-4005 ...................................................... or 800-322-5015 advertisers you saw their ad in Post Amerikan. Mother Murphy's, 111 North (inside) Subconscious, S. Main Phone Friends ................................................ 827-4008 Subway, 115 E. Beaufort Planned Parenthood (medical) .................... 827-4014 (bus I couns I ed uc) ................................... 827-4368 What's your Post Anwrika11 ............................................... 828-7232 Prairie State Legal Service ............................ 827-5021 new address? Prairie Alliance .............................................. 828-8249 Project Oz ....................................................... 827-0377 When you move, be sure to send us Rape Crisis Center ......................................... 827-4005 your new address so your subscription Sunnyside Neighborhood Center ............... 827-5428 gets to you. Your Post Amerikan will not TeleCare (senior citizens) ............................. 828-8301 be forwarded (it's like junk mail-no Unemployment comp/job service ............. 827-6237 kidding!). Fill out this handy form with United Farmworkers support .................... .452-5046 your new address and return it to us, This issue of Post Amerikan P. 0. Box 3452, Bloomington, IL 61702. is brought to you by ... Name: ------------------------- Due Date: Street:------------------------- Linda, Monika, Sherrin (the 3 coordinating The next deadline for submitting Post City/State/Zip: __________ goddesses), Eric (for the last issue, too), Kathy, Ralph, Leon, Doug, Kelli, Dave, Mike, your Amerikan material will be: hard-earned SOt, and our old .and new ·· advertisers. Thartk you! PAGE2 POST AMERIKAN NOV /DEC 1993 ·~ Community ·News •= Obliged by Nature Ph9tographs by Paul Rosin Peep J_arld -c Paintings by Jane Dickson Classy Fried Ads ARE BACK!! Okay, Post Amerikan readers. You asked for it . The Post is going to bring back .... The CLASSY FRIED ADS! That's right! It will include: Merchandise for Sale, Services for Sale, Events Notices:, Roommates Wanted, and general Want Ads. We will even start a Personals section; we'll call it "Love (Post) Amerikan Style" ... We'll publish anything creative you need to communicate to the public. Right now, the prices are $5 for up to 20 words (per issue), and $1 fpr eachadditional5 words. So, let us know how much you appreciate this new service and call us with your Classy Fried Ads! .·1' · · The University Galleries is pleased to announce Obliged by Nature, an exhibition of photographs by artist Paul Rosin, which opened October 5th 'Here's our first one! and will continue through November 7, 1993. The exhibition features work spanning a decade • Mercury 1979 Zephyr. Runs good. $300.00/obo. of this Chicago artist's oeuvre from 1983- 1993. Phone 828-4473. Rosin's photographs are vivid depictions of In the future, the Classy Fried Ads can be found people, places, and things in a psychically, often inside the back cover of the Post. sexually charged state; viewed through an ambiguous lens of wary curiosity and In the early 80s, Dickson. began to paint neon empathetic involvement. .Hi~ oevre can be bathed· visions of passion, conflict, and search for expressed as an exploration offotir recurring gratification inspired by views out of her times themes: portraits of bohemians in the sex Square studio windows. Her subjects include drugs-and-rock'n'roll genre; mythological carnivals, demolition derbies, street revelers, and aiiusions that incorporate personal and strip clubs- all reflecting her fascination with ·Letters: collective memories; sharp commentaries that voyeurism and the eternal urban night. This challenge cultural prohibitions; and an exhibition is the first museum survey of the artist's idiosyncratic obsession with notions of fatigue. ten years of work exploring the ominous · underside of contemporary culture. Rosin's approach tophotography is highly expressive. Since 1980, he has worked in a 20 x A color catalogue with an interview by curator 16 uniformly vertical format, framing his silver Barry Blinderman and essays by Glenn O'Brien, gelatin