In the Aftermath of Farrakhan the History Gospel Or Gar~Age: Bah.Ind the Man Athletes Speak by BRIAN MARSHALL by TRESA BALDAS Ur-1 Correspondent Ur-1 Managing Editor

DON'T BELIEVE THE HYPE/the uR-1 takes a look at Farrakhan

21 February 1990 What's shakin':

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He came, he spoke, he left. •Nobody carBS wheth9f you However, many MSU students graduate with a degr99, but put that who have been left In the wake of tl:le · ball in the hoop, niggerr events surrounding Sunday's speech That was Muslim Leader Louis now find themselves wondering, 'Who Farrakhan's message to black college ls Louis Farrakhan?" athletes Sunday night at the MSU Louis Eugene Walcott was born In Auditorium. · the largely black region of Roxbury in During his 31/2-hour speech, Boston. He learned the violin during Farrakhan tQld a crowd.Qt 4,000 his younger days, and now coll~ people that university administrators rare violins. After a standout track don't really care about black students' career in college, Walcott sang in education. He portrayed' universities night clubs, where he was often billed as racist institutions that use black as "The Charmer: students' talents to beef upthe' bank He first ~ Involved with the accounts of athletic departments. ·Black Muslim movement In 1955. At Though.Farrakhan's message, that time, Malcolm X was still in the among severBI relayed during his organiztion. Walcott then changed his sold-out speech, brought the crowd name to Louis X Walcott, then just roaring to its feet in approval, some Louis X. In 1959, Louis ·x was named MSU coaches and black athletes "minister- by Elijah Muhammed, believe the statement was out of line. founder and prophet of the Black "I don't think (MSU) loo.ks at us as · Muslims. just a four-year project,• said Taraisa In 1964, Malcolm.X left the Black Wills, captain of the MSU women's Muslims, and Louis X was named to basketball team. "I don't see that at take over the vacated mosques. After all. (Athletic department heads) are this departure, Louis X denounced interested in our education. They help Malcolm X, saying "such a man as us out. They take care of us: · Malcolm i~ worthy of death: · Karen Langeland, head coach of A year later, Malcolm X was . MSU women's basketball team, assasainated. Louis X was given the agreed, saying Farrakhan's statement name "Farrakhan· by Elijah Muham •couldn't be farther from the truth. mQd in that same year. Louis Farrakhan uR-1photolBUNKY CORRIGAN "Obviously; I disagree with him,· In 1975, Elijah Muhammed she said. "I know how much time we passed away·, leaving his position to sperld on academics.• his son, W. Deen Muhammed. How . : , ~1 1:1 :1 :2 : 1 :::1: m@ : ~!@!:: r~ : 1 :1~1: ~~1111 : ~1 : : : : m~ : ~ \ Langeland said the women's ever, many felt that Farrakhan was the ... : · ::: : ~fMlKEVENYAH:: :: :>::: . '•• : = <::ti:M:$jtr~Mili~ififffiiijist~(~ L basketball team, made up of 1O black voice of the new regime. One publica •• .:•••:. '!· L1A·· ~ · ·~I· ~~~~~J)c,'1~~ ::•••::·-• ••• =•• = •= 1.®:•~ • ~ • ~~·• w : ~®~h~ • s~@p ::M •· · · · and three white students, has study tion stated, "He'• a better orator . . ·.:·:.:-:-:-:.:.:-: -: -: -:.:·:- :- :- ...... periods for two hours every night, than the lateDr. Martin Luther King, Monday-Thursday. And when players he sing• better than Marvin Gaye, ..• are struggling over a certain subject, · and he'• prettier than Muhammed -she said tutors are assigned and Ali... Soon thereafter, Farrakhan was coun5eling is available. assigned to the Chicago headquarters "Obviously, he doesn't have all of the Black Muslims. . the facts,· Langeland said. • I don't However, it soon became evident · know how he made that statement.• to Farrakhan that Deen Muhammed MSU Assistant Baseball Coach See HISTORY, p. 2 ~~~ 1*-fo/'W~Mri~¥ - ~~%Ut.•· - ~~~($eE:~¢i*,~ P.J : 3 /' : : H ...... See·ATHLETES, p. 3 2 •university REPORTER-INTELLIGENCER . ~ -/. 21 February.1990 From HISTORY, p.1 When he announced the Nation comment about the speaker's oontro- who are·curious, and those who are of Islam's black "self-help• project , versial beliefs. He refus8d, stating protesting. . . did not intend to follow in his father's Libya's Muammar Qaddafi gave a $5 that anything he said before the Farrakhan seemingly let MSU off footsteps. Deen Muhammed wished million ·1oan· to Farrakhan. He has speech could be construed by Farra- easily In financial terms. He asked . to pursue a more orhtodox approach. m~ny Muslim allies In the Middle East .khan as a warning on sensitive the for $5,000, while in 1988, he He planned to allow whites Into his ·u· • which he recruited .shortly after he material, thus limiting Farrakhan's asked the relatively small University of organization. spllt from the Black Muslims. right to free speech. The LA. Times the Dis~rid of Columbia (UDC) for In 1978, Farrakhan left the Black This is not the end of the Farra- editorial page followed suit, promising $17,700, which was reduced to Muslims to form the Nation of Islam, khan public relations nightmare. In not to print any comments about $15,200. This money came out of a taking abouno,ooo of the 100,000 1984, after Jesse Jackson called Jews Farrakhan's beliefs until he finished $60,000 fur)d for student events for Black Muslim followers with him. "hymies· in an interview with Milton . his speech. the entire term. He came under such Soon he set up his own headquar Coleman of the Washington Post, Others, however, see Farrakhan criticism for this that he began t~ ters in Chicago and many halls where Farrakhan publidy threatened Cole- as ihe most banned person this side charge less for appearances. speakers would work to spread his · man during a speech. He was of South Africa.• Many feel they will ideas. Afterwards, he hoped to conslderec:i by many Democrats a . not be taken seriously if he speaks at. generate some revenue by selling reason not to vote for Jackson in the their fundion. copies of the speeche6 to those in 1984 Convention because Jackson However, he still has proven to be ...... attendance, much the way a Jerry became so closely affiliated with able to fill a house, as seen Sunday :- :-:::::::::::::-:-· Falwell or a Jimmy Swaggart oper Farrakhan. This was after the lnfa- night at MSU as well as in 1985, when ates. mous comment Farrakhan made he filled Madison Square Garden and It is these speeches which often about Hitler, calling him a •great man•. made some of his mO&I scathing provide much of the controversy which Many others feared dealing with comments. He attacked then-mayor surrounds Farrakhan. He is con Farrakhan because they knew it would Ed Koch for two thigns: He's Jewish, stantly surrounded by the Fruit of alienate one major voting group no and He's homosexual. As one Islam, his security force. Often, his matter what. One of these politicians reporter described it, -rhe first of entourage will reach forty, sometimes was Tom Bradley, the popular black which he has no control over, and the even more. mayor of Los Angeles. second he (Koch) squelingly denies.• . Some speakers, such as Stephen In 1985, Farrakhan was sched· The crowds at the usual Farra- Cokely, often use the forum to give his uled to make a speech In LA., and khan speech are a mixture of those messages of anti-Semitism and ~11rs11ii~r1 many wanted Bradley to make a who are enraged by the cause, those hatred. ·-: -: -: -:-:-:-:-:·:·:·:·:·:·:·::: .. :::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::: ·'.· :·:·:·:::::::::::::::::::::··

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NS3xt To The Power · House Gym 337-2023 21 February 1990 ·. , university REPORTER-INTELLIGENCER• 3 sated his football talents with From ATHLETES, p. 1 Though Davis praised Farrakhan a black college.· for promoting black pride and unity, a free-ride for the past five However, Chubb also believes Dan O'Brien said he believes sports Is he said he did not agree with the years. But Davis believes Farrakhan's discourse may have a the open door for some black students speaker's comment that university ihat's not enough.· negative· impact on MSU's white who want to go to college but are fi officials doh't care about black stu "You think about all the money you community. Farrakhan's speech, he nancially strapped. · dents' education and use them only bring into the university and you see said, may "anger whites because they "I think athletics gives blacks an to generate funds for the Athletic De- none of it,· he said. "It kind of makes don't like what he says.· opportunity to go to college, In some · . partment. you mad." But MSU graduate student financial cases,· O'Brien said. "In our "I can't say the univetsity used Tewodros Akilile, says whites can no sport, everyone is treated the same." me; Davis said. "I don't think they From SPEECH, p. 1 _longer ignore issues concerning Wills said though she was not use blackstudents.· And in reference blacks. able to attend Farrakhan!s speech on After an opening In which Farra to athletic department's concern over khan acknowledged his detractors and . Calling Farrakhan's Invitation to ·campus, she has heard ·him speak on athletes grades, Davis said coaches speak at MSU a "good political activity various television programs on other their constitutional rights to protest his and department heads value educa- visit, he blasted the MSU administra for blacks; Akilile said: "It's time for occasions. The 22-year-old said she . tion. · whites to hear about black concerns." does not agree with everything tion for placing a memoriam on funds · "Coach Perlas ... he's hard on allocated for his speech. Anthony Spangler, a sophomore Farrakhan preaches, but says she education,• Davis said. "Talk to any at Lansing Community College, admires his talent for uniting black "This Is a redst Institution; he of the footbaH players and they'll tell said. "How dare you tell blacks that believes Farrakhan's several mes ~pie. you that.• Farrakhan Is Irrelevant and doesn't sages benefit all who liste.ned to his "I think Farrakhan Is a really, really Davis said the university does· speech. And those who will benefit the great man; she said. "He says very deserve a measly $10,000 to $12,000 push Its athletes to keep up with their honorarium when you bring speakers most are blacks. stimulating words to try and make us studies, but the ultimate responsibility "Farrakhan's message is good for stand up and join hands and do more that are totally irrelevant to the black of earning a degree lies with the experience, but you use money from blacks and other minorities,· Spangler for ourselves. athlete. said. "He has good things to say, like "I think he·gets a lot of bad (black students') fees to pay for "It's kind of up to the player to get them?" Malcolm X." publicity because he's a man who an education; said Davis, who cur Farrakhan's visit to MSU was speaks his mind." Farrakhan went on to speak oUt rently Is working on a master's on white oppression of blacks, ori drug made possible through a $5,000 fund Farrakhan, long the center of con degree In counseling and ei;lucatlon granted by MSU Provost David Scott's troversy, has been accused of being a ab!Jse and on Jewish oppositiofl to his after earning his bachelor's in ATD preachings. office. The grant brewed much racist, a fascist and an anti-Semitic • Merchandising Management in 1989. controversy on campus, especially whose messages to blacks revolve But regardless of what Farrakhan · "In the real world, you need an said, as of 11 :00 p.m. Sunday eve among members of the Jewish around Jew-bashing. education,· he said. community who feel they are the · But MSU football player Travis ning, his visit to MSU became history. And whether or not Michigan The Issue facing the MSU com scapegoat of several of the minister's Davis says Farrakhan Is everything State cares if black athletes get an messages. About 200 protesters but racist. munity now is: 'What impact will education or not doesn't matter to Faffalchan's speech have on MSU and gathered outside the auditorium to "You can't condemn the man until Davis. voice their opposition to Farrakhan's you hear the man,· said Davis, who its surrounding ar98S 'r "I'm gonna get mine anyway be MSU ·senior Tony Jefferson visit and the university's funding of his attended Farrakhan's speech with cause that's what I came here to do.· visit. about 1 O lootball players. "I don't predicts Farrakhan's speech will have_ One thing that does bother Davis an uplifting effed on the black popula · As One adviser Ezra Hyland said · think he's a racist at all. about MSU is his belief that he has the group originally asked MSU for "He's iust a black man that wants tion at MSU. put more Into the university than he "Blacks will be hyped up for two $20,000 to fund Farrakhan's visit. The to let his black people know about has received. MSU has compen- student organization, thought they their heritage ... he just tells the truth." weeks ... but I don't know If it will last; Jefferson said. Whether MSU will be w re assured at least $5,000, he said, considered a promoter of humanitari and therefore, put $500 down to anism or race hatred for funding reserve the auditorium. Farrakhan's visit depends on peoples' At that point, Ezra said 15 people geographic location as well as ethnic protested MSU funding Farrkhan, and background, Jefferson said. ihe Board of Trustees put a hold on "Known racist towns Ilka Fowler the whole $5,000, not just $500. • ville and Howen· will view Farrakhan's Though As One was eventually visit to MSU as •a racist act,· Jeffer guaranteed the $5,000 to bring son said. But "Detroit and ihe inner Farrakhan to campus, the MSU Board city" will perceive the event as "en of Trustees has since declared that no lightening; he added. speaker will receive more than $1,000 MSU senior James Chubb, who •until criteria are established; he said. called Farrakhan's messages "posi The Board of Trustees recent tive; said the,minister's speech may decision has left Hyland with one have an Imped on the university's question: admissions, Influencing college-bound "Do black, brown, yellow people blacks to "perhaps choose MSU over have the right to say who speaks to them and foqhem ?"

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1 ARR AKHAN·.demi-god or F1-' H. • dem~gogue? Chuck D. calls himself "a follower Messages that take advantage of coming obstacles --- even obstacles as of Farrakhan; and counsels us that we sudden passibns rather than advocate devious and cunning as those Mr Far- can't understand •until you've heard calm reasoning and purpose. Mes- rakhan claims exist - should be the the man: sages that overshadow his positive goal of all people5. Well, we've heard him. message for not only Afro-Americans, · There is no denying that Mr. Fari-a- To pass judgment on the Minister but for all people. khan is a brilliant man, one Who knows Louis Farrakhan - former assistant to • Last Sunday, Mr. Farrakhan the perils facing blacks everyday, and Malcolm X Shabazz, disciple of Elijah delivered a slow, humorous, thoughtful a man who knows the effect of his Muhammad and his successor as speech that built to a resounding arid words. leader of the Nation of Islam - after powerful crescendo, rOcking the In this light, to blame those prob- hearing only one speech would be pre auditorium and invigorating the audi- lems on one group of people is too matur:e, unwise and unfair. ence. simple for a man of his brainpower. Mr. Farrakhan has many mes It is in the fuel used to build to that Most of Sunday's audience didn't sages that are delivered to many crescendo, however, that one finds a swallow Mr. Farrakhan's message part audiences; he will tell the people to message to think about when consider- and parcel. And he could not have drop their guns and needles and stop Ing Mr. Farrakhan's words and his meant it to be taken in such a manner. killing each other; he will tell the reputation as an anti-semite and Blaming Jews for the plight of people to honor black women who propagator or racial hatred. . ' blacks is simply used as a rallying have spawned the human race and While there is some·merit to his point by Mr. Farrakhan. Without a brought us through times of turmoil condemnation of whites for their doubt, it is wrong to tum people and darkness; he will tell the people to subjugation, dehumanization, and re- against each other to accomplish any . .. · reject the drugs making them modem programming of blacks throughout goal. Demagoguery is Inexcusable ·········· · · ~6.~· : 'il#4:i.$.'ffii6.!t.#6~fl. · .'···· · day slaves; he will tell the peoRle that history, his accusations that the Jews and Mr. Farrakhan must be found the truth will set them free and set their have calculated shrewdly to take. guilty In spite of his brilliance and eio- · ·•••·w~~~1f :'#ii?(#J~fftt/(IJ~~.··••· · oppressors free. advantage of black ignorance is simply quence. : :••••· • fr~~ •• t?t.#h~r9~i •• #~ • • t,,$q. •••• · Some of those messages were using an inaccurate and unfair gener- But one must hope that wiser · ··•• · :•••.ivct • !f~· : jjfiY.ft~6~~ •· $9J:•.••• • delivered last Sunday and roused the alization to create a common enemy words of his are used· to rally the :-:-:·:-:-:-:-:-:-:-:-:.· · · · · ·.·.· · · · · •.•.·•. :.•.:.·1·...... h··. ··.'·e·· ····r.·e····.•:•.:. :•.: :.•.... •·. ·:.: ·.• •.•: •.. •>·• ···•·:·•·•···• •·• audience to levels of pride and blacks can unite against. people trying to build a better tomor- . . : :.. .. . :-:-:-:-:-:-:-:.:-:-:-:-:-:· :: :.::::::::::::::::::::: ;:::::::::::;:::::::::::::-:.:.· strength that all people should strive People are easier to fight than row. for and hope to achieve for our mutual Poverty. •Jews and blacks, if you begin a peace, prosperity and well-being. But, as Mr. Farrakhan says, the · dialogue, start with honesty and be But Mr. Farrakhan has been days of Stepin Fetchit are over. Blacks truthful to each other: · known to deliver other messages as are now able to control their own · Good advice, and advice Mr. well. destiny without Master Cracker menac- Farrakhan should heed if a dialogue Messages denouncing religions Ing them with whip or chain. To place ~oes begin in spite of and races as inferior and oppressive. blame on a group is natural. But over- his.demagoguery. 21 February 1990 university REPORTER-INTELLIGENCER • 5 with erotic adult reading material. My boyfriend is a very'pessionate next to each other, start at dinner or Pornography depicts acts of violence person. He seems to get turned on even that afternoon. Flirt with each against women which I do not find at really easlly but I'm much more quiet other, stroke him or squeeze him all intriguing. One the ~her hand (ha and take a longer time. When we through his clothes but don't let him ha), pictures of relatively normal acts make love, I just start getting really get too close until you are good and done by consenting adults in the turned on when he loses interest and ready. You are leaving all the contfol bedroom are not only great tum-ans, turns away from me. I have two in his hands and he is not reading they are al5o artistic, and protected questions: Why don't I get turned on your response very well. under our constitutional rights. I have In time and why do I sometimes have Men do not necessarily come to always been a great lover of art, spent · Intense pain in my side after we make you knowing all about women's sexual hours pouring it. My art collection love? Is there anything .1 can do about response although most of us talk like may be the largest in Michigan outside this pain because aspirin doesn't we have done it all and know every of some of my friends who live in work. Help! What's wrong with me? thing. Don't believe it. Take a more Dr.Andrew Durand. active part in controlling what he does. Misogynistic means having a - Dormitory,,..,._ Get him so-turned on, he can't stand it· Barclay hatred for women and, if you have another minute and hold him off a few read some of my early columns, you De•Deana: minutes longer. Be sure when you would· know there is a certain degree -are doing this,· you are squeezing the of truth in what she said. Jodi Foster, Your second question is easier to head of his penis every now and then Judge Stell, and the women running answer than the first. Both men an because if you don't, he will be so East Lansing are not high on my list of women have similar responses to Forget the turned on he will orgasm as soon as favorite people. Oh, by the way, did arousal, blood rushes to the pelvis he enters you and we don't want that. you see that the Michigan Court of and causes a swelling in the sexual The squeeze should be farily strong Franklin Mint, Appeals struck down a part of the EL accessory structures. Many men but not enough to hurt him. The trick ordinance governing Cedarfest? Yup! know the pain involved in Lover's Nuts is to push some of the blood back into the doc tias a They said you _coldn't barricade Cedar or Blue Balls all too well but most the penile shaft and allow it to refiii the Village because you were afraid some women don't realize their ovaries also head. people MIGHT do something. swell, especially if you do not obtain HUG·E. library Or let him have his first orgasm I don't dislike these women orgasmic releas~. The cure is simple: fairly qucikly and then tum him on because they are female, I dislike masturbate after he goes home. It Dear Doc: again so you can have yours. Men them because they are trying to releases the blood held in the pelvis may have fairly quick orgasms at first oppress me and that is unAmerican. which reduces the swelling and the· What was that misogy.nistlc sleaze but our second ones always take You may not like the way I party and psin will go away. (Follow this up with business all about a couple of weeks . much longer and our third ones longer you may not like the shit I read, but a visit to your family doctor just to ago? The column was one of your yet. There is no reason why you both don't go passing laws trying to keep make sure there really is no physical better ones -; I though you really can't have several orgasms duriflQ a me from It because I have a basic problem.) I would have to say, stuck it to the people who deserve It. single sex act but this type of re right (unalienable, I belive Thomas though, there is nothing wr.ong with Where was she coming from? sponse never "just happens: You Jefferson called it) to life, liberty, and you other than taking too much mental ·have to get to know how to read each the happiness of pursuit. Get my · responsibility for how sex is going - Bewildered other's sexual responses and the best drift? without taking charge. Your sexual part is that it takes practice, practice, response sounds pretty normal to me practice. Musicians practice at least Dear Dr. Sex: as does your boyfriend's but· I think he Dear Bewildered: two hours every day. Training sexual needs some gentle educating. Don't responses takes at least as much You're the only one I can tum to. wait to start foreplay until you are lying work, maybe more. Have fun! It's like I always say: If you can't take-the heat, get asbestos undies playing "Cat Scratch Fever- at top.volume? chief? , Who's next, Eddie Albert and Bellone honoring Of the Stale One, .has anybody noticed how Pete Townsend for his work-on behalf of their their editorial page is trying to sound like the Provoc industry? lately? While we're talking rocking, how is It that The It's as if they kidnapped me and made me watch . Silver Dollar Saloon is "The Midwest's most 'famous The Brady Bunch for 48 hours while listening to a the rock bar,· and no one knows where in God's green Bill Cosby concert tape. Yecch - it's a nightmare. rovocateur Earth this dive is? And what about Martha Quinn showing up as And why did Meatloaf cancel his date there - I Bobby's wife?! · cried for days when I was told I wouldn't be hearing Whatever happened to Colin, dammit! "Bat Out of Hen· screeching out of the voc8I chords Here's a parting (cheap) shot: Has anyone seen of a man that let a trans~xual chop him up and tum 'So the,.·• a new Ronald McDonald. those great SN signs advertising their internship him tnto a feast (a big feast.). postitions? Don't mean nuthin' tom•, It'• the nm• 01- Bummer. kangaroo meat the Provoc was (is) raised on - They would prefer "intelligent,·hard working and Oh well, I guess it's another Saturday night, all conscientious students.· Other than constituting a maybe that accounts for my hatred of you revved up and no place to go. phlegm-grabbing, fl•havln' toads? major shift in policy, we hope they can stop either But who cares what you think anyway. Speaking of no place to go .:__ or going no place firing people or letting them quit and muster enough Besidn, didn't tM MW JolctH worlc out - The State News comes to mind. people to put out a paper this year for our increased cool? How 'bout tM ..,,,_ old Provoc? I've laid off these venerable folk for.a couple student "independent-voice,-fer-shure-man· tax. WeN, wait 'ti/ they gtlt a loMJ of m• (sorry, weeks, but I feel a flash coming over me. I'm proud of ya, guys. Keep up the progress, Nicholson)-. TAKE THIS/ . Like: My good fiend from down the street, Bart and soon you'll be able to get gymnastics scores Simpson, and I had a good laugh when we read the right. · What was the Legislature thinking when they State "He's-Not-lndependent,-He's-My-Provosr passed a resolution honoring rocker Ted Nugent? I shouldn't have done those last·few, I'm begin News over _the last two weeks. Twenty-nine correc ning to feel my stomach go ... What did they honor him for; killing Bambi, tions, ouch! Since when did our favorite tanker (and Thumper, driving a huge truck, shooting things and But that's about It 'til next week, so be bad and tankard) driver, Joseph Hazlewood, become copy remember - I never met anyone I did not not like. 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_ outspoken entertainers in England. Let's hope that songs like "Kiss Their Sons·, "I Want Your Love·, "Pay the Ghosts•, "Born To Be Sold· and the colossal "Velveteen· will make (TV) one of the most outspoken bands in America Reviews -JEFFRKE yourself, your work, an extension of Keep watching TV yourself, which is not selling out. But if other's 'seH' you for their profit, then :::~arci:::a Darling Buds, and Fuzzbox, among that's exploitation: Yes, I suppose it :: ... Transvision Vamp, Velveteen "'W would be just that. ~ MCA,1989 others too numerous and obscure to mention. The title track, all 12 minutes of it . But TV's approach is quite differ finds the band running through ' TV - as Transvislon vamp like to ent than most of the groups out there. everything from psychadellic guitar be called for short - are a different : i blowouts, to cocktail jazz, to rockabilly" ~ ~ ~ ~ : ~: ~: ~ ~ ~: ~ : ~ ~ ~ ~ ~: ~: ~ ~ ~ ; ~:: ~ ~ ~ ~j . .Ac;. ..••o.·n ·····:····u::·:: ···.. .. band. One part 60's art-pop, one part James, who handles most of the writing along with the singing, isn't and punk. Like the rest of the album ··· .··· ···:··~·:· ····. ·· : llii:v:·:····· ·:·:·:···.:·e::·· ······· ·: l••.••. • ::z•.:~.•,• .•:: ~: ~:··:·: ·:···.:· ·····:· :· primal post-punk energy, and one part afraid to speak her mind, and comes Velveteen, the song "Velveteen· BO's street-smart savvy. shows a strong penchant for the off much more brash than we're used ...... · Wendy James leads this British ··· -: .. to over here in the States. stylings of Lou Reed and the Velvet quartet on their second full-length On "Born To Be Sold· she sings, Unde~ground, both in the guitars and release. 1988's Pop Art had a touch the lyrics. , . of eccentricity, which was evidenced ~~II you uptight short-sighted, narrow m1nded slaves of gold, I'm telling you I . With the non-stop comparisons on their remake of the dassic "Tell between James and such illustrious That Girl To Shut up·. The alb!1m don't need to be told ... baby, I was born to be sold, born to be sold·. But figures as Marilyn Monroe, never really took of.f sales-wise, Madonna, Tracey Tracey (of the though it should've. They were she's not talking about selling out. . According to Miss James: "You're Primitives) and even Lou Reed, it's lumped in with all the other English not suprising she's one of the most "girl groups" like The Primitives, The either sold by others, or yeu promote · ~ Students Against Driving Drunk Eat Cheap All U Can Eat Coneys and The Residence Halls · $1.99 Tuesdays noon-9 Associatio·n Buy One and Get a Second One For Ir------, . I Present A 1 Free 1

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The The fill Royal Oak with their uniqu·e sound by STEVE BYRNE without much bravado. Marr didn't move 'around about to reap what it's sown: uR-1 music correspondent much and refrained form a lot of self-indulgent guitar· Eller played a fuzzy bass that hummed through work. This only left one wishing to see him display . the chairs of the hall. l:his contrasted Palmer's tight Invading the Royal Qak Music Theater Friday, a little more of the talent he made apparent on such and pounding durmming, which proved the simplest The The gave fans a taste.of their unique brand of numbers as "Good Morning Beautiful." rhythms often can be the best musical darkness. The The used to be a one-man band - The crowd was slowly drawn in throughout the On the inside cover of the band's latest release, Johnson - but it now has three new permant two-encore show. In the just under two hour show, Mind Bomb, songwriter Matt Johnson suggests, members in Marr, bassist James Eller, and the crowd slowly rose and danced until they almost "To obtain maximum pleasure and effect from this drummer David Palmer. For the show, they were , erupted during the blasting rendition of "Giant" in the album, please play VERY LOUD!, VERY LATE, accompanied by a keyboardist and a female backup second encore. VERY ALONE. .. & with the lights turned VERY singer. The set included material that spanned The LOW!", and the performance was successful at When the singer Was used, which wasn't often, The's career, but was deficient on a f0W.crowd bringing out this feeling. Though the sell-out crowd . she shJohnny Marr. Marr has been described. as the religious battling that produces so much hate If this band comes around again, see them. a guitar anti~hero, and Friday ~ight he showed why. and death, Johnson exclaimed, "No, God will remind They'll entertain you, make you dance, and just He played his parts brilliantly and effortlessly, us what we already know/That the human race.is maybe, they'll make you think. · Life is Hell? -Sure, but Groening's humor helps us enjoy it by ST ACY LAMMERS · exact words, but you get the jist of ignorant anti-gay who rudely asks uR-1 literary correspondent it.) As an added bonus (and at no them why they call themselves ...... ' ...... extra cost), fans will enjoy cameo "gay." The two chaps politely . Yep, it's true; that peevish Matt appearances by <:>Id He//faves, . reply, "It's very simple. We call •. ~~ .~©w.~ -Groening dude is back with yet like Binky, Bongo, and Sheba. ourselves gay because we are another priceless gem to add to Neat-o, dude! gay." his collecticm of literary delights. Now, about the material. And with that, they trot off on .:.:...... ::•••~>:•< ~'-~I i:::: ~~ ·::::• Akbar and Jeff's Guide to Life Groening hilariously and master- .their merry way. .: .. ...::: ?fA!~!/l~~ : :: :~~ :~ :::::•: is the latest effort by the same guy fully serves up such rib-ticklers as: Groening has a genuinely who gave us the Life in Hell series "Dr. Akbar and Nurse Jeff's Lipo- unique ability to get down to.the of books (Childhood is Hell, suction Hut," "n Moods ot Akbar meat and potatoes of a controver- School is Hell, etc.) and the re and Jeff," "Slang of Tomorrow," sial topic, while·still doing so in cently popular T.V. series "The and "Hell on Ice." The names good taste and humor. He also ~!~l~f,ll l Simpsons." pretty much say it all, folks. has his own brand of wacky, • · •·• • :•·· ::• INVOLV~.P . WITH ••:·: H you thought his previous Sure, it's a comic book, but madcap humor that is consistent :·:.•::.•·::·•·'.:·:.:·:: ..... ·.·.·.·.·.·.·.· ··••: tHE·•· liR41 •:·•:·•• stuff was off-the-wall, sarcastic, there's more to it than oddball throughout his bo~. and downright obnoxious, wait 'til humor. On the flip side, Groening If you (yeah, that's right; I said, •·•• .. •:• c<:.tt : · ~ ·$1 •! i4.~?? : .Qf :·::•.• you sink your teeth into this baby! takes a lighter look at some cur- "YOU!") haven't experienced any ···· · • •::35.)8488.SJof: Hosted by the be-fezzed, in- . rent social issues, like homosexu- of Matt Groening's works, this one separable duo of Akbar and Jeff, ality, for example. (The topic is is highly r~commended. (They're the Guide to Life is a potpourri of inescapable because the title available at most area book- strips, clips, and quips that are characters are both gay and are stores.) sure to make you yell, "Holy comic frequently pictured in bed to- And as Matt Groening's "Slang of strips, Batman; this stuff is way gether.) In one instance, Akbar Tomorrow" says, "Have a chokey cool!" (Well •.maybe not in those, and Jeff are appproached by an day; Lucko!"