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on everywhere, and that the apathetic are just too busy watching TV to figure this oul I am thinking particularly of the forum on Lab?r editor's desk organizing that took place in the Founder's Room on ~to~r 26th_m which representatives from a variety of Southern Cahforn1a orgamz "It was the sad confession, and continual exemplification, of the short-comings of the composite man- the spirit ingcoalitionsspokeon the work they havedone to secure basic rights burthened in clay and working in matter- and of the despair that assails the higher nature, at finding itself so miserably for documented and undocumented workers. There is also a flurry thwarted by the earthly part." -Nathania! Hawthorne, ''The Birth-mark" of activity that Pitzer faculty and students a_re participati_ng such as labor organizing internships and the on-gomg efforts w1th staff on Editors-in-Chief: Kim Gilmore On lazy afternoons in grade school,as the heaters purred softly in the background, the kids in my class laid comfortably campus to elevate working conditions for '1ow-level employees" Heidi Schumnn on the floor, mesmerized during story time by the tale of Harriet Tubman. Amidst the great political and social upheaval here. Executive Editor: fortllthan Casper that eventualJy led to the Gvil War, Tubman, as we all know now, engineered the Underground Railroad which led dozens In any time, there seems to be a certain amount of blindness to Features Editor: Justin Rood ofslaves to freedom, courageously risking her life and theirs. Appropriately removed from her complexity, from the details which people must succumb; it is never possible to know h~w the Editorial Intern: Tobin Steers that led up to her decision, to third grade ears hers was a story of a wonderfully defiant action against the cruelty of slavery. actions of today will be perceived in one year, in a decade, m two Writers: Ramzi Abed Along with the other kids in my class, I imagined myself right alongside her, could clearly see that what she had done was hundred years. But what all people t~t have worked f~r change Aaron Balkan right, and that I, if put in the same situation, would be propelled to do act accordingly. Our teachers didn't wince in what seem to have understood in some way IS that the moment IS always Joshua Cohen they felt was their responsibility to beourmoral guardians, and I remember not wincing in myunflinchingyesas they asked now, but always, at the same time, influenced by a historical con Shaula Coyl us after the story, "Would you have done the same?" tinuum which provides some illumination about which choices are Moral dilemmas are often very cut and dried in the minds of children not yet conditioned to forestall the emotional more intelligent, more humane, or more effective than others. . Lawrence CUilloping responseintheinterestofananalyticalone. OneofthewrittengoalsofthePitzereducationistoencourageandaidstudents Pitzer College has been more in tuned than most colleges~ I th1_nk, Matt Fehrs in critical thinking, and the debates in the past few years of the relationship between this kind of thinking and social action to the realization that the moment is always now, that h1stoncal Sara Glaser have yet to be resolved. The objectives and guidelines seem to be ones that the college community loosely agrees upon, processes are being formed continually and presently. But t~e Elise Graner but the extent to which they should connect to direct social actions of various sorts is a point of contention. It is almost an tension still exists, perhaps cannot be resolved, about how acadeiT\Jc Nicole Lamphere over-played question: how do we, as students, connect or reconcile our academic work and knowledge with "the outside pursuits, which force a slowing down of the political response in the Jenny Murphy world," or our roles in the public and political world? One answer might be that we make these connections in such a wide favor of gaining knowledge, can or cannot, should or should not feed ZAch Pall variety of ways, in so many forms of action and inaction that a single response would be elusive. But there seems to be a into students' responsibility to the public domain. Al~hough_ ~ne Ad Coordinator: Alice Rogers deeper, older and more historical background to this question in a country that has laid down such egalitarian ideals and ultimate goal may be to equip the emotional response w1th a entical Sarah Byrsk has had such powerful faith in the public citizen. Artists: one sometimes it seems that the critical voice often concludes that Patricia Patzko This month has produced a multitude of stories in the mainstream media regarding race and racism thatcaneasilylead potltical solutions are so difficult to compile. For exampl~, while Photographer: Blythe Miller to sensory overload: Proposition 187, with all of its various frightening and complex off-shoots, articles on the Pioneer Proposition 187 is clearly the wrong solution to th~ econ~n:uc hard Fund's support of anti-Semitic and racist theories and scholarship, and The Bell Curve by the conservative social theorists ships of Southern California, the harder task comes m deodmg what Faculty Advisor: Allen Greenberger Charles Murray and Richard Herrnstein, in which they argue that certain races are intellectually inferior to others. These the better ones are, as individuals and collectively. are just the most noteworthy of the incendiary issues and theories that have cropped up this month regarding race. These I agree with President Massey's statements regarding the need are all separate issues that deserve to be addressed individually and carefully, but I bring them up together because they for students to be freed from certain intellectual roadblocks, to learn Back in the olden days, The Other Side used seem to represent a frightening a historicism when it seems that these issues should have been resoloved by now. "without protective, defining boundaries." Pitzer students would to receive mail and letters to the editor. But at the same time, there is something about Proposition 187, The Bell Curve, and the activities of the Pioneer Fund offer a variety of conclusions as to how effective the College has been Not anymore. We would like to get mail that invite an immediate, gut response. The critical mode is, at least for a split second and sometimes for a more prolonged offering that freedom, but it seems that \itzer does ~ave some period, dulled by such ridiculousness, with the absolute ludicrousness of such policies and theories seeming to blare so allegiance to that model. But, and I don t mean to 1mply that once again, not only for selfish reasons, plainly. There is a well-documented history that debunks the usefulness of racism and theories of biological determinism; President Massey suggests other·wise, it seems that one of the bur but because letters to the editor both there are harrowing and tragic histories that prove the gruesome ends to which they can be taken. These histories may dens of becoming independent thinkers is the reality that freedom regarding articles written in the magazine inform a purely emotional response to these issues, or might prove that they are not so purely emotional after all, but are must eventually give way to an abandonment of some ideas and the and on Pitzer in general provide other grounded by a bleak past of racism and hatred. acceptance of certain moral or ethical positions. So whileass_tuden~ avenues for discussion and dialogue. But the emotional response, though valid, is insufficient, and in fact, it seems that what such theories and policies need we are afforded a great luxury at Pitzer to pon~e~ such ph1losp~JC Please write. is a well-reasoned and historically informed counter-argument. This isn't to discount the attention that Proposition 187, notions, freedom must lead to the tougher dec1s1ons about wh1ch for example, has received in the alternative press and from groups that have organized against it. As time closes in on the critical modes to adopt, which actions to take, and which to let go. The Other Side magazine is a publication of election, resistance pressure against 187 has surely had an effect; the exasperating reality, though, is that the greatest anti- Unlike the way I thought as a third grader, I understand more the students of Pitzer College. The editors 187 victory to be heralded by the mainstream press so far has been the Republican opposition rather than the grassroots fully now the sacrificies Harriet Tubman's, or Cesar Chavez's, or reserve the right to edit or refuse any organizing and demonstrating by Californians, many of them undocumented. MedgarEvars'choicesdemanded. Thepoliticaldecisionsthatpeople One of the characteristic insistencies of the foggy dream world of the U.S. mainstream during the Reagan-Bush Years make, the connections students do or do not make between academ material, although it doesn't happen often. when manyPitzerstudents were growing up was that there were times of urgency in US. history,and that ours wasn't one ics and politics and social lives may just personal and might not be The opinions expressed in this magazine of them. It is interesting that, maybe as a response to the blindness of the recent past, the youth of today seem to be fully comprehendible. There is an amount of mystery to how each do not nC\.--essarily reflect the opinions of convinced that we are living in a particularly daunting and hopeless time. Despite examples even in this century of person is thrust into or puts themselves into the decision _maki~g the editorial staff, or, even, in some cases, devastating historical moments, the economic and spiritual perils of this decade rank at the top of the scale in the process, a certain amount of perplexity about why people 1dent1fy the writers. conversations! hear from most Pitzer students. What seems so contradictory, then, is that theotherdominant theme among with or agree with certain historical positions. Building critical skills college students is that we are so pathetically apathetic. Levels of political action are hard to gauge, and I guess they are helps, but there are otherdeterminations,otheremotional responses, Address any inquiries or responses to: not always proportionate to the amount of disgust held by the citizens of the time. Or, to put it in another way, if this is that these cannot full y explain. The Other Side Magazine a time of such urgency, why is it also a time of such political placidity? Pitzer Box fHS One answer to this would be that there is political mobilization going on, just not in colleges like Pitzer where there might not be too much at stake for the students. Or students as well as the society in general may find "traditional" political c/o Pitzer College Claremont, CA 91711 routes (like voting) lacking. Another answer might be that there are resistances to the pressures of global capitalism going Kim Gilmore
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DEPARTMENTS 2 Editor's Desk THE S Letter to the Editor October?, 1994 To the editor:
Justin Rood quoted me accurately, if not completely, in The Other Side describing my excite Cover photo ment for the new facilities at Pitzer [The Soul of a New (Deuser) Machine, October 4, 1994]. by The tenor of his article reminds of the annual refrain of some Pitzer seniors in describing the Blythe Miller new freshmen at the College. It goes something like, "The new students are very conserva tive this year," or "This college is getting more conservative each year judging by the new students that are here." The irony, of course, is that a few years before the same thing was said about the people who now make the accusation. (Please see the article by Aaron Balkan, Irony was the Shackles of Youth, in the same issue of The Other Side. Evidently, Mr. Balkan has discovered the essence of Pitzer and is even writing about it in his fourth \.veek CoMMUNITY CoNCERNS FICTION/POETRY on campus.) 6 The Environmental Canvas Project 16 TheDa Pitzer will change, as all institutions do, but the basic character that makes this such a special • by justin Rood place will remain for the new members of this community to enjoy. This is because the • by Lawrence Cualoping people who are attracted to the College, including those who lament the change represented 8 Five College Ecology Center 20 If Sweeter a Melody? by the development of new (and first-rate) spaces for students and faculty to carry out their important work. For too long, Pitzer has lacked dedicated space for students to gather, • by Nicole Lamphere • by josh Cohen recreate, and host their friends from other Claremont Colleges. The faculty come from major 9 Congressional Elections '94 research universities to Pitzer in order to dedicate themselves to the undergraduate experi 26 The Secret to Life is ... Slinky ence and for too long have had to do their work in cramped and, in many cases, inadequate • by Aaron Balkan and Dan Ward • by Sara Glaser classrooms, labs, and offices. New and refurbished spaces ought to enhance the relationship Is Education a Public Good? between curricular and co-curricular activities and ought not to hurt the close and informal 10 2 7 In Response to the Slinky contact that Pitzer students have come to expect at the College. • by Marilyn Chapin Massey • by jenny Murphy Finally, in spending so much of his article on my reaction to the new facilities, Mr. Rood 12 Pitzer and Proposition 187 28 Poetry ignores the intelligent work done over the past three and one-half years by others on the • by Kim Gilmore committee who have actually made contributions that make mine pale by comparison. Tom llgen, Sharon Snowiss, Leah Light, John Rodman, Vicke Selk, Fred Arambula, Chris 13 Photo Essay- Ontario Youth Center Freeberg, Barry Sanders, as well as students Ayana Rodriguez and Debra Mucarsal have all • by Blythe lvfiller and Kim Gilmore REVIEWS given generously of their time, expertise, and spirit to the project we see unfolding at Pitzer. We have learned a great deal in the process, including that architecture is something about 21 lv1 usic Review which virtually everybody has a strong opinion. The deep feelings that Pitzer past and • by Zach Pall present conjure up in the hearts and minds of members of this community make some feel as though we are losing something in adding new buildings to the campus. _Early in the 23 Smashing Pumpkins: Pisces Iscariot planning process, we learned something from architect Charles Gwathmey that ought to be EDITORIAL ARTICLES remembered at Pitzer now. When describing the reaction on campus to a building he had • by jonathan Casper designed for another small college, Oberlin, he told the community, "Live in the buildings 23 Tupac: Thug Life for a year and then give me your reactions." I am confident that once the Pitzer ethos 14 The Working Poor envelops the new and refurbished spaces and the attendant landscaping, we will wonder • by Ramzi Abed • by Shaula Coyl how we ever did without them. 2 4 REM: Monster l 7 Death by Assumption Paul Ranslow • by 1-..1att F ehrs Office of Admission • by Aaron Ballwn 25 Pulp Fiction • by Elise Graner
4 N 0 v E M B E R 2 , 1 9 9 4 THE O THER SIDE THE PROPOSAL FOR THE ENVIRONMENTAL CANVAS PROJECT (ECAP)
J uSTIN J. Roon I - Proposal Overview other canvases at present. ll -Definition of iEnvironmental Canvasi Ingrantingcanvas requests, preference would be given Ill -Choosing Canvasses to: IV - Submission of Canvas Requests -First-time canvas artists V -Rights and Responsibilities of Canvas Artists -Co-operative projects VI -The ECaP Panel -Domestic projects (i.e. students creating pieces on their October 21, 1994 own hall, faculty creating pieces on their own buildings} I. Proposal Overview The campus of Pitzer College is unneccesarily, even V. Rights and Responsibilities of Artists Dear Esteemed Member of the Pitzer Community: harmfully, blank. We propose that certain surfaces around The submission of a canvas request by an individual Pitzer College should be designated ienvironmental implies that they are willing to accept the rights and respon I am writing to alert you of a problem that I have only recently noticed myself, a problem that has canvasesiand be loaned to artists in the Pitzer community as sibilities of an environmental canvas artist, and upon ac insinuated itself into every comerof our campus. The problem is so subtle one would never know it was a means to enhance the environment of Pitzer College as cepting a canvas would be accepting said rights and actually there, for the precise reason that it isn't. It is a problem woven so intimately into the fabric of well as strengthen the notion of living within the college responsibilities. Their responsibilities would be the follow our school that it becomes apparent only after severe contemplation-but then, it is startlingly so. community. ing: What I write of, my friends and esteemed members of the Pitzer community, is blank space. Our - To work only within the area defined by the ECaP school is covered with it. Every hallway, every pillar, every wall is a vacuous white that seems to suck ll. Definition of Environmental Canvas Panel and loaned to him/her/them. the life from the buildings in which we work, study, think and live. An "environmental canvas" would be any blanks'Urfa~ - To take the wishes of the local community (i.e. hall, bltilding, school) into account when designing and creating As students and faculty, a~ade~cians ~nd artists, our greatest enemy is the blank page, the that is a part of Pitzer College property considered by its untouched canvas, the empty mmd. It ts peculiar, then, that we choose to surround ourselves with that community (students, faculty and administration) tt> be his/herI their piece. selfsame emptiness. When we have devoted our lives (or part of our lives) to reaching out, down, into unneccessarily blank, and registered as an environmer\tal '· - To agree to and meet deadlines for beginning and the cornucopia of human existence to drag out of it ideas and emotions with which to inform and guide canvas by the ECaP Panel. Possible locations for cantases completing his/her/their piece, not to be more than two our own lives, why do our buildings look like mausoleums? College is a place of life, not death. It is include (but are not limited to): Dormitories, insid~' THE O THER S tDE 7 TilE OTHER SIDE Norberg-Hodge is the author of From deeply about and are active in issues committee meets weekly in the Center the Ground Up and Ancient Futures and of racism, sexism, and the environ upstairs in the Grove House to orga The Five College Ecology Center has Jived in India with traditional cul ment. Some students are simply frus nize and implement theCenter'sgoals. tures working on sustainable agricul trated that they don't have an outlet All students, faculty, and staff are ture and counter-development (often for action and opportunities to get welcome to participate in the meet called sustainable development). involved with an issuetheycareabout. ings.lnterested parties can contact Paul What makes the Ecology Center The Ecology Center will provide that Faulstich at extension 8818 or me, so unique is its fervent dedication to base for students with environmental icole Lamphere, at extension 6050. Blossoms into Being action. Several action groups have al concerns. Better yet, take part in the opening ready formed, including groups for The Ecology Center is open to ev celebration on Friday, November 4th. recycling, composting, purchasing eryone at the Claremont Colleges. A Having been personally involved practices, and more are anticipated in the formulation of the Center, I What began as a spark in the neu Wildlands Project- a North Ameri at the opening reception as well. Rep along with greater participation from cannot conclude this article without rons of one of Pitzer's social responsi can Wilderness recovery plan). The resentativesofPitzerOutdoor Adven theentirecommunity. Although Pitzer commenting on what an inspiring ex bility gurus, Paul Faulstich, has events continue witha lecture by Burks tures (POA) will have an information College has attempted to foster this perience it has been working with sprouted into existence with the help on "The New Conservation Move booth as a symbol of the group's inter value of social action since its incep people dedicated to change. Whether of Pitzer's fertile soil-students and ment" at the Performing Arts space in est in positiveenvironmentalactionas tion thirty years ago, generalizations you are dedicated or lazy (because faculty with an innate will for respon the Broad Center (corner of 12th and well as recreation. are often made discrediting Pitzer by there are one or two lazy students at sible action. The new Ecology Center Mills) at 2:00pm. Immediately follow The Ecology Center plans to main the other colleges as well as by the Pitzer) the Ecology Center promises has appropriated space common to ing the lecture, at 3:30pm, a reception tain a high profile in the coUege com students and faculty of Pitzer itself, to be accessible to all, offering oppor the Bert Meyers Poetry Room at the will be held at the Ecology Center in munity throughout the year, and the main generalization being Pitzer tunitiesrangingfromservicetripsand Grove House-the room upstairs and the Grove House where one will be hopefully for years to come. The Cen students are lazy and apathetic. action groups, to a film/lecture series adjacent to the HinshawGallery- and able to mingle with members of the ter wiJI be sponsoring workshops and I would argue that the converse is to keep the issues under constant dis plans to burst forth into the Claremont community in a relaxing atmosphere, lectures on environmental issues, and true of this generalization. I know cussion. There is much to celebrate on Pitzer students who get up every the opening da_y-and all warm bodies morning at 8:00 am and who care are welcome. ..J Republican control of the House perhaps still a glimmer in Newt's eye by Aaron Balkan and Dan Ward With mid-term congressional elections approach party .,.,,i111ose4-5 seats in the House and 5-6 seats in the ing, a prominent topic on every political observer's lips Senate. is predicting how many seats the Republicans will gain We don't expect these figures to be exact (or in the in the House and Senate. That the Republicans will case of the House, even close). The p redictions take into pick up seats is a virtual certainty. In every mid-term account normal and blind conditions across the board. college community with an inaugural pick up literature on future Ecology providing service trips to restore or election since the Civil War, with the exception of 19.3-1, While the Senate losses may be viable, the House losses celebration on Friday, November 4. Center activities, purchase the book dean-up damaged local ecologies, and the President's party has lost congressional seats. Re will probably be more drastic. Most political analysts The events surrounding the open Place ofthe Wild, and view the art in the keep a close eye on the sustainability publicans are predicting majorities in both the House predicting anywhere from 15-20 scats. house celebration will begin with a Hinshaw Gallery selected by commit of practices on the campuses. The Cen and the Senate after the November 8 election, but they In calculating such figures, especially in the case of lunch and discussion at CMC's Ath tee members of the Ecology Center for ter wilJ also act as just that, a center may be disappointed. the House predictions, one of the more heavy factors is enaeum at 11:30am with David Clark environmentally pertinent themes. and clearinghouse for environmental Statistical models developed by political scientists the state of the economy in the decision of voters. While, Burks, editor of the recently published (Theart exhibit will run in the Hinshaw information including info on com find that the best predictors of midterm seat loss are figures boast an economic upturn during the first two Place of the Wild, an anthology of wil Gallery from October 31 through No munity-based internships in environ Presidential Popularity, as measured my Gallup Polls, years of Clinton's administration, this message has ob derness writings including essays by vember 4th and the dosing reception mental fields, and current ecological and the state of the economy as measured by changes viously not reached the voters who either do not believe Gary Snyder, Terry Tempest Williams, for the exhibit will coincide ·with the issues and concerns. in real disposable income. The more\popular the that economy is improving, haven't felt it themselves, or and Pitzer's own professor of Envi Ecology Center's opening reception). Plans are in the works to have President and the more robust the economy, the fewer simply are leaning towards other issues in this particu ronmental Studies, Paul Faulstich. Save the Planet, a merchant in the Helena Norberg-Hodge come in the the number of seats the President's party is expected to lar issue. Mainstream publications, such as the Los (Proceeds from the book will go to The Claremont Village, will have a booth spring to give a lecture. Helena lose. Angeles Times, have noted tha! voters are ?imply not Students in Political Studies 101, The U.S. Electoral looking at economic issues in this particular election. System, have entered the data for 1994 into the com Consequently, the model used in PS 101 may not work BY NICOLE LAMPHERE monly used model and predict that the Democratic in 199-l. :l 8 N 0 V E M 8 E R :2, I 9 9 4 THE OTHER SIDE 9 THE OTHER SIDE There are many ways we can view The most essential art of human our systems of economic, political, and freedom is the freedom to make mean EDUCATION IS THE ONLY social organization which go into mak ing in our individual and collective ing the public good. One way is as a lives. To have a just and equitable PLACE IN WHICH THIS balance or conflict of interest: private society, to have a public good we must TRA SFORMATION OF DE versus public, economic versus social, talk together, labor together, to connect body versus soul. We see competing our arts of making meaning. SPAIR TO HOPE CAN OCCUR, We should not see the public good interests, and we see imbalances in A D OUR EDUCATIONAL power and resources among individu asanabstractfinished things. We must als and groups. seeitasthat which wecreateby fanning SYSTEM MUST BE STRONG The following speech was given by President Massey at the It is also important for us to put on bonds with one another. AND ENERGETIC ENOUGH TO Hispanic Association of Colleges and Universities Conference the lenses that let us see the dynamic The philosopher and religion in Anaheim, California on October 10, 1994. and changing interdependencies. ln scholar Cornel West contends that there INSPIRE AND INVIGORATE most of our history of the West, being is a frightening presence in our con THE WORLD'S WEARIEST. most ethical, being most good, and be temporary cultural "closet." He calls ing most supportive of the public good this presence a "misanthropic skel I speak to you today as the president of a college, as a philosopher of religion, have been associated with conflict and eton"; this skeleton is despair about table "metal," with sharp, discrimina and as an activist and theoretician. I answer our question, "Yes, education is a identified with the willingness to die "the capacity of human beings to do tion edges, can exclude human mean public good, a good that must be supported by the state." for the principle. The ethical has car anything right.. .to solve any problem."1 ings from past or present cultures and First, r will describe the ancient, Western ideal of the good as defined by Plato, ried with it a military and martial ideaL The skeleton-<>r, as I have previ even deny that whole groups of hu a philosopher enthusiastically espoused by Allan Bloom in his now famous book, Weadmire the willingness to give one's ously named it, this demon-is a prod mans have ever made meaning. Such The Closing of the American Mind. Second, I will describe my own ideal of the public life for a principle or a public. But, why uct of a world weariness, a bone edges of disciplines become swords, good in contrast to Plato's (and Bloom's) and explain why education is necessary to have we not equally valued the will tiredness at the end of this twentieth prohibiting humans today from mak its reality. Next, I will explain why this ideal is so hard to realize in our contempo ingness to live one's life with the pa century/ a century constantly turned ing meaning. rary society and why those responsible for the lack of support of education can tience, pain, and generosity necessary genocidal, a century of ethnic conflict We must be ever vigilant to avoid readily appeal to a false concept of the public good. And, finally, I will give an to give to life and nurture it? We do not gone too often to the extreme of ethnic thisextreme. Toensurethateachofour example of education that creates the public good at my own institution. yet know how to value as a necessary cleansing. Ours is a century of revolu students has equal freedom to make For the Western philosopher Plato, "the Good," as the true, was divine, good our working together was life tions that at its finale seems simply to symbols her or his own, to be self transcendent of time and space. That which was ideal had no body, or material gives to build communities and to ex be turning back to the brutal national directed, to create in the act of know element. The immaterial, or spiritual, was inevitably corrupted, or diminished, by tend this type of collaboration to the istic politics of its beginning. In con ing, we must face the demon. We must the material and finite; the latter introduced qualification and difference into an public realm. fronting this, as West contends, we need be vulnerable to the human pain and ideal that, in tum, was made partial, no longer whole. Education provides us with the arts to make an "audacious attempt to gal injustice that creates the demon while What happens to this concept of the Good when it is applied to the public, a of human freedom. In ancient Greece, vanize and energize, to inspire and to changing its grimace of despair. political collective? What happens to it when we "people" it?Thisconceptexcludes where these arts were first named, the invigorate world-weary people."3 We It is in this confrontation and resis as much as it includes because we, the people, are particular and different; we have space of learning was bounded. It was need places to let this demon ofdespai r tance that makes education today so material and finite bodies. Inevitably, some bodies are valued as more perfect than the space of free persons, contrasted to out. We need to face it, and transform arduous and so vulnerable to the lack others; female bodies, bodies whose skin color looks different than that of the elite and set off from others, slaves. The its face to hope. 4 of financial support in the name of the group are viewed as less than perfect, as not really belonging. space of learning had boundaries, ex Education is theonlyplacein which public good. In truth, the freedom to Indeed, for Plato, higher education was a public good, a right of the free person, cluding those to whom freedom was this transformation of despair to hope makemeaningisidentical \-vith thechal that is, the already free person in a public that allowed for slavery. thought not due. can occur, and our educational system lengeofconstitutinga just society. Only I give you this brief history of ancient thought to say that education as a public Here and now in this contempo must be strong and energetic enough when we have that freedom can we good cannot be an abstract ideal, divorced in any way from our particularities and rary space, we carry on the centuries to inspire and invigorate the world's humans configure in just, generous, differences. An ideal that is transcendent of all people is dangerous, and it will old tradition of learning and practicing weariest. and good human groups, only then can certainly exclude some people. the arts of human freedom, but we If we are to have a wide-eyed con we have a public good. :::l We need to see the public good, not as a permanent principle but as a work in must do so without protective, defining frontation with the demon of despair, progress. We need to understand it as the cohesion we make out of the interdepen boundaries. We must learn the arts of weeducators must admit that we some 1Comel West, Prophetic Thought in Postmodun dencies of all theparticularsofall we, the people. It is not a static ideal to which each freedom with the express purpose of times build exclusionary boundaries in Ti~ (Monroe, Me.: Common Courage Press, of us must conform or a small remnant of an abstract humanity that exists in us extending and expanding the practice our institutions. These boundarieshave 1993). 6. somewhere, way, way inside and that we all have in common. The public good is of human freedom to all. And this included the very tools of our training, ~Vest addresses the near inevitability of this world ·wearmess: NBecause that is what we are. our active making of connections with one another from the most local to the most purpose makes learning extraordinar our disciplines. When the rigors of global level. We are world weary; we are tired.• (Prophetic ily demanding. It demands that we learn disciplines are taken too far, they con Thought) 6. to locate ourselves as a particular, finite strain, confine, and even punish. While -'Ibid. 4 point in a nearly infinite mosaic, a net meaning on one level merely a branch ( am, in part. paraphrasing West and going work of relations that extends to each of instruction, the term "discipline" on beyond his more cautious urging. "Weary, and other not only in this space, but also another can also mean "the order keep alive the notion that history is incom around the globe, and extends in na maintained ...among the inmates of a plete.. . and what we thmk and what we do can ture to the millions of species around prison," and also "punishment inflicted make a difference.~ (Prophetic Thought) 6. us and beyond into the vast reaches of by the way of... training.. .''5 ~ CompGct Ed ilion of IJ-.L Oxford Diclionvy, space. Taken to extremes, intellectual dis (1971) s.v. "discipline.• cipline, when seemingly cast in intrac- 10 N 0 V EM B E R 2, I 9 9 4 THE O THER S IDE I 1 THE OTHER SIDE Campaign '94: Proposition 187 On November 8th, Californians will vote on several important propositions, the most controversial of which is Proposition 187. Proposition 187, if passed, and upheld by superior courts, would mandate that: . 1) every doctor, school administrator, and police officer report everyone to the INS who they suspect of being undocumented and who cannot prove their residential status, 2) public schools check the immigration status of all children and their families. If the students or their families cannot prove residential status they will be immediately expelled. (This is one portion of the Proposition that is clearly unconstitutional. In 1982, the U.S. Supreme Court declared that all children including the children of undocumented people, have the right to an education. 3) all hospitals and doctors licensed by the State of California are forbidden from providing preventative health care to anyone suspected of being undocumented and who cannot verify their status. These patients, in addition, must also be turned in to the INS. The word "suspected" which crops up in the Proposition again and again, has an eerily familiar tone, one which a few These photographs were taken at the decades ago was used to criminalize innocent people. There is an added dimension of racism that is connected with this Ontario Youth Center earlier this month. Sev kind of procedural enforcement, one which will probably be based on phenotype and the exterior make-up of suspects. eral Pitzer students are doing internships and In the past month, anti-immigrant sentiments in California have reached a crescendo, \vith political candidates and working on activities at the Center, which is coalitions declaring war on immigrants. Anti-187 activism has been gaining momentum, with marches and demonstra located beneath Pitzer's Ontario Education tions being organized all over Southern California. The largest demonstration to date took place on October 16 in Outreach Center. Pitzer classes are currently dO INn town L.A. Police sources estimate that 70,000 people took to the streets to protest 187, \vith the organizers of the march meeting in the Center, \vhich is meant to ex and the newspaper LA Opinion putting the turnout between 150,000 to 200,000. Coalitions have been organizing against the pand into a resource center and outlet for measure, and several Democratic and Republican politicians have made statements against it. Additionally, high school infom1ation for members of the Ontario com students in several Southern California high schools have staged walkouts in protest. munity. The Center also provides proximity Pitzer has passed its own resolution opposing 187, and has been added to lists put together by the American Civil to internship sites for Pitzer students, and Liberties Union and Taxpayers against 187, both of which are in opposition to the proposition. The resolution of Pitzer allows for a space off-campus through which College states, in full: to explore classroom educational methods. P ITZER C OLLEGE RESOLUTIO Whereas, Pitzer College has stated in its Educational Objectives that the institution is dedicated LO the exami nation of social consequences and ethical implications of knowledge and action; and Whereas, the Educational ObjeCLives include the promotion of intercultural and international understanding; and Whereas, the Pitzer College community is committed to evaluating the effects of individual actions and social poliCies and to take responsibility for making the world in which we live a bener place; and Whereas, Proposition 187 represents a challenge to, as well as an opportunity to apply, the Educational Objec tives of the College; Therefore, be it resolved that the Pitzer College Council, as the representative body of the college, urges the entire college community to become well informed about this proposition and to consider its threats to per sonal freedom and civil rights. Further be it resolved that we view passage of Proposition 187 as a violation of Constitutional guarantees to equal protection and civil rights. I 3 1'2 N 0 v E M B E R '2, I 9 9 4 THE OTH ER SID E THE OTH ER SIDE budget their contribution to my college edu cation. I wanted him to be on their end of the telephone when we speak for half an hour each Sunday; no more, or the bill will be too What About the high. I wanted him to start lecturing that pov erty is more than food stamps, public health clinics and laundromats. I wanted him to start lecturing more often that poverty is also My parents raised me in the very conservative, economically depressed two people working too hard to earn just area of Southern Oregon. Our livelihood has depended on the timber industry enough to live and still having to worry for as long as I can remember and so I have always walked the line between the whether or not something will happen to the environmental stance expected of liberals in my part of the world and the car. Or that somebody will get sick. Or that knowledge that this stance could cost my father his job. I had expected that my somebody will need new shoes or clothes or views wouldcrystallizewhileatcollegeand I would be free of this conflict Not glasses. so. Icontinuetoponderthisquestionand haveevendiscovereda new division. I wanted him to know, first hand, the dirt I am now caught between my role as one of the many outspoken members of gathered in the hard-earned crinkles at the the Pitzer community and that of a student depending on a generous financial corners of my father's eyes and thesightof my aid package. This requires me to try to balance the well-meant, socially minded mother's fingers vie\-vs on the life of a non-affluent person with my own experiences as the child as she stretched of lower-middle class people. them, relaxing When I arrived at Pitzer College last fall, I was used to the notion that my after a night of family did not have much money. It was an accepted part of my life that there counting other were simply some things I could not have becausetheywerenotaffordable. No people's money. by questions asked. If it was not outrageously unaffordable, my parents or I might I realize that save up for it; if it was, we didn't get it. he might actually Shaula I never fully appreciated the skill it took to keep a budget until I was have known accepted to a college that cost (at that time} $25,000+ per year. Once I accepted, some of these CoyI I had to watch my parentswait and worry, trying to figure out what they would things first hand, do if my financial aid package was not sufficient. Thankfully, the financial aid but his argu package was enough; but just barely. Since then, I have watched them twice in ments, like those their yearly ritual of rearranging money to help pay the rising cost of my college of many other education. well-meaning As I was saying, this didn' t sink fully into my self-absorbed 18-year-old people here, lack head until I arrived here. Suddenly, I was in a world where many parents were conviction. They paying the full price of tuition plus expenses without, apparently, batting an .. are the argu eye. There was never any type of direct alienation-nobody was ever rude or ... .:: PREACHJ;~~ ments of socially unkind to me because I had less money- I would just hear things that made minded upper me stop and look for a second at what some people considered casual pursuits middle to upper (trips to Europe, new cars, etc.). During orientation, I talked to people who had class people and that doesn't make them any traveled or had, what seemed to me, other exciting experiences during the less valid, just more theoreticaL They are the summer. My summer working in a pizza parlor for kids seemed dull in arguments of people who do not have to comparison. depend on money from work study jobs, who I had pretty much adjusted to this state of affairs by the end of my first year aren't concerned about the size of their phone and I thought that it probably wouldn't present any kind of a shock in my bills, and who are fairly certain that they will second year. How wrong I was. I was sitting in a class, listening to a professor be able to return next year if they so desire. lecture and he began speaking indignantly about the "working poor." These If I did take this professor to my home, poor wretches working long hard hours just to make ends meet. I realized with did set him down across from my parents so he could fire out his hard-hitting questions, I don' t know that they would have a response. They might look at the man, formulating an swers with their tired but quick minds and give up the effort as the day's fatigue caught up with them. They might even excuse them selves and go to bed, leaving the man to ponder his hard-hitting questions. It wouldn't be rudeness if they did this, nor a lack of ? interest; sometimes people are just too tired to I argue.O 1 4 N o v E M n E R 2, 1 9 9 4 TH E OTH ER SID E 1 5 THE OTHER SIDE The Da paced back and forth. His It wasn't hard to get a college edu They lived in a small apartment just 1994 has been a banner year for the eyes were looking down at his toes, his cation in the old country. There were right for a family of three. Pretty soon, famed HN virus. The World Health face fixed in a worried grimace. His many graduates that year. People were they had another child, born in America, Organization claims that it is well on hands were clasped behind his back, so proud of him for graduating early. the first United States citizen of the it's way to infecting it's 40 millionth holding a rolled-up newspaper. The His father had died during his fresh family. TheDa had been working as a victim world wide. The CDC predicts Da had been acting strange lately, wor man year in college. Through blood manager for a small Irish-owned tex that there are anywhere from 750,000 ried about something that the children and sweat, he was able to hold a full tile company. Half the workers were to 1 million people infected with the were not allowed to know. Martin time job at the butcher's shop, at the Irish illegal imrnigrants.Halfthepeople virus in the United States. Researchers watched his father cross the smallliv- same time going to night school to in Irish bars that he went to were illegal and Scientists now say that a vaccine gradu immigrants.So far they had been spared may not be found in our lifetime and a ate with the wrath of the Customs Service, but cure, perhaps never. And all over the a busi now that might change. world, people are getting tested for the nessde The night wore on; just before mid dreaded "AIDS virus" only to find out gree in night the Da returned. He threw the that they are positive, and going home o n 1 y door open and rushed into the house. and killing themselves. And here we three His face was pale Y.rith fear. His wife are. years. jumped, startled at her husband's sud The root of the AIDS epidemic is There den return. Without a word, he ran into firmly planted in the "common knowl were the bedroom. His wife trailed behind edge" of HN as it's sole cause. Every h i g h him, a million questions racing through mainstream book, newspaper, maga hopes her head but none of them escaping her zine, television show, "Safe Sex" pam for him. lips. The Da grabbed a suitcase and phlet, and episode of Donahue that TheDa flopped it on the bed. He then started every mentions the word AIDS is based imme emptying their drawers. on the theory of HN as the sole cause of a s1tort story by Lawrence Cualoping diately "Get Martin and Grace, we have to AIDS. Scientists and researchers world applied leave now!" his eyes were dead seri wide base their every move on the "fact'' to many ous. that HIV causes AIDS. Billions of dol compa She ran and grabbed her children lars are poured into AIDS research to ing room many times. Even though he nies, but they could not accept him. He from their beds. Martin felt excited at study HIV in hopes of developing a was only nine years old, he could couldn't find any whit~ollar jobs that first but the fear in his parents was vaccine or a cure. National campaigns notice the Da's anxiety. his degree supposedly guaranteed him leaking into him. Grace, only two years aimed at educating middl~lass het "Stay here, I'm going for a drink!" to have. There was no choice but to old, was rubbing her eyes, too con erosexuals keep them trembling in their said the Da, throwing the newspaper sadly continue his career of being an fused to be scared or excited. condoms as they instilJ the fairy-tale down onto the table. Before his wife overqualified butcher's assistant. 'The police raided the pub. They gone wrong story of Magic Johnson could protest, he left the house to drown When his brothers had finally fin started rounding up everyone, but I into their horny little skulls. The HIV his sorrows in beer. ished studying, and all of them had slipped out the back. They might be test has become a rite of passage for Martin picked up the paper and low-paying but stable jobs, he married. here any minute!" the Da chattered as healthy prosperous adults to find out if studied the headlines. More deaths in After Martin was born, he soon real he stuffed children' s clothes into the they are going to die or not. Question Haiti, O.J. Simpson found ... Prop. 187 ized that he could not afford to give his suitcase. ing the validity of HIV as the cause of passed. Martin could not understand family a good life on a mere butcher's There was a knock on the front AIDS is like questioning whether or why adults like to read the newspaper salary. Many Irish college graduates door. Everyone froze. The Da bravely not the earth is round. Even the Aat all the time. It's always filled with bad moved to France, Italy, Germany, moved to open it. In a nightmare, there Earth Society knows that. Right? news, he didn't know why people en America and some even went to En was a police officer at the door. It was HIVhasneverbeenproventocause joyed bad news at aiL He tugged on his gland, all to find good jobs. TheDa had dark and the officer seemed to be look AIDS. mother's skirt. He wanted to find out a cousin who went to the United States ing down. A street lamp in the back The argument within the scientific mans, infecting anywhere from 1 in Health's) role in findinga curefor AIDS. what was troubling the Da so much. as a tourist but never came home. The ground projected an evil silhouette. The community against the HIV theory has 10,000to 1 in 100,000ofthebody'scells. Their money, your money, my money, His mother spoke calmly and slowly, family supposed that he was success officer looked up, red eyes glowing been around as long as the discovery of HJV was discovered by French Scien is used solely for research into HN. In trying to repress any emotion she felt. ful in blending in and was now earning beneath his cap. He pushed his way in, the virus itself, receiving next to no tist Luc Montagnier in 1984 in what order for the federal government and She explained to Martin that he might a lot oi money from manual labor jobs. more officers following, their night attention from the mainstream media. most scientists consider to be one of the agencies to maintain support for HIV, not have a school to go to anymore. She The money he sent home helped a lot. sticks were already drawn. The police As early as 1984, scientists all over the sloppiest discoveries ofall time. Amidst which translates into dollars, they must then proceeded to say other stuff that The Da decided to do it. The family fanned out to the different rooms. One world were speaking out against the intense social and political pressure keep a tight lid on any theory, treat they won't enjoy anymore but Martin scrimped and saved for their trip to the policeman grabbed the mother to pull virus as the "sole" cause of AIDS, argu from the United States and other coun ment, breakthrough, etc. that my con didn't hear it. All he knew was that he U.S. They got tourist visas for the three her to the deportation truck. The Da's ing that such a virus was too poor a ties, HIV was patented, packaged, and flict with the HIV party line. As didn' t have to go to school anymore. of them and in two months were all set anger rose ina split second. He shouted candidate to cause a disease like AIDS. sold before they even had a chance to disturbing as it is, it has most likely He was overjoyed at the prospect of to go.l t might be the last time for any of angrily, commanding the officer to Jet The HIV virus is one of the most harm prove it. becomeacaseofmaintainingthestatus unlimited free time. His mother saw them to see their homeland but the goal his wife go. He heard a loud crack and less and fragile of all human viruses. It In order to comprehend the sheer quo first, and helping AIDS last. Is it the sudden happiness in her son's eyes. to live comfortably was more impor at once he was on the floor. His wife is a retrovirus, which is unique to one importance of the anti-HIV movement, any wonder that brilliant scientists, like She smiled a little, trying to keep her tant than patriotism. screamed but the officers ignored her particular species, and have been, one must first understand the role of Peter Duesburg who has pioneered sadness buried. It would all work out, Their jump was successful. They'd and shoved her out the door. 1artin throughout history, the most fragile the federal government, particularly much of Anti-HIV theory, and was at she hoped it would. been living comfortably ever since. (contillued 0 11 page 30) and harmless viruses known to hu- the NIH' s (National Institute of one time held in high regard by the 16 N 0 V E M B E R :2, I 9 9 4 THE O T H E R SIDE I 7 THE OTHER StDE federal government, has been not only kept quiet for so long, she has tested "HIV positive." She is immediately placed on that. What 20-20 or Donahue never It has asked time and time again samepeoplewhoarepushingHIVcan't but ultimately ignored by the mainstream media. AZT, and within a year develops "AIDS-like" symptoms, tells us about Magic Johnson, or AIDS why the HIV virus affects (and infects) answer these questions either; but they The motives behind a single-virus theory represent a and eventually dies shortly thereafter. AZT is one of the at all for that matter, is that there are menand womeninsuchdifferentways. expect you to take them as truth, and desire within the scientific community to conjure up a very most toxic drugs on the American market, and one of a thousands of people living in this coun If it is truly a virus, it makes no distinc buy their theories, buy their drugs, and simple answer to a very complex problem. There are over 30 handful "approved" by the federal government. It also has try, peoplewhowerenot HIV-positive, tion based on sex. HTV, or AIDS does. buy their new cars. Is it any wonder the different types of"AIDS" or symptoms associated with the a price tag of anY""•here from $5,000 to $10,000 dollars per but had developed full-blown AIDS, The numbers prove that it does. But most "esteemed" HIV theorist will disease; yet we are led to believe that one single virus, that treatment. AZT destroys bone marrow1 the place where who have successfully reversed the ef this would conflict with the HIV theory. never debate, or acknowledge an HlV requires special equipment find it outside of the body, material for irnmune-<:ells are made in the first place, and fects of AIDS on their body. Not Scientists have discovered HIV skeptic. They wouldn't know what to causes all of these things. causes severe anemia. It's manufactured by a few large through AZf, or DOl, or any other antibodies in blood samples from the do. The truth is, the HlV theory is The"global" definitions of AIDSareextremelyvague. corporations, who have made numerous attempts, success regulated poison, but through alterna 1950s and 1960s, yet Robert Gallo and custom-tailored to the USA Today, They allow for almost anybody to be pinned to the label of fully, to keep other AIDS-treatment drugs out of this coun- tive an holistic drugs that they most the "Patient Zero" theorists would us soundbyte, 8-second O.J. "AIDS victim." Take try. likely paid for themselves. The sad to believe that it was a gay man who Simpsonsection of our population for example, an out Why truth is, AZT has been totally recog brought AIDS to the United States. whichisunfortunatelymostofus. What break of cholera in a would a nized, even by the federal government Could AIDS have been around longer a convenient idea. The bare facts, are third-world country. healthy, symp and the most brain-washed HIV sup than we knew. Perhaps; but this would the bare facts. Nothing else to it, Instead ofimproving tom-free indi porter, for it's toxic and deadly effects. conflict with the HIV theory. HlV=death. Now change the channel. sanitation, or the vidual be put Yet the federal government continues Why do some people test HIV posi There is a very basic aspect of the country's water sup on such a toxic to hand it out like candy, to desperate tive, only to find that in a later test, they HN theory that is the most disturbing ply, HIV-enthusiasts and deadly people who don't know any better. are HIV negative. Why are thousands to me. It not on1y represents a desire to likeRobertGallosay, drug. Well, if How convenient. of people diagnosed with AIDS in this conjure up such simple answers, but "Oh,cholera isanop you test posi The AZTI government connection country, butareHJV negative? But this the HIV theory is too easy. It allows portunistic infection tive for the is aU but the tip of a great proverbial would conflict with the HIV theory? people to believe that they can slip up of AIDS." They test "AIDS virus" iceberg, and represents the kind of mo Why has fl\e heterosexual predic once, that they can engage in 25 sec a few people (usu that inevitably nopolistic iron fist that AZf enthusi tion that was at on~ time estimated at 1 onds of unprotected sex, get a virus ally with a com causes death; asts,andHIVtheoristshaveonscientific in 3 heterosexuals '.infected by 1990, and die. While this could be remotely pletely different test youaregoingto research towards AIDS. As of now, in failed to materialize anyv.•here near it's true, does it really make sense? What than we would use take anything order for a scientist to get funding for predictions?•WhyhaSr\'tthevirusmade about our lifestyles? Our diet? Our in America, ones that is going to an AIDS-related study he must some it's way iftto the straight population stress? Our drugs? What about the where an HIV-posi prolong your how prove that their particular study, like it wa"9'St1f>POsed fo? What about immunosuppressive activities that we tive test in a country inevitable is consistent with the federal prostitutes \vho have sex with hun engage in as every day occurrences. like Africa would not death, espe government's stance on AIDS; which is dreds of infected partners and are to AIDS is an immuno-suppressive dis be an HIV-positive cially if it's the HlV as the sole cause. Therefore, if a tally healthy, and HIV negative? This ease. It destroy's our immune system. test in the United only one Uncle scientist wishes to research a legitimate would conflict Y..rith the HIV theory. As American'severythingwedo weak States), find HIV, Sam will pick question of AIDS, and it conflicts with I don' t have the answers to these ensourimmunesystem. PerhapsAIDS and bingo, they've up the tab. AZT the federal government's ''HIV only'' questions. But either do they! The (continued on page 30) got a new epidemic enthusiasts policy, he can count on financ to sell to us: "AIDS have been ing it out of his own pocket CASES RAGING pushing the book. OUT OF CONTROL drug for So just what kind of crack IN BLAH BLAH healthy HIV pot "legitimate" questionscould BLAH. ONE I positive indi they possibly ha~? FIVE BELIEVED TO 'I fXJ 50LE/1NI.Y 5WCAR 77/AT .11/V /5 711£ viduals forever. BE INFECfED." 5oLE CAliSE OF AIOS, ANP .r WILL vr>!Klt.O There was even There hasbeen' a huge move This method a time when IIIV:S KIGIIT roBE m£ avE ANt:> ONLY... " ment to explain \1Jhy the major of mapping the AIDS they were ity of AIDS patients who have epidemic has been pushing the died can be categorized as drug accused of grossly overexaggerating the AIDS cases in a drug for HIV-negative persons of high-risk groups. Can users. No only IV drug users, country like Africa to promote the HIV theory. Es}X'Cially you imagine putting a completely healthy adult on a toxic buthardnarcoticandstreetdrug amongst theskepticallow-riskgroupsin this country, where drugthatdestroy'sbonemarrow? AZThasrepeatedlybeen users. Drug users, and junkies HIV figures have been a bit "unimpressive." Most people accused of killing patients, and not AIDS. But you don't hear havebeendyingof AIDS-related don't know what's going on in Africa, all they know is that that on 20-20. symptoms for years, failing to they see a lot of emaciated sick children on CDF commer I don't think there is a single AIDS patient, who may fit be acknowledged. It has been cials. HIV enthusiasts know that they can use Africa to intotheobscene'1ong-termsurvivor" category(asifanyone suggested that the massive rise generate support for their theory, by scarring the crap out of who lives more than 10 years is an exception), who has of immune-suppressive drugs any heterosexuaL successfully completed AZT treatment Look at Magic in the seventies is responsible It's a damn good thing that AZfissoexpensive,and Johnson, perhaps one of the single most important figure in for AIDS, and that this disease they don't hand it out like candy to all the sick AIDS victims the advancement of the HIV theory; do you think he takes could be a reflection of one's in Africa, like they do in the United States. Take for example, AZT? I seriously doubt he could coach the Los Angeles lifestyle, not a virus. But this a healthy woman who goes to the doctor and finds out that Lakers if he did. Yes, Magic johnson may be fine now, but would conflict with the HIV any second, he could just get sick and die, right? Just like theory. I 8 N o v E M n E R :2, 1 9 9 4 TH E O T II E R S IDE 19 TtiE OTHER SIDE -rT 1-WEEt£~ a mElody? I by josh Cohen More "music" reviews. And the music de political lyrics. Great stuff which was follmved scribed within is going to be reaching the fur by a gig doing the music behind William S. thest definitions of what music can and should Burroughs on his last album (Spare Ass Annie) Wherein, the most noble of laureates shnll seek ''KLANGGGGGGGG!!!!" The sound stopped actually be. So while thereviewsarenothingout which turned out to work perfectly together inspiration so as to humble even the greatest of my puckered lips abruptly; As did my forward of the ordinary, (I persist in this idea that music although it seems like a very strange mix. So it Muses. Within these passages, weaves an intri motion when your skull cracked firrnly against the reviews or reviews of any art are just not really is because of the past of Michael Franti that I metal frame sheathing my bed. Imagine my sur worth it but none the less, I am here and that is wanted to hear this so badly. cate tale of tragic love, tenderest of sorrows known prise. I could imagine yours. what I am doing) much of the music herein is I got this new album with the highest by all who'd aspire to its lofty heights- Catlike, I acted, and with a strength reserved for pretty damn intense. Actually, for all of my of expectations and as often happens, those drastic needs, attempted to lift your now upside words about how much I have to be selling my expectations were not quite realized. Still, the You knocked on the door, and I strove cool and down figure away from the frame. I smiled at the own soul to do this, I actually really enjoy doing album keeps growing on me. In style it seems confident to open it. I looked positively charming, ease with which you rose, until my success found these reviews and I have some ideas about what a lot like some of the pretty mellm... • Arrested smelling of Lauren's safari and feeling powerfully you hanging a lofty three feet from the ground. I should do in the future- things like my own Development-esque stuff. At it's worst mo stalwart after a brisk afternoon workout. I turned Nonetheless, my noble act was halted when I lost take on end of the year "best of... " lists or trying ments, the raps seem a little bit cheezy and the the doorknob, noticing that my palms weren't per- grip on your blouse causing you to slip from my to write these reviews in the same style that musicisa bit too standard for my tastes. At its spiringin the least. I had an intimate, shameless air grasp headfirst, in stark amazement, towards the many of the artists tend to write liner notes. Any best, itcapturessomeof theintrospective, beau about me. meagerly padded concrete floor. Needless to say, feedback on these ideas is appreciated. tiful moments which the Disposable Heroes There you stood against a fiery backdrop of the second "KLANG!!!!" didn'tsurprisemeasmuch had. And in those few moments it actually hazy, red, setting star, thelooselocksofaubum as the first had. seems like an improvement over the Dispos hair shimmering in perfect harmony with able Heroes. your large, sad eyes. I was arrested by your I spoke to you once again after that. It was at the Moving on, I have to admit that I have a beauty, falling into a soft, flowery trap from trial, I'm sure, and although there was a particular certain fascination \vtthcompilationsofall sorts. which I would never wish to leave. harshness in your tone, and a bit of excessive curs They are a great way to expand one's musical Arrested so, Oh! But what a sultry crime! ing, I couldn't help but notice something behind base in directions which already appeal to you I paused a moment to catch my your deep, sad eyes. It was late into the proceedings, and allow you to decide on whether you want breath..... There, now finally I felt worthy to during my sentencing I believe, when our eyes met to actually want togooutand spend the money gaze upon your magnificent form, etched for the last time. A glimpse was all that I needed to on the full CD or tape. SpaceDazeisa new 2CD seductively within the blackest marble. see yet a tenderness behind... compilation putoutonCieopatra Record which, 1 Your clothes appeared to be skin ..... That thin rnachace' mask of vulgarity, although the music fits together fairly well, is I tight and wet in the Sun's Beckoned me to a gentle memory, still a very strange collection of groups from all sundrenched waterfall of light. Of you and I in days of long past. sorts of musical genres. Supposedly the com ~ It was just a moment, yet it Days before our lives went to waste. pilation traces the development of "ambient ~ Before the bodyguards and lawyers fees, space rock" which is supposed to include things ~~~~~' ~ S:~~r~~e~~~:~~ion~~~ Before we so trembled on bucking knees, like early Pink Floyd and mid-70s Prog (pro ~~)L ~ theprecisionofasurgeon's Uke unripe children fearing much, gressive) Rock to some of the ambient techno t-" smooth splice. To giggle when our lips first touched. So I figure that since I have given this huge I) .~ "Are you ready to The warm mornings of youthful innocence, warning about how strange and out-there the , ?:::::::::::?" go?" Ah, if sweeter a Unaware love came calling senselessness, music I'm going to revie\v is, that I would start --...... -...-~ .... --- melodythereever\vas? To land soft upon our ears deafened, with another rap album. "Critically acclaimed" "Come on," you turned A moment a friend was only a friend. is a good descriptio n of the new album from slowly as you sang, Spearhead caJledHome(Capital Records). Spear "Let's go." You looked head is the new group led by Michael Franti so delicious with your back which is more or less why I am reviewing this turned to me. CD in the first place- Franti was after all, the a But I caught your arm, gently and firmly, and memberoftheindustrialgroup the Beatnigsand turned you back to face me. Those eyes, ahhhh, so from there went on to lead the Disposable He dose, so very close. I had waited for this moment, roes of Hiphoprisy who are, in my candid and practiced and studied so that my romance would be humble opinion, one ofthebestrapgroupsever. undeniable, my heart humble in its strength. I A pretty pretentious statement really, but the dipped you, my hands tight around your slim, mus weB-crafted samples and rhythms tracks (most by cular waist and lowered my body closer to yours of which were done by a live band) only added setting up for the perfect kiss. to the intensely personal and well thought out Zach Pall N 0 v E M B E R '2, t 9 9 4 '20 THE OTHER SIDE '21 THE OTHER SID E bassist from Deep Blue Dreams with lyrics produced while Smashing Pumpkins Billy Corgan waited for his dad to pick him up at the ~irport. MUSIC REVIEWS (coN'T) All of the songs on thisaJbumareofdecentquahty,and seem to be some of their best B-side recordings. Some of the Pisces Iscariot songs, such as "Landslide" and "Starla" had to be released which is the big thing in techno circle and a lot of other stuff great stuff from little known artists from all over the world because they couldn't afford to have them just as part of a which I'm not sure really belongs. At any rate, I really only including some wonderful, very textured songs by After the smashing success of Siamese Dream, Smashing CO-single. They enjoy the radio time that t~e band deseryes care about the music involved and if you really care there is Hijokaiden from Japan and a gentleman named Andrew Pumpkins has finaiJy released their third album. Pisces for their talent. The best part about the CD IS that Smashing a book out under the same name which I have not read but Chalk. There is also much more intense sonic walls of noise lscariot is their long-awaited B-side album. All of these songs Pumpkins prove that they are not a same-sound band as which I would assume has all of their arguments. But as I such as the track by the band Chop Shop called " ...... " One were never meant for release, but due to their recent success, many other bands tend to be. This album gives Smashing say, I don't care. It's the music which should be able to speak of the most compelling tracks involves taking samples over Virgin Records felt that there was a big enough market for a Pumpkins an opportunity to show their talents as a unique for itself. And it does. a bed of sound and warping them through various modula B-side album. All of the songs come from single COs (mostly band, not just one that can gain mass popularity. The ele There is lots and lots of trippy, mellow stufffrom the 60s tors. Or the track by Allen Lee called"Annie Sprinkle Loves released in the UK). ments that have made this band so popular,suchasCorgan's to now which really works to set a mood. There are also lots Latex" which backs up a very strange spoken word piece by In making this CD, Smashing Pumpkins had 27 pre voice and heavy guitar feedback, are still present on this and lots of effects pedal-laden solos which can drone on for Ms. Sprinkle about exactly why she does love latex so much. recorded songs to choose from. They chose 14 that show album, along with songs such as "Blew Away'' that make a bit too long but whicharestillquitea bit of fun. Still, I think Despite the fact that these tracks are so extreme, and this their flexibility as young musicians with some unique new you feel like you are listening to early Jane's Addi~tion. ':~ that my favorite tracks on the collection are those which is a reflectionofthealbumasa whole, thealbumisstilla very styles. The first song, "Soothe" lives up to its n~e . It was Dolly Vita" has the distinct Smashing sound w1th a Jmu stray the furthest from the overblown proggy tracks like the diverse collection of music ranging all over the new realms recorded in Billy Corgan's bedroom and consiSts of an Hendrix style. tracks by Pressurehed or Hawkwind. The ones which are of music and art for its selections. Very extreme and a very acoustic guitar and his lyrics. This song was meant to be on It is hard to compare this album with Gish or Siamese the most indescribable are the ones which really make this good introduc Siamese Dream butnevermadeit. "Soothe" is different in that Dream, because songs on Pisces lscariot could have been on compilation worth having. Tracks like Coil's "Nasa Arab" tion to the fur it is very mellow compared to other songs. There is no heavy the others but for some reason did not fit in. Some of the (Yes, I reviewed them last time too, but when a band is that thest reaches of electric guitar or feedback. songs stand out on this CD, and seem like they would have good ... ) taken form their "Stolen and Contaminated Tracks" music being pro "Irail and Bedassled" takes you back to Gish wifh the been good additions to thepreviousalburns.All in all, it feels album is simply magical. Dark, eerie, and very moody duced these heavy guitar and drums. It too was a Siamese out-take~~? good to have another Smashing Pumpkins album to listen to synthesizer tracks combine in some weirdly perfect way. days from little has never been available before. The next song "Plume, IS ·~ithout having to buy all the singles. :J the song that stands out. It was recorded with a borrowed Kraftwerk's "Spacelab", is of course a classic and should be known or just - reviewd by Jon Casper everywhere even if you don't care to bow down at the emergingartists. temple of Kraftwerk like most of the new, ambient techno In other new artists out there. All of which means that I should mention and bizarre mu Brian Eno's (not only is he Mr. Ambient- he started the sic which has re take another soldier? " genre for God's sake, but he has worked with everybody, cently been Tupac His rhymes walk the and I do mean everybody) track on the compilation which produced, the thin line between love and fits in really well. Aside from suggesting that you aught to new album by a Thug Life hate, and constantly bring also check out the new mix of ''Rain" by Seattle group, Sky group calling it up the images of friends Cries Mary ""''ho are just amazing I will wrap this one up by self A Small, The latest release from Tupac and his long-awaited dying, poverty, and suicidaI saying that as an introduction to trippy, fun, mellow music, Good Thing crew, Thug Life is an inspired album of slammin' G-funk visions of the future. All in it is a very good compilation. from Britain has (without the heavy organ shit that Dreis famous for), lots of all though, if this album was Another great compilation has recently come out on produced what laid-back, R&Bish chords and vocals, and some hard-ass to be given some sort of Artware Products from Germany as the second in their is probably this first and may well be the only Country lyrics that speak on subjec~ rangin~ from the dea~ of "star" rating, I'd give it like Dedication series. As an import it is a bit more expensive that Ambient album ever called Slim Westerns (Soleilmoon homies to the life of.a young, tmpovenshed, Black male m a three or three and a half, yer average domesticated product, but it's well worth it. Records). Country Ambient in this case happens to take the country like Ameriitkka. This LP isn't the most creative Hip know what I'm sayin'? It's The album provides examples of some of the most up-and pedal steels, twangy, steel strung guitars, jew's harp and Hop released recently (I'd grab the Notorious B.I.G. or The not mind-blowing, but a lot of the songs might gettin' you coming experi other traditional instruments from country music and use Coup's newest shirt but it hits some great points. reminiscing, find you angry as hell, or get you to shed a few mental music them in a semi-traditional manner to create moody, ambi It's obvious.that Tupac knows what he'sdoing bringing tears. Tupac reaffirms his place in the "free world" on out there. No ent. It is a very strange combination but it works. Sort of his partners, Mopreme, Macadoshis, Rated R, and Sy~e, into "Under Pressure." melody, no har peyote drenched dreams of the old west from two English his world of music. These brothers all have pretty d1fferent "Stressed/Smokin' weed and nicotine/But what a nigga mony, and no men who have never lived in America but ha,·e always been deliveries, ranging from the scratchy, deep-voiced shit, to really need is Thorazine/ Right before I die, I'll be cursin' all rhythm tracks, fascinated by westerns. It seems to be a sort of soundtrack bustin' some sing-song vocal harmonies, all of which make along/Reincarnated, bitch, even worse than before. " just sculptured to a film that has never been made and in fact the liner notes Volume 1 a good album. They don't have any amazing Now, that's some bad shit. sound (this is of offer an address to write with feature film inquiries. It is freestyles or way-out rhymes, but rip shit on several tracks. course a gener from this film (fake though it is) that Slim Westerns includes "Bury Me a G" (which opens up the album), "How Long While we're on the subject the other few albums out I'd alization and various pieces of dialogue throughout the CD. Will They Mourn Me? " (with Nate Dogg hitting some high watch out for if I was you... many of the But again, it isn't the films or the books which I really notes in the background), "Under Pressure," and the perfect Da Lench Mob's, Planet Of The Apes (Priority tracks do in care about. It's the music- great moody, study, or sleep or driving song, "Str8 Ballin." Records... Coming Halloween night!!), Saafir's, Boxcar Ses volve some just sit and relax kind of music. Like a lot of stuff that I Tupac puts all his homies to shame with some of his sions (Qwest/Reprise Records), Digable Planets', Blowout form of one of review this is a very moody piece of work almost to the point rhymes. Peep these lines from "Bury Me a G", Combs (EM I Records), The Roots', Do You Want More?!!!??! the three but of being melancholy. This is not surprising considering that "All my hornies drinkin' liquor /Tears in everybody's (Geffen Records), and The Gravediggaz', 6 Feet Deep (Gee still, it is a long A Small, Good Thing is a side project for two of the members eyes/ iggascry /To mourn a homie's homicide/But I can't Street Records). ::J way from pop of 0 Yuki Conjugate which has produced some other won- cry/ Instead a cold shoulder/Damn, why'd they have to -reviewed by Rarnzi Abed music). There is (continued on page 30) 22 N 0 V E M IJ E R 2 , I 9 9 4 THE O THER SID E 23 THE OTHER SIDE R.E.M. unleashes a ... by IC Elise Foot Massages and Bits of Flesh Graner sound "Pulp Fiction" is Quentin "Alright now let's get into character," in deep characterization. One sees ab Tarantino's latest venture into the un than they break down the door. solutely no character, emotion or der belly of American culture. The Tarantino's style seems to quickly thought in his face. It is not until WiUis movie stars such regulars to Quentin change from light hearted and humor is in action that he comes alive and There have been few albumsoflate in style and substance? The drastic that are made unilaterally in a Tarantino films such as Harvey Keital ous to extremely violent. By starting show the audience the inner workings thathavebeen titledasaptlyasR.E.M.'s changeinstyle,at timesdarkand full of r e I a - tionship,and there- and Tim Roth as well as a small cameo out the scenes with humor and conver of Butch. I'll go as far as to say that this suI t s L of those losses in recent release Monster. Having devel angst, can be at least partly attributed by Tarantino himself. The movie stars sation, Tarantino is able to draw the was the best I have ever seen of Bruce char- acter, "I oped a reputation for a clean, somber to the deaths of Kurt Cobain who 24 N 0 V E M B E R 2, I 9 9 4 TilE OTII E R SIDE 25 THE OTHER SIDE The Secret to Life is ... IN RESPONSE TO Please excuse my deranged col you'll hear them. There's no escaping league from that extenuous pourage of them, they're everywhere. Even if you pent-up psychotic passion. She is now don't own any (the thought of which glommed onto her elephant pillow and s makes me shudder), they'll find their Slinky nicelysedated.So... backtothissocalled way to your room, somehow, some world of toys. What are toys? Well, way. They are toys. Ok, I'll get off my personally, I prefer to regard these en broomstick of tangents and put an end tertaining thingamajigs as essentials, to this psycho-babble for now as you meaning... they are imperative to our Let me repeat myself; the secret to tory. Unfortunately, there ·will always 'The Martian Popping Thing'' .I'm se ponder on the following (that is if you survival in this sphere of existence. life is Slinky. It's true. No, really. Toys, be a fewdeprivedgrown-upsout there. rious. That'swhatitsaidon the box. All actually continue to ingest this). Why, without them, we would become especially Slinkies,are the secret to life. I have to say is that I share a room with Perhaps you're wondering what For those poor, unhappy souls, severely defident in our interior deco Think about it. (If I was wrong then "Animaniacs" is a wonderfully psy a movie star, even if no one knows the hell I'm talking about. Allow me to rating schemata. (I myself have taken Toys R' Us wouldn't be a multi-million chotic cartoon that you can watch ev what to call it. ask you this: Why is it thatyourCheshire precautions to avoid such an occur dollarchain.)That's why I don't under ery weekday afternoon on Fox. You But, back to the Slinky. The Slinky I cat grins mischievously at you upon rence with plastering the parapherna stand why people want to grow up. can't miss it. It's right after "Tiny is the epitome of toy heaven. This is looking up from the page from which After all, if you grow up then you're Toons," another hilarious cartoon. because it is simple. Its been around lia of Simba and his jungle chums on you have been studying and then my walls. Let me just say J can now supposed to stop playing with toys. (I forever and its notsomethingyoucould "seemingly'' disappears? Why is your think somebody forgot to tell Letterman really call trendy. Once Slinky intro experience Hakuna Matada twenty room a disaster as if a tsunami hit it about this.) duced itself to the world, it was here to four seven. Some call me sick, I call when you come back from break and them deprived wombats.) On a slightly more serious note _1 'd~de~ stay. Think about it. How many of you you find your trolls lying about in the though, imagine what the world would had numerousSHnkiesaschildren? All Getting back to the significance of most unseemly places as if passed out, fUt, our "inanimate" companions, I would be like without toys. Scary thought? If ~ wid ttttte right, fine! How many of you had at as if one had partied for five days like to raise another issue concerning your reaction was the same as mine, least one slinky as a child? You do straight? Good thing they're plastic or the integral roles they play in our exist (I'd rather be partying on Mars with ~ t:Utde4. 7k ~text realize your parents also owned them you would be making some trips to the ence. As numerous students have seen littlegreendudes), the next flight leaves as children? Good. E.R. to get a few miniature stomachs and experienced universally, these en when the last Toys R' Us is put out of IU94t teauu ~ t4e This is why the secret to life is pumped. (This event has just been re tities serve as the \\'Orld's greatest pro business by the Moral Majority. Slinky. He's always fun; he can do any cently experienced by my twisted col l44t 7~ it!: , i4, fud crastination measures. Look carefully Toys R' Us, or any toy store, is a u, thing any other Slinky can do, and he's league who is now in battle over the at your colored and deranged shaped haven for us people who are perma here for good, not like those Pog y ownership of her room with these little, oddities. I'm talking about the ones nently stuck in that psychotic mental tJ«tD/~4tk thingimajingys. This is why, if you ever funky-haired, pot-bellied men) Also, which one proudly displays about ity called child hood. Then again, so are catch anybody committing the sacrile while we're in this arena of strange themselves in their humble abode(per McDonald's happy meals. Happy ~'i?t4~. gious act of straightening out a sHnky occurrences, did you ever wonder why haps revealing some sick and twisted meals were created for two kinds of (the mere thought of which makes me A you stumble across Mr. Potato Head's people. The first are the bargain-hunt feel faint) you should stick them in the obsessionlikemycolleague's).Thisalso eyecomingbackfromdass?Whatabout includes those whacked items ofamuse ers; the second are the ones who get the (Three cheers for Go-Go, the psychotic, Pentagon without a map, food, or wa discourse those legs and arms dismembered from ment that one has shamefully stuffed happy meals for the toys. Guess which little green dude who lives in ter, and have them find their way out an action figure or some stuffed com away in some hole of their desk or one I fall into? (Hint: I am the proud Wackyland.) all by themselves!!! Without the aid of on the panion that haveunexplainably flinged hidden in the depths of the ungreased owner of all four "Bobby" toys, and a How many of you saw The Mask? a slinky. Now that you enHghtened themselves into your shoes, the wires dresser drawers (an act that cries fau fev,r "Animaniacs".) souls understand why the secret to life deranged of your blow dryer, the drain of the You remember the scene in the park paux, if anything and should be forbid We are t.he type of people who not is Slinky, I'm going to go and listen to shower, or your pen drawer where the when Jim Carrey, who at this point is a den). Now that these trinkets of trea only own these toys, but can give you a clown, is having his pockets searched some Dr. Demen to while I ponder vari essentials limbs outnumber your many drawing surehave been rediscovered, or at least background on them. For example, by the police. Do you remember when ous other meaningful things. With the utensils? Ever wonder about the rea called tornindonceagain,Iask you, are "Bobby" toys are based on Howie help of my Slinky of course. ;:] son behind these acts of self-mutila the officers pulled out a funky looking they not inviting? I am afraid tt is im Mandell's show "Bobby's World". tion? Do you really think they have rubber, orange thingamajig that they possible to think so, for they call to one, "Ani maniacs" should be self-explana- couldn't identify? Iownone.It'scalled, fallen there by accident? Do those whether you're asleep or awake. De bendable figures fling themselves at spite your mood, your state of con your while you are sleeping or study sciousness, even when your physical by ing because they have been moved by A discussion of sorts by Sara Glaser and mental well-being is in question some external force (i.e. that tornado and you're hanging on your last breaths, Jenny Murphy like wind outside your window that is 26 N 0 v E M B E R 2, I 9 9 4 THE OTHER SIDE 27 TH E OTHER SIDE Untitled Today l take a vow so common in Southern Californian of silence; a weather)? No, its no coincidence. day that I am hidden, They're haunting reminders of your voice mashed in my chest; a negligence towards their existence. might that I am mumbling True, our playthings are an indispens sadness, crouched in mud. able element when it comes to grasping any means of thls thing called "real Chain me, catch me. ity'', but suffer the consequences if you Affection lingers in my throat. cross them. Breathe deep, harshness, Now, all this talk about the objects humility, that, under normal circumstances, just seem to sit around may appear a little my eyes speak the muted note. zany. That's OK. This is known as the period of denial, the stage one has to Today is like the enter before transcending towards en ordinary; a day that l am hldden. lightenment. After you experience the Pale, feared preacher, I speak in tongues night of awakening, fighting off that my language is forbidden. fogging fatigue and restraining the eye -Eric Arley Sorg lids from closure, just lying in wait, you'll come to understand. Once you feel the anxiety of sleep overcoming you for fear that as soon as you touch base with RE.M. those little, entertain ing decorative playthings you've let sit around and accumulate dust or stuffed away in some drawer \Viii awaken and come to avenge their neglected state notbesimplyoverlooked.Rumorhasit not to be disregarded as frivolous side ism-eaters whilst you slumber. Believe me, this is those China doll characters are pretty dishes to every day life. They stand as bad news when it comes to circum no joke or figment of my imagination. our protectors, linking us to the outside Enter the Mead "\lsual Arts Contest! like a slap, to the atrocities of slackerism Be aware that if you ignore these "in stances such as this. Take my word for world and comfort us in our times of the naive revolutionary don't know any better animate" companions, subject them to it it's better just to avoid them overall. disillusionment. In order to survive and Open to all Pitzer students. Please submit he sits and nods at his friend isolation and neglect, these acts will Also to be noted, keep clear of the persist in our lovely smog-filled realm, visual art (drawing painting chalkings, who talks about isms for a living clowns. They one needs a stuffed or rubber chicken, charcoalings, etc.), size 1ft. x 9" or smaller, who rambles about politics may appear a Mr. Potato Head, a Martian popping economies completely thing, a Slinky, a koosh ball, anythlng to Arley Sorg ftt the Mead Service Desk on capitalism harmless, but to maintain that non-serial killer-like Thursday 1-5 prn, or to Karen Hyland, communism just wait until existence. Mead's Residence Director. fleetism nightfall. So, consider yourself forewarned. he would never say that he doesn't believe in isms Ok, Ok.So There are consequences for humanity such cliches would be reserved for those caught up in isms maybeldidsee if we deprive ourselves of playful en Contest runs from Oct. 27 to Nov. 17 and the insignificant lives that accompany them one too many tertainment. For the deranged object he would rather live horror films owners, let it also be kept in mind that live for the truest kindness when I was just mistreatment of your animated com All entries will be displayed in Mead never truly withstanding the oppression of the ism holders a youngin and panions will definitely result in severe, Hall beginning November 22. Please and the ism abusers took to heart a consequential misfortunes. Thusly, if remember to put your name, phone no he doesn't always \'lin little too much you have actually taken the time to number, and room number on the back he rarely wins those sixth consume and digest this material, but loses with a sense of pride that can't be put into an ism grade camp please, take a moment to check your of your entry. I'm sorry I forgot that. horror stories. own supply of playthings. If you find it - by Aaron Balkan But, I know depleted or nonexistent, exit the near there's an ele est door and make your way to the 3rd prize: $10 gift certificate at the Grove House ment of truth closest toy store. 0 2nd prize: "Pitzer" shirt from Huntley here. The point 1st prize: 540 gift certificate for Rhino Records is that toys are 28 N 0 V E M B E R 2 , I 9 9 4 TH E O THER SID E 29 TH E OT HE R SID E TheDa Music Reviews HIV ... ANNO UNCIN<:; ... We want your CDs! I h'-' unly n ..a lur..a l hKK.l' We pay an average of S3-S5 cash for 'em, continued from page 1 6 continued from page 21 continued from page 19 rt""l. au r~ n l tn the Cd'l \. ... tll4.-) plus... held onto his mothers skirt, while she derful,moody music. Thisis as goodas is a result of that, and notofsomemagic in tum held tighUy to her baby daugh most of that (perhaps even better) and virus that's less harmful than the flu? I Bring us your tapes & ter. 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