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.... Black History ~~bfi~lVE .... Sports The second in a special UIC Point Guard season over three-part series profiling due to heart condition famous African-Americans COLUl\lBlA Back Page Page 8 P,&~LEGE L College hones plans for upperclass dorm Youth Hostels. ter cost of $5,525 per academic y ~a r to live in a residence By Graham Couch As of now, Columbia's only residence center is locat­ with individual bedrooms. Although the new building is Sports Editor ed at 731 S. Plymouth Ct. and houses 346 students. But intended for upperclassmen, those who currently live at during the summer, Columbia leases spaces at 73 1 to 731 S. Plymouth wi ll not be forced to leave. In the fall of 2000, Columbia will open an additional Hostling International. "The faci lity at 731 will eventually be intended for dorm facility. The building, located at 24 E. Congress, "What we are kind of doing is reversing that," Mary freshman and sophomores," Oakes said. '·But if I have a will house an additional 105 students on its top three Oakes, director of residence life said. "They' re opening sophomore or junior who is living here this year, I'm not Ooors. The rest of the facility will be used as a youth hos­ up the facility for Hostling International and we're going going to make them move over to Congress. They are kind tel being opened by Hosteling International American to lease the top three Ooors to use as a residence hall.·· of grand fathered in, regardless of what happens." The 24 E. The opening of the new residence center has been in Congress faci li­ the works for several years. according to Oakes. ty is intended "There is such a large demand for students to live on for j uniors, campus," Oakes, who deals with a large wait ing list every seniors, and year, said. "Finding housing when a student comes here is incoming trans­ an issue, especia lly if they are from out of state." fer students. The new residence hall wi ll be a completely smoke Like the current free fac ility at the request of Hostling International. No build ing, it wi ll other rule changes are official at th is point. However, be apartment rumors among students have been swirling that 73 1 S. style housing, Plymouth wi ll become a completely alcohol-free facility. fitted with full Oaks would not comment further on rule changes, but kitchens and did acknowledge that the possibility of a dry dorm was in bathrooms with the works. However, at this point there has been no fi nal four peopl e to a decision. r o o m The possibility of further rule restrictions coupled H ow ever , with the fact that residents will still only be able to have unli ke the 731 two guests at a time. even if they arc residents of the other S. Plymouth Columbia building, have some students worried. building. the "[73 I) is going to turn into this big baby-sitters club. new complex By next year we are probably going to need permission to will include leave the building and get back in," fre shman television two noors that student Brandon Goetz said. offer students While concerns about student freedoms are prevalent, their own bed­ most students think the idea of a new residence center, rooms. e ven if only for upperclassmen, is a good idea. It will cost "Columbia has more than 9,000 students, so I think we I students an need another place for people to li ve," freshman market­ Matt Labuguen (left) and Joey Gibson (right) play Mighty Ducks Pinball Slam evening additional $225 ing student Gemini Wadley said. "And single rooms at Disney Quest, an event sponsored by the Residence Center. They paid for thirty students to over the current sound absolutely awesome." play all evening. residence cen- Cults a growing campus epidemic Columbia from college campuses. These cults By Kimberly Brehm realize college students are experienc­ Celebrates Campus Editor ing feelings of total isolation from family and friends and are looking for Going away to college is a heady a group to identify with and emulate. African experience. It's usually the first taste The definition of a cult is a min­ of freedom experienced by the aver­ istry group that uses overly aggres­ Culture age 18or 19-year-old. No more Mom sive authority structures (known as and Dad looking over your shoulder, shepherding), exclusivism, subjective helping you make day-to-day deci­ theology and the use of deliverance sions. No more high school teachers from demons as a means of control. making sure your homework is done, "The "teachings of a cult group Joseph Bowie per­ and, if it's not, calling Mom and Dad may seem mainstream Christian, but forms at an to report you. there is a heavy bent on controlling African Heritage Most new the lives of the mem- Month celebration freshman First In a series of bers," said Kurt at the Hokln college stu­ Chronicle stories examining Goede I man, executive dents believe d.rector of the Gallery on they are th e State 0 f religion and COl- Personal Freedom February 16. See going to rel­ lege students today Federation in St. story page 3. ish in their LOUIS. newfound free- "The leader makes all dom. But there is another s ide to the decisions for the group, such as going away to college. Many stu­ where they will work, what classes dents experience feelings of loneli­ they will attend, and who the mem­ ness and a lost sense of identity. For bers will date. Campus cults have a the first time, they don' t feel a sense major tendency to isolate their mem­ of community. No longer do they bers from family and friends and any­ Photo by know most of the people in their one else not involved with the group." J.C.Johnson classes. No longer do they feel com­ Because campus cults have such fortable with their teachers. Some strict control over their members, the / Chronicle students come to feel that they don' t result is a major loss of personal free­ fit in, that they may not be "right" for dom for the students, who join what their new home. they originally believed to be a These ~re the college students that Christian group. campus cults target. There is a rising epidemic of cults that recruit strictly See Cults, page 2 Around Campus News and Notes I

Student Support Services available at Columbia If you find yourself feeling overwhelmed and stressed out from the demands of college life, Columbia does have a program that can help ease your tension. The Student Support Services-Conaway Achievement Program addresses the academic and personal needs of participating students. It offers peer counselors, academic, career and per­ sonal counseling, reading and writing assistance, and learning assistance in a variety of courses. When a student joins the program, they are assessed regarding their skills, interests, and needs. Once the sup­ port service knows what the individual needs, an individu­ alized service plan is implemented. The service plan can include tutoring in academic cours­ es, college life skills and counseling. There is a drop-in center for the use of participating stu­ dents. Here students will find assistance with coursework, a computer lab, and other students to interact wittl. All of these services are performed at no cost to the stu- dent. Both the U. S Department of Education and Columbia fund the program. Rob H The Student Support Services-Conaway Achievement Freshman Llnalynn Natter talks with Jeff Marazano, the Director of Admissions from the Chicago School Program is named in honor of Hermann Conaway, Dean of of Massage Therapy in Lakeview on Valentines Day. The residence center committee sponsored this event Students from 1980 to 1992, who provided the inspiration to teach students the basics of Swedish Massage Techniques. Hadiyah Phillips Freshman is receiving the for the development of student support services at massage. Columbia.

Association of Black Journalists host­ Cults ing media job fair Continued flom Previous Page It is speculated that the two major campus tells his members, "You can leave or do it my way, Columbia's Association of Black Journalists are inviting all cults have about one million members throughout but those who leave will be condemned to Hell by students to attend a media blitz in the Hokin Annex. America. God." Students will have an opportunity to meet with local media Since campus cults have grown to be such a MCM members are required to sign a statement professionals in the print, public relation. television, radio and prevalent problem, an ad hoc committee of cult marketing fields. of commitment. This document admonishes com­ researchers was formed in t 985 to investigate the The blitz will be on March 22 from 7:00p.m. lo 9:00p.m. mitted members to obey their immediate leaders at Students must respond to the invitation to attend the job fair aggressive proselytizing techniques and questionable they would God. There is strict control exercised by calling Melody Hoffman at 630-378-3869 or Shawn Wright at theology being preached by these groups. Stephen F. over all members in what they can think, say, wear 773-995-7581 . Cannon, a reporter for the Personal Freedom and where they can go. The Association of Black Journalists are requesting a dona­ Federation, was a member of this committee. In addition, MCM members are taught that they tion of five dollars from participating students. "We interviewed leaders, members and former are in God's elite ministry and that no one else has members, studied literature, and listened to and the type of total commitment that they do. There watched tapes," said Cannon. "It was during this may be other Christian groups, but none could match Sign-up for Avon's three day breast can­ time that I made first hand observations on the tactics MCM's level of dedication. of intimidation and control used by campus cults." This type of elitism can lead members to believe cer walk The campus cults studied had many similarities that if, for some reason, they want to leave the group, in their teachings and methods of control. Members they would be missing out on God's will and would Men and women from all over the tri-state area are pledging were told that the only access to God was through the be condemned to Hell. In fact, MCM leaders have to walk 60 miles in a quest to find a cure for breast cancer, a dis­ group. If someone were to leave the cult, they would been quoted as telling members who wanted to leave ease that is the leading cause of death for womsn aged between be walking away from God. Any impediment, such the group, "You will be destroyed by God because the ages of 40 and 55 years. In fact, 40,000 women are expect­ as family, friends, or loved ones, who comes between you want to leave. You will be out of God's will and ed to die from breast cancer in the year 2000. Avon is asking for volunteers to sign up to wa lk from the member and the group was a tool of Satan. Any out of the elect of God." Kenosha, Wis. to Chicago, Ill. in three days. $1,800.00 must be negative information about the cult is negat ive infor­ In 1979, Kip McKean founded the ICC. The ra ised in pledges before the May 19 deadline from each walker. mation about God and is labeled " spiritual pornogra­ group was first named the Boston Church of Christ, In support of Avon's efforts, the ARC Gallery, located at 1040 phy." where it began, but the name was quickly changed as W. Huron St. in Chicago, is hosting a show honoring and cele­ Further, cults preach that walking away from the the campus cult grew in size and location. The brating those women whose lives have been contaminated by group means leaving the one true church. Members growth was phenomenal and the ICC now has about breast cancer. The show will run from March 28 to April 29 . are told they will wind up in Hell if they leave. This 120,000 members internationally. The ARC Gallery will have a special closing ceremony and places a great emotional burden and a real psycho­ The ICC practices one-on-one discipling, which healing ritual on Saturday, April29, with poetry performances and logical barrier on the Christ ian student who is look­ is where the charges of mind control have stemmed other sharing , as women come together to grow stronger, ing for spiritual guidance and acceptance. acknowleging the loving values gained from the heroines of from. All members must commit themselves -to one breast cancer struggles. " This is why campus cults target kids who are who is "more mature in the Lord," that is, one who sp iritually hungry," said Phillip Arnn, a researcher has been in the cult longer than the new member. for the Watchman Fellowship, a cult watch group. The submission to the elder must be complete and "These kids have a poor belief system; they are ide­ absolute. The chain of command continues, with Poetry reading at Ferguson Hall with alistic, and wi ll believe what they are told." each elder having a disciple, and so on until you According to Goede I man, members of a cult are reach the leader, McKean. Denise Huhamel and Nick Carbo never allowed to question the teachings of their McKean, meanwhile, makes all of the group's leader and are challenged when doubts arise in their decisions. He determines how far his congregation The husband and wife team of Denise Huhamel and bel iefs. " It's a form of spi ritual terrorism," said w ill go in obeying the scriptures as he interprets Nick Carbo, who are known for their humor and risky sub­ Goedelman, " Questioning leaders is compared to them . McKean corrects everyone's mistakes and jects, will read their poetry on Thursday, March 2 at 5:30 questioning God." decides the punishment. He demands obedience and p.m. at Ferguson Hall. There are two dominant campus cults existing in is the only one who knows what it takes to achieve Duhamel is the author of 11 books and chapbooks of America today. One is known as the International what God wants. poetry. Her most recent titles are "The Star-Spangled Church of Christ (ICC) and the other is called the The ICC also teaches that their group alone is Banner," which won the C rab Orchard Poetry Prize, and Maranatha Campus Ministries (MCM). While the doing what God truly wants and that they are the true "Oyl," a collaborative chapbook with Columbia's artist-in­ two groups have opposing teachings of the Bible, disciples of Christ. Only members of their cult will residence Maureen Seaton. Duhamel has been antholo­ they are very similar in the tactics used to control be let into the kingdom of Heaven. This elitism is a gized widely, including four e ditions of The Best American their members. necessary factor of all cult groups. Poetry. Robert Weiner founded the M CM in 1972. In addition, McKean uses confessions as another Carbo is the author of two books of poetry, Secret Asian Weiner dropped out of Trinity College in Decrfidd, means of controlling his members. Confessions in Men, which is being published by the Tia Chucha Press, Ill. to join the Air Force. It was there that he became the ICC aren't kept confidential. Instead, confes­ and El Grupo Mc'Donalds. He is also the co-edttor of a Christian minister and began his campus crusade. sions are used against members if they don't follow Babaylan: Fiction and Poetry by Filipina and Filipina In 12 years, Weiner's cult had grown from a sin­ the teachings and do everything that their elders American Women and the editor of Returning a Borrowed gle campus ministry, which began at Murray State demand of them. It is these tactics of manipulation Tongue, an anthology of Filipino poetry written in English. University in Kentucky, to more than 100 campus through submission and the unethical use of confes­ The poetry reading is free and open to the public. chapters throughout America and in 16 foreign coun­ sion that give more substance to the serious charges Students are welcome to bring guests with them to tncs. of mind control. Ferguson Hall. For more information, call 312-344-8139. There is a strict authority structure and shepherd­ M cKean also manipulates members into chang- ing methods be ing used in the M CM, as with all cults. Weiner teaches that he is an apostle oi'God and See Cults, following page F..,_, 21, 2000 . Campus News_ 3 More photos without stories Jon Benet, Go Away It is hard to im:H.!ine :uwthin~ worse th:m los­ ing 3 child. It is C\:Cn mor~ tm~nae.inabl~ wht•n th ~ child is taken under sudden. b~uta l circum­ And yet. unfortunately. hundn:ds \ lf par­ ents have to endure these tragic circumstan~.:es C\'t'TY \'Car. Thouc.h such things· happen 7tll too often, it is ran! that they become national news stories that ene.age the public and the n~ed ia dav after dav. month :1fter month e~' en when there isn't a dam thing devel­ oping in the storY. Out back in December of 1997, when 6-year-old JonDenet Ramsey's body was dis­ covered sexually assault­ ed :ltld strangled in her Colorado home, the unsolved murder mystery made nation3l head­ li nes. And now. two years and two months later. it is the story that r~fuscs to go away. The l ~ct is. JonOcnet was but a young. (lver­ exploited child who lived a brief. childhood-less life. She was only six when she died, but in beau­ ty queen years. she appeared to be 24. She parad­ Rob Hart/Chronicle ed around in cowboy boots with big curly blonde During the first week of classes, students suffered through not one but two false fire alarms. On Feb. 15, students were evac­ hair. and caked on make-u p that more resembled the 1 ~1 cc o f a prostitute, rather than a lirst grader's. uated from the Torco building when a student's coat got caught on a fire alarm. On the following day, someone purposely pulled These photos are what made this murder a nation­ a fire alarm on the ninth floor of the 623 S. Wabash building, sending the hundreds of students and faculty above onto Wabash al phenomenon. It wasn't hard to envision all the Ave. The alarms disrupted both classes and registration for more than an hour. pedophiles of the world swooning ove;:r the sexu­ ally charged images of Jonllenet and the thou­ sands l)f other girls like her "hn arc thrust into the role of little miss beauty queen. You know that ~ storv has been sensational­ ized \\hen the n~tworks Start making movies of Cults ------~------Continued from Previous Page the week. and hundreds upon hundreds of books have been ,,·ri tten. many of which have become ing their personalities to confo rm to the group's "norm.'" The "deprogrammers'' to reverse the brainwashing experienced by bestsd lers. · mernhers dress alike. ta lk a like and share the same o utside inter­ the ir children. this method is not seen as successful. T he m e m- So I guess it shouldn't surpri se me when I e sts, which are few. The goal is to ber must have a des ire to leave the saw ;1 preview lOr FOX's vnsion l lf the Jonl3enct become an exact replica o f group, o therwise they are likely to go saga. which was to air last week. Yep, I guess I McKean. "There are many places for kids to get back to it as soon as the ''deprogra m­ ,..,·as na'lve to think that this wouldn't be mad!.! into or course;:, there ure me mbers help when they are ready to break from the ming" is completed. a TV mnvil.! of thl.! wl.!ck. but there was the advcr· who begin to see campus cults for cult. There are other Christian groups that "We take the position of an e van- tisement appearing before the millions of "1\lly the mind contro l g roups that they gelically sta nd point," said M~;l3eal " viewers. Even more appall ing was find­ are and decide to leave. The key is can help, and even Internet sites that can Goedelman. "We don' t deprog ra rn , ' ing out that C DS ac14ally has a two part minis­ that the stude nt must want to leave answer questions and provide guidance. It but rather provide informatio n and eries (that's four hours!) devIllinois College Press Association, held First Place, Feature Writing: Valerie Danner, pass for Jonl3enet 's twin with her long blonde on Feb. 11 and 12. So the next time you make fun of the Jessica Quist and Chris Richert (non-daily) locks and innocent, yet grown up smile. Chronicle and call it a poor man's DePaulia, think about this: According to the art ic le in Brill :~ . a dummy was Honorable Mention, News Story: James Boozer used for the CI3S "drama" when it came time to (non-daily) shoot the shots of the linle girl's lifeless body. Second Place, General Excellence (non-daily cate­ Honorable Mention, News Story: James Boozer 1\pparently, it's not too c reepy to have your chi ld gory) (non-daily) play a slain 6-year-old sextwlly assaulted stran­ Honorable Mention, Editorial Cartoon: Billy gled girl, but it is a too traumati c to have her actll· Third Place, Sports News Story: Graham Couch ally lie there dead. Oye. I can't imagine someone O'Keefe (open category) (non-daily) having played that pan, who has the mis fortune Honorabl e Mention, Other Cartoon: Billy O'Keefe Second Place, Sports Feature Story: Graham of being a spitting image of the pageant princess (open) Couch (non-daily) not experiencing some torment over the whole thing. Out I suppose Mom and Dad simply sec Second Place, Ad Less Than a Full Page: Chris Second Place, In-Depth Reporting: Elizabeth $$$. not the afier e ffects of the whole sha -bang. Richert (open) Nendick, Stephanie Berlin, carmen DeFalco, Jeanne Of course sordid tales like the Jon13enet Third Place, Ad Less Than a Full Page: Chris Galatzer-Levy, Todd Hofacker and Jen Magid (non­ Jamboree arc fueled hy a hungry media Jigging Richert (open) daily) around tOr the next O.J. Reporters have practi· cally been put on the JonBcnct beat, a nd "jo ur­ First Place, Opinion Page Design: Billy O'Keefe Second Place, Feature Photo: Rob Hart (non-dai ly) nalists'· such as Larry King and good o ld Geraldo (open) First Place, Spot News Photo: Rob Hart (non-daily) rel ish stories such as these. Honorable Mention, Graphic Illustration: Billy First Place, Photo Essay: Michelle Pinkowski (non- Perhaps what is saddest about the who le O'Keefe (open) daily) Jonllenet murder is that when it's reduced to it's simplest element, a murder took place. 1\ young Honorable Mention, Critical Review, Film: James Second Place, Photo Essay: Bill Manley, Rob Hart, child was viciously killed in her o wn home and Boozer (open) Chris Kublet, Brenna McLaughlin and Kevin Poirier her last moments of life were marked by the Second Place, Critical Review Other Than Film: (non-daily} worst kind of in vasive violence. ller murder hasn't been solved and proba bly Mike O'Brien (open) Second Place, Sports Photo: Bill Manley (non­ never will be. Whoever did this, whether it 's her First Place, Front Page Layout: James Boozer daily) parents, an intruder or someone driving a white (non-daily) Second Place, Headline Writing: Jotham Dronco, he's still o ut there, probably laughing Third Place, Editorial: James Boozer (non-daily) Sederstrom because he knows that he'll never be c aught because the investigation has been so botched and Honorable Mention, Column: Billy O'Keefe (non­ Third Place, Chicago Shoot-Out Competition: the public so tainted by all the press the crime has daily) Donnie Seals generated these past two years. It 's a real tragedy Honorable Mention, Column: Valerie Danner (non- when people have become more interested in JonBenet the marketable, rather than JonBenet, the murdered. 4 - Columbia Chronicle F....,21,2000

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The application deadline is Friday, April, 28, 2000. From the Chronicle Mailbag Welcome to e d i t o r @ c c c h r o n i c I ·e . c o m Doing it our Citizens for Valerie Danner and the Boondocks generation I really enjoy The Chronicle. I read it page by page and I walk around campus seeing others doing the same. I have never heard anyone comment negatively about way-the the paper. I've been meaning to write you guys but I am just so busy. Between school and my son there just isn't enough lime to sit down and tell you what a great job evil you're doing, and I am sure this is the case with many others. Quick! How many New Jersey jokes have you To Valerie: Thank you for having the guts to stand up as a woman yourself and heard in your li fe ? Hundreds, right? Because if there's right way admit the pettiness of our gender ["Oh Petty Woman," Feb. 14]. In fact, you've con­ vinced me to do it. Lord knows there has been times where I had been petty. one thing that Frasier, Niles, Jesse, Veronica, But that's not all we need to address' Woman, especially my African-American Veronica's whole closet, Will, Grace, that gay guy who Regrets, we' ve had a few. But this isn' t sisters, need to beat that voracious emotion; jealousy. To me, jealousy is the epito­ gets all the laughs on "Will & Grace" and a bevy of one of them. me of our pettiness. For once I would like to walk into a club looking good and not other sit-com players and In the Feb. 14 issue of the Chronicle, have to be stared at and commented by jealous females. Why can't they come up to comedians have in common, we ran a story about w hat Columbia stu­ me and instead of saying, "Look at her dress, it can't touch mine," say, "Hi, how are it's that they most likely have dents like and dislike about basic services, you doing, that dress is cute," and I in turn could say "yours is too." But no, it does­ all called the great state of New including registration, financ ial aid and n't work like that. Jersey a (a) swamp, (b) toxic availability up-to-date materials. I firmly believe that women can never successfu ll y get together and rise up in wasteland or (c) the worst vaca­ this so-called man's world until they cure the conflict within each other. Thanks for Based on the results ( 144 students tion destination on Earth, the a cool article. South included. Even the were polled, although students did not I also would like to say I especially like the article "Why the strip you love to Simpson family and trusty o l' tackle questions that d idn 'l apply to their hate just might matter to you" by Donnie Seals. Oh, how I wanted to stand up and Conan O'Brien have resorted to experience), we found that people were yell Yeah ' (or something like that) when I read the first sentence. I Love Aaron the New Jersey-joke-as-a-last­ generally pleased with what Columbia had McGruder and l love "The Boondocks." I think Donnie must have plagiarized my resort tactic. to offer, although they had a few bones to mind when he wrote that article. We definitely need more African-Ameri can comics Billy O'Keefe Too bad for them, because pick. deali ng wi th our issues. Yes, people in America just want to sweep ethn ic issues Viewpoints/New much of New Jersey is actually under the carpet and not deal with it . Yes, Franklin from "Peanuts" got absolutely Of particular note was the Financial Media Editor quite nice, full of beaches, car­ no strip t im~. Aid Department, for which students nivals, good pizza and several reserved low marks and harsh words, as I think I mostly love "Boondocks" because I was an African-American sudden­ ly snatched from my urban fish bowl (Detroit) and lefl gasping for air in the suburbs Starbucks locations for those who grow homesick. illustrated in the story, w hich ran on the (northwest Ill.), which is pretty much the same storyline in Aaron's strip. Basically, it's Florida without the bugs and crowds. front page. With an exception here and there, I' ve trekked to Not long after issue the touched down Tclika Crawley New Jersey for a week or two every summer si nce I on newsstands around Columbia, the Sophomore was five years old. In addition to all of the aforemen­ Financ ial Aid Department call ed the Print Journalism tioned good things, much of my dad's family lives out Chronicle in d isgust, demanding to know there, in addition to a small fraction of my mom's side why such an article was allowed to run. of the family, which has about 30 millions cousins and The department said that the Chronicles Citizens against Valerie Danner and the Boondocks uncles in its tree. As sure as the sun doesn't rise journa listic integ rity was questionable, because of some imminent hurricane that always and that our adviser, Jim Sulski, and busi­ Consider changing the name "Viewpoints" to Va l Danner's Preachy Opinions, strikes the East Coast when I'm around, the history of my family flies through my ears every s ummer, via sto­ ness manager, C hris Richert, should know since that's about all we ever hear from her. ries, stories and more stories. better than to run such a piece. The argu­ And you know what? The good old days aren't that ment lasted for close to, if not more than, Sin bad (no relation to the bad comedian of the same name, most likely) Via Message Board much different than these old days. If the people my an hour. dad and his brother Billy knew are any indication, that An unwritten rule in journalism is that whole line about the fifties being a time of obedient, retractions and rationali zations are the I thought comic stri ps were supposed to be fu nny. A story line centered around clean-shaven kids who did nothing but respect their best invitation for endless scrutiny. some crabby, annoying brat who thinks ht! knows everything isn't funny at all. elders is just that- a line. We may be scoundre ls these: Fortunately, this is neither. Any story days, and we may have more advanced tools o f destruc­ worth its weight in print can stand on its ; Right Guard tion, but the origin of our evil instincts is hardly a own merit, and this one is no exception. · Jlia Message Board secret. You all know who you are. Rather than defend or rationalize the pur­ Perhaps as result, parents have never played me for pose of the report, which is obvious, we a fool, and :hey know that when I cause trouble or dis­ will let the opinions of the students, as Chronicle of Black History obey, it just might be for a good reason, or at least due we ll as the numbers, speak for themselves. to the fact that I'm a kid who does not yet have to wear As any student o f the press or even free That painting by Tanner, "The Banjo Lesson," is reall y beauti ful ["Chronicle of a s uit, tie and phony smile when leaving the house. I speech could agree, this one's a no-bra in- Black History," Feb. 14]. I'd like to be able to see more art, including photographs, don't always agree with the decisions they make, but I er. by African-Americans. Nice job on the story, Rob Hart' respect very much the way they've raised and respect­ ed my sister and me. Still, it's a shame when something like George Waldman It's the rest of you grownups I don' t Iike . this happens, because it makes us wonder Via Message Board Welcome to the halfway point in a 16-plus month if the message of the artic le came through • marathon we call the presidential race, a contest that at a ll , when all the Financia l A id Department wants to do is have it yanked. See O'Keefe, following page Regard less of the quality of the service Billy O'Keefe the department provides, students will sti ll flock to financial aid, purely out o f need beyond any other reason. The fact that the department receives some bad p ress, which only puts in print w hat students are say ing anyway, probably doesn 't affect business too much. If anything, the department sho uld be gratefu l that someone is talk ing about the problems at hand rather than letting them gyrate further out o f control. This way, it can work closer w ith students and dig beneath the surface that the Chronicle s report only nicked at. After all, isn 't that the reason we have a student newspaper in the first place? The Chronicle is not a public relations device, nor is it a pamphlet or brochure for the college. A s a result, any requests to yank something simply because some department doesn 't like the message it conveys will be ignored as long as the story is objective, truthful and fair. Need proof? It's right in front of you. We here at the Chronicle are do ing our jo b, perhaps beller than ever before, if our record showing at the Illinois College vou go. Three cfozeo other Press Association Convention (page 3) is any indication. Let 's hope that the mothers called and acked when voa were Financial Aid Department can gel off the going to make a minlseriet about the phone, gel its act together, and treat its customers the same way the Chronicle unsolved murder of tJWt chilcf. already does.

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Viewpoints ~~~~~~------7 Even the biggest and best can serve only so COLUMBIA (HRONICLf many people CO L UMB IA'S CHOICE mended beyond the basic textbook materi­ By David Williams school libraries have been either nonexistent Jim Sulski o r dismally understocked and understaffed al- in their core courses at such institutions Faculty Adviser Guest Columnist (as has been only recently officia lly as the Art Institute and Columbia. They acknowledged by the Chicago-Val las school lament that while these institutions' libraries Since 1976, I have worked as a reference board leadership team). continue to have a strong focus on the arts Christopher Ric hert librarian in the subject areas of history and CPL branch libraries typicall y have and communication, little has been done to Business/Advertising the social sciences at the Chicago Public served young children w ith nowhere else to expand li brary holdings in other areas com­ Manager Library. In the bad old days, my department go after school to do their homework. mensurate with the expansion o f their liber­ was housed in a warehouse at 425 N. Unable to fi nd enough in-depth books in the al arts and science curriculums. Michigan Ave., while city government pon­ branches, high school students make their We do our best to try and provide for Valerie Danner dered whether and w here to build a new way to the main public library in a recurring these students' research needs, but even a Managing Editor central library; then we sat fo r three years quest to e ither borrow whatever c irculating municipal library of our size sti ll fa lls short when you take into account all the other behind the Merchandise Mart as it was buil t. books can be found on a given topic to Kimberly Brehm xerox what is often only available in nonc ir­ above-cited library patrons who come to us Widely recognized as an architectural Campus Editor wonder of sorts, the world-class Harold culating (reference) books. as their library of last (or sometimes first) Washington Library Center (H WLC) is also The same could and still can often be resort. the flagship of one of the world's largest said for students in the Chicago C ity Institutions such as Columbia must Jill LoPresti public municipal library systems with one of Colleges, whose libraries in many cases are g reatly expand their library collections and Vitality Editor the largest book collections (at least on little better than those of the public h igh stop unduly off-loading this mission onto schools. the HWLC. After all, these institutions are paper) and circulation rates anywhere. Graham Couch But for all Since we've moved into the HW LC, collecting millions of dollars in tuition each of these distinctions, the situ­ Sports Editor ation at HW LC is comparable to what will I've become aware that we have taken on year from students, and could afford to put result when the aging Cook County Hospital yet another unofficial public mission, that of at least a few mi ll ion more into library col­ is fi nally put into its gleaming new buildings the central campus li brary for numerous rap­ lections. Billy O'Keefe There may be those who argue that the at the west end of the UIC's medical com­ id ly expanding nearby institutions of higher Viewpoints/New Media Editor plex; whatever its trappings, it w ill still be education such as DePaul, Roosevelt, advent of the Internet makes all of this talk Cook County Hospital, doing an heroic Colum bia, Robert Morris Coll ege, of books obsolete. To them I can only say: Amber Holst although usually mediocre job of trying lo East/West University and the School of the Spend a few afternoons at a busy reference meet all the needs of an entire metropolitan Art Institute. For as long as I can remember, in the HWLC at the height of term-paper Chris Novak area- needs which should be mel be numer­ we have served students who complain season. You will see that until there is both Martina Sheehan fu ll document delivery (i.e., books on ous other institutions who have shifted these about being unable to find enough books in Tom Snyder their own institution's libraries on assigned demand) and Internet terminals for everyone burdens onto one or another central public Assistant Editors agency. topics. who wants to use one, books are stil l badly For decades the Chicago Public Library But in the past few years I have noticed needed and heavily requested. has functioned as the surrogate school what seems to be a qualitative leap in the Rob Hart library system for the Chicago Public number of students coming to my reference David Williams is a reference librarian Photography Editor Schools and a host of parochial and private counter looking fo r supplementary read­ at the Harold Washington Library Center, ings- books assigned or strongly recom- 400 S. State St. academies. Elementary and secondary Bill Manley Donnie Seals Jr. O'Keefe Assistant Photography Editors Continued from Previous Page Amy Azzarito could be decided in two weeks but, like the O.J. Simpson trial and the well as a public and press that constantly, brutally dissects officials and Copy Chief NBA Finals, is elongated for the sake of getting rati ngs. candidates and examines their every gut through a microscope. Despite what Alan Keyes has to say, the race has been whittled Ignorant? Stupid? Try the opposite: We know too much, more than we Carrie Brittain down to four candidates: AI Bore and Bill Boring of the Democratic need or care to know. Katie Celani Party, and George W. Bore and John McCain of the Republican Party. I've been paying attention to the presidential race since I 988, when And that, my friends, is the most tedious use of the word "party" ever I was 10. You know what I've learned? When the Republicans are Ryan Adair witnessed by yours truly. vaguely in favor of something (it's never clear-cut, Jest we should Copy Editors The stories in the news are the usual crop. So-and-so is for/against offend any neutral voters), the Democrats are not, and vice versa. abortion/education/drugs. Campaign finance reform is a hot issue- for Even still (and I know it hurts all you Rush Limbaugh freaks out the next eight months, anyway. Senator/Governor/Vice President there to hear this) liberals and conservati ves in this country are like Schmo kissed a sick baby and tried to sing gospel in a black church night and dusk, ready to bend in whatever d irection popular opinion today. The churchgoers weren't fooled, but the white folks watching the directs them. Abortion? Taxes? Porn? Pick your poison baby, because news thought it was off the charts. that's all it amounts to. And we all know how good poison tastes once The Columbia Chronicle is a student-pro­ And let's not forget Old Man Newshound's favorite: We kids, we the sugar on top wears away. duced publication of Columbia College just don't give a damn. Give us our loud music and cig'rettes, and we're But what about campaign finance reform? They' re all against it of Chicago and does not necessa ry repre· happy. We don't like to do any of that thinking business. We youth of course, yet the big candidates live and die by its current setup. How else sent, in whole or in part, the views of today are a bunch o' no-good stupids. They just don't make 'em like does George W. Bush, an idiotic degenerate who couldn't tap an oil Columbia College administrators, faculty they used to. Bah. well in freaking Texas of all places, make it this far? Something else to or students. Touche, right? In the words of my stupid generation, nuh-uh. To think about: Because the issue of campaign finance reform seems to those of us who in fact do follow the news, there is nothing funnier than magically disappear once the election ends, does that mean we solved Columbia Chronicle articles, photos and a blase, sloppy news report about how we just don't care about the can­ the problem? Hello? graphics are the property of the didates, about our country, about anything. Who needs all of these sit­ Nope, didn't think so. And so the charade continues as a demo­ Columbia Chronicle and may not be com stars and New Jersey jokes when the pundits on the news are say­ graphic is made the enemy instead of a system that celebrates ric h can­ reproduced or published without written ing things far more laughable? didates and an airtight two-party system that's absolutely terrified of pennission from the staff editors or fac­ Personally, I don't care-there's that "c" word again!--enough to outside interference. find out why our how my generation is such a colossal disappointment For about I 2 years now, I've heard the media ask the same ques­ ulty adviser. to everybody from Tom Brokaw to Jay Lena. But I know that we're not tions over and over. So when does my question get an answer? Why stupid, lazy or even ignorant. We may not be able to name the capitals can't John Q. 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Star was published in many different forms until By Rob Hart and Bill Manley 1863 . Douglas used his newspaper to show the coun­ try that African Americans could do the same quality Photography Editor/ Assistant Photo Editor o f work that whites could. Douglas also used his This is the second part of a special three-part series ltigh­ newspaper to call for the equal rights of women and lightmg the inp ut f~/A.frican -Americans in our collective attended the first women's rights convention in 1848. lusrm:r that c~(iem i mes is overlooked in traditional classes Douglas went on to campaign for President anclshoh·cases imporram African-Americans in the fields Lincoln and fight for the end of slavery. He orga­ of Art. Literature. Aluxic. Plwtograpl~\', Sports. ami ni zed the first black regiments for the Union Army, /,olitics. in which two o f his so ns fought in. He was also lll>pointed to many government positions after the Essay on Afric ~•n - A m r ri (.· an Literature Civil War, including U.S. Minister to Haiti and U.S. l!er 18 years .of going to school. I was handed my Marshal for the District of Columbia. ln·st book wntten abo ut the s lave expenence last Douglas died in 1895, and was known as one of A week in U.S. llistory. This points to both the fact the first African Americans to accomplish such a that \\C an: bc:ginning to \alue other points of view in diverse range of tasks to help all people. The our history, and that we ha' c for years been ignoring the Harlem Renaissance saw the emergence o f many black contribution in e' cry lacet of our collective cul­ African-American artists, but is most associated with ture. There arc a surprising number of first hand writers. The largest and most famous of all of these accounts of sl:wcry written by African Americans con­ artists during the 1920s was poet Langston Hughes, sidering most \\Cren't allo"ed to write. let alone learn who was born 1902 in Joplin, Miss. Hughes was edu­ how to read. cated at Lincoln University in Pennsylvania and pub­ The publication o f "slave narratives," as they are com­ lished his first poem whi le studying at Columbia monly called now. showed that African Americans could University in 1921. write literature and poetry just as good as white writers, After a short time in Paris, Hughes worked as a and in earl) cases busboy in a Washington D.C. where he left three manv " rotc abo ut reli- poems by the plate o f poet Vachel gion~ am.l ignorL·d the Lindsey, who was innuential in publish­ plight o f bbck slaves. ing Hugh's earl y work. During the The first k no" n poem ... - ~. ._ Harlem Renaissance, wealthy wh ite composed by an people helped find financial support for A frk.:t n ·\mcrican. the number of other African-American Luc' Tern in 175 6. writers. "'"s.titlcu-.. Hars Fit.dn'' Hughes deve loped a unique writing and \\as ahout a bal tlt: style using poetry to mimi c the sounds bc:t\ \CCil . 'ati \t!' of black mu sical rhythms instead of Americans and \\ h itcs. other classical forms of poetry. He was Others po~ t s l i ~e • w mmonly known as Poet Laureate of ~ ~ . Phill is \Vheatl) pub­ Harlem, and soon began to focus his Leadbelly was one of the most important influences on lished rd igious poc t r~ .. poetr} on social issues. In a poem titled American music but can be directly seen in the folk explosion around I 77 3. .-. ~ 1/arlem. Hughes 'Hites. " What Happens of the 1960's It \\a>Jl't until around to a Dream Deferred? Does it dry up 1 8 ~ 0 " hen Fredrick like a raisin in the sun? Or fester like a Do ug)a!) bt: !.! an us inc sore-And then run''" He began to be the fresh in our minds, wi ll prevent us from denying it. litcr:lt urc to-uppose ­ 'oice of the black comm uni ty and like sla' cr: ;md inequalit) Fredrick Dougl as. took his talents into the Essay on African-American Music Oid .-\ fn l..'~lll :\mcrican fi elu o fjourn;lism. There is an old saying that behind every cloud there is \\ ritin!..! lind it!\ l" alling. After " rit ing a pia) that " as preformed a s ilver lining. Could the same argument be made for T h t>r~..·~t r ~ \Oiumc::. ot on Broad\\ <1). Hug hes began to \\rite sla very? Did anything good come out of thi s horrible lict1on .J\ ,ubble .lbout collllnns fo r the Clucago Defender, one of.. act? Some would argue that American Music benefited sla\c: narrJti\c:,. \\ hich I the most importam black newspapers in th ~ greatly from the African and Caribbean musical innu­ Jrc llU\\ rt.',ld a ~ impur· 'ountry. He also \\ ro te for The New }'ork ences brought here when people were forced to move to tant glimp c uno Jail) Frederick Douglass escaped slavery to i>o.H in the 1940s. Hughes wrote in th e this new continent . life before the emJna­ become the most influential African American 'oice of a ) oung black American called Many African musical traditions have been co-opted tion of>IJ , es. ' Jesse B. Semple, "ho used humor and a and melted down into many different kinds of music leader of his time. ·n,~rc \\ere m~n\ simple speech to express his common enjoyed by people of all backgrounds. The banjo was an important periods in African American li terature incl ud­ sence " isdom. Semple became an important character in instrument brought over from Africa and now associated ing the Harlem Renab sance and the Black Arts Hughcs'short stories. later on. with country and bluegrass music. The banjo can even Mo,ement of the 1960s. ben today. poets like Ma)a Langston Hughes had written more than 50 books be heard in bands today that play more roots style, like Angelou. "ho recllCd poet f) at !' resident Clinton's before his death in 1967. Although he is most commonly the popular band, the Squirrel Nut Zippers. Inauguration in I 992. contin ue that tradition. ~n o" n for hi> poetr) during the Harlem Rena issance, his Black influence doesn't stop with the instrument; many Although Fredric~ Douglas is known for his polit ical innuencc can be seen in later black poets like Amiri early rock pioneers, like Carl Perkins and Elvis Presley, life and anti -sla,er) campaign, he was one o f the first B ara~ a. who "rote poetry that reminds one of John were listening to the Grand Old Opry on the radio and African-American \Hiters to publish an autobiography. Coltrane pia) ing an improvisational jazz solo. singing black gospels in church. Carl Perkins learned to He also started the r~r s t all blac~ ne\\ spa per. One of the fi n,t modern no vels to depict the struggle play blues guitar and sing work songs in the cotton Dougla; "as born into sla ver) in 11! 17 and " as taught fur identit) \\ ithin black culture from the r~rs t person patch. He took these in nuences and began playing coun­ to read the Bibk b) his ma>ter's "il'e (the master ended vic" JlO II ll i; a no' cl by Ralph Elli son titled "Invisible try songs to a boogie blues beat. Even the fi rst commer­ the les,ons once he learned of them) . The seeds of learn­ Man." In the novel. Ellison presents a black man's fru s­ cial song that Elvis ever released was a blues song, ing \\ ~rep lanted in Douglas, and he secretly borro\\cd a trating search lor identity in an American society that "That's All Right Mamma," and on the other si de was the book and taught himsel f to read. He purchased hi s fi rst ignores blacks as funct ion ing members of society. Bill Monroe bluegrass standard, Blue Moon o f boo ~ \\ hen he \\aS 13. It wa> the Co/umhrun Orutm: Ralph Ell ison \\as born in 19 14 in Oklahoma City, Kentucky." He could adapt both styles into something Th1> \\Ould prove to bc useful. and Douglas soon O ~ la . lie " ent to col lege at the Tuskegee Normal and truly new, and music has never been the same. Sam became one of the g re a t ~ s t ; peakers of his lifetime. lndu>tria l ln>titu te, no" known as Tuskegee Univers ity. Phillips, the founder of Sun records and the man who l ie only completed three years of studying music before discovered Elvis, even said, "I knew if I found a white Douglas "as sent to a ''slave breaker" at he le ft to pursue a longtime dream of becom­ kid who could sing li ke a Negro we would sell a million one poi nt because of hi> opposition to slav­ ing a writer. In 1939, he joi ned the Federal records." ery and was beaten often, but his will could ­ Writers' Project, and began to write short sto­ The rural blues and gospel went on to influence bands n't be ~hattercd . After escaping. Douglas ries, reviews and essays for various periodi­ like the Rolling Stones, soul and Motown singers in the made his way to ew York to the house of cals in and around New York. Following 60s and 70s. We David Ruggles, an abolitionist, and began to Service in the WWII he returned to produce wish to ta lk about read an anti-slavery weekly publication, The his only novel, Invisible Man in 1952. The three important Liberator. In I 84 I, Dougla> attended the book instantly became a classic. African American Mas;achusetts Anti-Slavery Society conven­ "Invisible Man" tells of the travels of a Musicians who tion and was asked to speak about his expe· young, nameless black man, as he journeys changed the face of rienccs 1n >Ia' cry. This performance proved through American intolerance and cultural music fore ver. to be a pi votal point in his li fe He was blindness, searching for an identity that he Blues and folk alTered a sta fT position to travel, speak at can call his own. In the opening chapters of music is distinctly a meetings and give publi c lectures, which the novel, he states "When they approach me southern experi- · were frequently broken up by angry whites. they sec only my surroundings, themselves, ence. The songs His contribution to literature came in or ligments of their imag ination-- indeed, grew out of the cot­ 1845, when he wrote one or the most power­ everything and anything except me." The ton fie lds. Many ful autobiographies, 1'l1e Life ofFredrick book begins when the narrator is expelled young musicians !Jouglas in response to m;my people's di sbe- from a Southern Negro college after sharing used these songs to lief that he was ever a slave . Thi; book detailed the dai ly hi s experience with a white trustee. Jaded, he moves to get them through life of his \ lavery, although omitted his escape, so others New York City on ly to find things there arc no better. the hard labor. could u; c the ' ame tactic without drawing too much The book deals with the narrator's struggle to find out Leudbelly was one attention to it. Douglas later wrote two more versions o f what the truth really is, a tier being accepted into groups of America's leg­ his life story in 1855 and 188 1. and lactions that tricked him into believing their version ends that influenced Douglas' book drew so much attention to hi m he was of the trut h. many musicians. He in fear o f re-capture and ned to Europe for two years. lnvisihle Man is truly a book about America and our had a great guitar A ftc r fri ends in l:.ngland bought his freedom, he was injustice on the basis of race; sadly, it points out sore style and knew "-iem. able to travel to America and begin his second chapter in points that still exist in th is country. Ralph Ellison is more than 500 hi~ writing life, this time as a journalist. truly one of the most important writers of the 20th centu­ songs that he could pull out and play. His music helped In 1847, Douglas started a ncw, papcr in Rochester, NY, ry and his work wi ll remain a classic, simply because the him through hard times in prison and even got him a par- that was staffed and pub lished only by blacks. His North elegant telling of a story that helps us keep the injustice February 21, 2000 Special Series 11 don. His southern folk sty le was never popular in his separated parents in ew Orleans., American filmmakers of all­ life time, and neither was he. His mother was very poor, and time. M ichcau:\, nc:' cr one Hudd ie Wi ll iam Leadbetter was born o n a Lo uis never managed to make it to shy ... ,, a) from controver­ plantation in Mooringsport. Louisiana past the fift h grade in school. sy. created >uch po"crful around January 1885 to a sharecropper fam­ On New Year's Eve 1913, Louis films as his I 920 lynching­ ily who wem on to own their own fa rm in found a pistol inside his horne and from-a-non-white-pers pc:c­ Texas. Given the nickname "Leadbelly" in fired it into the air as a celebration. ti vc "Within Our Gates." prison, he used th is name for the rest o f Armstrong was arrested and sen­ Sadly, Oscar Micheaux's his life. tenced to attend the Colored name is not mentioned in the Leadbelly was taught to play Waifs' home fo r boys in new Film /\esthetics text encour­ the accordion and guitar by his Orleans. IV hi lc he was at the aged by Colurnbia or uncle and left home after Home, he took vocal training Andre" Sarris' famed Film fathering two children by courses with the chorus and Directors l:"ncyclopedia, and age 16 a fter be ing a sen­ was encouraged to learn the 'cry fc" people know him sation at local "sukey­ coronet for the Center's band. or his work by name. He j ump" parties. Leadbelly Almost right o ff the bat Armstrong almost became another fa cc­ began wandering around took a liking to the instrument. lt.:ss martyr of his own revo­ Dallas playing w ith bluesman Blind He began play ing in the hanky lution. Lemon JeiTerson, who would go on to tanks and bars around ew Almost. but not q uite. sell more than a mill ion "race" records Orleans copying the style o f a local Michcaux's s inuous thrillers in the 1920s. Southern blues was a player name King Oli ver whom he -- ""ith their nearly implaca­ strong in n uence on his fo lksy style. later replaced in Kid Ory's New ble atmosphere> o f menace Lead belly was forced to part ways Orleans jazz band. The two and oppression-- Ji,ed on to with JeiTerson in 19 17, when he was remained friends. and in 1922, inspi re another one of the jailed for assault. He would soon Armstrong followed O li ver to most inOucntial African­ escape, but land back into prison after Chicago where he recorded with American directors o f all a brawl that le ft a man dead. the King Oli ver Creole j azz band. Oscar Micheax was the first African-American to time, Melvin Van Peebles. Leadbelly wrote a song fo r the gover­ This event is a milesto ne in music produce and direct a motion picture. In his life­ In 197 1, native Chicagoan nor and was gramed a full pardon in history because up unti l this time, time he directed nearly 40 films. Van Peebles d irected "Sweet 1925. Again in 1930, Leadbelly was Armstrong and O liver's band was Sweetback's Badasssss back in prison for assault with intent to the fi rst black act to record jazz. Song," a film that, I would murder. In 1924, Armstrong moved to New York where he argue, is the most inOuential independent fi lm ever Prison proved to be a good place for played with various bands and secured himself as a for­ made. In a time when the old Hollywood studios were Leadbe lly because this was where he midable force in the jazz world. In 1925 Louis as close to decay as they ever came, when even such was discovered by Jo hn Lomax a Armstrong began recording with a group of his own, the acclaimed anti-journeyman directors as Arthur Penn and Texan fo lklorist w ho was record­ Hot Fives, and Hot Sevens were a pioneering group in Francis Ford Coppola could not help but betray their ing in the prisons for the Library o f the style o f Dixie land or Hot j azz. The Hot Fives and " independent" slant by making romanti c ilcd and glitzy Congress. Lomax would return a second ti me Sevens inO uenced many later A meri can artists including films from classic Hollywood formulas. "Sweet and Leadbelly wo uld record his signature Roy Eldridge and Bi ll ie Holiday. Sweetback" was ug ly, disorgani zed. bri lliant fi lmmaking. song, "Goodnight Irene." With his command­ In the thirties and forties Armstrong began an It was pain recorded omo celluloid. It \\aS the birth­ ing voice and his g reat talent on the 12 extremely popular Big Band orchestra. The band toured scream of a new kind o f cinema. string guitar Lomax moved Lead belly to Europe and all over America, as well as being featured "Sweet Sweetback" and Melvin Van Peebles leave New York in 1934. in several Hollywood movies includ ing Pen11ies from their fingerprints on nearly e' cry "independem" picture Leadbclly was a sensation in the high lleavc11. Cabi11 i11 rhe Sky. and New Orleans. Armstrong that has come thereafter. from every "blaxploitation" soc iety o f New York; people were fas­ became the fi rst African American to regularly appear fil m, good or bad, which fol lowed in the 10 years after it cinated with his conv ict past, his wide in t ~ature films. was made. all the "ay up to the "urk ofQuemin reptoire o f old songs and his abil ity to Afier the decline in popularity for big band music Tarantino. play many d iiTerent instrumems. Armstrong \\Cnt on to form a band called the All Micheaux and Van Peebles' "ork also inO ucnccd a Lomax secu red a record in!! contract Stars that showcased hi s own talents for sincine. as young ·yu grad by the name of Shelton Jack>on Lee wi th American Record CoT,1pany, well as playing, Armstrong was one of the rfrst- (now known as Spi ke), \\hose fi rs t feature lilm. '·She 's but marketed his material to arti sts to record scat singing. (singing improvised Gotta lla\C lt." helped in;pire and ra1sc 'm arencss o f the "hiles. The pop market was most­ sounds rather than I) rics). /\rrnstrong's \Oicc "indepenJem film" explo sion of the SO> and 90s. Lee !) big band and jaa at this time became one of the most reco~ni;ablc of the 20th sho"ed that films b) ;\frican-.\mencan lilmn1.1ker; did and his records sold poorly. centu ry. In the middle to late -1960s Armstrong not nl!"cd to be about and stricti ) fur .·1/ru:un-American'i. It ''asn'tuntil 1939. thl! rl.!cordcd sl.!vcral hils that made the Billboan..J charts. The) can be about and for all pmpl~. From "Malcolm Leadbelly found a market in most notably "llcllo Dollv" in 1964 and " What a X" to "Summer of Sam." Lee continues to he one of Nt.!w York. I k made fr i~.:nd~ with \\'ond.:rful \\'urld'' in 1967. ,\nn'.tron!.!'s rccordinc of ,\nh.:rica':-, premier filmmakers to this da:. Olll' of the! fe\\ a circle o f leflists and thOSI.! in "Hello Doll\" even unsc'ated the Bea&s hit "I \\ ',~11 to dirc:~t ors \\hO h~t s something to soy . rather than ju:;t the union movemc:nl. LemJbdly II old Your I iand" as l:lillboard, ~o . I hit. That same someth ing to shoH'. adapted "protest" songs to his year "I kilo Dolly" won a Grammy 1\\\ard for bc>t So th is month. while you p.l ) homagl' to Cit.•urge ~e t s. H e also began to speak out SOIH.!.. \\'ashington Can t!r, or B.:njamin Uannikcr. ur f larri..:t in songs against racism and the I ~ I 97 1. Armstrong suffered a heart attack and a Tubman, sec: if) uu can mal-....: that oh-so-lung t re~ dO\\ n Jim c;ow laws. By 1940 there \\eck later died in his Corona New York home. In the to the video store to pi ck up "S" eet S" cetback 's were many newcomers surround­ last decades of his life, Armstrong had fa llen out o f lladasssss Song." I really think that many of you will be ing Leadbelly, looking to learn the graces of the jazz comm unity because of his surprised by how diiTerem and great a film it truly is. from him. American legends li ke commercia l success, but t:ven his criti cs couldn't Also. take a look at "Coffee," in which Pam Grier out­ Sonny Terry, Pete Seeger, Burl lves. deny his inn uences on the jazz world and music for wi ts a den o f thieves 20 years before Tarantino's "Jackie and Woody G uthrie . generatio ns a tier hi s death. In 1972, he was posthu­ Brown," or watch Jim Kelly exude more confidence and Leadbclly continued to record for the mously awarded a Grammy Award for lifetime cool than even Bruce Lee in "Enter the Dragon," or rest of his life until he succum bed to achievement, as well as two Hall o f fame Grammy cheer on Fred Williamson in "Three the Hard Way" as he A LS, Lou Gehrig's disease in 1949. /\wards, o ne in 1974 and the second in 1993. defines the modern action hero a decade before Weeks after his death a fo lk band the "Rambo." Weavers took Leadbellys staple song, Essay on A frican-A mer ican C inema Most importantly, try to find a copy of the documen­ "Goodnight Irene" to a number one hi t tary "Midnight Ramble" (there's one in our library) to and sold 2 million By Mike Costa learn more about African-American film pioneers such copies. The Weavers Correspondent as Oscar Micheaux. For once, skip "Birth of a Nation" Pete Seeger spoke at and seek out the cinematic pioneers that time forgets. Leadbe lly's introduc­ " Birth o f a Nation" is a masterpiece. Director D. W. tion into the Rock and Ro ll Griffith sealed his legacy as the Grandfather o f fi lm Photos courtesy of: Hall o f Fame in 1988 and said , while the industry was still at the tender age of 17, www.foppejohnson.com; armstrong, "It's one more case of black basically inventing suspenseful ed iting as we know it, music being made famous by and fi lming one of the most visually complex and www.mdl.com/ CiasslsFilms, white people. It's pure tragedy he majestically rousing spectacles in the history of silent www.lmages.amazon.com . didn't live another six months, film . And the heroes of the film were members of the because all of his dreams as a per­ Ku Klux Klan. former would have come true." The early days of cinema were not kind to African Leadbelly's innuences can be seen Americans. In fact, they were downright brutal and directly in the huge fo lk explosion o f racist in the ir depictio n o f the African-A merican man the 1960s. Musicians like Bob Dylan, and woman. In the movies, more than any other artistic whose music was centered on push­ medium, they were explo ited and despicably slandered ing fo r change. Nirvana recorded a by bigoted characterizations and absurdly racist plot Leadbelly song, "Where Did You developmcms. Black actors were used mostly as sec­ S leep Last ight" on their ond-tier comedy re li e f, with lero opportunity to emote Unplugged album. anything beyond slapstick absurdity. Griffith himself One o f the most innovative and inOu­ actually employed white actors in black make-up for his ential musicians of the twentieth centu­ "lead" 1\.frican-Amcrican characters. "T he JaLZ Singer,'' ry, Louis Armstrong has had a pro found the first sound li lm. featured AI Julson, known promi­ impact on A merican music . His ability to nently fo r smearing his face with shoe-polish and improvise on jazz themes has been studied singing for his "M ammy.'' and imitated by countless fu ture music ians, Luckily for African-Americans and the c inematic and because of his inOuence, some of this canon as a whole, those days o f segregated lilm s and century 's most legendary acts were fo rmed. movie ho uses have passed. Armstrong was not only a renowned trumpet In 1919, O>ear Micheaux became the lirst African and, coronet player .byt aiS£ a greatly a have produced, and direetc·d ncmly 40 lil ms. mal-ing him nut said tlrJt's very unlikely.) as .David Louis Armstrong to only the first. hut ;dso one of the nw>t prolilic t\frican- 12 Columbia Chronicle February 21, 2000

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By Chris Gavauonl came from . His friends become Staff Writer concerned with his absence and encounter an amazing adventure "The T1gger Mov1e" 1s about the tnals and tnbulations of T1gger's attempt to as they search for him. In their relate to h1s pals who res1de 1n Hundred Acre Wood. Tigger's personality con­ search. All the characters' person­ SISts of. if you can recall. an all-out opt1m1SI1c, happy-go-lucky, fly-off-the-seat-of ality traits are presented in an your-pants kmd of cat He says of h1mself that, "T1ggers are fun . fun, fun. the amazingly accurate real-life for­ most wonderful th1ng about T1gger is I'm the only one!" But after bouncing (h1s mat, which makes for high quality favonte hobby) he comes to realize that nobody wants to bounce with him. entertainment in the story's sim­ When T1gger appears he greets his fellow peers with a playful, full-fledged plicity. tackle to a f1ve or s1x summersault roll-similar to Dino greeting Fred Flinstone. Tigger's sidekick and admirer Needless to say h1s fnends find it extremely obnoxious and annoying. but I found throughout the movie, Roo, tries ....,._ ..... _ •<'-"';.....·-- "'"--."" 1t to be h1lanous Tigger bounces to Winn1e The Pooh who is occupied counting his best to learn the tricks of the - h1s honey Jars. of course. Owl, Rabb1t . Piglet. Eeyore and Kanga are too busy trade, but he just can't perfect the bounce. Roo does, however, practice enough and too mature for T1gger's playfulness because they are preparing for winter to gain the experience to do the most difficult bounce of them all; "the whoopdie, h1bernat1on doopdie, loopy-loop and alley-oop." This bounce may not appear or seem to Tigger becomes aware of h1s so-ca lled madequacies. He sits alone next to have any orgasmic significance to those who read this. But to those who risk the the nver and wonders about his ongins. Now. he isn't so proud to be the only $8.75 (plus popcorn and drink) to actually see this spectacular extravaganza of one. However. Roo 1dolizes Tigger and loves to play and bounce. T1gger and intricate bouncing and flawless Walt Disney animation will be left with a heart Roo connect like puzzle pieces. but Roo isn't up to par in his bouncing ability. In pounding, suspenseful moment toward the end--1wouldn't want to ruin it for any­ a depressed state. Tigger bounces around to find his family. one. · He searches in the The absence of Winnie The Pooh from the big screen for 17 years brought highest trees where back the great childhood imagination that I seem to have lost touch with. Tiggers love to hang out; Amazingly enough there is a he looks everywhere. but well th ought out plot to this to no avail. In hav1ng no Disney creatiOn. ThiS movie ' I r luck uncovenng any clues IS worth watching if you're " "' 111 relat1on to his fam 1l y his­ into that kind of th1ng and 1f tory. the v1ewer 1S keyed in you can apprec1ate the des­ w1th how spec1al his pals Ignated aud1ence be1ng chil­ 1n Hundred Acre Wood dren. For whatever it's really are and that he worth. 1f I were to rate Chil­ doesn't have to look far to dren's mov1es . I'd have to f1nd h1s real fam1ly. Not place "The Tigger Movie" 1n know1ng thiS, T1gger flees th1rd . "P1nocch1o" bemg sec­ on bad terms w1th h1s ond and "AI1ce In fnends because he's frus­ Wonderland" be1ng f1 rst Go trated that he's uncovered see 1t w1th a niece, nephew. noth1ng about where he ch1ld, or for yourself. Weed, beauty, insanity, and lazy filmmaking (l et's face it. they're stoned out of the1r minds Snyder By Tom and more than happy to catch fish and play vol­ Ass .sta·, Ed to· leyball all day). Immediately accepted into the castaway crew, R1chard and his new-found In the open1ng vo1ceover of "The Beach." Leonardo D1Capno 1nforms the friends enjoy their joyful1sland paradise until the aud1ence that h1s character's name IS R1chard . and sarcastica lly 1mplies that reality of the world and its dangerous ways h1s f~rst name 1s the on ly background material reqUired to understand the tale catches up with them (warning to the squea­ that will follow mish: beware of sharks)! Th1s opemng monologue can be interpreted 1n two bas1c ways: lazy film­ For more than an hour ''The Beach" flows making. or cutt1ng edge narrat 1ve Unfortunately for D1Capno and everyone through hip, fun, and sexually charged scene else assoc1ated w1th "The Beach," 1t's obv1ously poor filmmak1ng on the part of after scene, hinting at a giant powder keg of a D1rector Danny Boyle ("'Tramspothng"). And that's too bad. because "The conclusion. but. alas, the film falls flat on its Beach" IS a thnlling mov1 e w1th much promi se, but little payoff. face. The problem? Richard's sudden and The prom1se that IS established by the first hour of "The Beach" is tremen­ under-developed descent into darkness, and dous. D1rector of Photography Danus Khondj1 creates a rich world w1th his Director Danny Boyle's inability to include any lens. forg 1ng a cmemat1c paradise of pure blue skies and bluer waters. And scenes to connect the audience to Richard. along w1th stunn1 ng v1su als, "The Beach" presents an 1ntngu1ng set-up. The Sure, Richard searches for adventure, new concept echoes Franc1s Ford Coppola's "Apocalypse Now," w1th our narra­ experiences. and a purpose to life (as all of us), tor/protagonist slowly sp1ral1ng 1nto madness aft er acqUinng a hand-wntten but in the end one is left nodding the head but map to a myth1cal ISland overflowmg w1th bount1ful weed and 1ndescnbable not caring at all about the fate of Richard or any­ beauty. one else. After Richard conv1nces an easy-go1ng French couple, Franco1se (the Seemingly out of nowhere. the film switches s unn1ng V1rg1n1e Ledoyen) and Et1enne (Gu1llaume Canet ). to accompany h1m gears from edgy. enterta1n1ng mov1e to "Apocalypse Now" wanna-be. The tran­ on a danng tre ~ through Tha 1l and. the youthful/beautiful tno reach "the beach" Sition would have worked had Boyle developed a catalyst for Richard's animal­ ard enter he ad 1enture that w1ll change the1r lives forever like react1 on s 1n the latter th1rd of "The Beach." As IS, R1chard IS suddenly envi­ - - -..... Narrowly escap1ng the Sionmg h1mself as a v1deo game hero madly marchmg through the JUngle. cro ssha~rs of gun-tot1ng D1Capno really 1sn't to blame for the ''The Beach's" inability to sustain its ener­ manJuana farmers. gy for 1ts durat1on -- he IS as solid as can be w1th his quasi-ph1losoph1cal lines of R1chard and h1s new pals vo1ce over and severely underwritten part -- but the ending of the film leaves me hack the~r way thro ugh the second guess1ng h1s mot1vat1on for tak1ng the role and shaking my head at the mystenous 1sland and film he and Boyle JUSt m1ssed ach1ev1ng. stumble upon a self-sus­ Much has been made of D1Capno's slow process to choose a follow-up to tained commun1ty of soc1al "T1tan1c" (Woody Allen's "Celebnty" doesn't seem to count). and it appears that outcasts The outcasts he m1ssed a g1ant chance at escalat1ng h1s career further (1 s that possible?) COilSISt Of young llldiVIdU· when he passed on the le ad 1n the upcom1ng "American Psycho" (due April 7th) als fed up w1th the world to make "The Beach " Unfortunately for Leo. buzz abounds from Sundance con­ and 1ts plagues. can cers. cern,ng "Psycho" while "The Beach" stands as a good adventure fl1ck that tragi­ paras1t es, and troubles ca lly m1ssed 1ts chance at be1ng a great one. February 21, 2000 Vitality 15 A brief synopsis of Chicago Rock

By Chris Novak Assistant Editor

"Chicago is post rock, Chicago is punk rock, Ch1cago IS new country. It is as wide as rr...... , the population. It's a very diverse thing, and people from all different genres play with each other. I think it's great."-0101 OJ , James VanOsdol remarking on the current state of Chicago's local rock scene. . Chicago's music is as unique as Ch icago 1tself. Unlike New York City and LA Chicago's music scene does not have the support of record labels and an artsy reputa­ tion. But yet it thrives in uniqueness. Maybe 11 IS because of these special circumstances that the music scene in Chicago is so unique. Smashing Pumpkins. W1th the lack of labels and word-of-mouth support, it seems that the bands Although the closing of the Lounge Ax may hinder Ch icago's smaller bands without a large fan base. the Double Door and the Metro play host to the more that are current!~ thnv1ng 1n Ch1cago are only doing so because of lessons established bands in Chicago with larger followings, such as the Blue Meanies Ch1cago mus1c h1story has taught them, and the never ending support of local clubs and fans. and Apocalypse Hoboken. The Metro is another club that supports local music. They frequently ask The Birth... local bands to open for any larger act that performs there. For example. when Chicago and the blues. These are words that go together like peanut butter the Offspnng played, Mary Tyler Morph1ne opened, and when Sis came into town from Scotland, Ness was one of three local bands that played before Sis' set. and Jelly.. The ,beg1nnmg of Ch1cago music is the beginning of the blues. From there, Ch1cago s mus1cal style branched into many various styles of music. After Without venues. Chica!:io's local rock scene would not be as varied or large the blues. the next large phase .in Chicago's musical history was pure rock 'n' as 11 currently IS. The vanous clubs allow mus1c fans to experience the many roiL Bands such as Styx and Ch1cago. paved the proverbial musical path for the bands Ch1cago has to offer. and allows bands to increase their fan base. Ch1cago rock bands of today. but it all began with the blues. After World War II. Detroit and Chicago became the destination of choice for The Death of Chicago's Music... black 111usicians in the 1940s. Both Chicago and Detroit were highly industrial­ No longer are we this isolated city, but now all of a sudden we're in the main­ IZed Cities , and were always 1n need of workers to run the steel mills and auto­ stream and in the business," sa1d Jim Flame. trumpet player for the Blue mobile factories. According to legend, due to the excessive noise of these plants, in order for the audience to hear the music. the musicians had to ampli­ Meanies. fy their instruments. Thus. modern day blues was born. For many bands, young and old. the period of time between 1993 and 1996 In Chicago, the center for blues was called "Jew-town." known to most as was a dark time. After years of not being targeted by major labels. it all changed. All of a sudden Ch1cago became a hot commodity. If you were a rock band in Maxwell Street. On Maxwell Street.. blues musicians would sit down and play the Chicago with some experience, there was a good chance that your band would blues for those walk1ng by. Mus1c1ans w1th names such as Little Willie Foster Hound Dog Taylor. and Muddy Waters would fill Maxwell Street w1th the sounds be signed by a major record labeL Although many people believe that this period of time was not as bad as of the blues. After the blues explosion. the Chicago music scene lay dormant for qu1te some of the bands have stated, the people involved in the Chicago music scene at that t1me know better. For every Smashing Pumpkins and Veruca Salt there some time. Then. in the early 70's. pure Chicago rock 'n' roll emerged. Bands were many failures--Menthol, Loud Lucy and Triple Fast Action are just a few such as Styx would play 1n the1r garages. Due to the lack of Chicago bands prior to th1s stage, 11 IS safe to presume that most Influences were from cities other bands who were s1gned, but never made it out of Chicago. than Chicago. Both Styx and Chicago had multiple platinum albums. and were James VanOsdol. Q1 01 OJ and host of Local 101 . thought of this whole era famous. not only 1n Ch1cago, but also around the rest of the world. With the fame as ridiculous. "You had major labels signing lots of bands that sounded exactly of the,se bands. Chicago once again became a city known for great music. alike," VanOsdoL "There was a huge signing frenzy. and after that there was a The blues and the era of '70s rock. would become influential parts of the big lull, and the city has built itself up without having to worry about that big A&R development of Chicago rock music in the early '90s. when many local bands microscope." placed Chicago on the map for modern day rock music;, Many of the bands agree that the lull was a positive thing. During that time . local bands had the chance be themselves once more. There was no longer any The Support pressure from the su1ts 1n LA and the Ch1cago bands did what they do best, per­ Every local band cites local clubs as one the most important aspects of the formed . Ch1cago mus1c scene. Whether it is a small club like the Empty Bottle, or a larg­ er local venue like the Metro, the clubs in Chicago are the lifeline of Chicago's ... And the Rebirth local rock scene. Right now the environment in Chicago for bands is thriving. Bands that have For many small bands in Chicago. the first clubs they play are not designed been play1ng for years, and that have a unique sound, are finally being reward­ for a large audience. Clubs such as Empty Bottle and the now-defunct Lounge ed. Ax have garnered a reputation as a place for showcasing new talent. And as Also, the bands are getting along with each other better than ever. According bands play these smaller clubs, sometimes a favoritism for them over larger to VanOsdol, "The camaraderie in Chicago is the best I've seen it in years. Yo u venues develops. Kev1n Jumor, lead s1nger and founder of Chamber Strings. have all these people from all these disparate styles of music that enjoy each has a great apprec1at1on for the Lounge Ax. He says he turned down gigs just others company and they support each other." to headline at his favorite club. As Chicago rock enters the 21st century, it seems the atmosphere is better The recent closing of the Lounge Ax was a great loss to music fans in than it has been in quite some time. The bands are supporting each other. and Chicago. The club booked, on average, anywhere between 12 and 15 local the fans and local clubs are supporting the bands. Bands who have been on the bands a week, more than most other clubs in Chicago. This establishment was scene for a while and have worked hard are being signed to major labels. And the stepping stone for many popular local bands such as Tortoise. Wilco and the w1th up and commg bands like Lucky Boys Confusion and Mary Tyler Morphine earn1ng a follow1ng , 11 seems that the future of Chicago rock looks promising.

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By Elizabeth Rting ing of Diesel (catch him in the upcoming "Boiler Room"-­ In this sci-fi/horror thriller, the survivors of a a film with a lot more promise) as Riddick, the murderer Staff Writer cargo-ship crash find themselves stranded on a and reluctant hero. Mitchell (of the acclaimed film "High desert planet with three suns. Their expedition for water leads them to an aban­ Art") is decent as the docking captain who attempts to doned geological camp where they discover a small ship, a means of getting relieve her own guilty conscience by trying to save the themselves off the rock. In their journey back to the crash site, they find some­ other survivors . David plays an annoyingly stereotypic thing more dangerous than the convicted murderer ~7"" religious man you almost among the survivors: the planet is inhabited by a number ' hope will be ca rried away of creepy, bat-like creatures that hide in the dark caverns l · by the creatures. of the planet. because to venture into the light means fry- f Writers Jim Wheat, Ken ing the skin off their own bodies. ' Wheat, and David Twohy These saw-toothed creatures occasionally feed on the (who directs, and also did flesh of those dumb enough to wander into the depths of the box-office lemon "The the caverns. Despite this danger. all seems hunky-dory Arrival" with Charlie until the docking captain of the Sheen) do nothing ship discovers that the planet is ground breaking in this just about to line up for a total film. relying on a formula­ eclipse. A sufficient amount of · ~ ic plot that made audience members feel they gory deaths and panicked con­ had already seen this movie before and didn't versation ensues as the survivors like it the first time around. attempt to beat tracks back to the Playing on everyone's "afraid of the dark" fear ship, resulting in some interesting from childhood is a great concept. but here it is role reversals among the princi­ poorly realized, as this film attempts to be too pal characters. much at once. It could have been better had it gone one of two ways: embrace Vin Diesel, Keith David and Radha Mitchell star in this it as a formulaic sci-fi thriller and make fun of itself, a Ia "Scream," or veer off the film that attempts to be the next "Aliens" or "Blair Witch beaten path and give the audience something new and exciting. My advice: Project," but somehow falls short of the mark. The char­ save your money for one of the much more promising films being released with­ acters are pat and obvious. despite the ingenious cast- In the next few weeks. If you still insist on seeing it, don't say I didn't warn you. 16 Columbia Chronicle F*-'Y21,2000

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"WONDER BOYS" OPENS IN CHICAGO ON FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 25TH. V"rtality February 21, 2000 18 ·--- Artists of the week ... Artist of the week ... Artists of the week ... Do you know who's playing at the Meuo this sundayil oas EFX and those men in sheep's clothing. Black Sheep, will be at the Meuo February 25th at Bpm. Got ticketsil . Noil Well, you're probablY going to miss out on old iams like ·ney wanna EFX." and newer ones on their lastest LP "Hold It Down." Das EFX shook the world of Hip-Hop music in 1992 With their abilitY to change catch phrases and words. Their second more underground release was "Staight Up Sewaside." Joining them on stage are ores and Mista Lawnge from Black Sheep. These Native Tongue brothers along withDas EFX are sure to bring a great show to Chicago. Artists of the week ... Artist of the week ... Artists of the week ... j ...... ,~ .( /,,,. ---­ Sovl'"ld Cliff -for your miml music that" takes its own damned time By Keith Harrison Looking Jlheall getting where it's goi ng. fully aware that TMS Campus it will have you thoroughly entranced by the time it gets there. It's an unassum­ The Night ing stunner, and the first great record of 2/21 Triage @Empty Bolda • Morphine the year. Gin Palace Jesters @Schubas Tavern (Dream works ) Nightlife Orquesta @The Green Dolphin Street Reviewing Cobra Verde Grupo Kaskara @The Note posthumous (Motel) discs is a tricky - 22 B.B.King @Star Plaza proposition, what The latest 2/22 Tricolor @Empty Bolda with the human tendency to avoid disc from speaking ill of the dead, and the music­ Cleveland's Radio Hour 491. Reclinerland. The Dick Prall Band @ biz tendency to mythologize each and Cobra Verde Schubas Tavern every musician who dies young. Which is all glorious. The Bill Poner Real SWiag Orchestra @The Green brings us to "The Night." the album goofy glam rock. the New York Dolls _ recorded by Morph ine just before band carjacking David Bowie for one more Dolphin Stfeet leader Mark Sandman suffered a fatal night of slumming through the seedy Ron Havnes @The Note heart attack. 'T he Night" does boast side of town. Fortunately, John Petkovic luckY Bovs Coatusien. ApocalYPse Holloken. Nash some additional. low-key instrumenta­ and company back up their dead-on tiOn (strings and an organ. mostly). and attitude with the requisite brash and Kato. JDavis Trio, Millioa Yen @Metro a sound that's more subdued but also surging rawk, appropriately juiced for 2/23 X. The bomb. Bleed@House of Blues more sinister than the band's previous the modern era with pulsating synths. discs. Yet it's still essentially a all of it aiming for over the top, and - 24 X. Nerves @House of Blues Morphine record , dominated by the most of it succeeding. Whether they're 2/24 Motorhome @Double Door band's trademark "low rock" sound -­ copping the bridge from the Stones' 2/25 Das Efx. Black Sheep @Metro Sandman's two-string slide bass and "Let's Spend The Night Together," strut­ Dana Colley's sax. which together ere- ting like old Molt the Hoople or snicker­ Snapcase. Anh-nau @Metro .,. ate the aural equivalent of film noir.That ing their way through a twisted cabaret Gas Gians @Park West might lead skeptics to wonder whether. vamp. Cobra Verde offers plenty of low­ had Sandman not died. this disc would brow. practically guilt-free fun. -26 Pretenders. Gay Dad @Riviera have been greeted by a collective Willam Cepeda & Afrorican Jazz@ HotHouse shrug from the notoriously fickle music 2/26 Doug Cam @Elbo Room industry-- rock crits included. And the Video G~t"e Review! ' hard truth is that. given the band's one naming Ups@ CubbY Bear basic sound, a single Morphine disc will By Langston Wertz Jr. Elliott Smhh @Empty Bolda suffice for most rock fans' collections. TMS Campus Still, "The Night" sounds great on its Jungle Brothers @House of Blues own terms. and it works as both a fitting NBA Showtime Blue Meanles, ApocalYPse Holloken, Hot Stove JimY. final work from the band and as a con- (Midway fo r The Tossers. The Strike. Gaza Strippers Marv Tvler - c1se primer for the uninitiated. Dreamcast and for N1ntendo 64) Morphine @Metro Three Cherries 2127 Cash Money, Ruff Ryders @Allstate Arena S1n Ropas I thought the N64 (Perishable) vers1on of this 2-on-2 Type oNeuauve , coal Chamber @Riviera title was fast, good­ The debut d1sc from S1n Ropas 1s an looki ng and fun . You oddly beaut1ful th1ng . Among the items get the familiar "NBA on the band's collect1ve resume are on NBC" theme music and enough st1nts 1n Callfone . Pure and Broke back, commentary to keep you happy. The but it' s writer and singer Tim Hurley's players do all the wacky stuff you'd previous gig w1th Red Red Meat that expect in these 2-on-2 arcade games . ' provides the best context for the S1n and it's fun lo play. But when you put in Ropas sound "Three Cherries" revi sits the Dreamcast version and the graph­ the wounded vocals and the spooky. ics get cleaner and the players bigger, creak1 ng melod1es that marked Red th1ngs improve dramatically. Now, you An evening of hardcore next Friday @Metro Red Meat's best work . but wi lh a more can clearly make out what type of dunk ISnapcase and AnU-Fiau abovel subtle touch. Instead of collaps1ng you just threw down.T he only problem : bl ues riffs. S1n Ropas traffics 1n ancient­ The game didn't keep statistics well. sounding synthes1zers. snatches of Playing as the Hornets, Anthony Mason acoustic guitar and p1ano. and a host of had 18 po1nts at halftime on 1-of-4 field oddball percussion sounds Th1s 1s goal shoot1ng. Horrorscopes

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Monday through Thursday We are located in the 8 am -6:30pm lower level of the Friday 8 am - 3 pm 600 S. Michigan building February 21, 2000 Sports 23· UIC rallies to knock off Wisconsin-Milwaukee - By Graham Couch Loyola Ramblers the Blue Demons took another important step towards securing an NCAA Sports Editor Earl Brown scored his 1,000 career Tournament bid. po int on his way to a game-high 25 points DePaul travels to St. Louis on Saturday. The Flames rallied from 18 points as Loyola beat Wisconsin-Green Bay 70- - down at halftime to knock off Wiscons in­ 58 on Feb. 12. Northwestern Wildcats Milwaukee at the UIC-Pavilion on Feb. The Ramblers (4-7, 14- 10) shot 52 per­ 12. cent in the first half en-route to a 38-2 1 The Wildcats fell to 0- 11 in the Big Ten UIC (4-7. 9------lead at the break. The visiting Phoenix as they lost to Penn State 73-64 17), who shot Local College fought back to trim the lead to 5 1-44 with Wednesday night in Evanston. just 35 per­ 7:44 remaining. However, that was a Tavaras Hardy led Northwestern with - cent in the Hoops Update close as they would get. 16 points and I 0 rebounds. first half, got Loyola next travels to Butler Thursday. The Wildcats trave l to Ohio State 19 points in Wednesday and host Michigan on the second half from Theandre DePaul Blue Demons Saturday. Kimbrough on their way to shooting 60 percent. Kimbrough finished the game The Blue Demons set a league record Chicago State Cougars with a team-high 27 points and I 0 for fewest points allowed in their 55-35 rebounds. win over Marquette on Wednesday night Pierre Shuttlesworth scored 19 points Thursday night. UIC next travels to Wright State on in Milwaukee. and grabbed 13 rebounds but it was not The Cougars ( 6- I 5. 9- I 7) host Thursday and Butler on Saturday. Quentin Ri chardson led DePaul (7-5 , enough as Chicago State blew an early Valparaiso Thursday and Southern Utah 17-8) with 16 points and 17 rebounds as lead to lose to Youngstown State Saturday. Minus Kukoc, Brand leads Bulls past Heat 83-76 - (Kukoc was traded earlier in the week), on a 3-point shot. Hersey Hawkins Bullock By Katie Celani the Bulls pulled of an 83-76 victory over capped off the lead with a 3-pointer, Continued from back page Copy Ed itor the M iam i Heat. send ing the Bulls to a 70-59 lead with Rookie El ton Brand 5:23 left to play. course." The Chicago Bulls, the worst ------led the team with 26 Miami's Alonzo Mourning had 15 points and 10 rebounds. Its hard for Bullock to stand by and team in the Central Division, beat Bulls Update points, II rebounds and seven blocks. watch from the sidelines. He's eager to the Atlantic Division leaders ------Chris Carr scored a sea­ With the loss the Heat drop to 6-9 against play again, but knows it's out of his Thursday. Despite being a player short son high 18 points and ignited a I 0-0 run Central Division opponents. hands. " It's frustrating. I have been playing basketbal l my whole life, and then to not -· be able to play is tough. I know I could Hawks continue to struggle against Kings contribute. I'm a leader on the team, and last home win against the Kings came in The Blackhawks took another step back a captain. It kind of hurts." By Alex Janco October of 1996. The Hawks home last Monday against the Mighty Ducks of Bullock will not be back this season. Staff Writer record now stands at 9-16-3 after the loss. Anaheim when they blew a 3-2 lead with He's taking it slow, while making sure to Tony Amonte scored the Hawks only goal under 10 minutes remaining, losing 4-3. keep in shape. He still has dreams of If the Los Angeles Kings ever think out of the game with 12:55 remaining in the The two A monte goals were wasted, the playing pro basketball. He'll be just fine about moving out of their home arena, the third period while Ryan YandenBusche first coming with one second remaining if he doesn' t make it, though. He is on Staples Center, perhaps they can rent out was in the penalty box. Amonte leads the in the first period during a Hawks power track to graduate and plans on getting his the United Center from the Blackhawks. team with 27 goals. play to give Chicago a 2-1 lead. masters degree following graduation. Brian The Hawks received a golden opportu­ A monte notched his second goal while Smolinski, Luc nity 44 seconds into the third period Brad Brown sat in the penalty box for Robitaille, Rob Hawks Update Scott Venci can be reached by when L.A.'s Sean O'Donnell recei ved a cross-checking. The short-handed slap .. Blake and Glen four-minute penalty for cross-checking shot put the Hawks up 3-2 and gave mailing the Columbia Chronicle, Murray all scored for L.A. as they man­ Dean McAmmond in the face, but they Amonte his team-leading third short­ attn: Sports, 600 South Michigan handled the Blackhawks 4-1 Wednesday failed to score on the lackluster power handed goal of the season. A monte also Ave., Chicago, IL, 60605 night, winning for the sixth straight time play, firing only four shots on goal. leads the team in points with 54. Doug at the U.C. Mirroring the Hawks season was Alex Gilmour is second on the team in scoring The Hawks have dropped I I of their Zhamnov, who shoot the puck wide on an with 19 goals and 27 assists for 46 points. last 12 games against the Kings. Their empty net halfway through the third.

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Michigan St. (18-6)-beat Ohio St. 83-72 on Tues. Atlanta 20-28 Carolina 24·27-8-56 Cleveland 21·30 ... Back home for 7. Ohio St. (17-4)-lost to Michigan St. 72·83 on Tues. Tampa Bay 12-37-7-37 Ch icago 11-38 Chicago State Star 8. Oklahoma St. (20-2)-lost to Texas 57-68 on Wed. Atlanta 11-40-6-32 9. Syracuse (20-2)-beat Pittsburgh 83-63 on Wed. Westem Conference Westem Conference 10. Indiana (18-4)-beat Michigan 86-65 on Feb. 13 ,.. . Central Division Midwest ... Local College Hoops 11. Florida (18-5)-beat Arkansas 80·71 on Tues. Update 12. Auburn (19·4)-beat Vanderbilt 86·80 on Wed. St. Louis 36-15-6-78 San Antonio 32·18 13. Tulsa (22-2)-beat Hawaii 75·61 on Thurs. Detroit 35-17·6·77 Utah 30-19 14. Iowa St. (21·3)·beat Kansas 64·62 on Wed. Nashville 20·32·6·51 Minnesota 27-22 ... Blackhawks Update Chicago 19·30-7-47 15. Temple (18-4)·beat Dayton 64·58 on Thurs. Denver 22-28 Dallas 21-29 16. LSU (19·4)-beat Mississippi 97-53 on Wed. Northwest Division ... Bulls Update Houston 21-30 17. 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Bulls miss the mark on Kukoc trade Heart Broken erry Krause is a big fa t idiot! Those arc about as kind of words that can be spoken Jabout a man that in the last two years has broken up one of the greatest dynasties ever. nl ienated most potential free agents, and now traded away the only va luable commodity the Bulls had. And fo r what? Squat. Maybe I am missing someth ing. I am not even a fan of the Chicago Bul ls. Still, I nm angered thnt such a stupid man can run a orga­ nization when there are so many more intelli­ gent people selling Street Wise. The Bulls traded Tony Kukoc, their only mar­ ketable veteran-a player that can single handedly take a good team and make them a contender, a player that is a hot commodity on the trade market, someone whose Graham Couch name has been men­ Sports Editor ti oned in multi-player UIC point guard Joel Bullock has lost almost this entire season to a heart condition deals with Portland, the L.A. Lakers, and Miami . The Bulls must have the nation. gotten some budding young star to use a cor­ By Scott Venc l After completing his fi rst year at Malcolm X, Bullock made nerstone for the future. Staff Writer good enough grades to a llow him to transfer to a Division I Well, not exactly. school. The Bulls wound up with John Starks, Bruce Joel Bullock is one o f those guys that every teenage basket­ "I had a couple of scholarship offers," he said. "My father Bowen, and a first round draft choice. Doesn' t ba ll player immediately wants to emulate. Good looks and a talked to the Michigan coach, and I had some other offers sound too bad? Think again . personality to match. College girls in the corner o f the gym from some of the Big Ten schools. I wanted to stay close to In a trade that sent Larry Hughes and Bi lly watching him on the sidelines, hoping he ' ll look in their direc­ my fa ther and the rest of my family though." Owens from Philadelphia to Golden State and ti on. He is the type of player that opposlng players and coach­ Growing up, Bullock idolized Magic Johnson in a city sent Kukoc to the 76ers, the Bulls got a washed es hate to go against, especia lly if you're the guy assigned to where Michael Jordan was king. He had no interest following up 30-something head case (Starks), a nobody guard him. Play up on hi m, and hell blow by you. Stay back, in Johnson's shoes by attending Michigan State. (Bowen), and a draft pick that will probably and he'll punish you for it. Bullock seemingly has everything "I never really wanted to play there. Once Coach Jimmy end up mid-lottery. Starks is a clone of Hersey a man could possibly want. If only his heart would cooperate. Coll ins got the job at UIC, that?s who I wanted to play for." Hawkins, who has lost his starting job, except Bullock has known about his irregular heartbeat all of his The transition from a junior college to a Division I school Starks has a temper. life, even if he didn't know exactly what it was. It 's never can be overwhelming for some players. The different level of This is just perfect Krause. Philadelphia stopped him from playing basketball, until now. He missed play sometimes lea ves a guy without the confidence he once becomes a contender overnight by gaining the final two games of the year in hi s fi rst season with the had. Bullock never had a problem with that. Kukoc. Golden State gets Hughes, who behind University o f Ill inois-Chicago because o f his heart. He has " I ne ver doubted my confidence. I play against guys like Iverson, might be the most talented two-guards only played in fi ve games this year because of the same prob­ Tim Hardaway, Juwan Howard, and Antoine Walker in the in the NBA and they get Billy Owens, a versa­ lem. It is a tough position for Bullock to be in. His whole life summer," he said. "If I played against those guys, when I go tile player who has started at a ll fi ve positions. has been about basketball. He has been a star in Chicago for back to the college level it's like I' ve already played against What does Chicago get? Starks. A volatile as long as anyone can remember. guys in the NBA." player frustrated by his diminishing ability, on As a freshman in high school, Bullock started grabbing the In terms of the transition a player has to make, Bullock did­ a team that will probably only win a handfu l attention of his peers and coaches around the city. n' t see too much difference in terms of the game, although more games this season. Plus they get Bowens, " I played against a lot o f good players, Bullock said after a there are some things a player needs-to work on. a noted defensive specialist. Defensive special­ game recently. Coaches would tell me that if I worked hard, I "You have to be more definite in your moves. You have to ist is a nice way of saying no offensive talent. could be a good player someday. That's exactly what I did." be strong and smart. All aspects o f my game needed to be ele­ Defense is great, but when most of the Bulls The hard work did make him a good player. As a senior at vated, including my ball handling." . offense comes from two rookies, defense gets South Shore High School, Bullock averaged 2 I points and Bullock is the classic point guard. He is able to create his you nowhere. five assists, leading his team to a 21-7 record. Individua lly own shot and get his teammates involved at the same time. Golden State outdid the Bulls. That is right and as a team member, Bullock was the man. He demanded That was exactly how he was playing when he started notic­ Mr. Krause, the Warriors outsmarted you. The respect on the court, and if he wasn't given it at the start of ing his heart beating fast. He already was playing with asth­ franchise that is known for futility second only the game, he had it by the end. He capped off his senior sea­ ma, so his doctors told him to let them know if anything was to the Cl ippers, got themselves a buddi ng son by scoring 22 points in the City/Suburban All -Star game. wrong. young star. You got a pick in a crap shoot. lie also took home the MVP award. " I had been feeling rapid heartbeats," Bullock said. "There So basically the Bulls and Krause arc bank ­ Bullock had the opportunity to play for nny college he was a concern because I didn' t know what it was. I do now." ing on this draft pick paying off. llowcvcr, fo r wanted, had his grades a llowed him to . Whenever a basketball player is diagnosed with any type of every gem like Kevin Garnett or Vince Carter "Like most city kids, I didn' t make the grades. During my heart abnormality, the names Reggie Lewis and Hank Gathers that gets plucked out of the lottery, there arc freshman and sophomore years when I should have been tak­ inevitably come up. They were two star players who died four or fi ve Shawn Resperts or Cherokee ing school se riously, I wasn't. During my junior and senior from heart problems while play ing basketball. Although Parks. year is when I buckled down. I just missed being able to Bullock's problem is not as severe, those thoughts are never The Port land Tra il blazers reportedly o ffered attend school, but the NCAA is real strict on the rules." too far from his mind. Chicago Bont.i We lls, Jermainc O'Neil , and a Bull ock was not about to let the misfortune get in the way "I think about it sometimes. You can' t help but think about draft pick for Kukoc. Or maybe the Bulls could of his goal. He knew he was going to play Di vis io n I basket­ it. T hat's my life we' re talking about," ht: said. "I grew up have gotten llughc' directly from l'hiladclphia. ba ll eventually, but in the meantime attended Mal colm X looking at those guys and how they died because of their Either of these options would have ' hown that Junior College in Chicago. As a freshman, Bullock averaged hearts, and then I think about that and what I should do. I kind Chicago wa!) ~c r i ous about returning to th e 20 poi nts, four rebounds, and three assists. lie earned All ­ o r let the doctors do what they huve to do and let it take it's playoff, in the next sc vcru l years. It would American recogni tion and was rated as the No .2 freshman in See Bulock, page 23 have shown (jrant II ill, 'I im Duncan, and l:.ddie Jones (thl\ \urnmer\ top free agent\ ) thllt the Bulls arc only a player or twn away from competing e very night. l11\tcad, five years from now we may look at the Bulb in the " ""c hnllt ..,. NHL .,..NBA as the Nuggets, Uucks, and Warnors. 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