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·By Charles Edwards stop saying, 'What's wrong with me."' S!Rtf Writer That brought applause from teachers and female students, many of whom ''NOW is the time for a change," is the were wearing Carol Moseley Braun slogan of the National Organization for buttons. Illinois NOW was the first Women. women's group to endorse Braun's Students and faculty members primary campaign for the U.S. Senate. · gathered in the Hokin Center last week Bruhn was joined by Paula Kamen, to participate in a panel discussion with author of "Feminist Fatale." Kamen said members of NOW. The issue at hand that her parents taught her, "that it's not was redefining feminism. all about women's issues anymore. If Gaye Bruhn, president of the Illinois you speak out on them you might scare chapter of NOW, opened the panel: ''Women need to stop blaming themsel Lisa Adds Staff Ph.oWgrapher See FEMINISM I Redefining Feminism panel members (from left to right): Gaye Bruhn, Julie ves, they need to go out and find, 'What Page 7 is wrong with the situation I'm in' and I Thome, Danlelle Bastian, Olga Melly, Sheila Baldwin, and Paula Kamen. Juggling dish pans and the classroom
By Caprice Walters there just are not enough hours Her son is older now and the but I am not from a literary "1 want to broaden my life," SUl{f Writer in the day. Or for that matter, load is a little bit lighter, but background," she said. "I Bartot said. Having a degree enough days in the week. They Sims remembers when things didn't know if I could really be will increase her pay scale and Before many of Barbara Sims' shoulde·r the added respon were not always that way. a good writer. So I came to "open up doors for future classmates awaken to see the sibility of one of life's most "There were times when I Columbia to find out." promotions," she added. sun set on the horizon, she has treasured gifts while struggling would have to miss class," she Her motherly responsibilities Bartot works a part-time job started her engines, geared for to achieve their goals. said. "There were times when extended her planned gradua and carries 15 credit hours. another stressful day ahead. They are women who must the weight of my personal and tion date by four years. But "My job is really flexible," she After most of Amy Bartot's juggle children, jobs and private life overtook every come May 29, her expected said. "They let me work weird colleagues are finished wind school. thing." graduation date, she's sure it hours. They even let me bring ing up an eight-hour work day, Like that infamous bunny, She was unable to devote as will all be worth it. my daughter to work when I she continues to roll on, await they just keep going, and going much time to her writing as she Her message for younger need to. ing yet another stressful and going. would have liked. Her personal women traveling sirn,ilar paths: "I receive a lot of support encounter, a class. "It was extremely difficult," life had to take precedence over "Do it all now. Life does not get from my friends who are also And long after Susette Ross' said Sims, a graduate student in her educational goals. any easier. Young people don't mothers. Especially my friend family has surrendered the day the creative writing program But Sims said her burning seem to know that. Ufe gets a Kim, who is babysitting for me to complete darkness, her light who enrolled in 1986, when her curiosity to know if she would helluva lot harder." right now. I'd better get hom~ continues to bum, hoping to son was 11 years old. She actually be a good writer was That's a lesson that comes as before she gets mad," Bartot finish some of that undone worked an "all the time job," the driving force to continue no surprise to Bartot, an un homework. she joked, that allowed her the on. declared junior, who is the See CHILDREN For these Columbia women, · flexibility of classes. "I always wanted to write, mother of a 6-year-old. Page 2 Elevators give students the shaft listed started the moment the By Melissa Slotwinsk i Staff Writer elevator button was pushed and tell how long it took to get The lobby is mobbed with from the bottom to the top and people who glance in an up vice-versa. At the Michigan ward direction. Avenue building which has 15 Wrists are being checked, fl oors and five elevators, the then bodies begin pacing. longest trips took 2:05 to reach However, "what goes up the top floor and 1:32 to ride m ust come down" doesn' t down. On one timing the fourth necessarily apply at Columbia elevator (counting east to west) College. stopped on the ninth floor and After what seems like eter did not move for approximate ni ty, the elevator arrives. ly 6 minutes. The four main buildings of The Torco building' s Columbia, Michigan A venue, elevators, or the Torco build the Torco building, Wabash ing, which has 14 floors and A venue, and the 11th Street four elevators, the lengthiest campus, have all been known timing was 1:55 to the top floor to have elevator problems. Yet, and 1:50 down again. some buildings are worse than At the Wabash building, . others. Is of the essence. U sa Adds StaffPhOiographer The Chronicle timed all four See ELEVA TORS A view of the Torco building's elevators which are Columbia's speediest of four campus bu buildings' elevators. Times Page 2 News Features Opinion AIDS and the black community Museum brings forest to city ID shows more than pretty face Antonio Sharp's analysis. Page 2.
• PAGE 2 CHRONICLE APRIL13, 1992 Ashe, Magic, tragedies open closed minds By Antonio Sharp the topic of AIDS is intro Men's Health Project in San Correspcmdent duced. Now, they have to add Francisco, said that black gay With all th e: tal k abo ut the co ngressional check bounc blood transfusions to the li st. and bisexual men make up ing scandal, l thought you might be in terested in hearing "Brothers gonna work it out.. ." the largest percentage of Awareness at Columbia abou t a biggc:r rip off. This, too, has something to do -Public Enewv AIDS victims in the black with Congress, o ur esteem ed leade rs and elected officials. Among Columbia College stu community. Would you be shocked if I told you that we would November 7, 1991 and April dents, black males too are seeing "Our project focuses on have to pay something li ke$ 50 billio n to m ake up for 8, 1992 could turn out to be the light, realizing that AIDS is educating black gay and th is mishap? Would you even have the slightest important days in African ultimately everyone's concern. bisexual men about safe sex kno wledge (lf what half a trill io n dollars is? American history. In a informal survey of practices and AIDS facts," Think of it this way: A year is 365 d ays. If you lived to November 7 was a day the black male attitudes toward he said. "Many black men, be 100, tha t would only be 36,500 days. media, mostly sportswriters, AIDS, half admitted they whether gay or straight", he A d olla r a day and you' re still in the hole. By a lot. will never forget- the day knew the facts, but did not adds, "are unaware of the Or think of it this way: If yo u saved $10 a day fo r the battle against AIDS practice safe sex prior to d ifference between HIV and full-blown AIDS." every day of your life and you li ved to be 75, you would received a significant boost johnson's announceme nt. only have $273,750. You couldn' t e ven buy a reall y ove r due to Earvin " Magic" "We (the black com Homo phobia, historically p ri ced ho use fo r tha t nowadays. Johnson's announcement, munity) probably needed a present in the black com that through he terosexual famous black person like munity, continues to raise its Or this, as lo ng as we're o n money: If you ripped off contact, he had contracted Johnson to come fo rward so ugly head, but johnson' s every bank cJst of the Mi ssissippi, yo u still wouldn' t the Huma n Immunodeficien we would wake up abo ut revela tion has begun to have enoug h money to cover the "mista ke" m ad e by Con cy Virus (HIV), the this," said Robert eliminate closem inded ig g ressionalleil ders in the 1980 s. suspected cause of AIDS. Tho mpson, a junior miljo ring nora nce and denial. Since This "mistake" is commonly known as the savings a nd Then, when the world was just in television production. AIDS was d iscovered a loan d ebacle. Remember Cha rl es Keating? The g uy who bcgirming to heal from the over "I'm glad I'm a ware of the decade ago, the black com paid a lo t of money to the re-electi on cam paigns of the whelming pain and shock of his facts because people tend to munity has been criticized guys who (conveniently) sat o n Ba nking committees? revelation, retired tennis champion fo r not acknowled ging the Well, this guy is just one of many who used fed erally in Arthur Ashe announced that he disease as a serious issue sured individua l accounts for stock marke t specula tion was stricken with HN; probably Analysis and for contributing to the a nd real estate ventures. Texas was so over-developed l:xxause of tainted blcxx:i trans controversial arg ument that tha t shopping malls, yes, shopping mall s, re mained empty. fu sions he received during double "separate who deserves AIDS AIDS is "God 's punishment" And with the glut of teenage g irls in Texas, that's some heart bypass surgery in 1983 or a from those who don't. for homosexuality, risky sex thing. quadruple bypass in 1979. Odie Cash, a junio r libe ral and IV drug use. Well, we're going to pay fo r this fo r a long time. Some He has since developed education major whose people, like Bi ll Moyers, think George Bush kept this lit fu ll-blown AIDS. cousin died of AIDS in 1989, Black community cruel tle. issue hidden during the 1988 presidential campaign . Ashe re ma ined silent for 3 agrees with Thompson. "The black community is Now why wou ld he do tha t? just becau se his son was on 1 / 2 years for fear of media "By now black m en should still cruel when it comes to the board of Sil verado Savings a nd Loan, a nd just be scrutiny. Ad ditionally, his be 'smelling the coffee' AJDS, because they still see it cau se George Bush received a lot of money from the tragedy is more devastating about this disease", he said. as a gay, white man's dis Saving and Loan lobby, why would he want to d eceive to the black community be "Many black men still have a ease," said Gary Paul Wright, the voting p ublic? cause Ashe, who in 1975 mentality that because assistant coordinator of the Some economists say the damage could have been was the first b lack ma n to they're straight and m acho, People of Color Prevention li m ited to $50 million or maybe even $500 millio n if win a t Wimbledon, is they're immune." Program at Gay Men's Health caught sooner. I can't imag ine a 50 billiun dollar problem another major Africa n Although African Crisis in New York. "Until it ju st popping up after the election of '88. Not in American male ro le mod el Americans represent 12 per hits one of their homes, they Washington, D.C., after all, where time is m oney and w ho suffered a downfall. cent of the U.S. population, refuse to see the message." you aren' t anything if you d on' t have a sena to r or two in they account for 35 percent Wright adds that his Breaking silence barriers your hip pocket. of all reported cases, accord organization's outreach is open Then again, I've only visited Washing ton once, during Since Johnson's anouncement, ing to the U.S. Centers for to all, but heterosexual men cherry blossom season, whe n the city actually looked the N rican-American com Disease Control in Atlanta. shy away because they aren't p re tty good. I wouldn't kno w a dirty sena tor if I saw him munity is still shattering barriers The American Red Cross comfortable receiving assis on a n ethics committee, and I certainly don't know what of silence, trying to discuss sensi reports that 1 in 45,000 per tance from a gay organization. it is like to ignore a $50 millio n problem a nd le t it be tive issues as intravenous drug sons contract HIV through "There is no discrimination come a $50 bill ion p roblem ove rnight. I' d rather stay in abu se, promiscuous sex and blood transfusions. here," he said. "But fear is Chicago, where all we ha ve to worry about is the mob. homosexuality, issues tha t Lee Middleton, coordina tor still out there and people are mu st be addressed whenever of the African-American very bigoted ."
AIDS Awareness week CHILDREN do," said Ross, referring to her minutes later to her starting daily ritual. point for another evening at the May 4th thru 8th From page 1 An average d ay for Ross: office. Watch the CFzronicle for more information Getting up at 6 a.m. to make "Had I finished school when said, rushing out the door. sure her children are ready to I started, this would have never Ross, a mother of two, is reat leave the house at 7 a.m. On to happened. But now I under tempting her stretch run for a day care, where she drops off stand that you have to strive to r , " I the children before heading to reach your goal," Ross said. ------degree. would like to be tter my lifestyle," she said. She is school. "You have to strive to make a carrying 14 credit hours while After class, Ross heads back better life for yourself and your ADMISSION 1 working a full-time job. "It's across town to re trieve the family because believe me, it's I so mething I know I have to c hildre n , o nly to return worth it in the long run." FOR TWO shut and this slows students I 1 ELEVATORS down. Yet, there really is no head floor indicators are taken. These problems must be fixed FOR From page 1 problem in this building." The longest timing for this by maintenance and may also 1 building's elevators was 2:00 require the elevators to be shut COLLEGE NIGHT I w hich most security g ua rd s up to the sixth floor, and 2:25 off. Clg rced was the worst, there are d own to the fi rst. The firs t The Wabash elevators also I • s 1. 00 DRAFTS I tL·n tloors a nd four elevators. elevator did stick on the sixth have mechanical problems. On The longest ti me to the tenth fl oor but only for a pproximate the eighth floor the elevators tl(lOr was 3:30 while the ride ly 45 seconds. have been shutting themselves • LIVE MUSIC WITh off. do wn to the fi rst fl oor was4:00. Lo uis Smith, a ja nitor a t Al though the elevators have I I At the 11th Street campus, Columbia su pports the idea been fixed , one source says that which has six fl oors a nd two that the Wabash building has A BAND CALLED BOB this p roblem existed for ap eleva tors, a majority of the stu the biggest problem with its p roximately seven or eight I Thursday, 16trl d L' nts did not feel there was a elevators. Graffiti contributes Apri l 8: 00p.m. I weeks. problem with that buil d ing's to the problem, he said, because at W hich ever building your L' k va to rs. Bob Ra mire z, the eleva to rs a re shu t down in major resides in, you can count sl'curity guard for th(• buildi ng order to remove it as soon as I on spending time waiting for I s;lict,"O ccasio na lly the fi rst possible. According to maintenance it elevators. And for those of you ck va to r, (counting north to who use the elevators in the south) does stick, but if stu is not unusual for graffiti to be I Wabash build ing, which pretty I Lknts hit · too m a n y fl uor re moved three ti mes a day, taking as long as 30 minutes m uch includes all Columbia l 11 1tt ons a t once, the elevator s t ude n ts beca use it hou ses L:.1n jam. Also, the eleva to r each time . Also, sometimes directi onal most of the general courses, L ...1 doors take a while to open and ------buttons are remo ved, or over- pa tience is a virtue. Columbia's 11Underground" press
By Tariq M. Ali printing for students or for StlllfWrita class projects unless they are part of an instructional pro You enter the Michigan gram .ordered by an Avenue building stealthily, instructor," Bieberle said. hoping not to be noticed by any Any department that needs passers-by, while walking printing is required to fill out a towards the door behind the job request form and get the security guard's desk that leads approval of the department's to the underground abyss. chair. You descend the creaky Special projects that are in wooden stairs carefully, trying itiated by department chairs not to attract any suspicion. require the approval of Execu When you reach the bottom, tive Vice President and Provost you hang a left and walk Bert Gall. through the dark gloomy Admissions, application hallway. The theme from forms, brochures and letter "Jaws" rings loudly in your heads require approval from ears. You feel uneasy, a drop of Martha Meegan Linehan, direc perspiration trickles down tor of administrative services. your forehead, and your The designing is done on the . heartbeat quickens. You reach 13th floor of the Michigan the end of the hallway and see building in the printing service a light that scares you to death. offices by a staff of three-Mary You have entered the Print Johnson, senior designer; Ana Shop zone. Deysonviile, designer; and The Print Shop is a long room, Kevin Reardon, assistant desig A Little Shop of Printers. Usa Adds Staf!PhotograpMr laden with all kinds of paper ner and cameraman. Columbia's print shop crew pose In their workspace located In the basement of the Michigan building. and ink products on shelves. The walls are peppered with posters of sports stars and women in various states of un dress. The men in the shop work long hours and try to AN make their surroundings as com fortable as possible, said Print Shop manager Carroll Kerr. The technical work is done on UNEXPECTED four offset presses and two photo copiers by Kerr, two printers-Johnny Slay and Roosevelt Sloan, and three stu BENEFIT dent assistants. ·Offset printing is simply put ting ink on paper in the form of words, pictures or drawings, said Gordon Birberle, director of the OF YOUR printing services department. A sheet of paper is fed into the press, then onto a plate with a design outline, where it is COLLEGE pressed by a rubber roller against the plate, imprinting the design onto the paper. Offset works best for big jobs EDU~.. that demand high quality, Bieberle said. The Print Shop takes care of most of Columbia's printing needs, according to Bieberle. Examples of the Print Shop's work dominate bulletin boards on the campuses, such as the ''Blaze A Trail" poster advising students to go to the academic advising office, and the ''Elvis Surfs on the Lake" poster. yoU'VE EARNED IT! But the shop does not do $500 FROM FORD AND MERCURY You can get an extra $500 cash back when you purchase or lease any eligible new 1991 , 1992 or 1993 Ford or Mercury car or Ford light MARKETING/COM truck. You can use it towards the purchase or lease . or you can take it as cas h. College Program benefits are over and above consumer MUNICATIONS incentives except other Ford private offers. e. g. First Time Buyers Program. INTERN (1 &-20 hrs.Jweek)
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\ Technology meets nature at exhibit
By Alison Pryor bGilt to give the feel and aroma acteristics of dream-like story New York Times Magazine. Staff Writer 'of a room under construction. telling. It is evident that he has The museum is also showing According to the printed in traveled extensively. His sub recent acquisitions from the The smell of a cedar chest. tr6dl.iction, . the deck is jects for this show include permanent collection in the The sound of a chainsaw tear- "represent~tive of the product children in Harlem, Dublin and Upper Level Gall~ry. These ing through lumber. Trees .side of the sh~w ." . Nicaragua. He also documents photographs explore a multi falling. Fire in the center of .a .Manual enJoys expressmg the lives of Texas prison in tude of subjects. Patrick column suspended fromabo-fe .. c rea ti v.e ideas. through mates. His prints have a Nagatani, a Japanese It's the latest show at the.· metaphor. Accor~hng to Bloom sublime quality to them. They American artist, works with Museum of Contemporary and Hill, the deck represents are powerful and eerie, and at the nuclear age and atomic Photography, Manual,: the- .wood cutting industry. the same time beautiful and ex weaponry with a creative de Forest/Products. An Int¢rac ~ · Havmg a wooden deck as part citing. gree of irony. The work of other tive Installation by Suza·nne of a show dealing with the Mahurin lives in New York photographers, including Ir Bloom and Ed Hill. · forest has raised a few City and works in the field of ving Penn, John Gossage and Bloom and Hill are both art eyebrows, but environmen commercial illustration and Bob Thall are also on display. professors at the University of talists need not worry because photography. Some of his il So don't spend all of your time Houston and have been allofthewoodwillberecycled. lustrations have appeared on watching the Manual video or Manual since 1974. "The deck," says Hill, "makes the cover of Time Magazine. His playing with the computers. Go Manual, the name Bloom and the concept of industry and work has also been featured in upstairs to see some amazingly Hill have given to their collec- technology more vivid." Rolling Stone, Esquire, and the creative photography. tive effort, incorporates The show has several out photography, computer standing components. The generated imagery, video and computer programs designed illuminated objects. by Manual are fascinating. Using these different media, They ar~ full of adventures and the aud~ence is invited to par- surprises, combined with ticipate in the show by using animation and audio. interactive computers. This There is more than Manual show presents the forest as a happening in the museum. The spiritual environment as well work of New York photog as a material, economic . rapher Matt Mahurin is on resource. display in the North Gallery. The museum underwent a Mahurin has worked on music great deal of construction for t videos for Tracy Chapman, the exhibition. A wooden deck · Peter ~abriel, Metallica, 10,000 was built covering most of the ' Maniacs, U2, and REM among floor in the West Gallery. It has others. Wild expression ~ a fresh, woody smell and wa~ · · M'ahtirin' s work has the char- By Tania Panczyk ~ sets. It was c Photos by Nick Oza Staff Writer ~ used merely contemporar: A stream of spit emerged of Jenkins' W I from his mouth, surging into Yet it was the mouth of his awaiting lustration of victim. The audience watched dancers carri with shocking horror as the difficult mod1 saliva continuously poured dancer in "W for nearly half a minute, over Square" coulc flowing the victim's mouth stunt man for and splashing onto the stage in the movie ' floor. hung upside c This profound and neurotic on a rafter fo display of artistic expression Other dancer. was one of many highlights in their strengtl Margaret Jenkins Dance ficult lifts a Company's sold out perfor endurance. mance at the Columbia But even wi College Dance Center March set designs, a 27 through the 29. professional By exploring the depths of the music of , contemporary d ance, ally renown Making that draft decision Jenkins created a three part (Paul Dreshe1 production, premiering her her choreog1 latest achievements to the limits that it priorities in order. I have never tried the can Heineken: A true classic. Chicago audience. own expressic Don't be fooled by their Rolling Rock: This fine version, but if Rolling Rock Each piece flourished with a confusing d WASPish ads. This beer isn't beverage hails from La would care to send me a wild confusion, using uni It was diffie1 just for rich white guys, it's a Trobe, Pennsylvania. I've complimentary sample, I que sets, such as a curtain of impossible lager that was meant to be been told that it is near Pit would accept. David's Tip: strings in "Strange Attrac meaning behi You can send a case here care e njoyed by all. From that tsburgh, and from what I've tors," a band behind a mesh ment. The auc first, soft-bitter taste to the seen of Steeler fans, I sure of the paper, and please screen in "Age of Unrest," m ark it educational to create its o horror of finishing a six hope th(!y wash their hands and rafters in "Woman Win materials. tio n and tl' pack, this beer is in a class by before they go to the dow Square." Budweiser Tall Boys: I'm applause aftE itself. David's Tip: It's ex brewery. Nevertheless, I find There seemed to be no clear sure this selection will raise a lustrated their pensive, so have more than this beer the most appealing meaning or purpose to the lack of apprec By David Scott yo lilT fill at wedding receptionc;, on ice, in a painted long neck. few eyebrows. While on a Staff Writer Samuel Adams: Unlike spring holiday I was Heineken's ad campaign of desperately low on funds. So As residents of the United really good-looking white I r.eached for the king of beers States of America we often guys sitting on a porch talk and was overcome by a bit of find ourselves making tough ing about how sensitive they nos talgia. Memories of sneaking beers with a friend decisions. To some it's what are, Samuel Adams is jus~ the to have for dinner, while opposite. While reading the out of his Dad's stash came others might worry where label one will find out the rushing back. But gone was dinner is coming from. But, history of this great beer, the bitter taste that I remem dear reader, your worrying which was started over 200 bered. After sampling some is over. years ago. This is the only of the aforementioned No, I can't supply the American beer that is per beverages, this beer seemed answer to the cryptic ques mitted in Germany, and for like drinking refined apple tion "who am I ?" But what I good reason. The brown bot juice. The tall boys come in can help you with is the tle is captive to a taste all its 16-ounce six-packs so it will equally grueling task of own. It has a thick taste like seem like you can get a buzz. selecting a beer. I present you Bass, but isn't as filling. Ah, the good old d ays. with my personal favorites David's Tip: The label alone, David's Tip: For full nostal for a night with that speci By Charlotte Hunt cated in room 623 on the 6th Staff Writer floor of the Wabash building. "The center is better known A few weeks ago, a friend of in Germanv than on mine mentioned something Columbia's campus", said about a Center for Black Music Dominique DeLerma, the at Columbia. I thought, "Black center's director. "We hope that Music Center? There is??!!" I we can serve the research inter didn't know one existed, I ests of the students at wondered where it was. Good Columbia. We're not limited to question, right? any idiom, country, or century. I started asking people if they 'The center is concerned with knew anything about it. Someone the totality of black music cul suggested looking on the seventh ture." floor.· The center is the brainchild of One problem: Why would the Academic Dean Samuel Floyd seventh floor, which is the home and DeLerma. Suzanne of the English department, have Flandreau, formerly the ar any information on the Center chivist for the University of for Black Music Research? I Southern Mississippi and its went walking around the halls of blues archives is the center's ar the Wabash building, looking chivist. The archives, in room for an answer. 610, will open in September. "Excuse me, could you tell The center was established in me where the Center for Black 1983 at Columbia and contains Music Research is?" I asked to music ranging from the 16th passersby. I walked, I inquired century to the present. You can (inquiring minds have to find a variety of music and in know!) and continued to walk formation on a host of different Lisa Adds Staff Photographer some more. My enthusiasm styles, including jazz, rap, Dominique DeLerma was begining to fade. "What?... gospel, blues, even black A music center? I don't know," operas. Printed information University in 1976. He moved for Black Music Research Digest, replied one tall and equally can be found in the form of to Morgan State University in a newsletter, and '/'he Center for Baltimore. The search for more Black Music Research journal, Courtesy of Margaret Jenkins Dance Company puzzled guy. I asked a few · programs, books, reviews and other students. On a whim, I other sources. music and information con- which is on a subscription went back to the seventh floor "African music places a lot of tinued and stretched into the basis. Both circulate world 1f modern dance and asked a few officiallooki ng emphasis on drums ... the seventies. Floyd conducted wide to thousands of people. They looked at each Europeans focused on black musicresearchatSouthemlllinois subscribers and members. 1S if they were In the past Jenkins has col other quizzically. Was I asking music because they weren't used University in the early 1970s, and "Our main goal," said De- to abstract the la borated with such artists as the wrong crowd? to [drums] them," De Lerma said. later at Fisk University. Lerma, "is to maintain records 'choreography Yoko Ono and sometimes The point is, not enough Research for the center began The center puts out two dif- of what's been accomplished >rk. rei ies on poetry to heI p create people know about the Center sometime in the 1960s when ferent publications: The Center and recorded." an -amazing il her distorted choreography. for Black Music Research, lo- DeLerma was at Indiana >trength as the Named "Choreographer of ~ off Jenkins' the Year" by the San Francisco !m fonns. One Examiner, San Francisco omen Window Chronicle and the weekly Bay have been the City Guardian, Jenkins has Can uinstinct" cause gay violence? Michael Keaton obviously captured the ap Batman," as he preciation of audiences in own by his feet northern California. But her By Ginger Plesh~ without even seeing the film. If they perceived Catherine as a Aside from all of the con · four minutes. choreography that drives Staff Writer ~., these people had seen the film cold woman. troversy, "Basic Instinct" is an demonstrated modem dance to the cutting and then disliked it, I would If anyone should be protest incredible film. It incorporates 1 through dif edge might be too premature Is anything out of Hollywood have no problem with their ac ing this movie, it should be just the right combination of i d incredible for a Chicago audience. shocking anymore? Anyone tions. If they have not seen the heterosexual males, who blood, guts, violence, S&M, Jenkins will return to the who has experienced at least an film then they are just as bad as should hate the role of Nick. bis:o> xuali ty, drugs, dancing, heye- Enjoy It While It Lasts Isn't this great? The Chicago Bulls, our hometown team, are dominating the National Basketball Association. Chicago, once the town of sports losers, has become the town of envy for every other city with an NBA team. After winning last year's championship, they currently hold the best record in the league and even flirted with the all time NBA record for wins in a season. They have the world's greatest player in Michael Jordan, and maybe its second greatest in Scottie Pippen. They have had a 14 and a 13 game winning streak this season, and have yet to lose more than two games in a row. But don't blink-it could be over a lot quicker than anyone might think. Let's go back to 1985. The Chicago Bears-the city's last dynasty in the making before the Bulls-were the best team in football. They had the best defense in the NFL, the best all around running back in NFL history, and the league's toughest quarterback. And they were young-one of the youngest teams in the NFL. ARE. SA F-& WITHOUT They won the Super Bowl that year, losing only one game in government's misuse of power save their own skins. the process. Surely, the Bears were a team of the ages, a team were revealed in the ques As college students in atten prepared to dominate the last half of the 80s. tionabl~se of entrapment, dance, we wonder how a guilty Sudd'enly, before you could say "San Francisco Forty-Ninefs," wiretapping, inaudible tapes verdict could have been issued the Bears were just another good. team. They didn't repeat as and the court's failure to per after observing jurors sleeping mit defense attorneys to through cross-examinations. Super Bowl Champions, they didn't even repeat as conference champions. In fact, six years later all the Bears have to show for Rocco Railroaded? "characterize" government The defendants woup d up witnesses as mobsters. being convicted of conspiracy, themselves are four more division titles and a fridge full of The racketeering trial of Secretlyrecorded tapes, many gambling and bookmaking. unfulfilled expectations. Rocco E. Infelise and four of his of them inaudible, were an Sound familiar? Right now our Sorry to depress everyone, but the '85 Bears are proof that no crew members was a mockery important part of the mayor is "conspiring" to make matter how good a team appears to be, it can end all too quickly. of justice. government's case. Defense those same offenses legal. This This is not to say the Bulls aren't going to win it all again.. . and During a four-month trial challenges to the government sends a clear message to again ... and again. an expensive team of gpvern transcriptions went unheeded. America. It's OK to gamble-if This is just to remind everyone that the next time Jordan g6es ment lawyers portrayed the The star witness, gambler the government gets its slice of up for one of his patented fastbreak dunks, enjoy it. The next defendants as MOBSTERS William ''BJ" Jahoda and others the pie. Otherwise you go to jail. time Pippen does his best "be like Mike" imitation, enjoy it. The Guilty until proven innocent!. come forth to testify against In Naomi Stewart felese-only after cutting deals to Jade L .•Williams next time Bill Cartwright puts up one of those ridiculous looking ·Examples of the shots ... at least try to enjoy it. Enjoy Horace Grant's goggles, Craig Hodges 3-pointers and Phil Jackson's wardrobe. Enjoy the Bulls. And remember, it could be over before you can say "Golden Columbia ID ~peaks volumes State Warriors." By Charles D. Edwards offer is Columbia's high tuition for me next. and my lavish lifestyle. The first thing you learn, Oh, what a day! A One of my advantages rule number one to follow humanities class from 9:30a.m. which.so many New Yorkers when pulled over by the police to 12:30 p.m., then off to work use in their everyday life to con in New York city, try to use at the college newspaper from one another-is the gift of gab. your gift ofgab. One problem 1 :30 p.m. to 4:30 p.m. Translation: We have the though, this is not New.York Any student who spends ability to use fast talk in a slick and my ;gift of gab probably seven to eight hours of their manner. wouldn't work because I was day at Columbia would only This gift has not only helped fatigued. hope their time was not spent those from the Big Apple, but "Mr. Jenkins let me ex in futility. many others who vie in society plain,"-I always try to 1 approached my car to find today. address an officer of the law by the parking attendant giving Prime example: Pat his name, hoping to develop a me that same facial expression Buchanan. But when you have more interpersonal conversa CHRONICLE he. has been giving me since I lived in New York for 22 years, tion. Department of Journalism your chances of developing a · ''Never mind the talk. Let me 600South Michigan Avenue started parking at his lot. The Chicago, Illinois 60605 look as if I owe him something gift of gab are probably greater see your driver's license," was 312~1 600 ext. 343 beyond the cost of parking. than normal. his reply, feeling offended be PAX 312-427-3920 As I steered my car south, cause he probably has been flowing into the traffic on offered bribes before through Art Golab, Editor Wabash Avenue, my thoughts OPINION interpersonal conversations. Jerry E. Pott, Managing Editor weren't focused on who was When you have had a long I was clearly aware. of the Nancy A. Thart, News Editor leading in the primary elec fact that this was not New York day and talked to over 30 Theresa Volpe, Features EditurjFeatures Design & lAyout tions; whether or not Magic people about one column writ and I needed to use another was returning for the playoffs; ten by a student who could be tactic. Time to turn on the light Jade Williams, Copy Editor or even Steve Crescenzo's David Duke's press secretary, bulb upstairs, I said to myself Cynthia T. Dopke, Design & lAyout latest controversial column. any cab that causes delay in "why not slip him my college Omar Ca.tillo, Chit/ Photographer/Photo Editor I did think for a second about i.d. along with my license." your rush home will bring on Alina Romanowski, Ollender Editor calling my bookie and laying frustration. Anyone who Needless to say it worked. down $100 on the John Gotti drives past the Hilton, east on No suspension check, no long Jamn Yliaela Jr., Faculty Adt~lsor trial but needless to say, my Balbo Drive, knows Yellow wait, no long speech and no main concern was rushing to Cabs can be a nuisance. ticket. Just a vote of confidence Staff Writers: Tariq Ali, Trevor Curtis, Mark Giardirua, Southeast Chicago to attend to Especially if you're trying to to work hard at Columbia and Cri1tina Henry, Deborah Hinton, Charlotte Hunt, Patricia Hyatt, my underworld activities, catch a green light that lasts stay in school. Sherrl Kirk, Tasha Knight, Heather LAbuda, Tania Panc:yk, which help pay my tuition approximately 30 seconds. ''We need more young men Vit1ian Panou, Ginger Plesha, Alison Pryor, Tricla Robinson, costs. and women in college today Andrew Rohan, David Scott, Melissa Slowinski, Julie Smith, Running a red light because Lisa Song, Caprice Walters, Janice Wa•hington Being born and raised in the a cab was blocking traffic was and when I acknowledge the streets of New York City can fact that someone is enrolled at a sign of frustration on my Editorial Cartoonist: Naomi Stewart Staff Artist: Elaua Spears have its advantages and disad part, but the patrolman north Columbia, I tend to look the vantages. The disadvantage of Michigan Avenue didn't other way," said Mr. Jenkins. I'm faced with is having one agree. I see now that a piece of Staff PhotogrAphers: Lisa Adds, Nick Ou, Julie Smith particular bad habit instilled Lights, no camera please paper can talk for you instead The Ouonlcle II the oUiclllotudent Nn newopaper of C..lwnbla C..llese. mto me. Maybe I would wake (this is not a Rodney King of using measures of sly talk. It II publlohed w•kly durlns the ochool year, and dlotrlbuted 011 Monday. up if a judge said "15 to 25 event) and "driver's license One more reason why I want VIew• axpNIHCI In tl\11 nawapoper an not nacauarlly th011 of the advllor or the coltase. years," but the only excuse I sir," was what fate had in store my B.A. from Columbia. APRIL 13, 1992 0 P - ED PAGE 7 percent of the women polled reporters, she said, and that 80 FEMINISM claimed they were not percent more African- feminists. But 67 percent of the American men receive From page 1 same women agreed that scholarships and grants than men away." women need to conduct a African-American women. That advice inspired Kamen stronger feminist movement. Sheila Baldwin, an English to do research in defining the "The 63 percent suggests that department instructor who or word feminism. these women want to get in ganized the panel discussion, volved but are facing women I got into another argument the other night with one of my Kamen said her findings was asked why there was such ultra-liberal, Oh-So-Politically Correct friends. I thought the taught her that, "women need phobia," Kamen said. a poor turnout of African "Every woman can approach quarrel was going rather smoothly, when all of a sudden, she to ask themselves the question, American women at the slammed her drink down on the bar and went ballistic. 'If I can make a difference than a woman's issue in their own discussion. Baldwin did not way. There are those who do so "You lousy, homophobic, racist, misogynist•, Reaganite, I need to take a stand."' have an answer. chauvinistic scumbag, I've had it with you!!" she screamed . Kamen discussed 'woman by writing a book, then you "Access is different from ~ut Rainflower, I said, (Her parents were frustrated hippies), phobia,' her theory that some have those who speak up in a voice," Bruhn explained. Ramflower, honey, we were arguing about the Cubs and Sox, women are afraid to get in harsh manner. Some women might only feel comfortable at "Women need to make a new where is all this other stuff comin~ from? volved with women's groups political way for their voices to "You know damn well where tt's coming from, you elitist, because they fear they will be a rally, but no matter how women express themselves the be heard and then we will be supremacist, America-Firster," she sobbed. "I've had it with the label¢ with "feminist" stigma, able to have access to fair treat whole white mal,e power structure that conspires to keep such as radicals, men-haters, or main point is that women·need to be more involved." · ment. everybody else down, and you're a PART of it! I" And with that dykes. she threw her vooka lemonade in my face and stormed out. Bruhn added, "We must fight "If there ever was a way to "Many women have little After telling the bartender I spilled my drink on my face so I for equal rights on jobs, day redefine the terminology in direct contact with groups and could get a free one, I started mulling the whole situation over. . care provisions, different feminism, NOW seems to be the media turns any of our This was about the 90th time I had been accused of being part movements into the extreme. working hours, and increases making the right moves by of some white male power structure conspiracy, and I could The media displays our move in pay. Women are kept in having women join together in never figure out why. I don't FEEL like part of any power ments as being radical and too lower-level jobs, paid less and meetings to discuss the proper structure when I'm packed in the "L" every day, going to classes serious. Once newcomers, in the value of the woman's work adjustments and issues of I work 50 hours a week to pay for; and I don't FEEL like part of cluding men, join our cause, is considered of lesser value women's rights," said Anthony any elite group when I'm scrounging around to come up with than a man's." Chorns, business management. then they become more in enough money to appease Ma Bell so she won't turn my phone volved." Studies have shown that NOW meets every Tuesday off. In its March 7 issue, a Time women commentators are in in the Wabash building at 2:30 Then, after my seventh or ninth vodka lemonade, it came to magazine poll showed that 63 less demand than women inroom217. me. If yo.u aren't a member of one of the groups that the white male power structure is conspiring against, then you are part of the conspiracy! It's one or the other. And I figured if I didn't want to keep getting yelled at, I better get my butt over to the Respecting smokers righ~s other side and be conspired against in a hurry. The problem was, nobody would take me. The National Organization of Women said I could join, but only if I castrated By Alison Pryor Old Joe Camel is more I understand the whole myself with a butter knife and admitted all men are scum. I popular and recognizable to second hand smoke thing. could have faked the scum part, but I really like my testicles, so I am a smoker. I tried smok- kids than Mickey Mouse! I respect people who don't I declined. African-American groups wanted nothing to do ing several times in my youth. Fortunately, I gave up trying start a fake cough, or get up with me, and neither did any Native Americans. Gay groups I guess for the head rush. Then to be cool in the seventh grade, and move away, drink in hand, would have let me in, but I figured my chances of picking up in ninth grade it became a so it didn't have an effect on all the while shooting dirty any girls in that faction were pretty slim, so I opted not to join. habit. Everyone I knew me. But what about those looks my way (and might be I was stuck. What I needed was my own sense of paranoia. smoked so there was never a youngsters who are in seventh about to sit behind the steering And then it hit me like a ton of wet linguini. There seems to be problem, or at least we didn't grade? To whom being cool wheel of a car.) a recent wave of Italian Americans being sent to jail on trumped notice. means life or death? (By the I am not a closed minded up racketeering. charges. That's IT! A CONSPIRACYII I'M Ov.er the past decade there · way, what the hell is cool person.Ienjoylisteningtohow ltali~n Ameri~an, so they must be out t? get me, too! Sure, I can has been research on the effects anyway??) Who is to blame for people feel when it's done in a see 1t happenmg. All the Italian-Amencan role models in this of smoking on people's health this? non-confrontational manner. and on second hand smoke. Think BIG, real BIG. That's great. Everyone has the country are being railroaded off to prison. Not only that, but This information is good and I think drinking is worse right to. disagree with they're getting ripped apart in the media. Mobsters! Gangsters! necessary. I understand why than smoking. In a one shot whatever they want. But no Hoodlums! That's all you ever hear about Italian Americans. people are bothered by smok- deal, someone's life could be one has the right to treat me You think John Gatti would have been convicted if he were a ing because it with disrespect WASP? And it's not ALL Italian Americans, either, you'll stinks, gets into for any reason, notice. It's only Italian-American MEN! You don't see MRS. clothes and ------least of all for Gatti or MRS. Infelise being sent to the pokey do you? Of course contacts etc. 0 P I N I 0 N how I choose to not, because the conspiracy is only against Italian American That' s fine, live my life. MEN, like me. And never mind that I'm half Irish-an Italian but who is real- Yes, smoking sounding last name is enough to seal my fate. ly to blame for smoking? Gee... , snuffed out by a drunk driver affects other people besides the Hollywood is also in on it. When was the last time you saw a what about the Philip. Morris (who probably just left a bar smoker. But let's face it, every- movie about Italian~ that didn't portray them as either cold Tobacco Company? What bitching about "those damn thinganyonedoesaffectsallof blooded killers; greasy, jewelry-laden Romeos; or dumb, about ad vertisments on smokers.") Drinking has been us, be it good or bad. slow-witted idiots. Movies like the Godfather, Goodfellas, the Pope billboards and in magazines? proven to be as much of an ad- I also get a little miffed with of Greenwich Village, Moonstruck-were all made for the sole Think about how much money diction as drugs. According to .non smoking restaurants. purpose of destroying the Italian-American male. It has to stop. thesecorporatebigwigsspend Mothers Against Drunk Driv- What's up?! Smokers don't But here's the problem: I think the white male power struc on addictions. What about ing (MADD), 22,830 people eat? Oh, I forgot, we've killed ture is starting to catch on to this conspiracy thing, like I did, focusing some of that energy diedlastyearinalcoholrelated allofourtastebudssowecan't and they are running around trying to bail out. Think about it. on homelessness and AIDS? accidents. taste it anyway... Yea right! All the politicians are blaming each other for everything, and I'm a Camel Lights person. I Smoking is a hard habit to The bottom line is that yea, I each one claims to be the one that is bucking the status quo. love them. But it makes me sick kick, unless one's personal smoke, big deal! Smokers have Pretty soon there won't be anyone to blame all our troubles on toseewhatacool thing it is now health is in serious trouble, or rightstoya' know... what ami? except ourselves, and what fun is that? to smoke camels. Look at the someone wakes up in the Am I less than a human being So, in anticipation of that, the newly formed Italian recent camel cash campaign. momingandcoughsuppartof because I've been seduced by American Male Alliance For A Better World (1.-A.M.-F.A.B.) People were enticed to smoke their lung. Then I'm sure any propaganda? That would is officially blaming the blatant and despicable conspiracy more to get that cool zippo smoker would become an avid mean everyone is less than a against them_on.. . Jewish People!!! That's right, the Jews. I their friends had. anti-smoking spokesperson. human being. figured they get blamed for so much already, they won't even notice if I throw one more conspiracy on the heap. Besides, whenever people would label me a racist, homophobic, CORRECTION Zoleta, a management misogynist•, chauvinist, America-Firster, I always felt like junior, was incorrectly iden something was missing, and that was it! There was no anti tified in last week's Face Cam6riige semitism in my life. Now I feel complete. Value, which asked students why they decided to attend '.Eaucationa{ Services •(By the way, enough people kept calling me a mysogynist that I Columbia College. finally had to look it up.lt means someone who hates women. How can "I wanted to attend I be homophobic and hate women all at the same time? No wonder my Columbia, but my parents right arm is always so damned sore.) didn't let me. I went to UIC LSAT But what to do about this conspiracy? I mean, what good is as a psych major but didn't being conspired against if you don't get to have really neat cut it. My parents realized protests and meetings and what not? So, I'm qfficially announc they were wrong. Now I'm ing that the 1.-A.M.-F. A.B. will be holding meetings every other night at different taverns around Chicago. And in an effort to doing what I want, learning I GMAT the music business. Colum curb the effect of this vicious Zionist plot against us, we are bia has done wonders for me going to drink ourselves silly, watch sports, and gawk at leggy and my future. Now I work waitresses. And we will continue to do this, no matter how ! GRE much it hurts, until this evil conspiracy is stopped. for a record company and a record store due to the Call: (312) 201-8378 With any luck, people won't ever figure out what I'm doing, Hazel B. Zoleta knowledge I gained here," and I can keep protesting for years to come. Zoleta said. \ ' • , • it Ln/. • • ~cl" -13 It's Human Rights Week at Columbia College and it kicks off today at 11 a.m. 5AA.d..a.~ -17 The Experimental Film with a discussion of the U.S. military role in Peru, Coalition sponsors the entertainment for tonight at Haiti and Iraq. Key speakers are Rich Hutchingson, the Randolph Street Gallexy, 756 N. Milwaukee Harry Ouchae, and Kathleen Desautels. The dis Ave., with A Family Affair at 7 p.m. and 9:30p.m. cussion will be held in the Hokin Center, 623 S. Affair is a collection of films, Marking Time, Two Wabash. This weeks events are sponsored by the Portraits, First Comes Love, to name a few, that Students for a Better World. address relations between family members and the cloudy definition of a family institution. Admis- II 3"L&- Face value: by Lisa Adds Staff Photographer Should casino galllbling be legalized in Chicago? Amelia Colon Tami Bartlett William Yancey Film & Video Television Broadcast Journalism Senior Junior Graduate Gambling should Gambling casinos I think gambling not be legalized be would open up jobs for should be legalized to chicagoans, and I think help bring much cause the temptation for criminal activity it would benefit the needed revenue to this would increase and city. It would get . At the same time, there is the possibility money flowing. As far t will require many checks and balances to of more corruption in as Mafia concerns go, our political system. wake up Jim Edgar, the prevent corruption. mob is already here! ' Dorota Woscik Roman Castaneda Undeclared Lakeshia Johnson Graphic Design Sophomore Marketing Junior Freshman It's a very confusing It's OK, I'm not much issue. On one hand the I'm against gam of a gambler but, I state need s more bling. We have don't really mind it as money and gambling enough problems. long as it doesn't get casinos would attract Chicago needs to con out of hand. outside income and centrate on issues like provide extra jobs. On education and public the other hand, the city transportation. Gam is fighting too many bling will lead. to problems already. Can unnecessary tourist. we really handle the Why would they want extra load? to add more problems.