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BY SHANNON DRAYSON information provided in a Common Sexually Trans UR·! ISSUES CORRESPONJENT [!¥i] ~ lUJ ~ ~ ruJ cQ] ® m1 ~ ® o ~ ® ~ ruJ CID ~ mitted Diseases brochure published by the Ameri can Council for Healthful Living. , What MSU students don't know about sexually ~®lhJ CIDW o@IT' With the outbreak of AIDS - the almost transmitted diseases might hurt them, according to source: uR-1 survey always fatal STD that wipes out the body's immune a recent uR-\ suNe'f. Have had sexual Have had sexual system - much attention has been given to STD intercourse: 80% intercourse: 90% In an effort to promote awareness and educa Virgins: 20% virgins: 10% prevention and awareness. Chlamydia, genital tion on the topic of STD's thrpughout campus, the First time having First time having warts and herpes have reportedly increased to uR-1 last week conducted a random, non-scientific sex, ave. age: 17 sex, average epidemic levels. survey polling100 MSU students on their sexual Had sex before age:17 According to a 1988 American Social Health entering college: Had sex before behavior and STD's. The sample was comprised of 62% entering college': Association report, "an estimated four million students ages 18-23 living in Wonders, Hubbard, Lost virginity at 80% Americans get chlamydia! infections each year, Williams and Emmons halls and Ceda:r Village. MSU:36% Lost virginity at making it more than twice as common as gonorrhea According to the two-part survey - a six Average number MSU:20% and forty times more common than syphilis." of sexual Average number question STD quiz and personal questionnaire - partners:5.12 of sexual So why are MSU students unaware of this? most MSU students do not have their facts straight Sex with partners: 5.6 Because students are guided by the miscon about STD's. (see related chart) stranger: 26%, Sex with ception that contracting an STD can happen, but not More than half of the students surveyed an on average of 2. 7 · .stranger: 30%, to them, says Carolyn Fox, nursing administrator at times on average of swered incorrectly to four of the six questions on the Average number 2.78times. Olin Health Center. STD quiz. These questions were: of sexual Average number "Some pe.ople think because they are in •The most prevalent sexually transmitted partners in past of sexual college, or because this isn't New York City or San 12 months: partners in past disease in the United States is: a) syphilis; b) 0-2.5% 12months: Francisco, (safe sex) messages don't pertain to Herpes Simplex; c) chlamydia; d) gonorrhea. The 1·4-85% 0 -5% them, ft Fox said. "That isn't true. correct_answer is chlamydia, Which was missed by 5·10-10% 1·4- 82% "Nice people get STD's, too. ft more than 2/3 of students surveyed. 10+-2.5% 5-10-9% Fox said that college students sometimes have Protection: 56% 10+ -2% •Several precautions can be taken to reduce report male using Protection: 74% low self-esteem and feel obligated to "go along with the risks of contracting an STD. Some of these are: condom during report wearing the crowd.ft The consumption of alcohol and drugs a) use of a condom; b) limit ;your partner); c) intercourse. condoms during also initiates irresponsible and unprotected sex, she washing with soap & water immediately after 51 % report using intercourse. noted. birth control pill nole: some reported contact; d) a & b only; e) all of the above. The note: some using condoms, pill, "Most can't recall what they did or who they correct answer is e, which was missed by about reported using sponge, foams, were with, ft Fox said. pill, condoms, jellies, and two-thirds of the respondents. withchws/ me/hods The responsibility of having sex, Fox believes, withdrcr.val, •STD's involve different complications, includ sflemstlely. lies with the individual. Furthermore, she· says one foams andjellies ing death. Which of the following STD's can lead to alternately needs to continue to educate themself and be death? a) syphilis; b) gonorrhea; c) AIDS; d) only b aware of the consequences of practicing unsafe & c; d) only a & c; e) all of the above, The correct sex. answer is d, syphilis and AIDS, which was an a)AIDS; b)herpes; c)chlamydia; d) a & b only; e) a & Her message to students? c only; f)none of the STD's listed above are cur swered incorrectly by more than half. "You're responsible for yours (body and life) " able. ft The correct answer is "d.ft •Necking & Petting can lead into the contrac Fox said. "You're an adult. Be informed.ft tion of an STD. True or False? The correct answer The only question that nearly all students St.udents concerned about being infected with is true, which also was missed by more than half. answered correctly was "A person infected with an an STD can be tested for free at the Ingham County STD may have no outward signs of infection. True The one question answered correctly by Health Department STD clinic. slightly more than one-half of the respondents was or falser The correct answer !s true. Olin Health Center charges $16.50 for a pap · The quiz questions above were derived from 'Which of the following STD's are not curable? See sfos, p. 2 ALL current staff members - and those interested in working next year- meet at the uR-1 Sat. at 2:30 p.m. ------
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If you see any sus picious sores, rash discharge or detect a strong odor, discuss it with your partner. What you see Don't leave ·· i/i!~~ftlhlw@jltl~i'''H?'.< may be highly infectious. .. SOAP & WATER Washing before and immediately home without it! after contact can wash away the germs. However, these germs may penetrate the skin before you It's not a matter of how much luck someday may run out. And have a chance to wash. money you have. instead of coming home from a It doesn't matter which school party with a smile on your face USE OF A CONDOM you go to or how high your grades from a one-night stand with the The condom is one of the best are. partner who "seemed like a nice preventive measures against It doesn't matter if you wear person," you may wind up in office ·>:. :. :- :. : -:-:·:.:-:.:-:-:.:.·-· ...· ...... ·.·.· ... ·.· .·.·.· these diseases. When put on designer clothes, live in a nice of a doctor who looks you sraight ...... before any contact and properly neighborhood and drive a classy in the eye and says, "I'm sorry, ·• .•,•, ~~n~,~~~~~~~n@~•t :. .. removed, it provides good protec car. you have AIDS." ''•• '••••••@'©.©@i\iiilii!i' ®ii®©iiiiRU\i#®•••••• tion. IF YOU HAVE SEX WITHOUT Some one-night stand, eh? ·•,•.••·•·:•:•-:- :.:-:-:-:-:.:-:-:- q(gig•p<:JY.~.····:-: :: ::::::::: ::::::::::: :: ::<· USING PROTECTION, YOU MAY Well, was it worth it? ·.·.· ·. ..•.· . ·.•••.· .·. . .. . URINATION ... CONTRACT ASEXUALLY While it is no persons right to Urinating immediately after ., •• ...·.. ~~!~if~~~~~@J.@~~@ij@~··.• TRANSMITTED DISEASE. tell another person how to live contact can flush out some germs • •• •••• ~~®~mnw©~ >.. .. (especially for the male). It cannot be stressed enough their life, it is everybody's right to that people need to become re urge people to use protection ••,••,•••••A.ffi){i"lipp,NtHI'••·• REGULAR STDND CHECKUP sponsible when having sex. They when having sex. So whether Based on your sexual activity, you need to continue to educate them you're having sex with 1 O different 6 should have periodic STDND selves on the topic of STD's and people a week or one partner a [1~1~!1~ checkups. Ask your doctor for the take the advice of medical prof es year, please, be responsible. •·••••'~rt~~cmH.!¥.••·•• · specific tests for syphilis, goner sionals seriously. It's no secret how STD's are ·.·. ·.. _·. -.·.- ... ·.·. ·.· ·>:-:-:-:-:-: -: -:-:-:-:-:-:·· ...... rhea and chlamydia since these This means wearing a con transmitted - DIRECT CONTACT tests may not be part of routine dom, limiting your partners, avoid WITH INFECTED AREAS. But .,••<.?hQ.iJ .. ,.,., . , . ,. ,••·•·····•··\o¢ev~ · ~·~n •,@@·•·•••1:i<:fre>¢k ···••'•'•·••.•••· ..... examination. ing direct contact with infected these diseases can be prevented persons, looking before you have if people just think. SIMULTANEOUS TREATMENT contact and getting regular check Condoms cost as cheap as 50 It is essential to notify your partner cents - that's one-third the price when you are infected. Both ups. people should be treated at the For those of you out there you pay for a bottle of beer at the same time to avoid reinfecting having unprotected sex and bar. each other. getting lucky, WAKE UP! Your 23 May 1990 . university Reporter-Intelligencer • 5 about life, then you can have it. but don't them," which again echoes the S1ilm cry to me when you look around youself fmla. It is from here one expects Mr. Get laid, too, Lynn? and see rape higher than it's e11er been Boyd to go on and to finiSh his train of DearuR~: before, or that the divorce rate is skyrock thought, as he must have brought these eting, or that you have about eight things up to make some sort of point, In response to Lynn Kloosterman's different parents, or that you someday find when suddenly he tells that some people oh-so-intelligent letter in last week's paper: yourself worried because your own think that the shanties are ugly. He says it You're right, Lynn, blacks have no budding teenager kids are screwing with horror going on to say, with mind . right to whine abo!Jl racism, women are everything that's warm and moves. This is shattering convidion, "This is the Ameri victims of nothing but PMS, and the the kind of society you wanted. You got it. can mind at work.• Well, of course it's the government is not corrupt. So, you guys at the uRI haven't won · American mind at work, as it is probably The world is just perfect the way it is. uR-1 is crappy, too any points with me. Nor have you won the English, German, ?Russian, and Ys21l.mbeing oppressed too, Lynn; any points with unborn children. I will give maybe even the El Salvadorian mind at you're just too stupid to realize it. I'm glad DearuRt: you credit for one, thing, though, is that I work too. The shanties .ilm. ugly. The to see that you're only a freshman. Maybe know this little piece will get into print. point is that they are supposed to be ugly, you'll learn something while you're here. Well, well, uRI, I guess I was wrong Even with a little raunchy license on my and more importantly, it really shouldn't about you guys. I was all set to send you part. The Stale News, on the other hand, matter what they look like at all since they Si~rely, a heartfelt letter about how crappy the has a tendency to supress freedom of are meant to educate not become part of Tina Caputo State News was, but it appears that you speech. an art exhibit, but does Mr. Boyd devote guys are just as bad. The State News is By the way, tell the Provoc to go fuck one word to these ideas? Of course natl biased, as everyone knows. They are himself too. He's no philosopher, only a He trudges onward to the freedom of Reader: White=right racist in nature, and have by-passed the few minutes of needless entertainment for speech thing and the Adrrinistration's DearuR~. FACT that the Spartan Football team uses babies. "conservativeness.• He talks about steroids. (Incidentally, I've known Jeff With all my love, freedom of speech, when it is really It's about time Ill The forming of a Case for the past two years, and he's not freedom of expression that is the issue White Caucus. Finally, a chance for white lying I) Phil Abramoff and thinks that we are going to be able to Americans to take pride in themselves. I figured that I could voice my views Mathematics and Statistics make some sort of rational connection Just like the Afro-American population is on the abortion issue to you guys but it SFL Vice-President between his calling the adrrinistration · composed of various heritages, so too is appears that you monkey-faces are just as Senior Graduate Teacher conservative and the quote from the the white population. White people need Pro-Child-Killing as the State News, if not 1989-90 petition. Maybe it is better that Mr. Boyd to have a sense of identity and individual more. They, however, have an excuse, didn't enlighten us with his original train of ity. They can't be seen as just a plain whereas you don't. At. least they get although the uR-1 ha• advocated a thought. Gue~ing at this one seems majority or a large nondescript mass. Why advertising funding fom Pro-Murder woman'• right to control her body, that much moreintellectuallyfulfilling. The not learn ab9ut individual histories of our agencies like Womancare (alias does not mean we would not print paramount of Mr. Boyd's entire article immigrant forefathers who are lumped "Womankill" or "We Don't Care1. To oppo11ing view•, and to that end invite comes when he shares some sort of ' together into this category of whiteness. quote you, "Abortion is a woman's choice, Mr. Ab111moff to aubmit any column vague prophecy of disaster if we fail to Everyone, not just the minorities, deserves no dispute over that: with photo -he would like. We do realize what the shanties stand for and a chance to take price in her or his Ask an unborn chi id, "Do you rrind if I NOTprevent oppoaing view• from mean, which Mr Boyd himseH has done a ancestry. kill you?" Don't say they'd say "yes" if they appearing here, aa any regular reader wonderful job of not telling us. Last week could talk. The fact of the matter is that knows. a reader told Mr. McWilliams to take a ride ChrisD. they can't talk, which is why us "A~i on the clue bus. This week I think it's Mr. Choicers" are stepping forward to speak -ed. Boyd's turn to hop aboard for them. Abortion is legalized child killing, normally we would not print auch a no disupte over that. So why don't you "Eat me, hard guy/" Steven Matthews" Jetter without a full aignature, but we Pro-Abortionists fact up to that fact. feel it;. important to let atudenta know As for your arguments in favor of -theProvoc that theseacrewed-up butarda are out abortion, I've heard 'em all. Abortion is Greeks are good there. called Freedom of Choice." Freedom of DearuR~: If the letter writer;. oflended by choice to do what? To decide to kill an Boyd's a Noid thia psychological attsessment, he/she unborn because you don't want that chi id M .L. Elrick's article on May 9, 1990 Dear uR~ ~itors, ia welcome to come forth with a full alive anymore. I've also heard it said, "if was extremely unfair to the Greek system name and an apology will be printed. you think abortion is wrong, then don't I am a regular reader of your publica Contrary to his unfounded opinions, have an abortion.· Sure, same logic fraternities and sororities engage in -ed. applies to stealing. I don't think stealing is tion and can usually enjoy your articles regardless of my personal point of view on phi'lanthropic:adivities throughoutthe wrong, so I'll just break into you house and entire year. They raise thousands of rob you blind. It was my freedom of the subject because your writers are . C0fl1>9tent and state things in a meaning dollars and help hundreds of people. choice. The weak arguments for abortion Greek Week happens 1o be a fun way to rage on. Nobody wants to fad up to the ful and understandable way. While reading Mr. Boyd's article on the shanties celebrate their enthusiasm for helping reality of abortion, because most people people and having a good time. The would rather be able to conveniently do behind Wells Hall in your May 16th issue, I couldn't help wonder what happened. tabloid he wrote of us a way for the away with unwanted life, and with a clear participants to remember Greek Week (like conscience. Where did you find this guy and what were you thinking when you chose to display his · a year book ar a photo album). M.L. Elrick What angers me most is the total lack obviously has serious prejudices against of honesty. You mask the issue with talent, or definite lack there of, in your paper. the Greek system. But, he should base terms like "rights," "choice," and so forth. his accusations on facts, not clic:hes Why the HELL don't you just admit it. an Within the first two paragraphs, Mr. Boyd changes tense enough times to stereotypes. His article was in poor taste unborn is a human life, whether complete and reflects inept journalistic: skills. or not, and YOU DON'T GIVE A SHIT leave any reader feeling as if he has just entered some sort of a time warp and his My suggestion is that Elrick take a because it is so convenient to assume it's beginning journalism class where he will not. Admit that it is a life, as it is, and just use of pronouns as water out of a tap is enough to leave any half-brained person learn about research, facts, and maybe say that you don't care, and you want having an open rrind. abortion legal anyway. Quit arguing that confused. Yet after reading the entire it's not human and crap like that to justify article I realized that it was all a clever ploy to take the reader's mind away from the Sincerely, yourself. You'll go a lot further if you say, Emily Sala "It's a life, but fuck it. If I wanna kill it, let fad that in reality Mr. Boyd's article has absolutely no point at all. (a non-Greek MSU student) me kill it. It's my freedom of choice to ~ill if In four short paragraphs Mr. Boyd I want to, isn't it?" Actually, it's kind of easy It ia /ntereating to note that NONE to say that once you've already been born manages to introduce four c:Ompletly different points, none of which have of the greeka who talked to uR-1 ataff and you're in the clear. So own up to the members took advantage ofan oflerto fact that you don't care about human life. anything to do with the other and tell us nothing we don't already know. Beginning have a column run contradicting do away with unwanted life, like the Elrick~ diatribe. They were told their German's did with Jews, like the Romans . in the shadow of the State News he tells us who the groups that have built the column would run in the ume 11pot 1111 did with the Christians, like the Americans Elrick'•, ume length, with ume aize are doing with the unbc;>rn. shanties are and goes on to say that they were built, "to educate and more impor headline and no editing by our ataff. So think what you want to. If you're Oh well••• honest about it, I won't stand in your way. tantly remind students of events and -ed. . If you want a society that doesn't care problems which they don't know affect 6· university Reporter-Intelligencer ·23 May 1990 Anyone remember Earth Day? of my apartment. A sense of child suits and oxygen masks. They corporate VIP. Get involved and like glee was growing in my heart at wonder about their hands. Wiping join a political, social or volunteer or the wonder I felt knowing this to be a their noses, caressing their children, ganization. There Is power in cleansing rain. Benzene, toluene, lifting 75 pound drums of "Chemical numbers. As the wealthiest nation mercury, carbon, CFC's (Chloro X" on the dock. And this kind of shit on the planet, we have got the John Fluoro-Carbons), PCB's (Polychlori has been dumped down the throats power to change things, even it it's nated Biphenyls), and a host of of North and South Americans, by spending our hard-earned cash Jakary another 175 toxic chemicals, all Soviets, Africans, Europeans ... on stamps, ink and envelopes. being washed back to Earth. That is EVERYBODY, from the First to the Speak loudly, America! as nature intends: the Earth ab Third World. Here are two leads: sorbs these chemicals, breaks them But we're all too dumb to fight •Amnesty International, the All in all, I thought it a rather down with a number of biological back; we keep going blindly on, and leading human rights organization in impressive start to the end of the processes, and sends the bypro let M. Nature do all the back-break the world. They are responsible for world. ducts, toxic or otherwise, deeper ing work. -We keep pumping it out, freeing hundreds of political, reli Who would have believed the into the water table. A good, safe taking everything we can use, and gious, and innocent prisoners northern United States having a resting place. putting back the garbage we can't, through intensive letter-writing week of 50-degree-plus weather in This, of course, only acounts for with hardly a thought to conserva · campaigns. Write to A.I. USA, 53 mid January, then freezing tempera what is burned arid pushed into the tion, at least not on the necessary West Jackson, Room 1162, Chi tures in mid-May? air (Approximately 116 million "grand scale." cago, IL 60604. Tonight, it was a thunderstorm, pounds of toxic chemicals are Hell, we won't even control our •Sen. Vernon Ehlers, chair of the complete with laser light snow and released into the air EVERY YEAR own population, and you cannot Natural Resources and Environ acid rain. Sure, I had hoped for real by industry in the state of Michigan conserve without a stable popula mental Affairs Committee. This fire and brimstone stuff, you know, alone!!) and later, finds its way back tion. committee is debating the fate of whole towns being laid off, the down. What about the shit that's This is all just the tip of my beef, Senate Bill 375, a piece of legisla ground opening up and swallowing being dumped right next to our which I call Western Technological tion designed to make polluters pay dogs and small children. But I was homes, our water supplies_, our . Civilization. The point I'm making is for the C9St of deaning up their toxic satisfied. Besides, I had always businesses? . this: waste sites, instead of the taxpayers wanted to be a blonde, and the rain People are finding pools of In the United States, we have footing the bill. It would also give seemed to be doing a great bleach unknown sludge seeping through the freedom to express ourselves. the DNR more authority to prose job. their lawns. I have seen the looks of And as citizens, we have an obliga cute those who refuse to do the right I returned home soaked, hoping real terror on workers' faces when tion to use it. thing. Write to the good senator and my jacket, now smoking at the the Feds, showing up to close down Get educated and write to your company at Room 806 Farnum the shop, arrive in radiation-type . favorite senator, representative, or Building, Lansing, Ml 48909. seams, wouldn't un~vel======;:::::::======in the heat Our McWilliams answers his mail who thinks political parties can help college, here's some advice: Reach thinks more of, like that your money . should look into it. After all, getting Machiavelli or Neitzsche for dis should be spent on drug-free zones some new idologies in power can only courses on statesmen and the role of around all the schools, induding MSU. help. power in human affairs. Also, take And it's not relevant that most govern Liberals want to limit economic Hal Walsh, in PhilosophY, Walter ment services, most of which you freedom, in the name of "Public Martin, in Humanities, or Run Puhek, don't need and none of which you Welfare,· and conservatives want to _ in Social Science for a better under receive voluntarily,_but all of which you Tom limit pesonal freedom in the name of standing of reason and ·freedom, pay for, suck (either because it's . ·"'· McWilliams "Public Morals: What you don't hear something you seem to be lacking. inefficient, too expensive, or just plain is that both parties assume that Kay Steele: Thanks! I hope I can doesn't work.) What is relevant is that proection of your rights requires keep myself above the dreck. our Government is violating limiting them (this is doublethink at it's Peter Zeiler: I am doing some everyone's "inalienable· rights by most blatant.) thing. I'm trying to find people who doing most of the things that people Hey, Hey, I got some response! Lynn Kloosterman: Are you lost care, people who recognize that this is now just assume the government is Let me first point out that I don't work or what? As a matter of fact, I am an issue of power, and people who supposed to do. When our govern for the uRI. I am not a reporter, nor oppressed, as are you. Try smoking a believe there is an alternative to ment uses force to make you do do I receive a paycheck. This would joint in public sometime if you don't standing by as our overspending something that you don't want to do, be called an opinion column, though believe me. Also, no one gave me the "leaders· bring down the whole house . or stops you from doing something most of what I put in here are judg right to bitch. I just have it, same as of cards. that you have every right to do, it's ments: you. Your notion assumes that What can you do? You can start gone too far. Get you head straight. Jeff Hanert: I realize that I'm governments exist to grant rights, by not contradicting yourself. "Sure, You can't •subvert the dominant expressing the libertarian party's basic rather than to protect them. That you Government sucks, but ... • is a sign paradigm• if you use their logic. Call platform, but I feel I should only push chose to bitch while complaining that you've bought their bullshit. It me up, too. You sound like you care. my own views, rather than using this about bitching shows that you are would miss the point to say that each If anyone wants to help, call 336- medium just to support a political either a hypocrite, or just plain stupid. government function that you deem 9591. party. You're right though, anyone If you want to learn, now that you're at bad is probably what someone else a-half barrels of evil. But I've heard there was a frat FIRST AMENDMENT PARTY: Lansing! party that 60 kegs? FRIDAY, 25 MAY Seems the city council has Gosh, money talks, don't it? 142 GUNSON ST. decided to raise parking rates, obsten 0fllfl[JJ@ )7@(!!Jj) @©fJJ~'ft/Jft(JfjfJIJ@[JJ sibly to limit student parking. Why are there so many question Kind of makes you want to marks in this week's abbreviated register to vote and dump those offering? There's been so much student-hating clowns, now doesn't it? screwed-up crap going on in this town that my five-year old mind can't handle Oh, and remember that blind pig it! Where's my pacifier, dammit... that got busted last week? Two and- 23 May 1990 . · university Reporter-Intelligencer • 7 SN banquet nurtu·res tasty thoughts_ really interesting thing to watch was groups on campus. Of cou rse his especially great to live up to. But let me Elrick pounding amazing quantities of instructions on how to properly slant tell you that there are people, like rum and coke, I began to daydream. I stories on minority leaders like Louis myself, who read that rag cover to cover start ed composing what I would have Farrakhan truly ensured disgust form each day. We compare what happened liked to say, had I a moment at the inte lligent readers. But let's not dwell at events with what is written about Mark podium: It would have sounded on such things. After all, if The State them. We expect a little toe stepping Ludwig something like this .. . News had faced the problems illustrated and butt ki cking to try to break the Good evening and thank you for a by hostile comments from minority campus apathy. We expect a little chance to congratulate The State News student leaders and its own staff, Secor mental provocation. We want a reason Board of Trustess on selecting John wouldn't have been able to shed those to be loyal readers. We want our $2.75 Secor as this year's editor. He was extra pounds by lying his ass off to worth of writing. Impress usl Pleasel Have you ever felt like a bastard at truly the right choice to continue the cover his. negligence. Let's instead look a family reunion? tradition of an increasingly poor State forward to the next year when a new - Ludwig, former president of I got such a feeling last Fri day at News. Not only has he shown a editor and more dough will arrest the RHA, has had his share of run-ins the annual State News Awards Ban tolerance for error and shallow cover S'new's slide into mediocrity. Let's look with The State News. quet. At least I wasn't alone. The table age, but more importantly, his ability to forward to the coming year when we'll I was at was filled with people who have alienate the minority staff members see columnists with bite instead of gas For accuracy 's sake, we should annoyed the divas at the top of our through his callous attitude helped masks, stories with balance instead of point out Elrick was drinking WHIS campus daily. Due to my short atten maintain the ~>' n ews ' s traditio n of an bias, and candor instead of lies. Peg, KEY, not rum. tion span, and the fact that the only adversarial relationship with these as next year's editor, you have nothing - ed. E.L. fat cats shun Too Much Fun killing off the HUD projects, I never of fun." I sucked down my beer and they really don't want me here listening voted for the timber industry to make a filled up again at the tap. to your opinions of the Fatwallets, er, I mint from 500 year old Sequoia particle "Cedar Point is institutionalized, mean policy makers? Excuse me, but board bought cheap from the Forestry and somebody's making a lot of money this-" I hoisted my plastic cup- "is my .service. I never ever ever voted for the off it.so that's different .. You go there, pursuit of happiness, and listening to best interest of the oil companies yet stand in line, have your alloted amount you is my freedom of speech. We as Marty there's the Exxon Valdez. See, all the of fun and then go stand in another line. Americans are promised these things, West big decisions are made off the ballot. " If you get too deviant, they toss you out and that is what America is all about. "So if it's not re-elections, what is into the parking lot. But think about the Furthermore, if you'll have me believe the government afraid of then? And rollercoasters. The tracks are the way that this country is run by a bunch of here, have another beer, better make in which we are channeled, up, down stony-faced despots and storm troopers sure you get your three dollars worth." and around the curves, it's all very nice then I'll say goodnight right now and go "Ah, another beer, that's to the and safe. But consider this, after the deal on that girl over there before she Me and a beer buddy were stand point. The thing that the men in power - cars shoot down the big hill, the race up passes out. " ing around the keg just laughing and that is, the one's with the fattest wallets, another. As they're going up, they· I turned to go but it was too late. drooling and having a good time when are afraid of is Too·Much Fun. See, if remember that rollercoasters hate going The moment I had a good line in my he went serious on me. we're having too much fun, we're up and coast down again on the other foggy head, 12 commandos in blue "You know," he said. 'We've got forgetting about _all of the things that side. But in that moment before they go busted up the party and arrested the nuclear bombs, homelessness, global we're supposed to hate, like Russians down again, there's that instant of free keg. I hid under a table in case sup pollution, species extinction, strong arm and poor people, and we forget to listen fall, where you don't know if you're pressive gun fire erupted and woke drug cartels and a whole list of worries, to the Fatwallets tell us how our hatred going to ke~p going up or what. It's that there the next morning. but that's not what our government is can be best directed. If we're not instant that makes the Fatwallets On the walk horn I thought of what afraid of." paying them any attention, they lose nervous. That's why they don't like my beer buddy had said, and decided I gave a knowing burp. "Yup," I their grip, their bank accounts shrink parties -they're just a little out of control that I probably had been having too replied. ''They're afraid of not getting and they get very upset." and therefore potentially dangerous. much fun for the sake of my country. re-elected.". "Come on," I said. "You mean to People may relate their dissatisfied 'After all, we really can't afford to have "Elections are only secondary tell me that our government doesn't subversive thoughts with a few too dissidents forming new parties when fears," he.slurred. "The ones who are want us to have fun so that it can many beers in 'em." ever we choose, can we? really in control don't have to worry · channel our anger and keep us unified "Pshawl" I spit beer. "You're - W••I,·who WU unllb,. to •crounge • about re-elections because they were in hatred? That's pretty ugly. Okay, if kidding me, right? Now you're telling photograph, r ..lly DOES loolc Ilk• thltll never voted in in the first place. I never what you say is true, how come Cedar me that Uncle Sam and all his cohorts voted for the big wigs who made a Point isn't illegal? That's a heckuva lot are against freedom of expression, that So just who did let you geeks out of the sewer anyway? Yep, Donatello, Mic haelangelo, Leonardo, and Raphael, you are tough shells to crack, but not so tough that we wouldn't like to make turtle soup out of your annoying asses. A little sett, a .little pepper, and an . invitation to Shredder and we'd have a grand time indeed. Then again, you might not be such tasty morsels, since just all the hype surrounding your movie, video games, posters, clothing, ahd so on, makes us sick. Still, you're good Americans and anyone who can hang out in New York in just their underwear has to be a hard guy - that's a shell joke, son. Get it? · "ty Reporter-Intelligencer 23 May 1990 ahead. I slid up to one of these few OCEAN. Can you imagine? I hear more of a problem. Nothing that can't good men and, out of the corner of my you can almost walk the North Atlantic be overcome, of course, but you are mouth asked: "Hey, Captain, where's these days from St. John's to Lizard going to be on probation, your party the powder roomr He pretended he Light or Fastnet. The Southern route days are over. The idea of obtaining a . hadn't heard me although his dress from Bermuda to the Azores isn't Circuit Court injunction to stop a party blues straightened a little more or much better. · is so are out to me, that I have a hard maybe he just stiffened. The problem is that shit begins to time comprehending that it is actually I was having a problem so I had back up on them. No one wants to happening. Or the idea that you are no choice but to insist: "Hey, Lance, admit that THEIR shit is backing up on going to be placed on probation to Or.Andrew where's the bitty? You know, the can, them, .now do they? So they rush keep you from partying. Barclay the porcelain convenience, the little around pointing at other people and, Now understand that the Old Doc ladies room? I have to shake the dew to distract them, yelling: "Look! I see only dreams of partying like he used off my lilly. Wash my hands. Pinch a shit on you: That's why it is always to. There comes a point where a I ;;,; ;; ii loaf. You know, pass some gas. "other people's shit,· that is their physical being can only take so much Jesus Christ, man the crapper, I have problem, its never their own. I sup and the doctor says, "You have to to take a shit. OK? Do you get my pose that's why people kept o:,eeing slow down, man, or you're going to Doc-proves drift? The fucking crapper, Lance, those moats in Jesus' eyes but these di.e.· I figured we're all going to die, wherer days, it exists as the use of alcohol you know what I mean, but he said, A man with a little plastic doobie in regulatory law to control people's "No, man, like next week, you know there's more his ear led me away. lwas jumping up lifestyles. (Remember what I say what that means!• and down, frustrated with my obvious solves the problem: Make 18 the Death -is nature's way of telling us than one guy inability to communicate with this drinking age and Declare the MSU to slow down. I wasn't getting any dude. The MWTLPDIHE gently campus (patrolled by Ingham County younger either, so I kicked back an in the White explained to me that when the Re Deputies) a Free Zone where people watched the lilies of the field, you agans took over the White House, can live a lot like they please without might say. The zen of it is to become Nancy had Ronald pass an Executive hurting anyone or hurting themselves.) the thin you really are, so I became a House who's Order that prohibited bathroom s in Do you know what would happen lily for a while. Didn't do much but I the White Houe. I couldn't believe it. if the Board of Trustees passed a set was really beautiful. Sat around, long full of shit said, "What do they do when they of resolutions like that? Every DAMN stemmed, in a lovely cut glass vase. have to shitr He said: "These mother, sister, former drug abuser, You can tell they didn't understand me My brain went on vacation this people are so fucking white, they etc. would come out screaming and very well but they were willing to pay a week because the weather has been didn't even have to shit! Nancy says yelling about alcohol abuse and drunk lot for lilies then. such shit. Luckily for my readers, 'No,' and that is that.· driving in adolescents, and if one child (I though it was because I was so brain activity is definitely no excuse for It is easy for the rich. They can has to die it's one too many. Mean intelligent; seems they thought I had a column, if you get my drift, but the hire people to come in and give them while, Washington would threaten (a to be dumb because I was so beauti letters lying here require a certain enemas once a week. I couldn't lot like Gorby and the Baltic Repub ful. What do you when you thought degree of cerebration, albeit minimal, believe it. They threw me out of the lics, eh? ) to cut off our highway funds you were getting by on talent when it that I am not putting out these days. reception because they said you if we went against the National - was more because you were sleeping On cold, rainy days, the old squash is couldn't be there with a spoiled Drinking Age and promoted Blatant with the producer kind of thing? I kept · like a 50-watt radio station, just won't tuxedo. (What I love about Barbara Poly-Drug Abuse in Teens. saying "If you have to be a whore, at get up to heat. I tried glow plugs, but Bush is that she doesn't care if your You give one lousy party and the least charge a lot for you seiVices: they.don't seem to work. So: tuxedo is full of shit, all she wants to next thing you know, it's the NKVD. That way, you ony have to do a few Do you ever worry about what know is are you a nice person? If you Miami Vice-type guys making "buys• tricks to get by.) happens to people who are severly · love children, Barbara thinks you're of "illegal drugs• with marked money. It's the shit backing up that causes repressed? It was like the time I was OK.) - Then yelling, "Freeze, ITS EAST people no end of trouble in their life. invited to the Reagon White House for Where is all the shit going to go? LANSING VICE! YOU'RE ALL What I dislike about these times is that dinner. Everything went just fine until I hopa there isn't anyone who thinks if UNDER ARREST FOR FREQUENT when the white culture catches I had to answer the call of Nature, as it you hold it long enough, it will just •go ING A BAWDY HOUSE.' People are someone who is trying to actually deal were. away: I" had a cousin like that. His walking around going, "Say, what? with som~ shit, they act like it is the I sort of slipped away from the attitude was: You never see the guy Frequenting a bawdy houser A victim's fault. That the addict is crowd of bejeweled people standing shit in a cowboy movie. He was trying whore-house, people, you're being somehow weak which explains why around Ronnie, laughing at his stupid to live up to his rolemodels, what a busted for running a whore-house. they are doing what they do. If the jokes (like pretending he couldn't funny person. I believe his record is Hence the name Blind Pig. It's a one white culture wasn't cutting off remember his own name) to approach still in Guiness for the longest held on year felony rap. people's natural outlets, they woldn't one of those splendid Marine guards land. There were two guys in a I'd plea-bargain down to minor in be having to deal with shit. My you see in the commercials. He was lifeboat, you'll never believe this, who possession, if I were you, unless you advice? Go outside an shit in the standing at rigid attention, buzz-cut, held it for 41 days because THEY through the party, of course, or if you bushes, but watch Qut for the results sword at his side, staring straight DIDN'T WANT TO MESS UP THE are not a minor, then you have a bit of the last cabinet meeting. Provoc proves there's more tHan one columnist in E.L. who's full of ... generation, willya, you mucus-loving, blister hour for six days at the Trump Plaza Hotel & licking, pinko tUnning dogs! Casino, Aiko Kashiwagi (kasundheit!) split before a Regardless, It's great to be back here in the $6 million check cleared. uR-1, America's longest-named paper that's Calling Trump •unhonorable· for failing to the guaranteed to bring a choice and a smile• extend his credit, Kashiwagi said he would burn his .. Provocateur So, as the hair-ball wheezing cat (sans autographed copy of Trump's best-selling tome, The smile) might say, HARAGGRAMAPHAMAPFET••• Art of the Deal (which, in later printings, was re named, How to Get Fabulous BabBS Without Being Ivana and I had a good laugh this week (she Rich, But Only Having a Groovy Personality, babysits me to make extra money, and I'm a lot Really). The year Is waning and I'm still whining, but easier to manage than The DONALD - and cuter) Gosh, wonder-if he'll put a stop payment on that there are somethings yQu never outgrow• • •like when we read about her ax's trouble with a billion check? MSU, right you five-year seniors dragging ass aire gambler from Jap-One-Day-We'll-Own-You-All through tl'lflse hallowed halls! an. Good news if you plan on parking in East Get out of here and leave some room for my Seems a billionaire who wagered $14 million an see BRAT, p. 6 . ... I 23 May 1990 university Reporter-Intelligencer • 9 I OUT and ABOUT ••••••••••••••••••••••••.Aeast Lansing llnlilmoo C.lllllw IR!blll'• musicians welcome) 26: The Pettibone Blues Project 25-28 May: Ringling Bros. and 23 May: Radio Caroline 28: Bird of Paradise Orchestra Barnum & Balley Circus 24: The Sun Messengers 29: Keller & Kocher.Quartet IP•r~Dll•lie 25: The Juntunes 30-31: The Ron Brooks Trio 25 May: Liars, Cheats & Thieves ll"Z1ur 29:Skor 26: Dogbunny Review with Hippo- 23 May: Enemy Squad with Fortunate 30: The Civilians ~llt oo.'l~lnr. drome · Sons 23 May: Souled American with Veges 30: Gone Dog with Day Glo Orange IR!ftvwwdli Tllll•tbr• Fist IJIWJOOl!llim"e IJIOme now-3 June: The Fantastlcks 24: Viv Akauldren with the Unsane 25 May: Universal Spectrum with 25: Urge Overkill Surgery Image Sound Fe'lirolb'lu.I ~· 23 May: Faculty recital Slllw!r !Dolllar SGIOCID 26: Babes in Toyland with Skin Flower 26: Ako-ben with Multi-national Sound now-27 May: Dr. Strangelove 30: Just Say No, Scruffy Tearaways, . 29-3 June: Syndicate and Forced Anger 1l'1b9 llllll\l~ u:..tlllwiO Sllllp \ 30 May: Jazz Band II 23 May: Love Hate SmGIO IJIOcm9Q fRlllcli'• 24: The London Quire Boys Gr•ID ll»ooll' 24 May: Electric Rain 23 May: The Urbations 23-27 May: Uptown Band 24: The Knaves 25: George Bedard & IR!ftvw IJ!looli Cli1e 28: Blue Avenue Delegates . Wlbllll'ilOllll Cllllllw the King Pins 24 May:(bop) Harvey 29: Capitol City Band 23 May: MSU Wind Symphony 26:Juice 25: Mitch Ryder with Mark Pazman & 30-3 June: Uptown Band 24: Concert & Campus Bands 28: Goon Squad the Motor City Blues Project 25: State Police Recruit Graduation 29: Iodine Raincoats 26: Rhythm Corps with Beer on the ll lcmCl.itarli 25-26 May: Knaves .Anetroit Sc11111J11 llaitdra1D 25 May: Steve Nardella 1Llal)i1)!1elllll-1111• Glllllwy ilBGll•ll'"• C(•Jlltollllllll ll.011111111• 26: Code Blue now-25 May: photographs by Stephen .AAnn Arbor 25-26 May: Hot Club Strom a ~iilNan 1l'1b9 £!I'll 11.111m•e 211 25 May: Terminator X & Flavor Flav llDdOllll4MIO llQdO 23 May: Open Stage 25 May: Phineas Gage with Mission 26: Happy Deathmen with Funhog 24 May: The Last Laugh, Panic 24: The Fabulous Umeliters ary Stew 27: Del Amitri with Goober & the Peas Button, and False ·Addiction 25: Dick Siegel 1 June: House of Love 26: Christine Lavin 1l'1b9 ~.Ute fllileo1Db "ll"mnpO. 27: Vincent York and the New York 26 May: Hip Hop Jam Sl!llOllJ" e 23 & 26 May: Romeo et Juliet Force Anthony Wayne 24 May: James Harman with The 29: Bob Franke D.O.A. Dangerous Gentlemen lllSQlJ Qllin'looo 30: open stage Shake Rattle and Roll 25: 3 Mustaphas 3 24 May: Dance Against Bigotry 27-28: Ronnie Earl & the Broadcast 25: Noontimes: School of Music Jazz ll!lliNJ 09 iPllll'llcillU IJOD{b)r ll»ll=it'o ers Muse Combo 23-26 May: Ron Brooks Trio 25 May: Jeff Mylin & the Blues Inva 27: Clark & Reed Jam Session Qazz sion TllE CLYDESDALE by JONT ·university Reporter-Intelligencer 23 May 1990 the Peanut Barrel • Great Burgers and Sandwiches 17Yeanas East Lansing's Best Neighborhood Bar and Restaurant r------,' I 50* I : BURGERS: I BIGTASTE I ---- I I I IN A SMALL BUN I I I I 'TIL l IP.M. I I THRU 5•3Qe90 I '-----WE DELIVER------' 33- ~0~0'l, ------I °" -- 23 May 1990 university Reporter-Intelligencer • 11 restaurants in Britain, and forces the of the film is shot in wide shots (it's cook to prepare extravagant meals for . almost like watching a play). him and his gang. However, where Greenway suc While the thief is busy harassing ceeds the most is In creating an artsy Reviews the restaurant's usual clientelle, his wife film with crude elements that you would (played by the seductive Shakespear expect to see in John Wa1era' films. ean actres.'!>, Helen Mirren) is busy The thief spouts out lines of vio The Cook is well-doner making eyes at a book dealer sitting a lence that range from the morbidly funny few tables away. As the film pro to.the excruciatingly painful to watch. ~ The Cook, The Thief, However, the hype seems to~ paying gresses so does their relationship. And there's more skin on display than in ~ His Wife and Her Lover off, the theater packed more in for The Needless to say, the thief isni your average T&A flick. Cook, than for big budget mainstream happy when he finds out. And telling But if you are thinking about seeing BY FARAH THOMASON films like Kevin Costner's abysmal flick what happens would be spoiling a this film, doni worry about breaking out uR-1 CINEMA CORRESPONDENT Revenge. But by now you're probably particularly gruesome twist in the plot. your raincoat; The Cookis no Debbie thinking "What's all the fuss about?" While this plot seems like typical Does Dallas- but it is a masterfully Who ever would have thought that Well, The Cook is definitely one of soap opera fare, writer/director Pe1er crafted, strange and very funny black a British black comedy called The Cook. the most bizarre films of the year and Greenway transforms this cliche pl9t comedy. the Thief, his Wife and her Lover would definitely is one of the best. The twisted idea into a disturbingly beautiful adult AMC theaters must be commended ever play the local AMC multi-plex. plot deals with a rude, piggish abusive fable about lust and over-indulgence. for supporting Greenway's unique And who ever would have thought thug (the thief played with twisted zeal Greenway paints a stunning artistic vision and not exiling it to an that they would let It run unrated (it .was by Michael Bambon) who fancies cinematic vision. His surrealistec sets arthouse where viewership would be branded an X by the MPM). himself as a gourmet. .He muscles in on are lush with red velvet. His camera - severely limited. But AMC theaters realized they La Hollandaise, one of the finest shots are stunning, even though most could cash in on all the hype surround ing the recent slew of movies that have chosen to make use of their freeedom of speech rights and dodge the chop ping block of the movie censors - The ratings board. 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U'JJ@OD W F:J Entertainment The Orange Roughies are Dave Feeny, guitar and . backup vocals, Drew Malburg, drums, Roeey, vocals, Penguins aren't all wet and Glynn Scanlon, bass. Scanlon replaced Keiih BY STEVE BYRNE Soucy, who played all the bass tracks on the album uR-1 lllUSIC CORRESPONDENT The Roughies feel that the album's success is a step in the right direction but are not finished clirrbing. Despite the misleading moniker, Beer on ihe Malburg said: "We have to pay our dues and keep Penguin is not a group of pudgy, short guys waddling plugging away." around in ale-drenched tuxedos. Feeny said the album"just made us more serious They are one of the more impressive bands to find and committed.• their way to Rick's this year, as their strong performance The Roughies play a progressive, pop, dance- there last Wednesday proved . .oriented style music. They pride themselves on their They played a set heavy with originals and spiced originality and stray away from being stereotypical. with a few well-received covers, ranging from Led Our music is a left turn from radio rock," said Feeny. l.eppelin's "Rock and Roll" to a heavy acoustic version of "Rock 'n' Roll is becoming and old tired. medium, which it Bob Marley's "Redemption Song.• was not meant to be How much can you do with the The originals, however, were what made the show same rock 'n' roll?" go. The band is open to fresh ideas and changes. They The quartet played a brand of self-described "pro try to break away from the normal status quo of music. gressive rock with a hard edge" that is not unknown in this "We are liberal free thinkers,• said Feeny. "Too many area, and their own tunes sounded somewhat like a late bands are formula-oriented or are all-star bands with Replacementa/Midnight Oil hybrid. interchangeable parts." The Replacement side of the sound came from The name "Orange Roughies, •was chosen for two Chuck Pope's grinding guitar playing, Mart< Haygren's reasons. Rosey said, the orange aspect of the name quick and flicketty bass, and the pound and thump gives the band a little color. backing of Beniamin R. Ridley Jr.'s drums. Rougies smooth Feeny added, "The roughies aspect describes the. Patrick Akerley's clearly-enunciated vocals reached What comes to mind when you hear Orange Rouigh bands rougher edged melodic style.• out and held the audience, and with his hair pulled back . ? ies. The band's ·color shows in their live performances. by a skullcap, the comparison to Oil-frontman, Pe1er How about a Detroit band whose first album released The visual performance, orchestrated by the movements Garrett was easy to make. was recently ranked in the top 100 ~t requested of Rosey, could be described as theatrical. They pulled off several engaging numbers, including albums on college radio stations in America, according to "It would be nice if we could produce a live album that "Whiskey and Women," which went from soft blues to the College Music Joumal. could pick:up the foot steps to Rosey's dancing," said hard-nosed thrash, and "Bitterness,• a narrative describ The album, Knuckle Sandwich produced with Rob Feeny. ing an Akerley run-in with the Detroit Police Department. Tyner of the MC-5, was released last January by Noctur Each member of the Rougheis began their roots as Detroit is the city the band works out of, though they nal Records of Detroit. By its fourth week of circulation, musicians during the English post-punk era of the early prefer to call themselves suburban-based. They have the album reached number 98 on the top 100 most 1980's. They eventually met, started as a basement been together in this line-up for a little over a year, but requested albums on college radio stations nationwide. band, and have slowly worked their way up, with Feeny have been around since Akerley and Haygen started the The College Music Journal Poll is conducted every even making a name for himself as Best Musician three band about five years ago. two weeks. It's a survey of between 400 to 500 college years running, selected by Detroit's The Metro Times. They have q:>ened gigs for the Smithereens and radio stations, designed to see which albums received the Since playing local clubs and q:>ening for national Rhythm Corpe, and they can be caught fronting Rhythm most requests, said Jim Caliguiri the College Music acts, The Roughies are in the midst of a three-month tour Corps again at the outdoor River Rock Cafe in Detroit, on Joumal.. from Texas to the West Coast ending in the East. Saturday, May 26. Sinead1s diversity wows E.L. BY STACY LAMMERS often clashed with her moody, yet beautiful Another exceptional moment in the UR-I MUSIC CORRESPONDENT ballads. Clad in baggy jeans and an old T show was the encore. O'Connor came shirt (her usual concert attire), she back out for the last number alone, without Mesmerizing I delivered her opening number, "When . her guitar,_and with a request for the That's the only adjective that comes Doves Cry." audience. to mind when thinking of the Wednesday O'Connor steered from soft ballads to "I'm gonna do a very quiet song now, night performance of Sinead O'Connor at punchy dance nurrbers, then back again. so I'd appreciate it if you'd be real quiet. the MSU Auditorium. This made for excellent contrast and Thankyou,"shewhispered. The opening act, Hugh Harris, w~h added to the show's diversity, another Granting her wish, the obnoxious, but his back-up band, played tunes with a pop/ trademark of the singer. Her performance loyal, crowd obliged. In fact, it was so reggae/progressive flavor. Harris sounded was chock full of new tunes, but she quiet at that point that you could hear a pin like Terence Trent D'Arby, with a little evened it out with some of her earlier drop. Then she began the final number of Bob Marley thrown in. However, his songs. the show, "I Do Not Want What I Haven't appearance was more along the lines of One memorable part of the show was Got." Her ethereal voice echoed in the Tracy Chapman. O'Connor's unique version of her recent auditorium and made this the most Harris 's performance wasn't too bad, breakthrough hit, "Nothing Compares 2U." beautiful, spiritual moment of the entire highlighteq by a few good upbeat, reggae She did a longer, softer, more emotional performance. Sinead O'Connor type songs. The band, however, was a rendition of the song. This was a pleasant Most of O'Connor's show served up Although many people whined about mismatch for Harris 's international change from the same old version heard newer tunes like "When Doves Cry," the show's length (of about 70 minutes), it sounding voice. They played more repeatedly on the radio. "Nothing Compares 2U," and "I Do Not couldn't have been any better if had been conventional, mainstream music and At one point during the concert, havoc Want What I Haven't Got," the title track four hours long. Harris sounded like he was made to sing was wreaked as a pack of crazed fans from her second effort. Nevertheless, O'Connor's perform reggae. Some advice for Harris: "Break leapt upon the stage, grasping for the However, O'Connor did throw out ance was powerful and emotionally away, Mon!" ~singer. Promptly, security sweptthe some faves from her debut, The Lion and draining. Many gripes were raised about O'Connor took the stage at around delirious youths off the stage. O'Connor the Cobra .. Some of those included the concert being a r~-off because it 8:40 p.m. The audience promptly gave a appeared ab~ ruffled by the incident. •Jerusalem,• "Mandinka, •and a rather wasn't even two hours long. However, for thunderous ovation to the Irish songstress "I know you people mean well by steamy performance