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The President came to my school

by Stacy Curwood Conference drew near, and the campus was abuzz with Clinton-centric activity. I'm glad Bill Clinton was elected. Al- I tried to walk home to Brecon but the though I did not stay up all night when stairs were torn up, under repair. I used he was elected in November, although I therestroom in Thomas Library behind a merely grinned self-consciously as my temporary curtain, because construction friends whooped ecstatically, I believe was in progress to make it wheelchair ac- that he's an improvement in the White cessible. The signs that something— House. WhatdemocraticCambridge, MA something big— was taking place here resident couldn't? made me begin to I've still had my feel, well, excite- reservations, how- The president of the ment. The presi- ever. Didn't some- country was coming to dent of the country one say he was for was coming to my capital punish- my very own school— very own school— ment? He's on the the chief executive, the, chief executive, somewhat conser- head honcho. Yes, I vative end of a spec- head honcho. realize that he does trum of politicians not hold absolute I might vote for. So my expectations for power, but the fact is, virtually everyone him have been optimistic, but not ideal- in the country and many outside it have istic. I hope for improvement over the heard of this man. I found myself swept Reagan / Bush era, but I don't expect mir- up in enthusiasm. acles. I was very impressed wheji I found Furthermore, I was fascinated with out he was coming to Bryn Mawr, but I the organization required to put on a wasn't going to let it distract me in the production which the President is at- middle of Finals Week. tending. I admit that my personality is But the date of the Entitlements coontinued on page Rebellion in CTT8 Southern Mexico The ballad of the blue bus: by Tamara Rozental Tony Smallwood accused On January 1 1994, while most of us were still celebrating the New Year, a by Alissa Rossman this picture?!? hitherto unknown Zapatista National Is this crook the happy-go-lucky dude To inform you: Liberation Army took Mexico by sur- He was a swell fellow, a friendly (al- I encountered in the snazzy Cafo, where prise. A group of several hundred rebels, beit fickle) figure who sensitized each the two of us were polishing off a couple appointments lead by Comondante Marcos, took control and every Blue Bus passenger to the of yummy cheese steaks? What an awk- of San Cristobal de las Casas and three nurturing quality of radio evangelism. ward blend of images... other small towns in the southern state of He exposed us to the O- Am I the only one who To the Community: Chiapas. The rebels' strategy consisted so-pious deejays of reli- finds this unsavory of quick attacks followed by retreat and gion, whose ass-kicking chain of events a trifle For the first time, as far back as anyone melting back into the civilian popula- sermons appealed to the confusing! I mean, I tend can remember, the Appointments Com- tion, thus allowing them to evade their Bi-College community. to get on people's mittee has finished its schedule in one military pursuers. President Salinas' ini- In December, he thrilled nerves, and this man semester. We didn't do this simply be- tial reaction was to send thousands of us anew with delightful was really nice to me! cause we have a death wish and wanted heavily equipped troops to Chiapas to selections of soft and Little did I know that he to be busy every Tuesday night of the suppress the rebellion. The Zapatistas, cuddly Christmas can- had a trusty gun semester, we did it because we wanted however, surprised us all by defying ons. Yep. He was a con- handy— but why you (the community) to have a chance to authorities, continuing to attack Army sistently funky chap. nitpick? (That's not fair call upon the people who had assumed barracks and sustaining their uprising Unfortunately, our to the schlock who responsibility fordifferent aspects of your until a week ago when they retreated distinguished driver turned out to be a pulled the trigger, is it?) campus life. We believe that these people back into the jungle. dorky delinquent! (Bummer...) Holiday Well, I hope that incarceration turns are dedicated to serving you as their The rebellion in Chiapas has been a shopping apparently included the pur- out to be an...er, learning experience for positions dictate and you should feel free strong blow for Salinas, a modern leader chase of a semi-automatic weapon—that my former pal. I don't usually send re- to take advantage of the opportunity to who has worked throughout his six-year indispensable prop one brandishes on gards to homicide participants, but I've be informed. Listed (page 5) are the term to create and sell a new image of the highway when neighboring travel- decided to take the plunge because— names and box numbers of members of Mexico. Moreover, the incident came at a ers get a tad too feisty. Consider the fol- well, never mind! I'd better control this all the appointed committees on cam- bad time: the first day of the implemen lowing items: highway, car, person, gun. outpour of emotion and save it for a more pus. There will be one final round com- continued on page Think about it, now: what's wrong with worthwhile occasion! Later... ing very soon Happy Spring (?) Semester To All! Inside: International experiences, movie and concert reviews, SGA news, Mormons at BMC, and more... Page 2 The College News February 3,1994 HPE«= —--— ■ ■ Welcome to Hell Week 1994 EDITORIAL by Stacy Curwood a bit, and various and sundry non-aca- demic grind activities. Now we're back Hell Week is here again, and Sopho- in the salt mines, and we need some way more reps are hard at work organizing to unwind. Hell Week aspires to be some what is perhaps Bryn Mawr's biggest outlet for us. Editorial headlines are this size & shape tradition. Parade Night is short and hard Still, Hell Week has potential for being to remember in the midst of Customs the opposite for some. In response to not Welcome back to Bryn Mawr, everyone! We hope you and first classes, Lantern Night is also only last year's controversy but also short though very, very sweet, and May changes in Hell Week guidelines made had a relaxing Winter Break, and an even more relaxing wintery Day doesn't involve everyone in an ac- several years ago, the Committee has beginning to this Spring Semester. Since The College News last tive role. For Hell Week, however, it done some things differently. The guide- came out, the President has visited, we've had a national Women seems like most of the campus has some- lines are not necessarily new, but they're thing to do. And the atmosphere is defi- certainly more public. Most obvious, In Leadership Conference, we've been snowed in four times, a nitely Hell Week, where anyone may perhaps, is the new "antagonist" name former campus employee has been arrested, and two months perform any strange antic. for sophomores, which lacks the unequal have passed. This year, the Hell Week Committee power connotation of "taskmistress." has actively concerned itself with the fate Other changes reflect being more careful We would like to introduce ourselves as the two new of the freshwomen, from laying out of what "protagonists" are asked to do editors-in-chief of this lovely rag, The College News. Already our guidelines to 'licensing" the sophomore and whether they are comfortable doing oprimism is flourishing under the sunny gazes of the many antagonists who attend informational them. meetings. The emphasis is that the Honor Julia recommends that everyone keep beautiful people who have returned to help us out. In addition Code still applies, upperclasswomen's a sense of humor. It's a good idea to we deeply appreciate the advent of new contributors to the goal is to show the frosh a good time, and participate in the activities: "Bedtime paper, and we hope that everyone in the school at least thinks nobody should feel trapped in some- stories are fun," she points out. "Have thing they don't want to do. fun and if you think that you don't want about writing something for us once in a while. After all, it's Soph rep Julia Alexander sees the to do something, talk to someone and your paper. But please remember, our deadline is Midnight on purpose of Hell Week is to let "everyone don't do it." Hall Advisors are excellent Friday. That's later than last semester, so get your articles in! We learn to relax and have fun and make people to go to, and Custom s people (who foolsof them selvesand blame it on some- won't be antagonizing frosh from their love them, but we have a production schedule. one else!" It's true. Hell Week comes at a own group) can help, too. We hope to be hosting a tea for our staff and anyone else really low point in the semester where With the enthusiasm and conscious- who is interested or hungry. Look for signs or an invitation in the days are short, it's really cold, and the ness that the campus seems to have year's novelty of coming to school has developed, this year's Hell Week seems your mailbox in the next few weeks. If you show up, we won't long worn off. Many of us sat around to be off to a good start. Good luck, think you're implying any kind of commitment. If you want to during Winter Break, enjoying novels, everyone and remember: there's always become involved, the beauty of our paper is that you can con- friends, TV, riding horses, even working Revenge Week! tribute as much or as little as you want to: writing, proofreading or layout. Our dedicated contributors have ranged widely to bring you the tales of their experiences and their well-considered opinions. Japan and Rome, Philadelphia and Bryn Mawr, the Krakow Ghetto and Chiapas, Mexico are all represented. For those of you who may have a touch of winter blues, never fear. Hell Week is here. So bond with your friendly sophomores and enjoy yourselves. And remember, Spring will Politics in the southern Mexican state come back someday. So enjoy this issue, and call us if you're interested in of Chiapas: rebellions and presidents writing for us. We always welcome your opinions and perspec- continued from page 1 This is one of the main reasons behind tives—the more diverse the better. tation of the North American Free Trade the the Zapatista's revolt. Fondly, Agreement. As a result, the Mexican Stock As Mexico prepares for the August Market fell significantly as uneasy do- presidential elections, the Chiapas issue Elizabeth X5725 and Stacy X7555 mestic and foreign investors worried that might prove useful for political change the political stability that has insured the in Mexico. Until now, Salinas had given country's economic viability would be the impression that Mexico was a coun- THE COLLEGE NEWS jeopardized. NAFTA opponents took try on the verge of First World develop- BRYN MAWR epl.I.EGE VOLUME XVI, NO. 1, FEBRUARY 3,1994 advantage of the situation to blame the ment. His success legitimized the party Clinton Administration for accepting a in power (the PRI) and was taking pres- Editors Stacy Curwood, C-549, X7555 Third World nation as a trading partner. sure off the candidate for the 1994 elec- Elizabeth Lyzenga, C-715, It is important to note, however, that tions to further reform the political and X5725 most developed countries the US deals electoral systems. with have similar if not worse internal With the scandal represented by Chia- News Editor Tamara Rozental problems that do not hinder the eco- pas reaching new heights, however, the nomic relationship. Great Britain, for PRI candidate will no longer be able to A & E Editors jenn hogan, Kathryn Kingsbury example, has had a long-lasting conflict preach Salinismo, that is to continue with the IRA; Canada has difficulties Salinas' policies, but will have to pro- Graphics Editor Monica Farrow with its Mohawk Indian minority and pose real solutions to the problems of the the US itself has recently had riots in Los marginalized South. By weakening the Photo Editors Kimberly Blessing, Sara Angeles and a massacre in Waco just in Garwooa official party that has been in power since the last few years. its creation in 1929, the Chiapas rebellion Editorial Board Laura Brower, Idil Cakim, Many US-based non-governmental might well lay a solid foundation for Rebecca Cohen, Brinda human rights organizations have also further political reforms. Ganguly, Bree Horwitz, vehemently condemned Mexico for One of the latest developments has Branwyn Lundberg, Krishna mistreating its Indian communities. Al- ben the naming of Manuel Camacho Solis Orchard-Hays, Laura Pedraza, though human rights violations may well as the official peace-maker and mediator Alissa Rossman have occurred in Chiapas as they do in between the rebel factions and the Gov- other war situations many Americans ernment. He has sought the support of seem to forget that their country has one the Church to begin negotiations with The deadline for the next issue of The College News is Friday, February of the worst humanitarian records in the the Zapatistas and has recognized their 11, 1994 at midnight. Letters and articles should be sent to our mailbox world vis a vis its indigenous population. existence as an insurgent force. He has (C-1716), or placed outside our Denbigh Office. All submissions should be Chiapas is one of the poorest states in also quickly replaced Luis Donaldo on mac or IBM disk (3.5"); disks will be returned via campus mail (we Mexico and although the government Colosio, the PRI candidate for next Presi- promise). We will accept articles and letters written by women and letters has poured millions into its social devel- written by men. All opinions expressed in articles or letters are those of the dent, in terms of political popularity. If author only, and are nrepresentative of those of the editorial board. Come opment programs, it has failed to ad- he succeeds in bringing about a negoti- to Thursday night meetings at 8pm in the Denbigh office above the dress the fundamental problem of land ated settlement with the Zapatista reb- language lab or call one of the editors if you are interested in contributing redistribution. After the 1910 revolution, els, he m ight well become the most popu- to the paper. Mexico had one of the most progressive lar man in Mexico and decide to run an STATEMENT OF PURPOSE: The College News is a feminist newsjournal which serves as a source of information and land reforms in Latin America, but still independent campaign to be the coun- self-expression for the Bryn Mawr community. Recognizing that left many Indians without arable land. try's next president. feminism is a collective process, we attempt to explore issues of interest to all women, both as members of this college and of the larger world community. Through this continuing dialogue, we seek to promote communication and understanding and to foster self-confidence and independence in expression. RJWfery 3,1994 The College News Page 3

I Anyone is I welcome at SGA I meetings. They I I are always I Sunday evenings I at 7p.m. in I Campus Center I I 105. I I Show up and see I I what these meet- I ings are all about! I Clinton was here! File Photo From our own SGA President: "State of the Self Government Association"

by Katy Davis Dining Service has expressed interest in why the two policies were separated last instituting. Among them are coffee/tea year, whether or not they should be joint, Small controversies aside, I would like service outside dining halls, so students and what changes, if any, would have to o remind everybody in SGA and the can "bring a mug"; greater flexibility in take place to accomplish that. Community that SGA did, in fact, ac- dining hall hours; the possibility of a Last Sunday, SGA met to begin dis- complish quite a bit last semester. As a "guest pass" to be used for meals; and a cussing other issues for this semester. sort of "Stateof the Association", I would possible voucher system at the Cafe for Many ideas were brought up touching President Clinton like to outline some of last semester's ac- missed lunches.Tfcis came as a direct result every area of the school. Issues ranged complishments, and fill you in on plans of SGA's working with Food Committee and from questions about P.E. requirements comes to BMC for this semester. Dining Services. We would also like to to looking into the "hidden costs" of Perhaps the accomplishments that go commend Dining Services on a brand attending Bryn Mawr. From establishing continued from page 1 least noticed are those that contribute to new Box Lunch program that is a lot better student relations with almost every not strong in the area ot politics. 1 under- the continuous functioning ot govern- tastier! administrative department on campus stood vaguely why the President was ment and activities at Bryn Mawr as we One of the more controversial moves to getting to know McBrides, Post-Bach's visiting, but I focused on the events sur- know them. of SGA last semester was our venture and grad students better. Look for a rounding the conference, rather than the The Appointments Committee, for into changing the Attendance Policy. complete list of the questions that arose, conference itself. I listened avidly to sto- instance, filled every position for which While the un-Constitutional decision was and a timeline of their handling to be ries of what the Secret Service was doing, they had applicants— which amounted repealed, the move excited community made available soon. SGA is also hoping how four helicopters were going to land to all but two! (Which they hope to fill in interest in SGA, and forced us to look at to somehow poll the Community on is- in the field hockey field, how the Presi- a sweeper round this semester) Look for some important questions in the rela- sues it deems most important in the dent would bring his own food in case a list of all the new appointees in this tionship between SGA, the Community coming months. what Wyndham cooked was somehow issue. Furthermore, this frees second and Plenary. SGA undeniably spent a lot But for the time being, remember SGA unsatisfactory, how all windows facing semester for the Committee to review of time talking about SGA issues, "meta- meets every Sunday night at 7 p.m. in a the center of campus were evaluated. each appointed position as to its effec- SGA", as they have come to be known. friendly, non-confrontational, welcom- Wow. So many people, so much equip- tiveness and the effectiveness of the While I know this was frustrating for ing, we-wanna-hear-what-you-want ment. I heard the helicopters practice- overall process. many, and perhaps at times it felt like no kinda way in Campus Center 110. Please land while I took my History final. I let The Fina nee Com mi ttee budgeted over real progress was being made, I remain don't be scared to come! Remember, myself be dazzled by the magnitude of $100,000 of our money to more than 50 unapologetic about having spent the ti me were a lot less intimidating than Con- the event. clubs and activities. Although this proc- to consider these issues. No government gress, and a hell of a lot better to look at! December 13.1 finally got through the ess often goes unnoticed by metal detector after shivering outside for those not involved, we would One final "pat-on-the- a while, though my wait was drastically all certainly know if the Issues ranged from questions about P.E. back" for SGA. Because of shorter than the wait for thoselined upin money weren't allocated to joint student and adminis- the PSB parking lot. I volunteered as an the many publications, reli- requirements to looking into the "hid- trative concerns about how usher in the morning session. Then— giousorganizations, E.S.P.N., den costs" of attending Bryn Mawr. information was dissemi- treat of treats— I reported to the back Traditions and clubs that pro- nated during the recent bout door of Thomas in order to join the walk- vide diversion and enrich- From establishing better student rela- of disruptive weather, watch ing party. We would, having shaken ment for everyone in the Bi- tions with almost every administrative for a "hot-line" for BMC hands with him, escort Clinton a short Co Community. Budgeting is students to get up-to-date distance up the path from the gym. Who currently in progress for this department on campus to getting to information about the status were "we?" I found myself among many semester. know McBrides, Post-Bachs and grad ofclasses,transportationand of my fellow women of color hereat Bryn Traditions ran smoothly the like when weather is Mawr, as well as many representatives again this year thanks to students better. sketchy. Many thanks to Gail of campus groups. When we filed out Nealia and Michelle, Class Finan, Dean Tidmarsh and through Thomas to get into position, Presidents, Sophomore Reps, and the can function without re-evaluating its others who recognized and responded other Ma wrters in the "fenced enclosure" many others who helped create success- effectiveness from time to time, and I to this concern. on the green cheered us, and I began to ful Parade and Lantern Nights. Thanks firmly believe that the time has come And our undyinggratitudeto the many smile. I smiled uncontrollably, in spite of guys! We look forward to a New and for SGA to make changes that create a Dining Services, Public Safety, Trans- my previous policy of aloofness. Improved Hell Weekand Great May Day! more inviting, trusting atmosphere for portation and Physical Plant administra- Here he was, coming to meet us on the Residence Council was able to re- all Association members. tors and, especially, Staff who braved the path. And as I looked into the President's evaluate room change hearings, and Furthermore, we must consider mak- rotten weather and even spent the night eyes, which seemed so sincere, I babbled make changes that helped create a more ing changes that will make SGA a more at Bryn Mawr in order to see that we something about voting for him. His effective process for all involved, while understandable, approachable and ef- were fed, protected, transported mouth moved (I can't remember what he Curriculum Committee was busy insti- fective body on campus. (weather-permitting), and cared for. Your said), he smiled, and moved on to the tuting the First Ever Student-run Classes. As we look ahead to this semester, we dedication has not gone unnoticed or next person. In fact, the first offering received over- can count on the newly formed Plenary unappreciated. Please remember to tha nk I called home and told everyone to whelming enrollment at pre-regi s tra tion. Committee to institute a resolution-sub- them individually. watch the news and sure enough, my Curriculum Committee was also busy mission process that will help avoid Here's to the work that's been done by father caught it. "There you were, pump- reviewing other areas of academic life at mistakes and duplications at Plenary. the Assembly and concerned commu- kin," he said, "striding out and grinning Bryn Mawr to ensure an up-dated cur- They have already established a proce- nity members in the past semester to from ear to ear." Aw, man, I thought, riculum that best meets our needs. dure and timeline for this year's Plenary. further self-government on our campus. how idiotic I must have looked. But that's Among other things, the Assembly So, look for a New and Improved Plenary Here's to the many accomplishments that okay. It was a special occasion. tackled the issue of the new Dining Serv- coming soon to a (Goodhart) Theater I haven't been able to recount now. And, He's not the perfect president. But he's ice Policy. Thanks to the dedication of near you! most importantly, here's to another chal- the president I've met. And I have tre- Beth Causey, who met with the Food Speaking of last year's Plenary, the lenging semester in SGA. With elections mendous respect for the job he does. So I Committee, I think we can look for a Alcohol Policy Reform Committee will coming soon, please consider getting am proud and grateful that Bryn Mawr possible softening of the infamous Book begin meeting this semester with Haver- involved. entertained him so royally for a morn- Bag Rule, as well as other changes that ford's JSAAPP. They will be looking at ing. Page* "TKeC6Beg«M»w* F#^q?g*>* Returning to Bryn Mawr is rough after Rome by Kristina Orchard-Hays children's park, and type up poetry for acted and discovered more than I would sequences and petty decisions. "What the American Academy poet in residence. have on an ordinary day of classes. Fur- should I do after this meeting? Where I have no time for time anymore. It I type, we talk, and he brings me nettle thermore, underlying every hour was a should I go after the campus center? presses against me like an insistent wall, tea in a green striped mug. sense of community and camaraderie. Whom should I speak to next?" I flit here demands sudden attention, then shat- The Sunday ends with a raucous con- Alone in the park or surrounded by nine and there, do this and that, but I lack the ters to fragments of glass at my touch. gregation at the neighborhood trattoria. dining companions, I never once felt concentration and peace that an eventful They rearrange themselves into neat The conversation flows as readily as the lonely. day brought me abroad. I'm losing myself patterns, these shards, into p.e. require- wine, and Dorinda the proprietess hur- So the greatest shock upon returning is in Microsoft windows and bookstore ments and class schedules and unex- ries up to tease the Americans and rec- not the food, or the English road signs, or runs, syllabi and bulletin board signs. pected appointments, into meetings and ommend her homemade ravioli, "thebest the wintry weather, but the sudden frag- My mind feels shaggy and unfocused. telephone calls and dining hall meals, from Sardinia." When we finally make mentation of time. Immediately I am And I realize that I have to cloak myself not to mention confirmation (of sense of the bill and collect the assorted confronted with all of these decisions in a thin layer of "Mawrter ideology" in registration). They warned me about this lire and it's time to leave, I'm relaxed, and choices and schedules. Everything order to feel accepted. My phrases have feeling. "You'll be shell shocked," they content. The day has been filled with from what classes to take to what color to be witty, feminist, at all times politi- said. "Disoriented, out of sync. You know, people and sights and food and books, notebook to buy at the bookshop. Pos- cally alert. In addition, my words must culture shock. It will take a while to go and not once have I looked at my watch sessions rear their cluttered head and hone themselves into "academia-speak" through the readjustment period." I just or contemplated a schedule. The events clamor for space and organization. After for anyone to pay attention. Over there I didn't expect to feel this way all the time, had simply flowed, one moment into living for a semester on one pair of jeans worried about being articulate. Over here in the restrictive, celled seconds of time another, which despite their disparity, and two pairs of shoes, I am suddenly I worry about being brilliant. that make up my days here. had unified the day. And how long it responsible for an entire wardrobe. My Which makes me question why? I So, when Rome comes to mind (as it was! In twelve hours I had seen, inter- thoughts became burdened with time see "Rome'on page 5 invariably does a million and one in- stances a day) it is not the monuments and people and winding streets that I think about, but about time. A six-hour A trip to the fish market time difference on the map, an unex- by Brinda Ganguly Japan for very many days, I climbed out tempted to make conversation in broken plainable time warp in my mind. I real- of bed and reached for my jeans. English. ized my first week in Italy that a single I groaned as I heard my mother flush We trooped outside, in the process The driver dropped us off near the day abroad equaled a week, or even two the toilet and turn on the light, a sign, waking the man at the front desk, bravely fishmarket, and once again we ventured at Bryn Mawr. When acquaintances ask according to my father (who has had confronting hypothermia with unfailing out into below freezing temperatures, how long I've been away, five months over twenty-two years of experience), courage. My mother had already decided while listening to how we were going to seems like such an inadequate reply. Two that she has freshly risen in the morning experience true Japanese lifestyle from years, I feel like saying, a collected life- and is ready for the rest of us to awake. I my mother. Apparently she had seen a time of endless, immeasurable days. rubbed my eyes and squinted, attempt- television program about how there is an What constitutes the difference? I ing to refamiliarize myself with the small auction, where they sell larger than remember a November Sunday in Rome hotel room of the Asia Center of Japan, human-sized fish; at the mention of PBS, that begins with a ramble through Villa Tokyo. "Why aren't you up yet? At your my father joined in also. Doria Pamphili, the morning air crisp age I would have had so much We hurried along the path, a little sur- and vibrant around the umbrella pines. enthusiasm..."And so began the morn- prised that there weren't more people Dog walkers and joggers pass unhur- ing chatter, as she busied herself with around, only to find that the fishmarket riedly by, punctuating the stillness with getting her hair combed and spectacles was closed. , : \ their gesticulations. After I walk for as ready for the morning's touring events. I refrained from saying "I told you so," long (or as short) as I please, I pass out of "Ma, you're up at your age... Besides, it's because I realized that not only was the (he side entrance and into the noise of the five o'clock..." This mumbling took a parental unit disappointed, but I was city neighborhood, dropping by my considerable amount of effort. "Are you also. I had come, not only in the hopes of favorite corner pasticceria for breakfast. coming or not? Remember, that this is seeing a fishmarket, but because I knew Outside again and I run into a group of one of the largest fish markets in the that this was something that only my friends on their way to a Greek tradi- world, and if we don't go now, we will upon taking a taxi to the fishmarket, and parents would ever think of doing. And tional church. In a fit of spontaneity I join never make it. You'll be missing out." my father and I were in little position to since they have always known what to them and a short while later find myself At this point she had fixed her sari, put argue. Fortunately for us (unfortunately see and do in a foreign country, annoy- in the midst of an intimate, multi-lingual on her socks, and even managed to help for the driver), there was a cab parked on ingly knowledgeable (while he may be congregation, filling the church with my father, who, as darling as he is, has the street outside our hotel, and Ma, by lacking in the fashion department, my ancient Greek cadences. After an hour of very little fashion sense, co-ordinate his knocking on the passenger window, father and Fodor's might as well be one), smells and bells and processions and outfit. Of course I knew she was right— continued her waking trend. I stood at a it hurt me to think that they could be singing, we're suddenly in the church she always is, so why should this occa- reasonable distance from the car, expect- wrong about the fishmarket being open. gift shop, accepting steaming cups of sion be any different?—but I wasn't too ing the driver to tell us to go back to bed "You were right, Brinda," has never espresso from a quick, frizzy haired sure how excited I was to experience because no tourist attractions were open sounded so awful, and at that moment, I woman commandeering two thermoses. Tokyo's fish market. Especially at five in this early, but he was surprisingly help- felt too old to be travelling with my par- "E troppoforteV she warns with a smile. A the morning. But bearing in slumber-in- ful. Not only did he readily offer to take ents. Too old, and very alone without silver tray of "blessed bread" circulates duced mind that we aren't going to be in us to our destination, but he even at- them. among the crowd, people chatter, we furtively wind our way to the box of cookies behind the postcard stand. There follows the Kodak moment by the infamous Bocca della Verita (we're in Santa Maria in Cosmedin after all) and we stand in line behind the shy Japanese children who refuse to stick their hands in the gaping stone mouth. A short wait for an inevitable orange AT AC bus and we're heading back to school, crushed among the Sunday crowd in the back. Confusion ensues when a man realizes his wallet has disappeared and there's a short altercation involving a suspicious looking passenger. Rapid accusations fly.

Five minutes and one bus stop later, all is well when the accuser remembers that he left the wallet on the kitchen table. The crowd relaxes with a communal sigh. "Just three days ago, I was pickpocketed on bus..." pipes up a voice from the front. "Dio Mio," sighs the squat Roman ma- tron next to me as she fans herself with a newspaper. "Let me tell you what hap- pened to me last week..."The bus erupts with a clamorous collection of pickpocket tales of horror, each one more elaborate than the next. I grin and attempt to fol- low the rapid words flying around my head. The afternoon unwinds with several hours of Latin, which I unscramble with the amiable help of a classmate. Then it's ." off to an apartment up the street, to sit next to picture windows overlooking a ftfcwMg&am; The College News P^el The new appointees: committees forf94 JYAIn i -'.M continued from p 4 Tasha Haynes C-148 Melanie Sonenborn C-l 428 The Student Finance Committee realize that a novel environment, the Chair. Rachel Jean-Baptiste (SGA Treas- Thaomi Nguyen C-1478 thrill of travel, the challenge of dealing KimSchultzC-807 Indedpendent Majors Rep. urer) C-1351 with a different culture contributed to Jenny Stein C-l 452 Esther Reed C-814 SejitaAutryC-19 my exhilaration abroad and made the Catherine Heather Hendren C-149 experience everything that JYA adver- Sexual Assault Committee Recycling Committee Head Saloni Hora C-1339 tises itself to be. In some sense, how- Nicole Joffe (previously appointed) C- JillKaderlyC-561 ThaoMi Nguyen C-1478 ever, isn't Bryn Mawr supposed to be Dina Sonenshein C-310 168 the same unique experience? And for Gina Long C-204 Tri-CpUege Committee all of its traditions and activities and Kasmera Santiago C-1556 Disability Concerns Rep. Suzanne Decavele C-1259 support groups and cliques, this cam- Lou Tagao C-1547 Amanda Newman C-1468 Megan Reynolds C-784 pus lacks the universal sense of com- Allison Van Dyke C-848 Sarah Tarlow C-690 Steering Committee Rep. munity that I found so easily there. I look around and I seea hordeof stressed The Student Alumnae Committee Eileen Lau C-679 College Council Rep. students dividing themselves into little Suzie Judge C-954 Briana Pobiner C-902 categories of "things to do, things to get Karen Raksis C-267 Seven Sisters Delegates accomplished." Nobody just lives. I Lou Tagao C-1547 Anne Bonfante C-514 Pluralism Advisory Board glimpse hints of community, small KatelynChoeC-1131 Alexis Boylan C-5547 things that seem to be on the right track. Catherine Herne C-l 329 Sheenu Jalla C-7600 Bi-Co Film Series Rep. Like the way everyone pulled together Carolyn Wei C-856 Ashley Walker C-621 Erin Josey€rl023 during this traumatic weather and Karen Patwa C-919 helped each other out. The diligence Minority Rep. To Admissions Food Committee Heads and faith fulness of the Dining Hall staff. Seema Dalai C-87 Ka vita Das C-552 Financial Aid Advisory Board The image of two women clutching Rakhi Datta C-90 Elizabeth Cho C-545 each other as they pick their way Womens' Center Coordinator^) Rachel Jean-Baptiste C-1351 through the maze of puddles. Ironi- Heather Ashcroft C-16 Academic Computing Committee Repre- Kathleen Jones C-l 354 cally, these disruptive storms have re- Heather Luden C-208 sentive Jessica Nussbaum C-244 turned to me some of the intensity of BeckaShapleyC-821 Shana Goodall C-604 Kirin Kalia C-5954 long, uninterrupted afternoons. Jessica Piombo C-l 497 Yet the sense of fragmentation lin- * An additional member TBA Racism Task Force Alternative Concert Series Rep. gers. And I'm still thinking about time. Holly Roberson C-1539 Tracy Weber C-613 It's unfair to target Bryn Mawr—I real- Alcohol Policy Review Board Dawn Dow C-560 ize that my frustration and confusion Tania Sloan C-1409 Hell Week Committee TBA stems from American culture in gen- Suli Kyung Yoon C-882 Grace ChoeC-69 eral. Somehow the shopping mall items, Angie Corcetti C-83 Lisa Krassner C-l 5 Black Cultural Center Coordinator the cars, the e-mail systems, the an- Chandra Wray C-421 Elizabeth KrugC-189 TBA swering machines have eaten away at Jen AbeloffC-1 Alicia LeBlanc C-680 our minutes and days, until whole Janelle Werner C-1033 Customs Committee Head months pass inablurof relentless, "time Big/Little Sister Head(s) Ruth Wielgosz C-1050 Heidi Van EsC-850 saving" activity. And all that remains is Rebecca Cohen C-548 a feeling of passivity, of sketchy learn- Customs Committee Melissa OrrC-770 Party Notification Form Committee ing. Which makes me wonder—when Jesusa Pia Francisco C-559 Barbie Popp C-779 Branwyn Cassidy C-57 is choice and convenience appropriate, Tanya Morin C-749 Suzanne Decavele C-1259 and when is it just clutter? Then my Jill Pike C-785 BMC Film Series Head(s) mind strays and I think about the sim- AudeSoichetC-1191 Deans' Advisory Board Lourdes-Marie Prophete C-1504 plicity of writing a paper on a bench on Melissa WilksCunningham C-l 267 Jennifer Wilks C-1057 Duygu Akyatan C-226 the Palatine, of riding the 75 across the Sharada Kalanidhi C-1020 *An additional member TBA Tiber, of always having time to talk to a Student Mediators Emily Mellot C-1439 newfound friend over cappuccino. And Duygu Akyatan C-226 Mary Mulholland C-636 I'm Rome sick. Dykes To Watch Out For

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by Jeanine Bryant portrayal of the graphic, random vio- lence and the utter inhumanity of the "Schindler's List" is not a film that can Nazis leaves you in a state of shock; Dates women make be classified as typical Spielberg fair. It is however, more horrifying than what you compiled by jenn hogan not an action packed special affects laden see, is the thoughts that these scenes Wednesday, February 2 Holocaust survivors who was raised in thriller that takes its audience on a roller provoke. At many points during the film HELL WEEK STARTS Germany. coaster ride of entertainment. Instead, I found that I was trying to calm myself 8 p.m. Thomas 110— French Film Se- "Schindler's List" takes a step back from with the thought" this is only a movie." ries Tuesday, February 8 the modern tricks of movie making and Unfortunately, in thiscase that's not true. 8p.m. Thomas Great Hall—Whitehall- End of Hell Week relies on the power of its story to spur It would be easier to watch "Schin- Linn Series presents Josephine you through a three hour epic about the dler's List" if you could soothe yourself Humphreys Wednesday, February 9 horrors of the holocaust. with the thought that its plot was the 8 p.m. Thomas 110— French Film Se- ries The film takes place in the Krakow fruit of a Hollywood writer's imagina- Thursday, February 3 8 p.m. Coodhart—Bryn Mawr Per- ghetto, a retention center and work camp, tion and not the ultimate expression of forming Arts Series presents Muna Thursday, February 10 in the heart of occupied Poland.The Jews peoples' ability to hate. Tseung Dance Projects. Tickets avail- !0 p.m.Thomas 110— Bi-College Film held in the ghetto were forced to endure This movie is not easy to watch. It able at the door Series continuous acts of violence and humili- shows a level of inhumanity that is very 10p.m. Thomas 110— Bi-College Film ation. The few who were able to escape difficult to conceptualize and a time in Series Friday, February 11 this fate were the Jewish workers in the history that many people would rather Philadelphia Orchestra presents 8and lOp.m.Thomas 110— Bryn Mawr German industrialist Oscar Schindler's forget. For this reason alone it is an Wolfgang Sawallisch, conductor Liszt, Film Series factory. Schindler, wanting to make important film to see for Jews and non- "Orpheus", Hindesmith, Symphonic 8 p.m.— Philadelphia Orchestra,see money off of the war, hires these Jews as Jews alike. Metamorphoses on themes of Carl Mar- Program for February 5 cheap labor. Later, as he sees the atroci- Hatred affects us all no matter what iavon Weber, and Franck, Symphony ties being committed against them, he our heritage. We must never be allowed in D minor Saturday, February 12 8 p.m. Lang Performing Arts Center, uses the money he has made through to forget this display of inhumanity that Friday, February 4 Swarthmore—Performance by San Jose factory profits to buy their freedom. ended in the murder of over six million 8 p.m. Philadelphia Orchestra.see Taiko, a 10 member Asian American Seeing this film is an assault on one's Jews and countless other minorities at program for February 3 company using Japanese taiko drums senses and feeling of well-being. The the hands of the Third Reich. 8 p.m. and 10 pm Thomas 110—Bryn with original music and choreography. Mawr Film Series 328-8533 Philadelphia Orchestra: Wolfgang Saturday, February 5 Sawallisch, conductor, Honegger, "Pa- 8 p.m. Philadelphia Orchestra and cific 231", Rachimaninoff, Piano Con- the Philadelphia Singers Chorale, certo #5, Beethoven, Symphony #2 Wolfgang Sawallisch, conductor, Wagner, Excerpts from "Tannhauser", Sunday, February 13 "Die Walkure" 3p.m.,Goodhart Music Room—Cham- ber Music Society at Bryn Mawr pres- Sunday, February 6 ents the Amado String Quartet 8 p.m. Thomas 110— International 8 p.m. Thomas 110— International Film Series Film Series

Monday, February 7 January 19-March 31- Women & Chil- 5:30p.m. Dorothy Vernon Room—"The dren First! Emergency Art for Behind Secular and Spiritual Journey of a Jew- Bars exhibit at the University City Arts ish Feminist Artist.": dinner conversa- Center, 3600 Market St, Philadelphia, tion with Lily Markiewicz., a child of open from 9-5, Monday to Friday Holocaust movie has strong effect on viewers by Elizabeth Lyzenga Auschwitz: the tall black flaming chim- that the Holocaust had not happened at that actors are successful in bringing out. ney of the crematorium. My mind has all; that it was just a story. And so what do I conclude from this? If I go ahead and write this review of mechanisms to help me go on with life The sense of this passed, but for an A temptation is to propose snobbishly the movie "Schindler's List" and say what after I have spent two or three hours afternoon it was interesting to watch my that it is too easy to get your sense of the I want to in it, I will inevitably be thought wrapped up in another world, and the own emotional response behaving so Holocaust from the local movie theater, by some to be taking the knee-jerk politi- result was that as I sat examining my strangely. I know that there are people and that people should read books and cally-correct Tm-Offended" all-purpose own mind, I found that at some point I who do believe that the Holocaust did talk to real people and maybe watch stuffed-shirt risk-free line of making had managed to convince myself emo- not really happen, but I have never been some nice PBS documentaries instead or myself seem important and thoughtful tionally, if not intellectually, that that one with any of those illusions;and intel- this event will never be real to them like by criticizing a popular work on a touchy chimney, like other images in other lectually, I was a ware that the Holocaust it should be. The fact is that though it will subject. I want to say that though the movies, was "just a story." After having was historical fact and not cinematogra- never be real to anyone who wasn't there, movie was incredibly well done and cried in a movie theater that morning phic fantasy. Still my emotions had sealed no matter how many movies we watch, it moving, it is problematic to make a Hol- more than I have about anything in a themselves off in response to having the is still important to discuss the Holo- lywood flick about the Nazi slaughter of long time, reacting bodily for the first situation presented in such a polished caust, to keep it fresh in people's minds Jews during World War II. If it were time to all my accumulated Holocaust fashion, in the setting of the Ritz theater so that it will not happen again. someone other than myself writing, I information that had previously only which habit tells me is a place in which to Therefore, instead I must conclude that might have the same reaction as described moved me to a dampness about the eyes, passively watch stories made up for en- if this moviedoes make people ta Ik about above. After all, it is never possible to do for a space of time that same afternoon I tertainment, to have nothing from reality this subject, and give more people an justice to a subject as important as the found myself believing for the first time communicated except for the emotions emotional sense of the natural 1994 par- Holocaust in three hours and so the criti- allel, the war in the former Yugoslavian cisms are waiting to be made as soon as countries, then that is good and the movie anyone ever tries. But it would be wrong justifies itself. It really is an amazing never to make attempts at conveying this movie. After all, we cannot all carry the kind of matter just because inevitably emotional weight of the sorrows of the you would fall short somewhere. world up front in our consciousness and Nevertheless, being a good Mawrtyr I live productively— it is natural and am going to give my perception of that healthy to block a portion of all such inevitable fault. I found that watching things out while retaining other parts this movie had a strange effect on me, intellectually, in order to be informed and I wondered if it had a similar one on and yet functional people. other people who saw it. I only have a small worry about audi- Any time that I see a movie that moves ences who might get confused. They may me particularly, there are images from it recognize the high proportion of fiction that return to me later when I have left that this presentation includes, and de- the theater. One image that seemed to velop a sense that the history behind it is slip into my mind repeatedly later that also unreal. I saw in myself that such a day was a snatch of the scene in reaction is possible. February 3,1994 The College News Page 7 T Noisy concert was a good way to escape from the BMC campus

by Jennifer Hogan (george f buckley) of Raise. When I journeyed out on this cold Swervedriver, which played at the Thea- Tuesday night, I couldn't tell if I was ter of Living Arts on South Street on more excited to see the band or to just get Tuesday, February 25, is not a strikingly off campus. The Theater of the Livings different-sounding band from many Arts, located on South Street, is a good others that are already out there. This place to see a show. It is small venue British group, which derives its name without any seats and even though I was from a fictional killer in England who standing towards the back of the theater, used to specialize in hit and run acci- I still had a good view of the concert. The dents, is heavily guitar and feedback only problem with the TLA is that ticket oriented. Their sound seems to be influ- prices tend to be more expensive. My enced by such feedback giants like Sonic Suxrvedriver ticket was $12.75, among Youth and The Jesus and Mary Chain. Their the cheapest for the TLA, while at the first album, Raise, was a good effort, Trocadero, a similar venue, tickets for although their followup album, similar bands usually range from $7-$l 2. Mescy lhead, seemed to lack the intensity It is also not as convenient to get to as other concert halls in Philadelphia; I had about a twenty minute walk to get there Courtroom drama has good intentions from Market East Station and there are no subway stops that get closer than by Jennifer Hogan undependability. Andy suspects the real movie takes place after Andy has been Broad and Locust Streets, about seven reason he is fired is because he has AIDS. declared to have AIDS and is dying. Pre- blocks away. AIDS is officially a crisis in America. A man now filled with a mission to sumably any tension or discomfort at his The opening band was called Medi- We know this because Hollywood has combat discrimination against AIDS first telling his parents that he was gay cine. I had never heard them before, but made a feature film starring such big victims, he files a lawsuit against his and HIV positive is ancient history. Simi- H other people had claimed that they names as Tom Hanks and Denzel Wash- former company. larly, Miguel's anger that Andy got AIDS sounded very good on their records. The ington about the AIDS crisis. Consider- AIDS is a disease with many stigmas from an anonymous sex encounter at a band featured heavy guitars and an ing that most movies made from major so Andy must go to many lawyers before gay porno theater (a fact that came out in androgynous looking singer (about half- studios in Hollywood areaimed towards he finds one willing to accept his case. He the court room) is also a thing of the past. way through the concert we decided it the male audience between 18 and 30, finally goes to Denzel Washington's The important thing to remember in this was a woman) whose weak voice could could it be that mainstream America character Joe Miller, a lawyer he had film is that it is not about a man and his barely be heard above the wailing noise. wants to see a movie where one of formerly argued against in court. Joe, struggle with AIDS, but a man and his This band which sounded like a very America's favorite comic actors, boy- who advertises on TV, does not want to struggle against AIDS-related discrimi- poor version of bandslikeLus/iand Curve, next-door types stars as a talented gay take the case at first, but after thinking it nation. In this light, the lack of character sounded tolerable at first with some young man dying of AIDS? development seems excus- upbeat songs. However, the last few Maybe, but we will have to check able if the movie gets its point songs of the set were unbearably slow, the financial success of "Phila- across. noisy, and monotonous. I am all for feed- delphia" to discern if America is Thecourtroom drama back in moderatio'an, but Medicine ready for such a film. in "Philadelphia" plays out seemed to think a constant wailing at the However, maybe I don't give Could it be that like a really interesting epi- end of every song they played was neces- mainstream America enough sode of "LA Law". There are sary for the deep meaning of the songs. credit. When I went to see "Phila- mainstream America fast-paced battles of wits be- At the end of their set, the lead singer delphia", the theater (located at tween Denzel Washington seemed so emotionally overcome, she 19th and Chestnut St. in the city wants to see a movie and Mary Steinbergen, the had to leave the stage. It was as one of the same name), was filled firms' lawyers. Both sides try observer put it, "musictognawyourarm with every sort of person I could where one of its favor- shocking techniques. The firm off to". think of. There were families, tries to prove Andy is a guilty After Medicine, no one seemed to be in middle aged married people, AIDS victim by exposing his the mood for more guitar bombast. That people who looked like they ite comic actors stars homosexuality and portray- is, no one except the members of Suxr- might be grandparents, college ing him as dishonest for not vedriver who pumped up many of their students, and young couples out as a talented gay telling them he had AIDS. songs with unnecessary guitar solos, for a night on the town wanting Some of the testimony of the taking away from their performance to see their city on screen and a young man dying of witnesses is a bit hard to fol- overall. I mean, if I want to hear guitar movie about a plague which low and the points of both at- dissertations, I'll put on a Jimi Hendrix scares most people by its deadly AIDS? torneys are unclear. The album and hear them done skillfully. and indestructible nature. There courtroom itself is very real However, in modern bands I hope to were white people as well as looking and some of the finer hear innovations that will take me be- people of color, people who were points from the choice of law- yond what's already come.be/pr?. straight as well as gay. yers for the firm (a woman Suxrvedriver played a good set, other- The opening sequence of Philadelphia over and confronting his own homopho- and an African American man to avoid wise. They opened with the song "Feels featured a panoramic tour of the city of bia and AIDS phobia, hebecomes Andy's discrimination charges right away) to so Real" off "Raise" and played for about brotherly love. Theaudiencecheered and lawyer. "Philadelphia" is a good, but the protestors on both sides outside the an hour. They played many songs off clapped and yelled out when people rec- not great movie as far as its cinematic courthouse to a guest appearance by their new album, but the better times ognized the places on film. The plot worth is evaluated. The story is good and Philadelphia mayor Ed Rendell all add were when they played songs from Raise unfolded at a very upbeat pace. Tom rousing. You feel that Andy is a warrior, to the reality of the film. However, direc- like "Sci-flyer," "Rave Down/'and "Son Hanks plays Andy Barret, the archetypal not a weak man. You hate the homopho- tor Jonathan Demie should have stayed of Mustang Ford," which were very young brilliant lawyer (not unlike Tom bic firm that fires him. You are upset at away from some superfluous artsy shots powerful at first until the band decided Cruise's character in "The Firm"). At the society for treating its sick in such an and melodramatic moments. He muses a to drag them out foran extra ten minutes. beginning of the film, his firm gives him appalling way. bit on the grand scheme of things by in- I was glad 1 went to the show, because a promotion for his excellent work on a Denzel Washington's character is not cluding the birth-death symbolism that I really needed to get of f campus (as good very important case. His superiors, all a saint. He is a heterosexual married man even while Andy dies of AIDS, Denzel a reason as any as far as I'm concerned), older white heterosexual men, tell him whose wife has just had a child. He is Washington's family is blessed with a but I left wondering if the money I paid that he is really going places in the firm. very homophobic at the beginning of the new baby girl. was a little too much. I would definitely However, we know from the scene be- film, and while he has changed some- But even though there are some un- recommend listening to Suxrvedriver's fore showing him waiting to talk to a what by the end, he is still not wearing a polished aspects of the film, I believe it is CDs instead of seeing them in concert, doctor about his T cells and platelets that pink triangle or marching in any gay a movie everyone should go and see. The Andy, our hero, has AIDS. In fact, he has rights parades. He is a hero that main- idea that someone like Tom Hanks might developed many of the symptoms of full stream America can relate to. Andy is not be gay and may ha ve AIDS is a shock that blown AIDS including visible maroon- an effeminate gay man, and the scenes people need because it really reinforces ish lesions on his skin. He has one of with his partner, Miguel, played by the the idea that anyone can get AIDS. It these visible lesions at the party where Spanish actor Antonio Banderas, range touches issues like people with AIDSare he is being promoted. One of his bosses from tame to frigid. For men that have still people and are friends and relatives asks what it is and he tells him he was hit been together over ten years, one would whom we still love. In the most physical with a racquet ball. think there would be more chemistry way, it depicts a healthy young man Because Andy has AIDS, he is often between them. There are not many scenes moving down the slope towards death. sick, and he is working at home on an between them, and during thecourt room Tom Hanks looks like he has AIDS and important copyright case on which the scenes, the camera focuses on Miguel, this is terrifying. Maybe someone who statute of limitations will run out on in a but their relationship is not important to actually sees what a person with AIDS matter of hours. He left an important the action. must go through, will be scared into part of the case at the office on his desk. Likewise, Andy's relationship with his AIDS preventative practices. AIDS It mysteriously disappears, making it family is excellent. They are so suppor- awareness needs to enter mainstream seem that Andy has misplaced it. The tive that you wonder if it isn't obscene America, and "Philadelphia" is definitely report is discovered in the nick of time, that such a supportive family would exist a way for mainstream America to be- but Andy is fired for irresponsibility and in any setting. However, the action in the come aware of this crisis. Pace«ej 8 The College News February 3/1994

Two Leonine babes are walking together, one in a plushly sensual relationship and penny loafers (no socks) is a good idea. You'll end up sick like a frosh on my hall who the other, celibate the majority of her days, has names for all her household has bronchitis. That would not be a fun way to celebrate the coming of another year appliances. The first often frets about the problems she encounters while having this older and wiser, and besides, you may not get sympathy when you do get sick if your passionate sex (fighting with kitchen knives and skewers, messing around with friends think you're an idiot. gender roles, etc.), and the other one nods and as she listens; she happily realizes that her self-worth is independent of whether someone else else croons saccharine Pisces Feb 19-Mar 19 nothings in her ear. The second just grins self-knowingly and pats her friend's hand; A friend of mine asked me to predict a godly two weeks for her, and while that is she knows better than to involve herself in a relationship only to please those around within my power (most everything is), nothing comes to mind. So here's what I'll do, her. But, come to think of it, the one having sex is a Virgo... the following Mad Libs-esque template for your life. Do as you will, and don't hold me responsible. Virgo (Aug 23-Sept 22) Hey Virgo lady, if you read the previous horoscope and think, "Sigh, Valentine's Day (Feminine name) was walking to Ardmore to check out the Limited's half price sale is coming up, and who is there for me?", RELAX, 'cuz the Lady Oracle promises that when she ran into (non-gender specific name), her friend of over three days, who you'll have some kind of romantic interlude by your death or age forty, whatever offered to (verb) (feminine name) until both had reached their mutual destination. comes first. If not, and I am NEVER wrong (predictions are what Tiggers and Oracles (Non-gender specific name) was the sort of platonic (noun) that (feminine name) do best), then I'll buy you dinner and seats to the Opera or Nirvana's reunion concert, loved to have around, for no one in (midwest state) could (verb) that way (non- your choice. Don't worry, a cozy night curled up with your glossy pics of Al Gore is gender specific name) could. It made (feminine name) weak to the (anatomical part), just as nice as anyone you might be dating. and made (feminine name) thank (deity's name) that (participle) had been invented. Happy? Libra (Sept 23-Oct 22) Depressed? No? You are THE woman! Yes? Listen to the Sex Pistols' acoustic version of "Anarchy in the U.K. fifty times over, and whatever you Aries Mar 20-Apr 19 do, don't listen to WDRE. Twenty minutes with Donna Donna or Malibu Sue will Rather than digress to the Capricorn goat discussion, I of fer you some ripe Marxist persuade you that there is nothing worth living for. The ethereal band headed by joy. If s true, here and there within the Communist Manifesto are pearls of humor Ice-T's self-titled single Body Count will also work to lift your spirits, which that make reserve reading worth the drudgery. An example: "Although private reminds me of Public Enemy... property appears to be the basis and cause of alienated labor, it is rather a consequence of the latter just as the gods are fundamentally not the cause but the Scorpio (Oct 23-Nov 21) product of confusions of human error." And there is artistiy contained within "the Misogyny on parade, eh? (In reference to Libra's horoscope, the Lady O. is very dangerous class, the social scum, that passively rotting mass thrown off the lowest stream-o' conciousness this week.) YOU don't need cheering up, you probably layers of old society..." Marx is simply irresistible. Just like you, Ms. Aries. delight in this kind of weather like only Scorpios and Leos from Massachusetts can. You just eat up splashing in the puddles and sliding down Rhoads' back stairs on Taurus Apr 21-May 21 your tush and streaking mud throughout that chic windblown hair. This weather One of my favorite signs for its passion and vigor, but the only Taurus that comes to reduces you to a precocious five year old, and just keep up that sense of humor for mind is my twelve year old sister, so this is custom tailored for her. If there are any Hell Week and, once again, Valentine's Day. Odds are you'll have to cheer up Tauruses reading this, just drop a note to the College News offices and the Mme. somebody; you do that so well, chiquita. Oracle will write a more appropriate horoscope. The boy of your dreams, the one with the 48 shaved into the back of his hair, the Sagittarius (Nov 22-Dec 20) one with twenty-five Champion sweatshirts and the maroon sweat socks, asked one Valentine's Day. Yucko. Why not create a montage for your hall? You took Art of his friends to ask your best friend's friend Stacie if you like him. JOY! So, ask your History frosh year, you know what a montage is and how the Zeitgeist and angst of friends Jennifer and Nandini to ask his friend's best friend to invite Champion-Boy times can be so succinctly expressed through pretty pictures. Just look at Barbara to a movie with twenty-two of your best friends and their dates at four o'clock this "Your Body is a Battleground" Kruger and that capitalist extrordinaire, Liz Clair- Friday afternoon, and he says YES. Life is sweet, until you overhear one of his friends borne's anti-domestic abuse billboards along the highways and byways of America. saying that you were a pretty girl. Feeling that Taurus blood resound within your You have been in a car lately, no? Do something equally as graphic and imposing, like eardrums, you walk straight up to him and denounce his patriarchal blather that a list of all the songs that represent l'esprit of Feb. 14 to you. Like Bauhaus' "Swing represents centuries of demeaning remarks. You don't take any garbage from them, to the Heartache" and Joy Division's "Love Will Tear Us Apart." Or, Def Lepard's for you're on the cusp of womb-anhood, and remarks like that just leave you dry. "Love Bites" if you listen to that sorta stuff. Maybe you'll get a NE A grant, you lucky dog. Gemini May 22-June 20 Beavisand Butt-head. Why? Why did the aforementioned twelve-year-old sister and Capricorn (Dec 20-Jan 19) I sit on my parents' bed and watch the damned show every weeknight? Why is it that What niche have goats fulfilled within the kingdom of Pop Culcha? The loser prize I can escape off campus and have dinner with my friends and still, the "Beavis and on "Let's Make a Deal"? Extras in Yentl? Who knows, but the term "loser" has Butt-head Experience" follows me there? How can they possibly be written by enjoyed a comeback. I'm listening to a song that sweetly intones, "I'm a loser, baby, Harvard alums? As long as there are no Wellesley College women on the writing so why don't you kill me?" It goes on to talk of nooses of guitar strings and termites staff, they'll continue to be held in by high regard because we all hate Wellesley, choking on the splinters on the singer's tongue. Then there's that Stone Temple Pilots' right? They dared reject the Lady Oracle when she was just an itty-bitty fortune teller song and all this cheery music reminds me of the Violent Femmes' early tunes, which in high school. By the way, Gemini, you'll have a decent week because nothing comes nicely sum up the Teen Angst and "loser" paradigms that we all wallowed in a few to mind when I think of those born in early June. Not satisfied? Just be thankful that years ago. Or maybe are still wallowing in. Lady Oracle sees all those non-waterproof I project apathy and not earthquakes for you. and non-insulated Doc Martens around and knows your pain. Cancer June 21-July 23 Aquarius (Jan 20-Feb 18) Another passionate sign, I do love them Cancers. I was almost a Cancer but I lingered It's your birthday, eh? Mazel tov, but I'm sorry, Lady Oracle does not think that in my mother for a month longer than most people do. So what's cookin' for you, merits going first on the lineup of horoscopes. Besides, you're somewhat forced to honey? I foresee demi-loaves in your future, and Eden shall replace the current relish the other advice and smile at the Lady's sometime brilliance. She's not SO Entropy that you and your peers might encounter about this time of year. Just roll smart, though, and often is an Oracle of Little Brain when it comes to bundling up in with the punches and follow the path which Fate has you assigned and put on a this balmy weather. Don't be like her and decide that cutting behind Rhoads to get sweater and stay away from meager months of just beans and rice. Eat, eat and be to Haffner more quickly wearing nothing on her feet but a pair of seventh-grade happy. Or have one of your friends cook for you and be even happier. Appointments Committee wants all of us to know who our reps are continued on page 8 comments and will be using survey re- continued from page 1 sults to create a database of information to fill those positions listed as TBA (to be regarding the various committees (and appointed). The positions that are TBA hopefully, eliminate unnecessary bureau- have been previously run but not filled cratic "red tape"). To anyone not on (or else there have been resignations). appointed committees, we welcome any We would also like to take this opportu- comments you may want to share as nity to thank all of you who applied for well. Thanks to everyone for your coop- committees; we found the pool of appli- eration. cants to be exceptional with each round. We hope that those of you who applied Fondly, enjoyed the process, as we tried to make it as stress-free as we could. The Appointments Committee For those of you on appointed com- Chair: Chizoma O. Ihekere '95 (SC A Vice- mittees (and this list is correct, to our President)C-1346 knowledge), the first ever Appointments Rebecca Cohen '96 C-548 survey willbecomin' at ya' real soon. We Juliet Cronin '95 C-134 are extremely eager to receive your Tracy Markusic '95 C-1419 Cherie Richey '95 C-1533