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Fiction Dept. Last call for happy releases new HAIR TRIGGER 11 hours? Local bar student I S T a I I ~ I I L S R I P I I T H I I. I G I owners speak out anthology By Joe Kristufek and Mahar said. • A few restaurateurs Karen A. Klemens made valid complaints, saying By Matthew Kissane patrons could go to neighboring No more quarter-beer nights? communities and still drink at Hair Trigger 11, the latest A legislation that, if approved, happy-hour prices. I think the law volume in the annual anthology of would eliminate happy hours in will be more effective if there is a Fiction Department sllldent writ­ Illinois, has angered some local­ ing, is published and will be the pub managers and bar attendants. ban in contiguous com­ focus of a reception this Friday "It would affect everybody's munities." night in the Ferguson Theater. business," John Lewis manager of Orland Park, which banned The published students, whose the South Loop Club on 1 E. happy hours last December, fol­ works originally were homework Balbo said. "Just look what has lowed other communities such as for their Fiction Writing I and II happened in Orland Park. Mount Prospect and Hanover and Prose Forms instructors, will Everybody's suffering. [Illinois] Park. read from the anthology preced­ expects us to collect taxes for "Since we began having happy ing a reception. them but they don't want to give hour about six months ago we Although this Hair Trigger will us anything in return," he said. have been a lot busier during not include poetry, a section for Senate Bill 0234 was intro­ those hours (4:30p.m. to 7 p.m.)," students with no.vels-in-progress duced by Senator William Mahar Bruce Jenkins, a full-time bar­ is included. The English Depan­ (R-Orland Park), along with Sen. tender at the Buckingham Pub, men~ release

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There are no problems here and students can't think Although members from the administration who of one gripe to wage against other students, clubs, will be attending will not be required to justify. programs, facilities, teachers or administration. explain or discuss pending solutions to problems, it Right? is very possible miscommunications and Wrong! misunderstandings may be cleared up. Anyone who needs proof of this simply needs to We strongly urge students and faculty to attend ride crowded elevators. Jam-packed c;levators,loun­ this open forum to discuss disappointments or dis­ ges and groups of people in hallways provide for a agreements. wealth of complaints about the school. After all, if you want a better school, to see We suggest all of the above mentioned, that is, changes or suggest different ways of doing things, everyone with a gripe, complaint or compliment, air you have to take an active part their grievances at an open forum Wednesday, May 17 at the Ferguson Theater. From 10 am. to noon, Remember the students who actively sought a students can discuss their viewpoints in calm student lounge, resulting in the Hokin Student Cen­ caucuses, or heated debates. Either way, no ter? Remember the students who actively sought to problems can be solved unless everyone lmows establish a student government? Maybe with more about them. student involvement, an abstract cause could have . And hey, once we alllmow the problems, why become reality. not kick around some solutions? The Student Organization Council, repre­ Active student life activities demand participa­ sentatives of all the clubs, has been having difficulty tion from students at large. 1f you can't complain to getting its members to attend regularly. 1f you ques­ the people who may be able to make changes, what's tion your club's involvement, go to this SOC spon­ the use of complaining at all?? sored forum and voice your opinion. · Letters to the Editor To the Editor: Recently, an explosion of or­ members attended the April 11 Students have classes and work at ganizations have formed, creating council meeting? That •s right, not 11 a.m. (which is when the the qeed for a Student Organiza­ one. I guess everyone was too presentation took place). Wrong tion Council. As Matthew Kis­ busy [working] on T-shirts and again. The society holds its meet­ Form letter misses mark sane reported on Aprill7, student pizza parties. Or perhaps, they ings on Wednesdays at noon representatives ba_ve consistently were all shopping for our impres­ (same time, same day). Why this Hearing the shuffled mail slide down the shaft followed by the metal failed to attend their meetings. sive letter stamper or designing assault on the society? Because click locking the correspondence safely away from tampering hands, This is truly amazing. Our ad­ our letterhead. it's needed. • . . awakened~e froiJl mY. $IUIJ!ber.'Il),e unlmown contents of the morning ministration forms the council to All. of Chicago's general Are you really a group of ac­ mail quickened niy heartnite and sent a warm flush through my body. ensure proper distribution of managers were here and will tive, eager to learn, networking After all, I refrained from sending my deferment notice or last month's funding for our clubs and we, the probably never return again. 1f it professionals? Then act like it. VISA payment. weren • t for Television At this stage, my creditors have hired creative writers to send out "active" club members, say "no Don't stand up Ed Morris and his remittance notices by appealing to my guilty conscience. "Give us a thanks... we don't need the Department's Chairman Ed truly remarkable guests. Show in­ break, Miss Tengesdal, our business will fall ap~ without your money." Morris' Creative Process class, terest in obtaining funding so we payment Please send us $10.59 to save us from bankruptcy." I imagine One such organization of stu­ they would have spoken to an can have our parties. ACT LIKE myself looking over my shoulder and seeing three men with sweaty dents, who have received the most empty room. Sounds hard to ADULTS! brows leaning over with their sorrowful eyes pleading for my money, praise, is the Television Arts believe when you consider the while I crouch on the floor, embarrassed, wearing my oversized Illini Society. The society has grown organization • s main. goals: basketball T -shirt. rapidly since its inception last professionalism, socialism and Juniorffelevlsion But today, peeking out between the Publisher's Clearinghouse and semester. It now has nearly 150 (here's the killer)·networkingl the gas bill was the Columbia College logo. Anytime the college members. How many of these But wait, I'm not being fair.. reaches me by mail, I owe money. However, months ofrumor material­ TotheEditor: ------­ ized as I unfolded the crumpled piece of paper that was enclosed in the envelope. As a member of the Columbia therefore, making it necessary to value. It may be very effective if As I scanned down the page waiting for a gross figure to pop up College student body, I find it use vulgarity to effectively com­ it is specifically targeted to per­ followed by, "You owe this amount," I was relieved to read the phrase: necessary to comment in regard to municate the modes of transmis­ sons or groups known to be "It is indeed a pleasure to commend you .... " After years of unrecog­ the boolclet recently mailed to sion of the HIV virus. It is my educationally disadvantaged as a nized academic excellence, the school fmally succumbed to the out- Columbia students in which safe view that a reputable institution of whole. This is not the case at a cries of its students and implemented a Dean's List. . and unsafe sexual practices are higher learning, which I believe college or university, and when an However, it was quite disheartening to wait years for an honor and delineated. that Columbia is, should make the administration embarks upon an receive such a lame scrap of paper. I was, "Dear Student," and the The language used in this book­ opposite assumption--that be­ AIDS education campaign using dean's signature was almost impossible to decipher since it was only let was vulgar. My concern is that cause a person is at the college this material, it insults the intel­ a photocopy of the original--print tends to disappear af~r hundreds are the administration, however well level, he or she is able to under­ ligence of many students. run off. "The College takes special pride in its Dean's List students," meaning, is assuming that a large stand proper terminology regard­ the notice went on to say, yet they only spent their pocket change to percentage of the students are un­ ing sexuality. honor these well-deserving students. familiar with proper anatomical Material that is written in this Samuel Ferraro It almost seems degrading that I will show prospective employers and physio-sexual terminology, fashion is not entirely without Sophomore/Journalism this unpersonalized sheet of paper with tom edges and a crooked To the Editor: ------computer label bearing my smeared name. For all my employers lmow, I could have planted the label myself. 1f the college takes pride in its I am greatly disturbed by the fore an important segment of the Columbia, we objectto the school Dean's List, then they should dig a little deeper in their budget for me reaction of students to the AIDS population to educate. Do they presenting the image displayed by to believe their sincere attempts. Awareness materials distributed imply that since these "male­ the card itself.'~ I guess crediting the college for even following through on their by the Dean of Student Services. oriented acts" (perhaps their more Dewey and Gottlieb seem to promise should be given, though. Inexperience can be blamed for their Their attempts to express moral "intellectually-oriented" label for imply that somehow, since actions, but even well-intentioned administrators should recognize the outrage and to censure that homosexual sex?) aren't Columbia's name is attached to proper procedure for notification. Most schools offer personalized material on the basis that it could heterosexual they should be the pamphlet, the school must be letters with hand-written signatures ensuring the student that their be made more "intellectually" ac­ moved from the AIDS materials? validating these sexual oractices. efforts were recognized by high level administrators. ceptable is frightening. Do they believe there is no The purpose of the "safe sex" Columbia College students continue to excell in their classroom The letter by Ms. Julia Dewey homosexual population at pamphlet is to inform those work as well as their individual concentrations, and mold Columbia's and Ms. Beth Gottlieb featured Columbia? people who are practicing the reputation as one that creates viable, competitive students. Their efforts several points that must be Dewey and Gottlieb were also listed acts that they may be provide the college with new recruits and added respectability. How­ responded to. Angered by the annoyed by the statement that dangerous-- not to offend or titil­ ever, these same students must fight for luxuries that should have been "safe sex" pamphlet, they wrote, Columbia neither condemns nor late. As offended as these stu­ theirs decades ago. " ... [the examples] were leaning condones any of the sexual be­ dents are, they should realize that· Judging from the quality of the notification, the college haphazardly threw a form letter together without carefully considering its content toward male-oriented acts that haviors represented in the AIDS more is at stake here than their to satisfy the students, and fell short. The college seems to act like we were irrelevant to women ... " Awareness materials. They bruised sense of propriety. Perhaps they are unaware that reply, "Yet Columbia's name is owe them a favor for their recent actions--it seems they owe us a favor Benjamin Scheie the vast majority of people with displayed on the card with their to do the honor and make the Dean's List something the students can Computer Graphics Instructor AIDS are homosexual, and there- compliments. As students of be proud of besides the administration. May 1 :,, 1 ~e~ Columbia Chron1cle Page 5 Frankly speaking: Mort Kaplan Mixed bag of talents essential to productive PR career By Kelly Fox VVhat is your advice to stu· most people their age. That helps dents seeking a career in public me because I need to know about Mort Kaplan built up a public relations? all kinds of target audiences. relations business of his own over Your integrity and credibility What's the most important a period of many years. His com­ are the most important things you thing you want your students to pany, Mort Kaplan & Associates, have going for you in the PR busi­ learn trom you? _ was one of the largest and most ness. Once you lose them, it is I want them to learn how to successful independent public pretty hard to earn your reputation make an idea work in order to help their client I want them to ad­ Students listen attentively aa Instructor Mort Kaplan pointe out the relations companies in Chicago, back. You cannot lie to the secreta for aucceea In obtaining a career In public relations. representing organizations such media. Don't ever lie to the vance toward the objectives that as Miller Beer, Motorola and Blue media. I would rather somebody their organization has set. I think in today's society. But I think ing and be either running around Cross/Blue Shield. say "I cannot tell you. I know the that if a student can think that way, most of it is acquired. with some jock you see on TV in In 1981, he sold his company answer, but I cannot tell you." and accomplish that, [he or she] Do you miss working at your the Miller commercials, or I could · and eventually lllmed to teaching. Also, the jobs are there, but I can be very successful public rela­ public relations company? be electing a United States With the "public relations ex­ don't want students to be misled. tions practitioner. Perseverance, I miss some of the action. But Senator. I miss some of that Bur -plosion" he wanted to devote his You still have got to pound the ideas, the ability to write, ap­ I don't miss the headaches and the if I had to do it all over again, I time to designing a "real" cur­ pavement You have got to net­ pearance, presentation skills, upset stom3chs that went with it I would not go back. I like what I'm riculum for Columbia College, work. You've got to get an inter­ relentlessness and creativity, are don't miss being in business. I doing here. I like t~Je challenge of rather than the occasional courses nship. You've got to ·get some all factors that can make a really miss the excitement. On any given building this program and I like that were being offered at the practical experience, and then successful public relations person day, I could wake up in the mom- teaching. time. He still does some consult­ you have got to really pound away ing, which he feels is important at it And I have found that the because it keeps him in touch with students who don't give up easily, the public relations field, but his somehow manage to fmd a spot full-time job is that of Director of for themselves . . Bob Marley's inspiration Public Relations Studies in the Are there any misconceptions Marketing Communications people have about public rela· still felt among the people Department tions? The most common misconcep­ What Is public relations? 'There ain't no room for the hopeless sinner tion is that publicity and public "Neon Lights, a Nobel Prize It's taking an organization and relations are the same thing. who would hurt all mankind just to save his own" asking them, 'What are your when a leader speaks that leader dies Publicity is a tool of public rela­ Curtis Mayf~eld you don't have to follow me goals? What are your objec­ tions, and public relations on the "People Get Ready" Only you can set you free" tives?' We take that and try to other hand is part of the whole 'There is one question I'd really love to ask-­ Living Colour relay it to specific publics. My marketing communications ' Is there room for the hopeless sin~U~r "Cult of Personality" who has hurt all mankind just to save his own?'" definition of PR is that it is the art process. In marketing com­ ofcommunicating a point of view Bob Marley munications there are three basic "OM Love/People Get Ready" to a particular audience, in order elements: public relations, adver­ once banned from the radio. If one wants his mes­ to persuade that audience toward tising and marketing. Each is a In an arena filled with middle-class white youths, sage to be heard, he puts it to reggae music and it will the point of view of a ·particular real career path of its own. a young man from an urban ghetto on a politically­ catch a fire. entity. How different Is public rela· tom island held a microphone and danced in a sway· Marley Qid to reggae what the Beatles did to rock 'n' roll. Invented as a fusion of African and island Do you have to 'be a good tions today trom 10 or 20 years ing motion while his band played a lilting beat. writer In order to succeed in ago? "Exee-dus," the man sang as the bass thumped to the rhythms put to rock instruments, it developed during •public relations? When I started in PR you had to last syllable. "Movement of the people. Sing it!" the generation in which Marley was cutting his teeth Yes, you have to be able to explain to everybody who was As the low drone of "Marley!" rose from the into the vicious music business. write. You don't have to be a about to hire you why they needed crowd, they shouted back the line. The song was Marley and the hard-hitting Wailers re-defined public relations. Then that Hemingway, but you have to performed moments after the Irishman on stage was the music, made it harder, more emotional and more know how to write. Therefore, changed. Then you had to explain applauded as he inttoduced the band's hit "Pride (In entrancing than any sound ever heard. Marley's one of the things we insist upon is why they should hire you and not the Name of Love)'' with the statement, "Sing this ghetto convictions were the seeds sown into the a number of writing courses. someone else. Now everybody for the Rev. Martin Luther King!" music that spread throughout the world. Marley was who is out there in the position to This was not an atypical U2 show. Bono, the ingenious in his ability to articulate his idealism with What do you teach in tne hire a public relations company is Public Relations Department? young ghetto-born islander, combined with another much more sophisticated. Part of A man of strong vision, The curriculum that I have tried the change has occurred as a result ghetto-born islander, Bob Marley, who died with his to adapt here is different from cur­ of the advent of large companies, vision yet fulfilled, was combined with another man Marley struggled for ricula around the country. The a more sophisticated consumer, who died before his vision was fulfilled--King. redemption through · difference between Columbia and Roben Nesta Marley, who earned the title Third and conflict in society. his strong religious and probably most other institutions What do you see in the future World Prophet through the powerful persuasion of around the country. is that I have for public relations? his style of reggae, died.at the age of 36 on May 11, political beliefs .. put courses in here that you won't The future will probably be a 1981, only five months following the conclusion of find at other institutions. They lot more of the same, but I think the "me" decade. Brain cancer claimed the man the hard edge of reggae, unlike the flowery, guitar­ are important for somebody who the technology of communica­ whose music left a new wave of pop musicians and chiming pop that asked us to go to San Francisco Wants to get a job in the field. For tions is changing and that may fans to mourn, and whose oratorical presence left a with flowers in our hair in quest for peace and instance, we have a course called provide even speedier informa­ nation aback. understanding. Marley was real. Public Relations Resources the tion. Economically, Marley turned the eyes of music A man of sttong vision, Marley struggled for Tools of the Trade. It teaches you How do you like teaching? scouts to the artists of not only Jamaica, but the Third redemption through his strong religious and political which reference books you can I like it very much. There is a World. beliefs, becoming the spokesman for a nation, a use, it teaches you how to deter­ great reward in seeing an idea that human race and a religion--Rastafarianism. mine whether your clippings have Politically, Marley was considered such a force you have take root in someone in Jamaica's ideologically-violent politics, he was But the· vision and the mystique Brother Bob been used, and it teaches you how else's mind, and have them to cost out a project I don't think the victim of an assassination attempt in 1976. brought to the world transcends religion, race or respond to you the way you might During a resulting self-exile, he returned to the politics. Marley taught us a lesson on how to vent any school in the country has a have responded in business. course like that island in 1978 to act as the peacemaker in the mur­ our anger with these songs (I Shot the Sheriff), into That's the best gratification. It's derous rivalry between the Jamaican Labour Party's human brotherhood (Zimbabwe): how to reflect on In public relations you are sell­ rewarding to see a student start Edward Seaga, and the People's National Party's suffering (Concrete Jungle) and spirituality (No ing all of the time, therefcre there thinking like a PR person rather Michael Manley, who were battling for the nation's Woman No Cry); how to reflect on fraternal suffer­ is a need for presentation skills. than just a student prime minister post ing (Buffalo Soldier) and speak out for human So there is a course called Public Do you ever learn anything The "One Love" concert in which the 5-foot­ rights (Get Up Stand Up). Relations Presentation Skills. trom your students? Sure. Ilearn what's going on in four-inch dreadlocked Marley brought the A very unique idiosyncrasy of Jamaica is that it What I have tried to do is design politicians on stage to raise each others' hands in is the size of Connecticut, yet it may be the world's courses around what I know is the world. I learn what interests unity, temporarily brought peace to the perpetually most concentrated melting pot. Marley, a Pan­ . going to take up your time when them, and I think what•interests tom island. African with lineage to Asia, Europe and the native you are out there in the field. them is probably what interests The Marley mystique is a phenomenon ex­ Americans, spoke for all races, even when he wrote plainable only through his medium--reggae music. "Exodus," as proven by the Irish-rock band U2. It is not too far-fetched to say that reggae is the If the oppressive establishment and Babylonian world's most seductive and entrancing music. disttess throughout the world is a big tree, Bot Jamaican musicologist Stephen Davis called it Marley truly was the small axe. His notch is still "dangerous outlaw music," feared so much by the getting deeper. upper-class establishment in its homeland, .it was Matthew Kissane Page 6 Columbia Chronicle May 15, 1989 "Lost Angels" talent turns sour

By Chris Langrill

Throughout the history of film making, there have been a number of brilliant successes that dealt with adolescents' troubles with their family lives and society. The new movie, "Lost Angels," ~ ~ · is not one of them. Where movies such as "Rebel Without a Cause" and "Ordinary D0N'T People" were able to handle the ~ subject matter with intelligence and drama, "Lost Angels" is a BUY ANY parody of itself. The problem is not that there weren't some very able and CAR ~ talented people working on the Dr. Charlea Loltla (Donald Sutherland) coun.. la young, angat-lllled film's production. teenager Tim Doolan (Adam Horowitz) In "Loat Angela." The film was directed by Hugh Hudson, who has directed some being taken to a private adoles­ not completely disturbed. He's very credible productions such as cent mental hospital by his actually a caring young man and "Chariots of Fire" and "Greys­ mother and her second husband. the people around him are to toke, The Legend of Tarzan." His mother did not tell him he blame for many of his problems. The actors cast in the film were would be staying in the facility Then the problems with the also talented. Donald Sutherland, and Tim responds accordingly. script really become apparent. As and newcomers Amy Locane and He flails his arms and throws Tim deals with people inside and Adam Horowitz (who is a mem­ chairs until someone comes after outside of the mental facility, we ber of the rap group, The Beastie him with a syringe. are introduced to one plastic char­ Boys), could have been a wonder­ When Tim awakens, he fmds acter after another. ful mix had they been given a himself tied to a bed in an isola­ Meet Tim's real father. He's a different script with which to tion cell. Looking down at Tim is tough, uncaring boob. Here's work. Dr. Charles Loftis (Sutherland).' Tim's mother again. She's a But they were not. So begins yet another predict­ dumb blonde who seems to care, Screenwriter Michael Weller able Hollywood relationship. The but she's the one who put him in has to take a vast majority of the doctor doesn't necessarily have the institution to begin with. Enter blame for the film's failures. his own life completely together­ Tim's chance for romance · "Lost Angels" opens with Tim -he has problems with alcohol and Doolan, played by Horowitz, a rocky family life. The patient is Continued on page 7 The Cure forgoes Top -40 image for musical·integrity By Mitch Hurst released "The Head On The "Pictures of You," is an espe­ Door," an album· full of upbeat, cially effective telling of the emo­ In a perfect world, every new catchy pop tunes. Most of The tional strain encountered when album released by The Cure Cure's pre 1985 recordings were seeing the face of a past lover. In would go triple platinum, and Jon stark explorations of twisted the song, Smith sings, "If only I'd Bon Jovi and his post-adolescent relationships and love gone ab­ thought of the right words/1 could band mates would still be playing solutely wrong. "The Head On have held onto your heart/if only to small, airheaded audiences in The Door" revealed a refreshing I'd thought of the right words/! suburban bars in North Jersey. side of the band and showed they wouldn't be breaking apart all my But, alas, this musical kingdom could master pop melodies with pictures of you." The emotion of in which we exist is far from per­ the best of them. Smith's retrospection here, fect, as evidenced by a quick Me" in 1987, The Cure began the coupled with the band's sparse glance at the Top 40. If there ever slow trek back to the darker side arrangement turns "Pictures of was a band that deserved to be of things, though not entirely. You" into an experience, rather huge, it is The Cure. "Disintegra­ Songs such as, "Why Can't I Be than a mere song. tion," the band's latest release, You," and "Hot, Hot, Hot" Though the songs on "Disin­ will probably just do more to rein­ showed that the band was still tegration" aren't exactly upbeat, force what may be the world's very much interested in a pure­ they are not all filled with lyrical largest cult audience, rather than pop sound, but some of the old doom and gloom. "Lovesong" shoot to the top of the charts. dirge began to creep back in the and "The Same Deep Water as But hey, that's OK, because at music-one could see Mr. Smith You" are simple songs about in­ WHEN: FOUR DAYS ONLYI least as close as the human eye and mates were gearing for a nocent l

Continued from page 6 ,..-~-'he_E_nd_is_In-szg,-.ht___,J : Express your last : (surprise!). Cheryl seems to be a stripped off all of her clothes and little quirky at first when we see has smeared her own feces over her drive a car into the family her body. Surely, we think to our­ : farewell... : swimming pool, but maybe she's selves, the makers of the film will t • to seniors embarking on new careers t the answer to Tun's problems. handle this character with thought t • to friends for the summer t She isn't (another surprise!). and sensitivity. But no, we see Then there's Tim's older brother her do it again and again as she t • to faculty and administration t Andy, someone Tim thinks he can streaks naked on and off the rely on. But, of course, he can't camera until the audience finally : Farewells should be no more: During the course of all this, the gets the impression that she has editing is extremely confusing. been inserted for comic, if not t than 40 words per entry. They t As the film jumps around from one scene to another, from one nervous, relief. END OF SEMESTER : can be brought to the Chronicle t flashback to another, one can just This goes beyond bad taste. It see the audience members turning is demeaning. I urge anyone who BOAT PARTIES t newsroom, room W802. The: to one another to try to figure out sees the movie to walk away from it after seeing her in her final t deadline is Friday, May 19, sot what is happerting. $f8~oN It all adds up to too many char­ scene. acters and not enough' character If there is a positive aspect to : hurry and tell that someone spe- t development We end up caring the movie, it is the soundtrack. t cial just how much you'll miss: about absolutely no one in the There are some very fine musical film. Whatwedidseeofthechar­ contributions by artists such as t them. . t acters was too stereotyped to care The Cure, Soundgarden, Soul · · about anyway. Asylum, The Pogues and Apollo : Words can be forgotten but at There is one character we al­ Smile. But the soundtrack can most start to care about We are not save the film. t printed message can last t introduced to her as a member of It may be worth purchasing on t the institution of which Tim is in, its own merit, but unfortunately, forever! . . t and she is obviously someone some of the profits will filter who is genuinely disturbed. 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It was the shot heard around theNBA (National Basketball Associa­ Granted, it's too early in the tion) last Sunday, as Michael Jordan double-pumped in a last second season to make such a bold shot, eliminating the Cleveland Cavaliers single handedly from post prediction. However, the players, tournament play. the fans and the management But what makes this shot·-"The Shot?" must like some things that come Well, if you were watching Title Game 4 at the Chicago Stadium, from a team predicted to finish in Jordan missed a last second shot off the back rim, as the Bulls fell to the lower half of their division, at defeat 108-105 at the Chicago Stadium. best So what happens after the game? The media call Jordan a choke, Mike Bielecki, acquired from and not a clutch player, but as we saw last Sunday, he silenced all critics with great poise while sinking the clutch 16-footer. the Pirates in March 1988 for It's just that people were starting to talk to me about my tee times, minor-leaguer Mike Curtis, threw and how I choked," Jordan said in a recent Sun-Times article. "I was his first major-league shutout and also so pumped up by the crowd here because they were trying to take carries a 2-1 record with a 1.26 me out of my game." earned run average. Bielecki has But as one would assume, nobody to date has ever done that to been impressive in replacing the Jordan yet, not even a crowd of20,000 hysterical fans could intimidate injured Mike Harkey, who is him. recovering from a sore shoulder. Jordan was well deserving of the game-winning shot, and all of the Damon Berryhill is back be­ praise and glory that goes along with it hind the plate, sending "You just saw one of the greatest clutch performances of all time," Northwestern graduate Joe Girar­ Chicago Bulls coach Doug Collins said in a recent Sun Times article. di back to the Cubs AAA Iowa "It was only justice that MichaeiJordan made that shot" I don't think farm club. Collins will get a lot of flack with that statement, do you? The biggest problem the Cubs For Bulls fans, Jordan's shot will be on the top of the list as one of have right now is the defensive the key plays of the season for the franchise. play in left field. Eighteen errors Sure people associate Jordan with his overwhelming slam-dunks, have been committed in 17 The Chicago Cuba will certainly mlu the offenalve power of Andre Dawaon, out 3-5 weeka following knee aurgery. and his miraculous hang-time shots, but Jordan is one of the most well games, by numerous players who rounded basketball players to ever play the game. Jordan's last year lead the league in scoring. He also was voted as have tried to fill the defensive To get more offensive help, the and reliever Williams has 10 the leagues Defensive Player of the Year. void. Cubs will have to look to more saves this year--equal to Bruce This year is no different, as Jordan led the league in scoring again, All-Star pitcher Greg Maddux young prospects rather than · Sutter's mark of 10 saves early in and also added another dimension to his already magnificent game, is having problems lasting in the veteran help from a possible trade the 1980 season. with making numerous assists and helping other teammates to score games he pitches. Currently he is or free agency. The Cubs are tied in for the besides himself. 14 with a 4.50 ERA. The team batting average league with 13 saves. This is im­ Jordan said after Title Game 5 in Cleveland that the song that got When will shortstop Shawon stands at .249 as of May 6. portant because it took the Cubs him motivated for the last game was Anita Baker's song "Given it the Dunston's offensive attack come Right fielder Andre Dawson 60 games last year to accomplish best that I got." As'long as Jordan and the Bulls give it the best they around? He is batting a dismal recently had a string of eight con­ this. got, fans should be satisfied with this teams performance this year. .145, but his defensive play is why secutive hits, the first by a Cub The opposing teams' batting Air Jordan is worth multi-millions of dollars, and management he is still in a Cub uniform. since Bobby Mercer did it in average against Cub relief pitch­ should go to Jordan with a blank check and let him fi ll in the amount. Home attendance is down this 1978. Dawson has five homeruns ing is .205. He is responsible for all of the sell-outs at the Stadium, and sell-outs year, with an average of 2,525 and has raised his batting average Another key element to the around the league. fans less per game this year, to .305. Cubs early season success is that Michael Jordan is to basketball as what Roy Hobbs is to baseball, through 14 home games in 1989. But the biggest blow of the the Cubs are stealing more bases "The best there ever was," or in J ordans' case, he is the best there ever The Cubs need more offensive was and will be. season came on May 7, when at this point from last year. power, to help complement their Dawson came down with a knee Jordan deserves all of the praise one should get, and no one should TheyareathomeMay 15-17vs starting-pitching rotation. Rick injury. He will be out of action for Atlanta. They then play in the cut him down if he can't always beat a team by himself. Just remem­ Sutcliffe is lucky to be at 4-2, ber, Jordan is only human ...or is that "superhuman." at least three to five weeks wiih Old Style Cross-Town Classic, because the Cubs' offense is ab­ arthroscopic knee surgery. where they'll face the White Sox sent when he takes the mound. The biggest plus so far is the for a charity game on May 18 at The team's earned-run average nine-player trade that brought Comiskey Park. After the "Clas­ SUMMER JOBS is 3.41, sixth in the National Mitch Williams and Paul Kilgus sic," the Cubs will travel to Cine League. to the Cubs. Kilgus is 3-2 so far, cinnati for a three-game series. COLLEGE STUDENTS .. . MAKE YOUR SUMMER VACATION NIU baseball optimistically awaits • REALLY PAY OFF THIS YEAR! As a Righi Temporary. you·n earn lop pay and a tuilioo bonus Develop new skills and contacts in !he field ol buSineSS Good jobs go fasl 1 Being the firs!IOa pply Will help you in getting a job thfs summer. Don't make lh1s mistake of woriQng lor a fast food or retail challenge of Division I competition chain. You can make more money working for Righllemporiues! • GENERAL OFFICE • TYPISTS By Andy Rabinowitz Sophmore Pitcher Pat Keane Conference playoffs, which • WORD PROCESSORS • CRT OPERATORS began on May 8. • RECEPTIONIST • SWITCHBOARD said, "We just haven't had the breaks." In the four years that l oop (27-3136 Wh.,lon 665·6636 Northeastern Illinois Hawryscko has coached the 0•1 Brook i 611-7010 Roselle 351-9690 University's baseball team faces The Golden Eagles began play­ Sth•umburg 39J-3655 Eagles, they've never made it past Weslthesler 30-i030 ing Division I schools on on their Ho~hbroo k 45i-1320 MI. Prospect 253·7330 an uphill struggle as it leaves the the second round of the playoffs. Hoperville 355-7878 CumeeiCrell America 662·4646 National Association of Intercol­ spring trip to Florida, where they Ford Ctly 5'1-2100 Hyde P11W of C 288-6944 Hawryscko also finds it dif­ legiate Athletics at the end of this played and lost to the likes of In­ ficult to recruit top-notch local diana University and the Univer­ year for National Collegiate Ath­ talent sity of TIIJ!lpa. Indiana presently letic Association Division I com­ "It's hard to convince a ldd to petition in 1991. The NAJA is rests in last place in the Big 10 stay around and play in cold, affiliated with smaller colleges, Conference. The University of whereas the NCAA Division I Tampa finished third in the nation weather," he said. The best Chicago area players play for Schools have much larger enroll­ on the NCAA Division II level schools in warmer climates, like ments. last year. Arizona or Florida. Despite a 17-32 won-lost From there the Eagles flew "That's where you develop the record this year, the players and back to their nest only to struggle potential and skill of every one," their coach, Jim Hawryscko, talk again in a series of clo~ gameS he said. "Youcan'tinagym. You optimistically about the future. against local competition, such as have to be outside.• "We're young," Hawryskco Carthage College and the Illinois For now Hawryscko and tho said. "We played a lot of good Institute of Technology. Golden Eagles will have to malco t competition and a lot of good WE'RE FIGHTING Fa? American Heart Even so, a horne victory over do with their limited resources as ft teams. We've been in every '!CXJR LIFE Olivet Nazarene on May 1 they attempt to soar to new Association V ballgame." enabled the team to make the heights. The players and their Chicagoland Collegiate Athletic coach think they're ready.