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I THE VILLAGE 273 W. 2nd STREET, CLAREMONT CALIFORNIA • 624-7214 or 624-5431 Utopia The Other Side Phone System Causes Editor J. Patrick Henry Havoc and Frustration
"Pitzer-is that one of those two-year schools?" No, it's a regular four Associate Editor dential Ufe, admitted to being left hat. And of course, the privacy of a year college. "Oh, it's one of those beauty colleges, right?" Well, not exact David Glickman out of this decision. seven-digit line is sorely missing. ly.. . Managing Editors In actuality, the drawbacks are al With three other people sharing Summer vacations seem to always inevitably demand these complex ex Jennifer Hoffman. Sara Shepperd most equally balanced with the ben your line, you have to be pretty care planations of our college system here in Claremont. As if pronunciation efits. Take a look for yourself... ful about what you say. And while weren't enough, verbalization of Pitzer's unique curriculum as well as its Production Manager The good things: Students now the party-line system is currently be Brett Speer relationship with the other Claremont Colleges can be down right difficult. have access to a new AT&T ACUS ing enjoyed by some students, many There is no easy description of Pitzer College. We are more than just a Advertising Manager Honor Prouty card, allowing them to make long Mike Corbin rooms (especially those in Mead four-year college. We at the Claremont Colleges easily fonn something Staff Writer distance phone calls from any cam Hall) still do not have telephone much greater than the sum of our parts. How fortunate we are to be a Photography Editor pus extension for a reduced student jacks and have been given no word working part in one of the most Unique institutions of higher education in Pauline Yao ''I'd really love to comment, . rate with monthly billing. Local calls as to when any Vlrill be installed. the country, if not the world. Art Editor but they haven't hooked up are free. Long-term goals include Personal seven-digit lines will sup What, you don't agree? It's understandable. Someti~es a little distance is Seth Winnick my phone yet," says Pitzer tdephones in every student room posedly be available sometime dur required to better understand what so many of us take for granted. There News Editor Sophomore Cynthia Shea. hooked up to a •party line" exten ing the first week in October on a are several ways to go about this. Some students take a semester or even a Kristin Kasper Shea's feelings on the new four sion shared by four students. first-come first-served basis. year "off." A lot of scholars-in-training spend a semester's overseas "study Sports Editor digit telephone extension system are The bad things: Answering ma Tessier has reportedly had a lot of ing abroad." David Stoiber typical of many students who sorely chines have been known to be less feedback but recognizes the mistake Those are both fine and dandy, but if you really want to appreciate what Review Editor miss the seven-digit private lines of Jenny Spitz than compatible with the new sys of surprising the students with the we've got around here, try spending one single semester at a big universi years past. tem. Busy signals seem to pop up at new system. "I think it would have ty- like the University of Southern California, for instance. This special Calendar Editor Because of "deregulation: a Melody Bolen the drop of a been more effective to involve more brand of academia we have around here might just take on a whole new break-up of the Bell telephone sys people across campus before the meaning. Fiction Contributor tem years and years ago, all of the Lisa Taplin change was implemented," Tessier Intimate classes and loose educational structure- you know, a little Claremont Colleges were forced reading this week, a five-pager later on in the month- these don't exist at Faculty Contributor said. to say goodbye to GTE and USC. Trojans don't understand the tenn "independent study." Do you en Ntongela Masilela As usual, Pitzer students bello to complaints and joy talking with your professor? Do you like it when they remember your Facultv Advisor were eager to express confusion among the name? At USC, you're lucky if you can even see your professor. Nosebleed AI Wachtel their opinions on the student body. seats in the back of the auditorium make your professor about as easy to matter. "I have so recognize as Bono when U2 plays the Coliseum. "I think it Writers many com- The class structure there involves homework every night. Classes go on sucks for the Bill Ramsey, Thomas Mills plaints about every day for everyone. Through a lengthy chain of professors, teaching as Katie Marble. Bill Foreman the phone people who sistants, lab directors and discussion leaders, you are practically led by the Alfie Alschuler. Hooor Prouty call long dis hand through all four years of what they call "rigorous" study. system," Eric Elliott. Travis Wright tance be Yeah, that's one way to go about it. Liz Knox said joel cause they We do things a little different out here at Pitzer. Photographers Hirsh, What makes it so great to be here? Pitzer gives us the ample opportunity Pitzer ju have to go Mark Evans. John McClellan. through to explore for ourselves the depths of our yearn to learn. Pitzer curriculum Joli Williams. Bill Ramsey nior. " Do can make you work for real, if you want to. If you're really interested in you have the switch Artists your particular field of study, there is no better place to be than Pitzer Col five free board and Christopher Michna. Freya Prowe. they get lege (that is, of course, if they offer your panicular field of study). You can Dawn Hoffman, Sean Condon hours to charged re get a better education here than anywhere else in the world if you're willing Laure Holloway bear my to work for it. That's the catch. Columnist beef?" gardless of Our professors can only point us in the right direction. If you want to get Seth Leibsohn T h e whether or not calls go the most from your classes, you're going to have to do the real work on The Other Side is a publication of the change-over your own. Sure, it's more difficult this way. It's much easier to memorize srudents of Pitzer College. The edi was decided by through: said IOJS reserve lhe right to edit all materi and regurgitate. But after the Cap & Gown Show, there isn't going to be a vague "com Pitzer freshman anyone to set your deadlines or assign your reading. In The Real World als submined to this publication. Emily Levin. Please address inquiries or Jeuers 10 mittee• during the (wherever that is!), it's going to be all up to you. We're so lucky, we get to The Other Side, c/o Pitzer College, summer, and stu "I would not practice for that time right now. And we don't even have to worry about Box 452. Claremont, CA, 91711. dents were notified by being fed or keeping a roof over our heads. The opill_. cxprascd D this -=~ do DDt mail in August. In a We're in Utopia. ...,._Arily rdlecs the apmioao ctthe edllllrial staff. memo earlier in the semester, e 1990 The Odta- s;.se_ AU Ri&hlS Raaved Michael Tessier, Dtrector of Resi-
4 The Other Side: April 19, 1990 The Other Side: October 2, 1990 5 ; Another Alcohol Policy: Ill Pitzer Tries, O nce Again, To Meet Government Demands z With a new alcohol policy every could be withheld if our drug and J. Patrick Henry year countered by an attitude of stu alcohol policies were not in compli Staff Writer dents toward drinking that rarely ance with existing state and local ROU D TABLE changes, many aren't expecting any laws. If you've got problems with this big differences from previous years. With threatened "sporadic ran latest installment in the on-going al Ling also doesn't see that much dom checks" of drug and alcohol cohol policy saga, you're not the on change because of what terms "lim practices around campus by the De ly one. Pitzer Dean of Students Jack ited human resources." partment of Education, Ling says, Tok Fok Ling anticipated the diffi It wasn't until 1965 that the U.S. "We want to show them that we're PI.ZZA culties as it was being written. Government starting seriously look serious. • He says that surprise "We didn't have input from the ing at college drug and alcohol poli checks on weekend nights weren't whole community," Ling said. "We cies. Back then, a recommendation completely out of the question. need more student input." was all that was given. But ever Another way of checking up on The current policy is termed an since President Bush passed legisla the practice of our policies would be "interim" drug and alcohol policy to send Department of Education WE DELIVER PIZZA tion in 1989 requiring schools, col since it is being used while a longer leges and universities to enforce agents to look up any and all infrac and more specific policy is designed. stringent drug and alcohol policies, tions. Only a few violations or insuf Although the stricter policies are it:S the law. Ul.st year, students were ficient discipline might be grounds mandated by the United States De advised through memorandum that for a re-evaluation of federal fund AND BEER! partment of Education, there are federal funding for Pitzer College ing. certain options open to decision by Ling thinks it's Pitzer. looking pretty good Ling calls it "flexi so far. This was the 625-2444 bility.· Although the first year that didn't guidelines are fairly 4lVE ME/ call for a "dry complex and typical week. • Ling also re ly wordy, it's up to ~~T • ports no serious in ;R;E ;;;_,;E;Y~ ~ Ir------, FREE DELIVERY! I Pitzer to come with f I- fractions of the poli educational pro cy as of yet. "It's I $4.00 OFF EXTRA I I 6-PACKS TO GO I grams to supplement quite possible to LARGE the rules and regula have panies with al BUDWIESER! I tions. Jack Ling un- cohol available but I $3.00 OFF LARGE I +tax&CVR derstands the impor without the may : $3.79 I tance in these pro hem.· I $2.00 OFF MEDIUM I grams-to him, Take heart-stu I $1..00 OFF SMALL I I IIVST II£ Z1 Y£Aa CIU)"""' Ul I teaching students W~AAl dents aren't the only I I I I about substance ~, ones forced to abide abuse is just as seri by the regulations. IIOIEDfAa£ATTH£INDIAIIHKL.~o...awArJTOft£. 1 III!DfDIAa£ AT 111£ INDIAJI HU. ~o ...awA r STOlt£. - rl I .., IMn' VAUI Ul~ l'l£UE. c.Rll VAUD 011 DnJVE1I'I' ous as closing down Ling reports that a 011£ ~ l'£lf "ZZA. l'lEASE. OI'FDI VAUI Olf- AltO c.uarr.« 6 The Other Side: October 2, 1990 Our Environment Our Environment What Is The Greenhouse Effect? What's Happening? The Greenhouse Effect, when function They expect the present level to double ing normally, is good.and keeps our planet by the year 2050. warm. Natural gases in the atmoshperhere *Computer models of the world's cli form a blanket which allows sunlight to mate from the National Center for At reach the earth's surface, but prevents heat mospheric Research suggest that ab from escaping. This gas blanket traps heat sence of a worldwide effort to reduce close to the surface and warms the at greenhouse gas emissions will cause a moshpere. temperature rise of three to nine de Burning fossil fuels like oil, coal, natural grees Fahrenheit by 2050. gas and the destruction of forests, releases immense qualities of greenhouse gases, the OTHER GREENHOUSE GASES most important of which is carbon diox *CHLOROFLURCARBONS: (CFCs) iode (C02). C02 is not a pollutant that Responsible for 15-20 percent of the Sarah Compton Randy Jones Alex Katz can be scrubbed, trapped or otherwise global warming and destroys the earth's Sophomore+ Freshman Junior ozone layer "Its hot in Maine now. I don't "It's the whole in our ozone layer "Caused by over fertilization which eliminated--it is a fundamental by-product know enough ... except that I know because of the stuff coming out of leads to excess plant growth which of the combustion process. However, it is *METHANE: 18 percent of the green that the weather patterns are really our factories. You know, like through photosynthesis gives orr a responsible for about 50% of the green house effect. Produced by cattle, rice fucked up. I mean it didn't used to stymfoam cups and shit like that. • lot of heat through respiration and fields, and by landfills be 90 degrees in Maine in the that causes global warming.• house effect. summer time. Now it is. • *OZONE: Comes from ground-based THE FACTS pollution caused by motor vehicles, *Scientists now estimate that there is 25 power plants and oil refineries. percent more C02 in our atmosphere then there was two centuries ago. Portions taken from "50 Simple Things You Can Do To Save The Earth., by The Earth Works Group. Bill Kramer Jennifer Londe James Holmes Freshman Senior Freshman "The warming of the earth by the "I think the greenhouse effect is • It's kinda like a chain d events destruction of the ozone by when all the junk that goes in the are happening and since everything styrofoam products and plastic air is just trapped there. We're so is linked together, that's just the things and terrible chemical stuIT. • stupid.• product of it. • 8 The Other Side: October 2, 1990 The Other Side: October 2, 1990 9 The Oth er Side Special Report Kristin Kasper: London, England any of us took a semester or two off during our of California, weighty junior year to explore, to have some and I often M time off, to find ourselves or to try out the real find it dis world. I think I went to London for all those reasons and heartening did a little bit of each. to have My experience lasted for six months and taught me Northern much. But one thing that really stuck with me was the California perception the British had of "The States." (That's what forgotten compiled by Kristin Kasper you learn to call the United States from abroad, as well as and or to refer to Europe as "The ContinenL ") thought of as Most British are somewhat familiar with the East one in the mmersion itJ a foriegtJ place. The plane Coast. After all, it's close enough that they can travel same as began its decent and the excitmetJt and there. But this leaves most British with images of New Southern York or Boston. Other British travel to Florida for "holi California. anxiety grew. The flight had been long, day" (that's vacation to us). Perhaps not the best places There are to portray "The States." many differ but allowed time for thinking. To But when it comes to the West Coast, most British ences be remember the things we had forgotten to know of California. Sunny California with its palm trees, tween the beaches and the glow of Hollywood. It's a picture which two Califomias and I often had to clarify these to my pack, or more importatuly it gave us time to thitJk sells, and sells big. The media and the advertisers plug British "mates" (friends). I even helped plan a trip for The California Ufe with images of Los Angeles. The one mate and made sure his itinerary covered both parts about the experience that lay ahead. British believe this portrayal and are interested in taking of California. I always made a special effort to insist that For many ofus Etzglish was about to become a second a holiday in The California which they have been sold. those who planned to holiday in California got the whole Thus, they fly directly to LA. (With a stop-over in New experience. language. And the everyday cotJveniences of home York. of course!) I wanted to get the whole experience in England and I I found this California!LA connection evident several think I did. My new friends and I began by traveling out might no longer exisit. Tom M atzJey kept discussitzg times throughout my stay in London. Often I would be side of London. My first weekend we traveled to Bath, Cultural Shock. What would we do in this type of asked where I was from. I would generalize and say, "The where we explored the oldest surviving Roman Baths. States. • Their response was, "I know that, but where?" I Other excursions took us to Stratford-upon-Avon, War situation? We wouldn't really know until we were guess I just couldn't get rid of my American look! I wichshire, through the Cotswolds, to Windsor and Eton there. would then specify California, and often before I could and from Eastboum to Brighton via the Southdowns finish my sentence, they would jump in and say, "Los coastal path. The first few weeks we tnade tzew friendsj people who Angeles?" My travels also took me to many districts outside the On another occasion I found myself filling out endless city of London: Wimbledon (where I lived for a month), wou,ld share experiences with us that no one else would paperwork for my work permiL Upon handing the forms Royal Botanical Gardens Kew and Greenwich (meridian to the woman behind the counter, she looked them over line longitude :z,ero.) be able to relate to. Perhaps we were homesick at first and asked where the state of San Francisco was. So I was But surely my England experience was completed by a or, on the other hand, we wanted to stay forever. quickly reminded of the unfamiliarity the British have commitment to and enjoyment of attending perfor about "The States," and about California. mances of the fine arts at least once a week. We pushed ourselves to try new things. Whether it Yet, I have to admit that I have thought to myself I am thankful to have had the chance to live and expe maybe San Francisco or at least Northern California rience life in England. And as the last exit passport was exotic food, naked excursions itz a Nepali village would make a nice state if severed. It's an ongoing de checker looked over my papers, he said, "You were here or precarious elephatJt rides itz the Africatz jutzgles, we bate with which people may be familiar. long enough to be one of us." It ended my stay by mak Now I enjoy attending college in Southern California, ing me feel both honored and sad. I smiled and said but I feel it's not a good representation of the entire state "Cheers!" as I walked on. 10 The Other Side: October 2, 1990 The Other Side: October 2, 1990 11 Sheryl Kurland: Siena, Italy David Hyde: Ecuador "El Coopertivo Tahuantinsuyo" walls are still standing strong, providing a breathtaking heer beauty dominates my train of thought as I drift view of both the city and the land. •During the Spanish conquest in back into my experience during the three months 1 the 1500's, Spanish merchants Siena is like something out of a fairy tale, a city filled spent in Siena, Italy. brought the •spanish loom' to take S with •Belle gente" beautiful people, Gelato and historical 1 recall the days of sitting in a £ield on a sun-drenched advantage of the abundant skilled artwork. The streets of cobblestone are narrow and con hilltop in the outskirts of that ancient city. The views of workers in textiles. stantly buzzing with people. •The Spanish loom was much the twisted roads were somewhat dominated by sharp At five o'clock, it's impossible to pass through the faster than the traditional backstrap ridges. The paths were lined by flowers which wound crowd for everyone of all ages is out strolling. My first re loom, the Otavalian Indians had per along the ridges of the clay hills, le2ding my thoughts sponse was "What is going on in these streets? Is some fected. A tapestry of the same size, down a dream-like trail until l felt as if I were in heaven. thing being given away?" Shortly thereafter, I learned it one and a half meters by two and a The rustic farmhouses with orange roofs and green shut half meters, would take a month by was just the Italian way of caring and sharing with one ters, the cypress trees and the isolated rows of sown the traditional backstrap loom in another. contrast to a day with the Spanish crops gave the flavor of the dominant agricultural history Cars are prohibited in the town center and when an loom. that remains strong in practice today. autobus turns the comer one must run for their life into •My cooperative is trying to main Each day 1 would walk or take one of the orange public a doorway to stand clear. A magnificent bell tower domi tain this tradition. It is becoming autobuses three miles in transition from the outskirts of nates over the Piaza del campo, the main square sur more and more tempting to adopt the countryside into the city. Siena was built on a hill, rounded by cafes covered by students and pigeons. the Spanish loom with which encompassed by walls which were originaiJy built to be Otavalians can earn much more Saturday afternoons are the days when teens and fortresses, by the Medici family in the 1400s. Those same money. adults alike put on their finest clothing and stroll, creat- "In the tourist market on Saturday ,.------,ing the true appearance of fashion show. Ac in Otavalo, where all the local Indi companying this external beauty of the Italians ans sell their textile goods, it has be is their internal warm-heartedness. An apprcr •Esta Don Miguel Andrango: I e slowed to a stop in front come increasingly more pro£itable to priate name for the Italians would be the .. p\eac; said meagerly. The child disap weave more and thus profit more of the Catholic church ing people," filled with a charm and energy that W Guapulo on the main peared around the back of the house with the Spanish loom, even though plaza of Otaualo. I got out of my to reappear moments later with an the quality is of no comparison to doesn't quiL seat of the •bus pan-americana nu older gentlemen dressed in baggy, the back loom's tight fine weave. As well as living in Siena, I was fortunate mero 39,- stretching my cramped starched, white, pants, a white wool •In addition, we are trying to enough to spend time in other Italian cities like legs after the two-hour ride north pullover, a navy poncho, a brown hat main tain traditional vegetable- and Rome, Venezia, ReggiO Emilia Milano, the Is from Quito. We filed out of the bus. and white sandals. •si, buenos dias; fruit-dyeing techniques. We still use land of Elba and Montorosso. Although the cul Gordon and I threw our day packs Don Miguel said, greeting us. vegetables and fruits for our dyes, tures vary from region to region, the warmth of •suenos dias, somos estudiantes de such as walnuts for browns, zunshi over our shoulders and headed down the people remain constant. At times, I was m la Universidad Catholica de Quito... • for violet, blackberries and ripe cac the block towards the edge of town. dismay with how kind the Italian people could We meandered our way south-east of "We are taking a class in Religious tus fruit (and the worm inside) for town through the countryside, cross anthropology and are doing a re deep reds. be. ing one hill after the next, finally ar search paper on the rituals and sym "It is a very trying time for our ccr After my program, I travelled for two months riving in a high valley laden with bols of backstrap weaving. Could we operative to see if we can remain ccr to 22 various cities throughout Europe includ cornfields. interview you on your cooperative hesive with a common goal of back ing the Eastern Bloc of Hungary, Czechoslo We walked down a dirt path, arriv •Tahuantinsuyo?• I asked. strap weaving: described Don villa and Poland. My travelling companion and ing at a whitewashed cement block We walked upstairs to a large Miguel. childhood friend from home (who attends room with an assortment of textiles: Gordon and I sat back, buried in house-a white spot against a natural Smith College) had just completed a year countryside dotted with only earth tapestries, sweaters, comforter, and our chairs, scribbling away trying to abroad in Paris. We concluded our travels with thatch roof huts. Three dogs dashed woven hats. Don Miguel gathered get it all on paper. I felt like an an out to meet us, barking furiously. A three wooden chairs and we sat in a thropologist finally writing the oral family friends of mine in Milano, having agreed child followed shortly subduing the triangle. We began asking questions history of these Indians traditions on that Italy was our favorite country. dogs. of his cooperative and his work on paper. Uving in Ecuador was a daily It felt better than home--a land of pure delica- the backstrap loom. experience in cultural awakening. 1 i The Other Side: October 2, 1990 Brooke Sterling: Nepal Chris Davis: Belgium e are trekking to Simigoan, last three months) ex-lovers, are chest and with clamped teeth she's ''Over there is the entrance to the a Sherpa village five days feuding. sputtered anything that gets near her tunnels where the soldiers hid. W walk from Kathmandu. We The man, also livid, repeatedly runs lips. Her mouth is finally pried open They controUed the machine guns have been walking for three days, to the river intending to drown and a liquid concoction prepared by on top of those two buildings by a remote conversing along the trail or walking himself but is intercepted by one of one of her family members is shoved control panel in this box. Before the in silence. It is six o'clock in the our program directors. The director is down her throat. After a few minutes, revolution, Ceaucesceu forced all the evening and after arriving at our wearing a shawl and plastic sandals she vomits up everything in her citizens into this square for rallies. We had campsite by a river, mysdf and the and is slipping all over the place as stomach. We begin to think she's to come and cheer. We had no choice. • three other women on the program she struggles to prevent this crazed alright because we can smell the So spoke the aging but sprite woman are resting and eating snacks inside man-who cannot swim--from pungent rat poison but continue to who had taken me into her home in one of the tents. plunging into the current. She drags monitor her as she heaves. Bucharest and spent four days giving me As we drone on about survival him back from the water but is now Finally, she's placed by the fire and an oral history of Romania's past six techniques of living in the wilderness bordering on hysteria herself. She sleeps. months. She translated through her 20- without the toys of •civilization," we loosens her grip on his wrist and year-old son, now a veteran of the are silenced by intensive, hoarse begins to sob. He too begins to sob, It was fascinating to watch the revolution. screaming. The screams stop, we throws his arms around her and begs dynamics of different cultures trying to While the rest of Eastern Europe's continue, but then the yelling begins. for forgiveness. save somcont:'s life. The Westerners communist governments fell almost We scramble out of the tent while the In N~. all onotions arc not freely insisted that a substance must go into bloodlessly, like marionettes cut £rom their voice's volume escalates to horrible expressed, especially anger, frustration her stomach to neutralize the effects of Soviet strings, the remnants of Romania's shrieking. It is a woman and she can and general discontent. When people the poison while the Nepalis thought violent December Revolution surround the t======--=-=--==--:---:----===-...;,_;_-=:---' no longer yell because her voice is finally crumble under the wt:ight of she needed to vomit the poison out. rare tourist. Buildings bear the scars of urban warfare: positions of hundreds of high-level communists. They raw; the air literally scrapes against thrir stuffed feelings, tht: outburst can Strangely, an attempted sutcide burned out shells and walls crumbling £rom the impact halt traffic and refuse to leave until the present regime her vocal cords as she attempts to ~volatile and usually tht: person who served to break cultural barriers. of tank fire. Numerous remaining windows are agrees to certain absolute demands which they deem express her rage. loses it feels a great deal of shame Throughout the program we (the circumscribed by bullet holes, signifying that they had necessary before a serious dialogue can take place. Two members of our kitchen staff following the explosion. This was the students) atlt:mplt:d to 'incorporate sheltered a sniper during the three days it took for the Led by students and intellectuals, the demonstrators (Nepalis with whom we've spent the case wilh tht: N~s. Nepah culture into our hves and avoid Romanian military to turn their guns from the people to come from all levels o f society. They are doctors, The episode calms and we sit down ethnoccntnsm. However, because the state buildings. teachers, parents and factory workers, but above all they to dinner, reflecting on the high Nepali style ts a radical change from The military is ever-present. On each corner sit tanks are impassioned and determined idealists. They share the emotionality of the whole situation. the United States, adopting the Nepali pointing down Bucharest's long, wide Parisian-style label of Golani given to them by Ion Illiescu, interim Within the hour, our other program style 'is eaner said than dont:. streets. Soldiers tailored in purple, wool uniforms President of this country, in an effort to portray them as director discovers the screaming Emottons are covertly dealt with and surround all official thieves and bullies. woman has drank an entire bottle of often one is unclear toward the intent of But ra ther than shrink buildings. Their sun- from the slanderous rat poison that may or may not have an interaction or remark. This, of tanned faces are evidence mixed with petroleum, nobody's sure. ropaganda of the course, takes place in the Umtcd States of long hours spent gazing • fi b. P Everyone runs to the woman who's as well but stems to bt: mort: acute m solemnly at the foot of "TbeJr aces express a •tter government, they accept the sort of braying and swaying from side Nepal Witrussing and partidpaling in traffic passing by. ..1-term•nation that the liberties term with pride. Children to side as one of the students hurries an episode where tht: feelings of two The oppressive unease ""' " h d · wear •c" buttons and to make the powdered milk which we Nepalis were blatant was, in a sense, which one feels in the achiwed after the bloods e s.n adults show off hats and brought with us. Panic is rampant refreshing. presence of such a display December not be lost to those who would homemade identity cards and people are discussing what to do 1 was reminded that although of security is unnerving. bearing Golani in bold in three different languages: Nepali, Americans and Nepans follow different Why all the strength? replace an old totalitarian systetn with letters, ironically mocking Sherpa and English. diets, religions, cultural norms and ·s the threat if the • h » the politics swirling around What l a new one ws.t a new fiace. th The woman is lying on her back on communication styles, members of both despised and feared em. this teeny trail that 10 people are societies experience similar feelings. In Ceaucescu entourage has Speaking English balanced upon. Four or five of us are thJS case, the emotions being dealt with been overthrown? immediately attracts various trying to pry her teeth apart with were overwhelmtng and the woman's The answer is that demonstrators with enough fingers, a spoon, a stick and a rolling chotec was an attempt to eliminate 10,000 to 15,000 people fill university Square singing, understanding of the language to discuss the important pin, attempting to force a milk and them, a common option in our society chanting, arguing and making speeches. They accuse the issues. They are eager to express themselves, especially to coal mixture down her throat. Milk is as well government of stealing their revolution by protecting the spilling all over her face, throat and See DAVIS, page 17 14 The Other Side: October 2, 1990 The Other Side: October 2, 1990 15 Alexander Sprague: Australia Alexander Sprague: Australia Chris Davis ven though I have been back in the United States thought about getting a tattoo in the recent past. Now, continued from page 16 continued from page 15 for a few months, I have a hard time believing that the next decision I made may not have been the most ra After about an hour and a half it was finally my tum. Americans who represent a society almost mystical in their my six months in Australia are over. 1 am still tional on I have ever made, but I do not regret it. E In that 90 minutes I had the time to carefully think over eyes. Debate takes place on every street comer in a country amazed that I was on the other side of the world. I decided that I was going to get a tattoo before the what it was that I was doirlg. I also had made sure that where ideology, opinion and belief have been dictated When I was asked to write about my experiences in evening was up. the whole procedure was sterile and safe. entirely by the state. Political consciousness and varying Australia, I had a problem deciding what to write about, As we consumed the rest of our beverage, I got my At first I wanted the tattoo on my left pelvis bone area opinions leak from even the smallest groups sitting in cafes for so many different things happened while 1 was in the friend convinced to get one too. We left the bar and he- but that would have been double the price and I didn't or waiting for trams. They pour out their ideas in long land Down Under. At first 1 write about gan to head down Elizabeth Street toward a tattoo studio feel it was worth it. So I decided to put the tattoo on my passionate dissertations, all the while leanirlg closer and feeding kangaroos ==,my friend said he had left upper irlner bicep. closer to the listener's face and emphatically touchirlg his petting koalas. Bu a week earlier. After I sat down in the chair-which was really a barbers arm or shoulder to highlight certain points. then I decided tha t a half-hour of less chair-and told the tattoo artist what it was that I want Here, where history has been re-written as the saga of these were the thi accurate navigation, ed. She explained that a Yin Yang by itself was very hard, one man's rise to power. demonstrators quote Thomas that everybody tal ended up in front of Jefferson and John Locke and claim an understanding of about. Illustrated Man tal- due to the fact that it required a perfect circle, and if it was not perfectly round it would look stupid. I insisted the foundations of a democratic system never practiced irJ l decided I wan studio. on my design. In the end we settled on a desigr~ that had their homeland. Theirs is a passion one imagines might to share with e As we entered, I was what appears to be squiggly lines but are in fact the mists have existed on the streets of Paris in 1789. one how I got my surprised at how brightly of time. She used a five cent piece to draw the circle, af Their faces express a bitter determination that the too. lit and clean this estab- ter which she began the actual tattooirlg. liberties achieved after the bloodshed in December not be lt all happened lishment was. We all It did not hurt as much as I would have thought, it felt lost to those who would replace an old totalitarian system the night of May 25 think of tattoo studios like a concerJtrated sunburn. The whole procedure took with a new one with a new face. They are the last hope for 1990. As is the case · being down some dark about 20 minutes. It's really neat how the whole thing a true democr2tic government in Romania. If they fail, the so many of these in alley. The Illustrated Man works. There's a needle that vibrates up and down very opportunity for a new way of life will fade until the next dences, it started was nothing like this. quickly, pushing the ink under the epidermis irlto the time the human condition 1s so deprived as to see no quite innocently. Once inside we found dermis. Thus, you have a tattoo. thre2t in sacrificing lives and families for the sake of a went into Sydn that all the walls were That night I had all kinds of weird dreams, like the tat better life. with a group of Am with a plethora too grew and covered my whole arm and moved to me ican and Australian possible permanent it- chest. Obviously this whole experience had some psy I wrott: this in t:arly junt:, soon aftu rt:tllrning from frvt: friends for dinner. ustrations. We must chological effect on me. wuks in Eastt:m Europe. We had chosen ve spent 20 minutes The next morning when I woke up the first of two I had rmxt:d ft:dings aboltl tht:St: peoplt: in tht: squart:. Ont: quaint little Italian king at the many dif- thoughts I had were that this was forever. This single wuk aftt:r I l~:ft, •fru· dutions took piau. Whilt: their restaurant on Sydn t possibilities. thought alone was very sobering. I had just done the faimt:SS is a maltt:r of ckbatt:, nlit:Scu won and I qucstiont:d harbor. It was real 1, however, had already most permanent act of my 22 years. Second, I thought, tht: crt:dibility of tht: disst:nt I t:ncountut:d in tht: squart:. very quite neat, b ldecicled back at the bar •My Dad is going to kill me!" Needless to say I had not Pt:rhaps dmtocracy was on its way and human rights would cause we could see I was going to get. 1 fully considered the reaction of my parents the night be buomt: a tmd of tht: nt:W Romanian govt:rnmt:nt dcspitt: tk the ferries comi always wanted a Yin fore. All kinds of wild thoughts raced through my mind, warnings of thost: prott:Sting in tht: squart:. and going, and th the Korean sign for like will they kick me out of the house, or disinherit me? Only days aftu I wrott: this, hundrt:ds of minus from Opera house all lit opposing life forces. Well, none of this happened. I cannot say fully what Romania's rural provinct:S descatdt:d upon Buchart:St a1 tht: Having enjoyed We then began to their opinion on my tattoo is, but it seems to be calm ac rt:qut:st of tht: govt:rnmmt to •restort: order to tht: city. • In delicious dinner, we:L------=--====------~7~~~~~~~~!!!!JSland in line. The other ceptance. thru days of anarchical chaos, most of Romania's opposition all decided to adjourn to a local establishment that people in line were not what 1 expected. I had expected This may not have been the best part of my time in publishing hollst:s wut: dt:stroyt:d, journalists bt:att:n and served fine Australian fermented beverages. We began to to see motorcyclists, punkers and other •counter-cui Australia to tell you about, but it is by far one of the hll.ndral.s of demonstrators imprisont:d and tortllrt:d. walk around downtown Sydney and decided to go into lure'" folks. Instead, I found young adults similar to me most interesting. I do not regret what I did, and I en My raiSOn then for writing on this aperimu is to rt:mind Henry IX bar. Seated at a comfortable table, we ordered in the studio for the same reasons as me. courage all of you who are considering getting a tattoo to us that in this period of •fk victory for Wt:Stt:rn Danocracy· a .round of. drinks. Sometime thereafter, four of my It is worth mentioning that there was a gentleman in do it. ovu commWJism, tk battlt: is still bring for for human rights, fnends dec1ded to go dancing, leaving myself and an one of the chairs getting a grim reaper on his bicep. Al Remember, you only live once. Good'ay and remember Australian friend of mine to hold the fort. though I would never get such a large tattoo I found that and indud, human dignity. Whilt: in Czuhoslovakia and no worries about the Oim flam daggy dudes. We ordered a Powers Bitter, and began to talk about I could appreciate it for what it was: a piece of living art Hungary tlu ckbatt: as to tk form of nt:W dmtocracy lingt:rs on, Romania struggles to cling to tht: optimistic spirit is its nothing in particular. Somehow the conversation came work. Golani. around to tattoos, and we both admitted that we had See SPRAGUE, page 17 16 The Other Side: October 2I 1990 The Other Side: October 2, 1990 17 ---{------J \ van for field trips to the park, the zoo r------r-,-.~~ji--~· ---~------,could volunteer. and amusement parks. We often took was the whole Several days a week they also went est in working with Spamsh children the children to local retirement homes I was able to Joe Casagran on field studies. These included a vari started last fall while I was attending where they could interact with the el written by Jennifer Hoffman ety of tasks--anything from pruning the University of Granada in Spain. I derly by doing small art projects and trees to cleaning graffiti-littered walls. lived with a family that had a baking. Watching the children com here's more to Joe Casagran "It made the kids feel important. uke preschool aged girl, and I worked at municate with the adults was one of than just being a star football they were helping their community her preschool as well as at two other the most rewarding experiences of my T player for the Pomona-Pitzer in a good way," Joe said. "Sometimes kindergartens in Granada. Although I summer. Sagehens. This past summer, Joe we would paint over a graffiti wall and spoke Spanish well when I left the the next day it would be back, so we'd U.S., I really became semi-nuent dur worked with junior high school kids Reiko says she is from los Angeles' inner city in the just paint it again. We painted one ing my stay. wall four or five times. • At Plaza de Ninos. I was responsible ~itt:o Gomez trying to work with "Clean and Green~ program. the center at least The goals of the program were to es The kids with whom Joe worked for about 10 preschool-aged children. by Tom Mills came from Virgil Junior High School, Part of what I did was teach them tablish a sense of community-some How many times have you heard in the heart of inner city L.A. Sur thing that a majority of these kids someone say that he or she would not rounded by a wire fence, the school e experience· in lacked in their own neighborhoods. give money to a homeless person be Most of these kids grew up in an envi has one unlocked door with an armed ...... ,.., ... rt ve. "I don't cause it would only make the problem ronment centered around gang warfare security guard posted at all times. what I learned worse by fueling that person's alco and drugs. For them that was their "Some of the boys even brought I need some community. Clean and Green helped guns with them," Joe said. "We're try holic, drug or lazy tendencies? This is time to stand ing to gear these kids away from them to develop feelings of mutual often the logic behind food shelters: ," she said. gangs. They lack identity and gangs trust and companionship on their give the homeless just enough to does it mean own. are their only sense. • survive, but not enough to get off Joe said the girls in the program the streets. This summer, Reiko were a lot more ambitious than any of Gomez had a very different experi the boys. "They can't see themselves as ence with the homeless. part of college. They were shocked •1 was a fund-raiser for the Ontario when they found out that I was t's a self." Mitch Snyder was the man who Homeless Outreach Center," said Cuban, white and in college, "Joe know you're helping out kids. • brought the plight of the homeless to Reiko. •t would approach-either said. "They only see white people in Reiko was also responsible for bring the forefront of American social issues personally or in a letter-companies college." ing a catering company to the center to in the early 1980s. In the end though, Joe says he made American games hke Duck Duck and ask them to donate goods." serve lunch for fifty people. real progress. "A few kids even went to Goose and Red light-Green Light. At the Outreach Center homeless, Reiko did have her share of disap the library to read more about the top These games helped to improve their clients come in and tell the volunteers pointments from some companies ics we were discussing.· Two of the English vocabulary by teaching them everything that he or she needs to get though. •1 have a list of companies I Claire Milam kids have even written Joe, thanking colors, signals and animal names. off the streets. •very rarely did they won't patronize anymore. Places like by Tom Mills him for a great summer and a fantastic Some of my other responsibilities say money," said Reiko. The volun learning experience. were teaching shon English and Math Winchell's and Uule Caesar's would teers then try to help through fund lessons, as well as driving the school rather throw away their food than give or most students, their summer raising or through its own stockpile of The kids got paid $4.50 an hour. van for field trips to the park. the zoo it to the homeless," said Reiko. consisted of a job, the beach and Laura Gattemeir and amusement parks. We often took goods. possibly a class here or there. ~For most of then this was their first Despite the popular belief that the F Reiko said she rarely asked compa time working," Joe said. "Some spent written Laura Gattemeir the children to local retirement homes homeless are in their situation by For Claire Milam, her summer consist by nies for money. "There is a connota ed of a language barrier, second-rate their paycheck all in one day, but most where they could mteract with the el choice, •at least 90 percent of the peo his summer I worked as a teach tion about money that really scares food and lots of vodka. of them spent their money wisely." derly by doing small an projects and ple who came in really wanted to get er in a bilingual school teaching baking. Watching the children com companies. • One example of Gomez's Claire spent six weeks in the Soviet The work usually revolved around off the streets,~ Reiko said. environmental issues. They were T Spanish-speaking preschoolers municate with the adults was one of work was a donation of 1,000 tennis Union and while she says that she The volunteer work was made possi how to speak English. These particular the most rewarding experiences of m)' shoes to the center-most of which didn't like to drink with the Soviets, taught about acid rain, smog as well as ble through the Katie lawson Award, rain forests so they might become children were from a low-income area summer. were for children-by LA. Gear and she sure saw a lot of it. "Every meal I which Reiko won last Spring. The more conscious of their surroundings of Kansas City and were often victims I have always loved children, but delivered by a free rental of a Ryder See VACATION, page 28 and aware of social problems. of child abuse and neglect. My inter- there is something especially reward- award paid for her summer so that she The Other Side: October 2, 1990 19 18 Tre Other Side: October 2, 1990 OPE~lNG: October 2- 31. Martin Downtown, Gorky's has long been at the Golden Bear in at the The Wiltern Theatre Lawrence Modern Gallery an all night haven for insomniacs. 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We had put on our work jeans and tion or told me about her past. She fascinated - painstakingly lifted the heavy plates of glass me for she was everything that I had lost. Sit from their flimsy metal holdings and carried ting on the couch, drunk, as she slurred to me them into the basement to store behind the about past boyfriends and sexual exploits, I vi woodpile until the wind became too cold again sualized, as if I were dreaming, myself in her and leaked under the rotting wooden window place. frames. Me, as a younger girl , of maybe 18 or 20, Nichola bad insisted that it was much too ear kissing men frantically in the musky comer of a ly in the season for screens. But to me the air dance club or deftly chopping cocaine rocks was warm enough to breathe deeply, nlled with against a medicine cabinet glass shelf. I remem smells and sounds-erotic, in a way, as I sat on ber myself in her and she filled me with excite the front porch at noon and listened to the ment for I had found myself again, on a cold ocean. east coast beach. She fills me with sadness, for I had wanted it in the house. I wanted to lift we lost ourselves on the same stretch of sand. the shades and feel the sun and smell the air. The winter had been dark, molding the curtains and splintering the floor. We left the house then This seaside town is all I have ever known. I squinting against the glare of white snow like pass my small, round elementary school every moles. The dark rooms, stuffy and too hot, al day as I drive to work. I see myself running ways made me tired, and I often found myself wildly without direction on the school yard that winter lying on my bed staring at the oppo pavement, or playing on the jungle-gym, laugh site wall and the black and white photographs I ing hysterically. I pass out lunch menus to old bad taken in high school. Winter, on the beach, neighbors (parents of past playmates or in an old paint-peeled saltbox, was often to dull boyfriends) who compliment me on my cheer too stay awake for. fulness, as I note their accelerating decline into I was walking toward the house, along the old age and sadness. rutted clay beach road, with a frozen duck melt I live on the beach where I had sex for the ing through a brown comer store bag, feeling first time. Nichola never understood my fears, I the early spring sun on the top of my head, assume, because she never admitted her own when I realized the shades on the first floor win shortcomings and failures to herself. She said dows bad been lifted. that 1 torture myself too much by retelling and I stepped through the gate and noticed the reliving everything: "Everything in your life has rusted bulkhead doors were open. Nichola came too much goddamn meaning. Take things for from behind the comer of the porch carrying a what they are and then move on." Nichola's large piece of window glass. She motioned the voice over the phone, Nichola's voice in my plate slightly and said in her dark voice, "I bedroom, Nichola's voice yelling to me from the thought we'd put up the screens. • Later that drafty kitchen. I wonder now if it was advice or day I cooked the duck and we sat eating on the just her own inability to he interested in any porch, shivering, determined that it was spring. body else's life. I Over martinis in the living room, Nichola told That past spring passed quietly, gently. me many strange stories about her past. She had Nichola began to bring over an old friend, a boy always looked so excited when telling me these she knew from six years before, when she was in things, so happy at sharing her secrets, at hop college. When I cooked dinner in the kitchen I ing I would be fascinated-which I was--yet could hear them through the room divider, more transfixed by the horror I felt and the fear laughing. She would shriek with delight as he of her tone of voice. pinned her against the frreplace mantle, knock She never doubted my ability to listen to her ing down vases and candlesticks. "Oh Kim! stories, then, that spring. She never doubted my - \ See D~CEPTIONS, page H ~~ 22 The Other Side: October 2, 1990 { ~~~ J z • The Other Side presents a 0 D ecep t I on s three page hip, cool, mega 1- spread on the sensations continued oftheyear... u- Help mel He's beating me up! Help me! • she She took a drag from her cigarette and laughed would laugh, shouting to me. rather curtly. NEW KIDS - "You've broken the vase (or glass or cup or "And you don't have to be so allusive." picture)" I would say. She would look at the ON THE floor, her freckled face red from exhaustion, her Adam Littman light." blue eyes wet and brighL "Our beams are weeping." Nichola was lying Adam's hero is Albert Einstein for "Oh... Ooops." Then she would look back at on the couch wearing cut-off jeans and a red by lim Ahea rn the obvious reasons. He also says he the man who would bite her neck or lick her tank-top, her head resting in the man's lap. I greatly admires "my poor high school face or grab her stomach and they would laugh was sitting at the kitchen table reading the Let me introduce you to Adam physics teachers who put up with me." and struggle again, usually moving back to the Boston Globe. It was very hot, very humid. The littman, a freshman from the class of BLOCK So far Adam likes Pitzer and is pret couch. overhead fan stirred up the night air above me. 1994. You might be surprised at his ty happy that he is here. When he "It's okay: I would say, picking up the shat There wasn't an ocean breeze that nighL "Look. major. I was. Adam Littman is a Up and close and personal leaves Pitzer he plans to go to graduate tered porcdain or glass or ceramic from the fire They're weeping." Physics major. This isn't meant to of school and pursue a Ph.D. in Physics.. place hearth. "Crying?" I had said half-interested. I was fend any other Pitzer physics majors, interviews & conversations playing my role. but surely it's not one of the usual with five ofPitzer's newest "No, they're sagging. Some water must have concentrations. She asked me in the car one day, on our way got inside. Our roof is going to cave in." The So why study physics here at Pitzer? stu-dents. to the city, if she should be in love. "He is what man laughed. I lit a cigarette and put on my Why not at Harvey Mudd or Cal I used to be!" she had said, her long brown hair reading glasses. "Can you see it, Adam? Can Tech? "No requirements," Adam bordering nations, using whatever says. Other reasons include Southern sucked out of the car window. "fm not the kind you see them weep? Poor Kim will be reading in means necessary, even a nuclear de California and something to do with vice. At the end, the player is rated of person you've known me to be this past year. her room one Saturday night and the roof will his high school grades. I'm so differenL I've been so unhappy because I come crashing down on her skull." and Adam takes a certain pride in be Born and raised in Honolulu, ing rated fascist, or violenL can't be myself. fve been so concerned with ap "We must fix them then!" Adam's deep voice Hawaii, Adam is 18-years-old and has pearing good to every- chided gallantly. They Although you might catch Adam one sister. His interests include com near a poker game in Holden living one that I've lost my laughed. I read. puters, reading and swimming. If you room, he claims it's all just for fun. "I self." Her words The pbone rang be run into Adam around campus, he'll ''I remember myself don't gamble," Adam says. "Gambling seemed to be more of side me and a worn probably be deeply engrossed in some is illegal." an apology or an ex out female voice science fiction novel by Piers Antho Haydel Bixby in her and she filled Adam is not, however, one of the planation than a self asked for Adam. I had ny, Isaac Asimov or one of the many neatest people in the world. When Star Trek novels. realization. She had never liked him with asked about the messy situation of his me with excitement Adam says he only watches "the smiled into the s un his lazy style and room he responded with his mad sci Hayden Bixby good shows" on television. His fa and said, "I like being thick black hair. He entist grin, "Chaos is the natural state for I had found my vorites are "Star Trek: The Next Gen by Ardi Eggleston bad. He doesn't make had been spending the of the Universe. I do my best to en me feel guilty for night for the past eration," "Quantum Leap," "Twin courage that state". _ self again, on a cold Peaks" and "Married: with Children." Many college students learn about wanting to be bad. • week and as I dressed There is a serious side to Adam Adam also likes comic books and their primary interests from an aca She looked at me, in the morning I littman. When our conversation drift he's invested a lot of money in his col demic standpoint first and then get smiling, elated, and east coast beach." could hear Nichola's ed to the top news of the day, the cri lection. If you want to to read his their hands-on experience once sis in the Middle East, Adam had his sighed, "So?" brass bedframe comics, ask first. Adam is very they've figured out what they want to own feelings about the situation there. "So what?" I asked smacking against the adamant about keeping them clean do. "The U.S. is in it too much for greed staring at the road, watching the city loom in adjoining wall and intact. He has been know to use Transfer student Hayden Bixby is a and not enough for the Kuwaitis who the distance. Adam took the call upstairs, in my room, with force if necessary. different case altogether. After attend are being oppressed by the Iraqis." "So, should I be in love?" Nichola whispering behind him. Sitting alone in One of Adam's favorites past-times ing the University of California at San When asked if he would go to the re "No, I don't think love is like thaL You don't the kitchen, in the silence of downstairs, a wave is "plotting the overthrow of democra ta Barbara for two years, Bixby decid gion if war were to break out, Adam have to love every male who comes into your of fear washed across me, an anxious surge, cy as we know iL • Once you actually ed to try education in a different set said in diplomatic fashion, "No com life. You don't have to give yourself up to him like I hadn't felt since fourth or grade. like ting. Going mobile, Bixby packed her fifth meet Adam you realize how easy this menL" is to bdieve. bags and headed off to Kenya to study because he reminds you of your pasL You don't when I was the last to be picked for kickball at What would Adam change in the Adam can often be found at his at the University of Nairobi. have to feel like you have to love someone be recess or wasn't invited to the blonde haired world if he could? If you guessed computer playing a game called "Con In Nairobi, she continued in her cause they set your mind at ease. • I bad felt girl's birthday party. I shut my eyes and hard something to do with physics, you're flict," a game in which the player is Is studies in literature with both African spooky then, almost scared for her response.· ened. right. Adam's goal is to "make hu rael and the goal is conquest of all and Caribbean literature classes. It mans go faster than the speed of See NEW KIDS, page 26 24 The Other Side: October 2, 1990 The Other Side: October 2, 1990 25 ------1NEW KIDS NEW KIDS ON THE sic today as it has already been incor ON THE was also there that she began looking the California Green Party! KATE: How? porated into jazz, blues, R & B, soul, at what she would do upon her return TAD: Oh yeah? Well I'm a Libertari pop, gospel, and even rock. Also, rap TAD: In my Anbic class. to the states, taking a serious look at an. music is the most comfortable way for KATE: Why Arabic? transferring to a smaller school. AMY: Shut up Tad. I was overly dis TAD: Why not? I'm in college. When her term in Nairobi ended, me to express myself." contented with the Republican democ KATE: So how's the workload in Bixby realized that she wasn't ready_ to BLOCK He quotes KR>ONE: "Rap mus~c ~ the voice of black people... and It IS racy and the ignorance perpetrated by BLOC-Kgeneral? leave Africa yet so she began teachmg the suppression of the imminent glob English in a secondary school where the last voice of black people. • curve balls? AMY: I want to be a cultural an Kou hopes to perform at the Clare alism that will pervade the 1990s. she worked up until last December. You might recognize him AMY: Dining at chez McConnell is thropology major so I can study and mont Colleges sometime in the near TAD: Well after reading all the b.s. Upon her return home to Pasadena, around campus from the pretty much worse than my worst utilize the tribal rhythms within us future. thrown to us by the mainstream par she found her brother and several Ankh symbol he wears. nightmares. But I thought the whole all. I've been drinking a lot of coffee friends already making plans for a re ties I decided to become a libertarian. The Ankh- an Egyp global thing at Orientation was greaL while I read here. lief program they were calling Student tian symbol for life All taxation is theft. TAD: Coffee in Claremont sucks. Transport Aid. The program was de TAD: I eat out a loL I thought the and knowledge. KATE: (compelled to interrupt): KATE: What? You aren' t happy signed to raise money to help the pe 26 The Other Side· October 2, 1990 SPORTS 0 STUDENT ATHLETE PROFILE: SHORTS Welcome back sports fans . Stop!. .. Anna Time In this bt-monthly column I tJ\ f\1 rf\ 'j wtll attempt to shed some c l Anna Contreras takes her childhood dreams to the court hght on both National and continued Pomona-PiLZcr sports. Some of the subjects l will be dis Anna distinguished herself enough to be law firm with eight in-house at cussing may rub some sports Claire remembers one merchant Alfie Alschuler recruited by the Pomona-Pitzer volleyball Claire Milam friend who used to bring goods torneys~ I was working for the Di Staff Writer program. She played as a starter her fresh- fans the wrong way, but as continued from page 19 from the West back with him and recting Attorney. My title was man year and will start this year as well. they s:~.y •the truth hurts.• I sell them on the black market. para-legal and file clerk, and my ack and forth she rocks in anticipa- Despite all this Contreras feels she has am not trying to make ene ate with Soviets, they would have She said, "The goods are just not panner had just finished his first tion of the serve. Her eyes are focused much room for im provemenL "I always mies, but 1 am attempting to on the ball and nothing else. As the want to power hit, I need to tip the ball vodka. They would drink bottles available for the people" and that year at Hastings Law school in B enhghten fans who are curious serve comes gunning over the net her rock- more. I need to be more consistenL" and bottles of alcohol," she said. crowds "became intuitive." Her San Francisco. I specialized in and to question the current landlord-tenant law but I also did ing stops as she positions herself to pass Contreras feels that this year's team is status of sports on and off The trip was available to Claire group once exchanged a package the ball. She makes contact and the ball very motivated and "driven. • They have a lot of work with family law and campus... Some say that the through a program called Volun of Western cigarettes for a three floats up in a perfect arc right to the setter. their goals set and they are determined to teers For Peace, an organization course meal for eight people. government benefit law. As a volleyball player, Anna demon- reach them. She is very hopefuJ about their Dodgers would have won the that registers people for work Even when she was able to buy The most rewarding thing I did st:rates ability in all aspects of the game. chances for success. "We're gonna go to na Nl West by a landslide if a camps. Claire says that the first goods, "they really overcharge was to represent one of our Many of the players on the team are subbed ti.onals," Contreras said. "There aren't any healthy Belcher and Hershiser three weeks consisted of a home tourists to get hard currency," clients in small claims court. He in and out so they don't have to be in the easy teams, even CMS is good this year." were at Mr. Lasorda's disposal stay and language classes, but the Claire said. ..Some Soviets made a was a monolingual, Spanish back row or vice versa. Anna plays for the Anna feels strongly that student support But two pitchers (Hartly and speaking illegal alien being sued entire game. She is a threat in the front row means a loL Attendance to their games real Neidlinger), whose names are homestay fell apart and the class hell of a lot of money off my with her impressive hitting ability and a ly helps them ouL by his landlord. I speak fluent not quite as flashy, have ftlled es were "really stressful," so she group." threat in the back row with her vicious They have already demonstrated their didn't go. As drugs are a major problem in Spanish because I live in Mexico, serve and excellent passing abilities. ability this year. At the tournament, which in nicely and have a combined Because of the failed homestay, the United States, Claire noticed so 1 was identified with the ex This is the kind of play that people ex- they hosted, they made it to the semi-finals, 11-5 ra:ord and a 2.96 earned Claire and her group stayed in a that they are an increasing prob ploitation that these people feel peel from Anna. Their expectations are ful- beating many excellent teams. They also run average as of September hoteL "The hotel didn't want us lem in the U.S.S.R. Specifically, when they enter the U.S. They filled because Anna demands more from beat La Verne, ranked sixth in the nation, 25. So much for the what if to eat...so then the hotel staff she noted inhalants as being a come here ready to work hard, herself. "I am very critical of myself." in a league matc;h. · question ... Nobody seems to Anna has been de- .------, Despite all the suc- problem, but she also noted that, hoping to realize the American have noticed that Dwight could steal the food and sell it," veloping her skills cess, one wonders how Dream, which unfortunately will Gooden is slowly putting to Claire said. "pot grows everywhere (even on since she was in the it's possible to remain gether an exceptional season. The second half of the trip con the Kremlin). I don't know if not come trUe for the majority of fifth grade when she so involved in sports sisted of the renovation of a they use it, but it's everywhere." these people. joined a youth volley- for such a long period As of SepL 25, Gooden was a church in the village of Mikail There~ the old adage about do ball league. She has of time. Anna gets sparkling 18-6 with a 3.80 era skia-a "dirt road village with ing a good deed every day and I been playing continu- much more out of vol- and 208 strike outs in no in goats and chickens" and a public was fortunate enough to spend ously since then. In leyball than just exer- nings. ..Aithough Detroit's Ce high school, she cise. She admits to be- shower. my whole summer doing just cil Fidder has been blasting James Rianhard that. 1 was also rewarded finan played both on teams ing rather shy and soft- home runs out of ball parks, Claire said she "chipped plaster all year long. spoken. "I have opened Ricky Henderson of the Oak off the walls" of the church. She written by James Rianhard cially with several raises through Anna's mother plays up a lot from playing also recalls many people showing out the course of the summer af a significant role in volleyball: Anna says. land A's wins my vote for Most her the old icons they had taken This summer I was looking for ter having entered as a volunteer. her volleyball, strongly .She feels that volleyball Valuable Player 1n Major from the church when it was first a hands-on job that would give My job at Legal Aid greatly ex encouraging her to has given her more League Baseball He has been a closed down. me practical experience. I think ceeded my initial expectations. participate in volley- confidence and disci· stabilizing fQ rce for the A's, During her travels she also met when you're a junior you're hesi Not only did I have a hands-on ball at high school. pline. It has allowed who have suffered various off job in which I had a personal in Despite the fact that her to be more social season departures and many people from all over the world. tant that the only job you'll find Mrs. Contreras is not and outgoing. terest, but 1 am currently in the key inJuries during the season. For the first half of the trip, one will be something menial like an an experienced volley- Anna impressed me of her closest friends was an swering phones or filing. I was process of applying to law ball player she still of- '------.Jwith her optimism, hu He is putting together one of African. "They (the Soviets) art determined to find a job that schools and intend to specialize fers a lot of helpful advice. She' can do this mor, and self respect. When I asked Anna his best seasons in an alrady incredibly prejudice against would teach me something valu in International Law. Without because she has been watching her daugh- who her heros were she said that she had illustrious career. He's lading blacks." The second half of the able. this summer's experience I would ter play for over seven years. Anna feels none. •t look to my teammates to learn Fielder in batting average, on trip was made up of people from I ended up taking a job at the have had no direction going into great appreciation for her mother's support £rom them but I don't idolize them." She base percentage, in runs as America, Vogalgrad and Berlin. Legal Aid Society of Orange my Senior year. It has made all and advice. knows what she wants to achieve and that well as stolen bases and has can't be embodied in anyone else. County. It was a medium sized the difference. 5« SPORTS SHORTS, page 30 The Other Side: October 2, 1990 i9 28 The Other Side. Octooer 2, 1990 SPORTS h1le mo SPORTS SHORTS • just a tad under 30 home 1 es a SHORTS ruhs_.One of the classiest hit George deal? ...My put up or ters in the last 25 years has Er1c Ell o shut up squad for tlK l~l found the Fountain of Youth NFL season includes; Deion and has made baseball more Sanders, Vinnie Testaverde, enjoyable to watch. His name Is re 1/y Gaston Green the Philadelphia is George Brett and he is back Eagles, the Minnesota Vikings, among the AL leaders in bat off-road b c and the Houston Oilers. All ting average where he be are underachievers with bun longs... U the Denver Broncos I was standing outside of the Motley the I think it's about time all of those so dles of talent who have been am ever get back to the Super other day and I happened to overhear a called mountain bikers out there graduated of ways a person can go in order given enough time to show Bowl, they should demand conversation that went something like thtS: from the tame streets of Clareville and achieve an increase in elevation. their true capabilities in the that the big game be moved to Hey dude! Check out my new mountain started riding their bikes where they were As the rider moves higher and NFL .. Now that lvan Lendl made to be ridden-in the mountains!! thtir home at Mile High Stadi bike, it's a blab blah with all the er in altitude, a strange '""'""''n"'""'' and Steffi Graff have shown whatchamacallits and, look, it even has the I suppose, at this point, I should proba begins to.infiltrate both the landscape um where they might have a cracks in their once impene latest thingamajig. I just bought it for bly speak in the defense of the people that I and the person travelling· through chance... If people still call $5000.00 at Bud's bike shop-great color am now attacking. In consideration of the The air becomes much cleaner and trable armor, the professional John Elway a choker they huh? nus person then went on to describe smog problem that we have here in Clare jects take on a forgotten clarity. tennis scene is now more com must have missed the game how the main use for their new bike was to mont, these people may not realize that silence of the mountains pelhng than ever.. .lf the Lak against Kansas Oty. The Bron facilitate their travels to their classes on the mountains actually do exist in a fairly close the rider, bestowing upon him a ers don't make some sort of a cos had their backs against the adjoining campuses. proximity to campus. Please, do not be of peace and thoughtfulness that m deal to trade one of their wall until Elway shot a 50- Quite honestly, I'm sick and tired of see fooled by the smokescreen- they are there. sometimes be unattainable for a countless high-priced for ing the students at the Claremont Colleges Not only that, they also have some very munity dwdler. yard rocket into wide receiver wards in order to get the cen parading around on brand-new mountain good mountain biking trails in Until the apex of the ride, this VanceJohnson's hands, which bikes, when the majority of them are used them. son will have mainly been riding ter and backup shooting led to the game winning field specifically for riding to and from class. So anyway, enough of the ed smooth but somewhat sandy guards that they truly need, goal...lf the R2ms continue to Oh, I know that those new speed itorial on whether or not to The return trip, however, can be then the Sam Perkins pick-up underachieve they may have bumps behind Kimberly Hall are have a mountain bike; let's ed down a horse and hiking trail may go down as one of the to ask Santa for a running treacherously rugged and all, talk about the sport itsdf More specifically, the Marshal most useless deals in recent back by Christmas. I seem to but seriously!! For per in conjunction with the Canyon Trail. This, without a memory ...! think tlK Pomona Claremont area. recall a back named Greg Bell son to spend such a is the finest and definatdy the t1irliP 3i The Other Side· October 2, 1990 The Otner Side: October 2, 1990 33 CONCERT REVIEW tool in about forty-five seconds while car) before he remembered and let me FILM MUSIC Continued from page 34 talking to the audience. Seeing that go back in to the Roxy. R E I E alone was worth the bones I shelled Just as I slipped in the door, The R E v I E w v w Red Hot Chili Peppers' "Good Time out to get into the show. Dead Milkmen were about to take the continued from pf19e 32 continued from PlliJe 33 Boys" or as the original artists of the Well, as far as their set, it opened stage. I had not seen this band for song "Brave Captain" that was covered with "In My Mind" off the fROM OHIO three years and was looking forward to bet in the film for an Oscar nored the release of "State clapped the loudest when Vandals set was full of clas by former Pitzer band Dante and the and ended with "Brave Captain." In a great set of complete silliness. The Nomination. of Grace" in favor of De Raymond Pettibon Supers sic tunes like "ladykiller," l.Dbster. If you do not know who they between their hour included four or singer started off with some rap thing Robin Wright, who plays Niro's new gangster ession s tarted to pack up •wanna Be Manor," "Anar are, just go buy all of their records and five cool new songs and great versions and then they kicked into ·v. F.w. ~ Penn's long, lost girlfriend movie:GoodFellas." A their equipmenL Raymond chy Burger (Hold the Gov you will not be disappointed. of my two fiREHOSE favorites, "Under from their first album. has some wonderful mo shame. should stick to his art. ernment)," and "H.B. Ho Getting back to the show, however, the Influence of the Meat Puppets" and Songs that stood out in The Dead ments as well. The chem The film's action scenes Next up was the Vandals, tel." fiREHOSE went through an hour-long "Chemical Wire." All that is left to say Milkmen's set were "Methodist Color istry between Wright and were quite violent but if you a rocking bunch of guys The pit of the night award set of killer tunes. The PA mix was about these guys is that they are really ing Book," "Punk Rock Girl,~ "The Penn is tremendous in the enjoy a good, bloody bar who have been doing their definitely goes to this band pretty poor, but these guys can shred tight, always good, and see them live Thing That Only Eats Hippies," and a film's most powerful scene shoot-oul, you will definite thing for quite a few years when they kicked into "Pat through any experience. For example, at any COSL mix of "Filet of Sole" and "You'll where Penn's character ly enjoy this film. For those now. For those of you who Brown" for their second when I was going to the University of After fiREHOSE finished, I skipped Dance to Anything." All the songs breaks down and admits viewers who find violence do not know this band, rent song. It was absolute may Arizona, we set up a show for them. outside for a drink (beer in LA. clubs were tight but a little different since that he is actually an under distasteful, the message be the cheesy punk rock film hem to say the least. The Halfway through their set, the right is way too expensive) and ponder how the singer has now taken up playing cover cop sent in to bust his neath the film's plot might "classic" Suburbia and you Vandals made me forge t PA speaker stack caught on fire in a 1 was going to get back in the club. I keyboards. old friends, which also hap be lost-namely that peo can check them out in their about the wretched Ray- room that was packed with 800 peo told the guy at the door that I was go The question in all of your minds is, pen to be Wright's brothers. ple have the idea in their ple. fiREHOSE seemed unfazed by the ing to get cigarettes out of my car and of course, did they play "Bitchin' Ca "State of Grace" works minds that they are in con fire and just kept playing as everyone would be back in a few minutes. maro?" Yes, they played "Bitchin' Ca with many familiar themes trol of their lives and things in the place freaked out. Ever since Those few minutes ended up being maro." And yes, everyone did go crazy. (i.e. the under-cover cop, will always work out the then I have known that this band is 20 and when I got back to the door, a And yes, everyone in the place was the mob, the rekindled ro way they planned them to. durable on stage. different dude was there. Luckily he singing along. The only question in mance) but the movie gets But, as the movie demon In addition to the bad mix, fiRE was standing at the door when the oth my mind through their set was how away with it beautifully. strates, those ideas are shat HOSE had to deal with microphones er guy let me go out, but it took him much LSD the drummer took because Credit for the film's success tered by the reality of daily being knocked over constantly and five minutes of me explaining why I he seemed to be laughing the entire goes to director Phil Joanou life. several string breakages. The fastest went (in addition to making up a story show. Pretty scary. ("U2: Rattle and Hum") Overall, "Stale of Grace" guitar stringer in the west, bassist about how I was gone for 20 minutes who captures the essence of is an emotionally powerful Mike Watt, replaced a G string on his because the police wanted to tow my -by Bill Ramsey Hell's Kitchen (the old Irish film leaving the viewer a bit neighborhood slowly being sad and a little disturbed. So overrun by yuppies) if you're in the mood for a through stunning cine good movie full of gut matography and excellent wrenching emotion, vio 665 Foothill Blvd. #B on-location shooting. lence, death and great act Claremont, CA 91711 located just north Joanou manages to convey ing, go see "State of Grace." (714) 621-2999 of HMC behind the emotion and action of the Exxon station the film in a visibility excit -Travis Wright at the comer of ing way without detracting 1 1 Claremont Blvd. from the plot with over-pro i!E 1 Fdll ~ 1 XI and Foothill duced visual effects or stunts. The editors of the film, heyday. Anyway, the Van mond Pettibon Supersession WE TAKE TIME TO PREPARE EACH DISH INDIVIDUALLY however, may have been a dals have gone through (as well as the Psychology bit to generous in allowing some line-up changes since quiz that was on my mind r------, r------, the movie to run its full two I had seen them last, but for most of the night) and W E D ELI VER ALL ! $2.00 off any XL Pizza ! hours because the length of they still tore the place up. got me completdy psyched ~ the film eventually detracts From the first song (the to see the god-like fiRE MENU ITEMS Ill l with two or more toppings l from its brilliance. Perhaps anti-Nazi "Master Race in HOSE Order one dish, get second : offer exp.-es 1~16-!lJ : if Joanou had concentrated Outer Space") right up until fiREHOSE is one of the a more on the emotional side for 1 /2 price: L ------~ the closing "Urban Strug few great bands left that Ill r------, of the script and less on gle," movement in the pit at have not been picked up by $4.00 off PARTY PIZZA slow-motion shoot-outs the • Lasagna • Tortellini ~ the Roxy did not cease. a lot of people. Most of the 11 movie would not have • Ravioli • Unguini 24 Round - 32 Slices Other than playing one song Claremont community only • Manicotti dragged at the end and the • Eggplant Parmesan - off their terrible last album knows of fiREHOSE as • Caneloni < with two or more toppings critics would have liked it a • Chicken Parmesan Ill and two others from a soon some mysterious band that • Spagehetti • Veal Cutlet Parmesan offer exp;as bit more. For as it stands offBI expires 10-16-90 to be released record, the is spoken of briefly in the 10-16-!lJ ::a now, the critics have ig- L------~ L------~ 34 The Other Side: Octroer 2, 1990 The Other Side: October 2, 1990 35 'THE- ~ . -~ ~- ~. ~- . Practicing YOUR or the past few Friday lunch fear and reservation expressed, by military and strategic Iraqi targets es a discussion group has the West, about Hussein's ability was submitted for discussion. F been meeting to discuss the to detonate nuclear explosives was This hypothetical action, theoreti What We current Middle Eastern situation. a starting point towards recogniz cally to be carried out by the U.S., TURN These lunch time exchanges, ing the difference between respon was met with tremendous objec presided over by Professor Werner sible moderacy and irresponsible tion. The foci of the resistance Warmbrunn, witness students and immoderacy. The fact that his was in response to th e thought Preach faculty debating the issues of other two actions received neither that violence, either as a threat or forced response, limited action and notice nor condemnation is a sad reaction would undermine demo p255ive acceptance, all towards the commentary on the community of cratic commitments to civility no he times, they are a changin'. It's community government; a government alert eyes overlook nothing which goal of conflict resolution. To for witnesses. less the American peoples wishes. true. After just one year, 1 bear which was "unique" among the na happens to be wrapped in a napkin. ward such means, however, re In looking back a few months, The latter contention can be dis T witness to one of Pitzer's most tion's colleges and universities. I will This writer has been accosted for no quires a contextual understanding. one must not forget Hussein's pre missed by reading the latest opin transitional periods since the admis be the firs t to agree that everyone more reason that four bites of a ham As a renowned statesman once paredness two years ago to threat ion polls. An argument based on sion of men in the late 1960's. No, this would benefit from more student in on white tucked beneath his arm. 1 said, in an other time, involving en and execute his own people. democratic principles of civility, is not another whining condemnation volvement in issues which affect us personally fi nd the idea of throwing another issue: "If we could first Hussein gassed five thousand of however, requires more attention. of the new alcohol policy and the ad (the general education ruling comes to away p erfectly good food repugnant know where we are and whither his own civilians to death in one That Hussein's force and tyranny ministration's infringement on the per mind). The task at hand, then, is to and morally reprehensible, especially we are tending, we could then bet s ingle day; extinguishing entire can spread is incontrovertible-his sonal freedom to drin k; god forbid. educate, inform, and, if need be, pro in an age and nation where thousands ter judge what to do, and how to articulated intent and armed man Rather, this is one man's testament to voke students to the point where they go hungry every day. Yet Marriott doiL" power are sufficient testimony our happy homestead of higher educa involve themselves. The creation of forces us to discard half-eaten food First and foremost an under . . . we are speaking of that prevention of such spread by tion. elected positions is more likely to re (food for which we paid long ago) standing must be reached that we surgical strike involves risks is also Pitzer's recent institution of general sult in good resume fodder for the few rather than run the risk of it falling in are speaking of a crisis that is tak a crisis that is taking true. But, like any surgery, certain education requirements makes a than the res ponsible input of th e to the hands of those not on the meal ing place in the Middle East and chances are taken to prevent the mockery of the concept of academic many. plan. I have heard all the arguments not the Middle WesL That mind place in the Middle guaranteed suffusion or exacerba exploration. This decision ultimately The 1990-91 catalogue for Pitzer as to why this is a financially sound sets and attitudes are different East and not the Mid tion of greater maladies. Today we amounts to a contrived mold into College states "concern with the social policy; th e blatant contradiction is must be acknowledged. The dif can celebrate Israel's 1981 bomb which students who choose to attend consequences and ethical implications philosophical, not fiscal. fe rence between the respect for dle West ... ing of Iraq's nuclear reactor Pitzer must of knowl The same school that once offered squeeze. If human life as seen by religious though the world community then The value of education lies edge and ac an environment which fostered and fundamentalists and or ultra-na found Israel's action overtly ag our desire is tion" as one encouraged self-reliance and indepen tionalists abroad and the respect commumues. The evidence and gressive. Force was used and Is to upgrade both in the freedom to of its educa dent judgement now requires the com dispensed by moderacy is as ap intent is clear that Hussein poses a rael was denou nced. Ht>wever, the quality of choose your own path and in tional objec pletion of paperwork in order to get prehensible as is the distinction clear and present danger to the Iraq no longer had a nuclear capa work pro tives. An someone else to move a bed frame to duced here, between the label given to the U. world community. Not only does bility: the surgery was successful, the personal responsibility of hon orable the closet. Evidently our school also S. as occupiers (i.e., as Saddam he have the capability to overrun the threat and spread of terror was then the so goal, to be provided special training in structural lution is ob accepting the consequences Hussein convicts) and the label the entire Middle East, he has also stopped. s ure. And stability to the Residence Life staff. vious: admit convicting Iraq as an occupier. A expressed his willingness to do so. Applauding Israel today is akin of what that path brings yet, this Their superior judgement and ap not too distant look into the past The danger and fear put out by to recognizing the difference be more quali statement proval is required for all •toft-style articulations and actions of Hus Hussein being supported by his tween the concepts of safety and fied students. lies in direct structures." Unbelievable. What used sein and Iraq further illuminates people is compounded by the fact danger. If we can discern a pref The value of education lies both in the opposition to the theory and practice to be an easy way to spruce up a dorm this point. that he is fanatically seen as the erence for preventing Iraq from freedom to choose your own path and of a place where we spend much time: room has turned into a theater of the This past March, Hussein at grand liberator by so many other entering the club of nuclear pow in the personal responsibility of ac the dining hall. absurd. · tempted to import nuclear detona peoples; one remembers that one ers, we will be well on our way to cepting the consequences of what that let us say, hypothetically, that for I hear Pitzer people describing Pitzer tors, he hanged a British journalist hundred thousand Jordanian understanding such differences as path brings. To state otherwise de some reason you are not able to finish with terms like "malleable: "diverse,• means the freedom of the intellectual. for exploring too freely and he Palestinians volunteered to join between victim and aggressor. As your already-purchased meal within "socially-aware" and "unique." De threatened to wipe out half of Is Iraq's army shortly after the inva one other great statesman, who Yesterday, some guy I'd never met the confines of beautiful McConnell scribe all you want; the fact remains rael in a chemical bombardmenL sion of Kuwatt. understood the difference between approached me, grabbed my hand, and Center. After faithfully learning your that these characteristics are quickly Within forty eight hours of the In understanding the disparate just and unjust confiict, once said, stated in no uncenain terms that he educational objectives as outlined by disappearing in a frenzy mad enough chemical threat, Egypt, a nation way in which Hussein's world op "The only way for evil to triumph deserved my vote for student fire mar the authors of the aforementioned cat to make U.S. News and World Reports' tial and sand sorter. Now, I welcome frequently spoken of as an U.S. al erates, passive resignation proves is for good men to do nothing. • alogue, you might think a logical Top 40 countdown. ly, sent an official communique to to be a bad counselor both for the any opportunity to meet new people, course of action would be to finish the Each step in the current direction Hussein stating that Hussein's immediate victims and for the in but if 1 wanted to be the subject of food at a more convenient time and/or takes us one step closer to being just Sdh l..dbsohn., a Smior majoring in chemical threat was a just defen tended and vincible ones. At the some erstwhile politician's advances, place. another second-rate college with first Political Philosophy, is writing his thesis sive message. What it was in de second Friday lunch meeting, the I'd hang out in D.C. And you would be righL rate aspirations. on dDnocratic theory. fense of, nobody questioned. The idea of a surgical air strike against The viewbook which admissions To accomplish this, however, you sent to me during my senior year in would first need to duck and weave -by Matt Simpson high school extolled the virtues of a past the McConnell Gestapo, whose 36 The Other Side: October 2, 1990 The Other Side: October 2, 1990 37 WHAT'S IT TO THEM THE PROFESSORS' COLUMN FEAST YOUR o consider the con people of colour, attempts lar situation had occurred The cept of Third World to establish the core of in the late nineteenth cen T literature in the con things historically, political tury when the center of the EYES ON Question text of present times is to ly and culturally. Whereas novel moved from France be conscious of the histori one was theorized in the and England to Russia cal lineages informing its European colonized coun Third World literature, of the logic and to be aware of the tries of the late eighteenth being realized in Africa, THESE SAVINGS. intellectual and political century, the other is being Asia and Latin America, is a Concept systems accompanying its established in the late twen product and expression of movement. Among its lin tieth century in countries these changing literary and eages is the concept of which have dislodged clas cultural constellations. of world literature, postulated sical colonial domination. Third World literature by Goethe within the con What crucially separated should not be seen as an World text of the post-Enlighten the two historical moments abstract representation of ment. was the cultural experience continental literatures, but Literature This concept of world lit of Modernism. Modernism rather as a unified, however erature was part of that in was the focussing point of paradoxical, movement of tellectual culture in which shifting cultural, political national literatures. This Hegel attempted to totalize and literary relationships. movement is a dialectic of human knowledge. In many Politically speaking and on Differences and Similarities. ways Hegel and Goethe the world scale, capitalism In Latin America, Brazilian were part of, and situated was, for the first time, being literature is premier, in as within, the ascendancy of contested and challenged much as Nigerian literature industrial capitalism as a by socialism. within Africa is perhaps the world system. They were In cultural terms, and freshest in relation to the summit of European in within the English-speaking modernity, and Indian liter tellectual and cultural hege world, Modernism desig ature in Asia is probably the mony in practically all nates the end of the domi most fascinating and exhil quarters of the world. nance of English-speaking arating. This statement by the men and women in the Clearly then, Third World young Marx expresses well writing of English-language literature is nothing but the the historical projects of literature, as had been the internationalism of national Jffil;f}!i ~41~{Cj! 1-:t ill I31\{1) Hegel and Goethe: "'The case from Chaucer to situations. This literature (t"Jir·1·fi)1i·1il tft ?fiDijtj!) OU .1qrn moderation of genius does Thomas Hardy, as james has some affinities with 1 - 1\tcd 1 · Lar~c not consist of the use of a joyce and Yeats in Ireland, contemporary philosophi rrJ'rf.ROl\1 CHEDDAR cm;r_sr. rll'iCAJ'ri.E Cheese 7.65 9.28 ITAI.IAi-1 SAUSACF: rnr.Sll MUSllnOO'IS lli.ACK rtrr.I:RROl\CL"I S 1.00 p•r lopr•ng t oms &Or por topping cultivated language without and Eliot and Pound in cal and intellectual systems. Crt.Olf"\0 8F.IT OLI\T$ CASIII:WS ErH~ LA.\11 fRf.SII CRf£~ rr.rrm CRf.f}i OLIVCS accent and dialect ~ it lies America, and Nabokov and Third World literature is a • I { • {II :J ~:£1@\'Il. ~IOiliZO rilF.SII YCLI.OW rJ:rt•r.ns TIJ UY AKI OIICKJ:'i rather in speaking the ac Conrad running away from complex forum of creativity, CANA!>IA~ IIACO~ SI.ICI:t) Jhi.AI'J:'\0 CRAU TorrL'\C 2 - i\ l EUIU~l 2 - LAHCE cent of the matter and the Russian and Central Euro dialogue and exchanges. UACO~ fRf.SII TO" I ATO Srl'\AOI AJ'\CIIOVIf.S rl\f.SII lli:D 0\IO'( ZLCOII"\1 Clu:c!;c 9.95 12.70 dialect of its essence. It lies pean repression, redraw a All the more reason that SIIHL\Ir E rlraltam.. S 1 25 per lopping in forgetting about modera new map of English-lan Pitzer College should estab tion and immoderation and guage literary culture. lish this new intellectual 1 -FREE getting to the core of In literary terms, and horizon. ~FOR DELIV-ER)~] things." within the world-system of Following on the concept genre-writing, the supreme li,f! tgff!J:L•ii! 1;1. BY of world literature devel task and craft of novel writ Professor Masilda prtsott~d oped within the European ing in the late twentieth this ~ssay to th~ Pitz~r Col NTONGELA context, Third World litera century shifts from Europe l~g~ Board of Trustees in lh~ MASILELA ture, or World literature by to Latin America, as a simi- Fall of 1989. -ed. 946-7270 38 The Other Side: October 2, 1990