THE: TUFTS DAILY Where You Read It First Wednesday, November 16,1994 Vol XXM Number 44 I HEY THEY STOLE OUR LOGO! I Run-DMC signed to play show Tickets for MacPhie concert will go o n sale next Monday by JOHN O’KEEFE that they could sign with its bud- was its rap adaption of the Daily Editorial Board get. Last year Student Activities Aerosmith classic rock staple, The Office of Student Activi- presented a fall concert featuring ‘WalkThisWay.”Thesong, which ties announced yesterday that it Tribe Called Quest and De La was released as, a single for the had agreed to contract terms with Soul. group’s groundbreaking 1986 al- the rap group Run-DMC to per- Calling Run-DMC “one of the bum, Raising Hell, played a sig- form a concert on the Tufts cam- premiere hip-hophap groups of nificant role in bringing rap into the last decade,” Carl said that he the suburban mainstream. The ac- was enthusiastic about the show. companyingvideo, which featured Run=DMC Carl cited the group’s lengthy and both Run-DMC and Aerosmith, When: popular musical career as the pri- helped bridge the gap between rock mary reason for signing the group and rap. Thurs. Dec. 1I 1994 to Derform. ~ I ~~- ~~~ Many have praised the group’s 9:30 p.m. “They have so many albums exceptionallongevity in the music PhorobyNk~%atylr I and so many people know their This logo appears on a church in Melrose. Does it look familiar? Where: world. Noting that Run-DMC I songs... people can reminisce,” “hold[s] a fistful of rap firsts,” MacPhie Pub Carl said. He added that the group Rolling Stone recently wrote, “it’s Conference planned to Sponsored by: is ’‘supposed)’to play songsfrok hardly surprising that it’s now the Student Activities many of its albums. first rap group to come back from According to the publicity pro- the dead. This may be its most improve Tufts teachers file of Run-DMC, the band has impressiveachievement, given all pus. The concert will be held on ~. .~ been a trailblazer for rap and hip- the hip-hop heroes who’ve gone by JESSICA ROSENTHAL School Anthony Schwartz had Thursday, Dec. 1 at 9:30 p.m. in hop in the music industry since the Daily Editorial Board during thesummer. Schwartzcon- MacPhie Pub. release of its first album in 1984. see Page l1 On Friday, Nov. 18, a confer- tacted Carlisle, and they attended According to Katie O’Dair, Run-DMC ence on teaching will be held on a conference in Orlando which assistant director of Student Ac- was the first the Grafton campus of Tufts. Ac- focused on teaching. tivities, the tickets for the concert rap group “to cording to Interim Director of the University Provost Sol will be $10 and will go on sale at earn a gold Center for Teaching and Advising Gittleman later disseminated a let- the Campus Center Information album, the (CENTA) Susan Carlisle, the con- ter to all of the Tufts faculty mem- Booth on Monday, Nov. 21 at 9 ference is “historic because this bers describing the conference to a.m. A valid Tufts identificationis may be the first time full-time fac- be-hdd at Tufts. According to needed to purchase tickets and ulty from all three campuses Carlisle, both Gittleman and ZJni- positive identificationis needed at [Grafton, Boston, and Medford] versity President John DiBiaggio the event for persons wanting to have been invited to participate in are greatly supportingthis confer- purchase alcohol in the Pub. a workshop specifically devoted ence. O’Dair said, “[Student Activi- to improvingtheir teaching skills.” Seventy people have signed up ties is] really excited about the Carlisle said that there will be for Friday’s conference.Approxi- concert. We think that it will sell about 70 participants in the con- mately one-third of the partici- out.” There will be 550 tickets ference, representingfaculty from pantsarefromtheBostoncampus, available and each student with an the Tufts Medical School, Dental one-third are from the Medford ID will be able to purchase up to School, Veterinary School, Col- campus, and one-third are from two tickets. lege of Liberal Arts & Jackson, the Grafton campus. Carlisle said According toDavidCar1, aStu- College of Engineering, and the that it is “amazing that busy people dent Activities supervisor, Run- Fletcher School of Law and Di- are taking time out of their sched- DMC was the first choice to per- plomacy. ules’’ to try to improve their teach- form at this concert. Carl said that In a letter sent by the confer- ing. the annual Student Activities con- ence committee to the members of The motivation behind having cert has been “a hip-hop concert the Tufts faculty, the event is de- the conference is that many pro- traditionally,”andhe saidthatRun- scribed as “the first of what rthevl- .- fessors teach well, but would like DMC was the best “big-name” act hope will be an ongoing series of to improve their skills to become events designed to enhance teach- even better, Carlisle said. She ing on all three campuses.” added that college professors are PLO leader warns that Middle

assessment of teaching. Addi- ing economic needs could result suicide attacks on Israelis carried on their promise of $690 million tionally, a panel will be held with in violence. out by Hamas and Islamic Jihad in thefmt yearofautonomy,which Inside four award-winning teachers: “More serious than that -- the Features ...... p. 3 despite a Palestinian crackdown began in May. Dan Tobin returns with another tale of Harry Bernheim of the Biology explosion of the peace process,” the past few days in theGaza Strip. “Someinternationalsourcesare life in his own twisted world and a Department, Gerald Gill of the hesaid. “Continued terrorism by ex- behind all of this,” said Arafat review of a Tufts pmfessor~sbook. History Department, Susan cotter Arafat blamed Israel for spur- treme Islamic groups, Hamas and who appeared to be alluding to the of the Veterinary School, and ring the cycle of violence. Islamic Jihad, if it continues, can United States. A&)$ ...... p. 5 Jonathan Schindelheim of the For example, he said, a suicide put a question mark over the basis He said that 58 percent unem- we review “Interview With the vam- Medical School. According to bomb attack that killed three Is- of the agreement between us,” ployment makes the Gaza Strip an pire” and new album while Jay looks Car~Sle,theseProfesso~“willt~kraeli soldiers near a Jewish settle- Rabin said in a tour of army out- explosive area. “Some fanatic into Generation x and Kurt Cobain. about the best methods for teach- ment in Gaza on Friday was in posts protecting Jewish settlers in groups,” he said, “are using pov- ing from their own experience.” response for the Nov. 2 car bomb Gaza. erty” as a cover for violence. Sports...... p. 7 Carlisle said that she feels that assassinationof anIslamic funda- Arafat, who spoke a day after There is urgent need for . Ben anticipates the return of Mike the basic emphasis at Tufts has mentalist leader, Hani Abed. his PLO police stopped a rally by “schools, hospitals, housing, wa- Tysontoboxingwhi*emen’scrosscoun- been on research and scholarship, “Violence has two sides, and Islamic militantsin honorofAbed, ter, sewage, an airport, a harbor, try finishes fifth in New England. but she thinks that the emphasis the target is the peaceof the brave,” said he was doing all he could “to roads, electricity,and telecommu- - “is shifting toward teaching.” said hafat. cool things down. But for how nications.” tage two - THE TUFTS DAILY Wednesday, November 16,1994

rm TUFTS DATLY.ILetters to the Editor ment and the thermostat is tough to find. Marc J. Sheinkin IGC formal is open to Keep UP school spirit SomewherewithinmanyTuftsstudents, Editor-in-Chief To the Editor: there is a desire to go crazy at athletic Managing Editor: Nadya Sbaiti the entire Community If you are familiarwith gas heating, then events, have an attendance consistently over Associate Editors: David Meyers, To the Editor: You are familiar with a simple concept 500 people, tailgate every Saturday (not Michael J.W. Stickings 7 1would like to correct a common mis- called the pilot light. It is one of those rarely just Once a year), and wear our school Editorial Page Editor: Rachel Levine conception that the Inter-Greek Council seen, rarely heard things which ends UP colors... okay, maybe not. But regardless, Production Managers: Leah Schwartz, Ryan Otto ~ormalis solely for those people affiliated cooking your food and helping YOU avoid there’s little dispute that school spirit is an NEWS with Greek organizations. This could not hypothermia enjoyable aspect to collegiate life. Editors: Jessica Rosenthal, John O’Keefe be farther from the truth. The IW Formal This past weekend, it became evident Why not continuethis effort,regardless Assistant Editors: Andrea Grossman, is open to the entire Tufts commmity, and that Tufts school Spirit is similar to a Pilot of the status of the game, match, tourna- Karen Epstein WE: encourage everybody to attend. light. After a gallant showing of students at ment, meet, playoff, final, or consolation. VIEWPOINTS the NCAA’s men’s quarterfinals,I realized We really shouldn’t need anNCAA playoff Editors: Dmah Feldman, Remy Stem Gregory Gertner LA’96 that Tufts does indeed have school spirit. 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Now, I understand that Book by a Tufts professor grounded in popular culture perhaps admitting to a fetish in an internationally read publication by MARLA BESSER tance of many different relation- ered optimal? Neither, according like the Daily (Julie E. in France is quite the MID fan, I’ve heard) -- Daily Staff Writer ship patterns: two-parentworking to Elkind. “Both distort reality,” well, that would be quite a bad thing. But this isn’t so temble. It’s not The Leave It to Beaver, Ozzie families, single-parent families, he says. Emerging is a new family like I’m admitting to bombing the Hillel Center or masterminding a 2nd Harriet era has officially blended families,unmarried fami- which integrates nuclear family Monkees reunion. And “fetish” is such a harsh word. Why not use a :nded, and with it, has gone the lies, homosexualfamilies, and sur- togetherness with permeable fam- kinder, gentler term like “hanker- y-1 rogate mother families. All are ily autonomy andcombines a con- d a n tobin ing,”or“passion,” or“obsession,” now recognized, if not fully ac- cern for parenting technique with 4-- -I- Book Misadventures In or “only reason to LIVE,” 01 1 cepted, as ways to constitute a an understanding of child devel- “WHATINEEDTOCONTINUE 1 Review family. opment - what Elkind calls the Dentistry BREATHING.” I The postmodem acceptanceof vital family. “A family is vital to But back to those middle names. I think my deep love for middle archetypal,self-sacrificing parents many different family structures the extent that it energizes and names stems from their utter uselessness. They just plain aren’t and the sheltered, guileless chil- has contributed to the disintegra- nurtures the abilities and talents of necessary to modem life. Well, unless you’reoneof GeorgeForeman’s dren. The home as a stress-free, tion of the walls between public both children and their parents,” sons, that is. According to a Meineke commercial (pointed out to me conflict-free, wholly-nurturing, and private life. This loss of pri- he writes. by SenatorJill), all of theprofessional boxer’s sons are named George and supportive environment is an vacy, Elkind argues, generally does Foreman, but each with a different middle name. ideal image which most now rec- more harm to children than to This is not a “child psychol- Mr. Foreman (senior) has perhaps taken a few too many shots to ognize as simplefallacy. What has adults because children are in ogy” bookgerse. In fact, psycho- the head, and his litter of junior brawlers are the rare exception to the supplanted it is the idea of the greater need of boundaries and logicaljargon or long psychologi- rule. To recap: middle names don’t do jack. home as a stress-arousing, con- protected spaces. cal discourse is nowhere to be My middle name does nothing for me, and because Copernicus flict-laden, sometimes remiss cir- To be sure, Elkind does not found. Rather, it is a cultural cri- proved tbat the world does in fact revolve around the Tobinator, I am cumstance. resist or repudiate this new accep- tique, a pastiche of sociology, phi- the only one who matters. And my middle name hasn’t gotten me What has become of the Ameri- tance of “nontraditional” families. losophy, history, and even humor money, it hasn’t gotten me friends, it hasn’t even gotten me a free :an family since June and Ward Rather, he asserts the family’s at times. As such, Elkind grounds lunch at Denny’s on my birthday. Come to think of it, it hasn’t gotten Cleaver appeared as standards for embeddedness in, and ongoing his ideas in popular culture -TV, me anything on my birthday, not even a card. And it hasn’t called in Moms and Dads across the coun- dynamic interaction with, other movies, and music - so that all over a week, it hasn’t remembered our anniversary, and now I’m try? And how has this shift from social institutions. And if some of readers, even if not having lived starting to wonder if my middle name is seeing other people without lune and Ward to Roseanne and the negative effects of postmodern through a particular family situa- my knowledge. It was all going so well, I thought... Dan affected the children of these life are to be checked, the social tion, can relate to the experience For those of you still with us: parental stereotypes? institutions that affect the family in some way. Invariably,the question is burning in your collectiveminds, “What In Ties That Stress: The New - the legal system, the school is dan tobin’s middle name? Would a guy who doesn’t even bother to Family Imbalance, David Elkind, system, the media - must be Finally, Elkind asserts that hu- capitalize his first and last names even have a middle one?” Okay, rufts professor of child study, pro- changed in order to buttress the man diversity is such that the show of hands. How many of you thought that, because of the weird poses that the needs of hurried changing family structure. nuclear family, the permeablefam- spacing in my name for the column, that my middle initials are A.N.? :hildren have been sacrificed to Nonetheless, in the old imbal- ily,and the vital family are all best Daniel A.N. Tobin? Come on -- no Daily columnist is pretentious the needs of their harried parents. ance, parents, especially mothers, suited to some. Hopefully, how- enough to do something like that with two middle initials and all. rhat is, whereas the imbalance in often sacrificed their own needs ever, the prevalence of the vital My middle name: Leopold. family structure previously and personal fulfillment. Which family will help redress the need- Okay, that’s a lie. It’s really Lawrence (as in Joey), but for some weighed in favor of the children, family structure could be consid- imbalance in all families. reason that even I don’t understand, I always tell people that it’s henew imbalancetilts towardtheir Leopold. Iwish it were Leopold. Not that Lawrence is aboring name, parents. Ismile and the world smiles with you but that Leopold is just so much better. To put it in SAT terms: The modern vision of child- “That’s you.” Lawrence : Leopold :: Chocolate : Heavenly Hash. ‘Nuff said. hood innocence and teenage im- “Yeah?’ Karlyn heard her name called. Little kids hate middle names. Ifit’s something like Thomas, fine. maturity, especi4ly sexual naivete, Theexcitement, the honor, and the pride of being named as having But I know people with middle names of Bernard, Joyce, Dee, has yielded to postmodern illu- the friendliest smile was simply overwhelming. After fiiling out the Radcliffe, Stone, Sacurada, and Cyprian. Try admitting those to the sions ofchildhoodcompetence and form, having her picture taken, and not thinking another thing about playground bully, whose middle name is most likely Biff. teenage sophistication. The mod- it, Karlyn Moon Kong was awarded the title of having the friendliest My friend, Paul Hirsch, says fiqtt be can’t wait to have kids so that :rn parent relied on intuition; the -smile in the smile search contest at the College Fest Way More he can give them messed up middle names. This is the kind of sadism postmodern parent relies on “How- Weere-- . ior2txufts, Karlyn was certainly that creates inferiority complexes in small children, and if you see to” books and technique. The happy about winning the award, though perhaps ecstatic would be Paul Hirsch around campus, you should immediately lay waste to postmodern family is mqre per- taking it a little too far. him. meable, more flexible, more ur- At the College Fest, there was a booth set up where people signed Actually, be merciful to him. That’s the kind of creativity that bane, but also out of ,balance be- up to compete in the contest and had their pictures taken. Since the makes for my utmost amusement, and for lame topics of columns as cause it fails to meet the needs of contest was sponsored by Colgate pharmaceuticals, there were the well. its children. Elkind argues that obligatory Colgate “smile searchers” who wandered around in their these changes have undermined happy Colgate t-shirts asking random people if they had signed up for I think the only real use for middle names is as an escape hatch. My the well-being of children and ado- the contest. friends, Auburn and Ronald, became Mark and Mike respectively lescents. What did they win? Well, toothpaste. It’s a smile contest, so For them, parents were even more sadistic than Paul Hirsch, and In contrast to the modern, naturally those who won would get a year’s supply of toothpaste. Or middle names were the only possible route for them to avoid ridicule nuclear family in which sentiments a professional tooth whitening. Or a duffel bag. As the winner of the H. Ross Perot did likewise, I’d imagine. such as progress, universality, and friendliest smile, Karlyn won the year’s supply of toothpaste, but The one I don’t understand is the fool who ran against Ted regularity prevailed, the Colgate ran out so they promised to send it to her. Kennedy for US Senate. Mitt Romney is a man with a stupid firs1 postmodern family has become an How do you judge a smile? There were five different categoriesof name. Mitt is not a name, it’s what you wear to take a hot pie out 01 arena in which sensitivity to dif- smiles judged: Sexiest Smile, Friendliest Smile, Coolest Smile, the oven, it’s what you catch a baseball in, it’s what you become when ference rather than to superiority, Goofiest Smile and most Dazzling Smile. The ten finalists, five men you’re playing tag (“I mitt!”). It’s just not a first name. And, as fate emphasis on the particular rather and five women, got on stage. Each one in had to smile in each style would have it, it’s not his first name. than any grand, unifying themes, and then they were judged. The name on the ballot said W. Mitt Romney. and acceptance of irregularity are When asked what most stood out from the whole experience, Evidently, he CHOSE to use the name Mitt. WHY? Even if his firs played. Karlyn replied after a few moments, “I’m still waiting for the name is Wendell or Wormface, it’s better than Mitt. Mitt is the kinc According to Elkind, these toothpaste.” of middle name you keep covered up hoping that Biff doesn’t ask you themes manifest within the family --Michael Garabedian I bet he would have won his Senate bid if he had called himsel in various ways. The independent WormfaceM. Romney. Much more Congressionaland distinguished schedules of postmodern family like. Mitt Romney makes him sound more like a Chippendale’ members are one evidence of its dancer. Not that I’d know... irregularity. Family meals, once Well, I suppose that I should endwith some tidbit of advice, somc an opportunity for togetherness nugget of wisdom that will both uplift and enlighten you. Sort of likc and communication, are now the the last five minutes on a TV sitcom where The0 admits that he wa second or third priority after dead- wrong and hugs his dad as the audience applauds and the theme son1 lines at work, late soccer practice, kicks in. or dance class. Unfortunately, Misadventures in Dentistry does not have a laugl Particularityand the postmodern trackor theme song (althoughI’m looking into acquiring both fornex celebration of human diversity has semester) and so this sort of ending seems a bit difficult. So instead led to role de-differentiation with I’ll leave you with a useless yet slightly relevant quote from my closc regard to gender and occupational personal friend, Tom Petty. roles, and also within the family. “I’ve been over to your house, and you’ve been over sometimestc This role de-differentiation has my house, I’ve slept in your tree house, my middle name is Earl.” extended to children in that, in You tell ‘em, Tom. some homes, children whose par- ents may both workdo much of the IL. II housecleaning,cooking, and care- Tufbjunior Karlyn Moon Kong (right) was the winner of Colgate’s giving for younger siblings. This Friendliest Smile Search. additional responsibility leads to increased stress for the child or adolescent. wetter $0 6e mubeau t9a.m I differenceThe postmodern has lead tosensitivity the accep- to $0 I Jneber fjabe Geen dcqe at a+) 11‘ I I page four THE TUFTS DAILY Wednesday, November 16,1994

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Netohinoky 5t15-6r05 (cross list XHan and His Era Histo- 116UW *I*(*indioatea a writing-workshop 8eOtiOn of a larger Course. and Religion 192Am) Wednesday, November 16,1994 THE TUFTS DAILY page five ARTS & ENTERTAINMENT The Jon Spencer Blues Explosion proves its clout on the new album ‘Orange’ displays bluesy grooves on their latest release by CHRISTOPHER BAV~Z It is the band’s direct approach calling the fast andgritty churning Contnbuting Wnter to songwritingand improvisation, of tracks like “Big Headed Baby” The cancellation of the Jon its manipulation of the familiar 1- and“History 0fSex”offtheband’s Spencer Blues ExPlosion’s Per- 4-5 chord progression, and underproduced Crypt Style LP, fOrmances~heduled for Saturday Spencer’sback porch whoops and while “Dissect” could easily have hollers which conjure up the blues been culled from the Extra Width imageryoftenshroudingtheJSBE. sessions. The almost mellow But don’t be fooled by the moni- groove of the albums’s title track Review ker. While they exude a blues atti- startswithalick thatrings of south- tude, the two-guitar attack of Jon em classic rock before dipping night at the Middle East and Sun- Spencer and Judah Bauer, backed into a snaky, syncopated riff. day at Lupos’s in Providence was by the fluid pounding of Russell surely the source of much dismay Siminsondrums,wouldlikelysend It is on “Flavor,” the album’s for Spencer fans throughout New Albert King and Doc Watson run- second-to-last track, that the band England. Despite assurances that ning for cover. reaches its peak, creating what may the band will swing through the Spencer’s affiliation with, well be the perfect Blues Explo- area sometime in December, the NYC’s pseudo-art noise kings, sion song. Introducing the band missedopportunitytoseetheSpen- Pussy Galore and Boss Hog, is and screaming that “the blues is cer crew live was quite a disap- evident and the bandseems to pay number one,” Spencer launches pointment. far more musical homage to into a stream of warped rambling This was especially true given swamp-rockers like the Birthday which tells of the Blues the strength of the JSBE’s latest Party, Scientists, and the Cramps Explosion’s domination of the release, Orange, on Matador than to the legends of the blues. blues-rock scene. Backed by a Records. While the album breaks Orange opens with duelingpairofbutt-shakingly fluid littlenew stylisticground, it shows “Bellbottoms,”agroovystoplstart guitar licks and funky drumming, the Blues Explosion honing the rocker which rivals perennial fa- Spencer eventually eases into a musical approach which spawned vorite, “Afro,” in terms of raw, distorted rap before delivering a Brad Pitt Louis in ‘Interview With the Vampire.’ 1993’sasioundingExtra Width LP. sing-a-long smoothness. As on quick burst bf his trademark wall For those unfamiliar with the Extra Wdth, Spencersupplements of feedback noise. Blues Explosion’s sound, it may his three-piece with an array of Cruise is impressive be best to start with the band’s horns and keyboards, even intro- It will be great to hear some of Drama well represented on screen apparent fascination with the blues ducing an epic soundtrack-esque these new tracks rendered live, by CAROLINE SCHAEFER living room floor clad in his un- mystique. While the band’s string section on the album’s open- stripped to fit the bare bones three- Daly Editorial Board derwear in teen flick Risky Busi- frontman claims to be no expert on ing track. piece line-up, buried beneath the When Interview with the Vam- ness possibly emote the ruthless, the subject of blues history, Spen- From there, the Blues Explo- I’ screamof Spencer’smagical feed- pire director Neil Jordan an- compulsive, and charismatic man- cer recently said, in an interview sion settles into an often recogniz- back device. We can only hope nounced that Tom Cruise would nerisms of Lestat? As Rice’s fol- with The Boston Phoenix that “I able groove, exploring familiar that the self-proclaimed “number lowers remained dubious, the could make an argument for us territory on tracks like “Ditch” one blues singer in the country” swarming anticipation which pre- being a blues band in what I think and “Full Grown.” “Dang” bursts recovers quickly and brings his ceded the film’s release mounted. ofasaverytruesenseofthe blues.” forth with punk rock energy, re- Blues Explosion back to Boston. Review i ., - 1 And last Fridav vamnire fanatics - .. w J - r--- and curious others flocked to the- “As far as we can discern, the sole purpose of -portray the vampire Lestat in his aters and were able finally to make adaptation of Anne Rice’s 1976 their own judgements on both human existence is to kindle a light in the , novel, fans of Rice’s vampire Cruise’s performance and the chronidda-e rself film’s success. darkness of mere being.” -- Carl Jung were livid. How could the very same actor who strutted across a see INTERVIEW, Page 12 The slacker grunge-rock alt-voisce- of Generation X

On April 8, 1994, Nirvana singer/songwriter/guitar spokespeople for Gen X.. ~ frontman for Green Day. The blue-haired punk rocker has player/superstar Kurt Cobain placed a shotgun to his Unfortunately, Courtney Love is most likely not the proved his Gen X clout on numerous occasions, most heroin-bloated temple, pulled the trigger, and splattered best choice for our future voice, as everybody around her notoriously in his band’s popular video for “Longview,” his brains all over his Seattle home’s floor. This conse- seems to have a heroin-selated death, nearly all of her songs where he gets bored with television and masturbation and quently concluded his brief yet remarkable life, sending start with the rathedew-ceotered phrase “I am...,” and she consequently decides to tear apart his living room couch angst-ridden teenagers across the globe -- who a few years actually sings the lyric “Someday you will ache like I ache” in a fit of twenty-something rage.

:;r a previously had thought with a straight, sad puss. Plus, considering her recent Jay Ruttenbe& of Nirvana as nothing behavior, it does not look like the aspiring vixen bitch will Of course, this same video also serves as Billie’s more than eternal bliss - live to see 1995. disqualification ticket, as the ugly thug shows himself Column into a state of mourning With Love eliminated from the contest, the most plau- stupid enough to believe that television and masturbation and disbelief. sible candidate is probably Pearl Jam’s Eddie Vedder. The are in any way boring. Of course, unless you spent the past months stuck deaf, singer, whose soulful baritone, pained lyrics, and rebel- In contrast to the young Hatch Shell hero is our eldesl dumb, and blind in the bottom of a well, you probably lious antics have captured pre-pubescent suburban hearts contestant, Jew Garcia. While the heftv Grateful Dead already know this. His death launched a media frenzy, ahd all around, would Cobain’s pouty mug appeared on televisions and periodi- make a dour yet pow- cals around the world. Journalists accustomed to writing erful spokesperson. about less weighty topics, such as politics and foreign Vedder all but affairs, attempted to explain the singer’s appeal using the eliminates himself very same buzzwords that Cobain sodetested. Needless to from the competition, say, his fans got mad. however, as the vo- But let’s face it; Cobain was, indeed, the slackergrunge- calist does not seem rock alt-voice of Generation X. He spoke for us, man. He very willing to assume knew our pain. Now that Cobain decided to desert his loyal the position. Also, the followers, leaving them to suffer through life without a high school drop-out voice, it is necessary for us to elect a new slacker grunge- ain’t exactly the rock alt-voice for Generation X. smartest boy in town. After Cobain’s death it only seems logical that his After Vedder, the widow, the beautiful Courtney Love, inherit her late next logical choice husband’s crown as the vocal representative for today’s becomes Weiland, the youth. Ms. Love, who sings and plays guitar in Hole, has troubled frontman of also appeared in such acclaimed films as Sid And Nancy. Stone Temple Pilots. Our beioved ex-spokesman, Kurt Cobain. experienced the hope- , The ever-eloquent girl has displayed her forensic talents The singer, whose soulful baritone, pained lyrics, and rebel- less despair our generation has been granted. He is thus on numerous occasions, most prominently at Cobain’s lious antics have captured pre-pubescent suburban hearts all eliminated from the competition. vigil, when she beautifully stated “He’s an asshole! An around, would make a dour yet powerful spokesperson. asshole! Asshole! Asshole!” Seeing that Vedder already turned down the position, There are some other contestants; including the late, “I give you a morning blow job, I make you f**king however, the feisty cantor is probably apt to reject the great River Phoenix, Nine Inch Nails’ evil demon of a breakfast, so leave me alone,” she once sweetly said esteemedpost. Plus, after seeing how muchattentionCobain frontman Trent Reznor, and that whiny sissy-boy who during a performance. Like Forrest Gump, the mentally received with his suicide, poor Weiland may grow slightly sings for the Counting Crows. Whomever we eventually limited yet fortune-struckLove has been everywhere and jealous and decide to end his life, too. choose, Generation X is currently in desperate need of a done everything, including Smashing Pumpkin Billy Perhaps the youngest contender for our Generation’s new slacker grunge rock alt-voice to vocalize our cursed Corgan and Lemonhead Evan Dando, two other possible future suokesman is Billie Joe(l), the hostile 22-vear-old pain and sorrow. page six THE TUFTS DAlLY Wednesday, November 16,1994 ATTENTION:

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Please sign up in the Campus Center and the dining halls Monday,Novembcr 14 through Friday, November I8 Wednesday, November 16,1994 THE TUFTS DAILY page seven SPORTS Tyson to Foreman: Cross country team ends season BEWARE!! with a fifth-place finish in Maine by GREGORY YOUMAN While the top two teams qualify Stelnik. “MIT proved that they’re Weekend warriors of the world unite! Middle-aged couch potatoes Daily Editorial Board for next week’s Nationals, the top a superior team. We had injuries, get up off your butts! Beef loving “real food for real people” people Perhaps Charles Dickens was six individual runners who are not but they were very solid. The fact ;how down on a celebratory cheeseburger! Fat bald men rub your talking about theTuftsmen’s cross on a qualifying team also receive that we lost to Brandeis and Colby heads with one hand and your pot .country team when he wrote A an invitation to thechampionship. surprisedme.” bellies with the other! Ben Margoles I ~ Northrop’s finish placed him third Fellow co-captain Frankel con- Why? among these athletes. curred with his teammate. “I’m So It Goes Because George Foreman, a Men’s . Should Northrop be one of the disappointedbecause this was my 45-year old, flabby, ex-heavy- X-COUntry top 25 to finish this Saturday, he last race and I had hoped to do weight boxing champion who just happens to love fast food in vast I - I 1 will gamer All-American honors. better. Brandeis left the door open quantities, is the new IBF and WBA heavyweight champion of the Tale of nYo Cities. It was the best A top-25 finish is not out of the for us to take third and we didn’t world -- a mere 20 years since he last held the belt. oftimes forMikeNorthrop, whose realm of possibility, but Northrop take advantage of it. Jeff [Stelnik] Something is definitely rotten with the state of boxing. eighth-place finish in 2553 earned is looking forward primarily to the and I would have had to be farther That’s not to say that Foreman’s tenth-round knockout of Michael him a place at Nationals. And it experience. up to make a real difference and Moorer on Saturday, Nov. 5 was fixed -- although that is apossibility was the worst of times for the “I’m extremely happy with my that just didn’t happen,” said .- but rather, the statement refers to the actual, current smell of the team, whose promising season race [last weekend] and I’d be Frankel.However, the loss to Colby is ioble art of pugilism. The fact is, almost every heavyweight fighter came to an abrupt end with a fifth- pleasedif I could be an All-Amen- low lacing up the gloves is either a corpse or a burnout with one foot place finish at the New England can, but I just hope to gain experi- what seemed to bother Frankel the n the grave. Championships in Gorham, ence at Nationals for next year most. “We aredefinitely the better Heavyweightboxing needs asavior. Larry Holmes?Tony Tucker? Maine. when we go as a team,” said team, but Colby just had a better rommy Morrison? Yeah, right. Riddick Bowe? Evander Holyfield? The championship is a quali- Northrop. day. They just snuck up on us,” he Lennox Lewis? None of them could consistently defend the titles they fier, in which the top two teams Following Northrop to the fin- said. mce held. receive a bid to race at the Na- ishlinewasBryanGraham,whose And althoughtheseason is over, So, who’s left? In the bellowing words of Joe Schmo Ring tional meet. Williams, the fourth- time of 2652 placed him 29th in the team can look back at this year 4nnouncer -- “Ladies and gentleman, the former and future heavy- ranked team in the country, placed the field of 207. Rich Hemingway as a breakthrough season. “We weight champion of the woorrlldd ... MIKE “SON!” their five scoring runners into the was the third Tufts finisher, cross- won two major invitationals and That’s right, Mike Tyson. The same man whose picture appeared top 12 positions and easily won ing the line in a time of 26:58. we were in the top five in every n a certain college paper on a certain campus in Massachusettsabout the meet with 33 points. Hemingway, only the fifth fresh- race we ran. We had a very consis- hree years ago and caused such a stir (for senior consumption only). However, going into the meet, man to the finish line, took 37th. tent year,” said coach Connie And yes, Tyson is the same boxer who was convicted of rape and the Jumbos knew the true battle Co-captain Matt Frankel was htnamin. snow in jail. But, the fact is, in Tyson’s heyday as champion he was would be for second place. To fourth for the Jumbos, 48th over- The team also found a leader in me of the best ever. Time and again, he pummeled opponents into earn the bid, Tufts would have had all in a time of 27: 14, while Jeff Northrop.The sophomorefinished submission,until James “Buster” Douglas took the title away with a to beattheMassachusettsInstitute Stelnikclosedoutthescoringwith first for the Jumbos in every race Duke knockout. of Technology and Brandeis, two a 55th place finish in 27:23. during the season. He also found a Tyson was the type of fighter who would have made Joe Louis, teams they had not defeated all Matt Greenhawt, who replaced fan in outgoingcaptain Jeff Stelnik. lack Dempsey, and Rocky Marciano proud. And when he gets out of season. Saturday did not prove to an injured Mike Harty, continued “To be as consistent as Northrop iail, which should be soon, Big George had better look out. be the exception. toshine forthe Jumbos, onceagain has all season is quite an accom- But sadly, it looks like he might not. Foreman has talked openly Massachusetts Institute of setting apersonal best in a time of plishment,” said Stelnik. about a possible fight with Tyson since taking the title from Moorer. Technology, behind the strength 27:36 and finishing 66th. Scott The inevitable result would be a massacre. When Tyson gets out of of the third and fourth place fin- Masiella, who fell backduring the One race remains for Mike pi1 he will be ready -- ready to regain his old form and retake the title. ishers, took the second position race due to an injury, rounded out Northrop. A top 25 finish would Why does Foreman want to fight Tyson? The major reason is with79 points. Brandeis took third the top seven with a time 27:38 in give him a spot in school history. money. A Foreman-Tyson bout would be the richest in boxing history. with 166 points, while Colby sur- 70th place. He would become just the third But the new champ has another answer for why he wants to fight prised the Jumbos with their stron- While the team’s fifth-place fin- runner in the past 14 years to earn ryson. gest meet of the season, vaulting ishis the second-bestperformance All-American honors, and the first “Because he wouldn’t run €ro‘fl;p$” Foreman was quoted as into fourth place with 168 points. in team histw, the teamcan’t help sophomore to do so in recent saying in arecent AssociatedPress ankle by John Nelson. “That’s the The Jumbos, who ran a didyet but be a bit disappointed.1-__ -&ory; He is the new team leader, me thing I’d love to have, a guy attacking me. I might even have to unimpressive race, placed fifth “We didn’t do as well as I ex- a position that will be his for the Jo the Ali shuffle.” with 177 points. pected,” said co-captain Jeff next two years. Curiously, it was Muhammed Ali’s shuffle that ended Foreman’s ast reign as heavyweight champion in 1974 (!?!), one year after Big 3eorge had taken the title from Joe Frazier. Ali put Foreman on the Successful season for volleyball nat to take the belt, and the result will be the same if Vson gets a title shot. 1974. but no postseason play this year On the one hand, it’s amazing that Foreman is heavyweight :hampion again after 20 years, but on the other hand ... 1974!Most of Jumbos finish with third consecutive 20-victory season he students now in attendance at that certain university cited above by ERIC POLISHOOK formance also could be contrib- Conference (NESCAC) Champi- were babies, or yet to be born, in that year. Tyson was a mere toddler. Senior Staff Writer uted to inexperience and a lack of onships to rival Bates. Because of What does it all mean? The women’s volleyball team cohesiveness. The team had nine this loss, the Jumbos did not ad- Simply this: Foreman should take the torch he’s now carrying for found out last week that it did not matches in the first two weeks and vance into the postseason. ill of the middle-aged weekend warriors out there and do a little advance to the playoffs this sea- had little practice time together. Tufts was lead by senior cap- lance. Call it the Foreman Retirement Shuffle.There’s nothing wrong The squad also had only three se- tain Laurel Reichmann, who was with going out on top -- ask Michael Jordan. niors. named to the All-Northeast Re- And once Foreman calls it quits, his place in history will be secure, However, disappointment gion team. She was also named to tnd he will be free to live happily ever after on television -- on talk turned to joy, as the Jumbos went the NESCAC All-Tournament ihows, and in commercials. I on a 15-game winning streak. team and was a league All-star. However, if Foreman decides to get in the ring with Tyson, it will son. However, that did not tate Freshman Brooke Jamison said, Sherecorded a team-high 356 kills. )e ugly. So ugly that middle-aged men will cringe, and Foreman’s away from the fact that it had a “At midseason, we had a big team ‘Senior Lisa Alferes had 147 mce-cute face will look like ... a cheeseburger.- successfulseason. Assistant coach ’ meeting and decided that wecould kills and recorded 60 aces. Senior Kris Herman said, “It is unfortu- not accept losing.”Lineup changes Katie Kumler had 1I7 kills. Set- Sadajam wins IM volleyball crown nate that we were left with a nega- were also implemented as Jamison ters Marni Rachich and Stefanie Birbrower recorded 387 and 299 The Fall intramural volleyball season came to an exciting close on tive feeling because we had agood was moved into the starting lineup season.”Tufts finished the season and Ciara Rice was inserted into assists, respectively. rhursday when Sadajam defeated In A Cow. The finals were ex- tremely close, but in the end, Sadajam proved too skillful for the rest with a 21-15 record. the first team’s front row. The Jumbos’ season started Tufts’ win streak started at the Next year the team will lose of the competition. three valuable seniors;Reichmann, The intramural football league is still reeling from DeltaUpsilon’s dimly as the team got off to a BowdoinInvitationa1,whenTufts disappointing 3-8 start. Herman beat some of New England’s best Alferes, and Kumler. Reichmann shocking loss in the quarterfinals. An unknown independent team, attributedthisto theirtough sched- teams. Herman said, “The team and Alferes were four-year start- the Marauders, shocked DU 6-2, and sent number-one seed Delta ers and will be seriously missed. Upsilon packing earlier then they have in four years. The other three ule. “We played the toughest came into every game prepared. schedule out of any Division 111 With proper preparation, the team However, a lot of young talent was teams in the semifinals are Sigma Nu, Sig Ep, and UP. The finals will displayed this season as the young be played on Wednesday, Nov. 16, at 3:45 on Fletcher Field. school in New England,” said the showedtheirimmensenatural abil- five nation- ity.” players got a lot of playing time. The intramural soccer playoffs will be played this week. Favorites coach. “We played ally-ranked teams. This tough However, the streak stopped Tufts sports fans have to hoping include Los Gorditos, Rank Pony, and Charismatic Megafauna. schedule helped us grow as a with a giant thud as the Jumbos that the Jumbos will start a new Commissioner Derek Polley picks Rank Pony to win it all, while team.” lost in the quarterfinalsof the New streak next year and go on to make former commissioner Matt Filosa likes Los Gorditos. However, The Jumbos’ early season per- England Small College Athletic the postseason. neither has ever been confused with aprophet. Games will be played in the Cage week nights Monday through Thursday. Just a reminder that basketball and floor hockey sign-ups will be wor s. held in the Campus Center on Monday, Nov. 21 from 1O:OO a.m. to Unscramble these d noon, and on Tuesday, Nov. 22 from 12:OO to 2:OO p.m. Basketball sign-ups are by team, and floor hockey is by individual. Then act on them. etrwi rotssp. --Matt Bernstein I ARE YOU DESPERATE FOR A Join The Tufts Daily! 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MOfiTAIN9:30 CLUB 7iiN1q:' Wednesday, November 16,1994 THE TUFTS DAILY page nine Reynolds pleads for 1 The Tufts Daily - Where you read it first I continuity in Ireland DUBLIN,Ireland(AP)--Primeseven months, Whelehan’s office Minister Albert Reynoldspleaded took no action on the request from Tuesday for his government’s life, Northern Ireland for the Rev. urging lawmakers not to jeopar- Brendan Smyth, accused of mo- INTERESTED IN STUDYING IN dize a historic chance to achieve lesting children for more than 20 peace in Northern Ireland. years. MADRID DURING THE The government’s fate will be Smyth returned voluntarily to decided Wednesday when Northern Ireland last year, where Reynolds’ coalition partners vote he was convicted and is serving a on whether to withdraw from the four-year sentence. 2-year-old coalition with the prime Reynolds admitted that the at- ACADEMIC YEAR 1995-1996 minister’s Fianna Fail party. torney general’s office had failed In a speech to parliament on badly in not responding to the ex- Tuesday, Reynolds said the gov- tradition request. But he said OR erning coalition should not be al- Whelehan was not personally re- lowed to founder after attaining sponsible for the failure and de- SPRING SEMESTER 1996 the biggest achievement in North- fended Whelehan’s appointment ern Ireland in a quarter-century -- to the senior judicial post. the IRA’SSept. 1 truce. He apologized for any offense “I believe the national interest to Labor ministers for pushing requires continuity at this time,” through the appointment after they he said in a speech to the Dail, the walked out of the Cabinet on Fri- lower house of parliament, broad- day. TUFTS EN MADWED’S RESHDENT cast nationwide on radio and tele- Some Labor members said vision. Tuesday that Reynolds’ speech had DERECTQRS “In particular, it is my profound failed to saved the government.“I convictionthat we have to give the don’t think there was enough ... to DlR. ANGEL BERENGUER fragile Northern peace process the satisfy the Labor Party,” John best possible chanceof permanent Mulvihill of Cork said. AND consolidation.” “There was no real apology,” Reynolds said it would be “a said Labor lawmaker Joe Costello DIR. JOAN BEWENGUEW great pity if a government that is of Dublin. achieving rapid economic Labor Party leader Dick Spring, progress, that has achieved the the foreign minister and deputy >- biggest breakthrough in Northern prime minister, did not speak in ‘ Ireland in over 25 years, and that Parliament and gavena clue to his WkL HOLD A GENERAL INFORMATION has a fine legislative program, intentions. should be placed in jeopardy over Spring was deeply involved in MEETING ON misunderstandingssurrounding a diplomatic moves leading to the single judicial appointment.” Irish Republican Army’s cease- The coalition crisis developed fire, which began Sept. 1. ’ over Reynolds’ appointment of a On Tuesday, Reynolds praised WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 16,1994 conservative, Attorney General Spring’s “essential contribution” AT 1 ZOO-P.M. 3:OO P.M. Harry Whelehan, as president of to the Northern Ireland peace pro- - 5 the high court. nemove angered cess. LAMIAN LOUNGE, OLlN BUILDING coalition partners in the Labor “I believe tH& we can go for- Party, who walked out of a Cabi- ward from here and build on that .I/ net meeting on Friday. The oppo- success,” Reynolds. “I know that sition Fine Gail Party formally Dick Spring and the Labor Party called for a no-confidence vote for are the right partners to achieve PROSPECTWE STUDENTS,FOlEPMERSTWENTS, Wednesday. that goal,” Reynolds said. If the Labor Party doesn’t back Leaders of Sinn Fein, the party --mDFRESHMAN CORDMLLY Reynolds in Wednesday’s vote, allied to the IRA,has expressed INVWED. Ireland could face national elec- alarm at the Irish government cri- tions, or a scramble to form a new sis. Following- the cease-fire, government with other parties. Reynolds welcomed Sinn Fein Whelehan wascriticizedfornot president Gerry Adams in Dublin IF UNABLE TO ATTEND THE ABOVE MEETING, PLEASE extraditing a priest charged with and has prodded Britain to move JOIN THE BERENGUERS ON NOVEMBER 17th FROM sexually abusing children. For faster with the talks. 6r00 - 8200 p.m. IN THE LARGE CONFERENCE ROOM IN THE CAMPU§ CENTER FOR A PIZZA/ INFORMATION GET- TOGETHER. RECYCLE/ IIRECT ANY QUESTIONS TO THE PROGRAMS ABROAD OFFICE 627-3152

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proved nearly $300 million. ;“i’?equirements;Yachmetz said. a ’ ’ Amtrak hopes electrification will reduce travel time from Bos- The FRA also studied two al- ton to New York City to under ternate routes -- an inland line three hours and increase ridership through Hartford, Conn., and on the busy Northeast corridor by Springfieldand Worcester, Mass., more than three million passen- and a so-called airline route gersperyear, in part by siphoning through Middletown and travelers from Boston’s congested Willimantic, Conn., Woonsocket, Logan Airport. R.I., and Walpole, Mass. -- but Construction, expected to take found they would result in higher about three years, is slated to be- costs and delays.

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Wednesday, November 16,1994 THE TUFTS DAILY page eleven Police further injure Student Activities brings Run-DMC to Tufts CONCERT continued from page 1 graduated from Tufts two years According to O’Dair, the Con- victim of a shootout ago. “He used to play in Hotung cert Board show sold out in 32’ SAN FRANCISCO (~p)__ A move it and pulled out a gun. out like Hoffa.” Cafe ... we brought him back be- minutes, leaving many students homeless man shot while strug- PinckneY’s friend ran- Thegroup consistsof three 28- cause he made it big,” Carl said. who waitedin line without tickets. gling with a crazed gunman “I struggled with him with the YearoldmenfromNew YorkCity, He noted that the group performs When questioned as to why the shouted a warning to arriving of- .45 -- it hit the ground and then I Joseph Simmons (Run), Darryl rap music accompanied by live two concerts were scheduled SO ficers, only to be beaten later by started to turn,” Pinckney said. “I McDaniels (DMC), and Jason instruments and said that the close to each other, she explained police who mistook him for a SUS- saw the muzzle of arifleand that’s Mizell(JamMasterJay). The trio’s group’s latest album is entitled that “bands tend to go on tour at pect, he said Tuesday. when he hit me in the leg.” long-lived careers led Details to Rooftop Soundtrack. thesametime.”She wenton to say “One officer put his foot on my Pinckney ducked between two name Run-DMC “one of the four Run-DMC will be the second that the popularity of one show throat __ he kept grinding my face parked cars only a few feet from biggest fashion influences of the of two concerts to be held at Tufts does not preclude the Success Of into the concrete,” said Robert Boutwell. Eighties.” in just over a one-week span of theother. “It’sacompletelydiffer- Pinckney, pointing to about 20 “He didn’t say nothing. He just Carl cited that the concert’s re- time at the end of the month. Stu- ent kind of music [from the Mer- stitches. started shootingoffthe weapons,” duced-- budget this year caused the dent Activities, according to chantperformance1,”O’Dairsaid. “I told him, ‘I’m not the sus- Pincney said. “I could he& him Student Activities Office to sign O’Dair, works closely with the pect, I’m the victim.’ They just loading and unloading his weap- “one big act” instead of two bands Concert Board, which is also spon- told me to shut up.” ons. I kept praying, ‘Hey, police, as it had last year. However, the soring a fall concert. The Concert The real gunman, a drifter take this guy out.” concert will include another rap Board’s concert on Nov. 22 will named Vic Lee Boutwell, was He said he tried to warn the first band with a Tufts connection. feature former 10,OOO Maniacs killed by police Sunday after a 25- officer to arrive, James Guelff, One member of the opening lead singer Natalie Merchant. minute shootout during which he who was shot to death. act, a New York rap group called Hundredsof studentslinedallthree killed apoliceofficer and wounded “I told him, ‘Watch out, he’s Justice System, is a recent gradu- levels of the Campus Center on another policeman, Pinckney and got weapons, he’s got guns,” ate of Tufts. According to Carl, Monday evening to purchase tick- aparamedic. He fired an estimated Pinckney said. John Dawson of Justice System ets for the Merchant show. 100 rounds from an assault rifle “Later on I could hear this ‘ and three automatic pistols. moaning down the street. Iguess it LAST NIGHT I DISCWERED A Pinckney was taken to San was him.” Francisco General Hospital in As Pinckney looked out from NEW F@Rm bF @RAL handcuffs where he underwent between the car, he took another surgery. bullet in the arm. CBBNTRACEPTIVE. I ASKED A GIRI,. u~~c~imrmrrply’. Officer Howard Weathersby, a When the shooting finally II Tua a SaumYno( iddudcd Lll police spokesman, said the de- ended, Pinckney said he screamed T@ G8 T@ BED WITH IIIE AND partment could not comment be- , for help, but in the dark, officers cause the case was under investi- thought he was a suspect. He was SHE SAID Ne. gation. For a while Sunday, police handcuffed and pushed face down WWDDYALLEN thought there were two gunmen. onthepavement,which was strewn Pinckney, 35,said he was about with glass. to have a beer with a friend when The arm wound may have he heard shots and ran around a caused nerve damage and corner, where he saw Boutwell. Pinckney needs more surgery be- “I actually went up and asked fore it can be determined if he’ll him if he was OK because I was walk normally, said Dr. Nicolas EARN UP TO $225!! hearing pops, pops, and I wanted Nelken. Are you interested in being part of a research study using to know if he was the victim,” VoltarerP, a currently marketed eye drop? Pinckney said Tuesday from his Originally from Santa Rosa hospital bed. Pinckney had been living in a1 We need people who are: Boutwell asked Pinckney and underground parking garage ii his friend to help move a person exchangefor watchingtheplacea over 18 years of age fromonecartotheother, but when night. He says he doesn’t knov in general good health Pinckney lookedin the vehicle, he what he’ll do now. wilIing to avoid contact lenses saw only belts and clips of ammu- I .* “I’lljust play it by ear,” he saic nition. Boutwell ordered him to looking at his wounds. and eye medications for 7 weeks If you qualify, you will be asked to use the eye drops we 44T~be prepared for are studying for 6 weeks and come to 4 office visits. * * * Studies should be conducted with all ethnic pups. War is one of the most We would like to increase the diversity of OUT patient population and we need better repksentation in effectual means of the Black & Hispanic population. preserving peace.”

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I I I UP TO $150 OFF! Wed. - Fri., Nov. 16-18,llAM - 4 PM,Tufts Bookstore I THE TUFTS DAILY Wednesday, November 16,1994 page twelve .- erforms surprisingly well in adaptation of Anne Rice 96s Vampiye’ INTERVIE his vamDirism. and the subseauent had an enormousassignment when Where Pitt fails, however, This gloom adds to the plot, creat- continued from page 5 interveition of Lestat effecti’vely faced with Rice’s script. For the Kirsten Dunst succeeds. In por- ing its characteristicallymystical, . For the most part, devout Rice creates Claudia (Kirsten Dunst), a most part he succeeds in affecting traying the impish and difficult storybook quality, perfectly remi- followers are treated to a well- child-size vampire driven by her the emotions and drama charac- Claudia, Dunst confers just the niscent of the 1800s. executed film version of the first unrelenting appetite for mortal teristic of the novel, though his right combination of obstinance An integral theme of the film is ofRice’s vampire chronicles. De- blood. Essentially adopted by subtle alterations of trivial facts and obsession, while capturingthe graphic violence, IxandiAed spite a disappointing finale which Louis and Lestat, Claudia comes doznothing to improve the story. biting wit and insatiable appetite through images of punctured flesh contradicts crucial themes of the to realize her imprisonment in the Much to the surprise of the of the child vampire.ThoughDunst and rushing blood. One of themost novel, the film’s sequence keeps body of a nine-year-old, and be- general public and Rice herself, previously appeared in both New graphic scenes features Lckis’ to Rice’s tale almost exactly, since comes consumed with a retribu- Cruise competently portrays York Stories and The Bonpre of crazed sword-slashing rampage Rice herself authored the script. tive drive to free herself and Louis Lestat, indeed a challenging role. the Vanities, her success in de- through the Theater of the Vam- The story begins in present day through killing Lestat. He manages to fill the screen with manding role of Claudia must be pires. The gore is unmistakabke, a

with an eager reporter, played by I Followinlg Lestat’s apparent powerful presence, delivering his recognized. While at times her recurrent focus in current films. Christian Slater, who wishes to demise, Claudia and Louis travel lines withafervoronlykstat him- character becomes oddly annoy- Yet Louis’ murderous moves are interview the 200 year-old vam- to Europe to find others of their self could have exuded. At points ing, Dunst’s ability to personify an depicted in a bombastic, almost pireLouis, portrayed by BradPitt. nature. In France they encounter Cruise’s French accent falters, yet adult trapped in a child’s body in laughable sequence akin to after- As the interviewer’s tape recorder the Parisian Theater of Vampires, his intensity allows us to feel all the later scenes of the film is re- noon cartoons. These portraits of whirs, Louis spins the tale of his under the guidance of a mysteri- that Lestat feels and crave all that markable.‘ Her talent bolsters the brutality are completely suireal, birth and experience as a vampire. ous vampire:named Armand (An- Lestat craves. When Lestat is in cast’s foundation and contributes reinforcing the film’s mystical Transformed from human to vam- tonio Banderas). pain, we the audience are also in to our understanding of the film. character. pire in 1791, Louis explains his The script strays from the pain, and we are somehow able to Rice herself even applauded life as a New Orleans plantation novel’s stoiyline in the conclu- sympathize with even his most Dunst’s portrayal of Claudia, a The theme of monsters and gore owner, mourning the recent death sion, when the present day inter- merciless wishes and cruel im- ctiaracter Rice created to help has become increasingly present ofhis wifeduringchildbirth. Over- viewer imploresan approximately pulses. soothe the pain of losing her daugh- incurrentfilms within thepastfew whelmed with sorrow, Louis en- 200 year-old vampire to convert Playing opposite to Cruise’s ter to leukemia in the early 1970s. years, as a wave of gothic Roman- countersthe enigmaticLestat (Tom him to the dark existence akin to Lestat, Brad Pitt’s Louis suffers in As an eerie side note; Claudia was ticism has pervaded Hollywood. Cruise), who covets his plantation Lestat’s. Though both the novel comparison. His pretty boy pout also the name of Rice’s daughter. Such films as Batman and 1992’s Pointe du Lac, and seeks to gain a and the film share the interviewer’s and whiny excuses do not invoke An unfortunate component to Bram Stoker’s Dracula launched companion in the process. In this yearning, the fate of the lad is our empathy, nor does his passion the cast is AntonioBanderas, who the trend, providing a tradition to pursuit, Lestat transforms Louis markedly different. In fact, the fi- compare to Cruise’s. This weak plays French vampire Armand. which newer films such as Mary to one of his own kind in a graphic nal scenes of the film serve only to link in the cast is troubling, since Fresh from the set of Philadel- Shelley’s Frankenstein and Inter- and complex conversion process. ’confuseviewers, provoking ques- Rice’s focal character should be, phia, in which he portrays Andy’s view with the Vampire follow. Louis is drained of his human blood tions which the novel implicitly nothing short of brilliant in his (Tom Hanks’) lover, Banderas Viewers first comment on the to the point of death, and rejuve- answers in a brilliant and mystical role. Yet Pitt provides only aluke- failed to enunciate his lines, all of graphic blood and gore which nated by Lestat’s own vampire manner. Rice followers and the will inrenditionofLouis andview- which provided crucial insight into today’s technology allow special blood, fueling him with the dis- novel’s lovers cannot help being ers cannot experienceLouis’ guilt the drama, and left the audience effects crews to create. Yet be- tinct and insatiable drive to hunt disappointed in the film’s finale. or pain to the extent Rice wishes bewildered about much of Louis neath this harsh surface of vio- mortal blood. Despite adissatisfying andeven us to. and Claudia’s experience in Paris. lence lies a uniquely human core However, the transformed baffling ending, the filmdoes well Though the on-screen chemis- Though his pale skinned, dark- which tells a story not of blood- Louis finds himself unable to match in adhering to the novel’s plot. try of Cruise and Pitt is marred by haired image appeared appropri- shed. but of loss. Lestat’s vigorous and aggressive Director Neil Jordan deserves rec- Cruise’s superior performance, ate, Banderas’ depicted Armand’s vampiric nature. While Lestat ognition for his ability to affect all there are moments where the two actions and emotions so indis- Interview with the Vampirecap- feeds on three to four humans each of Rice’s gloom and morose drama, seem enraptured in each other. The tinctly that only those who had tures the eccentricity of Rice’s tale, ;evening (“aristocrat blood was his even Fescciing her cynicism and homoerotic nature of their rela- read Rice’s work seemed to have a yet Jordan’s direction instills the ifavorite:’ ~ogisSAYS), Louis can- wit in the process. Scenes move at tionship seduces viewers, draw- clue to the movie’s sequence dur- film with embtions wjth which all not ignore his respect for human a brisk pace, sparing viewers of ing them into the story and allow- ing his scenes. audiences can relate. Only the su- life, and is reduced to feeding too much carnage while holding ing them to feel both the passion Due to the nature of its subject, perficial is fantastical; the typk’sof nightly on the blood of rats, hens, the attention of even the fussiest which unites the vampires and the the entire film is extremely dark. relationships and sentiments of and even poodles. and impatient moviegoer. Direc- cumpetition and tension that builds loyalty, regret and love depi%ted - In fact when light appearson screen Louis’s eventual surrender to tor of The Crying Game, Jordan between them. at last, viewers are forced to squint. are Just the Same as OUT own. ,Pentagon says many Army divisions not cambat-ready - WASHINGTON (AP) -- A with you and others to avoid a prevent the cancellation of some “lag of several months” this year of Iraq’s invasion of Kuwait uarter of the.United States Army repetition of these circumstances trainingexercisesthatwere needed. between the administration’s re- 1990. divisions are not fully ready for in the future.” to enable Amy divisions to main- quest for additional funds andcon- Bacon, the Pentagon spok combat, senior Pentagon officials Pentagon officials made the tain their readiness grades. The gressional approval of them. man, said that when Deutch made said Tuesday. letter public and discussed the units that suffered would be used But Sen. JohnMcCain,R-Ariz., that statement he “did not know of Theembarrassingadmission by problem in an unusual 5 p.m. EST to reinforce rapid deployment who heads a Senate panel study- those reports” about degraded the Clinton administration comes briefing. Earlier in the day, Rep. forces sent in the first phases of a ing the readiness issue, said the readiness among the Army divi- amonth after Deputy Secretary of Floyd Speince, R-S.C., incoming conflict. problem stems from the Clinton sions. Defense John Deutch, the No. 2 chairman of the House Armed “What we’re dealing with is a * administration’s failure to ask for The Army regularly measures official at the Pentagon, declared ServicesCommitteeunderthenew small section of ’the force that is sut’ficient funds to begin with. thereadiness ofits divisionsbased the armed forces more capable Republican majority, had sharply not as ready as the rapidlydeploy- -McCain termed current readiness on the level of training, the avail- .than they’ve been in years. criticized IDeutch for expressing ingforceis,”saidPentagohspokes- “terrible, ver) poor.” abilit$and condition of equipment Because of cuts in paining, satisfaction with the state of the man Kenneth Bacon. “It,doesp’t , ,Spencer,currently the ranking ando$erfactors. “C-1”isthehigh- -threeoutof 12Armydivisionsare armed forces. ’mean they’re just sittingh’their ’ Repubhcankin the House Armed est rating; “C-4” is the lowest. suffering “significantdecreases in In an era of declining defense barracks not doing anything.They Services Committee, said he was One .&my rapid deployment flexibility and increases in vulner- spending, “readiness,” the ability just missed some big training ex- concerned about a “disturbing division and one armored cavalry ability” according to an official to get well-trained forces into a ercises.” misinterpretationof the gravity of regiment are rated C-2, meaning Army assessment.Two other divi- hostile situation quickly, has be- In addition to the $1.7 billion the readiness problem.” they have the required resources sions are rated below full readi- come the watchword of the 1990s. shortfall, the Pentagon also plans In a letter to Deutch, Spence to meet most wartime contingen- -, nessandcanperformmost, but not Perry said the problem to go to Congress early next ye&’ Faid there is.!clear evidence that cies. Threeresuppiy divisions are all, wartime missions, a senior stemmed from an unusual number to ask for an as-yet-unspecified “US military units are caught in rated C-3, meaning they require Army official said. of foreign crises that developed in amount to cover the continuing .the. early stages of a downward “addi.tiona1 training or resources The precise Army divisions the summer and fall -- the last cost of deployments in Haiti and rea’dinessspiralthatshowsnopros- toundertakewartimemissionsbyt involved are classified. But De- months of the fiscal year -- and elsewhere. pect pf easing in the foreseeable may be ready to deploy.” The re’st fense Secretary William Perry, in forced thePentagon todrain money Perry’s letter, which went to the future.” of the divisions are rated C-1 . a letter sent Tuesday to congres- from training accounts to keep chairmen and ranking members of He said cpmbat units are main- The Army plans to have the sional leaders, said the readiness troops in the field. Those commit- the House and Senate Armed Ser- taining short-term readiness only lower-rated units up td full readi- problem centers on “three later ments included the Rwanda relief vices Committees and defense through a “desperate‘shell game’ ness by next spring. deploying heavy reinforcing divi- operation, the occupation ofHaiti, appropriations subcommittees, withdwindlingresources.”Spence Army Chief of Staff Gen. Gor- sions.” the dispatch of troops to the Per- seems to place the onus on Con- specifically mentioned problems don Sullivan told reporters Tues- “The Army is carrying out a sian Gulf, and Navy operationsoff gress. with readiness ratings in Army day morning that “there’s not a lot readinessrecoveryplantoputthese of Cuba. “Wemust work together topro- units. of money there and I’m always divisions on a sounder readiness These commitments overran vide timely supplemental appro- Spence wrote the letter to ob- scratchingto pull things together.” footing,” Perry said. “Neverthe- Pentagon accounts by $1.7 bil- pnations,”Perry wrote. “When we ject to statements by Deutch on But he added, “We came through less, I am not satisfied with the lion. Congress has since provided do not have rapid approval ofthese Oct. 13 that US forces are “more fouryealsofchangeingoodshape” current readiness of these divi- $1.5 billion in supplementalfund- appropriations, we put our readi- ready and capable than they’ve and “I don’t think we’ve b sions and am determined to work ing, but the funds came too late to ness at risk.” He complained of a ever been,” including at the time stretched too thin.”

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SO STOP BY OUR OFFICE IN TH€ BAS€M€NT OF CURTIS HALL TO GET THINGS GOING. WE'D BE OVERJOY€D TO $E€ YOU. REALLY WE WOULD. page fourteen THE TUFTS DAILY Wednesday, November 16,1994 Former beauty queen charged with attempted murder LEWISBURG, W.Va. (AP)-- On the night of Feb. 26, wear- ,home, saying her car had broken Weikle’s wife, Carlynn, then “weekend girlfriend.”Lippard and Tracy Lippard,astatuesqueblonde ing a black sequin dress with her down, Greenbrier County Pros- walked into the kitchen as Lippard Scott had a “blow-up argument” from Virginia, crowned her SUC- hair swept to one side, the 6-foot ecutor Richard Lorensen said. pulled a gun from her coat pocket, 11days beforethe attack,Lorensen cessor as Miss Williamsburg and Lippard sang the pageant theme Weikle told her where a nearby Weikle said. said. sang two songs on stage. Then, song, Whitiiey Houston’s “I’m service station was, but she de- ‘‘I got my hand on the gun to with pistol, butcher knife and Every Woman,” and also per- clined the help and said she would turn it away from where my wife A week before the attack, lighter fluid, the beauty queen formedCe1ineDion’s“ThePower try to get the car started, Lorensen was and took her down on the Lippard was seen by a neighbor drove 250 miles on an alleged ofLove.” said. ground with one arm on her neck “scouting out” the Weikle house, mission to snuff out her romantic “She was in a very good mood Lorensen said she returned to and one hand on the gun,” Weikle. Lorensen said. rival. that whole weekend,” Kristen the door several minutes later in said. “My wife got the other hand Scott, a construction worker, The attempt in February was Dutton, enbry chairman for the an overcoat, concealing a 9mm and we held her on the ground.” said he dated Mrs. Scott before foiled by her target’s father, a pageant, told The Washington pistol allegedly stolen from a Police who arrested Lippard meeting Lippard and found out former Secret Service agent who Post. friend, a knife and a hammer. found lighter fluid, matches and soon after he started seeing Lippard put her in a headlock and wrestled Early the: following morning, Lippard asked to use the tele- the knife with her. They also found that Mrs. Scott was five months her to the ground, police said. Lippard lefi. Williamsburg, near phone and Weikle offered her a a list of questions in her car that pregnant. Lippard, a23-year-olddentist’s her hometown of Newport News, glass of water while they waited she apparently prepared to ask “She knew thefacts,”Scott said daughter with a dazzling smile, Va., for Lewisburg, where Mrs. for the phone to be free, Lorensen Scott: “Are you in love with Mel- of Lippard. “I talked about the goes on trial Wednesday on at- Scott lived with her parents. said. Weikle led Lippard into the issa? How long did you date her? baby all the time.” tempted murder charges. Along the way to West Vir- kitchen, where she pulled out the If she were not pregnant, would “Iguessshewasgoingtokillus ginia, police said, Lippard hammer and struck him twice in you still be thinking of her?’ Scott, who was living in High all and burn the house down,” said switched license plates on her red the head, the prosecutor said. Scott said he met Lippard in Point, N.C., at the time, sGd he Rodney Weikle, the father of Toyota,puttingon stolenNewYork “Although I hadn’t been in that November 1993inNewportNews, called his pregnant girlfriend after Lippard’s rival, Melissa Scott. tags after she received a ticket in -situation for 20 years, it didn’t where she had studied political the attack. “While I had Melissa ---1 At the time of the attack, Mrs. Virginia for going 80 mph in a 65 takemelongtoreact,”saidWeikle, science at Christopher Newport on the phone, she mentioned that Scott, 24, was eight months preg- mph zone. 5 1, who teaches high school math University, and dated her just two the woman was about 6-foot-1 and nant by a man Lippard had dated. Lippard, “wearing a blazer and .and coaches baseball. “I twirled or three times. blonde,” he said. “I got off the Mrs. Scottandtheboyfriend,Todd looking ccillegiately dressed,” her around and put her in a Lorensen, however, said Scott phone and said to myself, ‘No Scott, 26, married in August. knocked on the door of the Weikle headlock.” was a“Don Juan” and Lippard his way. It couldn’t be.”’ Classif iedsClassifieds Iassifiedsl 3assifiedsI :lassifieds

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Chaplain’s Table “From Peace Corps Volunteer to Fulbrig Today Research Scholar: Sorting out the Spiritual a~ the Social.’’ Tufts Mountain club MacPhie conference Room, 5:00-700p.m Emergency general meeting regarding the Loj. Lane 100,9:30p.m. Tufts Art Gallery Paneldiscussion:Educatingthe Artist:TheTuA AIDS Outreach Museum School Model. General Meeting. Aidekman Arts Center, 7:30-8:30 p.m. LCS Office, 9:30 p.m. Chinese Culture Club MEDITATIONS: A TIME FOR THE FilmSeries-”Wedding Banquet.” SPIRIT Olin 12,8:30 p.m. “Voices of Judaism.” Speaker Rabbi Cohen. Goddard Chapel, 12 noon - 1:00 p.m Noon Hour Concert MozanandReicba ’IheGramercy WmdQuinu Episcopal Student Fellowship Goddard Chapel, 1230-1:Wp.m. Biblestudy. Calvin and Hobbes by Bill Wattersor Goddard Chapel Lounge, 5:30 p.m. Community Health Program “Why Health Care reform Collapsed.” Pn Tufts Film Series Brown, Columbia University. Movie: La Femme Nikita, Only $2. Pearson 104.7:OO p.m. MacPhie Pub. 9:30 p.m. Tufts’ Jewish Cultural Society Monty Python Society Falafelnight. Spam! Wonderful Spam! The Bayit, 98 Packard Ave, 8:30-1O:W p.m. Russian House, 930p.m. Programs Abroad Ears for Peers Tufts in Madrid general informatiodpizza. InformationMeeting. LargeConferenceRoom, CampusCenter,60( Eaton 202,930 p.m. 8:OO p.m. --

Chinese Culture Club Women’s Studies InterdiseiplinaryMinor 3rd. General Meeting - Music. Open house for interested students. Meet tk Eaton 201,9:30 p.m. director of WS and members of the W Colloquium Milne House Eaton 204.7:00-9:00 p.m. Come experience salsa and merengue at La Casa Hispana Tufts Ski Club 10Whidield. 1000- ll:OOp.m “P-Tex, Lies &Duct Tape”-Brand new film b Greg Stump. Ody $2. Foxmot by Bill Amend Tufts Friends of Israel Bamum W8,8:OO p.m Comehelpplan eventsfortherest ofthe semester. Campus Ctr. Rm. 204,8:30 p.m. Tufts Association of South Asians VASA) PETER! Discussion: South Asian Student Experience PETER! PAGES KNOW Asian Community at Tufts America and Abroad I 191 AND I Eaton 134,900p.m. ACT - PUBLIC SERVICE COMMllTEE Meeting. Start House, 9:OO p.m. Spanish House, TERTULIA Post-Tuhin Madridreunion, pre-TuhinMadti info. session. Tomorrow Chandler House, 8:30 p.m.

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November 3 - December 11 AWTufts University Degree the Box Ofiice. $4 for Thursday, $5 Free Admission. Museum School and Tufts Program. An eight school national for Friday and Saturday Alumnae Lounge, 8pm. University: Fifty Years of tejeconference will be led by !he artist performances. Collaboration. A multi-media arid project collaborators in Balch Arena, 8pm. exhibition of current work by Museum conjunction with the opening. Thursdav. November 24 School facutty celebrating the 50 year Koppelman Gallery, 57:30 pm. Arts Center closed. affiliation between the School of Friday. November 18 Happy Thanksgiving. Museum of Fine Arts and Tufts Panel Discussion: Educating the Fall Comedy Show starring Larry University. Artist: The Museum School Model Miller and Cheap Sox. Larry Miller Tisch Gallery. with SABachman, Gerry Bergstein, has appeared on the Tonight Show Madeline Caviness, Cheong Kwon, and Late Night with David November 17 - 27 Pearl Robinson, and Jed Speare, with Letterman. Sponsored by the Special Alumnae Lounge 6273049 Anne Joelle Exhibit. "Collective Elizabeth Ammons as moderator. Events Committee. Tickets available Balch Arena Theater 627-3493 Voices." Final thesis exhibition for the Tisch Gattety, 7:30 - 8:30 pm. at the Box Office. $5 in advance, $7 Cohen Auditorium 627-3338 Tisch 8 Koppelman Galleries 627-3518 MFAin the joint School of Museum of day of performance. Faculty Chamber Music Concert Cohen Auditorium, 8 pm. fine Arts and Tufts University degree. Please phone for more infomahn. Koppelman Gallery. Free admission. Cat 627-3338 to have your event bled Alumnae Lounge, 8pm. November 16.19 Thursdav. November 17 "Outside-ln" Tufts Dance Opening Reception for "Collective November 17 - 19 Collectivp Fall Concert. Free Voices": an exploration of women's Lion in the Streets presented by admission! identities throughout history. A Pen, Paint, & Pretzels. A riveting, Jackson dym, 8pm. multimedia interactive arts project by haunting, yet beautiful story of a Anne Joelle. candidate for the MFA in murdered liegirl's journey to Sundav. November 20 the joint School of Museum of fine personal salvation. Tickets on sale at Tufts Flute Ensemble.