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Great Issues Director Patrick Bryant protests Oliver North's visit to campus, while Todd Shafer of MSU Republicans cheers North, who appeared as a paid speaker for GOP Senate hopeful Clark Durant 8b0tt photo, standing). · uR-1 photos/MATTHEW GOEBEL (I.) and FREDDY SPADAFORA (above) Students protest North visit. Appearance surprise to most
BY MRIAM S..rrH he said. BY SAN>t BARGAS Auditorium May 5. uR-1 SENOR. CORRESPONDENT Hyland said he finds it ironic that ANO TIM LEPHEW While opinions about North varied . so much controversy surrounded UR-I ISSUES CORRESPONDENTS from person to person, less than one Oliver North's appearance on Minister Louis Farrakhan before fiis thira of those surveyed opposed his campus last week was the equivalent February speech on campus. But Despite the controversy surround visit to MSU. Most believed that of a common street criminal receiving when North came to town as a paid ing Oliver North's recent visit to MSU, despite their personal opinions of the adulation for peddling drugs - at speaker for GOP politician Clark most MSU students said they didn't infamous lieutenant colonel, he had a least that's what Ezra Hyland thinks. Durant, he noted, little opposition was know he was coming. right to speak on campus. Hyland, adviser to the African shown, despite that the former marine According to an informal, man-on Dave Shunkweiler, a marketing American. student group As One, said was convided of lying before Con the-street uR-1 survey of 52 students sophomore, believes it is important for North's involvement in the Iran-Contra gress about the Reagan throughout campus, more than half student.s to hear North's version of the scandal is proof he is no hero. Administration's secret arms trade for did not know North was coming to role he played in the Iran-Contra "I don't see any difference be hostages with Iran. MSU to speak. The uR-1 conducted scandal, which revolved around the tween him and some rapist on cam "All the issues with Farrakhan the survey two days before North's Reagan Administration's secret arms pus, or some common street pusher,· See PROTEST, p. 2 scheduled appearance at the MSU see SURVEY, p. 2 2 01/ie : co~?ifge.~ ~o.ntinu.es inside !)n .The Second Fr
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. · uR-1 photo/MATTHEW GOEBEL Before the Contra-versy Everything you wanted to know about Ollie North
BY TIM S ILVERTHORN the "Huck Finn type who was polite to blanks at his class from an M-16 rifle. sending the money to the Contras uR-1 rssues CoRFESPONOENT adults and served as an altar boy In 1974, North checked into a instead - a deal that was approved through high school but did not naval hospital for mental exhaustion by National Security Adviser John To some, he's a national hero who hesitate to leap off railroad bridges on from supervising jungle training and Poindexter in a meeting approved by put his reputation on the line for his a dare: spent four years in a staff non-training Reagan in writing. country. , In high school, North was a position. In overseeing the operation, North To others, he's a lying criminal member of the chess club and track In 1980, North attended the Naval used a Swiss bank account to divert who belongs behind bars. team. His senior year, his classmates War College in Newport, RI. After funds, undetected, to the Contras as Oliver North is best known to the voted him "most courteous" and "best impressing Naval Secretary John well as pocket thousands of dollars for American public through his role in the looking: Lehman with a paper about the uses his own home security system. Iran-Contra scandal, for which he has An English and education major, of a modem battleship, he was North shredded all Iran-Contra been both praised and criticized. His North attended the state University of assigned to the National Security documents in November 1986 and involvement in the Reagan New York College at Brockport while Council's Defense Policy Staff. invoked the Fifth Amendment to most Administration's secret arms trade planning a military career. This move, according to Washing questions from Congress in testimony with Iran for hostages four years ago A friend of North's father helped ton insiders, is when North attained given in December 1986. sparked international attention. him get into the U.S. Naval Academy politlca.I power. Reagan said of North: "He is a But aside from North's role in the in Annapolis, Md. Shortly after, in national hero. My only criticism is that scandal, Americans know little about February 1964, he was in a serious North's role in Iran-Contra I wasn't told everything: the public figure whose name has car accident that left him with an scandal North worked up to 17-hour days spilled onto the front pages of news injured back and kne~. North was given wide authority to at the NSC, where his work involved papers nationwide, and last weekend North's self-rehabilitation regimen assemble covert action and used it to counter-insurgency activities. swept through Michigan as a paid for his injuries has been described as support the C'ontras (Nicaraguan In 1985, North helped organize a political speaker who has endorsed "Oraconian• - a method that involved Rebels) after Congress cut off funding CIA program for a Lebanese hit team Clark Durant, a conservative Republi repeatedly leaping off his family's 6- against former President Reagans' - which mistakenly blew up an can making a bid for that party's U.S. foot-high garage. This rehabilitation wishes in 1983. apartment building next to the house Senate nomination. method proved successful. According to a June.15, 1987 of two suspected terrorists killing 80. After marrying in 1968, also the issue of Time Magazine, "North North also, without Pentagon So who is Oliver North? year he completed officer's school, reached into the shadowy world of approval, unsuccessfully tried to , Oliver Lawrence North was born North spent 11 months as a platoon former spooks (spies) and oddball persuade Egypt to participate in a joint October 7, 1943, in San Antonio, commander in Vietnam. _ He was operatives who were pressed into invasion of Libya. North was involved Texas. to Oliver Clay North, a wool decorated four times - two purple service as the ca.use demanded: in the 1986 U.S. bombing of Libya and combing businessman, and Ann hearts and the nation's third and In 1984, Iranian arms operative also the planning of the Grenada North, a substitute teacher. fourth highest combat medals. Manucher Ghorbanifar proposed invasion. In 1968, he married Betsy Stuart . North later taught basic officer's swapping money from arms sales for - Informal.ion f or lhis report was obtained from Today they have four children. tactics courses from 1969-73. As an hostages in Lebanon and offered the following sources: Conlemporary Newsmakers, North's boyhood nickname was instructor, he was known for once North a $1 -million bribe, which North 1987 ~ Time Magazine, June 15, 1987 · ~arry, • and he was known to most as interrupting his own lecture by firing refused. Ghorbanifar then proposed . New Y ork . 1 imes . Bi0,.~sr:~.. Jll/y, _ ~7 , . _ :- : •. the university Reporter-Intelligencer
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uR-1 photos/MATTHEW GOEBEL God Bless you,-Ollie North, you S.O.B. An egotistical maverick obss he receives about $25,000 a pop. felon who can avoid prison, why essed with subterfuge and lies. A man who sells his political not the misled individuals on Wall A flagrant violator of the Bo endorsement to the highest bid Street who are facing long terms land Amendment, who shipped ders - in Michigan, GOP Republi behind bars? arms to a dirty war. can Senate nomination hopeful After all, they were only prac A flat out liar, who arrogantly Clark Durant, who- is himself a ticing what is as dear to American misled the U.S. Congress and twisted right-wing zealot. hearts as apple pie, hot dogs and American people. This is a hero?! brain-dead Presidents: A man who said he would take America can do better... like the fall for his president and those guys that bludgeon the baby CAPITALISM! superiors, all the while implicating seals or something. God save America them and making them the scape No, Ollie is no hero and any~ goats for his twisted missions. one who tells you so better quit · _:._ somebody better! A convicted f el~n. who is giv~n eating their Wonder Bread and a suspended sentence and al wearing their rose colored contact lowed to tour the country to speak lenses. to thousands about his crimes and He is a plain, cheap, carpet misguided patriotism - for which bagging opportunist. If he is a 9 Ma 1990 university Reporter-Intelligencer • 5 appreciate this education? I think for only a couple of seconds. But black pe0ple have stood this for 400 plus years. Here is another example, but this one is true: When I was taught about slavery in school, I felt sad and Inferior. When my white classmate busted out laughing while my black teacher taught us about black history, I felt hurt. I said to myself, • what the Wake up, people! hell is he laughing for?" I felt lower than low when my white teacher Dear uR-1: stated the fact that our own people I live in East Holden Hall: It is sold us into slavery. I would of felt · starting to drive me INSANE. You better if my teachers would have told see, I am surrounded by many me the real and complete story on materialistic, judgemental women. I slavery. am a 20-year-old woman who wants In 1690, Virginia passed a law all you people out there to realize that . forbidding negroes from buying white trying to fill the gaps with material people. This was 51 years after the possessions and irrelevant gossip will Black man had arrived in chains. The not get you anywhere. Don't conform same law was repeated in 1748. Free to meager, traditional behavior. Be blacks bought white people in such yourself. numbers in Louisiana that the state passed a similar law in 1818. Sincerely, The point is that white and blacks were slaves in America. The second Krista Lanckton, point is to tell the truth about any History Major history you are teaching. I find many people and teachers saying that slavery wasn't all that bad, Andre checks in and that it actually did black people a I believe the main problem of the favor by civilizing them away from public schools' failure to motivate their savagery. Slavery was and is young blacks to learn is because they wrong. I say this ~use many of us fail to teach them the knowledge of are still psychologically in bondage. self. And even when they do teach Think about it. b\ac\I. h\s\ory, 01\en the complete story isn't told. black kids have to feel that - Andre Austin they are a part of education in order for them to appreciate leaning. Austin, who writes frequently Let me give you an example of to the uR-1, has several letters what I mean: Say I went to China to in our files. They will appear be a teacher to the chinese people, over the next several weeks of and all the books I gave them had this term, as space allows. only pictures of African people, and all WE PRINT EVERYT 'NG I talked about as African civilizatin. How long would they stand and WE RECEIVE
Ollie, Ollie, Ollie. Where's Kukla and Fran -your intellectual equivalents. Oops, sorry, they have more scruples than you. And they're puppets! . Sorry, again, we almost forgot you were, too. All these reasons result in what we've been leading up to and why the above title is under your picture and above this eloquent diatribe -you've procured (leg'!llY) Geek o' the Week dishonors. What a hero. So you lied and now you're getting paid for it. Fooled the judges and the Congress. Ripped us all off and broke our laws and got away with it. · And yet, millions love you. Hey, who're th~ real geeks anyhow...
. . . - . .. ~ ...... ·university Reporter-Intelligencer 9 May 1990 It takes more than one day to make a real saint, Biff happy. Granted, that's honorable, can't miss Happy Hour at P.T.'s. world a better place?" M.L. and we could all do a little more to Definitely not." Aren't those gallons of Polo make the world a little nicer, but Yeech. Just what is it with you (worn at once) a defoliant similar Elrick for any other week of the year androids? Do you think you can to Agent Orange? would you take time out for any glom some humanity off another Doesn't that hairspray deplete one but yourself or your high being? And if you're really so pure the ozone - and aren't you, in priced "brothers" or "sisters?" of heart and mind, why the hell do fact, a member of that atmos Honestly, would you let. Rain you publish a tabloid rife your pheric region? Hugging a retarded person man wear your letters? slobbering pictures? To prove that Loud silence. you're all nice fellahs? But it is not fair to criticize doesn't make you nice. "Most certainly, you pernicious Well, sorry to shatter the snit," Kip replies as he cuts out the Or are you just trying in your without offering solutions. overstated way to say: "Love me, I illusion Grecians, but for some picture of himself in the full-color, Rather than advocate the reason only one short week of the Greek-paid for, Greek-made do good for those lower than obvious and popular choice - myself!" long year finds you with a sudden, tabloid of himself and his "family" Greek eradication - how about Ever consider doing a good maintaining, on a daily basis, the phony, nauseating desire to try doing good for the little people. and be a truly good .soul. OK, so just what would be deed for the sake of doing a good massive effort and organization deed? · A soul who cares for others. come of Dustin Hoffman's Ray apparently reserved for Greek A soul willing to strut that extra mond Babbit if, for example, he What a ghastly concept! Week? OK, we'll take a quantum step Instead of throwing up in the mile across campus in a clown was a legacy and you just had to suit. let him in your house? back from reality and concede that streets of East Lansing, try recy Biff, Skip, Mutty, and That-Chick cling. Although it is funn y to see Within three days he'd be .at dozens of Greek clowns pile out of the Cincinnati K-Mart with Charley With-The-Scabs-On-Her-Knees · Instead of rousing neighbors are nice people and are doing a little firetruck Spree to made the Babbit, admonishing Charley for with booming versions of "Louie, kiddies laugh, it just doesn't looking at something that was something nice this week for the Louie," sing for disadvantaged · "Definitely ·not Polo, definitely not." intrinsic value of the act. children. · instantly elevate you to sainthood Nevermind that the cameras for being nice one day out of the He'd probably note the occas Instead of stealing each year. sion in the "Gauche Things Done are clicking, the dumb oxes other's underwear, donate some funnelating; AGDs Sliming In It ain't so, Joe, er, Biff. To Me and Other Social Faux Pas clothes to the homeless. Afterall, can one week make I've Endured" notebook he would . (appropriately); the Greeks Gam Why wait for one special day ing (probably at Monopoly); or the up for a whole year of being a start carrying around. to help kids who need all the love cretin? You know, the one with garish KKGs (sounds like KKK) Piction and care they can get? ary challenging ("See, Binkster, Let's face it, a pair of size plaid cover and letters embla Help them not just to show us 18EEE Bass Weeguns and a zoned across it reminding him that's a drawing of a peasant; how wonderful you are, but be~ what characters to scratch in the · peas + my Great Aunt Rebecca, Gucci clown suit don't quite wipe cause it's the right thing to do. who was really related to roy away 51 weeks and five days of top of every desk he'll ever sit in at Remember, people are an end Ralph Lauren, plaid corduroy golf Michigan State. alty."). - not a means to one. The question then becomes: caps and socks with little horseys. Then, he'll start shouting: on them. "Four minutes 'til Happy Hour at "Great, Mimsy and Chad, what --- Elrick designs the uR-1. have you done lately to make the So, you're helping make a kid P.T.'s, four minutes. Definitely His house is fottifisd.
police, FBI, CIA, and armed forces exist to Government takes one marble from everyone. back up Big Brother.) We're not supposed to That special interst group calms down, since be their slaves. They are supposed to listen to they got what they wanted. Now some other us! And why do we have to protect our Consti special interst group has some disadvantage, tutional rights, when the function of the govern so antoher law is passed, and yet another ment is to protect them for us? I certainly don't marble is lost. Anyone who has read 1984, or want to deny anyone their rights. Do you? . Animal Farm can easily envision the logical It's actually a simple process. The engine extensin of this process. We all lose. is power-hungry politicians, and the fuel is The first step in stopping this process is to special interest groups. stop thinking of yourself as a memeber of a . Let's symbolize all our rights as a pile of group, and start standing up for what you are. liom marbles. And we all have the same number of As human beings, we are all entiteld to certain McWilliams them, since that is what Amercia is all about. rights. Life, liberty, and the pursuit of happi~ But some group realies that they have some ness are the catch-phrases, but it boils down to kind of disadvantage because of the circum living with no source of external power, force, stances, (or they feel strongly about some or control influencing our decisions. Govern moral issue) and they band together and ment was built to safe-guard these rights. Now appeal to the Government. The lawmakers it violates them. Our Government, created to protect rights, usually respond, because they are commited now removes them as a matter of normal to getting votes to keep their jobs and power. procedure. Houses, cars, food, clothes, en However, they can only make laws, and laws ergy, work, school, and play, as well as just can only limit freedom, certainly not enchance about anyting you can think of, has some sort it. of law or tax regulation or restriction of some That is the nature of government and laws. sort. How did the Government get all this - But in America, we all get equal rights, so the control over our lives? (And it is control. The 9 990 university Reporter-Intelligencer • 7 women are dis5atisfied with men's While they had the same questions I related to the recent spate of Ano behavior compared with twenty years did, they also responded to something, rexia? The relationship is definitely ago when 41 % had agreed with the I hadn't noticed. The people who there. 60% of the women said above. I maintain that's because only gave the survey said the real.differ juggling jobs and families •put them 41 % were having sex with their ence from twenty years agao was that under a lot of stress: A (female) VP husbands and the rest weren'.t getting "today's independent woman exp0cts at.PM USA said she attributed their any at all, so of course, they didn't more from men: Women reported frustration to trying to be super know. progress on the job front, equity in women.· There it is in an nutshell, if In actual numbers of responses, I · salary structure, and greater accep you get my drift, the super-hero as a Dr.Andrew calculate, 1,560 women were pissed tance as political leaders which · role-model. Barclay that the old man failed to help out with represent a fairly high standard of What nobody bothered to tell household chores. I can't blame · achievement in formerly male-domi these women (and I will) is that them. · Dusting is the lowest form of nated world. It shows how the goals Superman never got itron with Lois. behavior known to man, but after I set by NOW some years agQ have Well,. except in the movie, but t.hat dust, guys, I do a load of towels so I worked through the political process involved what we call the "willing have to use hot water in the washer and, in these important areas, men suspension of disbelief: · Penis of and vibrate my rocks off on the "spin" and women have worked hard to Male superheros never have sex, cycle. Give it a shot...it's great getting achieve equality. We also see maybe because they are so jock it off on a hot washer. For safety women's increased awareness of dum b that they wear their underwear rea5ons, I won't even mention what is irritating aspects of maleness or is it on the outside of their costumes. Or, the mind possible to do with a vacuum cleaner. masculinity? · in Superman's case, Lois simply Strange how when I was young, It was exactly at this point in the · couldn't deal with the •Man of Steel.· I always encourage readers to my father used to pound on the previous evolution of male·female Bullets were known to bounce off it, if write questions to me because that bathroom door, asking what was relations that S. Freud chewed on his you follow me, Lois was freaked out way, I answer the questions and you going on in there and now, Stephanie cigar and wondered, 'What is it that that the Superstud couldn't get it are not subject just to the ramblings of bangs on the laundry room door. women want?" What the hell, they down. Talk about cutting through the a mad mind: History is repeating itself. Staph have half the money and all the pussy, crap. TOWIT, keeps asking why we're the only they have jobs, and the ability to bear Women have already achieved MORE AND MORE WOMEN house on our block to have a lock on children, great bodies ... what the "penis of the min d; as I call it. By ARE PLAIN FED UP WITH MEN the laundry room door. HELL do women want??? If you have moving into the formerly male-domi (Headline in the State Urinal) Hey, I say a guy needs to be ever taken Intro Psych, you know nated business world, women demon~ The accompaning article de alone when he is "communing· with what his answer was: Penis Envy, strata they are capable of acting more scribes the outcome of a study . his laundry. they want Big Dicks. Actually, no one like men than men are. The monster commissioned by Philip Morris, USA, The laundry room is a rich trove of , was sure if it was women wh.o had it increases of cardiovascular disease (You've Come A Long Way, Baby) for sex toys when you know where to or the Great Sigmund who, it appears, among women is the best indicator of Virginia Slims. Would you believe that look. I used to have a lot of trouble wasn't very well-hung himself. But he how women have developed well 54% of their sample agreed with: getting it up for a second go-round was Jewish and we know it doesn't hung minds. Many men have found "most men look at a woman and after one of those fabulous male HELP men to cut 3/8 of an inch off the out that in the world of business, being · immediately think how it would be to orgasms women are so jealous of. It end of the one-eyed worm. Penis fucked-over by a woman hurts just as go to bed with her?" I don't believe it, was ruining my career as the highest Envy is not a concept with which I'm much as when it is done by a man. I myself. Only 54% ??? What the hell paid sexual slave in Lansing because particularly comfortable. love playing "Mina's bigger than were the other 46% thinking about? my crazy customers wanted more, Now, Vagina Envy ... there's an yours" with my female c:Ollegues, of I had to call Philip Morris USA just more, more while I was well on my idea... too bad it isn't mine. Do you course we're discussing our vitae but to satisfy my curiosity. It turned out way to resembling a plate of spaghetti think Philip Morris USA chose the it is all the same thing. 42% responded: "they immediately with marinara clam sauce. Yes, men, name Virginia (Virgin) Slims to pro- SERIOUS POLITICAL think of oral sex; and the other 4% the laundry room solved all my . moate the idea of not haing sex and ·STATEMENT: I would be remiss if I didn't know men thought at all. In this problems: Spray starch! Who would smoking as a substitute for sex to help did not remark on People's Park and case, we really DO have a HEAD have though it. Spray starch, a touch · women stay slim? See, (Vagina) the events of twenty years ago, which LINE, if you get my drift. up with a cool iron, and I was all ready Slims implies that smoking lets lead to the first People's Park being Well, that call really started the old to go at it again. Women may love K women use those little teeny, ti my established. The blood shed· by four mental jui~ flowing, I had to read Y jelly for those intimate encounters tampons instead of the Super-Duper student martyrs in the cause of more of the article, of course, and it's but in a man's world, it's spray starch. Tampax which as an inserting tube freedom makes .the site of People's drift was that women are increasingly Most of the guys I showed the the size of a paper towel roller. A dissatisfied with men's sexism, and See DOCSEX, p. 9 column were somewhat bemused. cigarette company ad campaign that a much higher percentage of Mother's Day, Schmothers Day; jus~ kind of flowers what do you get a petry dish?! After a second thought, however, I muse, It sure doesn't make for a better paper, but it "don't you scab nibblers have anything better to . sure does make our job a whole lot easier! do than read this Iambic tempertameter..... And while we're on the subject of mismange Well, I guess not, if you're still here. And that ment, MSU, count John "1-Vant-To-Bite-Your convinces me you're just like Thomas Donaldson, Tuition· DiBiaggio who now says he'll meet with the 46, of Sunnyvale, CA, who wants his brain frozen. George "We're-All-Brudders-ln-This-Brudder At first consideration, one might think Tom Don Perles. wants to emulate your catatonic state, but further Too bad these big babies can't make up their · ponderance reveals that he does want to be re mind on anything unless the media gets a hold of animated later. (unlike you Cedar Pillage dwellers) their statements and holds their feet to the fire on when doctors can cure his brain tumor. them. Sounds like there ain't too much brain left to Hell' I'm only five and I'm more mature than As I look out upon you tHmlng masses of save ... either of them. Jeepres, getting straight talke from persp/rers and admirers, I SH before me George or John is like pulling teeth! leagun and leagun of fetering sores just . Speaking of no brains l~ft. it's good to see that Hey, that's funny, wasn't one of those guys waiting to be swabbed by a petrol-soaked piece The State News has chosen to-for the second once a dentist... · of sandpaper. straight year-choose an editor-in-chimp who has And that Is good. not had any real professional experience. See MALCONTENT, p. 9. ..
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They expect Mary ~William Fried kin, dir. nudity than the average teenage Poppins but they get the most stalk'n'slash epic. It also featured psychotic druid nanny this side of The Guardian marks the not so a script that was just as silly as Stonehenge. triumphant return of director, . any Friday the Thirteenth flick, Of course things start out William Friedkin to the genre of they just cast adults instead of horror. Friedkin, who is primarily perfect, not only does she take teenagers io make you think care of the baby, but she cooks, known for directing gritty cop films you're seeing something more like and cleans, and does windows too. The FrenCh Connection sophisticated. But then the nanny (played by To Live and Die in LA did direct Friedkin tries, unsuccessfully , the horror classic Jenny Seagrove who displays The Exorcist, to evoke f ellings of suspense and Unfortunately, he couldn't recreate great acting range by running terror with needless point of view around half-naked and haH-en the same elements that made The shots. But when all else fails, he shrouded by tree bark) starts Exorcist a hit. just throws in buckets of blood. If is a half-baked getting a little too attached to the The Guardian Friedkin wanted to make atrium · attempt at creating an adult splat baby. Naturally, the parents think phant return to the horror genre, ter film. 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The Washington band will perform at Michigan "More often than not substance abuse is a symptom State Thursday, May 10 in the Union Ballroom. as of a spiritual problem.· part of their tour in support of their second album, Even their manager.Ken Gaub, is involved with Somewhere in the World. the issue of substance abuse. He was recently Illustrator is a pop-rock band that should appeal appointed to a Presidential Task Force with the to many people. There is one thing that sets them War Against Drugs. apart from most rock bands though - they perform Nonetheless, the performance is sure to enter in a genre known as contemporary Christian music. tain many people. Illustrator has toured all over the -: :-: The idea of seeing a Chri~tian band may turn some world, including a three week tour of Israel by . . people off, but it shouldn't. invitation from the Israeli government. Unlike many Christian bands, Illustrator deals Allen said he looks forward to opportunities to with issues that face people today. · play at universities and that he has enjoyed .the op 'We deal with child abuse and sexual abuse; portunities to interact with students. •• • ••• said Allen. 'We are doing our best to become more "I see people who are really socially conscious, and more straight-forward when we talk about it which is really neat to see; said Allen. "However, (these issues): ' · true change has to come from the heart of every j lif#@k~jl1ell1~@1~~~~;...... ··, ~ . Illustrator's performance will focus on substance man and if it doesn't change in the heart of every abuse. Drugs and substance abuse are issues that man, this world won't change:· the band has dealt with on a regular basis. Jim Holy Cow, they're back! · ich then it broke into the meat of the song, which BY ANGIE CAROZZO . so~nded like it had a definite influence by that group uR-1 ENTERTAINMENT EDITOR of·bands that can't quite b0categorized but include R.E.M., the Replacements, the Smithereens, The Holy Cows made their return worth the Dinosaur Jr., etc. wait when they came back to East Lansing with The vocals. were great with Mike Feeney on more power and a tighter set than any local band lead vocals and John Popovich adding a contrasting has ever had. .flavor on the·back-ups. Gigging at B'Zar May 2, they started their set Their set went on until John Popovich broke a with a cover of the Who-song, 'Won't Get Fooled string and even then it went on with Mike Popovich Again; after which two members of the audience on drums, Feeney on bass and vocals, and Salyer ran up to the stage and kneeled before them ·in on lead guitar. They played a cover of Dwight homage. Rightfully so, as Scott Salyer did a great Yokum's "Smoke Along the Tracks: and yes, it is a Pete Townshend, solos and all. hillbilly song in the purest sense. But the Holy Cows' intensity didn't even begin to That didn't stop these guys though, Salyer was dwindle after that. playin' it like there was no tomorrow and he wanted They went on to play several original tunes that to play that hillbilly jive just one more time before the shook the place down. The management at B'Zar end. Mike Popovich was sittin' there behind his . didn't seem quite ready for what would follow from drums just havin' a good ole time, and Feeney - these well-travelled guys from Chelsea, though. well, Feeney was singin' it like he was born to. One of the members of the audience, who was The Holy Cows closed their set with "Fuck. slam dancing -which is not allowed at B'Zar under School· by the Replacements, which, by the way, is any circumstances (even if the circumstances are a definite hardcore tune, meant to be slam-danced being alone on the dance floor) - was escorted out to. But management could be assured that wasn't to the tune of having the shit beat out of him by going to happen, they had already scared everyone bouncers and managers alike. He put up a hell of a out of having any real fun. fight, though. You probably wonder "If this band is so good, The Holy Cows dedicated their next song to "the why haven't they come back to East Lansing in two meatheads· who threw the poor kid out. "Get Along• was probably the best song of the set. It had See ELSIE, p. 9 an incredible introduction played by John Popov-