October 6wm, 1999 Vol. 44, No. 06 nside UWM receives millions Midnight Movies page 6 to improve teacher quality Brewers' New GM page 8 Bv Steven Potter five Tom Barrett believes the grant will "enable the University of Wisconsin- Money for education is usually hard to Milwaukee and its community partners to find. At the same time, teachers are far enhance teacher training and to improve Obscene Fiction from being quitters. the quality of our Thanks to that attitude, children's education." page 4 N local teaching institutions vA s *% Barrett, whose support have received millions in for the grant was instru- the form of four federal *o***^ mental, also says this grants for improvement in || (J- grant will ensure that M *""" teachers will be more teacher quality. Last J New area code in week, the University of adequately prepared for Wisconsin- tomorrow's classrooms. Milwaukee(UWM) "The future is bright for southeastern announced the receipt of Milwaukee's students," its fourth major federal a* Barrett said. grant in the past six weeks. The latest is a An $8.9 million federal Wisconsin five-year $8.4 million U.S. Department of GEAR-UP(Gaining Early Awareness and Education Title II Partnership Grant for Readiness for Undergraduate Projects) Improving Teacher Quality. grant was awarded to UWM, MATC, By Steven Potter sin. Minneapolis and St. Paui have This grant allows UWM to create the MPS and other agencies the first week of recently split their 612 area code and plan Milwaukee Partnership Academy for August. The GEAR-UP grant will be used With telephone lines flooded by to add a new 651 area code by Jan. 1, Teacher Quality. Partners in the grant to improve college admission rates and wireless phones, fax machines and 2000. Chicago now has five area codes. include Milwaukee Public Schools(MPS), readiness through tutoring, counseling, internet use, it's obvious that the amount According to the North American Milwaukee Area Technical and mentoring. A pair of $3.2 million of phone numbers available will run out. Numbering Plan, which allocates area College(MATC) and the Milwaukee grants were also awarded to UWM and And those numbers for parts of codes, 28 new area codes will be added in Teachers Education Association(MTEA). MPS to train teachers to more effectively southeastern Wisconsin outside of the United States by the end ofthe year, UWM Chancellor Nancy Zimpher says use computer technology. MPS Superin Milwaukee ______bringing the this partnership was first proposed last tendent Spence Korte says these grants have done total number year. will attract more teachers and "make our just that. To of area codes "A year ago, I suggested to the UWM current teachers more effective in the combat this to 257. faculty that it would be through partner classroom." problem, a Due to ships that our university would become "This translates into better-educated new 262 such rapid the 'urban educational hub of Wisconsin'. students, satisfied parents and a stronger area code develop These grant announcements show that we school system," Korte added. will replace ment, some are following through on our commitment Dr. John R. Birkholz, president of the existing regulators and with the help of our many dedicated MATC, is eager about MATC's participa 414 area fear the 262 partners, are becoming that hub." The tion in these partnerships. code. area code teacher quality partnership will be "Milwaukee Area Technical College is This I will exceed designed primarily to develop a compre proud to be a partner in this effort to not means a call [its limits hensive teacher education program only increase the number of qualified from Milwaukee to Waukesha will now sooner than preparing K-8 teachers for urban schools. individuals who enter the teaching require dialing 11 digits instead of seven. the seven-year estimate. Ken Howey, the academic program profession, but also to make current However, any number that was previ Companies that reserve hundreds of director for the Department of Curriculum teachers even more effective leaders," ously a local call within the 414 area code thousands of numbers before they have and Instruction, says the programs will be Birkholz said. "The bottom line is that will remain a local call. plans to use them are believed to be part comprised of other teacher improvement this will create a positive impact on the The new 262 area code will take effect ofthe problem. To curtail this problem, programs as well as new ideas. learning environment." Metropolitan on March 3, 2000, after a five-month regulators have asked the Federal "This prototype will draw from the Milwaukee Association of Commerce phase-in period. Cities such as Appleton Communications Commission for best practices and policies across a President Tim Sheehy believes this to be and Green Bay have recently changed authority to conserve numbers. national network of urban partnerships," a big step on the way to improving their area codes in anticipation of this For each exchange, phone companies Howey said. "It will use various success education. problem. get a minimum of 10,000 numbers. ful program components and high-quality "Teaching is where the rubber meets This problem is not unique to Wiscon teacher education materials in what really the road and this grant will make for a is a redesign process." U.S. Representa- much smoother road." he uw|W m post Oct. 6, 1999 Conference at UWM to address peace in the new millennium By Wendy Huber-Wichelt welcome by Chancellor Nancy Zimpher Y2K," "Sustainability and Futuring," and priest, writer, poet and noted activist will which addresses the violence ofthe past "Young Adults: Bridge to a Peaceful speak on "Steps to Create a Less Violent The Friends of Peace Studies will hold millennium and asks how we can create a Future." There will also be an open mike Future." The conference and banquet are a conference and banquet on Saturday, peaceful future. This session also session for those attending to comment on sponsored by The Friends of Peace Oct. 9 entitled "The Next Millennium: includes a panel discussion on four key what they would like to see happen in the Studies, a volunteer group made up of Turning a New Leaf." The conference issues related to peace: security, human future to promote peace. Between students, educators and community runs from 9:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m. in the rights, economics and environment. sessions box lunches will be available for members committed to building a Wisconsin Room ofthe UWM Union. - Speakers in the afternoon will address $5.50. peaceful culture. The morning session includes a topics such as: "The Real Threat of The banquet begins at 6:00 p.m. in the For more information on this event, Fireside Lounge ofthe UWM Union. contact the UWM Peace Resource Keynote speaker Daniel Berrigan, a Jesuit Institute at 229-6549. 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Ironically, he already has several one asset is his son who's about to wed a AVERAGE stories at hand which he ignores: His woman who has yet to meet her Prince mom remarried a man who now wants to Charming, and it's not this geek. Her NOT GOOD live out the rest ofhis life as a woman; his coke-head father is behind this marriage dad remarried a token Asian, who is seen of convenience that pleases neither but never heard from; his older sister is a 6 OFFENSIVE This comedy is so comball it would partner. 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You need activity, heavily from college and high school age but you've completely exhausted every people because there are not a lot of possibility of going out. Yet you are places to go if you are underage and want 4 out Of 5 restless. Where do you go? What do you to stay out late on a Friday night." do? The Freak Show is also a great Prob success story for ably your best its sponsor, option, and a WMSE. In college students very popular addition to one, is the Friday donations and The fifth was a loser* Night Freak pledge drives, Show at the the popular Times Cinema, radio station www.greekcentral.com located at 5906 also subsidizes W. Vliet St. its budget with The the freak show nothing captures show, which was and keeps in started two years touch with fans greek life more ago by 91.7 completely WMSE, features midnight 'classic WMSE station manager Tom Crawford movies' such as Russ Meyers' Faster talked about the motivation behind the For a free CD, go to our Pussycat Kill, Kill (1966) and Freaks Freak Show. "We wanted to bring back website, or call 1-888-GREEK55. (1932) to modern classics like Troma's the 'midnight movie' to Milwaukee. * that we asked in a totally urscientific study The Toxic Avenger (1984), Pee Wee's Big When I was growing up, that was some of Adventure(\985) and Tim Burton's the most fun that I had. When I was in my Beetlejuice (1988). late teens and early twenties you had the The occasional host and emcee option to go to midnight movies at places The UWM Post invites you and a guest to attend to the Freak Show Tom Augustine (Mot See Freaked. 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Several hundred new mothers could also be nity, came out to protest W-2, Wisconsin's new so-called "welfare reform" program, at affected, "when their 12-week maternity exemptions and their eligibility clocks start the Milwaukee Four Points Sheraton Hotel. ticking again." The hotel was the site of a conference entitled "Partnerships and Innovations in Food pantry workers at the demonstration stated they are constantly facing short Welfare Reform," sponsored by the state and the five private firms hired to run W-2 in ages. Staff at homeless shelters have repeatedly stated since W-2 took effect shelters Milwaukee County. have been overflowing. Women regularly drop their children off and then go find The protestors rightly demanded a suspension of two-year limits and an accurate shelter, where they can find it for the night, and then return in the morning to pick up accounting of each W-2 participant. their children. Both shelters and pantries citywide say with the end of term limits their In a press release issued for the conference, the state's own Department of resources will not be able to fulfill demand. Workforce Development stated, "Wisconsin's welfare cash assistance caseload dropped This should lead us to a few minimum questions. Where are these women? What are to 7,924 families in June, a 77 percent reduction from the inception of W-2 in Septem they doing? How are they surviving? What about the children? Even if they are ber 1997 and a 92 percent reduction from the January 1987 level of 98, 295." Wiscon working-at what kind of job? sin leads the nation in caseload decline. Milwaukee County has 6,442 ofthe state's cash Since many women affected by W-2 happen to be poor, Black and Latina, few ask assistance cases, about 71 percent ofthe state total. these questions. The silence of questioning the racism, sexism and classism endemic in The state has never given an accurate accounting of these thousands-mostly single the oppression of women and children under W-2 is deafening. women with children. In fact, the Wisconsin State Journal in an online opinion piece At the conference Wednesday, Gov. Thompson hailed W-2 as "revolutionary" and September 26, said, "Efforts to track these people and find out what happened to them "visionary." These descriptions went virtually unquestioned in the local media. The have been both half-hearted and largely unsuccessful." conference was meant as a celebration for corporations and the five W-2 service Furthermore, a Sept. 13 article in the Journal Sentinel stated that "at least 500 agencies who have profited off W-2 labor. Thanks to the demonstration, sponsored by Milwaukee County residents in the state's Wisconsin Works (W-2) program who have The Coalition for a Ban on Winter Evictions which is comprised ofthe groups Repair not yet found jobs face loss oftheir cash benefits by Jan. 1, as they reach the program's ers of the Breach, Women and Poverty, and A Job is a Right Campaign, Thompson was two-year time limit." The article further stated that 900 more W-2 participants' eligibility will be used up See W-2. Page 19 Dear Editor: 1. For insurers who may have to pay methods of contraception. for maternity and dependent costs. This bill would provide prescription Most students are probably still 2. For families who may not be equity for FDA-approved methods of Stupids wandering around campus, trying to prepared for a child. contraception: oral contraceptive pills, figure out how to make it from that 3. For society who will bear the cost of IUDs, Norplant, Depo Provera injections English course in Mitchell all the way to unintended pregnancies. and diaphragms. A group of students pledge algebra in EMS in ten minutes, and how Wisconsin state Representatives Jon from the University of Wisconsin- By Russell Dell to pay for $300 worth of books. I'd like Richards and Terese Berceau and Milwaukee will join other students and my fellow students to stop and think Senators Gwen Moore and Kim Plache citizens in Madison for a Senate subcom I pledge allegiance to the flag about this: have introduced legislation in our state mittee hearing on Thursday, October 7, Ofthe multi-national corporations Did you know that more than half of legislature that promotes equity in basic 1999. And to the profit for which they stand all pregnancies in the United States are health care. We will hold a press conference to One interlocking directorate unintended? Did you know that half of Under this legislation, insurance plans educate the public regarding this inequity Under no government those pregnancies end in abortion? already covering prescription drugs and in contraceptive coverage and will join Indivisible Contraceptives have been proven to devices would include equal coverage for experts from around the state to testify at With monopoly enhance the health of women, prevent prescription contraceptive drugs and the hearing in support ofthe Contracep And cheap labor for all unintended pregnancy and reduce the devices. tive Coverage Equity Act in Wisconsin. need for abortion. Contraception is basic This legislation would reduce the Free transportation will be provided. Recorded on the album Fellow health care, yet far too many insurance glaring inequity in insurance coverage for Contact Elisabeth Michelle Chay at Workers by Ani DiFranco and Utah policies exclude this vital coverage. reproductive health services. [email protected] for more information Philips, Righteous Babe Records Inc. While most insurance plans cover Currently, 97 percent of large-group or to register for the trip to Madison! 1999, PO. Box 95 Ellicott Station, prescription drugs and outpatient services insurance plans cover most prescriptions, Buffalo, NY 14205. in general, the vast majority exclude but only 3 percent cover at least one form Sincerely, contraceptive drugs and services. In the of contraceptive and a mere 15 percent Elisabeth Michelle Chay end, this inequity is costly for everyone: cover all five most commonly used Student Association the uwmm pposo t Oct. 6, 1999 Big media applaud big media merger Bv Norman Solomon sponse to Lehrer's beachballquestions, Auletta kept repeating that "bigger is When the story about Viacom and CBS better." No one bothered to mention that broke, news accounts quickly depicted a Auletta —currently a staff writer for The Mancow awash with match made in corporate heaven — at New Yorker magazine — can hardly be more than $37 billion, the largest media expected to voice strong objections to the prejudice merger in history. With the public kept steady march of media monopolization. outside the frame, it was a rosy picture. After all, the owner of The New Yorker is "Analysts hailed the deal as a good fit an expanding media conglomerate, between two complementary companies," Advance Publications, which holds an the Associated Press reported flatly. The array of glossy magazines including By Cal Terbeek veiled racism and prejudice. The morning news service went on to quote "a media Vogue, Glamour and Self. Generally, I happened to be listening fell on the analyst" who proclaimed: "It's a good people in glass skyscrapers are uninclined Sex and wrestling. Wrestling and sex. Jewish holy day, Yom Kippur. Terms like deal for everybody." to throw stones. News accounts keep What else is there to life? Not too much "Jewboy" were thrown around by the "Everybody"? Well, everybody who focusing on the market-share preoccupa if your name is Erich "Mancow" Muller erudite crowd Mancow surrounds himself counts in the mass-media calculus. For tions of investors and top managers. For or if you're a fan ofhis show. For all you with on the radio—interesting fellows instance, the media analyst quoted by AP good measure, coverage of mergers and out there who are hopelessly unhip, whose names are Turd and Freak (it just was from the Paine Webber investment buyouts is now routinely filled with Muller runs a nationally syndicated gets worse from there). firm. "You need to be big," Christopher various permutations of metaphors that morning radio show out of Chicago that Mancow, of course, says he does not Dixon explained. "You need to have a liken financial wheeling and dealing to rivals—if not surpasses—Howard Stern condone these ethnic slurs. However, global presence." intimate human relations. in raunchiness. with a wink and a nod this is all done for Dixon showed up again the next "The $37.3 billion deal joins not just While Howard Stern may appeal only laughs. Hey, it's Yom Kippur, let's tell morning (Sept. 8) in the lead article of two enormous media companies," a New to those undersexed perverts of the world, Jew jokes. Ha, ha, ha. This is not the The New York Times, along with other York Times article declared on Sept. 8, Mancow appeals to the same demo least bit funny. Furthermore, the obliga high-finance strategists. A woman at "but two oversized corporate personalities graphic with a few caveats: they are under tory black man on the show, named Al Merrill Lynch agreed with his upbeat in a marriage that was consummated after the age of 25, love pro wrestling, and are Roker Jr., sounds like he came straight view ofthe Viacom-CBS combo. So did a a two-vear flirtation and a brief but painstakingly intense two-week prenup- easily brainwashed into believing any from the "ghetto." And of course, they guy from ING Baring: "You can literally tial discussion." Ugh. (Is there a sublima right-wing clap-trap that spews out of his find things to make fun of him aboufr^—his pick an advertiser's needs and market that tion crisis in American journalism?) mouth. pronunciation deficiencies, as they.see it, advertiser across all the demographic Perhaps worst of all is the evasive tone And I gathered all this just from for example. profiles, from Nickelodeon with the that now pervades so many news stories flipping through the stations in the Lighten up, some of you may be youngest consumers to CBS with some of about media consolidation. "The merger morning and listening for a minute or thinking. It's just a radio show. Yeah, it's the oldest consumers." impulse," one Times article concluded, two. However, I am open-minded to new just a radio show. But when I think of In sync with the prevalent media spin, "is driven by the belief that at a time of ideas and I don't like to judge without some impressionable, suburban or rural the Times devoted plenty of ink to increasing uncertainty in the media knowing the full story. So I decided to 14-year old listening to this it frustrates assessing advertiser needs and demo business, there is an advantage in owning roll myself out of bed at 6 a.m. and listen me. What if, because of lack of contact graphic profiles. But for the crucial first both the programming and the distribu to the Mancow show in its entirety on with actual black people, Al Roker Jr. day of Times coverage, foes ofthe tion networks." WLUM'S 102.1. comes to signify what black people are to Viacom-CBS consolidation did not get a The sex and wrestling part, I was right this kid? Race relations are mending word in edgewise. Translation: With the federal govern on that one. There was a wholly unfunny slowly enough without Mancow setting The Washington Post, meanwhile, ment serving more and more as enabler roundtable discussion about shaving us back forty years every morning on his provided a similar ode to the latest and rather than regulator of rapacious con pubic hair with two women (probably radio show. greatest media merger, pausing just long glomerates, the media business knows from one ofthe fine publications Pent I'm not going to exhort you to "boy enough for a few dissonant notes from few bounds. Today, some huge corpora house or Hustler—Playboy is too classy cott Mancow" or start a "I Hate Mancow media critic Mark Crispin Miller: "The tions are sitting on the windpipe ofthe for this show) and the repeated playing of Fan Club" or anything like that. You can implications of these mergers for journal First Amendment. Meanwhile, many a sound bite of Mancow's appearance on listen to whatever you enjoy and if ism and the arts are enormous. It seems to journalists — and the public at large — some TV wrestling show. The thought Mancow makes your morning better, then me that this is, by any definition, an are gasping for the oxygen of public occurred to me as I was listening-I could good for you. But consider this. It's 1999 undemocratic development. The media discourse that allows democracy to put a tape-recordei in any random eighth- and you are listening to a radio show that system in a democracy should not be breathe. With rare exceptions, news grade boys' locker room and get the same condones racism, prejudice, and the inordinately dominated by a few very outlets have covered the Viacom-CBS level of intellectual discourse. degradation of women. Think about it. powerful interests." deal as a business story. But more than anything else, it's a story with dire Of course, this show would be rela Cal TerBeek is an English major at Amen. implications for possibilities of demo tively harmless sophomoric humor if UWM. But overall, big media outlets — cratic media as the 21st century gets there wasn't the disturbing dimension of getting bigger all the time — offered only underway. narrow and cheery perspectives on the meaning ofthe humongous merger. Norman Solomon's new book is "The Hours after the Sept. 7 announcement, Habits of Highly Deceptive Media. " This The UUIH Post invites readers to submit perspective pieces and Letters to the Editor. To be eligible for the nation's most influential TV news column was previously published as part publication, letters and opinion pieces must include, for purposes of verification, the authors name, adddress, show aired its unwitting parody of of Media Beat, Solomon's weekly syndi and phone number. Names mill be uritheld if a compelling reason is giuen. Submissions must be typed and corporate-friendly coverage. "The cated column. To view other Solomon double-spaced. The preferred length for letters is 250 uiords. 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Web: http://www.nwpIatt.edu/~5tndyabro_d WINTER SKI BREAKS Steamboat Winter Park Breckenridge1 Vail/Beaver Creek Aspen/Snowmass Jan M7 • 2,3,4,5,6 or 7rights • 1-800-SWCHASE W-2. From Page 16 the uwm post at least forced to answer the protestors' Oct. 6, 1999 19 demands. Thompson's answer of "no 1 way" to Sen. Gwendolyn Moore's (D- "Home of the Boot" Milwaukee) quest for an executive order 300 IMPORTS & MICRO BEERS from the governor himself to suspend the time limits once again showed his true $2.50 Pints of all Berghof on tap colors. In an effort to combat wage decreases $12.00 Boots of Berghof plus deposit among the working poor, a bipartisan effort in the state legislature led to 839 S. Second St. Milwaukee, Wl 53204 (414)647-1910 funding in the 1998-99 state budget for education and training for W-2 partici pants. Thompson vetoed this provision in October of that year. Does this sound like a man who cares for the poor and disen 1-800-COLLECT franchised? Let's remember that Wiscon sin literally gives away over $1 billion in corporate welfare a year in the form of tax PRESENTS A breaks, incentives, write-offs and the like to corporations and other businesses. SPECIAL ADVANCE SCREENING Once again as we have seen with this demonstration it is only the people who will solve their needs and raise their voices. As all the local media to one degree or another, in the form of ad revenue or other means, are beholden to the feeding trough of W-2, it is only us who are going to raise the questions above, and hopefully, many more. We stand with our courageous brothers and sisters in demanding that Gov. Thompson immediately terminate the two-year time limits and that all state and county officials give an accurate account ing of all former W-2 participants. safe sexy will return next week with: GGNITAL PIERCINGS FREE MOVIE POSTERS Wednesday, October 13 Pick Up FREE Passes Union Info Booth Ground Floor Union 8:00 PM Concourse (Day of show) UWM Union Theatre Presented By Union Theatre HOGAH www.1800COLLECT.com www.PREVIEWTHEATER.com