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to formulate a path for the paper to take, was _fu_ll of grand plans, etc., but in the end, I lacked a smgle focus. ThiS ts because_I, and I editor's desk think the entire editing staff would agree, want The Other Sz~e to be what the students, staff, faculty, and administration want tt to ?e· One peculiarity of the talk show world is the compulsion to refer to public figures by their first names. In The way we can facilitate this is by keeping our doors open, whiCh fact, one of the best measures of a superstars' popularity is their ability to be addressed by only one name. This they always are, and keeping attentiv~ to different notions of might indicate all kinds of things about the sick and twisted direction of our minds, but it also seems to show experimentation (even when -~e don't hk~ them). So- to an~one Editors-in-Chief: Kim Gilmore the need or desire that many people have to live in smaller world, where every day dramas are important and with specific interests in poltttcs, entertamment, the arts, Pttzer Heidi Schuman exciting. The need to have a community, to be in a smaller world, is one that Pitzer College has seemed to fill, governance, etc., please please please do not squan...der your talents, Executive Editor: ]onnthan Casper or has been trying to fill over the years. This year, like so many, is a year of transition at Pitzer, and the more but contribute to The Other Side. Call us (x36:>2), stop by the Features Editor. Justin Rood professional leanings of the college seem to be becoming more pronounced. Governance office (YTower Mead Dorm), or write to us (Box 645). Editorial Intern : Tobin Steers For example, we have these new buildings. It may seem ridiculous to attach meaning to what are only I also want to add that all ideas about experimentation don·~ come Writers: Aaron Balkan material structures, and the issue of the importance of the new buildings was hammered out at length in last with equal force, and that for_ this reaso~ I hope The Other Szde can years issues of The Other Side. But now that they are here, with another one weJI on its way, it will be interesting Ben Ball be particularly aware of and mterested m un~err~pres~nted ones. Lawrence Cualoping to see how they alter the Pitzer landscape, both psychologically and literally. When I was thinking about why It may be true as Justin Rood sugg~~ m. hts. arttcle on the Juan DelAra the new buildings seem troublesome to some students, like myself, who came to Pitzer before while the whole building project, that it is necessary for th.ts tnst1tut10n to ~ompro­ Elise Graner project was being negotiated, I was reminded of an article Lucien Marquis wrote for The Other Side in 1991, in mise with the government, truste~, et~ . , m order t? survtve, or at which he was evaluating the Pitzer present. "The story of why I and how I came to Pitzer is a long and least to survive in a certain way. ( I thmk all theones are suspect, Zach Pall complicated one and this is not the place to tell it. However, I came primarily because I thought I was joining that the finest prindples may have to be modified, or rna~ even be Cnrla Rodas a new and experimental College. It turned out that Pitzer was sometimes, albeit rarely, experimental." Many pulverized by the demands. of li~e," sai<:f Jam~ ~aldwm.). The Ad Coordinator: Alice Rogers students, with stories of varying complication, have come to Pitzer over the years thinking, too, that it is an difficulty lies in trying to be mclus1ve w~tle ret:ammg a certam set Artist Kim Schoenstadt experimental college, and have been met with varying conclusions over the years. of principles, or in deciding upon them m the first place. Is t~~re a Photographer: Blythe Miller One definition, the one I thought was consensus, of our experimenting has to do with encouraging and way of doing many things, things t~t may. seem .hy_PocntiCal, Faculty Advisor: Allen Greenberger supporting (and economically privileging) avenues of creativity and scholarship (and creative scholarship) in while keeping our integrity? It is sometimes dtsappomtmg,_some­ a world that doesn't necessarily value these things. This method of experimentation also includes what Pitzer times so obviously opposed to individual and collective nottons of has called "concern with the social concerns and ethical implications of knowledge and action", which, as we what is acceptable, but this is the only way to do so. discovered last year in the debate about the "social responsibility" component of the Pitzer curriculum, isn't necessarily consensus. Regardless, the commitment to social responsibility, to a higher purpose, has been central to Pitzer's rhetoric. And this is why- not because we don't desperately need the space, the buildings are 1?.:vrv ~~--rr~7~/ bothersome, because they signify a placing of resources and energy into flashiness when there are educational and human resource needs the college has not addressed. It would appear that at Pitzer,asseerns to be a pattern ...... ,...... ,. .,. . h. ,...... ! .. ••.• ·· ···! .•. , _,.••••••• in the United States in general, we are much better at physical progress than spiritual progress. Back in the olden days, The Other Side used Or it might be that physical progress is just much easier to recognize. Maybe it is easier to highlight what to receive mail and letters to the editor. is material than to look for what isn't. It is apparent that one vision of Pitzer cannot hold everyone's ~ ;,,;{~~l!r~l~~iti~ :<:~n:tet, 51:~ Not anymore. We would like to get mail conceptualization of the direction the college should take, and that holding fast to one idea of "experimentation" once again, not only for selfish reasons, is an inadequate measure of the quantity of them of it at Pitzer. Because to someone at Pitzer, evidently to many • ·eJJ~i~ u4· Pi~iw~nngSkiliCentei,located : but because letters to the editor both at Pitzer, the Broad buildings are the personification of some notion of experimentation that I didn't want to : on C1 in sanbqrn DOr!n.l?rtng drafts of your ··· :· . regarding articles written in the magazine consider. While I still reject the logic that gave way to the new buildings, it seems that one aspect of the Pitzer : . ~ysy ~or.ts~ stories, and researc~ papers. · · : and on Pitzer in general provide other education for current students is being able accept some things we don' t like in order to keep the ones we do. • ···· Cen.terjnstBJ.ctors will read your draftS and , • avenues for discussion and dialogue. Fortheolderstudentsat least, the new buildings area major change from the relatively modest Pitzerofthepast, Please write. which may be another reason they are hard to handle. :"'" gj~~youadvke aboll,l revision. : Another answer to the call for Pitzer experimentation has come in the form of the Ontario Community • :::. =· =· .:: . ·:~= .. • • The Other Side magazine is a publication of Education Center. While so much attention has been paid to the construction project a few other professors and -:~;: . the students of Pitzer College. The editors students have been quietly enacting a branch of Pitzer that has the possibility of creatively putting the study of .,,.. ~~ ..: ... :. .:···:: t~\J=t,~- }::flours :: ., .. , reserve the right to edit or refuse any the social sciences to work for a nearby community. Hopefully, this is only the start of what could be a successful . Sunday-Wednesday 6-10 pm material, although it doesn't happen often. and invigorating integration ofPitzerresources into a nearby community which, in tum can offer us as students ·::· • a way of discovering the relationship between knowledge and action. ·.· ... ThUTSf.lay 1-4 pm · • The opinions expressed in this magazine • do not necessarily reflect the opinions of The example of the Ontario Community Education Center points to another kind of experimentation. It ::· Friday 1 ~4· pm · .:· • often seems that the most meaningful explorations of Pitzer's mission usuaiJy comes from the work of a few • the editorial staff, or, even, in some cases, • the writers. people, or one segment of the college, indicating that having one community vision may not be possible. But • this realization is not necessarily a negative conclusion. In other words, while our conceptualizations of the ·•·.. ·ext. 4321 • college differ, accepting all manifestations of''The Pitzer mission" seems to be our only option in an educational • Address any inquiries or responses to: community that values freedom of thought and expression. • • The Other Side Magazine If there is an impulse to find smaller worlds, this is one of the roles Pitzer has played for students in the past. ! M.ake an'appointment or just dr?p by! : Pitzer Box 6-tS Another thing the Broad buildings signify is a move toward professionalism and away from face-to-face •...... c/o Pi tzcr College ·. ... . •' .•:. =··=·. . relations, but the possibility remains that they could receive their proper Pitzerization. The Pitzercommu~ity Claremont, CA 91711 will be what it is- which leads me back to the question of what role The Other Side can/will play. I was trymg

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THE SouL OF A NEw (DEus Ex) MAcHINE: How the Broad Buildings Can Save Pitzer

by Justin Rood 2 Editor's Desk • Kim Gilmore .....

5 The Soul of a New (Deus ex) Machine • justin Rood

9 A Look at Pitzer's History • Prof Werner Wannbnmn

ll "irony 'vas the shackles of youth" • Aaron Bal1wn

The True ature of Brunch • Ben Ball My father once told me a story from the Tamarind The boy sat there for hours, then days, then weeks, 12 Islands about a deaf, mute boy who had no house, no clothing removing and replacing the bowl from his head, removing and no food, just a bowl. When he was hungry, he would beg and replacing, until he was lao weak to continue. He died, for food from thevillagerswithhisbowl,and theywould ladle wet and hungry, on the beach, and the ocean came up and 13 Senate Briefs soup or stew into it so he would not starve. When it rained, carried him away, and the fish fed on him. he hid under the bowl until the sun came out again, and in The moral of the story is this: A foolish man is he who this way he stayed dry. thinks he can stay both dry and well-fed. Everything was fine, until one day the boy began grow­ 14 Baseball Economics 101 • jonathan Casper ing up and thinking about the world around him. "The mound area is going to be three different Now, the islands Jwvea rain spell that comes oncuvery kinds of woodlands y,;th a stream running through it, fiftyyearsorso,and lasts for aver two months. The boy-man designed by Rob Lippincott, who's one of your class­ 15 Cadaver's Closet • Lawrence Cualoping (for he was older tluln a boy but younger tluln a man) was mates," Dean of Admissions Paul Ranslowsays,stand­ sitting on the beach one day when a child came by and said ing at the picture window in his office in the new to him tlwt the old man in the village had predicted the rain Broad Center, his tie loosened, his sanguine face beam­ spell would begin soon. But he could not understand,and the ing with excitement as he gestures out past the win­ 16 Foot in Mouth • Tobin Steers child ran away. And sure enough, the rains came. dowpane at the giant mound of dry, packed dirt that The boy-man hid from the rain under the bowl, for he sits on thespitofland hemmed in by the new academic hated to get wet, but after a few days he became hungry. He buildings. "The hard thing to do is to say to a prospec­ took the bowl away from his head, but when the rain hit his tive parent or student, 'Don't see that as a vacant lot! 17 El Otro Lado • Carla Rodas hair he put it back into place. Again, he felt pangs ofhunger Sec that as a lawn right there. And see those pinyon and removed the bowl, only to get wet, and so he uickly pines and see that stream running through there?' replated it. And they look at you like you've got two heads." 18 Music Reviews • Zach Pall

20 The Beastie Boys Sure Shot • Elise Graner

21 Can't We All just Get Along? • juan DeLara

by Blythe Miller• Hallway in Broad Center • Cover Photo

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"Like you've got two heads" tS one of Ranslow's favor­ impression that Euclid broke mto the architects' office one President MarilynChapm Massey, tall and broad-shoul­ private conversation, ite sayings. According to him, a lot of people have been mght and proved his first four postulates to the janitor dered, and friendly,ina practiced way, leadsmeoverto her even in the lobby ar- looking at him like he's got two heads lately, and with good using the blueprints as scratch paper. ' panoramic window. "[Once construction is finished) I'll be eas. The few windov.:s reason. For the last tv.. ·o years, he's returned to his position TI;,e buil~_i.ng h~s ran~o~ touch~ofcolor,although the able to see one of those original, weird, energy-producing m the building arc too THE BUILDI~CS COULD as Dean of Admissions for Pitzer College, following a one­ word touch 1mphes a vttahty that IS depressingly absent. shells "''ith all this stuff on the outside and a crooked roof­ small to allow any BE VIEWED, AS MASSEY year stint as Acting President after former President Frank A pale-green statrcase here, a muted-purple cylinder there you can see that," she says as she points to the roof of connection to the out­ Ellsworth resigned. During that time, he has also been an imply the ~r~ of forced chuckt: \-ice-presidents give when Bernard Hall, giving me a tour of her second-floor view. side. The insularity DOES, AS WORKS OF ART, active member of the ad hoc Facilities Committee, oversee­ a corporation s CEO wears a Mickey Mouse tie to work one "See this wonderful international garden down here, with of the space denies ing the design and construction of \\·hat is billed as the day. all the strange plants?" She asks me, pointing straight down any connection be­ BUT O~ES THAT REFUSE largest building project m Pitzer's history. ~e cyhnder that rises above Broad Center, in actuahty to the space just outside Dean Ranslow's office. tween oneself and Jn all of his positions, Ranslow has shouldered the task a skyl1ght, so resembles a smokestack on an ocean Iiner that 'Til be able to see that incredible new building," she others, inside and out­ Al'\JY CO="NECflON BE- of simultaneously helping to maintain ?ltzer's non-tradi­ many have dubbed the building "The Love Boat." Even continues, pointing now to Broad Hall. "See those rounded side the building. TWEE" PEOPLE ... AS tional _app~oach to education, while pushing the school in more telling_of ~pularse~timent, perhaps, is the building's rooms? Those are wonderful. You've got to get into those. The buildings newdtrechons. Itcould be expected that only a person .,.,-ith less romantiC mckname, 'The U.S.S. Massey," which was Because in there, you can see all the way back to McConnell could be \'lcwed, as C0~1MUNlTY SPACE, THE two brains could keep track of all the details of Pitzer's even tattooed in foil letters for a short time across the west [Center] and then all the way over to here. You can scc the Massey docs, as history, its present operations, and its future possibilities. wall of the unfinished structure until \\'Orkers removed the whole campus from that room. They should make it a works of art, but ones BROAD BUILDI'!CS FAIL More seriously, however, is the possibility that one grafitti. tounng room. that refuse any con­ must be of two minds to both believe in Pitzer's old anti­ In truth, the nickname is more misleading than it is "I'll be able to see that ugly clock - which is going to nection between authoritarian, unstructured, cause-loving past-what many tclhng. Pitzer's aggressive building strategy was being be painted, make it. .. do something for us; then the Grove people. They force all consider to l>e the "soul" of the school-and push Pitzer fo~ul ated long before President Marilyn Massey took House," she says, and pauses, gt\·ing no comment, "and rclationshtps within tow~rds ~position of great~ legitimacy in the community office, and even she had \'Oiced some initial concern over this field, which w11l becrea ted by students," she is quick to them to ex1st between the ind1vidual and the space, and in ofehtepnvatecolleges. In thts way, Ranslowisthcembodi­ the troubled financing of the project. point out. "And ... that weird geodesic dome.. .. But it's that context they work beautifully. However, as commu­ ment of ...... hat many consider to be Pitzer's classic dilemma: Symbolism, however, tssometimesmorepowerful than Pitzer,l'mgoing to be able toscc the whole history of it out mty space-the space that came naturally to the old build­ sa\·eour soul but loseourcollege, loscoursoul and save our htstory. The president's office, origmally located m what this window, with all the beauty, the strangeness... " mgs through their open-air walkway::.,dccentrahzed office college. looked like_ an oversized professor's office in Bernard, was I say, the only thmg you can't really scc is all the space and even the bi-lc\·el, glasscd-m lobby of Scott, a moved to tis new home m a remarkably un-professorial dormitories. "And I probably won't be able to scc the space that makes no presumptions to being anything but a space situated in the center of the second floor of the new student center," she adds, "because it won't go high enough meeting-place-the Broad buildings fail. Bro~d C~ntcr: Th~cinderblock walls, an aspect that profes­ to show over the tops of these buildings." We don't leave Their rcdcfimtionof relationships, from person-to-per­ sOrs offtces h1stoncally shared \\-ith students' dorm rooms, the window, but the subject changes. son to persan-and-structure, IS the purest ex-pression of the are nowhere in sight. Comfortable leather furniture, how­ difference betwccn a community and an institution. In that C\_cr, IS plent_ifut offering a view out a huge panoramic way, they rcprcscnt to some the encroachment of Institu­ wmdow lookmg over Ranslow's "three-different-kinds-of­ tiOn upon an orgamzation that ts touted as essentially woodlands-and-a-stream" area, and past that, the Grove Communi!\. House. In thc1{ot-too-d1stant past, however, many have voiced It requires httle stretch of the imagination, some say, to the complaint that the notion of Community is dead at sec the office as the officer's deck of a shtp. It requires no Pitzer. If they are right, could the Broad buildings be stretch of the Imagination to see the office as far removed harbingers of an mslltutional future? from either the professors' offices or the students' dorm "I've thought a lot about that," Paul Ranslow savs in rooms, and some feel that separation may be more than• response to a question concerning the new buildings as a symbohc philosoph1cal statement b~ the college of a newsenousness and gravtty. To some, the des1gn of the new bUJidmgs are symbolic "Can you sec (Prof. Barry] Sanders teaching in one of of Pitzer' future tdentitv. and the\ arc dubious of their these classrooms?" He asks me. I sav no. meaning. Avery, Rctcher and Bc~nard , the three older " I know what you mean, but I think. . . I believe that academic buildings. were buill on a orcular plan, with "To me, these bUildings in some ways arc. . . playful. those fund.1mental characteristic::. thatdistingutshed Pitzer, exterior walkways on the second floor, ex tenor entrances to You look at the front of this build mg. you go out and sec the while they may have mamfcsted themselves around the classrooms on the first noor and lots of wmdowsall around. four dtffcrcnt colors and the purple smokestack and the edges.. . . I thmk one of the thmgs we'll find is that at base, Broad Center and Broad Hall iollow a more linear design­ dtffercnt shapes, and there's something about the building that was just at the edges." I do not understand what he although not as lmear as the archttect's original designs, that dances. It's not a stodg) old building," Massey ex­ means exnctly. but I let him continue. wh1ch RansiO\\' says thccommittcc reJCCied-wtth smaller, plains, now sittmg comfortably in a chan on the north side "It isgomg to bed1ffcrcnt, but I thmklrct1red Professor less frequent windows and almost no exterior space. of her office " ... (Thebuildmgs) arc very valuable and \'Cry of Art) Cnrl Hertel would teach here. ... but I think it's like Broad Ccntcrsitsat the end ofTwelfth Avenue, 1ts pale, beautiful, and they're a statement of an arhst, and we the confusion between Broad Hall and Broad Center, it' ll nat facade a bland but resolute statement of the college. deserve that. But I don't thmk thcv shut us down in terms pass and pass rather qu1ckly, when 1t becomes clear that Everything that Pitzer's literature claims it to be-\ibrant, of creativity. Do you? \\'ho's got-a purple elevator?" She [Art Professor) ~11chael Woodcock is Pitzer, and he would di\-crse, stimulating-•:. denied. asks, and laughs. be Pitzer if he were teaching out by the \1ed1Cmc Wheel, or The building's exterior is an aw!..:.ward collectiOn of And yet, losmg crcalt\'ity and purple de\ a tors arc nl t if he were teaching m new, and wonderful space." I do not torms. curves and hnes mcctmg at odd points, shapes at the heart of the tssucs the~ buildings raise. In Broad Hall mention that the McdtCmc Wheel, bu1lt as an independent stacked and ~tuck t•1~t;t~er like a mtdd lc-school des1gn and Broad Center, tt 1s too dark in the halls to SL'C faces anv study project by a former Pitzer student on part of the East prOJCCI. It~ tcdmu~ rcp1lt~10not ab::.tr

I 0 II 1: K 4 , I Q Q 4 0 (. T I I I. 0 I II 1: I< S I I> 1: 7 T I I 1: 0 T I I t: R S I D E the change as good, another that reluctantly sup­ history of Pitzer and a dirt-pile, President Massey ports the change as necessary, and a third that com­ concurs. "I don't think we're going to lose, with these plains loud ly that the school is losing its soul. buildings... a sense of warmth, of connection," she The debate is over. We no longer need to argue Professor Warmbnmn wrote an article for the May 7, says, making obtuse reference to the notion of com­ about whether the school is losing its soul or not, 1991, issue of The Other Side entitled ''Then, Ncrw, and the munity that some think is already dead. For some because anyone can walk into the new buildings and reason, I did not feel reassured. see that it is not there. They are beautiful buildings. Future." We decided to reprint excerpts from that piece in the They give they school more space. But they have interest of providing a historical view of the College, and to nothing to do with the sense of community that encourage new students to get involved with the Pitzer Pitzer so proudly touts. We still have its old build­ ings, but they are now "weird, energy-producing History Project, which Professor Warmbrunn has admirably shells with all thisstuffon theoutsideand a crooked led in recent years. in addition, Professor Warmbrunn is ill roof," and the new essence of Pitzer resides in these at home this semester, and we wanted to ensure that one of "incredible new buildings." his perspectives was heard during his absence. We have gone on for three years now as if we existed in a perpetual instant, hashing and re-hash­ ing the arguments of Pitzer past versus Pitzer future while embracing neither, W E NO LONGER putting the bowl on NEED TO ARGUE our heads and taking it off, again and again ABOUT WHETHER and again. But the BY P ROFESSOR W ERNER WARMBRUNN To be fair, it must be noted that Pitzer did not winds have finally THE SCHOOL IS have much of a choice in architects. When he prom­ shifted, and the air is ised funding for the new buildings, Eli Broad pre­ gettingcooler. Sooner LOSING ITS SOUL sented the school with a list of ten architects to choose than we may have OR NOT, BECAUSE from. The list included I.~- Pei, one of the world's wanted, weare forced A Short Look at Pitzer's History most famous li ving architects, and Charles to make a decision:eat ANYONE CAi'\! Gwathmey, whom they chose, as well as eight other and get ..vet, or stay well-established architects with very distinct phi­ dry and starve. WALK INTO THE losophies. The Facilities Committee felt that The past is lost to and ruminations on the future Gwathmey would be the one v.. rho could understand us now, and we can­ NEW BUILDINGS and articulate best Pitzer's philosophy through the not regain it. Forthose Al D SEE THAT IT buildings' d esign. who wish to live in a This season may bean excellent time for an assessment faculty met for one week in June, and then for three weeks However, architects-especially famous ones-­ community, do what IS NOT THERE. of Pitzer College. The decade of the eighties will be ending in September, to "put the School together." have infamously grand egos, and they do not appre­ one p rofessor pro­ this month with a number of resignations and retirements At this particular point in time those of us who were ciate suggestions or revisions to their work. Just as posed: belike a farmer and with the graduation of one of Pitzer's largest and escaping from the clutches of large university academic Catholics owe allegiance to the Pope before they do whose land is dead. strongest classes. The Pitzer of the nineties will be a very bureaucracies, wanted to create a new institution in which the President, architectsoften owe allegiance to Space Pick up your things and move " to Green Valley, or different place from that of the sixties, seventies, and eight­ all the wrongs of the academic world outside and across and Fo rm before they dot heir client. So, Pitzer had to Pleasant Valley," he said, "or Pacoima." For the rest, ies. The next presidential administration will bear new Mills Avenue would be set right. Above all, as over and compromise in order to build anything at all. it is time to look at what we havebuiltandadmitthat characteristics to distinguish it from the three preceding against a world that was full of hypocrisy and denial, we And the compromise was necessary. Classroom Pitzer is following an irreversible trend towards administrations. The fate of the College in the nineties will wanted to create on this side of Mills Avenue an island of space was tight and professors' offices were in de­ institutionalism. As the slogan goes, "Love it, or be shaped in part by outside forces, such as demography, honesty and authenticity, a place where faculty, students mand, and most will admit that the Pit is an unsahs­ leave it." economic and political trends, much as has been the case in and administrators could implicitly and totally trust each factory student center. However, this is just the most If we continue to sit, as we have for the last three earlier years. There could be major changes, and at the same other, a world that was right for once, compared to an recent in a long string of compromises. First, there years, enjoying community when we can find it and time, we hope, a deep conhnuity. outside world where so many things had gone wrong. We was the instatement of core requirements and the faking it when we can't, being an institution to those wanted students to be active participants in their own Educational Objectivescodethreeyearsago, to main­ wi th power and money and a family to those with The Evolution of Pitzer Since Year One educations and in the governance of the College. tain accredited status with the Western Association ideas, we will get washed away to sea-and there's When I fi rst came toCJaremont,in the fallo£1963, Pitzer In that first year two fundamental decisions were made of Schools and Colleges. Then, the new alcohol not a ship or captain in the world that can save us. • consisted of a field of rocks, one eucalyptus tree, and about governance and student life. The first was that we policywasputintoeffect, to cement Federal funding. foundations for Scott and Sanborn that had just been poured would adopt a system of community governance in which Both of these removed freedom as vvell as responsi­ with metalrodsstickingoutoftheground. In human terms, students and facu Ity would work together in large areas of bility from the student, but both were completely the College consisted of President Atherton and his secre­ college life. The second decision was that we would not necessary fo r the school to survive. tary, Madeline Frishman, sitting in a small office at CMC, adopt any parietal (in loco parentis) rules which would Through these compromises, Pitzer has been Bill Frenaye, our original Development officer, and a Board attempt to control student life in such matters as alcohol, moving away from unstructured Community and of Trustees whose average age was somewhere in the drug use, or sex. We adopted only one basic rule-- the towards structured lnsti tution. And a tevery point of seventies. But by June 19~, President Atherton had as­ harassment rule designed to protect students and faculty compromise, the community (for Jack of a neutral sembled his original faculty of nine full time teachers. That from interference in their legitimate pursuits. term} has fallen into three groups: One that supports

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Student participation was fault lines and apparently irrec­ oncilable differences have arisen high in the early years when we WE MUST ATIEMPT Michael Stipe said ... were still trying to put the Col­ in the country at large, between lege together, although cries of TO CREATE IN THE the rich, the well-to-do and the "apathy" were already heard in new underclass that we allow to the first year when only eighty NINETIES THE REAL­ rot, so, too, at Pitzer deep fault 1roV\y was the shackles of yo lAth. instead of one hundred students ITY OF A COMMU- lines and cleavages have made turned out for Town Meeting. their appearance, not primarily Unfortunately, student participa­ NITY, SOMETHING along economic lines, but be­ and I knew he was talking to me, I think? tion began to decrease as the de­ tween students and administra­ cade wore on, and as the school THAT WILL NOT BE tion, between younger and older grew larger and the work of gov­ EASY IN AN AGE faculty,and between different de­ knew ""here I stood; and I knew not to ity for the sake of eccentricity isn't the ernance became increasingly rou­ partments. stand too close to the guys I wrote kind of thing that's easy to maintain, or tine. But, the desire on the part of WHICH WORSHIPS These cleavages have pro­ really meanarticlesabout, because they that much fun; but in the midst of the faculty and student leaders duceda decreaseofPitzer'smost were likely to beat me up. Here guys people who encompass the greatest two for more student participation re­ SELFISHNESS A D precious asset, the element of wear skirts and hang their underwear qua lites of a public high school: igno­ minded strong for a long time. I RRESPONSI Bl LITY. trust, the knowledge that the per­ on tree limbs, not for the sake of eccen­ rance and ignorance, you begin to be­ The seventies were a time of sonorcommitteewithwhomyou tricity, but because they want to. I'm a lieve that not only the entire world transition. The new President, are dealing mean what they say, writer •Nithouhtinspiration;and I don't works the same way, but that it's the Robert Atwell, was deeply com- and that they will listen to you even own a skirt. only way one can actually stand out. mitted to the principle of student and faculty and respect you and your opinion. But, the repair My preconceptions of my new life Perhaps, Pitzer is one of the few places participation and to openness to governments. at Pitzer should be easier than in the country at at Pitzer were the kind that few jaded that's different. Perhaps, it's not. At But the negative aspects of the sixties lifestyle large, with a new set of administrators and with high school seniors might have. I least I'vebeengiven the opportunity to such as excessive individualism, lack of respect students and faculty determined to make this a It's about 8:20pm. I sit atop the wanted tothinkgreat thoughts. I didn' t see something different; something I for property, and substance abuse began to poi­ better place. Mounds hoping to be inspired. It's know exactly what they were but I was beginning to doubt really existed. son student life. Yet, as the recent Atherton Soci­ darkalready,and a fewstarshavemadc knew they would be great. Now as I sit The thing is, I've managed to ac­ ety series demonstrated, many of our students The Task of the Nineties their way into the lovely Pitzer skyline. tryingtomeetsomepreposturousdead­ complish a great deal without really during that decade found Pitzer an ideal place to In my view the task for the nineties has been When l was younger, I used to sneak line, I wonder when I'll have time to noticing it. l haven' t had the opportu­ discover themselves, to work and to play. For defined by my dcscri ption oft he six ties and by my out my window late at night just to sit think all my great thoughts. I wonder nity to get sued for libel (yet) but I've them Pitzer was a good place from which to move comments about the decades that intervened. To on the roof and look at the stars. I used when I'll have time to think of what managed to meet some pretty amazing on to graduate school to pursue the interests put it in a nutshell: we must attempt to create in the to think about the universe, and infin­ thev'll be. people, and make some pretty good discovcrcdduringtheirundergraduateyearshere. nineties the renfityof a community, something that ity, and if there was really another kid 'tna recentexchangeof"Post-Pitzer friends. The thing is, I'm not sure they The economic crises of that decade were also will not be easy in an age which worships selfish­ far off on some other planet sitting on Bewilderment" angst, a fnend said to know what kind of poetry I \.\'Tile, or reflected a t Pitzer in a sense of limitation, a slow­ ness and irresponsibility, but I believe it can be his roof staring at the stars too. I'm not me, "I used towantto accomplishsome­ the kinds of political views I have, and down in the recruitment of faculty and a deterio­ done at Pitzer. sure I should think about cliche things thinggreat, nov.• I just want to be happy, I don't think they care. True accep­ ration in the admissions situation. Key to the process of recovery is the re-estab­ anymore. l'm in college now. which is a lot harder." I didn't really tance is kind of nice sometime; I think I The eighties at Pitzer, too, were in part a lishment of trust across the current fault lines Jt'squietout, tooquietformytastes. know how to react to this comment. I like it. reflection of national trends. The eighties nation­ within the college. Building on the still existing I like seeing other peopleou tside doing used to be the kind of person who So here I sit; not quite sure what it ally were a decade of the "Image," when appear­ trust between students and faculty, the other fault nothing like me. I feel as if I have some associated happiness with accomplish­ is I' m doing here, or doing here for that ance counted more than reality, when it lx•came lines must be bridged step by step. Administrators kind of meaningless bond with them. ment. Fuck,at my high school, I had to matter. I thought J had it all figured crucial "to feel good." This wastheageofthe"mc­ need to show conv;ncingly that they have a deep Nobody's really out here though, with publicly accuse the Superintendent of out, I guess you never know what too" generation, and of Yippies-tumed-Yuppies. and abiding commitment to student autonomy the exception of a couple of jamtors, imbezzlement (not exactly untrue by you'll find when you stop looking so Some good things happened at Pitzer, in part as and participation. They must possess a genuine and a disgruntled pizza man who ap­ the way) just to get the student body to hard. In case it looks like I've slowly a consequence of national prosperity. The en­ faith in the rationality and constructive intentions pears to be locked out. All of this is read my column. But that was my reached a very strange epiphony over dowment increased and new faculty were re­ of studentsand in their potential students, in tum, understandable of course. 90210 IS on happiness. And it was, in the void of the course of this article, I suppose I cruited during the second half of the decade. The must care. tonight. The dorm rcc rooms arc lit­ everything else, something I prided have; funny what the Pitzer skyline quality of new students improved steadily thanks Pitzcn.. dll actualize its true potential only if all tered with young creative souls, per­ myself on. Here, I don't know. People can do to you. The truth is, I'm still not to the energetic and personable management of parties concerned put in the time it takes, and if haps trying to be inspired themselves. seem to listen tomercgardlcss,and I'm inspired; but I suppose that's why I Paul Ranslow. Under thcguidanceofDcan Bloom they believe that they can make a difference, if not That Dylan, such a poet. not sure how to feel about that. On the came here. • the faculty developed a new set of educational this year then next, or the year thereafter. And as I think this place has too many one hand, I kind of feel cheated; I used objectives which it will have to implement in the a person who has probably failed more frequently creative people. It would be that much to be pretty good at shockmg people, nineties. over almost three decades than any of his col­ easier if it were like high school. I was and now I really can't. But, in my view a large part of the essential leagues in his many attempts to gain acceptance eccentric in high school. I was a musi­ However, I suppose you could say basis of Pitzer life has been weakened or disap­ for his various proposals and schemes, let me tell cian; I was a writer, \.,; th plenty of that it's the kind of subconcious ideal peared in the eighties: the clements of trust and you, that I firmly believe that thoseofuswhomake people who went out of their way to that drove me all along, although I participation. At least until the establishment of that investment, and who persist over a period of give me good material to write about. I would've never guessed it. Eccentric- the student Senate, student participation in gov­ time, can make a difference. And the place will ernance has been at an all time low, often limited remain dtal and will be able to grow only if to a few student politicians co-opted by adminis­ enough of us, faculty, students and administra­ tration or faculty. And just as in theeighticsdeep tors, make that kind commitment to the College. • BY AA R0 N BALKAN

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the very word "brunch" is in itself a synthesis of the Why would Marriott beat around the bush with an issue as words "breakfast" and "lunch", which would, in large as student meal choice? T tum, suggest that the meal "brunch" is itself a A theory is that breakfast materials are cheaper than synthesis of breakfast and lunch. However, recent sam­ lunch materials. Or,maybeitgoesdeeperthanthat. Marriott plings of so-called brunch at McConnell Dining Hall is not gains a certain control of the Pitzer student psyche when it a renection of this harmonious marriage of terms. What asserts that brunch is a combination of breakfast and lunch. Senate Briefs kind of implications does this tragedy have for our society as The average Pitzer student thinks that his/her meal plan is a whole? What sort of conspiracy is being hatched in the still fair because if it was halls of our dear campus? How much longer can the Pitzer called "breakfast", then The Senate elections have been completed and we now have a full elected Senate. student body live under the oppressive perversions of our lunch would obviously be "MARRIOIT GAINS meal schedule? missing, and the inequality The following are the nev"ly elected members for the '94-95 academic year. of the meal system .,.,,rould A CERTAIN CON- be blatantly exposed. So, by effectively masking TROL OF THE Rosa Contreras Brook Bannister Gigi Pandian The raw data on the subject is appalling. Til

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Carlo walked through the dark empty halls. visions of triumph, Carlo persuaded Katrin to His shadow played along the wall, catching his give him the flask. Carlo took the syringe and Bas.e·b-all Economics :10:1 every move in fine detail. His footsteps echoed sucked until it filled to capacity. He then confi­ in thecompletesilenceand he could hear every­ dently plunged it into his cadaver's jugular. He thing from his heels clicking to the rustling of wheeled the heart beat monitor next to the body + by Jonathan Casper+ his clothes. and hooked the machine. Katrin looked on, He reached the cadaver lab and opened the deciding not to help even though she was as door. Under the narrow shafts of moonbeams, excited as he was. Just as she expected, it was a he could see several figures lying on the tables. flatliner. Suddenly, the lights went out. Nter thirty-four days of striking, The reasons for this are not plain, bu t and that if there is money to be made it All were covered with white sheets that looked "Blackout!" they both wailed. baseball finally struck out. The all the baseball players don't want to see will be made. The huge commercial gray in darkness. His had skimmed the walls "Don' tworry,wehaveGuiderPower,"Carlo American sport has proven to be very the same thing happen to them. Both machine known as baseball can only be looking for the switch, suddenly it was grabbed said triumphantly as he turned on the switch and American mdeed. How did thisall hap­ sides remained with their positions killed by the fuel that keeps it running, by soft, tender hands. The lights went on. the UPS hummed to life. pen? Nobody knows for sure, but the during the strike period and there was the fans. We are in control of the game. Katrin giggled when she saw Carlo. He cau­ "What's the use, it didn' t work." one thing that we do know is that it really no choice but to cancel the sea­ Baseball games are fun to us because of tiously lowered his hands from his face. The instrument lights glowed again and sud­ involved large sums of money which son. the challenge of the game and the his- "Very funny! Let's get to work, that project denly, there was a heart beat, and another, until where not distributed tory behind it. Recently, is due tomorrow." Carlo snapped. it was near normal. Both of them froze with their equally. It also invol\"ed baseball has lost some "Don't worry, we have your theory and all mouths agape. Katrin turned on the 30 emer­ the players and the own- of its popularity due to the chemicals right here. We'll be finished by gency lamp. The brainwaves were zero but the ers ego's and the owners rule changes, other five," Katrin answered sweetly. man was still alive. His chest moved up and were the first to bow out. sports becoming popu­ At once the two students began their work. down as he remembered to breathe. The same This will be the first lar, and mostly because Fortunately there was no one to hear the tin­ things were going on in their minds. They time that there will not be we have transformed it gling of stirring rods against flasks or their couldn't stop his heart because that would be a \1\'orld Series since 190-L into a corporate giant semi-romantic conversation echoing in silence. murder, no one would know but they can't live When looking at the 1904 that effects our The hours ticked away and everything pro­ with the guilt forever. If they just abandoned him strike, we see that it economy. Sadly, Major ceeded on schedule. in the streets, that would be murder too. If they closely parallels the 1994 League baseball has "Ok, I think we have it!" Carlo announced told the school, they would be expelled for mess­ strike. The ego's in 190-l become an integral part wiping his brow. ing with human life. They looked at each others of our economy. Some "What are you waiting for? Let's test it!" eyes, looking deep, for some form of escape. Ten were just as big they are now. The 1904 World Se- {($' ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~'-F of the unsung losers of Kartin said barely able to control her impa­ years passed and the incident of the missing rics was not played be- 1 this whole mess are the tience. cadaver was forgotten. cause the manager of the countless lower level Carlo went tooneof thedrawersand pulled juan opened the door to his parents room ~ational League Pen­ employees that do not out a dead cat. It had died thrccweeksago,due and creeped in. He reached for their closet door. nant-winningGiants had have the salaries to to the miracle of modem embalming, it had not He had opened every drav.•er in the apartment a heart-felt contempt for bounce back the way yet began to rot. Carlo sucked the green solu­ except this one. His parents warned him never to the upstart of the Ameri- the owners and the tion into his hypodermic needle and plunged a go to their bathroom. They warned him never to can league. players both do. full dose into the eat's jugular. go to their bathroom. They warned him never to In 19~, the big ego's This season had The green fluid entered the blood stream. touch their things or else something might get are combined with big some potentially great The synthetic braincells had to swim on their lost. juan forgot all these warnings. He loved money. Due to the strike, moments. Tony Gwynn own power to reach the brain because the heart new places, new cabinets with new things in there were a total of 669 might have become the had stopped beating. The braincells moved them. Right now he could only guess what was gameslostatancstimated first hitter since 1941 to rapidly to thecat's medulla and detached their insidethecloset. SuperNintendogames,Gijoes, cost ofSS 0 million to the bat over .400. Ken tails. The medulla in tum started to send im­ X-Men, were the thoughts dancing around his owners and 5230 million Griffey Jr. and Matt pulses to the heart. The heart started beating head. His curiosity overwhelmed his logic. He tothcplaycrs. You would Williams were making and blood flowed once again in the dead cat. inserted the stolen key and turned. The padlock think that w1th this kind a run at home run With enough blood being supplied to the brain, snapped of money being lost, the records. The Cleveland almost all its systems clicked on. After three open. He owners and the players could have For a sports fa n, the cancellation of Indians didn't suck, and the Kansas weeks of purgatory, the cat jumped up with its pulled the reached some type of agreement. The a baseball season is very disappoint­ City Royals were just corning off a long tenth life and made for the window. It barely handle , owners mainlv wanted revenue shar­ mg. The common consensus is that the winning streak, and would surely have traveled a few meters when it submerged un­ without ing in which the teams that made the fans are disgusted by both the owners' stayed hot. The Rockies had a chance at der a heap of blood-thirsty street dogs. "So even pass­ most money would gl\'e some of there and players' actions. The owners arc winning a pennant after only two sea­ much for our project, at least it works. All we ing second, revenue to the smaller market teams. not having financial trouble or they sons in the big time. The list goes on. If need now is another cat," Katrin said. h is face To do this, they wanted to put a capon would not have bought a team in the anything good comes out of this sea­ " Why try it on cats, when there's an ample turned players' salaries. The players do not first place. \1ost of the players make ten son, it will betherealizationofbaseball supply of cada\·ers? Come'on let's see what'll white and want a salary cap and want to raise the times the amount that an average as a big business and the fans should happen," Carlo said, glancing at the cadavers. his mouth mm1mum salary from $109,000 to American makes a year, so money take their ticket money and spend it on Katrin took a step backward, shaking her fell open. S175,000-$200,(XXJ. Profe!:>sional football should not seem like a huge problem. something for them, not ego maniacs. • head in the negative. Carlo went for the flask of Guess what and ba!:>kctball both ha\"C sal,uy caps We must remember that this is the US green fluid. Katrin grabbed it first and threat­ he saw. and it seems to have hurt both sports. ened to break it. Through soothing words and

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1. You know what? I'm not ready I'm not ready to let you go There's so much I still 2.Esa cosa chiquita es muy "chingona·· want to share with you BY TOBIN STEERS :-\o se deja de nadie Everyday I think of you La insultan, Ia amenazan, le hace n bloqueo I wo nder if you 'II wake pero alii sigue up tomorrow Hermosa como siempre " A friend of mine? Yea, he's a gotten a lot hotter and the breeze had It's not as if it was all lies. They I feel so far and yet so f\.le da risa como alguien Lao supuestamente poderoso friend of mine. Sometimes I wonder died initstracks. Even the birds stopped were things about his behavior that close why. He just can't keep from fuckmg singing. Black thunder crashed against bothered me all strung together with note puede I'm not ready up and taking it out on others. His the trees and bushes. Thu ndersprawlcd frustration. I could have told him al1 destruir I'll never be ready to problem becomes everyone's problem. out across the horizon while blazes of this with words a bit more delicately Ya llevan mas de 30 anos y nada Know what I' m saying?" searing rain now fell. My face was wet chosen. Instead, he had to hear it as a let you go Pcro cllos nunca entenderan You don'talwaysget nice days like and my heart wasbeatingand I blinked non-participant while I played myopin­ Let you go physically - that is Ellos nunca e nLenderan que cuando las casas se hacen this one. A little hot for the tastes of and it was all gone. The weather was ion on a broken violin. WAIT! Do n't give up some. Overall, a real treat for those back to being pleasant but the day As I was about to cross Sixth, I saw con amor I wam you to take my children to the park used to the early death of summer. We would never be the same. George walking from College. He was y nacen del corazon I wam you to hold their hand were on the sidewalk at the comer of I didn' t turn around again until I wandering up slow and with little de­ son indestructibles Sixth and College heading to the cot­ \'\•as right next to the cottages. God's termination, knowing I wasn' t going like you held mine Esa cosa chiquita se llama CUBA!!! tages to visit a friend . At least I was; perverse sense of humor had finally anywhere. There was no pity or self­ WAIT! I'm not ready George was heading to Pearsons, the subsided and jeff was gone. I think he righteousnessor anything on his face. I Yo u give me strength hub for philosophy majors. had gone to visit a professor in Carnegie. preferred it that way. "I mean, people don't always meet Maybe he was off crying or buying a "George, man, did I fuck up or You give me life! your expectations. Big deal. You set gun or something, I don' t know. All I what?" Please don't give up! them up above your head and they'll cared about was that I could breathe "Yeah, you kinda did." His passiv­ I need you! por Car[a 1?_pdas only break and crash. Why the fuck again, although not too clearly. ity startled me. MALDITA E:-\FERMEDAD- el SIDA!!! does everyone have to be so fucking I decided to skip the visit to my " I didn't really mean all that." perfect for him. I'll tell you something, friend's place and circle back to cam­ "Yes you did. You know what the I can't live up to his fucking standards. pus. Instead of walkmg back up on problem is here. You had something to Someone'sgot to sit him down on their College, I walked over behind say but didn' t have the nerve to say it lap, like a little wimp kid, and explain Alexander Hall and headed over to the right. lf you had told him all this, you 3.Creo que ese pedestal en el cual te tenia a ti that people aren' t angels. jeff is really gym. \'Vas this all a big set-up? Joke's wouldn't have told me. Nor would lame that way." on me; George knew Jeff was there all you have stuck your head so far up Desaparecio con una simple lagrima de mi madre Just before we got to the stairs of thetime,didn'the? lwasinonit too. I your ass. Know what you gotta do? Desaparecio con el llanro de mi hermana y hermano Pearsons, George taps on my shoulder was just playing around, picking the Tell him how you really feel and he'll al no tener suficieme que comer and motions with his head for me to words that would set Jeff off. o sense see the bullshit. He'll see how much of al Desaparecio cuando me di cuenta que tambien vos tum around. A look wasn't needed to pretending; I had picked them a little it was just you being pissed off. Other­ .; ,; ~~ -~rihlbuir Dt:.ch:ad~ ;~ Thb;;:;;· sos humano know that Jeff was about 6 paces be­ too well. wise, all he'll ever know is what you , "~ller ?~e~ mandenos m; diSC{) de :: · hind me. My eyes met his left eyebrow I guess that I was due for ''the big just said out there, true or not." ; ]LM~t a'nit~ taja~ Scott Hall, ·... Desaparecio cuando me di cuenta que esperane era and his met the cleft of my chin. As one," I thought. Shit has been talked We shook hands and I headed up .r:J~ilze.r Cell~~ 1050 N: Mills Ave~, '' algo en vano much as we both tried, there was no and mistakes in timinghavebeenmade to school. Most things in life can be i: kJaremonfcA 91711 ;'Uamenos a='·J': ,. Desaparecio cuando me di cuenta que tu lucha y Ia de chance of our eyes meeting. It was a before. Using my amazing (in fact, repaired, but nothing worth fixing ''/'90M2l~_..-ext..39?2. ,. ::· \ ··' ;:· mi madre sonIa misma lucha moot point anyhow. I could only turn near God-like) powers of communica­ comes with instructions. I never ex­ :·:%>'1. ... , :·,_. ,., ·.. · . " ':'~:Sti::: La lucha de mi madre fue y sigue siendo tan valiosa back around and pretend he was never tion, however, I was always able to pected something like this to be easy; there. avert disaster and hurt by some clever then again, I never really expected it to como Ia tuya "See you later, George." He casu­ twist of language. In this instance, no happen at all. You don't expect to fuck Pero hay una diferencia muy grande ally walked up the stairs and I ambled language in the world could have saved up, you just do•. Ella nos vio crecer y vos no! on towards the cottages. The air had me.

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"haunting." Theentireseventy minute Someone once said that disc is a bizarre and evocative roeryone becomes,at least soundscapc with Shakespeare's son­ Bootsy Collins once in his or her life, that nets spoken in parts. Jarman, who recently died of AIDS, Blasters of tlze Universe which he (or she) most had a long-time friendship with Coil. It Rykodisc despises. So, in some seems to me that the release of this CD ironic way, it somehow now is at least in part a tribute to his passing and as such it provides a fitting Changing directions radically, seems fitting that I, who and lasting tribute to his passing. Bootsy CoUins has a new double CD feel that music critics are out on Rykodisc. The album is entitled "Blasters of the Universe" and features spineless UXJmlS who con- his new group, Bootsy's New Rubber tribute nothing to an art Band. Bootsy is, for my money, one of form of which they know the most amazing bassists out today. Fun-da-mental His story goes something like this: when nothing, would become Seize the 1i1ne he was 12 (yes 12) he joined james one myself. Call it an act Brown's band as their bassist. This of self-loathing but here I Beggars Banquet alone would qualify most people for Halls of Fame. Yet, he went on to an am, ready to review the The music begins with a new one illustrious career in Parliament finest in new music. from Fun-da-mental-a new rap group Funkadelic and then began a solo ca­ from Britam's Asian community. It's a reer. In recent years, he has been active double CD on Beggars Banquet called with Bill Laswell {another amazing "Seize the Time" and is one of the fe\'\' musician who has done just about ev­ rap groups to get my attention from the Very minimal, it varies between erything under the sun) in the experi­ first listen on and never let go. The the extremely discordant and haunt­ mental funk band Praxis. Now, he has rhymes are a lot closer to old-style Pub­ ingly beautiful. The second track another heap of side-projects coming lic Enemy than Gangsta Rap {which "Enochian Calling'' is in part taken from out through a Rykodisc spin-off called seems to be all that is coming out any­ Coil's first EP entitled "How to Destroy Black Arc. That kind of vision and where right now). The single best part Angels," but the rest of the disc is, to the versatility (not to mention talent) de­ BY ZACH PALL of Fun-da-mental's music is the heavy best of my knowledge, previously serves to be rewarded. use of finely crafted multiple layers of unreleased. The usc of Gregorian Chant He is still at it too. With "Blastersof Indian music as the backing beat. The in parts of "Angelic Conversation" is the Universe," he returns to more tradi­ message is a very political one, but that, totally unlike the cheese-ball overuse tional funk style {a Ia classic P-Funk) I suppose, is to be expected. They are of that form which S('('ms so popular but has as much funk and groove as he new and they are from Britain, which ever did. The other players are of simi­ now to provide, as ~1ike Hamilton put may scare some people off. The fact If you kids think that you are hip to that "alternative" scene it, "instant plastic ambiance." Rather, lar world-<:lass talent, and include Jimi that their debut is a two-CO set isn't then you shouldn't be caught without the new one from Sugar. Coil used it sparsely and to great effect, Hendrix's drummer Buddy Miles, Sugar, is former Husker Di.i frontman Bob Mould's new band. likely to help them any. Still, one hopes blending it not with dance beats but Eddie Hazel, an old P-Funk member, This new one IS called "File Under Easy Listening" which is, in that therewillbeotherswhomoum the with haunting melodies. Again, the and a number of other past and present a weird sort of way, appropriate. Nestled within all the feed­ current dominationoflopmg bass hnes use of Shil kespeare is there to provide P-Funk members. To say that it is an back and his raspy voice are great pop melodies. and mellow raps, and th1s may be a for this love story, in Jarman's own instant funk classic is all that needs to In a lot of ways, he has gotten a lot more pop-oriented over wayofescapmg them, at least momen­ words, "the greatest love poetry in the be said. the past few albums, but he is also still lodged firmly in the tarily. English language, written by tight, post~punk groove for which he \ovrites so successfully. It Shakespeare in his middle age to the Oh no, I can feel myself already does seem, however, that he has lost a lot of the rage and young Earl of Southampton." This slipping into the eternal music critic hopelessness which made his older work {both with Husker beautiful poetry, read by Judi Dcnch, is cliche, v.rriting things like "instant clas­ Di.i and especially his two solo albums) so great and cathartic Coil backed by the variously discordant, sic" and "ethereal." This is not good. to listen to. ethereal, mimmal music of Coil. At any rate, I will try to wrap this up \'Vhich, of course, brings up the fact that his profoundly The Angelic Conversations This wonderful disc is unfortu­ fairly quickly. In a shameless plug, I underrated solo work has been repackaged with some Threshold House nately only available as an import at would like to note that the campus unreleased and live stuff and put out as "Poison Years." This present which may keep many people radio station (KSPC 88.7 FM) is one of is, of course no mntch for the actual albums, but for the initiate, The most exciting release of late is from ever experiencing the sublime the best places for finding out about Sugar 1t may serve to get one started. Coil's soundtrack on Threshold House (and the word is fitting) beauty of "The new music. Y'all aught to try to listen All and all, "File Under Easy Listening" for its more pop­ Records for the 198-l film bv Derek Angelic Conversation." Even with the in once or twice if you are interested in File Under Easy Listening ish sound, still has the feel ol a great post-punk album. Truly, Jarman called "The Angelic Com·ersa­ added expense and time involved in new and exciting music of all sorts. • Rykod isc Bob Mould is the real thing, far more than mostofthesealtema­ tion." The film is the story of two young tracking it down, "The Angelic Con­ pop bands will ever be able to begin to express. men who fall in love and the music versation" is well worth it. \'\'Ould probably be best described as

T II I. 0 T II I I{ $I I) 1: I 9 18 0 C T 0 II I. R 4, I 9 9 4 TilL OTIIER SIDE THE BEASTIE BOYs· by Elise Graner CAN'T WEALL Ancient chantings, cellos, violins, flutes and a upright one of the best rappers in the hip-hop world today, and the bass, may make you think that you're about to hear a Beastie Boys. This song most clearly demonstrates the selection from the Masters of Classical Music, until the beat difference of rap styles between the smooth flowing lyrics of sets in and the funk begins to flow then you realize it's the Q-Tip and the more choppy but unique and jovial style of Beastie Boys. Their latest album Ill Communication incorpo­ the Beastie Boys. The song is an effort to show the hip-hop JusT GET ALONG? rates old school hip-hop, punk, rock and roll, and a vast community that it must unify across boundaries of black array of instruments all played by the Beasties themselves. and white, East and West, and the new and the old artists. It Similar to their last effort Check Your Head, Ill Communication also contains some classic Beastie Boys lyrics. Just as on BY /UAN DeLARA is full of jam-style instrumentals that mesh together ""ith an Paul's Boutique they said, "Rapunzel Rapunzel, let down electric guitar, somewhat funky bass, and the simple but your hair, so I can climb up and get into your underwear", consistent drum beats of Mike D. Yet, unlike Check Your and MCA made his self-proclamation, '1 am a lava lamp", Head the playing is much tighter and there's much more then on Check Your Head, "I go on to the crack of dawn This past summer I participated in a program sponsored by the American experimentation with both their style of playing and the mov,ring down M.C.'s like I'm mowing the la\-\'0, "and the Sociological Association. The purpose of the Minority Opportunity through choice of instruments. MCA, for example, moves from a classicsampleused on "Professor Booty", '1 hear you're girl bass guitar to a upright bass on Ill Communication, which hasbecngivin' it to all them graffiti guys," "Yo,Shutthefuck School Transfonnation Program was to gather sf udents of color from the U.S. gives the songs more depth with a jazz like quality. up, chico man!" In this fashion in, "Get It Together", Ad­ and Puerto Rico to discuss issues of multiculturalism in higher education and "Aute Loop", the thirteenth song on the album is both Rock professes his love for his wife lone Skye, "Got to do it society as a whole. It is imperative thnt our society begin to seriously discuss jazzy and sophisticated with the aid of a flute and piano that like Chachi and joanie, she's the cheese and I'm the maca­ such vital issues. plays above the old-school style of a drum machine and roni". Current demographic changes indicate that in the immediate future, scratching of D.]. Hurricane. "Futterman's Rule",combines One of the most interesting tracks on Ill Communication the hard sound of Ad-Rocks guitar, a drum solo, a "Starsky is "Bodhisattava Vow", which uses ancient Buddhist chants whites will no longer be the ovenuhelming majority group in the U.S. In­ and Hutch" bass, and the spacey sound of the ever present and on which lyrics most show the personal growth of the deed, in some parts of the country and in some larger cities, whites no longer keyboards. Although the instrumental songs on this album Beastie Boys from beer guzzling womanizing young men on comprise the majority. Such distribution trends, along with the fad that are more innovative and well put together then on Check License to Ill to meditating self-reflecting men searching to current social institutions do not provide a framework from which to analyze Your Head, there is still one too many of these same seventies expand their minds and cultural views. The last track on lll the experience of marginalized groups, are at the center of the argument style garage band sounding songs. This nostalgic sounding Communication is a slow jam, and like most of their instrumental playing works best when they rap on top of it, instrumentals makes one think back to long days of roller which claims that society must re-e-ualuate dominant paradigms that serve to holding the song together in a tight package. The Beastie skating in the streets, tube tops, pink gloss, dolphin shorts, inhibit the progress and success of marginalized groups. Boys, who originally started out as a young struggling punk the soundtrack from "Super Ay", and re-runs of "Starsky band, resurfaces some of their punk sounds on tracks like, and Hutch" and "Charlie's Angels". "fough Guy" and "Heart Attack Man". Although I enjoyed Overall, Ill Communication, is a successful extension of the various styles of music on this album the Beastie Boys their last album, Check Your Head. The Beastie Boys Like few The debate between those in academia and society haven't seemed to figure out that punk music is more then other hip-hop artists today, have combined their musical who either favor or oppose multiculturalism is one playing fast and yelling out simple lyrics. Their punk roots influences and expanded their musical abilities to include a which increasingly moves towards the approval or however do succeed in "Sabotage". Although this song is vast audience of listeners that reaches beyond the hip-hop condemnation of ethnic studies. Ronald Takaki claims radio friendly it possibly best demonstrates the new venture world. And yet they are still able to keep in close contact that Allan Bloom is a "leader m the cultural backlash towards the fusion of punk and hip-hop. with their hip-hop roots and pay a tribute to such artists of against cultural diversity". Bloom in an advocate of Other highlights on this album include the first track, today such as Biz Markie and Q-Tip. 111 Communication is a what Takaki claims is the going back "Sure Shot", which starts off with a sample of a dog whining diverse effort that will allow the listener to discover some to the "good old Great Books ap­ and moves into the sweet sound of the flute and the funky new nuance each time they listen to it. Although some of the proach." In fact, Bloom is said to WITH THE INCREASE L'\! rhythm of the drums and the Beastie Boys in their old-style instrumentals may seem too long and too much of the same, believe that one failure in race rela­ fashion of rapping. the others will have you grooving in Beastie Boy tradition. • tions in that black students have be- DlVERSITY, PEOPLE OF Another wonder on this album is, "Get It Together", come too ethnic. He believes that COLOR CAN l\:0 LONGER BE which is a collaboration of Q-Tip of A Tribe Called Quest, they have made their blackness an issue, which refuses to allow them to PLACED TN POSITIONS melt in to the pot like all other groups \VHfCH TOKENIZE THEM. have. Bloom believes that programs such as Black Studies have cause an increased amount of separatism. He is an advocate of an assimilation process which would render a version of society which has a "fundamental basis of unity". Bloom argues that diversity is a threat to the social contract of America.

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Astudydone LPs! removes blacks from the realm where tional institutions and dominant para­ in 1988 found that in California, there mat~et and Cafe We pay top doUar cash, baby. they can exist as human beings and digms. were no Chicano or Latino academic Mideastern/Mediterreanean Restaurant drags them to a place where they bask deans or d epartment heads outside of in the perceived glory of being Black. ethnic or Chicano Studies. As Reyes Under such assumptions, Bloom would .. .IN ORDER TO UN­ and Hakon point out, in a state where The ideal foods for your healthy. holistic. & and don't forget.... seem to claim that they chose to be thethencurrentpopulationofChicanos ecologically sound lifestyle Rhino is the place to go for the Black. 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The increase in Black students on cannot be a viable option for a society campus led to an increased demand for PLINE." which seeks to be at peace. Your old music can make you money! Black Studies which Bloom claims, ac­ The voice of multiculturalism is cording to Takaki, added to the one which cannot die. Rather than "discomposition of the University." Increasingly, those who opposed bringing chaos to society, multicultur­ Bloom is only one of a few scholars multiculturalism claim that diversity is alism brings a forum through which who have criticized multicultural edu­ a threat to the stability of the nation. the voices of those who have been op­ cation. Diane Ravich and Arthur E.D. Hirsch claims that the U.S. is be­ pressed for so long can finally being to Schlesinger are among those who favor coming a ''Tower of Babel." He claims be heard by a society which has long an approach whichcelebratesourcom­ that such a transformation is capable of dosed off its reality. monalities rather than accentuating our tearing the social fabric of the country Maxine Baca Zinn and Bonme differences. Ravitch seems to be ac­ apart. He proposes that the nation Thorton Dill claim that recognizing dif­ and cepting of other people's culture but unite under a set of shared symbols. ferences between groups is not enough. only if it is limited to the sharing of one However,according to Takaki, the sym­ They claim that in order to understand another's food, music and art. Arthur bols which he puts forth "leaves out people's lives one must go beyond rec­ ZAKIE CHICKEN Schlesinger believes that in order to much of the history of minorities." ognition and inclusion and must "per­ keep the United States untfied, people The critics Reyes and Halcon also mit them to reshape the basic concepts must assim1late into a common cul­ address the problems that minority and theories of the discipline." • will pay half of your Lunch ture. scholars face in the academic world. Takaki points out that it is useful to They claim that at the time when affir­ or Dinner! consider what Susan Faludi has called mative action regulations were at their the backlash against women's libera­ peak, most of the faculty that were tion when analyzing the reaction by hired to meet the regulations were given 344 S. Indian Hill Blvd. dominant academe against non-tenure-track positions. Most were multiculturalism. 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