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Living on the Straight Edge in Ames Erin Randolph Iowa State University Volume 54 Issue 2 Article 12 December 2002 Living on the Straight Edge in Ames Erin Randolph Iowa State University Follow this and additional works at: http://lib.dr.iastate.edu/ethos Recommended Citation Randolph, Erin (2002) "Living on the Straight Edge in Ames," Ethos: Vol. 2003 , Article 12. Available at: http://lib.dr.iastate.edu/ethos/vol2003/iss2/12 This Article is brought to you for free and open access by the Student Publications at Iowa State University Digital Repository. It has been accepted for inclusion in Ethos by an authorized editor of Iowa State University Digital Repository. For more information, please contact [email protected]. 32 I www.ethosmaga zme. .com he city lights of Ames fade moving Philadelphia, where he's from. paced, with heavy guitars and short, into the distance as Greg Rice Rice is "straight edge." He has been strained vocals. departs in his black Toyota since he was 17 or 18. Some of the others Rice has been listening to hardcore T Paseo. It's Saturday night, at tonight's show are straight edge, too. music - a louder, faster, harder exten­ 8:34 p.m. as Rice, a 24-year-old engi­ Don't drink. Don't do drugs. This is sion of punk rock - since he was a neering graduate student, merges south what it means to be straight edge. It's a teenager. He remembers seeing an onto Interstate 35. Destination is the lifestyle, a life-long dedication to not use Earth Crisis band sweatshirt with the Fallout Shelter- a dingy, one-room, drugs or alcohol, and to shy away from straight-edge mantra scrawled across joint-turned-makeshift hole-in-the-wall promiscuous sex. the back at a punk rock show. "It wa venue on Des Moines' east side. The straight edge scene in representative of how I felt about sub­ A hardcore show started at 7 p.m., Philadelphia and in some larger cities is stance abuse," he says. He had become over an hour and a half ago, but he's in strong. In Des Moines it is pretty weak, disgusted with what he called the grow­ no hurry. He slouches back in his seat, Rice says. It's even weaker in Ames. If ing anarchi t visions of punk rock and rests his left hand loosely on the steer­ you want to see a hardcore show - the the indulgences in drugs and alcohol its ing wheel while his right hand grips the music of choice for straight-edgers - a followers pur ued. gear shifter. trip to Des Moines or Iowa City is neces­ Rice said a lot of straight-edgers have First gear. Second gear. Third gear. sary, to dingy, one-room, joint-turned­ been negatively affected by alcohol and Fourth gear. makeshift-hole-in-the-wall venues like drugs, or have seen the negative effect Rice gets to about 65 miles per hour, the Fallout Shelter. on their friends and family. sometimes 72. "See? The Midwest is As he drives, End This Day, a hardcore He shied away. "When I was in col­ getting to me," he says, comment­ band incorporating many metal influ­ lege and I began to see so many people ing on the lulling pace he's ences, pours from the speakers of his who would go far beyond a reasonable grown accustomed to - a car at about a quarter of their auditory limit, that's when it became ingrained," departure from the faster- potential. The music is driving and fast- he says. december 2002 I 33 egend has it the term Ken Slaba marks "straight edge" was his hands with the L first coined by music telltale straight­ icon Ian MacKaye and his edge symbol. early '80s punk band Minor Threat. In its 1984 song, Straight Edge, Minor Threat claimed straight­ rejected the use of drugs and edger can be dis­ alcohol and advocated a life counted because of self-awareness. he or she chooses I'm a person just like you/ to drink caffeine But I've got better things to or doesn't live an dol Than sit around/ And abstinent lifestyle. fuck my head/ Hang out with "Maybe some­ the living dead/ Snort while one likes to share shit/ Up my nose ... I've got a romantic the straight edge. evening with their Minor Threat's song gave a wife or their girl- name to a movement that friend, and cook with alcohol or have a lthough the movement originat­ had been brewing within the small sip of wine with their wife who ed on the heels of punk rock, it punk culture. might not be straight edge," Rice says. A is now heavily associated with There is no rulebook on "They're not overdoing it by any means." hardcore music. As bands like Minor straight edge, no set stan­ Ken Slaba, a 23-year-old senior in lib­ Threat advocated a drug-free lifestyle, dards. Only suggestions. eral studies, disagrees. Alcohol shouldn't bands like The Germs were doing the Each straight-edger must be part of a straight edger's lifestyle­ opposite- getting drunk on stage. A determine the strictness of even sporadically or in moderation. "As separation was occurring as punk gar­ his or her dedication. Many straight edge, you're against that stuff, nered more mainstream support and choose the definition out­ so even i[ it's just occasionally, it's not hardcore punk remained underground. lined by Minor Threat's appropriate," he says. A lot of the late '80s, early '90s hardcore anthem - Don't drink. Don't Slaba has claimed straight edge since bands such as Earth Crisis and Strife smoke. Don't fuck." - he was in high school. As part of his ded­ really began to popularize the straight­ although interpretations can ication, he's pledged not to drink, smoke, edge principles again. "People begin to vary greatly from individual do drugs or engage in promiscuous sex. see things popularized by the bands to individual. Even caffeine is out of the question. they love and it just carries on over Rice's girlfriend, Cara Tall and slender, Slaba often wears time," Rice says. Harris, i n't straight edge. band T-shirts, almost always seen with a Straight edgers are proud of the life But it's never been an issue stocking cap covering his curly brown they lead, frequently going out of their when she has a cigarette or hair and a skateboard attached to his way to advertise their lifestyle. "There's comes home drunk. "There's hand. His one-strap pack-made-back­ a vast assortment of shirts, belts, hats­ that natural guilt," Harris pack has a black patch with the words you name it- that are out there for says. "But do I feel horrible? Poison Free and three Xs. people to buy to make their commit- II If you slip up now, and you were only drug free or abstinent for a couple years, you never were straight edge. II Greg Rice I straight-edger No. He's not going to con­ The movement is so closely tied to ment public, and more importantly, let demn me or anything." hardcore music now, it's hard to differen­ kids know that it's OK to say no and not On rare occasions, Rice tiate between what is straight edge and drink," Rice says. will have a glass of wine what is political activism spurred by the Synonymous with the straight edge with Harris at dinner. music. Slaba is also a vegetarian and for­ culture is the presence of large, bold Xs. Because there are varying mer vegan -ideas commonly advocated They're stitched to clothing and acces­ degrees of straight in hardcore music lyrics encouraging ani­ sories, markered on hands. In the early edge, Rice doesn't mal rights activism. Slaba considers it an days of the straight-edge movement, think a pro- extension of his pledge to straight edge. many shows were all-ages, and in order www.ethosmagazine.com ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- for the venues to sell alcohol, they Taylors seem to be the shoe of needed a way to separate the choice. Studded belts line count­ drinkers from the non-drinkers. Xs less waistbands. Black T-shirts or were marked on the hands of the small vintage cardigans hug skin­ sober show-goers. Eventually ny frames, and jet black hair is all straight-edge kids began marking too common. their own hands, as a symbol of Rice is tall, almost a good head their dedication. taller than the other show-goers on Another common marking is a this night. His blonde hair, silver lowercase "s" and a lowercase "e," wire-framed glasses, and his attire with a larger "X" in between. This, -a slightly faded navy blue sweat­ too, is often seen on clothing and shirt, loose fitting jeans cuffed at accessories!. the bottom, and black Doc Martens Slaba takes it farther than perma­ - set him apart from the rest. nent marker. He has three large Despite his outward appearance, chrome-metal Xs tattooed on his there is nothing about Rice that leg. It reminds himself and others of suggests he is straight edge. Nor his commitment. are there outward signs that any­ one else at the Fallout Shelter t's after nine when Rice pulls up is, either. But Rice is onto the matted grass adjacent confident there are I to the Fallout Shelter. He's more many in atten­ than two hours late. "But I'd be sur­ dance. prised if more than one band has The show already played," he says.
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