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"But the way they act In One person every 62 seconds will fastest rising Merrill said different people can vary greatly." die of cancer In America this year. cancer in both there are some Merrill said this can be a source of That's more than one-half million sexes ls lung Male general body great frustration In some cancer lives, according to a 1990 American cancer, which Is . changes to watch patients who may have kn<>Wn some Cancer Society repon. directly correlated for to detect one who had the same type of cancer · While cancer strikes persons of all to smoking, cancer In Its early but have received different treatment. ages, statistics show that the disease Merrill said. He stages. He said "Everyone ls different; Merrill Is the second largest killer among notes that It takes to watch for said. women ages 15-34 and the founh about '1 o years of •unexplained Aside from early detection, people largest killer among men In the same pack-a-Oay weight loss - can help their own cause against age group. smoking to more than 10 cancer through good nutrition, accord According to the 1990 Cancer substantially percent of your ing to Malja Zile, an associate profes Journal for Clinicians, leukemia Is the Increase the body weight: sor in the MSU Food science and leading cancer killer for men ages 15- likelihood of lung This especially ls Human Nutrition Department. 34. The most recent cancer monality cancer. true for lung "There Is a lot of evidence that statistics show that In 1986, leukemia About cancer •. nutrition varies the Incidence of claimed the lives of nearly 800 men 142,000 Ameri Hodgkin's cancer; Zile said. ages 15-34, which accounts for about cans will die from Mortality for the Five disease and Zile performed a study on rats and 20 percent of all cancer deaths lung cancer this Leading Cancer Sites in leukemia, he Vitamin A that showed nutrition did reponed that year for that age group. year, according to 15-34 year o~ds, 1986 noted. have some lnpact on the frequency of For women ages 15-34, the the cancer source: 1~ American Cancer Society Merrill said cancer occurence. journal cites breast cancer as the society's repon, unexplained fever "It works with rats In a specific StatistiCB leading cancer killer. Statistics show which also lists a or night sweats model; Zile said. "But who knows that In 1986, nearly 700 women ages history of smok Non-Hodgkin are other ad what really causes (cancer) In human 15-34 died from breast cancer, about ing 20 years or emale Lymphomas vanced warning beings?" 20 percent of all cancer deaths more as a risk 215 signs of cancer. Zile said to maintain good health, reported for those women that year. - factor of lung He also sug fiber is •on the whole good.• But the These mortality statistics are cancer. gested people · key, she believes, ls eating a bal based on 1986 Vital Statlstic:S of the "The vast watch for abnor anced diet. United States. (see related chart) majority of people mal or spontane Zile said she believes sometimes Oncologist Dr. Clint Merrill, a start smoking ous bleeding. that college students need to •go back fellow at the Midilgan State University before age 20, • For breast to the old farm ways of eating: For a Clinical Center, said that testicular Merrill said. "But and testicular well balanced diet, s.he suggests cancer ls the most common cancer In once you've done cancers students, as well as all people, eat males ages 20-40. However, he said the damage, the common cancers foods including meat, eggs and fiber. this cancer ls "90 percent curable.· damage ls done.• fo,und among The American Cancer Society young men and report shows that during the past 20 Detection women - Merrill years, the 5-year survival rate of said the signs and Treatment testicular cancer lnaeased. from 63 basically are the percent to 91 percent. The report If the spread same. states: of cancer Is not "A lump or pain in the area Is a "An outstanding example of controlled or checked, a life is lost. sure sign to see your doctor; Merrill progress ls the improvement in the However, health professionals say advises. management of testicualr cancer in cancer can be cured through early Treatment for cancer can range young men.· detection and proper treatment. from: surgery, to remove the cancer; According to the report, more The American Cancer Society radiation, a highly concentrated beam precise diagnostic tools and staging estimates that more than 42,000 of r-OOlation to kill cells In a localized have allowed for a better selectlon of cancer deaths that occured in 1989 area:.chemotherapy, Injection of drugs could have been saved through early that kills cells; or an combination of 2 ·university Reporter-Intelligencer . , · 26 April 1990 From WARREN, p. 3 From VISSER, p. 2 the world 'to receive an auctologous young adults through the mental education department at Michigan Ten Leading bone marrow transplant, a procedure trauma of a cancer diagnosis by State University In bringing the "Great where he Is both the donor and volunteering with the CanSurmount American Smokeour to campus. recipient of the marrow. While his program for the Frandor branch of the Nancy Allen, health education Causes of battle with leukemia - cancer of the American Cancer Society. services ooordlnator at MSU Olin while blood cells and bone marrow - Health Center, said the "Great Ameri Is over, he knows many are not so Support Programs can smoke out• Is just one of the Death, 1986 fortunate. things the health center offers In the "When you're first diagnosed, Available way of cancer education on campus. ~aes you're scared,· Seppala says. "When Debbie O'Connor, organizer of the The center recently sponsored a A 15 - 34 ;you talk to someone, I think you're year-old CanSurmount program, men and women's health week - a Male Female not so unsure: · which pairs recovered cancer patients program that targeted different health Seppala says he was fortunate with newly diagnosed cancer patients, subjects - Including cancer, Allen All Causes All Causes enough to have support from a former said her organization Is looking for said. Materials on breast cancer were cancer patient while he was going college students who have gone malled to all women residence assis 71,060 25,399 throCJgh radiation treatment, some through cancer recovery. tants and sorority houses as part of thing he also hopes to pass along. 'We're trying to get college the week-long program, Allen said. Accidents: Accidents: "I think It'll help them to know students Involved so that they can talk And Information on testicular cancer there's someone out there who's mad to teenage cancer patients as well as · also was sent to all male resident 28,977 7,904 It,· Seppala said. patients their own age; O'Connor assistants and fraternity houses, she Debbie O'Connor, program said. said. director of the American Cancer A support program for college-age Between the programs and the Homicide: Cancer: Society Ingham County Unit., says the cancer patients was needed before Information brochures, Allen said 9,806 3,548 emotional trauma of accepting the the American Cancer Society Olin's health educational services disease is eased with the support of launched the CanSurmount program distribute •a tremendous amount of someone who has been there. · one year ago, O'connor said. Information concerning cancer: Suicide: "(Cancer) all happens so fast; "That's why we hope that cansur Homicide: O'Connor says. "(CanSurmount) mount will fill the void; she said. •news •op1rnon • 9,726 2,620 allows (patients) to get a better Besides CanSurmourit, O'Connor •entertainment• perspective said the American Cancer Society is every week in Since CanSurmount was Intro Involved with assisting the health Cancer: Suicide: duced to Ingham County last year, the uR-t O'Connor estimates about 20 volun 4,171 2,105 teers have provided support for about .,)/a;,,. ,4Jrf eU? 25 patients. The program - the first In the state of Michigan - also offers Let Us Help You Out-C9me To Heart Heart Dis- support for families trying to come to Nice House WI GARV'S CAMPUS Diseases: eases: terms with cancer affedlng a family Volley Ball Court HAIR SALON member. 3,214 1,573 On Albert St. $9.00 Uni-sex Hair Styling CALL Dave AT: "II eut ~ flJP'IJceti~" 332- 1356 351-651 l • 549 E. 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Anomalies Buying, aelllng or algnlng over housing apace la • violation of the housing contract and the University f9-rv•a 347 th• right to cancel any reaervatlon• mad• In thl• manner. · . 531 Canoellatlona of fall tann reee,,,allone and contract• muat be made llf Au9. t. ltullente that de net cancel their ree...,,allofte lllr that date and anrall far olaHH wlll be flnenolallr r9epenellll• aooenlln9 ta t"8 tann• ef Illa heueln9 -tact. the university Reporter-Intelligencer Page Three The Second Front Page College students battle cancer Student: Cancer made Law school student me a stronger person battles cancer and wins ev MflAM S.rrH · Lymphoma that lurked in his chest, it's BY J. DOUGl.AS WM9EN This time, Visser had to put school uR-1 SENOR CORRESPON>ENT a breeze. uR-l 1SSUES CORIESPON>ENT on hold Indefinitely after being told by "It's (cancer) still dose enough her doctors that she had only six Doug Warren bounds toward the that I still think about it,· Warren says. · More than four years ago, Sandra months to live. door,.his face aglow with the exuber "If it comes back, then I'll deal with it Visser had to drop out of law school "I was diagnosed again and went ance of new- then: after being through six weeks of radiation therapy found hope. "You never know whaCs around diagnosed and six months of chemotherapy,· Happi the next comer; he adds. "You know, with cervical which apparently killed all of the I could killed in a car crash: cancer cells, she said. ness per be cancer and vades from Adopting a positive attitude after told by Visser had won her battle with his lanky overcoming a life-threatening disease doctors she cancer. frame as he may not seem all that startling, but had only six embraces Warren's never-ending hope was what months to How did she do it? the opportu enabled him to persevere, he says. live. Early detection helped save "There are a lot worse things that nity to tend to Today, Visser's life. life's most could have happened; he says. she is a Before being diagnosed with trivial matters "There's a lot of pain in the world, successful, cancer, Visser said she had most of - like unfortunately. I'm just fortunate things practicing the early warning signs associated opening the are going well now.· attorney in with cancer. door. Warren Warren recalls that while his Visser Charlotte and "I experienced the weight loss,· emotions never failed him, there were After counsels other young adults through she said. • ... and I had the (typical) times when he had to entlure great settling back the mental trauma of cancer. bleeding ... and finally, just unex Into the discomfort, like waking up after a It was three days before Christ plained pain.· couch, biopsy and experiencing a searing mas, 1985, when Visser received the Visser said she thinks it is Impor Warren-an pain in his chest. news that would reshape her life: She tant to get regular check.:ups from the MSU gradu Cancer left its mark physically as was diagnosed with the first of two family doctor. ate student well. Warren says he lost all of his bouts of cervical cancer. "More importantly, be aware of our of journalism hair due to chemotherapy and experi At the time, she was attending own body; she said. "And when - relays enced numbness and weakness'in his Cooley Law School. She said the something Is unusual for you, even if what would ankles and feet. But these were only news felt like being buried alive. it's something minor, make sure you be consid pesky side effects on his road to "After the first diagnosis, I went have it checked out.· ered a horror I recovery. through surgery; she said. "And be Through her experience with story to most "Yeah, I lost my hair, so what?" he cause of the Christmas break, I cancer, Visser said helping out a college-age Seppala says. "I figured, it'll grow back: missed only three weeks of classes.· friend or family member diagnosed students: his battle with cancer. Warren says he compensated for After successfully fighting cancer, with cancer can be uncomfortable. But while describing his battle with his lack of hair by at least being stylish Visser's doctor told her to get right But just by offering to do anything will cancer, no shadows are cast over and wearing a bandana on his head. back to living her life. help, she said. Warren's face. No glimpses of the "Somebody said, 'Yeah, it's However, that was not so easy. · "I would just be available to be emotional and physical pain he admits fortunate those (bandanas) are in,'" he Visser said her law school admini there; Visser advises those who have he endured. Instead, he sits grinning quips. stration suggested she hold off school friends or family members with at the memories while espousing his Warren believes his lively sense for awhile. cancer. "The people going through It new-found philosophy on life. of humor and abundant spirit that so "I had to get aggressive with the know you're uncomfortable, so it's a11 · "I feel that I'm a stronger person, successfully propelled him past a life administration,· she said. "I didn't see right to act that way." like something my Dad said to me threatening situation can be used to a medical degree on (the Visser said that her cancer early on, he said 'You know, once you help other cancer patients. He hopes administrator's) wall.· experience has changed her perspec take on this, once you beat it, you can to offer encouragement to others Through her experience as a tive on things. do anything you want;• says the through the CanSurmount program cancer patient who faced some ·rm a much stronger person than I student. "Once you dlmb Mt. Everest, offered through the American Cancer difficulties in pursuing her education, thought; she said. "As much hell as I you know you can climb the smaller Society Ingham County Unit. Visser said that if school Is something went through, I wouldn't trade the hills: Scott Seppala, an MSU linguistics other cancer patients want, they may experience for the world." Now Warren has only to tackle senior, Is doing just that. have to fight for it. · Visser said she notices more mere foothills because he believes the After overcoming leukemia in "The administration will try to work people these days who complain worst Is over. He says he still has ninth grade, Seppala said he wanted something out that is best .for them,· about every little petty thing going some scar tissue In his chest that is to pass on his mental survival skills to she said. "Don't let that happen.· wrong in their lives. being monitored very closely, but feels patients diagnosed with cancer so he Visser's tough efforts with the ad "Despite that some tings still joined CanSurmount. - a one-on-one relatively certain he has conquered ministration paid off as she continued irritate me, I know that I'm happy cancer. visitation program for cancer patients with her education at Cooley. overall," she said. "That's the impor Warren goes in for check-ups provided by former cancer patients. But four months later, her course tant part.• once every three months, but after Seppala was the eight person in of plans changed. The cancer reoc Visser, now 34, counsels other enduring chemotherapy and radiation See WARREN, p. 2 . curred. treatments for his Non-Hodgkins See VISSER, p. 2 4 • university Reporter-Intelligencer 26 April 1990 Experts: Lipnty~~!!.ism ~~.. ~J~~!..~raJrec~!I!!,~~!!~ by TIM Su.vERTHORN Though liberal ideologies are demise. But attitude data indicates he would by 1981, Rohde said. But uR-1 issues coFR:SPON>ENT under attack around the world, the that voters didn't become more after that, he noted that Congress put United States is moving toward a conservative in the 1980s than before, an end to the early conservative Despite American voters' deci more socialized society, Clark said. he said. victories in Contra Aid, increased sions to put conservative Republicans The trend toward socialized medicine, "That isn't to say that the elector- defense spending, industry deregula- in the White. House for the past three she noted, is one example. ate isn't conservative, but it happened tion and social spending cuts. terms, area conservatives, liberals Reagan's Federal and Supreme Court and experts agree that liberalism still nominations were his only lasting lives. accomplishments, he said. And the Humanist community of Republican victories in presiden Michigan State University is doing tial elections indicate more an unwill whatever it can to make people aware ingness to vote for a Carter, Walter of that, says HCMSU Vice President Mondale or Michael Dukakis than a Teresa Weaver. desire to elect ·Reagan or Bush, In an attempt to make the MSU Rohde said. community aware of the personal Dukakis' mistake during the 1988 freedoms and civil rights that liberals presidential election was failing to have continually fought to protect, counterattack the Republican criticism HCMSU last Thursday sponsored revolving around his liberal stance on "Liberal Day.," Weaver said. The different issues, Rohde said. Dukakis · group wanted to remind students and , he believes, should have admitted East Lansing residents that liberals earlier that he was a liberal and then are still around. played on the strengths of liberalism. "We just wanted to counteract "Mike Dukakis proved that as far some of the conservatism on cam as running a campaign is concerned, pus," Weaver said. he's as dumb as they come; Rohde The 1988 Presidential Election is w!>TAYIN6 ~COURSE11 said. what prompted HCMSU to sponsor a James Williams, former president "Liberal Day," Weaver said. More uR-1artwork/STEVE JABLONOSKI of MSU College Republicans, believes specifically, it was the use of the word Dukakis' defeat was directly attribut "liberal" by Republicans during the "It is absolutely clear that the even way before (former President able to a negative campaign run by campaign that led the group to outcomes of the presidential elections Jimmy) Carter, in the late 60s, • GOP Chairman Lee Atwater, Bush's sponsor the event. in the 80s were misinterpreted to Rohde said. campaign manager. "They made liberal sound like a mean a conservative move on the part Though conservatives have won Zolton Ferency, an MSU criminal four-letter word ... and we wanted to of the electorate," says David Rohde, presidential elections, Rohde points justice professor seeking a Demo show that it wasn't," Weaver said. an MSU political science professor out that Congress is still liberal.and cratic nomination for the State Senate, "I would like to say that liberalism who studies voter behavior. has consisterifly defeated the agrees. and socialism are dead after the last Rohde blames the media for this President's agenda election, but that Isn't so,· says misinterpretation. He noted that in "Conservatives won the war but See EXPERTS, p. 11 Lucinda Clark, president of Ingham 1988, nearly 60 magazin~ news lost the battles,· Rohde said. Liberalism regains lost ground in U.S. Why then, has the"L" word work of political and social radicals or legislatures. become a useful political epithet to be wor5e. Tho5e giving a sympathetic or Ironically, the pendulum has hurled at one's political opponent? even attentive ear to the urgent calls swung so far that liberal forces, Why is there now an expectation for political and social change were sustained by earlier victories in the among conservatives that Immediate tarred with the same brush.as the federal courts, now recognize that the political gain can be derived by conservative extremists saw and U.S. Supreme Court has become the attaching the liberal label to a political proclaimed it, only liberals, especially last refuge of conservative scoundrels opponent? the "bleeding heart• variety, could and new battlefields are being staked The answers to those questions possibly stomach what was happening out in the legislatures to protect earlier can be acquired by analyzing and to America. The liberals were put on gains and to achieve new ones. understanding the political ferment of the defensive, and, until recently, Liberalism has regained ground in the 1960s, the time when the attack remained there. America because in their heart of Zolton on liberalism found an opening that But, as always, in the words of the hearts our people believe in progress, Ferency could be exploited. The social and lyricist; things, they are a-changing." the essential goodness of our neigh political upheavals caused by various The political dogma of the conserva bors and the need to be ever vigilant •movements• of the time such as civil tives has been revealed as being in the protection of civil and political rights, women's rights, lesbian and false. Anti-communism, for example, liberties. If our people are given the gay rights, environmentalism and is dead, killed not by the work of facts and sheltered from climates of Webster's New Collegiate Diction peace with economic justice, gener reactionary conservatives, but by the political hysteria, in the long run, ary defines "liberalism· as: ated considerable confusion and hand of a Soviet leader. Corporate liberalism will always prevail. "A political philosophy based on undefined fear among those who America, the erstwhile paragon of belief in progress, the essential looked upon the emerging political economic virtue worshipped by - Ferency, a man familiar to goodness of man(kind), and the and social pressures as serious conservatives and nurtured for years Michigan voters, Is an MSU criminal autonomy of the individual and threats to their ways of life and well by a bloated Pentagon budget, has justiu professor, and a candidate standing for the protection of political being. been exposed as greedy, corrupt and for the Democratic nomination for and civil liberties." Political conservatives, religious dangerous to the environment. East Lansing'• state senate seat. Most Americans would find it hard fundamentalists and others on the Human b8ings relegated to He is a well-known gadfly and to dispute the intrinsic worth of extreme right fringe of American second and third class status are former chair of Mchlgan's Demo liberalism, thus defined, and would be ' society were quick to condemn those better organized than ever before and cratic party. in general agreement with its underly early and somewhat successful can no longer be completely Ignored ing principles. challenges to the status quo as the In the U.S. Congress and state 26 April 1990 university Reporter-Intelligencer • 5

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That's right, Spuds, life's a bitch and then y.ou are one. And then you are one wearing sun glasses, a tuxedo, roller skates, etc. We understand that you can't control your own destiny, but what about biting the hand that feeds you once In a while, eh? For your failure to stand up on your own four feet you earn Geek o' the Week dishonors. For shure, soon you will be all over everything again - Including the Provoc's sunglasses. We are so sick of your debauchery and rug wetting that serious thought of spiking your brew has crossed our minds many a time. Cat nip should do the trick. Our one hope? That you get neutered and there'll be no more little Spuds. Yep, you might say we prefer our Spuds dry. 6 • university Reporter-Intelligencer 26 April 1990 barrel-water tank cooler, so as to cool Gas from .hemp! the methane before gas compression. Dear Editor: Then another gas compressor pump Although we don't want to draws t'1e gas out of the cooler and I am writing on a subject that is of injectt; l into gas bottle tanks that are beat a dead horse, for the utmost importance to our day and availai>i ' fo~ a car or truck to be those who followed the age. And that is the energy crises, fueled. co"espondence which began in 1974 when I was It i; t simple farm production regarding Dr. Andrew twenty-one...... systen , Lnd would be easy enough to Barclay's column on rape: We have not yet found a viable convert · > using. Of course, this ·:·:·:·•·: ···: :•=:••m••=µo.1¥•'-•"-Y•••·• .:•=••: ...... • :.:. energy source other than petroleum to would ::. use another agricultu~ · ·~•P.9.nir+Jttt'-'119.~~!fi:· fuel our automobiles. Except for this: revol11.k , when the source of energy . Dr. Barclay, through the ...... 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('\!\\lll\\\.\\\[!\•:il letter or column on any ...... -: -:-.·:-:-::·:·:::::::::::: :::::::::\::-:-:.:-.-.·. fill a bio-mass conversion pile of rz.i d, and controlled by the govern- organic material. " ant if it became an acceptable . Issue. •:•:!:•••:•:::::•:::::]1J~P.~~::~@ij~:·::··:.::::t.u::: This is when the crop of hemp is ~.>urea for producing energy. harvested at a height of approximately I feel that methane gas made from And, as always, Barclay ::::::::::::::::::::u.:::::c .:r:.:t~~~·.:;.:'.•.:.:::::::::::...... ae.•..•..•.. :.: .:.:.:.:.rv··.: ..· .: .· .:·.: .:.:.: ..•:. ·:.··.::.:.::.::.:.::.:.::.. :.•:.:.•'..:.. :.•.. :.:.l.\.:.t.l ten feet, and it is ground up and hemp Is the solution and the best (In his guise as dr. sex) Is placed in a box with alrholes and source for energy, especially since waiting for your airhoses running through It. Soon, the green plants are our most efficient pile of compost will decompose and form of solar energy on the planet .. questions. Ellll1 these millions of tiny bacteria con Also, I would like to thank Mr. Send them to him or to >><:ru:·•~l]*jif<<><>> sume the organic material and emit Harold Bate of England for pioneering the uR-1. methane gas from their digestion of the use of methane gas for transporta \\\\\\\\\\\l\\\\\\\\\ \\\~llll~\\~~:l~\\\l\\\\\\•\\\'.\\\.\\\\\\\ the material. .... tion fuel cars. Then a "gas compressor pump• is Keep reading and writing I :: : :•:::•~d.nn@~•a:nonij~itl@~•:::::••L connected to the pipes In the pile and Sincerely yours, :u::::::::mt$ti.vi•Jc:atj().riiittft:urr ·the gas is pumped Into a bubble bath David E. Rivard :J;:·:;)')!)')ll t)··~1~;~-!~~-~!))))·!)[)!)!.))\)l)ll) · : • : : : :H::::m•™•:~~~~\;·;=::mmt Act now to preserve your freedom , :::: :: •::•:::•:<:Matth&.viGOetsel:::: •:<::::::::::•: simply all the founders of our country states that io secure these rights, \)\{))(j))})}:{({{j)))} /:)/{{\if wanted. The right to live your life, governments are instituted among ••·•••• : ••:•::•ts~M~io•:~WQ:::t:::•t think what you want, and enjoy men, deriving their just powers from whatever you do with that life. the consent of the governed; that \.•:•.··•!UH~~t6:'!~--~rtb~~:j:lj.!iii•i!i!i ! i !i • ··.·.·.· . .. . . ::·:·:·:·:·:·:·:·:·:·:·:·:·:.:::::::::::::::::::: :::::::::: ::::::::::::::::::::::::: The creators of America whenever any form of government recognized an Important dilemma; In becomes destructive to these ends, It .:::rnuunuu:::N~~ij~~::.>.t>>:·<< order to guarantee these simple, Is the right of the people to alter or 0 \i.il.! . . important rights, someone had to be abolish It, and Institute new l!.\l.!i.ll.i:.\\.ll. .;._;i_'.i·.~\. st. ::.;:_;•.:;.:;.:Pt:i.::.;·_i:.:•.:;_::_:?:~~•u •;.i~tt.&•:~ffiili~tr.titis ::: : :•:::::••:• : •:•:•: However, human nature being what It Well I sure as hell don't consent. Tom is, the holders of any kind of power Do you?? I say the time Is now. The McWiiiiams will tend to use It against their experiment has been good, and we !!!!!!!!!~·:~~~f:!f.J~-:~~im:r;rn:• countrymen for their own Interests. have learned what to avoid. But we .·:: .•:· :#.~~~~mf#:~#:#.Mij~•Ut The Constitution was an experiment in must make changes very soon to :::•:::<:::::::: :::::: : :~tt~~V@•::::: ·:::::::::::•:: policy, designed to balance the only create some fundamental limitations enemies of human freedom and on the power of government here at Uf •·•U&UU¢&.IQ~¥.#4.ftUU.•.Uf t Wrth reforms in Russia recently, liberty: Outsiders, and Government. home, or face the continuing •creeping : : ::::::=::.L: •::•::w•n.c:tY •M~ff&Y::•:•::::::•::.:•:• : =:•:••·: many see a bright Mure for the ·free But look around you. The totalitarianism• that has only one :::••:::rn:•t·Arl.W:iitPP.iMfiiJ••::••:•:::::::•:i world. We would like to think that the Government, whose sole job Is to possible result. <>>>>>MtijrliKJ~fi.Uf:iti/ Russians have come to our point of protect our rights, spend$ most of It's Complete loss of freedom for us view, and now support liberty and time taking them away! Income Tax all. •u:H1···:.:::::: · ::::··~:z~~~~J;•·:;;.:::;;.:1::;:::::;:::;;: freedom because of America's (Government Theft), and Inflation If you've noticed that •our" influence. Was Gorbachev's decision (Government Counterfeiting) are government Is horribly twisted and based on America's fine handling of destroying our right to enjoy the sick, and you want to start doing these precious human rights? Or was products of our labor. The Flag something to fix these gross abuses of ·····················~,,:: : : < ::::::::::::::::::;.: <: >: <::.> >:...... •••.•.•.k .•.••.••.••.••.••.•. •.•.•.••.••.••.•.•.•.•.•.•.•.1.. •.: ..••.••.••.••.• it based on the fad that if producers Burning Amendment will preserve the power, call me or write me care of the are not allowed to enjoy the fruit of "National Symbol,· while uR-1. :•:::~~·~··~~ij~@~~~!~•:>• The sooner we start, the sooner •••••t::?t:PP/Cl~t:tt : t?Ut their labors, they simply won't simultaneously destroying one of the ::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::.:::.::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::=: produce. Russia's aSatellite basic rights for which It stands. The we can all get our freedom back! Republics· are expensive to support, IRS, CBA, FCC, FDA, FAA, CIA, aiid McW.lam' lhoufllll wil n.n teg.ilarly;,' :•:: : 'ffli.•1.tJfl : !.•:p.IJ.~l.~~ . ~lclt•:: especially when no one in them, or in FBI are all hard at work to take away lhe dU. N you wish to 'Write him or lhe ::::::::::=.mt:m.•ttl®...tli!.:&:trH.:~r:::::::: Russia, works to create the ·products edfOIS. send yoc1 corrmpondence to: our rights to life and liberty. And It's 1'2 Gunion SI., East Lan.Ing, Y ••<•~fJ~miBH#!f#:Yii.i#.#J~JJ.<: they all want and need. Like a lazy all being paid for with money stolen 4IU3 ::::•:••:::=••:::::::=:=:andlt•:.n-v1;pn•:.::::::::.:=::••:::•:::=: teenager, they are being kicked out to from you and mel equd .,ace for opposiig viewpo.hls is ·t•>U> fend for themselves. And yet, this Is The Declaration of Independence ~ Mlccmeand avcJdJle 26 Ap.til 1990 · ·.. · . . university Reporter~lntelligencer • 7 Cancer battle.ends in victory and new appreciation of life and throat, or my veins being so hard some things which used to be impor office is really no big deal. It really that the nurse had to stick the I. V. tant become trivial, while other things isni. Everything· ls relative. needle five times into my hand before become much more valued. During my treatments, for ex i.;he got it right. What I would like to The chemotherapy side effects ample, I started to notice that people do, though, Is tell you a couple of the and all the doctor visits limited the complain or worry about the littlest many things I have learned from my amount of time where I could freely things sometimes-things such as fight with cancer. choose what I wanted to do. A couple •my car just broke down,• or ·1 just Achieving any worthwhile goal "good days• in a row seemed like an blew an exam: During those treat takes hard work. My fight with cancer eternity to me at the time. I could look ments, I would have loved to have the On my 25th birthday, January 13, worked both my mental and physical back at a week's activities and re chance to do poorly on a test. An facilities, but the results were well · member every waking hour of every experience such as cancer puts things 1989, I had my first biopsy surgery day. I learned to appreciate each into perspective. that told nothing about the mass worth it. Things are going well for me today and, in the long run, I'm a hour of the day. Like the saying goes Some people are never happy shown in all the x-rays of my chest. "time is the only thing once lost, that where they are In life; either finan Two weeks later, I had my second stronger person for having gone cially, socially, or whatever. But I was biopsy surgery at the Cleveland Clinic through such an experience. can never be found: The question comes down to faced with the reality that life doesn't· where they found I had a form of Non Knowing someone with cancer last forever, and that I should make Hodgkins Lymphoma Cancer. can be a tough situation to deal with "what really Is important?" I was At a time when some of my · for both friends and family. The best forced to come to grips with the basics the most of it while I can. I learned friends were starting careers, and still thing to do is offer support, and then of everyday living which I sometimes through my fight with cancer to others were worrying about getting a follow through with It. Fortunately, I had taken for granted in th past. I'm appreciate wh~ I have today. If good grade on a paper, I was sud had friends and a family who were better off today because r have there's something I don't Ilka in my denly faced with the most basic of all there when I needed them most. learned to appreciate the "lmportanr .life, I change It. I don't complain or challenges. Survival. Having a friend come over to .talk things in my life: such as a good worry about it. I try to deal with today, I could write for pages about how about nothing In particular can be just laugh, or an entertaining conversation and not with yesterday or tomorrow. the chemotherapy (anti-cancer) drugs as helpful as any cancer drug. My with a close friend. I'm not saying I don't have dreams for swelled my feet and weakened my family and most of my friends didn't Even if I'm having one of those the future, but I enjoy today for what it legs so much I felt like falling each Isolate me, and this helped me terrible days we all have from time to is. time I walked, or the same for my develop the positive attitude neces time, I think about what it was like hands so I couldn't write, or losing all sary for a cure. during my treatments, and how bad - Doug Wa"en Is a graduate my hair, or not being able to eat one As anyone who has gone through things can really get. Having a bad student and an occassional con week because of the pain In my mouth a life threatening situation will tell you, day at school, or a bad day at the ·tributor tc, the th• uR-1. It's time to-scrutinize RHA and government policies that would ask ASMSU to look into are power mongers, and unfortu themselves. They need to objec the matter, since students pay for nately, the members of the body tively look at the issues and think the paper through truces. The bill and the representatives to the not of what they want to be done, was sent to languish in the policy body seem to be involved for all but what the majority ofthe people committee even though it was a the wrong reasons. they represent want done. perfectly legitimate and objective l mean, how is wanting to have If. we're going to change the bill. . RHA serve as part of a bitchin' wortd as it is today, then we Why? resume any qualification to serve should be doing it even at these Because the representatives your fellow students? low levels of government. If any of were acting on their personal But this recent misdirected these people were elected to f eeJings instead of acting on the mess isn't the first time RHA has repre8ent the state of Michigan in behaH of the students they were failed to serve its constituents. Congress one day, they'd proba- . --·supposed to represent. They just Yes, sadly, it's happened before. bly be doing the same thing. didn't care about this issue. This year several issues have And that's pretty scary. So what's the use of having come up in which the body of So maybe we should take a representatives if they don't look government seems to argue just good look at the bills being passed out for your welfare - or worse, if for the sake of arguing. Several by RHA and at the way they're they don't even represent you? times the representatives have running our government. This ~as been going on as argued for hours just to come to a Because we must remember long as I have been a student here unanimous decision on a bill that · that it's our government - not at Michigan State. I even joined was enacted in its original form. theirs. RHA as a representative of Wilson So why were they arguing if Hall thinking that somehow I could they all agreed anyway? - Carozza is the uR-l"s en change this. Maybe they like to hear them tenalnment editor Wrong! selves speak. The same thing happens when What we really need is for the anyone tries to truly represent representatives to step back and their hall. The ·members of the take a good look at why they're executive board of RHA, for the supposed to be there. They are most part, don't let them. They there to serve the students - not frft, pale slaking vcini sln!tcbcd 8'1111Ually acrou tb:i soft while ''Wcll,MilL How's your- " the floor. jowls. Tbcsc words were of no consequence to flesh ofher small hand. ''Waitrcnl" Once again the wilderness cm Drenched with sweat and breathing sharp, Milton. He eyed her with indiffcrcnc:c as she '"I'hanb," be replied in a voice that he called. shaky breaths, Milton boltDd uprigbt on the pulled Aunt Graa: aside io give her what he WU SW'C WU filled with bodJ. c:barm and ''E.xcuc me, sir," an angry Margret coach. Pcarful C)'CI ICUCbcd tb:i room, knew wu BCaCt information. It did not matter. enthusiasm. Small tlllk, his mind scn:amcd at bcramd. '1'm with a Cl1ltomcr right now. frMsrishly lcding for his long dead aut.lgonist. Miltonhadlllwayseludedall the others who him. Small tallc. Milton '1 tongue separated his Pl.cue be paticm. Milt, I'm·so sor- " Leaning forw.rd., he 1'Cl1ed his soKing brown wen: ever 1C11t to watch him. His cars were lips to speak. His jaw hung slack and open. . ''No, don't worry. h'1oby." Milton ...._ in the hdlow bowl of his co.ppcd hands. sharp. His boyish~flcxcs mo~ with ''W~!" bcllOVt'ed ahippopotmms ina looked at the now limp and usclcss sandwich ''Enough," he breathed. ''No more." lightcning~ision. He could not be plaid suiL '1 need more waler," he gasped, that lay in front ofhim. '1'vc kinda lOllt my Slmmingfoot-draggingstcps,he forced discoYcrcd. But it wu unknown to Milton that betwccngulpsofwhatl<><*cdlilm,1wamp appctiic anyway." himlclf to the kitcbon. Will alooc drove him to Grace wu a mulcr ofNinja-like stclllth. waler soup. ''Wmmc to wrap it up for you? Maybe That night, inhis womb-dark room, he "Certainly, sir," Margret said, '1'll be you 11 get hungry later." the place when: he kept the loaf. was blutcd fr'C.D grasp what had just "Fuck you," Milton thought. uncomcioUI rcaction,hisDDllClca tcmcd, ki1chcn to his living room. happened. forcing him to thrust tb:i drawer back into iU "Perhaps I cm gather the nerve today?" He wished the h.q,po a thouand dcathl. At home, Milton plopped downon the warm, dark~ plaa:. Millon llhivercd u he asb:d hiuillClf, his fingers twitching nervous He could Ille him flotiihg turgidly down coach. He rcacbcd out to the coffi:c table. he felt its full length glide home. and insect-like aaoa his face. He shrugged, a the Amazon, sucking river slime into his huge Onbbing the rcmOlrl controi, he clickcd on the "YOU can do it." he begged himlclf. ffia sditmyclownishgclllUlc,punc:tuatcdwithan maw. Sudd!:nly he would be ICt upcm by 'JV. Jacqucs Couleau WU following sperm heart beat wild, erratic blastJJ. exaggerated frown as he tried to fora: the issue hst bf the those of you asking, 'Will it help?" let me tell you a little story about Jewish season by gong to Dayton Beach, out for Burgers and Oysters (Steph brighter students realize you don't Pardre Island, Bermuda, the Keys or believes In the aphrodesiac powers of have to put up witht the high school theater. I was at a play In New York done anywhere south of Carbondale for that Oysters), get smashed at dinner, hall-monitor, anti-alcohol, paranoid matter. Wherever a number of young stoned on the fumes In the men's bull-shit In the dorms. Of course, In Yiddish. One of the charaders had people gather is where the mating room, and have to go home to "Sleep landlords, knowing this, have already zeroed out on the old brain-waves and dance will occur. it off: Boy, t_here's a critical differ raised rental rates through the roof. everyone was standing around the hospital room greaplng crying the Here is a perfect example of how ence: Young men beat It off and old (Unless, of course, you're an athlete· and people think they are doing one thing men sleep it off, get my drift? and can rent a subsidized place from way old Jews do when someone has died. Suddenly, from the back of the when somethink completely different Since the old farts have taken several of the Trustees.) When the Is actually taking place. Let's face It, over control of America, Lauderdale Is dorms are only half full, it. ls going to theater, a man yelled, "Give him a beneath our civilized(?) veneer we are history. Daytona Beach Is on the way be real tough for the Big U to make clyster (an enema)!" The cast ignored animals and the most successful out, cops are everywhere, beating the payments on the bank notes they him so he yelled again, "GIVE HIM A societies in human terms are those heads and making arrests for public used to finance the dorms. Not a CL YSTERI" One of the older actors taking our human animal-nature into drunkeness, lewd and lacivlous ~ problem ... just raise tuition. Hey, I'm walked to the front of the stage and account. Haven't you ever noticed havior, Indecent exposure (urinating starting to think like an administrator addressed the Interruption by saying: that bar fights don't break out until out of doors), and minor in posses already. ·sir, the man is brain-dead, an enema after the successful males leave with sion. I figure why go south and spend I don't know If you noticed the wouldn'tltelp." From the back the guy the females? That's the way it Is with yelled "COULDN'T ~URT!" This week's short, but so am I, jerkface yoUl'dogelther(hHI, that/•). I guess that explains why Greta Garbo got about eight Enough with the pleaantrle8, though,• •hort Intro inches of page one space with a photo - even though can only mean one th/ng••• next up are mean thing•/ she's said nothing for decades -and the Rev. Ralph Abernathy-one of the greatest civil rights crusaders Hey, good to see everyone involved with Earth Day, huh? (and associates of the late Martin Luther King) who, Even the C00'1>aflies making earth day nece5sary (Dow incidentally has said quite a bit in the past few decades - Chemicals-making life better through mutations) got a two paragraph obit in the NEWSLINES wasteland. pitched in to be sponsors I Like Wonder Bread, some things never change. Gollyl And in true community spirit, the AZD (no, not the AIDS The bad news ... Milli Vanilli is booked at the Breslin drug) House decided to hold a car wash on Earth Day. Center. · Not to i111>ly that these women are dummies, but the The good news ... The fruity two will play the h~ hall this the constant waste of water and release of detergents into the summer when no one will be around to step on their hair. Provocateur · ground and elsewhere didn't quite seem awropriate on Sometimes I wonder hoW IOIN people will sink. ....~!l!l!,,.!l!l!Nl!l!~.··"- .. ,l!l!l.,.,!l!l.,.,.!l!l!,.,.!l!l!,.,,1!1!.,.,l!l!••• ,1!1!1 ••••!1!1.,.,.!1!1!,.,.!1!1!,.,.!1!1!,.,.1!1! •.,,111!1.,,1!111., ••11111 •••••1111! ••,,illl,.,llii ... ,l!Jli.,.i ...ll"i ...ii ..ii .. iiii.. li .. •... • .. ii ..iii .. iil. MEartybehDayth. Id b . Wood . Owl .:::::::~:::~::::~:::~:::::::;:;:~~::::.:::.:::::~:::::::::::::::;:::::::~::::::::.~:::::::::.::::::::~::::::::;~:;:;:::::::;:;:::~;:;~:;: a ey cou ring s1e to term party next? Just last week I caught five guys in those crazy-lookin' Grateful Dead t-shirts trying to roll up our he111> issue and ~i1~~~~r:1~1~11@11~~1;~i1~1irnir:~~mmmmmt ;mimim111titimim~1i111t1~~i Remerrber how the State News· was going to be sensitive smoke it. Welcome to the disple••ure dome, you festering, to rrinority issues? Remember? Huh? Not listening · Talk about idiots! putrid, folk. May yoUI' open •ore• never fleaJ - or again?I I mean, what they hell -they forgot the matches ... 26 April 1990 · university Reporter-Intelligencer • 11 ~ From EXPERTS, p. 4 use the police power of the state to self-rasped and dignity. From WONDER, p. 9 Dukakis , Ferency said, was the force conformity to these beliefs. "Hand-outs breed more welfare,· Miltonsmiledasparsclip-cudingsmile. "They make no bones about it,· Clark said. · victim of negative campaigning. It had been too easy. Call for the ambulance, "Lee Atwater and Roger Ailes Ferency said. "They say America is a Another controversial issue Act hysterical. He bad told them that, to his know how to appeal to the baser Christian nation.· disputed amongst conservatives and h01Tor be bad found her that way. And his emotions,· Ferency said. "And Mike "They are ignoring the mlilions of liberals Is the environment. • mother wu certainly not talking. A 'YC1')' Dukakis took it sitting in a tank with a Americans who are not Christians, Clark said that environmental serious and deadly strob:, the doctor bad said. helmet on his head." plus the fact that within Christianity issues are important and need to be She would probably IHM:r speak or move But the conseniative trend trailing itself there is a lot of diversity.• addressed. However, she said careful again. He smile became a grin as be walb:d from the days of Reagan is diminish Clark admits that emphasis on management that takes into account . · pllllllCd the Illll'llCS. ing, Ferency said. Conservatives traditional, Christian values is part of both the interests of the environment He wallccdintohismothcr'sroom. Tbc Reagan, Bush, and Jerry Falwell "rode the conservative movement but and business is needed to solve mechanical click ofher machines filled the air. He marvclled at how she was held tbcrc, with high for awhile, but evidence suggests contends that among conservatives, environmental problems. stccl and plastic tubes surrounding her like a there exists a plurality of opinions and 'We can't sacrifice business for we were right all along and the the giant octopus. dissent. pendulum is swinging the other way.; the environment,• Clark said. ''Hello, Mother," be said. he said. So what's the difference between Ferency said both liberals and Hcreyclidsflippcdopcn. "For example, the whole per liberalism and conservatism? conservatives agree that environ "YOU look better today." estroika, glastnost and dismantling of Zolton says liberalism is charac mental problems can no longer be Milton wallccd to her bedside and the Soviet system ... terized by a plurality of groups, which ignored. However, he believes the replaced the wilted flowers with fresh new (conservatives)were the ones who sometimes work together but form no government cannot worry about costs cmcs. wanted to build up the military budget unified front. In contrast, he said when it comes to solving environ ''Mother, I've brought you a visitor. This and relied on fear of the Soviet threat." conservatives have a complete mental problems that claim peoples' is my fianccc-Margn:t." Ferency said the conservative agenda ranging from child pornogra lives. Margn:t lcaIJCdovcrthe bed. ''Hello, Mrs. Smidgcr. I just want you to trend began when Reagan during the phy to capital punishment. "Both Bush and Governor Blan know that I'll mkc 'YC1')' good carc ofMilt, and 1960s got Goldwater nominated The difference for Clark?: "Re chard, conservatives, are saying that Barry after we arc muricd I'll be here almost every publicans are more middle of the road over liberal Republicans by painting they are concerned about the costs of day to help him care for you." liberals as "free spenders, supporters than liberals,· she said. environmental protection,• Ferency Milton's mothcr'seycs bulged in their of uppity women and radical blacks, VJilliams supports Clark, noting said. "It's like asking whether you IOC:kds. soft on communism and crime, too." that a sizeable minority of Republi should throw a drowning man a life ''Milton. i. aomctbing wrong? She l!ICCDlll More than anything, Ferency cans are pro-choice on the abortion preserver because of how much it will soexcited." believes the conservative trend was issue. And both contend that conser cost you. "No honey. That's just her way of born out of white backlash toward vatives are taking a more serious look "You either have a clear and ahowingshc'sbappy.'' black progress. at the possibility of legalizing drugs present environmental problem that "Oh," Marge said. She looked back at But Clark disagrees, saying that than liberals are. you must deal with to save peoples' Milton's mother and smiled. ''Margn:t, could you leave us for a mainstream Republicans do not "Most people tend toward one lives or you do not. It's idle to discuss min.um? I want to be alom: with her fora believe in discrimination. (ideology) or another, but differ on cost because if It must be done. You while." specific issues,· Clark said. "It's very Important that people are pay whatever It costs." "Sure, iwcctbcart. I understand." Still not discriminated against for the color Williams said that liberal and smiling, she brushed her band &a'O!IS Milton's of their skin, age, sex or handicap,· conservative primarily are labels ann and left the rocxn. Clark said. "But reverse discrimina candidates toss at each other during "So, Mother. How arc you doing?'' He tion Is also wrong.• elections. But when politicians settle pulled out a wrinkled brown paper sack from Clark notes that Republicans are into office, he said pradlcal concerns his jacket pocb:t. "Oh, I missed lunch. y OU concerned that affirmative action put ideology aside. doo. 't mind, do you?'' Milton pulled out a Jiffy programs have the potential to Clark believes liberals are a peanut butte rand Wonder white bread reverse discriminate. threat. She said: sandwich. He mother's eyes began to blink Ferency believes conservatives "The left plays on peoples' em_o and twitch. Carcfully,Miltoo. undid the wupapcr today cannot be separated from their tions rather than looking at the full wrapping. He leaned over clOBC to her face religious agenda range of issues and making economi New and began to cat. Small Wbiti: aumbs fell in 'What they're trying to do is have cally sound decisions." · the crevices around her noec and lips. Her their fundamentalist Christian beliefs For example, Clark said she Wednesdays eyes began to protrude and spasm grotesquely. imposed on everyone from above,· favors workfare because liberal Miltongrinncdandcominucdtocat,cbcwing Ferency said, adding conservatives welfare programs deny people their Reggae Night slowly, every so often stopping and showing All Rum Drinks $1.75 her the doughy com:nm of.his mouth. Once or EAT CHEAP twice he hung out his pcamit-buttcr-coall:d the Feature This Week: tooguc and let it hang in her face. 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Les 0106 DJ, stormed East Lansing the crowd size and excitement may However, in 1978, two French Miz will make its second stop at Friday night In the Jack Breslin encourage the Breslin Center to book songwriters, Alain Boubill and Wharton in two years this week. Student Events Center . more acts who play rock, or at least Claude-Michel Schonberg, con The story revolves around Jean Months ago the audience would some departure from the country ceived the musical version of Les Miz. Valjean, a man convicted of stealing In have been there to watch Jud Heath music scene. The rock opera was first released order to keep his family from starving. cote argue a call, or watch Steve as an album before being performed The musical begins in the year 1815 Smith make an Important steal or in Paris in 1980. in the town of Digne, with Valjean's pass, but tonight they were there to Soon thereafter, British super parole from a chain gang. see Don Henley rock the house. producer Cameron Mackintosh The musical depicts the next 17 Henley, promoting his most recent (Cats, The Phantom of the Opera) years of Valjean's life. Once Valjean release, The End of the Innocence, heard the score, and the music breaks parole, Javert, one of the brought The Innocence Mi881on to immediately drew him to the project. prison guards in Digne, pursues open for him. The Innocence Mission, Mackintosh sought the services of Valjean throughout the musical. whose recent self-titled album has directors John Caird and Trevor Valjean is constantly on the run brought them fairly wide critical Nunn (Starlight Express, Chess) and from Javert, and the one hurt most by acclaim, played a short set that a partnership with the Royal Bagel Fragefueli these travels is his adopted daughter, included several slow songs, but only Shakespeare Company, who would Cosette. She finds love in Paris with a one fast song, which prevented the enter the project as rookies to the big Don't forget to vote on this question: young student, Marius. Marius, crowd from really getting into them. budget musical business. How do you feel about rumors that however, chooses to join his fellow However, once the lights dimmed Then Mackintosh found someone John DiBiaggio may leave for Penn students in the French Revolution. for the main event, the crowd was to write English lyrics for the French State? The story's finale occurs in Paris, excited and ready. musical. Herbert Kretzmer a. I don't care as long as he stays in 1832, when the first revolutionaries Henley fans were not disap succeeded James Fenton as the the Big 11. began their fight. pointed this night. lyricist when Fenton's lyrics were b. I hope he stays. If you have a ticket to see this Dressed in a pair of black jeans, a found to be too problematic. c. George Perlas will make a good show, consider yourself lucky. If you · white shirt, fight grey vest, and a In six months, Kretzmer's work president don't, get real friendly with someone brown jacket, the former Eagles opened on Britain's West End (the d. I'm not sure, but he's great as who's got an extra As. the billboard drummer and vocalist came out with a U.K. equivalent to Broadway) to Grandpa on The Munsters. says - Don't Miz Out. guitar in his hands singing "Driving fantastic reviews and sell out audl- with your Eyes Closed· and the crowd roared Its approval. I think they were r 'ii4 ib7R'~;t 'B~'f' ·just happy to see someone playing at I Sandwich, I Reaoh an alternative Breslin who didn't fist numerous I I audlenDe mlth an performances at the Grand Old Opry 1 fragel, I Guitarists John Cory and Frank I medium pop, and I Simon blasted out great licks all night, I bagel chips I alternative paper - including numerous exchanges during I $ I "Dirty Laundry·. I 3.85 I advertlle In ... Henley took the drums for the I\. _,I Eagles' classics, "Hotel Cslifornia• and ______exp. May 1,1990 i "Life in the Fast Lane,· keeping a ... the uR-1 decent beat while providing the crowd with soul-filled vocals. 1r------, 2 Fragels, 1 1s space or Often, the crowd's ovations embarrassed Henley, who just stood I & I at the microphone with his arms either I I rent-and folded, or covering his face. I Small 1 E5P~E550 Henley played a 12 song set, I Regular Coffee : dirt cheap, too! including the title track of his current album, and a stripped-Oown version of ~OVA LE call 351-4899 his current hit "Heart of the Matter-. ! . $1.00 : The band left the stage, the lights exp. May 1, 1990 · i went dim, and the crowd roared, \. for details wanting more. ------""' We Invite You To Come In and Receive A Professional Hair Style and Cut With Kelly, Teena & Kathy. $5.00 OFF Also Hair Clairifying Treatments Reg. $15.00 Now $10.00 Cleanse Your Hair and Sc~lp. Promotes Hair Growth and Gives A Beautiful Healthy Shine. 26 April 1990 ·. -_ . university Reporter-lntelli ·ence·b• .15

Ed Chavey, Joe Schmidt, Jack Wheatley. uR-1 photo/GARY SMUTS East Lansing Fellinis take ' third in HBO comedy contest

BY SUZANNE WIMMER the top five of the HBO Comedy 1 Coupon Special 1 UR-I CINEMA CORRESPONDENT Channel's nationwide I Love You ·---i'll·--· to Death Video Competition. I I I Buy any I Anything to Prove My Love, The contest, based on the film I hamburger and I BREAKFAST SPECIALS the three-minute video production of the same name, required I · I Daily (7:30 - 10:30) of Ed Chavey, Joe Schmidt, and entries to be under three minutes I $ave, 60 cents I LUNCH OPEN Jack Wheatley, is weird. and offered a $5,000 prize for the I on an order of I (10:30 - 6_:3_!>) "We had to be consciously top video displaying what some I FRI/ES I thinking if it was too weird," admits people will do forfove. I CExpiiu May 11. 1990> I Wheatley. Though not the call-in-vote I Not valid with my other I In just three hours these guys winner, Anything to Prove My I roupon I I . ·I created the heart warming story of Love was broadcast April 19 on boy (Chavey) meets girl the HBO Comedy Channel and (Wheatley), boy tries to cop a feel, was sarcastically compared by ·------· boy gets his butt kicked by girl, comedy V.J., Rachel Sweet to and boy buys a dog and lifts director David Lynch's Twin weights to get girl back. Peaks. The flic~~rned its way in to It finished a close third in the balloting, just out of second place.

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The musical version of Victor Hugo's classic novel of redemption, social stratification, and revolution, Les Mis8rab/es, returns to the Wharton Center for the Performing Arts April 24-29, 1990. see Les Ulz, p. 14