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Next Issue January 25. :c------------------------.....1~--------------- FAUFree Press· January 18,1995 fill It's No Joke DAVE CHAPELLE -TAKES PROGRAM ·eoARDSHOW ON THE ROAD _page-16 ~om in~ A~art at t~e ~eams1 Has the University been Shortchanged? page 12 It's No Joke SHiT! not -the eye a~air~ ! ~ve.. Last week's spontaneous burst of social 8ot ~ ~e.e.t'~ '" activity spurred by comedian Dave ~f\ Mtnu'te.S!! f Chapelle was unprecedented in recent years ~ at FAU. It was good to see students breftking out of the traditional hum-drum to do something new and exciting, and particularly something worth remembering. Many students usually just go out and get wasted and forget most of what they do. However, Chapelle dishonored himself by relying on prejudice and intolerance to fuel his humor. "Chapelle owned the room with his biting jokes on homosexuals, various ethnic groups .. ./'wrote a Free Press staff writer covering the story of the week. Mainstream comedy has been known to prey on the weaknesses and fears of society, and according to FAU professor of philosophy Simon Glynn, if you examine the common jokes in a social system you can determine its weak points fairly quickly. FUTURE STRESS MUTATIONS @t"'lv.AAvPot'-•A It is ironic that Chapelle, an African-American, chose to perpetuate the ignorant notions of intolerance and bigotry less than one week before the national holiday honoring Martin Luther King, Jr., a man What•s Up With That? who died in the struggle to educate humanity to eradicate intolerance and bigotry. It is not surprising that pop culture surfers like contem­ by Moris Stem porary comedians would take ad vantage of these weak links for their What is this Nobel prize all about? own personal profit at the expense of society at large; but please, let It' saseries of annual awards provided by a fund of$9.2 million in the will of AJfred Nobel us attempt to be educated in a university environment. (1833-1896),Swedish inventorofdynamiteand otherexplosives, and byagiftfrom Central Free Press Entertainment EditmKenan Sumen, put it plainly last Bank of Sweden. There are six classifications to reward people who have made outstand­ ing contributions for the benefit of mankind in: 1) physiology or medicine; 2) physics; 3) week when he said that life is sufficiently ironic and provides more literature; 4) chemistry; 5) peace; and 6) economics. than enough to laugh at without reinforcing prejudicial stereotypes Candidates for a prize must be recorrunended in writing by a duly qualified authority. that only serve to retard our growth as an educated society. The awards usually are presented in Stockholm, with the king of Sweden officiating, Fortunately, there are many Floridians who support tolerance and annually on December 10, the anniversary of Alfred Nobel's death. Each prize includes a understanding. This month, voters in West Palm Beach chose to retain gold medal, a diploma and a gift of money. the words "sexual orientation" within a civil rights bill which pro­ We often say that this or that is surreal. But what does surreal REALLY mean? vided local legal employment protection from discrimination. The Surrealism is a movement in visual art and literature that flourished in Europe between inclusion of sexual orientation in the bill was met with massive World Wars I and ll. The movement represented a reaction against what its members saw resistance, principally from the intolerant Christian Coalition. as the destruction wrought by the "rationalism" that had guided European culture and It is interesting to note that Chapelle did make joking reference to politics in the past and had culminated in the horrors of World War I. According to the the racial tensions and the potential for widespread violence. They major spokesman of the movement, the poet and critic Andre Breton, surrealism was a means of reuniting conscious and W1COnscious realms of experience so completely that the say that there's at least a little truth in every joke. Chapelle may just world of dream and fantasy would be joined to the everyday rational world in an"absolute be communicating in the best way he knows. reality," a surreality. · The next time you hear a joke, before you laugh, ask why. Maybe In poetry, surrealism manifested itself in a juxtaposition of words that was startling you'll learn something about yourself. because it was detennined not by logical but by psychological - that is, unconscious - thought processes. In painting, practice of surrealist art strongly emphasized method­ ~ ·ss3Hd 33H.:I 3Hl. 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